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[Football] Watford Managers









Dick Swiveller

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Sep 9, 2011
9,163
De Zerbi moves up the charts before even managing a game!
 


Badger Boy

Mr Badger
Jan 28, 2016
3,656
I really think Rob Edwards was incredibly naive to take that job, he left a really good position at a progressive club to take a job he knew would be 6 months at best. It's a strange one for me unless he's been able to bank a huge sum of money. Careerwise I think it was a bad decision.
 








Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,783
Location Location
11 games in, and its hardly been a disastrous start, they're only 1 point outside the playoffs. Absolutely bizarre, even by Watfords standards. Makes me wonder if something else hasn't gone off behind the scenes.
 


JBizzle

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Apr 18, 2010
5,847
Seaford
I bet Forest Green's owners are p*ssing themselves. Still, as with all Watford managers, at least he now got a whopping great pile of cash to cry in to.
 




Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,783
Location Location
I really think Graham Potter was incredibly naive to take that job, he left a really good position at a progressive club to take a job he knew would be 6 months at best. It's a strange one for me unless he's been able to bank a huge sum of money. Careerwise I think it was a bad decision.

Edited for accuracy.
 




DJ NOBO

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Jul 18, 2004
6,369
Wiltshire
I bet Forest Green's owners are p*ssing themselves. Still, as with all Watford managers, at least he now got a whopping great pile of cash to cry in to.

Doubt it .
If he’d stayed at FGR they’d probably be doing a lot better in league one.
It’s been lose lose lose for Watford FGR and Edwards
 






JBizzle

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Apr 18, 2010
5,847
Seaford
Doubt it .
If he’d stayed at FGR they’d probably be doing a lot better in league one.
It’s been lose lose lose for Watford FGR and Edwards

Overall, you're absolutely right. No-one really wins in this scenario but, given the way he left and excluding the hypothetical "if he stayed" scenarios, I still wouldn't begrudge the owners a wry smile
 






DJ NOBO

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Jul 18, 2004
6,369
Wiltshire
Overall, you're absolutely right. No-one really wins in this scenario but, given the way he left and excluding the hypothetical "if he stayed" scenarios, I still wouldn't begrudge the owners a wry smile

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s back there before Christmas.
Although the FGR owner is a bit of a nob, so maybe he wouldn’t forgive
 




Swansman

Pro-peace
May 13, 2019
22,320
Sweden
Name 13 of them (no cheating )

Rob Edwards, Roy Hodgson, Claudio Ranieri, Xisco, Vladimir Ivic, Quique Sanchez Florez, Javi Garcia... now it starts to become difficult. Pretty sure Gianfranco Zola was there for a while... some other Yugoslavian as well. Probably missing out on a bunch of Italians.
 


Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
30,619
I really think Rob Edwards was incredibly naive to take that job, he left a really good position at a progressive club to take a job he knew would be 6 months at best. It's a strange one for me unless he's been able to bank a huge sum of money. Careerwise I think it was a bad decision.

I can see why he took the job - more money and a good chance of promotion - but clearly the job has come too early in his career.

You wonder what the rationale is from the Watford boardroom. It might work out quite well for them; Bilic comes into the job after a huge summer clearout (50-odd players transferred, released, loaned out), he knows what he has to work with and has the experience of getting West Brom up from a similar position. Maybe he didn't want to do that summer dirty work; telling a load of young players you don't know they're out can't be a pleasant task.

Indeed, Edwards must be quite angry about this having joined at the start of the summer, probably working non-stop to oversee the ins and outs of playing staff, getting off to a reasonable start but then seeing Emmanuel Dennis sold at the end of the window after already losing Josh King, Andre Gray and Cucho Hernandez.
 






Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
31,358
Uffern
Rob Edwards, Roy Hodgson, Claudio Ranieri, Xisco, Vladimir Ivic, Quique Sanchez Florez, Javi Garcia... now it starts to become difficult. Pretty sure Gianfranco Zola was there for a while... some other Yugoslavian as well. Probably missing out on a bunch of Italians.

Amazingly, I don't think the list includes BFS, Pulis, Hughes or Pardew
 


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