Mrs asked me if I wanted her to get us a couple of tickets for tonight for my birthday. I chuckled and left the room.
The low number of posts on this forum today is very telling. It feels like many people have just lost interest.
Currently sat in Mad Squirrel, town is awfully quiet. Hate these evening games, fans aren't considered at all. Modern football for you.
Had the Rhubarbra Streisand Rhubarb Milkshake Pale last time I was there, before the Boro game - not a choice I'd necessarily make again, but a very novel experience all the same.
Come on Watford Luton won 3-1 against QPR if that isn’t motivation material I don’t know what is. Up next weekend come on you Orns lets silence the doubter’s
Get the impression he isn't a fan now or having to use "Watford" rather than "we" as a reach to his general audience.
He is a genuine fan (as far as I am aware and all evidence suggests) so I think he's just doing that to emphasise his detachment at this point. If he's been entirely frozen out, as has been reported on these hallowed pages and seems borne out by his reporting, why not start swinging for the fences, really. That being said, it's still amusing to behold coming from someone who just this time last year was attempting to convince us all that it was wickedly smart and purposeful business to fail in your summer recruitment so badly that you are unable to submit a full squad list for the first half of the Premier League season, just in case you need space to bring a player in once the list has been registered.
What a load of nonsense, we were pretty dynamic when we first got promoted under the Pozzos. It's easy to cherry-pick Brentford as an alternative, but how is their supposed identity any more meaningful to the fans given it has relied on Danish imports? It's also easy for them to not think much about the past given they haven't really got one to reflect on. It'll probably come crashing down for them as well soon enough.
Well I think we now know where AL's loyalties now lie. What a load of rubbish as a statement, we have a rich history with lots of really great times as well as the bad. Every club goes through highs and lows and admittedly this is quite a big low for us right now in the direction of the club. There is no possible way to say how/when we will get out of this slump but we still have an identity as far as I am concerned as much as Gino and the current squad continue to tarnish it over the past three years. It's an identity we hold and one we will fight to get back.
I mean, in our current incarnation, I don't think he's entirely wrong - the Brentford comparison is fairly by-the-by or tenuous, sure. But we have always surrendered some of our historic identity under the Pozzo; it's one of the things opposition figures chucked at us as criticism, and it was just a deal we mostly thought came up the right side of a cost-benefit analysis. Over the past few years, the crushing failures in recruitment have dismantled anything left really resembling the old values a lot of our fans associate with the club, and combined it with plenty of blunders and mis-steps off the pitch to bring the other side of that equation along with them. If you look at the way Duxbury and, even more chiefly, Gino, treats the fans with contempt, it seems fairly stark. I'd say there's been plenty of complaints on this very forum about the lack and/or denigration of our identity as a club under Gino, and you'd be very hard-pressed to say what any 'identity' of ours was supposed to be at this point (other than, indeed, player-trading vehicle).
Fair points Chumlax and well made. I guess wanting us to succeed as a club is not in our owners best interest anymore. If we had an identity back then, it would of been "family", "great scouting", "honest and hard working" and a manager (GT) who felt the same passion for the club as we did. Now? I don't know. I miss the old days but as fans' we cannot live in the past we have to look forward to the future, but the way we are going we might not have one in three years time.
Agreed that Watford during the early Pozzo era was no more or less 'identity-less' than any other club, but I suspect Brentford, regardless of their history of being predominantly a lower league club, are more likely to last the course as a Prem/upper Championship club long-term as they have a richer owner who actually cares about the club
WFC 10 year net spend plus €94m. Udinese minus €172m https://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/021/wp367/en/
If Sheffield Utd hadn't got an injury time equalizer v Blackpool, we would have started this evening's match in 18th place .....
What I will say in its defence is, firstly, that from the description it sounds like something that would quickly compound its flavour with each swig until very quickly it's overwhelming and cloying and you couldn't possibly finish with any enjoyment - like a pizza with a bbq sauce base. But that is actually not the case. It's balanced enough that it's basically the same experience in the first mouthful and the last. Secondly, they really have captured the essence of a rhubarb and custard quite faithfully.
In the old days you didn’t let on you were only 90% fit cos if you missed out & your replacement did well you might wait ages to get back into the team. In the days when a player’s (very) basic wage was topped up with appearance/ win/ draw/ attendance etc bonuses. Is anyone surprised so many ‘elite professionals’ use any slight twinge to cry off knowing their pay won’t be affected? All assisted by the current crop of effete ‘medical’ teams whose default setting seems to be ‘could be out for 4 weeks, so better make it 6 just in case.’
That's actually half decent considering the injuries we have. No Kabasele is a plus before the game even starts mind. Have to see how much effort we put in.
