Everyone (nearly) expecting a (big) loss. Nothing like New Year optimism… We’ll surprise everyone. 1-2
Norwich are bobbins, we will beat them. Safe journey up to those travelling and Happy New Year to all.
27% of all Josh Sargent's league goals for Norwich have come against Watford. You know what's coming...
Why not just put the youth team out in front of Bachman with Cathcart captaining them. At least we would get more effort and guts. Put Sarr and the other wasters on the bench to watch.
Bayo should probably start. Davis has been more like a slow statue. He's crap but he at least moves a bit. I would also play Serralitra and drop three at the back, chuck Blake up top with Bayo and stick Morris and Hungbo in. Things need changing up and a few new faces could bring a bit more energy.
Walker Welbourne Williams Eddy Lees Walley Scullion Garbett Endean Hale Lewis with his 'Bake and Take'. Brian Garvey out due to food poisoning.
I just had a terrible moment where I thought Kamara only had a one game suspension and will be playing tomorrow. Panic over, phew.
Those slow statues are so infuriating compared to nippier statues. It's almost like they're incapable of any movement at all
Well you say that but when in Florence I saw Michelangelo's 'David' being wheeled from outside the Palazzo Vecchio for some restoration work and it was moving faster than Freddie has all season! The one in the Accademia Gallery was of comparable inertia,akin to most teenage girls on a tennis court!
Bachmann Gaspar Kabasele Cathcart Ngakia Bacuna Kone Sarr Asprilla Martins Davis Let's see what the new boys can do. Other than that, thoroughly depressing.
Davis, Martins, Asprilla and Sarr have a lot of quality for the Championship. It depends if they can be bothered. Having a couple of debutants should give everyone a lift. Not sure why Sierralta has been so overlooked by our last 3 managers/head coaches. He was part of the strongest defence in Championship history only 2 seasons ago. Is so weird why he’s fallen from grace and is behind everyone bar Pollock. I’m hoping Sema is fit enough to play and he’ll make a difference as he at least always puts in a shift. It can’t get any worse than Millwall/Swansea but it can be the same. Lose this one with no visible upturn in effort could see Bilic gone, which would be outrageous IMO. He’s a very good coach at Championship level, but you’ve got to give him the players that will allow him to succeed.
You just know that even with our massive injury gaps the medical ****s will decide that the new boys need easing in and can only do 30 mins off the bench. After all, if we didn’t follow their wisdom and conditioning we might have a squad full of injuries.
Sierralta > Kabasele. Pray that Sema is back and can be LB. Partner WTE with Sierralta. Move Cathcart to RB. Drop Asprilla into CM > Bacuna Move Davis wide and have either Sarr or Martins attacking centrally. Give Blake a run up front. Got to try something different.
Getting rid of Bili* would indeed be outrageous. The club is crying out for stability, he has a good record and the problem is clearly with the players. You hope that somewhere in Gino's head a penny has dropped, hence the arrival of Ubenga and Costa. He's been fleeced by Bayat and watched the club crumble on his watch. That said I expect to sit staring into space as the club burns around him, getting in another coach who won't be able to make a difference, whoever they are
In the final game of the 1969-70 season, Watford travelled to Carrow Road. In front of 16,000 a 1-1 draw was played out. The starting XI for WFC was: Walker Welbourne Williams Eddy Lees Walley Scullion Garbett Endean Hale Lugg Scullion scored Dixie Hale's final game for the club
That team would run rings around our current mob. Oh for a Keith Eddy and Dixie Hale and bite yer legs Duncan Welbourne. Endean doing extra training with hi tech sandbags strapped to ‘is legs. Bernie Lewis the main mark signing for £7k (?) to help secure promotion. Those were the days, youngsters of today don’t realise etc …
https://www.watfordfc.com/news/team-news-dele-bashiru-adds-to-injury-list-ahead-of-norwich-clash Excellent news all round. Not.
I thought Bilic said they were, or did I imagine that? We have zero chance tomorrow with the players we have out, so frustrating.
Ladies and gentleman we are about to witness the worst midfield Watford FC have ever put onto a football pitch.
Similarities to the game against Forest in the last promotion season when our midfield consisted of Hughes sat behind Zink and JP. Now it's Bacuna with Gaspar and Asprilla. Good lord.
1 5-0 to Norwich. 2. Bilic to resign 3. We appointment an interim coach until the end of season. 4. The Pozzo will openly listen to offers as they look to sell. Ok, l can only bet one of the them l think? ,but my big win on the Swansea game is making me overconfident or feeling me with hope..
Hahahaha ****s sake. Serves Pozzo the **** right in a way for neglecting the academy so much that it’s inconceivable to the media team that anyone could step up otherwise they’d have mentioned it.
We don't have one anyway. May as well put out 3/4 training cones out instead. I've never known a season like it - it's a total shambles of player fitness and recruitment. What a joke of club we have become.
Mental how they aren’t eligible after being told they are. Even more mental how we now have ANOTHER long-term injury in TDB. It concerned my how Bilic basically (reading between the lines) said the other day that he won’t be getting what he needs because the players returning have awkward return dates…and he can’t get players in who will then not be guaranteed starts when we are at full strength. It’s short-sighted.
The only element of excitement which I’m clinging on to, is that there is a very outside chance that we start Blake tomorrow. He could be crap or nowhere near ready - but I’ll be ready to back a homegrown youngster over anyone else chucking in 20% effort.
Best bet is to kick the **** out of the opposition in the hope that we can go down to seven people before they score (in which case game has to be abandoned) if we can’t do that we need to think about playing a few of our senior players out of position , drop Sarr (cant afford a 50% performance) , bring in Kalu from the start. Is sema back ?
