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Sounds like they made a few changes and formation, similar story to us

Good draw for Watford, 0-0 up at Hull, seems manager change has helped stop the poor run of form

Sad times, I still appreciate a ticket stub and keep them. It will be interesting to see how this works, if you have a home ticket in the app and can no longer go you can forward it to a mate, I reckon they'll put more restrictions on away tickets to stop people buying and passing them on

Has anyone got a summary of all championship ins and outs? Would be interesting to compare us to others. Ross Stewart and Cameran Archer still some of the most expensive forwards in this division

There's got to be more to that story, he was decent for us in 2023/24 particularly before injury at Norwich, would be great to get him back to that but feels like either he's given up or the club have given up on him

Where are we in the championship for net spend?

There's got to be more to the story than meets the eye with Edozie, clearly has wanted to leave but his lack of matches even at u21 level means he must be way off match fitness, what have our army of analysts been doing? I have no doubt if he does stay his "reintegration" will take so long there will hardly be any impact for the first team Very strange situation with him and Aribo

I have to say I can't laugh at Leicester as it's like holding up a mirror to remember just how bad we are, 2016 was best year in our "modern" history, we finished 6th just missing out on Champions league, yet there they were top of the league lifting the trophy with Andrea Bocelli singing Nessum Dorma, they experienced highs way beyond us. 2021 - meeting them at Wembley fa cup semi final, they go on to win the trophy 2024 - both find ourselves in championship, they win the league thrashing us along the way 2025/26 - they are supposed to be in financial trouble signing no new players with a transfer fee yet before last weekend sat above us in the league Will this points deduction ever actually happen?

Big name = Princewill Ehibhatiomhan

Is that happening? Keeps being mentioned but I'll believe it when I see it

Don't start all this "good enough for the championship " stuff again, I heard enough of that back in the summer

Don't forget the 3 play off games as well

3-1 Good result

Our pants are permanently down anyway

Relatable: Where does this leave Watford? Where it always does - looking to find a good head coach who can work with the club and the trading model it follows. It means fielding a lot of young, inexperienced players and hoping they will be good enough to deal with a demanding Championship.

Several factors at play, game of poker, is Armstrong keen on one particular club, are we hoping between the three clubs will one blink first and offer what we want or outbid each other as deadline approaches, and does our useless recruitment department actually have the ability to persuade a decent replacement to join us on loan Armstrong and Archer haven't done much but they're too good to just let go for minimal fees

Watford play away to Hull on Tuesday night as well for anyone who wants to do some scouting and write up a pre match analysis for us on here. They're bringing decent support down sold over 2500 already , might even fill it by then, helps the atmosphere I think rather than large sections of empty seats. Home sales look fairly poor, not many non-season ticket seats sold

We could possibly relegate Sheffield Wednesday in that game as well, sad state of affairs up there

I agree we'd need an astonishing run of form , astonishing transfer deadline day bringing in at least two very good loans and astonishing Ross Stewart staying fit for 16 games , could happen but odds not in our favour

We took about 3500 up there on a Friday night first game of the season in August 2023 , good city to make a weekend of it as well 👍

Aribo is such a strange one, been set to leave several times but no one ever seems prepared to take him on those wages, he also has looked incredibly unfit which is ridiculous, club should have had him in for extra sessions

I was told yesterday that the club had received firm enquiries from three clubs for Armstrong, I think we can be certain he's off just a question of who makes highest bid or if he pushes for a move to a particular destination himself

Yeah we're too inconsistent for that aren't we

They play midweek away at Hull as well

It's a nice run of fixtures if Saints can get some momentum going, but who knows with us. Sheffield Wednesday away end of the month should be a good trip, they're doing us cheap tickets , looking forward to that one https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/sheffield-wednesday-vs-southampton-2526