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McAnuff gutted by Palace defeat
9:47am Sunday 20th April 2008
Jobi McAnuff admits the 2-0 defeat to former club Crystal Palace yesterday was one of the lowest points of his career.
The win for the Eagles shattered Watford's automatic promotion hopes leaving them looking nervously over their shoulders at the teams below them.
And McAnuff was surprisingly taken off with 20 minutes remaining despite being one of the team's most dangerous players.
The winger said: "It was one of the most disappointing days of my career because it was such a massive game.
"We shot ourselves in the foot and we need to look at where we went wrong. But we have to make sure that we win our next two games and get in the play-offs."
McAnuff was the victim of raucous abuse from the away end but he says he is used to this and accepts it as part of the game.
He said: "I've had it in the past and I'm sure it will happen again. It's just football and you have to get on with it."
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mattymashup, letchworth says...
10:49am Sun 20 Apr 08
mattymashup, letchworth says...
11:02am Sun 20 Apr 08
Hexham Hornet, Hexham says...
11:33am Sun 20 Apr 08
Peter Phillips, Loudwater says...
12:45pm Sun 20 Apr 08
henry, oxhey says...
1:36pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Glad to hear that JM was upset - take it out on Scunthorpe mate.
No-one should give up yet.
Palace were very physical,determined and attacked with purpose and variety. Reminds me of our lot at the start of the season !!
VoR, Watford says...
3:07pm Sun 20 Apr 08
End of!!
SF49ers, Broken Arrow says...
5:29pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Come On You 'Orns
Surrey Horn, Surbiton says...
5:43pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Holly68, watford says...
6:00pm Sun 20 Apr 08
points to raise :-
1. Simpson is starting to suffer with ill health - hence his desire to sell club
2. Simpson is not happy with results or play, hence he sat in Rookery yesterday to distance himself
3. Club have two bids, one of £25M, another of £30M (Foreign investor)
4. Ashton is off in the summer, new job already lined up
5. John is going back to Fulham
6. Boothroyd does not have all his coaches onside or the dressing room
7. Boothroyd has to go at the end of the season, regardless of division
8. this was my worst season at the vic I can remember in 35 years
9. for the first time ever I am boycotting next weeks game as I am sick of trashball !!!
10. I have not enjoyed this season ...
VoR, Watford says...
6:16pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Mark, Watford says...
6:28pm Sun 20 Apr 08
zip, colni predicton says...
6:45pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Ozz twaat, what do you think? would you care to make a predicton?
mellow_yellow, watford says...
6:56pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Now, are they TRUE??!! (With the exceptions of 8, 9 and 10 which are clearly correct!)
Hornetboy84, ricky says...
7:38pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Worst season in 35 years?
Do you have amnesia?
Cant you remember the Perryman and Lee days.
I'll forgive Glenn Roeder. He had mitigating circumstances.
Hornetboy84, ricky says...
7:38pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Worst season in 35 years?
Do you have amnesia?
Cant you remember the Perryman and Lee days.
I'll forgive Glenn Roeder. He had mitigating circumstances.
Mark, Watford says...
7:41pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Its a little like under Vialli when we had expensive flops passing the ball to death backawards and sideways but to little effect.
Professor Plum, The Billiard Room says...
7:50pm Sun 20 Apr 08
His Lordship points out in his last posting that we (WFC) have had a three-year above-maximal return on & off the game & we're punching above our benchmark weight as an organisation, with a great strategic capability and soon to be welcoming ground facility for ordinary people & VIP guests. He goes on: If you can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen. Or better still, step right up to the plate & put your money & reputations on the line.
As one of the ordinary people who has invested far too much time, money and emotion in this organisation, with a great strategic capability and put my money on the line by investing in a season ticket next year I find the tone of his comments at best patronizing or more realistically, plain bloody rude.
Kevin Affleck get on to this bloke and find out if these are truly the comments of one of WFC principal shareholders. If they are this once family club has truly had its day and I for one am beginning to regret my investment.
SF49ers, Broken Arrow says...
