Good footballing outfit Brighton, move and pass well and deserved winners. We are better organised defensively under Roy but counts for little if we can't make and take chances. Until next time, have a good week all.
Roy thinks we attacked too much! Wow - I mean we probably only had 30% of the game . https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/s...gson-thinks-watford-not-good-enough-brighton/
I quite often watch matches without the sound on because sometimes it is a commentary from a land where I don't understand the language, but also because I like to watch and form my own opinion. Due to all of my usual streams being down I had the commentary of Jon Marks and Tommy Mooney as a backup in case Scully did not come up with one. (I have no idea how he finds some of them.) I have heard Tommy get agitated about the overall team performance in the past, but today it was about individual players. Long before half time he was calling for Kucka to be taken off. Not an EPL standard player, although he admitted he was playing out of position. Second half he turned his spotlight on Dennis. "No one knows what he will do next because he doesn't know himself". "Why keep trying all these flashy flicks that don't come off when he could play basic football and pass to a team mate." My own view was that unlike the BBC, the first goal was a bit of a fluke and could have gone anywhere. Louza looked good when he came on, but I am not sure about Sarr wandering across the front line. I think he looks at his best on the right wing, and is receiving passes from Kiko that he can run on to. All in all a dreadful boring game, apart from twenty minutes at the start of the second half when we did look as though we might be building a head of steam, that sadly failed to keep up pressure.
Shocking. Just woeful today. No positives from that. Confidence up front shot to pieces. BHA better everywhere across the park.
We hear too often the players haven't been good enough. Are they just that out of their depth or not listening to the manager? Going by Hodgson's comments seems they didn't do as he wanted although not quite sure why he thought we were too attacking!!
No comment and I was there, apart from we need a streak of luck from somewhere for the players to believe they can win a game
Some thoughts from Rookery Mike that go beyond the obvious. Plenty feeling detached from Watford FC at the moment, and on the face of it it’s not hard to see why. But I think there is a lot more to it than just the results. The world has changed significantly since pre-pandemic times & I think that includes how people feel and act. One of the big issues is, I think, that during lockdown, loads of people spent their Saturday or Tuesday night in a different way. When they would usually spend it at a home game or en route to an away, people were now at home. Maybe with family, maybe doing other hobbies,maybe reading, watching movies, gaming. But whatever people were up to, it *wasn’t* going to the football. The habit was forcibly broken, and perhaps some realised that a Saturday could be enjoyably spent without football. That’s not to say it wasn’t missed terribly, of course it was, but the break showed that time could be (shock horror!) spent doing other things. So when football came back, there was a choice. Carry on with Saturdays at home, with family or doing a different/new hobby - carry on with what is the new routine - or go back to football. For most it was always going to be the latter, but football now comes with a caveat - the recent knowledge and experience that shows you could be doing something else and enjoying that instead. So to give up that new routine is potentially quite hard. To give it up and to come and watch your team be pretty naff? Well that’s no fun either, because you know you could be doing something else - you proved it over the last 18 months. Add into that the challenging experiences that so many have endured since the pandemic struck, and perhaps it’s understandable that emotional energy is in short supply. It’s a brutal time, and football should be an escape. I’m not therefore surprised that when the football isn’t fun, people feel removed, detached and dare I say, indifferent. I wonder whether the love for football will endure, just as it always has, but perhaps in a slightly different way. Priorities and outlooks have, maybe subconsciously, changed. And that is OK.
I do not buy into that at all The problem for all the fans I know are that since the Cup Final the recruitment of players has not been good enough, we have not replaced Deeney, Deulofeu, Pereyra, Cupue, Hughes, Holebas or Doucoure We had a squad that should have finished in the top ten, but after the Semi Final we fell away and that team was in the position we are now the start of the following season, we have some young promising player who could be Prem Players but are not there yet The recruitment of Manager/Head Coaches has been flawed since the Cup Final as well, Gracia should have been given a bit longer and then if not working replaced by Pearson earlier in the season, same this year Munoz should have been given a bit longer and if not working replace by Hodgson before the rot truly set in It is not the aftermath of Covid that has disalutioned Watford supporters but the aftermath from the Cup Final and the blame lies in the hierarchy, not the players who have been brought in to do a job they were not quite up to I am happy overall with our owners but they have let themselves and the fans down over the past 2 years
Maybe we could learn from history, which has a habit of repeating itself. After the end of World War II, attendances at football matches boomed - take heart from the fact that Liz Truss is doing her damnedest to take us into war with Russia and get us back into the stadiums afterwards.
For me the Pozzo system of players in players out... managers/coaches in...coaches out .... is just not sustainable..and clearly is not working
Could only look at Potter and the Brighton team with envy. That should be us, building from the cup final year, but we haven't. Yesterday Brighton were everything we weren't, energetic, hard working, skillful and confident. Oh! And younger, that midfield of ours looked old pre season and so it has proved to be.
