Watford Post Match whatever!

[LaDiscotekHorn]

Hello, Watford fan here incase you didn't guess.

Just reading up what you said about Alnwick, and from our end (The Rookery) his save from Ellingtons low drive where he put it over from low down was fantastic, excellent save.

Also kudos to you, I don't know if it was the occasion or the shocking officiating, but that's the loudest the Rookery has been this season in my opinion.

Jamie Clapham irritated me, moaned far too much and just wandered off yelling the odds when things didn't go his way, your new Hungarians didn't impress me as much as I liked, they looked to go forward but lacked the final ball as has been said.

Howard is still his shit old self, thankfully. Oakley showed moments of pure class, turning his man on more than one occasion and releasing nice passes, Holloway should be looking to channel play through him a lot more.

The last thing I will say though is that you looked to string a pass together, but once the recipient had got it, he didn't have a clue what to do!

Also, apologies on our time wasting and negative play at the end for those who went, I hate to see Watford do it at all, let alone at home.

Good luck with the rest of your season.

[kamikazi_watermelon]

I don't know if im the first back or not but as i went to the game ill give my tuppence in early.

I thought today we played ok, the shape was pretty good but the final ball was lacking.

DJ was always out played and muscled by Shittu, Clemence never looked at Clapham all game, Zsolt needs crossing lessons and Ben Alnwick is amazing. Stearman played well today and was possibly our MOM with Kisnorbo and Alnwick very close behind.

Just got back from there too.

I agree with the majority of what you said there, minus about Stearman, as i didnt really see him do anything, apart from mess up one ball down field to hume.

One thing i noticed though, was that the only time City played with any real passion was in the last 5 minutes, in which we had 2 corners, and nearly had a goal (if it wasn't for henderson's head)

Howard won the ball the majority of the time, but the majority of the time he wasted it. (back heel into nothingness)

Leicester need to look for the wide-men, as i felt they didn't utilise them enough.

Meh, can't be bothered to write any more, but i do think City played well, apart from in the final third of the pitch. 3 shots in the entire game was all i counted for city.

[DanTheFox07]

Hello, Watford fan here incase you didn't guess.

Just reading up what you said about Alnwick, and from our end (The Rookery) his save from Ellingtons low drive where he put it over from low down was fantastic, excellent save.

Also kudos to you, I don't know if it was the occasion or the shocking officiating, but that's the loudest the Rookery has been this season in my opinion.

Jamie Clapham irritated me, moaned far too much and just wandered off yelling the odds when things didn't go his way, your new Hungarians didn't impress me as much as I liked, they looked to go forward but lacked the final ball as has been said.

Howard is still his shit old self, thankfully. Oakley showed moments of pure class, turning his man on more than one occasion and releasing nice passes, Holloway should be looking to channel play through him a lot more.

The last thing I will say though is that you looked to string a pass together, but once the recipient had got it, he didn't have a clue what to do!

Also, apologies on our time wasting and negative play at the end for those who went, I hate to see Watford do it at all, let alone at home.

Good luck with the rest of your season.

Cheers mate, Intresting to hear your feedback and yet another person who agree`s howard is crap!!!

[General Smuts]

Hello, Watford fan here incase you didn't guess.

Just reading up what you said about Alnwick, and from our end (The Rookery) his save from Ellingtons low drive where he put it over from low down was fantastic, excellent save.

Also kudos to you, I don't know if it was the occasion or the shocking officiating, but that's the loudest the Rookery has been this season in my opinion.

Jamie Clapham irritated me, moaned far too much and just wandered off yelling the odds when things didn't go his way, your new Hungarians didn't impress me as much as I liked, they looked to go forward but lacked the final ball as has been said.

Howard is still his shit old self, thankfully. Oakley showed moments of pure class, turning his man on more than one occasion and releasing nice passes, Holloway should be looking to channel play through him a lot more.

The last thing I will say though is that you looked to string a pass together, but once the recipient had got it, he didn't have a clue what to do!

Also, apologies on our time wasting and negative play at the end for those who went, I hate to see Watford do it at all, let alone at home.

Good luck with the rest of your season.

Best non LCFC fan post all year.

Why can't the Plymouth fans be like you.

[Guest shearfox]

Just seen Ollie on Sky Sports News say he thought we were the better team when both teams had 11 men. I have come to the conclusion this guy is a 'Complete Fvckin idiot'.

