Watford 2-0 Wayne Rooney's Plymouth Argyle 27/8/24 Efl Cup

Watford 4-0 Wayne Rooney's Plymouth Argyle.

Drawn to Palace away in Round 3 where we win 2-1.

We're going to Wembley

 

We have a large squad at the moment with plenty of players needing minutes, and have the capability to give all our key players a rest for the Sheffield Utd game, so let's do so.

Bond
Clarridge Porteous Tikvic
Adu-Poku Ramirez-Espain Louza Sema
Ince Vata
Rajovic

That should still be enough to edge past Plymouth's reserves.

 

Hope we lose, need to concentrate on finishing Champions.

Watford 5-1 Plymouth

'ORNETS!

 

Is Freddie B playing for them?

Asking for a friend who met his mum on a train/bus/tram/mobile pasty.

 

Clarridge and Adu-P both playing for the under 21s today.

Bond. Porteous. Pollock. Morris. Andrews. Larouci. Louza. Espain. Vata. Baah/Rajovic. Ince.

(bench Tikvic. Sema. Dele-B. Baah/Rajovic. Doumbia. Kayembe. Bayo)

 

Samuel Kalu at right wing back please - a thank you appearance to bring the curtain down on his glittering Watford career.

We can't be playing Andrews if Ngakia is injured, surely?

 

It's Kalu's birthday today and he's posted a cryptic "added another year today"

So... Forty ......fifty ..... ?

 

A big event. I believe he only has a birthday every 3 years given his alleged age.

 

He’s talking about his contract, not his age.

 

Anybody know if this game is likely to be televised (e.g. sky red button) like the last time.

If so, I'll try to find some sort of aquatic entertainment, but if not then I'll do something else...

 

It's on the red button Clive.

 

All league cup games are on Sky this season, mostly on the sky sports + app.

 

I can’t seem to get the red button working these days on our 10 year old sky box. Used to work, but it only works now on their latest boxes ?

 

Presumably you have a Sky+ box? If so, the red button won’t work:

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-TV/Introducing-Sky-Sports/ba-p/4706785

 

As SLB says, I doubt we will risk Andrews if Ngakia s still injured.

Bond

Porteous – Needs minutes
Pollock
Morris – the more he plays the better his positioning will get

Larouci – Looked shot after half hour – needs minutes for fitness
Sema – Don’t be surprised to see him at RWB

Louza
Ramirez-Espain

Ince - Scored 3 las time out, so deserves to play
Baah or Vata

Rajovic

 

I'd probably stick with a Pollock-Sierralta-Morris back three, keep that rolling, and play Porteous RWB. Didn't hate him there last season.

 

1-0, George Reilly header near post.

 

Villa Park

 

That goal cost him half an ear.

 

I like the early rounds of the cup for seeing players we don't otherwise get to, and I'm intrigued to see what TC goes with.
Is Morris the first-choice for LCB until we sign someone new? And would that mean he needs more practice there, or protecting for the weekend?
Is Andrews going to have to play 40+ games at RWB this season due to Ngakia's injury issues? Who would be the alternative?
Who plays in the middle when either of TDB or Sissoko are unavailable? Would we have enough physicality (not something Louza / Ramirez-Espain really bring)?
Can Vata or Baah show enough to earn a starting place for a league game?
Is Doumbia ready to challenge for a starting spot?

Hopefully some of these get answers tonight.

 

I thought he must have been born on Feb 29th…..

 

WHAT??

 

It's alright, he's still got the other half!

 

Will there be running water for this?

 

When did Porteous play RWB last season?

 

Help !

Has anyone parked in the hospital multistory before ?

My son suffered an injury playing football and is on crutches, so we want to park as near as possible.

Can you walk from the multi-story to the Rookery easily ?

 

Don’t think he did play there but he played RB at Southampton.

 

Remember him doing 20-odd minutes there at Preston and he also played as an attacking right-back away at Southampton. Considering he hares around everywhere anyway I think it suits him.

 

I think you can get from there to the back of the Rookery but there's a fair few steps if I remember rightly.

 

Didn’t watch the Southampton game, but wasn’t he quite shaky that day?

 

Yeah, spot on. It's about as close as you could ever expect to park to a stand, and you can get a lift down from the car park, but there are quite a few steps you'll have to go back up to get to the Rookery turnstiles.

 

A few years ago I had a broken leg and there was a shuttle from the Lower carpark up to the back of the Rookery. (One of those electric golf buggy things). Don't know if still going.

 

Can't remember seeing it this season......