Wednesday - V - Watford OMDT

[Buxtongent]

Looks like we could be back to old times. Last match , one man was praised for his wing back play and especially for hispin point crosses into the box, yet  today he gets no mention. This has happened constantly with our last three managers. Play well, not considered for next game. Not exactly conducive to a man's confidence, is it. The man - Palmer (a Wednesday man thro' and thro')

[WalthamOwl]

Rhodes and Windass up top again? 

[asteener1867]

PLAY UP THE WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[new zealand owl]

Good work Lord S,  property issues aside I think its going to be a rousing 2-1 victory after falling behind early doors.

 

I have a good feeling about today, come on you ravenous owls

[TheEnchanter]

Lets smash these fancy Twatfords. Come on Wednesday!

[Kopparberg]

We can do it. 

 

Come on Wednesday. 

[daveyboy66]

Great thread M'lud...don't worry about accomodation, there's room for you in my paper bag in a hole in the road. A draw for me anything else will be a bonus. Looking forward to watching Izzy brown settling into the team and Windass and Kachunga up front with Rhodes coming on for the last 20 mins when they are tired.

[beswetherick]

Look at how many players they’ve got! I reckon their gaffer will have got them all mixed up when he announces his team and we’ll give them a reyt shoeing today 

 

https://www.skysports.com/watford-squad

[Imre Varadi's Conker]

I predict a.....

[Lime Tree Heros]

Great OP M'Lud.

 

Had a sneaky look on one of their forums earlier, they look a bit like us back in June - lots of 1st teamers 'unavailable' but not injured, wanting moves away, a few injuries, nobody really knowing what their best team or formation is etc etc.

 

Think it's a really good time to play them so I'll go for the new normal - 2-0 Wednesday win.

[REDOWL]

Quality thread this. Already got the traditional pre match music going here.....Cults Rockers Ravers Lovers Sinners. Don't know why that but done it every matchday for yonks before setting off.

Three points today.

WAWAW

[TheEnchanter]

Has anyone mentioned how their manager has trumped Jos in the Bond Villain of the year beauty pageant. 

 

 

 

 

 

[nevthelodgemoorowl]

2 hours ago, theowlsman said:

Things That Watford is famous for.

 

1. Maureen Lipman started her acting career at the Watford Palace in 1967, though she was actually from Hull. Her main claim to fame was in her role as “Beattie” in the BT adverts way back in the day. You may recall her world famous line “Oh, you got an ology”

2. Despite working with the likes of music heavyweights Emeli Sande, Cheryl Cole, Lily Allen and Sam Smith, Naughty Boy still lives in West Watford with his parents. He is still paying £20 per week board. His first recording studio was in their garden shed.

3. Characters Will McKenzie and Simon Cooper better known as half of the Inbetweeners, live in Edinburgh Drive, Abbots Langley. Presumably, as a couple. Troy Deeney is their football fwend.

4. EastEnders’ Carter family may have moved to Walford, but they used to live in Watford.

5. Watford has strong links to the Fender Telecaster Bass. Barry Midford Millership requested the unique commission from EME in Queen’s Road, and the rest, as they say, is history. I have no idea what this means.

6. School scenes from movie The History Boys were filmed in Watford Grammar School for Boys and Watford Grammar School for Girls. 

7. Comedian Robin Ince was born in Chenies village where he is known as the Guvnor of Chenies.

8. Watford was recently referenced in television sitcom Benidorm – When Donald and Jacqueline Stewart revealed to the Dyke family, who hail from St Albans, that they are part of the Watford Swingers’ Association. I’m not sure if the Watford Swingers Association actually exists but on hearing this, Watford sounds a bit more interesting place than Rochdale.

9. Scenes from television show The Demon Headmaster were filmed at both Rickmansworth and Sarratt. 

10. Peep Show’s Super Hans aka Matt King was born in Watford.

11. Nick Leeson, who brought down Barings Bank, was a former pupil of Parmiter’s School. He is now Watford FC’s Director of Finance.

12. Simon Le Bon, lead singer of Duran Duran, was born in Watford. He’s since moved to Blackpool and dances on the sand.

13. Mary Portas used to live in Bushey. Research tells me she was a woman David Cameron hired to report on the future of Britain’s High Streets. 

14. Former children’s laureate Michael Rosen attended Watford Grammar School for Boys in the 1960s when they were not filming The History Boys.

15. Watford has made huge contributions to the printing industry. Rotary photogravure was a technique which was first used in Watford to reproduce very fine, high quality fine art prints and then it went on to be used to produce colour magazines. All the ladies’ colour magazines, like Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Own, were all printed in Watford, as well as most of the colour supplements for the Sunday newspapers. You should remember this next time you are reading and admiring your ladies’ magazines.

16. Watford played host to Herts Pride’s first county-wide event in August last year. 

17. Melanie C aka Sporty Spice lived in Watford for a spell. Before fame beckoned that is. Then she found somewhere more interesting.

18. Sue Cleaver, better known to Corrie fans as the put-upon Eileen Grimshaw, was born in Watford. This provided a stepping stone to future opportunities in the adult film industry, later appearing in 1983’s award winning film “Come on Eileen”

19. Comedian Eddy Brimson is a life long Watford FC fan. As is Elton John. Just in case you didn’t know.

20. Paul Carrack of Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics fame lives in Chorleywood. But is actually one of us, a Sheffield lad.

