McCarthy might have had poor games , but he's also been our player of the season in the Premier league and played for England, don't underestimate that experience in high pressure games, I don't necessarily see it as a downgrade having him instead of Baz.
Always a good away day, crossing the border into foreign lands, hearing train announcements in Welsh, all gives it an extra edge.
Martin had a decent record against them with Swansea, hope he can carry that on.
Everyone will be watching Leicester v WBA in the lunchtime kick off.
They are, but Preston have had to play the same schedule since Good Friday so it's no different for them and if anything should give us an advantage with strength in depth in the squad.
29 March - Preston 3-0 Rotherham
01 April - Birmingham 1-0 Preston
06 April - Watford 0-0 Preston
09 April - Preston 4-1 Huddersfield
13 April - Preston 0-1 Norwich
They seem a hard team to predict, never know what you're going to get in this league.
Yeah I meant drop points before we play Leeds , still tempted to buy a Leeds ticket in case it does somehow come down to that game although still unlikely.
Waiting until after Tuesdays game to decide on that, still think we'll drop too many points before then.
Great scenes though, quite a few had left before goal went in to beat the traffic, madness.
About 380 home end tickets left including some in block 43 as Watford only given 2000 allocation. Should sell out by kick off easily, good numbers.
Watford only sold 1,750 so will be a few empty in their end, block 44.
I wouldn't put too much thought into that scenario, Tuesdays result v Coventry was good but far from convincing and I haven't seen anything that's made me think this side is about to go on a 7 game winning run.
Watford looked very well organised in recent games and are set up in such a way that i think we'll struggle to break them down, think this will be more like last weekends performance at Blackburn.
Leicester and Leeds play before we do, so if by some miracle both of them slip up again I expect hopes to rise pre-match just in time to be dashed again.
At the time I thought it must be tight as looked like Cov had a couple of defenders on the line playing him onside , hard to tell in real time, need to draw some lines
Agree, I'd say Brooks should have scored at least one and we could have been out of sight.
Invited trouble a bit at times trying to be clever but overall decent performance
I thought Coventry were a good side and probably loudest away fans we've had at St Mary's for a while, good effort from them.