What's Gone Right This Season.

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by cyaninternetdog, Apr 9, 2023.

  1. cyaninternetdog

    cyaninternetdog Forum Hippie

    There must be something?? Anything!!! For the love of God give me something!!!

    The Kone and Porteous signings are the only silver linings I can find amongst the clouds hovering over the Vic.

    Jury is still out on the new sporting director and whether Gino will let him do his job I guess.

    If we hear concrete news of Gino selling up before the end of the season then that will count as good news I suppose.

    That's all I have.
     
  2. Halfwayline

    Halfwayline Reservist

    Porteois
    The dawning for some fans that running a football club involves more than building a statue and improving the stadium
    The realisation for others that there are other things to do on a Saturday afternoon
     
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  3. Steel City Gold

    Steel City Gold Reservist

    Mental health wellbeing on here...
     
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  4. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    Nothing.
     
  5. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Whoever made the scummers' lasagne in October
     
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  6. WatfordTalk

    WatfordTalk First Team

    4-0 against Luton.
    Adeyemo's goal.
    Sarr vs West Brom.
    Asprilla's breakthrough season-ish.

    Probably the only things I'll remember fondly from this season.
     
  7. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    Not having to sign Tufan from last season.
    Beating the thugs 4-0.
    100th Anniversary game was a great occasion despite us playing below par and needing a very late goal to win.
    Double over Norwich.
    Hopefully seen the back of Bayat at last.
    Manga and Costa coming into the fold to hopefully be a step in the right direction.
     
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  8. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Speaking of which, Bayo's other winning goal was a nice moment, a rare pleasant surprise in recent times
     
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  9. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    TBF he seems to have done ok at Hull!
     
  10. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    It's odd isn't it how so many prosper away from WD 40.
     
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  11. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    He's done alright, but not great for the team 17th in the Championship.

    As above, I don't think him being okay at 17th placed Hull in the Chanpioship counts as him "prospering"; especially when he was brought over for the PL.

    And on that note, which other players in recent seasons have actually prospered elsewhere after flopping here?! Even those we lost in recent seasons who we probably wanted to keep, like Hughes, Chalobah and Dennis, have hardly pulled up trees at the clubs since leaving.
     
  12. davisp2

    davisp2 Reservist

    Should never have let Woy go
     
  13. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Dawson being the main example, half of Udinese's team too!
     
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  14. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    So Dawson gives a mighty one example, but no one will convince me that Zeegelaar and Success still aren't crap just because they sometimes play for Udinese.
     
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  15. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    The fat git who's sat at the end of our row for years went through with his pledge not to renew his season ticket this year, meaning I no longer need to perform painful physical contortions to squeeze past him on the way to my seat.

    And Porteus
     
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  16. cyaninternetdog

    cyaninternetdog Forum Hippie

    Welbeck, Richarlison and Capoue have done well, about the only ones I can think of, I think Geri did ok at Udi though.
     
  17. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Bringing in Ubenga and Costa. And hopefully for next season a new manager with ambition and youth.

    Porteous. Won't be here much longer if he carries on his development curve. Asprilla getting his first professional goal. Kone will be an excellent player.

    Adeyemo getting his first goal.

    First supporter to bear a Pozzo Out banner at the stadium.

    Other than that a disaster of a season. Pozzo completely screwed over Edwards with an awful August transfer window. We're about to lose two more bright talents from the Academy and the whole club is in a mess in multiple departments. It will take a monumental effort in the summer to turn it around. And that requires Pozzo to sell up or not interfere. Unlike his father he has not one iota of business acumen. Lord knows how he passed Harvard Business School. He has all the credentials though to be an excellent politician.
     
  18. leighton buzzard horn

    leighton buzzard horn Squad Player

    Bit early to class that as something that has gone right. This summer will be a good indicator if they are any good.
     
  19. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    I suppose so but he has a proven track record. If he is allowed to get on with it I think we have something to look forward to LBH. That it has taken this long is a disgrace. As @reids will tell you a lot of scouting is in the numbers and sheer analysis. You can identify players and then look at them in person, find out about their personalities and character and so on. I mean reids has an excellent list of mini scout data all the time.
     
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  20. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Richarlison and Capoue both did well for us as well though, as did Geri.

    Welbeck can I guess be added to Dawson, though he was basically never fit while with us.
     
  21. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Very unfortunate but hardly been injured at Brighton .

    Bad luck or another example of how poor the medical team are .?
     
  22. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    We stayed up.
     
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  23. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    The 4 nil
    Watford Women's team.
    FA Youth Cup run.
    Unearthed a young talent in Adeyamo and actually signed him up.
    By having all of our over 30s players getting injuries that saw them sidelined for substantial periods of time (Cleverley, Gosling, Kabasele, Cathcart, Gaspar, Kalu) the club appears to have woken up to the plain stupidity of these kind of deals - if we losing 300k a week these 6 are probably at least a quarter of that loss.....
    Luther back on the pitch during games.
    This season's kits were nice.
     
  24. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Cleverley is getting a new contract potentially..
     
  25. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Very pleased we signed Adeyamo, but I think it’s way too early to get too excited about him. It was great that he scored that goal but, having also watched him in the Cup game, he’s not exactly a sensation yet and could just be an early developer.
     
  26. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    This thread is unreasonably long
     
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  27. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    Insane
     
  28. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Welcome to Watford.
     
  29. cyaninternetdog

    cyaninternetdog Forum Hippie

    The likes of Morris, Andrews and Adeyemo being given chances and putting on decent displays is another good thing.
     
  30. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Manga, maybe, just maybe.
     
  31. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Jury’s out. All this talk of new contracts for Cleverley and Cathcart points towards he’s just a deck chair rearranger.
     
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  32. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Yes hence the maybes....plus his team brought us the kid from Benfica who's acting like he's never played football with adults before. Let's see what happens over the summer. I still don't understand why someone with real credibility agreed to come to this circus.
     
  33. Oscar calling

    Oscar calling Squad Player

    Not having to sign that donkey Davis next season
     
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  34. USAHornet

    USAHornet Academy Graduate

    For four weeks in November and December, I didn't have to watch Watford. It was a welcome break from a dark, miserable existence.
     
  35. AndrewH63

    AndrewH63 Reservist

    I have had trouble at all using the NFC equipment to read tickets in my phone wallet. For me it’s been the biggest improvement on last season, building on the competition of the multi storey car park behind the Rookery. An honourable mention on food kiosk ordering, another improvement through the season. If only the on the pitch side of the business had kept up with these improvements.
     
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