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    Prediction League Whole Season Prediction Table ...Results are in!!!!!

    1. Man City 2. Man Utd 3. Chelsea 4. Arsenal 5. Spurs 6. Liverpool 7. Everton 8. Southampton 9. Leicester 10. West Ham 11. Crystal Palace 12. Watford 13. West Brom 14. Bournemouth 15. Newcastle 16. Burnley 17. Crystal Pal. 18. Swansea 19. Brighton 20. Huddersfield
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    Which football player made you start loving football?

    Not a Watford player for me, I fell in love with football watching world cup 1994 and Romario for Brazil in that tournament. Bergkamp when he moved to Arsenal was the other one. Richard Johnson was probably the first Watford player.
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    Match Day Thread Watford v Leicester

    The thing that annoys me about the Drinkwater incident is that I saw it as it happened and the referee was no more than 10 yards away running towards it. There is no way he did not see it which means he deliberately ignored it because he didn't want to deal with it.
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    Your first concert - music thread

    My very first was Feeder (!) at some point at the end of the 90's at the good old Astoria. It was the start of a good few years around the London venues with the remnants of Britpop but that was the first.
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    What is a club?

    Not sure if it counts as a "young" view but in comparison to some... I started watching as a youngster in the early to mid 90's. As such the Watford glory days were already behind them and we were very much a plodding second tier club. Also, by this point the Premier League was very much up...
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    Watford Short News Items

    I think the Suarez thing is a shame, he seems to have been the biggest victim of our poor form at the end of last season and somewhat unfairly has shouldered most of the blame for it among supporters. I was hoping we might see him this season with a full pre-season under his belt but alas it...
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    Hornets Player Replacement

    I was getting that message on Edge so switched to Chrome and its working fine.
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    The non-Watford football thread

    Territory isn't as important in football as rugby so moving the ball forward 10m would very rarely give any advantage at all.
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    Transfer Rumours Summer 2025Transfer Rumours

    I would have thought Troy would have been an upgrade on Ulloa/Okazaki and certainly not a replacement for Vardy. If he goes I would have thought buying another quick/skilful striker would be a higher priority.
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    Match Day Thread Watford v Bournemouth

    I had a quick stroll 12 seats along on Sat to check out my new view. It's fine.
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    Transfer Rumours Summer 2025Transfer Rumours

    Didn't they just play against him in that Nagjee cup?
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    Ighalo going

    As the article correctly points out we have no need to sell him so I can't see him going for anything like the £12m quoted.
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    Ighalo going

    Less than Andros Townsend?
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    Match Day Thread Watford v Leeds. FA Cup.

    Pretty sure 4,100 is the whole of the Vicarage Road end.
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    Ighalo going

    According to the WD site the Success transfer is already done and will go through in the summer; although it might be another loan out for a year. The newspaper is clearly just adding two stories together as they are still quoting the seemingly impossibly low £12m figure for Ighalo that was...