We're joined by LS11's Darren and talk through Leeds rollercoaster last few seasons which involved erratic Italian ownership, relegation from the Premier League & Players deciding they dont want to play in the Championship - a fair amount in common then!!! Champagne and Gravy, Grazia's tenure and Ken Bates are all covered (not in Gravy)

We also discuss Star Wars memorabilia, Darren's radio voice and why he shouldn't really have to put up with such nonsense as the prediction league and then he makes his prediction. Darren we salute you!!!

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Part Two

Charlie suggests maybe we should stop comparing to last season now and instead start looking forward, he questions if we look well coached throughout the entire team and performance pointing out our deficiencies in attacking areas in terms of creating chances, preferring instead to pass backward and cause our own problems in defence.

Greg makes a really good debut call, based in the West Midlands, and married to a Baggies fan he bemoans Ngakia and Morris’s performances with Leeds coming up at the weekend. Concerned at our defensive fragility he counters that the Baggies fans near him concerns about Ismael have been disproved and would like to have seen Livermore or Kayembe bought in for Porteous with Sierralta dropping rather than bringing on a nervous looking Pollock.

Danny joins (with Becky driving) and review a mixed bag of game and rues the Kone chance to make it 3-2 but review his performance and agree his energy and willingness to go forward see him favoured to start again vs Leeds. We agree that overall Bachmann was a force for good (but we reserve the right to have a look at the free kick).

For a drier climate we join Vinnie in Dallas and explore watching the game whilst working Bemoaning the mistakes that cost us goals and ultimately points, Vinnie is still enthused with the football we are playing, and we discuss Rajovic’s XG vs his goals (Pete reaches the end of his knowledge of statistics at this point and starts talking about blowing up the old Dallas Cowboys stadium instead.

Louis finishes off the evening excited to find out about new travel options from Watford to Clapham and thinks Bachmann could have done better with the free kick but asks about our fullbacks pushing into midfield and asks – does it work? Enjoying the spectacle of the first half he also asks about the bad quality of distribution of the WBA keeper – perhaps Bachmann’s distribution isn’t SO bad in comparison?

We go through the 5 word review and long form reviews as ever with some great comments and observations that offer a barometer of the game issues and opportunities by themselves.

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Malcolm Williams,

Bryan Edwards,

Peter Ryan,

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The Big Lebofski pops his “Bunker Cherry”, Wendover is described as both sartorial and ill fitting, Alfie Bumface sorts of make an appearance. We talk about the good, the bad and the ugly unforced errors! Some people think we played well, and others see the tempo as missing and the defensive errors that lead to opposition goals as infuriating! Sean asks if we are too hesitant prioritising possession over creativity. Carl brings up “Otters Pockets” and questions what we can do to feed Rajovic who had little service, Ben Pegram recalls an equally wet game at the Womens game on Sunday and meeting everyone at the bunker too. He considers the starting fullback selection and the lack of crossing to be the deciding factors.

Alan looks back at progress issues and last season.

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Malcolm Williams,

Bryan Edwards,

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We finally get to meet the legend that is Kev of "Where's Kev" fame and give him an official appointment! We hear about a chairman taking funds out of a club to fund his other enterprises!! Carlos has problems with the internet, Pete has problems with the name "Carlos" (there are too many apparently) and Justin seems to be having no problems with the prediction league this year - just wait til the last week of the season!!!

John combines Backgammon and trampolining and Justin takes issue with Jarvis's backing music this week whilst Ben simply sounds devastated at the scores Jarvis keeps picking out!!

Different day - same old nonsense

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Colin Payne,

Paul Riley,

Gary Wood,

Karl Campion,

Kevin Kremen,

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Greg Theaker,

Malcolm Williams,

Bryan Edwards,

Peter Ryan,

Jack Foster,

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The second half (some will see what we have done there) of RichWFC2's call concentrates on the game and focus on the result but also the performance positives and negatives and asks what are the Watford team at the moment? After a game that looked like we wouldn’t score until the last knockings before exploring with Pete if Luton have yet got a point – it transpires that they have not! Who knew?!?

Danny and Mrs Danny join us driving home and collectively campaign for one of the subs to start the next game, love the collective spirit of the team and the impact of ALL of the subs but would like to see us be a little more direct than we were in the first 80 minutes.

Ellie comes on and tells us how she celebrated at Colney Heath when Ryan Andrews scored! She then makes a good call about supporting our local non-league sides and appreciating the differences between the different levels of football.

Ant joins us with his own match selected entrance music and calls for Martins to be passed to quicker and kept on for longer and implores the team to get more shots away when we have so much possession.

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Dave Lavender,

Skyla Rose,

Kasey Brown,

Nipper Harrison,

Boyd Mayover,

Colin Payne,

Paul Riley,

Gary Wood,

Karl Campion,

Kevin Kremen,

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Greg Theaker,

Malcolm Williams,

Bryan Edwards,

Peter Ryan,

Jack Foster,

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Alex joins us and counters the point about early substitutions by pointing out the whole squad should still be fit for Wednesday night as a result of the early proactive  substitutions and that Ismael's subs impacted the game so positively. And points out the new rule that a player receiving treatment from a challenge that results in a booking does not have to go off the pitch – which was confirmed in the 5 word and long form reviews from everybody!

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Steve and (very briefly Mal) join us from the road hoping for a shorter trip back but very happy to have finally got the win, Charlie joins us to go through both the pro’s and the con’s of the performance but really wanting to see a complete 90 minutes from Martins, Carlos returns from holiday with heart stopping tales of Pina Colada’s, Mike joins us to ensure that we know he will be consoling his Birmingham supporting friends (which is a very nice thing to do!)