7:59pm Sun 20 Apr 08
Come On You 'Orns
ozzy, kingcross says...
8:19pm Sun 20 Apr 08
SF49ers wrote:yeh you fix ur broken arrow yet . sage an onoin boy got a meting he not come to fone. colni you predikt this you meet me in moon undre water bulshitur
"ordinary people"? Apart from the Neil Young song, I hate that expression! We are all people and we are ALL Watford supporters. Ordinary does not come in to it.
Come On You 'Orns
VoR, Watford says...
8:35pm Sun 20 Apr 08
ozzy wrote:He's Chicken sh1t....
SF49ers wrote:yeh you fix ur broken arrow yet . sage an onoin boy got a meting he not come to fone. colni you predikt this you meet me in moon undre water bulshitur
"ordinary people"? Apart from the Neil Young song, I hate that expression! We are all people and we are ALL Watford supporters. Ordinary does not come in to it.
Come On You 'Orns
He should cluck off!!
rosh99, hereford says...
9:55pm Sun 20 Apr 08
mellow_yellow wrote:Can I officially place an offer of £4.50 for a takeover of Watford. Offloading AB, the entire (non)strikeforce and the coaching staff should see me make a tidy little profit...
Holly68: Of all your points the only one I find doubtful is Number 3. The rest are all too easy to believe. Now, are they TRUE??!! (With the exceptions of 8, 9 and 10 which are clearly correct!)
Sage Lazarus, says...
8:26am Mon 21 Apr 08
Holly68 wrote:I suspect you were banned by your carer locking you up!--35 yrs--HMMMN-1973--avo
After being banned from the BBC 606 site following an imposter taking over my profile, I will use this as my forum, and Kevin please contact me .... points to raise :- 1. Simpson is starting to suffer with ill health - hence his desire to sell club 2. Simpson is not happy with results or play, hence he sat in Rookery yesterday to distance himself 3. Club have two bids, one of £25M, another of £30M (Foreign investor) 4. Ashton is off in the summer, new job already lined up 5. John is going back to Fulham 6. Boothroyd does not have all his coaches onside or the dressing room 7. Boothroyd has to go at the end of the season, regardless of division 8. this was my worst season at the vic I can remember in 35 years 9. for the first time ever I am boycotting next weeks game as I am sick of trashball !!! 10. I have not enjoyed this season ...
ided relegation to div 4 on goal average( not goal diff til later)1975--relegate
d to Div 4 --and so on
hard to believe your other claims when you are so clearly a TWATT!
Hexham Hornet, Hexham says...
9:23am Mon 21 Apr 08
As regards worst season ever... think back. Bassett, Lee, Vialli - none of these gave me happy memories. Perhaps you drank yourself into a state of unconsciousness those years.
The memory plays funny tricks on people as they get old. I am sure if nursie gives you your medication you will see things more clearly.
Sage Lazarus, says...
9:23am Mon 21 Apr 08
Ashcroft---MY LORD to the likes of you--Micky baby to me of course--is not really posting.
As one who makes his living with a fair number of "ten dollar words" in m,anagement speak ,I would point out the screamingly obvious that the poster is "avin a larf"
BTW if you wanted to find out anything why ask KA?-now if you wanted to distort or make up something then he IS yer man!
Sage Lazarus, says...
9:32am Mon 21 Apr 08
A management & coaching staff with 2 years to run on contracts will probably cost at least £1.5 m to get rid of & couyld be much more--long term player contracts such as NE will clearly extend beyond the parachute payments--we have a ground to rebuild & so on.
It may seem a good idea to you to post such pathetic KRAPP but it is NOT BIG & NOT CLEVER!
liam, london says...
9:32am Mon 21 Apr 08
liam, london says...
9:32am Mon 21 Apr 08
Professor Plum, The Billiard Room says...
9:43am Mon 21 Apr 08
Sage Lazarus, says...
9:48am Mon 21 Apr 08
Sage Lazarus, says...
9:50am Mon 21 Apr 08
liam wrote:0-3 in playoffs u KNOB!