I believe he knows that we weren't good enough in the second half and I'm sure he told that to the players but also highlighted to the players that if we play like we did in the first half results will come. Holloway is trying to completely change the style of play of the team its not going to happen in two months.

[General Smuts]

Just got back from there too.

I agree with the majority of what you said there, minus about Stearman, as i didnt really see him do anything, apart from mess up one ball down field to hume.

One thing i noticed though, was that the only time City played with any real passion was in the last 5 minutes, in which we had 2 corners, and nearly had a goal (if it wasn't for henderson's head)

Howard won the ball the majority of the time, but the majority of the time he wasted it. (back heel into nothingness)

Leicester need to look for the wide-men, as i felt they didn't utilise them enough.

Meh, can't be bothered to write any more, but i do think City played well, apart from in the final third of the pitch. 3 shots in the entire game was all i counted for city.

It was more his defensive abillity that i was impressed with, his passing was no worse than any of the rest of the team

[when_you're_smiling]

The players are not mentally strong enough as a group. One goal and we're beat. Isn't that 10 straight matches where we have lost when we have conceded the first goal?

I think Holloway's post match comments were complete rubbish with the sole purpose of trying to keep morale and belief up in the dressing room. Coventry in 10 (ish) days time is going to be a massive game. No matter what Holloway says, that game could be crucial.

[Mark]

We had one single off target shot in the first half though compared to Watfords 4-5 on target before the sending off, we might have played the better football but we were still not scoring or looking like creating anything, I'm afraid that's not being the better team.

[Joe.]

It's like when we go a goal down we just can't seem to produce any fight to try and get a result. Extremely disappointing.

[filbertway]

OMFG WE LOST WTF I was expecting a win away to watford.

[Tube Bar Rich]

OMFG WE LOST WTF I was expecting a win away to watford.

A shot on target against a team with 10 men for most of the game would be a start....Maybe?

[Sods]

Just got back.

Was a bit shit but enjoyed the night.

Howard, Bori, Campbell were poor.

Clemence played his worst game today, he panicked when he had the ball no pace with the passing, never looked wide, ran into players, got rid of it hopeusly.

Alnwick made a superb save first half. Oakley was alright and had a little bit of tempo going and the back four looked alright. Other than that everyone was average.

Nobody looked to be creative, the team is seriously lacking confidence. We can pass the ball, but when we got in the final third we ran out of ideas, the sooner we get Sinclair in the better.

To be honest, were in the shit now. If a team dosen't have the confidence and belief to beat an average 10 man team then god help us. But we still have Preston, Scun tphorpe, Sheff Wed and Colchester to play at home. So if we do go down we only have ourselves to blame.

[filbertway]

A shot on target against a team with 10 men for most of the game would be a start....Maybe?

Maybe.

Coalville lost 2-0 tonight

One of our strikers got sent off after being on the pitch for about 2 minutes for smacking someone who elbowed him

'Mon the Ravens

Media Whores

[Thracian]

The stats don't look good but I'll wait to read the views of those who went because sometimes the stats could be misleading, maybe Watford restricted us by defending well, yes i'm clutching at straws but im fed up of reading these threads and becoming depressed. Ben Alnwick has to take the blame for the goal, everygame he does that and it was bound to lead to a goal eventually.

It could have been worse after tonights results but both Preston and Sheff Wed failed to win, we are in a battle and luckily for us it is in our own hands. If we do go down with the fixtures we have remaining then we deserve to go down.

Yes, doubtless young Ben will get the blame - and it sounds like he might deserve some.

But, as I've said so many times, we need to score two goals to win games because we always concede one and who's to blame for us not doing that?

In fact who's to blame for us hardly having a shot on target against 10 men?

Or for us only scoring 15 goals in the last 18 games? Or four in six since the "new" team arrived?

I can think of positives, no problem.

Apart from a silly lapse the defence was breached just once against the League leaders in an away game.

Holloway tried to change things by fielding four strikers.

Our goal difference is still probably worth a point.

Three successive defeats is not as bad as four.

Other results went our way.

But nothing those who went can say will change the fact that we lost again and failed to score again.

How important is that?

Well just reflect on this.