Paul tells us of the story of his “Ruddy Redemption”, before Uncle Ron joins us to confirm a good result but not enjoying the game and hoping that Jamal Lewis’s promising first outing will the loanee keep out James Morris who Ron doesn’t believe is up to Championship football.

Chatting Blues joins us feeling that Luton supporting Keith Stroud was harsh on them with 7 bookings and sending off (to yellow) as opposed to one for Watford despite a fairly even foul count.

Wendover joins to point out that the types of fouls made by the visitors justified the bookings but wants to see Watford moving the ball quicker in transition but very happy with the result and the fact that he is having a Chinese takeaway this evening.

We hear from Richard a tale about the game but also about his and his family issues with the new bag size limit and the way it was enforced. The discussion moves on to his nephew’s experience as with all young supporters and ensuring that the experience is a positive one. RichWFC2 joins us having spoken positively with Luther about his latest appointment and encouraging Richard to contact him with his tale in the hope that things could be improved in the long term. Fingers crossed.

The second half of RichWFC2’s call on the match will start part 2  

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Whilst Carl is sunning himself (horrible image to conjure with we know) Pete and Justin talk to Josh from Blues Focus about new American ownership, Bellingham's, New signings, Ground renovations and selling over priced players to Luton. Josh looks on horrified as we launch into the prediction league but swiftly gets to grips with the chaos and with Carl predicting ahead of everyone else there is the possibility of a "Double Desmond". The exciting news is that Jarvis has traded up from bottle tops to plastic cups and is resplendent in his peaky blinders cap!

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Malcolm Williams,

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Pete and Justin chat to Radio Sports Reporter and now author (details of discount for his book is below) about his time reporting on football matches for radio much of it covering his beloved Hornets and including many a well known figure. We discuss football mavericks and apple of Carl's mums eye - Rodney Marsh, remembering the days when Matt Le Tissier was know for doing wizard like things with a football and Craig Ramage and we discover which superstar can be more informative than Nelson Mandela when it comes to Watford v Ipswich games. We could have talked for hours but to find out more about quite what happened in Morocco you'll just have to get the book!

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Dave Lavender,

Skyla Rose,

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Nipper Harrison,

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Colin Payne,

Paul Riley,

Gary Wood,

Karl Campion,

Kevin Kremen,

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Greg Theaker,

Malcolm Williams,

Bryan Edwards,

Peter Ryan,

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We start part two by look at a defeat to that lot up the road (don’t worry we don’t do that EVER AGAIN!) and discuss when a dressing room has favourites but also a cautionary tale of playing youngsters too early in the wrong game, although sometimes unavoidable with a small thin squad (sound familiar!).

Derek talks us through how injuries can affect your mood and ultimately a player’s career. We discuss the number of different forwards that Glenn Roeder was forced to field from the bench, on loan and from the youth team to try to cover for the loss of Paul Furlong sold to Chelsea.

We chat about Craig Ramage whose confidence and technique lit up the performances for many supporters and also laugh about Craigs constant struggle with gravity in the opposition’s penalty box.

Transfers, tactics, injuries, the depth of the squad in the mid-nineties and the good side of agents now are discussed.

Derek’s post Watford career, move back into non-league and coaching plus move into radio and co-commentating and the lads offer tips as to how to not to co-commentate are covered and finally we ask about a certain nickname.

This podcast is sort of sponsored by Lurpack – or so you’d think!

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Steve Brown,

Dave Lavender,

Skyla Rose,

Kasey Brown,

Nipper Harrison,

Boyd Mayover,

Colin Payne,

Paul Riley,

Gary Wood,

Karl Campion,

Kevin Kremen,

The Big Le – Bofski,

Greg Theaker,

Malcolm Williams,

Bryan Edwards,

Peter Ryan,

Jack Foster,

Jason Rose,

Michael Abrahams,

Ian Bacon,

Ken Green,

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We talk to Derek “Freddie!” Payne who played for the Hornets in mid 90’s in a team that was very easy to like due to the characters in it.

We here about how Derek’s love of the game started and how his Dad took him to Vicarage Road before taking him to QPR. From his journey through Southampton’s academy and dropping into non-league, blaming Les Ferdinand for getting signed by QPR, to gaining promotion to the league as captain with Barnet and stories of fights with motivational Barry Fry and tales of tables of cash with the    notorious chairman Stan Flashman, getting to the Championship with a very strong Southend United side including Tommy Mooney and Jason Lee  – Derek shares the up’s and down’s of trying to make it as a pro footballer in the game including the difference between a Barry Fry side and a Peter Taylor side.

We find out how players were tapped up before mobile phones and the internet and how, somehow, it involved a caravan holiday! We cover the advent of the midfield diamond which had some very revered players in it but resulting in a lack of wingers which, Derek observes, may have contributed to a certain forward failing to fire! We remember a first season which saw us play Jurgen Klinnsman’s Tottenham team three times including a massive preseason game and a ding dong two legged League Cup tie (Ian Walker tainting his Dad’s good name at Watford!) that we watch with Derek and the memories come flooding back.

Coming soon Part 2

We watch some of a game that we would normally block out the memory of… and talk about the politics of the dressing room and at football clubs, dealing with periods on the sidelines with injuries, a certain nickname, coaching and radio work.

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Skyla Rose,

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Colin Payne,

Paul Riley,

Gary Wood,

Karl Campion,

Kevin Kremen,

The Big Le – Bofski,

Greg Theaker,

Malcolm Williams,

Bryan Edwards,

Peter Ryan,

Jack Foster,

Jason Rose,

Michael Abrahams,

Ian Bacon,

Ken Green,

Carl Clare,

Nick Nieuwland,

Colin Smith

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