Players got Puel sacked. Acted like dicks and could be arsed to fight. That lead to the fans turning on Puel. So the players called for Puel to get sacked and he did. Board got a guy who hasn't a clue in so this is now their **** up. Basically the whole club is at fault
Or the board should have been stronger ? If he lost the dressing room IF , what other option was there .
I think we all can agree that having a two goal lead and then losing it. Something has to be wrong with either the tactics or the players. The team the manager put out today was mostly the same players that achieved 8th last season. Most are international players of a reasonable standard. A lot have complained that the manager did not react when the opposition made changes. Eventually he did, although granted too late according to a lot of you. The players he brought on were defensive though, yet they still scored handball or no. So was the decision wrong to bring on the defensive players? Would you have preferred attackers? In which case who was on the bench that could have made the difference? When you look at the bench was there really anyone there that would have made that much of a difference at any state of the game? Not sure there was......so perhaps on this occasion it was not the managers fault?
The board need to plan for the worst case scenario, I for one am pleased they're acknowledging it's a strong possibility and if the worst was to happen, they'd have a plan.
Not really, the 'mess' started when as a club we thought we'd made it as a top 8club and rested our laurels. Also when we failed to take advantage of the most attractive position the club had been in in a generation.
Boardroom changes need to happen in the summer, not now - they just have to do all they can to keep this club in the division, and that is by replacing the manager, and adding energy to this squad. Then we can move onto Reed and Krueger's positions.
Or maybe lucky for us, because we had one good half where we scored twice? Yes obviously we need to play well for 90 minutes, and we did not. That is a fair criticism of MP and/or the team. But we can’t just focus ONLY on the second half. We need to look at what we did right in the first half as well as what we did wrong in the second? Look at it like this: I’m sure there are people on a Watford messageboard somewhere moaning about how Watford only showed up for a half and how they could have won 4-0 if only Silva hadn’t botched his tactics so badly initially.
Sadly, because we no longer press high up the pitch, his role in the midfield has diminished. A real failing of Pellegrino's that.
The way I saw it was that Watford were handed the initiative once they brought Deeney on as they were stronger in attack. If MP had swapped Lemina for Davis straight away it would have helped to deny them possession and allowed us to continue the excellent forward-looking play we had shown in the first half, by letting JWP and Tadic stay forward. Instead, both of them had to drop deeper and Pellegrino only reacted once Watford brought yet another forward on. Leaving the Boufal and Sims substitutions until added time was again, far too late. We had the players on the bench but they weren’t used properly. I have already said the players themselves have to bear some responsibility but most of the blame has to fall on the tactical ineptness of Pellegrino.
Watford have also won more than 4 games this season, and are 5 points ahead of us. A lot easier in that position to be annoyed about things.
Sat on the train home and bumped into 2 saints fans that were at today’s game and were adamant that the equaliser was hand ball....can anyone clear out his up?
