“Thank god the internationals are having a national break.”
“Having a terrible season? Sitting rock bottom? Won only 1 game out of 9? Need a quick pick-me-up?
Dr Watford is in the house to solve your every need.
Guaranteed home win to kick start their season.”
“We need to put that on a business card we hand out to struggling sides before we play them. Perhaps add the words “No Money Down” somewhere”
“Think we’ll lose handsomely.”
“Yes but we have a nice friendly ex manager in charge again now so the results don’t really matter anymore.”
“I would die of laughter if we got battered after a long 2 weeks with all this cringe “I’m coming home” nonsense. C*** is going to get sacked before the end of the season.”
“I think we’re going to draw this one personally, it might take a bit for Javi’s tactics to take hold on the pitch, and anything we can nab on the road is a good result. Saying that, , with Dr. Watford in town, Sheff Utd could have a very comfortable afternoon.”
“I think both managers and sets of fans would be happy with that outcome given all thats been going on at both clubs recently.”
“Can we just please keep a clean sheet for once”
“Not if Harmer or O’ Hare play.”
“O’Hare is incredibly overrated. Hamer is admittedly a very good player.”
“Had a look at the table, I don’t usually to 10 games in. The Blades have scored 3 goals. Fing ell! That is low!”
“3 is very low and 5, after Saturday, will still be very low.”
“They are of course significantly better than their league position suggests, apart from perhaps his record with Reading, Seles appears to be an absolutely honking manager.”
“Sheff Utd start games well, so not conceding early would be a bonus but far from guaranteed with our lot.”
“It’s another Wilder return narrative. They will give us the shoe-ing of a f lifetime, tearing us several new forms of ani, and Big Chris will be eating ham sandwiches inches from a referee’s face until the cows come home.”
“I expect Wilder will be given a light clap from us as although he did not produce great results with us it also wasn’t all his fault and was right in calling out the calamitous leadership behind the scenes with their squad building and decision making.”
“I would say it’s impossible to truly assess Wilder as a Watford manager for two reasons. Firstly, he was only appointed on a temporary contract to the end of the season, so there was never a sense of a longer term approach from him or indeed the players or owner. Secondly, the players had clearly already given up on the season before he arrived. This might have been through lack of support from the owner for either Edwards or Bilic, but Wilder spotted it immediately in the horrible performance at QPR, after which I too gave up on the season and didn’t go to any more away games.”
“He was the third manager of a grim season after everyone had pretty much given up, I simply don’t consider his time here as canon, like a Treehouse of Horror episode of the Simpsons”
“Wilder was never going to be a good fit, grim grey humourless blunt northerner with our bunch of self-important mercenaries.”
“most people I know liked him as they knew the wheels were long off that season and didn’t blame Wilder. I seem to recall a healthy amount of people wanted him to stay on as well.”
“Wilder made an average Watford team considerably worse with a record of W3D3L5 – seen as a good egg as he “told it as it is” when he said culture needed to change”
“Some like him speaking out a lot about the club but that was probably only because he knew we weren’t keeping him .
Our results particularly at home were pretty miserable though I remember
Sort of just muddled our way to the end of that season really with the odd bit of Pedro magic .”
“Wilder incessantly blaming everyone else except himself for our poor results may have held more weight had he not ended up doing this at every other club he manages as soon as things don’t go his way.”
“I don’t think he was a good manager for us”
“I didn’t like Wilder either”