As a Palace Fan you should sack AB, a man who talks a good game but little else.
Holly68, watford says...
9:58am Mon 21 Apr 08
I get my info leaked from club, its something for Kevin to follow up on, there is more I could write but cant.
Yes I have been following club for 35 years, and in MY OPIONION the HOME displays are the worst ever !!
Kevin will contact me, he knows I am genuine
Sage Lazarus, says...
10:01am Mon 21 Apr 08
Professor Plum wrote:You & me both mate--my first marriage springs to mind!
Sage - I hope you're right. This wouldn't be the first time I've been a gullible twatt!!
Anyway I am now married to a beautiful lady & on Wednesday we celebrate our 25 year
anniversary.
She wants to mark the event on saturday but come on...it`s scunthorpe at home!
If you start spoiling them.....
BTW Anniv 23rd id St Georges Day & the day on which Shakespeare was born & died-amazing he managed to write all those plays so quickly really!
Of course on 23/4/83 we lost 0-2 @ Old Trafford on our way to finishing second in top division--and she made me miss the game!
Sage Lazarus, says...
10:05am Mon 21 Apr 08
91- virtually the same---and so on.
Clearly nonsense so do I believe anything from you? NO!
Deffo over & out.
Professor Plum, The Billiard Room says...
10:35am Mon 21 Apr 08
jhc, says...
11:10am Mon 21 Apr 08
We were far from our best on saturday but Watford were poor. I couldn't fault them for effort but there was a real lack of quality and their finishing was woeful.
All the teams around us seem to be doing their very best to make sure we get in the play-offs - none more so than Watford!
I wouldn't be at all surprised to meet them again in a few weeks time.
Lifer, says...
12:41pm Mon 21 Apr 08
jhc wrote:Jbc -I would agree with every word exceopt that our manager insiste that we had enough chances to have won 3 or 4 games.
Watford are not a patch on the team we played earlier in the season. Since losing Marlon King they seem to have become a 'one trick pony' with that long throw from Bromby. We were far from our best on saturday but Watford were poor. I couldn't fault them for effort but there was a real lack of quality and their finishing was woeful. All the teams around us seem to be doing their very best to make sure we get in the play-offs - none more so than Watford! I wouldn't be at all surprised to meet them again in a few weeks time.
We had more slightly chances than Palace but we do not create much more than pressure and half chances because we lack movement.
We should have won but we get very nervous if we do not score early and once we concede we lose our heads.
WFC & Proud, Watford says...
1:29pm Mon 21 Apr 08
If this is the real Holly68, I say we give it a while & see what happens before driving him away.
Sage Lazarus, says...
2:25pm Mon 21 Apr 08
Also a great real ale range @ cheap prices...problem is that she would rather go shopping than watch Watford & that woman can wield a credit card with deadly effect!
hang on though, I will go shopping with her--must be more enjoyable than watching us !
Sage Lazarus, says...
2:28pm Mon 21 Apr 08
WFC & Proud wrote:I do not make a study of websites so I bow to your knowledge--my issue is overstatements--wors
Holly68's "provenance"from the 606 site was very reliable; got all the transfers (in & out) correct in Jan window as well as several other bits of info that were then confirmed. If this is the real Holly68, I say we give it a while & see what happens before driving him away.
t in 35 yrs--GS sitting in Rookery to distance himself when it was clearly to do the opposite,etc make me mistrust posters.
Steve W, Tewkesbury says...
4:26pm Mon 21 Apr 08
Play off place almost certain and then a shot a promotion.
Yeah its not automatic but its stil not a bad sesson. I can think of many many more that were worse.
How many other teams would gladly swap places with us. I can name Shef U and charlton for a start. Thyey have suffered at home once again with high expectations.
Don't care how it comes just want sucess for watford.
I grant you it certainly aint good at the moment and is very worrying.
Toime for all that though is not now. Judge the season when it ends not now we still have two (more likely 5 to go).
For now i beg all of you stop all this negative c**p. Get behind the team and see what happens at the end.
