Match Day Thread Watford v West Ham - 25th Feb.

Sound like a decent point from 10,500 miles away! Another step towards 40...

 

Will take that as we were battered 2nd half!


Mind you could have nicked it late on.

Success once again proved more of a threat in 15 minutes than Niang did (he had an off night)

Shame about the injuries - we will never get consistent form with getting so many.

 

fair result?/

why so many??

 

A point saved in the end. Not a great advert for the PL really... a bit disjointed and not much goal action. Plenty of work needed on making us a more attacking force.

 

Zarate's was unfortunate but Jaamaat seems to be another injury prone player.

 

Troy's goal was his 104th for us - one more and he's level with Cliff Holton.

 

http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co....saac-success/story-30163242-detail/story.html

Walter explains...

Doucoure was brought on instead of Success because Isaac doesn't have 70 minutes in his legs yet.

But no-one thought to point out that there were only 45 minutes left in the match.

 

Mazzari says on BBC Sport website "Silly mistakes cost Watford win". Well, the above one might be one of them, Walter!!!

 

Well he must tell them to sit back and defend - I cannot see some of our more attacking players just wanting to sit back and do nothing.

Niang and Capoue were wasted.

 

You're hard guys to please . If he said he had players who only lasted 90 minutes you'd complain that they concede too many goals in extra time

And it might be a translation issue I'll give WM the benefit of the doubt.

The positive for me is that we seem to have players with great potential and when they get it right it is good. In the past sometimes we just seem to not have sufficient talent.

Yes they made silly mistakes but that the couching staff can work on. For me the need to have two or three touches in or around their box rather than getting a snap shot away and on target.

But the hammers were equally bad putting quality crosses in and rarely getting anyone near them.

It will be interesting to see if WM is using more English come next August. And that goes for some of the players. I reckon that will help.

just my 2 pennies worth of optimism.

 

I know that, like myself, many teachers fall back on a bank of stock phrases when it comes to school report time - ughh, only three weeks away - and having heard WM use the '70 minute' one rather frequently recently, I'm beginning to think his phrase bank isn't as healthy as mine...

 

But BB are all yours publishable ???? Ahh 3 weeks before report time. Those 3 weeks were the only time I studied anything

 

Certainly - my laptop has a swearing filter.

Actually, they are mostly all publishable these days - online. We're eco-friendly up here & try not to waste paper, so parents get online access unless they specifically request a hard copy.

 

Enjoyed the game at friends who is a WH supporter. we should have capitalised on the early penalty and put the game to bed in the first half when WH weren't really trying. In the end we defended well but we tend to let the opposition have too much of the ball most games. Walter seemed very frustrated at times banging the dug out panel. Anyone notice when Zarate went down for the penalty that he briefly grabbed his knee so maybe the damage started then, I think he should have gone off after the big knock. I too wonder about the injuries, some even occur during the warm up - duh! WH deserved a draw.

 

Janmaat's out for a while too, with an abductor muscle problem. Given where they are in the body, the problem may well have been WM giving him a boot up the arse at half time...

 

Kaboul says its a shame we didn't get the 2nd goal - well we didn't exactly go for one preferring to just sit back and defend which I presume comes from instructions via the manager?

 

Are the Pozzos diversifying into furniture?

 

They did a while ago - all the players they buy take time to 'bed' in, they've changed 'chair'man a couple of times, and they always seem to have players sitting on the 'shelf'...

I'll get my coat...

 

We´ve had some decent performances this season, wins against Utd, Arsenal and Everton shows signs of improvement.

This wasn´t even close to one of them, I had a good in-depth conversation with a few West Ham fans over the game from home.

Maybe they have helped me see things from a different angle. But, we can´t go 1-0 up at home and then just sit back on it, if WM stays then there will be more games like this, we are wasting what attacking force we have on display and on the bench.

I don´t want to see games like this, but have done too much this season. Every 3rd of 4th game this debate comes up - Can WM push on if he stays next season and give us better football? I am doubting this even more recently. The defensive negativity is slowly choking me, we´re not even good at keeping clean sheets.

 

I've written this before -so sorry if you remember it. Talking to an Inter Milan season ticket holder, they (fans) got really fed up because Inter never put a string of good performances together under Walter. It does seem like we are getting the same effect. However, until Zarate went off it did feel like we were on top, if not actually in control. Perhaps we'll get to 38/39/40 whatever and then loosen up a bit.