The Official Watford FC Thread.

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Wow - just wow...

Relive those moments:

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...

The Sky commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...

And my favourite, the Leicester fan eye view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...

(subject to internet police not pulling them down!)

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I don't think there's really any animosity between LCFC and Watford fans, so thanks for your comments.

Good luck to Knockaert if our paths ever cross again - he won't be allowed to forget those 20 seconds!

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Tickets acquired

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I've lucked out by acquiring Club Wembley seats from someone who doesn't want them.

If I can get seats down below when they come out to ID holders, I'd rather be there.

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I suspect there'll be loads of single tickets available 2nd hand as people are block buying

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Baconbonce said:

Play off final tickets acquired - thanks Puggit for the heads up!

Turns out I have 2 IDs

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It's Hogg.....DEEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!

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Don't scratch your eyes out....

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Bump for a play off roll call!

I'm going

I know Baconbonce is too!

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essayer said:

No ticket for me

TV it is.

They had some tickets on sale today, but it meant visiting The Vic... Returns from Watford family/friends/sponsors etc.

Keep an eye out for me in Club Wembley, just inside the CP half


Edited to add - they've sold out those as well.

Edited by Puggit on Friday 24th May 14:51

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Nerves are starting...

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Steameh said:

XslaneyX said:

All quiet in here

Where has Puggit gone?

Apologies, a long journey home yesterday and I'm enjoying time off with my kids for half term.

I can only repeat what others have said. There was definitely a sense of foreboding on the train down from Ricky. In 1999 it was party time, but there was hardly any singing on the train. The only highlight was when just 2 Palace fans joined the train at Pinner - what a welcome!

I was sat in posh part of Club Wembley, having scored some permanent seats from QPR fans with no wish to attend, just inside the Palace half. They certainly appeared noisier!

We rarely got out of first gear, and allowed Palace to do what they did to Brighton - very disappointing from Zola. Only when Forestieri came on with 5 mins of normal time to go did we offer any real danger. At that point Palace should have been out of sight.

From my half way vantage point it was clear we had no midfield. Time and again we struggled to pick up the loose balls there, allowing Palace to continually attack. Their break-aways were dangerous too. Only Lloydinho and Almunia stood out for me.

I haven't seen any replays, but I'm advised by neutrals it was a fair penalty award. However, the ref did seem to favour Palace, allowing them to take our players out while punishing us. I think fair claim could be made for a couple of double yellows against Palace players.


The failure to be promoted is a strange feeling. On the one side, this time last year we were staring in the abyss of watching our club disappear. The Pozzos have rescued us and treated us to some amazing delights. The plan wasn't to be promoted in year 1, and yet we came within a whisker. I feel our team is far from complete, especially the defence and defensive midfield. I'm looking foward to next season that is for sure.

One area to certainly concentrate on for our failure to be promoted is the penalty count. We've been denied countless stonewall penalties, awarded only 6 penalties all season. As the most attacking club in the Championship, that tally should not be less than 1/3 of the penalties awarded to Palace.

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Rumours on the Udinese blog website that we'll keep the core players AND some decent reinforcements. This could be great...

16/1 being offered on some betting sites...

Edited by Puggit on Wednesday 29th May 18:37

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Big day today. New shirt, new sponsors, and errrr, no team!

http://www.wfc.net/players.htm

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Apparently the core loanees, except Vydra, have all signed.

Very pleased about Abdi, if true...

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Abdi signing is more exciting than Vydra (if he does)

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Now it's almost all official: http://www.watfordfc.com/news/article/130719-eight...

Holloway, suck on that

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Loads of complaints on Twitter.

One peach saying he wants to know why Watford can sign players when we have an embargo for loaning too many players. Another complaining that we are all that is wrong with football because youth won't get a chance.

<snigger>

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I was there at Anfield - Tommy Mooney on 14 mins if I'm not mistaken?

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