Come end of May its the time for analyis and the firing squad but now now.
Please please get behind the team we need a united front for the play offs.
Holly68, watford says...
4:40pm Mon 21 Apr 08
andywatford, watford says...
5:26pm Mon 21 Apr 08
VoR, Watford says...
5:44pm Mon 21 Apr 08
Professor Plum wrote:Yeah get her down to he moons, I'll give her an aperitif that's she's probably been longing for.....for about 25yrs I reckon.
Sage - Congratulations on your anniversary. Why don't you take Mrs Sage to the Scunthorpe game and then on afterwards to the Moon on the Water for a fry up and a fight! Who said romance was dead!
Me & ozz will show her what a man is, she's probably forgotten.
Ozz 'll probably kop the needle tho'.
Will she suck your dodgy toe later?
VoR, Watford says...
5:46pm Mon 21 Apr 08
Holly68 wrote:Great.....we've got a mole.
All, Friday's paper could be interesting .... Kevin has to be allowed to do his job, when ABS have all moved on, its us the fans and the paper will still be around ... lets get behind the paper and Kevin as they risk being outcast once again by the club, we need an independant voice, the watford obs gives good governance
Luv it!!!!
Sage Lazarus, says...
7:28pm Mon 21 Apr 08
you may have meant it to be a joke but I find it totally unacceptable & infuriating, whilst I will not be in that pub I will happily meet up with you some other time to make my point as directly as you could possibly wish.
Banter is one thing & we all go too far sometimes me included, & maybe i should not have shared these true details with the prof, but I give you this one & only chance to make amends.
ozzy, kingcross says...
8:19pm Mon 21 Apr 08
Sage Lazarus, says...
9:17pm Mon 21 Apr 08
ozzy wrote:you can F**K of you nonce as well!
hhehehe. so funy
ozzy, kingcross says...
11:08pm Mon 21 Apr 08
Sage Lazarus wrote:yu meet me in moon undre water onoin boy
ozzy wrote:you can F**K of you nonce as well!
hhehehe. so funy
JohnBoy, Watford says...
8:11am Tue 22 Apr 08
I can't see a good way out of our current situation. If we through some fluke get ourselves in the premiership who with and quality would ever want to join us? How will we score goals? How will we defend against premiership stikers? We can't do any of this in the championship.
If we don't go up I'm not sure if I can stomach more home performances. Maybe I'll just go to away games.
JohnBoy, Watford says...
8:13am Tue 22 Apr 08
Hapless Horn, says...
12:29pm Tue 22 Apr 08
The complainant admits that he also goes too far sometimes.
Clearly this time it hit a nerve.
I think that your post adds nothing except to make you seem a bit small minded.
As you have given it out -I take it you do not mind?
JohnBoy, Watford says...
1:31pm Tue 22 Apr 08
have you been to the boothroyd school of muddled thinking?
sage is quite capable of defending himself and has done so on many occasions
Hapless Horn, says...
2:01pm Tue 22 Apr 08
I did not accuse you of insulting anyone--where on earth did you get that from?
You have "given out" the point that the complainant should not be upset. But he was!
I was suggesting that as he and the other guy have sorted it out now,your post is pointless and a bit unpleasant as the guy was clearly offended.
It seems to me that you are the one with "muddled thinking".
I think a bigger man would have accepted the point as VoR has done.
I will not respond further.
JohnBoy, Watford says...
2:35pm Tue 22 Apr 08
you may think that a bigger man would have accepted the point but please don't expect other people to agree with everything you think.
you don't have a basic understanding of the point i was making , not that he shouldn't be upset but that he should expect to get back what he dishes out. yes he was upset and who wouldn't be?
goodness me there are some sad people on here with nothing better to do.
****, says...
4:34pm Tue 22 Apr 08
You said it pal!
I think the failure to understand bsasic points is all on your side.
nathan ellington, Watford says...
8:20am Wed 23 Apr 08
nathan ellington, Watford says...
8:20am Wed 23 Apr 08
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