If you'd known when we started the game against Coventry that young Ben Alnwick and co would only concede four goals in six Championship games wouldn't you have been pleased?

I would.

But to see us take a relegation level seven points from 18 in consequence and hardly have 10 decent shots in the whole of that time, discounting Coventry, suggests there's something seriously wrong.

[Super_horns]

First thing to say...it seems you guys have taken defeat in good heart which is nice after getting laods of abuse from Ipswich fans which was a surprise for beating them.

Thanks..

I did not go to the hammering you gave us in August but you must have played really well then or us totally rubbish because if I am honest there was not a lot of conviction in the 2nd anyway against our strong 10 men to suggest you would get a goal despite some decent passing (bit like us under Vialli a few years back)

Looked more dangerous 1st half if anything as we started slowly.

Suspect a few weeks ago you would have scored 1/2 though but we have found some confidence and got 3 new players who have improved the team (Well both you and us don't like Stewart now!)

Chambers seems to be having the same problems as with us...finding it hard to settle into the 1st team as he can play almost everywhere but not that well.

I doubt having 3 different managers probably with various styles and formations have helped?

Your a good club with a decent ground so be a same to you get relegated and I like the manager for his quotes.

We know our football is not pretty and would have to change greatly if we went up (although can you see anyone mainting their Premiership place out of those that go up with massive spending and good luck?)

As the other Watford fan said good luck and for once it was nice to actually get a win against you guys as we have not got many other the years!

[FilboFox]

Get rid of Howard up front, he's terrible. He's slow and all he is good for is heading the ball... we need speed up front. Hume and DJ would be superb up front in this division I'm sure.

As for the rest of the team, if they stopped hoofing the ball forward to Howard as he wasn't there, it would be much better and we would use the wings more leading to, guess what, us creating more chances as we did against Covscum.

Ollie is deluded if he thinks that the Plymouth game was good (he said we were the better team (!?!) and had more chances (agreed) and should have won (as if) ) and that, by the sounds of it, he thought we were good against Watford as well...

[Guest]

I am angry. I am so angry, I can't be bothered to read about how pissed off everyone else is.

Grr.

[Sods]

The stats don't look good but I'll wait to read the views of those who went because sometimes the stats could be misleading, maybe Watford restricted us by defending well, yes i'm clutching at straws but im fed up of reading these threads and becoming depressed. Ben Alnwick has to take the blame for the goal, everygame he does that and it was bound to lead to a goal eventually.

It could have been worse after tonights results but both Preston and Sheff Wed failed to win, we are in a battle and luckily for us it is in our own hands. If we do go down with the fixtures we have remaining then we deserve to go down.

Alnwick was good today as always. I wouldn't blame him for the goal.

He made one stonking save as well against ellington.

[FilboFox]

Looks like it was a piss-poor game though...

Watford had 6 shots, we had 5... nothing much looks like it happened apart from the goal.

[lildave3]

I personally thought that wasn't too bad, and certainly some positives from it. We actually passed it around, starting from the defence may I add, who then got told to pump it long by some people near me () just didn't really create much. The final ball was often poor. Watford played very narrow as you'd probably expect from a team with 10 men, but doing this meant we would go wide and put crosses in. Crosses that were either poor, headed clear (mostly by Shittu) or flicked on by Howard to nobody. DJ Campbell hounded the defence, forced them into mistakes but his first touch let him down on a couple of occasions, certainly done enough to stay in the team for me though.

Alnwick made a couple of good saves, but seemed to be at fault for the goal.

Defence looked solid to me, and played well. Mopped things up before passing it simply.

Midfield, well. Clemence so often chose the wrong ball, but certainly wanted it and he did look to be spraying it about quite well quite often. Oakley I thought was possibly our best player, he got stuck in, got involved and generally looked better. The Hungarians though, so often made the wrong decisions. Bori likes doing the simple things certainly, possibly a little too much. Doesn't really run at defenders or whip in a great ball. Although he did play one great looking ball, just a shame DJ was offside. Laczko's crossing was woeful tonight, and again didn't really run at defenders. I don't know whether Holloway has told him to whip balls in early to Howard or not but that could well be a reason. Howard - put himself about as usual, and flicked things on a couple of times.

All in all, positives, but still work to be done.