21. The grand staircase of Cassiobury House was removed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, when the house demolished in 1927.

22. The town hall’s interior staircase that sweeps up to the main council chamber is listed in its own right, as a prime example of Art Deco construction. So we have now established that Watford are famous for staircases.

23. In the video for Elton John’s Step into Christmas, he holds up his Watford AFC supporter’s club membership card. Respect!

24. Grade II protected Jackson’s Jewellers in The Parade is said to have its own ghost – a man in Elizabethan dress who passes through walls. Not to be confused with our very own Bazza Bannan who ghosts through and passes through balls.

25. The One Bell pub, adjacent to St Mary’s Church, holds the oldest existing licence dating back to 1750. It used to be called the Two Bells pub until a visit by gypsies in 1814.

26. Bushey church St James has been home to weddings, christenings and funerals for a number of EastEnders’ characters. Chosen because it is the last remaining church in Watford with all its bells still intact.

27. Kings Langley was the home of the makers of Ovaltine and the listed factory facade is now all that is left and still stands alongside the railway line among a new housing development. The Ovaltine factory itself has recently been converted into a series of flats and duplexes. This is proper history, enjoyed reading that.

28. In the 1960s, RAF Bovingdon was used in the production of four World War II films, The War Lover (1962); 633 Squadron (1964) The Battle of Britain (1968) and Mosquito Squadron (1969).

It was also used to film parts of the flying car scenes in the James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun starring Roger Moore. On television it served as the location for at least one black and white episode of The Avengers The Hour That Never Was, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg featuring Gerald Harper and Roy Kinnear, as well as the 1980 Blake's 7 episode The Harvest of Kairos as the surface of the planet Kairos.

More recently Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Was filmed at Bovingdon Airfield.

29. The Who performed regularly in Watford and Carpenders Park in 1964, specifically The Trade Union Hall and The Mine.

30. Kings Langley was once the location of Kings Langley Palace, a royal palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. Now Rudolf Steiner School is set on the site of the palace.

31. The 12th century parish church of All Saints' houses the tomb of Edmund of Langley (1341–1402), the first Duke of York.

32. Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman ever to have become Pope, was born as Nicholas Breakspear in Abbots Langley around the year 1100. Therefore, Abbots Langley village includes a number of roads named after its famous son (Adrian, Breakspear, Pope), and at one time included activities of the Brakspear brewery. Impressive. Why was all the interesting stuff left until last?

33. Watford is referenced in the following songs: The Prisoner by The Clash, Albion by Babyshambles, Lesson One by Just Jack, Watford John by Badfinger, I Love London by Crystal Fighters, and Don’t Sit Down When Elton’s Around by The Massive

34. Kings Langley has been temporarily changed to Kings Landing to celebrate the latest DVD release of Game of Thrones. Old Premier League habits die hard, anything for a few more quid.

35. Cartoonist Dum Doodles, who has been responsible for creating artwork for musicians including Stooshe and Chris Brown, is a former pupil of Rudolf Steiner. Well worth mentioning.

36. Elton John performed his first gig at The Namaste Lounge Pub, Northwood Hills.

 

And not a lot of people know that.

 

An absolute Polemic from 'The Owlsman'. So relieved he hasn't given the Giant George Riley so much as a mention, He was always a thorn in my side back in the day popping up with a late winner.

 

Long may Snoots continue to ride this crest of the wave, his personal deal with TIK TOK will see us home.

 

UTO & DTB COME ON WEDNESDAY SCRAG EM !

                       WAWAW  

[Brissy-owl]

Gone 3-1 today, good vibes 

[asteener1867]

41 minutes ago, Imre Varadi's Conker said:

I predict a.....

A "rosewood Cowboy???

Its Rhinestone...yer idiot!

[Holmowl]

 

1 hour ago, Buxtongent said:

Looks like we could be back to old times. Last match , one man was praised for his wing back play and especially for hispin point crosses into the box, yet  today he gets no mention. This has happened constantly with our last three managers. Play well, not considered for next game. Not exactly conducive to a man's confidence, is it. The man - Palmer (a Wednesday man thro' and thro')

It’s a fair point, but Harris was very good in a 2-0 away win against a good Cardiff side. Very harsh to drop him for Palmer who admittedly shone, but against Rochdale.

 

Great problem to have.

[Inspector Lestrade]

3 minutes ago, Holmowl said:

 

It’s a fair point, but Harris was very good in a 2-0 away win against a good Cardiff side. Very harsh to drop him for Palmer who admittedly shone, but against Rochdale.

 

Great problem to have.

 

Sort of problems we need for Monk but nowadays he has to worry about bloody minus twelve points.

[oldishowl]

It seems Sarr is available for them today because Liverpool refused to do the deal to sign him when Watford put the price up to 52 million.

Liverpool turned to Jota instead, who I think is a fantastic player.

 

Which wing does Sarr play on, might be an interesting afternoon for one of our wingbacks?

[latemodelchild]

I reckon we bust a few coupons last week. We'll bust a few more with a win today. Nobody actually thinks we'll win so I see today as a free hit myself. Toughest test so far so send em out to play with some freedom in the 2 attacking thirds. Work hard in defence and let's see what we can do. 

[The only way is S6]

I’m hoping Watford look at the table & think pish, this will be easy.

Don’t think it will.

They’re gonna get stung.

Minus 6, ere we come. 
UTO