Match Day Thread Watford v Southampton Sat 4/3/17 3.00 PM

I remember when we used to score 8 against Sunderland alone!

 

Bit pathetic mate. Just enjoy the win

 

Starting to be too casual. Have a word Claude.

 

Bollocks to you - I was going to invite you for a joint one

 

http://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...-league/10790454/watford-3-4-southampton-puel

Puel not sure we got the best bargain in the transfer window....I think we did. Gabby gives us hope, like MLT did, and has a positive effect on the team.

 

Gabbiadini reminds me of Javier Hernandez

 

Do you remember when we didn't give the ball away much in midfield earlier this season by keeping possession but not going anywhere? Lots of complaints about this at the time. When you change to try and get the ball forward more quickly, you increase the risk of giving the ball away. It's a difficult balance to strike. The benefit of keeping possession is that it often makes you harder to beat but maybe less exciting. The benefit of getting the ball forward is that you look more exciting, but maybe give the ball away more.

I won't say that you are grumbling, but I will repeat what I said earlier: who'd be a manager!

THis is just my opinion though, so you don't have to take it as fact

 

So the question will be asked, was it better to wait for our target to become available or should we have thrown money at the problem and paid a lot more for a striker earlier in the season? I think that the board has been vindicated on that score.
Who knows how this season might have looked if Virgil had not been crocked? Now we are beginning to look like a quality side, and everyone on long contracts. Next season could be very special indeed!

 

Just came in 15 mins ago, having deliberately stayed away from any sources. Just read the news. Wow.! And Manolo scores again with a goal off a keeper spill. So he's a poacher too.! I don't think we've had a proper one in the team since Steve Moran. Perhaps Kevin Phillips.

Reads as if we were a little charitable at the back again, against a good Watford attack, but scoring freely enough to win. Normally I'm fine with 1-0's, but I'll take a a few 4-3's until VVD comes back. Then we'll make those 4-3's into 4-0's again.

 

That seems to be is main strength from the evidence so far, people comparing him to Inzaghi are going over the top, but at the moment he has a knack for being in the right place at the right time and his movement is great. Just hope he isn't the new Jelavic

 

Redmond's 2 goals means Manolo is still only joint top scorer from open play. Both on 6.

 

Can someone at the Premier League sort out the fixtures so no team has 7 games one month and 1 game another. Totally ridiculous. Cant just be Sky pratting about.

 

Isn't there another international break coming up? When the World Cup expands to 48 teams, FIFA could do away with the qualifying rounds for the Top 8 teams in Europe altogether.

 

What makes you so sure we had to wait til January because he was unavailable in the summer? Generally clubs prefer to sell in the summer.

 

Top 8. England would still have to qualify then!

 

England players will still be going away then.

 

Beat you by a second!

 

Exactly that. I didn't think we defended that badly, but we had to resort to last ditch blocks/tackles as a direct result of some loose play in the midfield.

The co-commentator on the stream I was watching, was Davie Provan. Does he have a grudge against the Saints? Tried to imply underhand tactics when there were none, such as a Watford player bumping into Cedric, then hitting the turf. Such an innocuous coming together, yet he tried to maklike it was the most heinous crime of the century.
He also pissed me off when he said Romeu was too good for us.

 

Good win and glad Redmond scored. But damn that defending.

 

Napoli wanted enormous amounts of money for Manolo last summer. They were turning down £20M+ offers. We got him for £14.5M plus extras. Sound bit of business. Board vindicated.

 

Impressed by your pace and movement.

Deserved to win and by more than 1 goal really.