[Koke]

I personally thought that wasn't too bad, and certainly some positives from it. We actually passed it around, starting from the defence may I add, who then got told to pump it long by some people near me () just didn't really create much. The final ball was often poor. Watford played very narrow as you'd probably expect from a team with 10 men, but doing this meant we would go wide and put crosses in. Crosses that were either poor, headed clear (mostly by Shittu) or flicked on by Howard to nobody. DJ Campbell hounded the defence, forced them into mistakes but his first touch let him down on a couple of occasions, certainly done enough to stay in the team for me though.

Alnwick made a couple of good saves, but seemed to be at fault for the goal.

Defence looked solid to me, and played well. Mopped things up before passing it simply.

Midfield, well. Clemence so often chose the wrong ball, but certainly wanted it and he did look to be spraying it about quite well quite often. Oakley I thought was possibly our best player, he got stuck in, got involved and generally looked better. The Hungarians though, so often made the wrong decisions. Bori likes doing the simple things certainly, possibly a little too much. Doesn't really run at defenders or whip in a great ball. Although he did play one great looking ball, just a shame DJ was offside. Laczko's crossing was woeful tonight, and again didn't really run at defenders. I don't know whether Holloway has told him to whip balls in early to Howard or not but that could well be a reason. Howard - put himself about as usual, and flicked things on a couple of times.

All in all, positives, but still work to be done.

Do you think Ollie made the right team selection? And another question, was Clemence as bad as it sounded on the radio?

[FilboFox]

I personally thought that wasn't too bad, and certainly some positives from it. We actually passed it around, starting from the defence may I add, who then got told to pump it long by some people near me () just didn't really create much. The final ball was often poor. Watford played very narrow as you'd probably expect from a team with 10 men, but doing this meant we would go wide and put crosses in. Crosses that were either poor, headed clear (mostly by Shittu) or flicked on by Howard to nobody. DJ Campbell hounded the defence, forced them into mistakes but his first touch let him down on a couple of occasions, certainly done enough to stay in the team for me though.

Alnwick made a couple of good saves, but seemed to be at fault for the goal.

Defence looked solid to me, and played well. Mopped things up before passing it simply.

Midfield, well. Clemence so often chose the wrong ball, but certainly wanted it and he did look to be spraying it about quite well quite often. Oakley I thought was possibly our best player, he got stuck in, got involved and generally looked better. The Hungarians though, so often made the wrong decisions. Bori likes doing the simple things certainly, possibly a little too much. Doesn't really run at defenders or whip in a great ball. Although he did play one great looking ball, just a shame DJ was offside. Laczko's crossing was woeful tonight, and again didn't really run at defenders. I don't know whether Holloway has told him to whip balls in early to Howard or not but that could well be a reason. Howard - put himself about as usual, and flicked things on a couple of times.

All in all, positives, but still work to be done.

Here here!

Now we need to take those positives, work on the poor crossing and learn for Saturday's game at the Walkers!

[FilboFox]

Do you think Ollie made the right team selection? And another question, was Clemence as bad as it sounded on the radio?

Clemence is always bad... I don't know why we always play him... he never seems to play well at all!

[Legend_in_blue]

Yet another woeful performance. First off, a salute to those fans who went down to the game. You truly deserve a medal for your actions. Secondly, listening to Barber's commentary on the radio and then Ollie's comments after the game, one did not tally up with the other. Ollie suggested the play was much better than the last two games but Barber's commentary suggested otherwise. I know Barber ain't the best commentator in the world and some of his comments are way off the mark, but I got the distinct impression that Ollie is steadily losing the plot.

Ollie's words of, 'don't talk like that, you'll have 'em all panicking back in Leicester' in his post-match comments are still ringing through my ears now. And yes, I for one am worried.

The following games are now key: Cov (a), Preston (h), S****horpe (h), Colchester (h), Sheff Wed (h), Barnsley (a). Assuming a 50 point target to avoid relegation and the need for 16 points to achieve that, we need to win 5 games out of the above 6. And draw the other! Bugger. I'm worried. The remaining fixtures I have kindly left out, west brom, southampton, sheff utd all away etc etc, we've no chance of getting anything more than draws. Surely?

So yes Ollie, I AM WORRIED!!!

Convince me otherwise... Dowie anyone?

[Toby or not Toby]

Barber mde it sound so different to how you lot who went described it. Nearly every comment was negative.