[theo_luddite]

78 mins for our first tame shot on target. Think if I'd gone down there (normal circumstances) I'd be in either the Spoons or the pub by the station by now, or at least heading in that direction.

[Lord Snooty]

A hard game for the lads and a disappointing result. Don't know what young Ryan was doing with that back pass. He looked frozen on his line. What a stupid goal to give away and it's undone all the hard work.
Without that, who knows how the game would've ended. Keep frustrating them into mistakes, but of course, we gave them the confidence to go on. Unfortunatley, young Pat Jones, who'd only been on a minute, got beat by their full back and he got a quality cross in.
Apart from losing and the fact that we only had one shot on target, I think we did alright considering all that's gone on.
Wardy looked good for the last quarter of an hour when he came on. Probably his best cameo appearance of the season. Same with Scott High. Looked good. Two central defenders and Vallejo looked secure enough.
We missed Hoggy.

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Carlos just said Hogg is out for three weeks.

[WakeyTerrier]

It’s not like the result was unexpected but the manner of the first goal was very disappointing, what was he doing? I can only imagine he was away with the fairies.

Deeney should’ve walked for that challenge in the first half but nothing we can do to change that. Bacunas’s arse fell out of the game after that.

We’re 2 goals down and and his first sub is to bring Pat Jones on, not Danny Ward tells me Ward is nowhere near fit and probably shouldn’t be too n the bench.

CC has worked miracles but it’s plain for all to see that this squad needs some championship ready players to be bought into the squad and not projects that will work with the B-team for the foreseeable future.... spend some f*cking money!!

[Lord Snooty]

He's the 99th richest sports club owner in the world (according to a report in the Unexamined recently). There's no excuse for not spending some dosh on some quality, Championship ready players.

[Lord Snooty]

[Lord Snooty]

Having now listened to Carlos, I take a slight bit of the blame for that first goal off Schofield and back on to Vallejo. He told them at halftime to stop passing back to the keeper because of the way Watford were pressing him. So what do we do?
The lad was still asleep, but obviously not expecting the pass.      

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There's also talk that Cleverley's studs up challenge on Schofield for the ball should've been a foul and was actually worse than the foul that Campbell got booked for.
Personally, I don't think so and I don't think VAR would've over turned it. He got to the ball fractionally before young Ryan,who then seemed to make a bit of an injury out of it due to embarrassment.

[Lord Snooty]

Quiz answers:  

1. Which manager did Watford sack to bring in Gianfranco Zola? - Sean Dyche
   
2. Who was Watford manager when they beat Leeds in the 2006 Play Off Final? - Aidy Boothroyd
   
3. Who was Watford manager when they got to the 1984 FA Cup Final? - Graham Taylor
   
4. Which Town player scored twice against Watford on the final day of 1969/70? - Dick Krzywicki
   
5. Which Town player scored a hat trick against Watford on the final day of 2013/14? - Danny Ward
   

Anagrams: all Watford related

1. John le Ton - Elton John 
   
2. Herr Hatty Horne - Harry the Hornet
   
3. Halo Marry Tag - Graham Taylor
   
4. Zion Cum Sox - Xisco Munoz
   
5. Photo May Fizzle - The Pozzo Family
   

Thanks to everybody for taking part. This week's winner is jjamez.

[Lord Snooty]

Club Connections:

Further back in time, Fred Fayers signed for Town from Watford for our first Football League season in 1910. He was a central defender or right half and played as an amateur for Watford, but turned professional at Huddersfield. He played for us right up to the cessation for the First World War, but afterwards didn't return, opting to play for Stockport County.

Now I know many of you aren't interested, but I love reading about our old players and I've just found a bit more about Fred Fayers. He was born a Quaker and as such he was unable to kill another human being and so he became a conscientious objector. Every "conchie" had to go to a tribunal to prove they weren't cowards. Fred faced his tribunal in April 1916 in Stockport, where he was guest playing at the time, but still officially a Town player. He was granted exemption due to his religious beliefs and was set to work on farms in Cheshire, producing food for the war effort.

[jjamez]

Did he like his oats?

Sorry maybe a bit below the belt.

In regards to conchies, I have arguably a very different view on it to everyone else, which some may not truly like. I respect him for standing up for his beliefs.

I see a film called hacksaw ridge being of interest to you Snooty, if you haven't seen it before. Not football related or anything like that. If you haven't seen it before, read up on it before watching, it has a bit of bloodshed

[WakeyTerrier]

Great film