| I see watford lost 5 1 22:14 - Oct 13 with 1767 views | FrimleyBlue |
New manager soon? |  |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 22:25 - Oct 13 with 1724 views | homer_123 |
Watford? Never. |  |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 22:37 - Oct 13 with 1691 views | EastTownBlue |
Following on from a 4-0 defeat on Saturday, it must be almost certain. |  | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 22:37 - Oct 13 with 1690 views | Perublue |
Exciting times, once this manager's sacked we're only two Watford managers away from Christmas! |  |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 22:39 - Oct 13 with 1669 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
In other news, is Broadhead injured? |  |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 22:56 - Oct 13 with 1630 views | Perublue |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 22:39 - Oct 13 by BanksterDebtSlave |
In other news, is Broadhead injured? |
Loved him here , but his time there almost mirror’s his time here in actually starting and being on the bench.. or not in the squad at all.
Good business done in the end although I was sad to see him go. | |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 23:44 - Oct 13 with 1560 views | rgp1 |
Their manager list since 1997
Manager Period
Graham Taylor 1997 – 2001 (third stint)
Gianluca Vialli 2001 – 2002
Ray Lewington 2002 – 2005
Aidy Boothroyd 2005 – 2008
Malky Mackay (caretaker / permanent) 2008
Brendan Rodgers 2008 – 2009
Malky Mackay 2009 – 2011
Sean Dyche 2011 – 2012
Gianfranco Zola 2012 – 2013
Giuseppe Sannino 2013 – 2014
Óscar García 2014 (September)
Billy McKinlay (caretaker) 2014 (September – October)
Slaviša Jokanović 2014 – 2015
Quique Sánchez Flores 2015 – 2016 (1st stint), 2019 (2nd stint)
Walter Mazzarri 2016 – 2017
Marco Silva 2017 – 2018
Javi Gracia 2018 – 2019 (1st stint), 2025 (2nd stint)
Hayden Mullins (caretaker) 2019, 2020
Nigel Pearson 2019 – 2020
Xisco Muñoz 2020 – 2021
Claudio Ranieri 2021 – 2022
Roy Hodgson 2022 (January – May)
Rob Edwards 2022 (July – September)
Slaven Bilić 2022 – 2023
Chris Wilder 2023 (March – May)
Valérien Ismaël 2023 – 2024
Tom Cleverley 2024 – 2025
Paulo Pezzolano 2025 (May – October)
Charlie Daniels (caretaker) 2026 (February)
Edward Still 2026 (February – May)
Alessio Dionisi 2026 – Present | | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 00:50 - Oct 14 with 1469 views | Hciwspi |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 23:44 - Oct 13 by rgp1 |
Their manager list since 1997
Manager Period
Graham Taylor 1997 – 2001 (third stint)
Gianluca Vialli 2001 – 2002
Ray Lewington 2002 – 2005
Aidy Boothroyd 2005 – 2008
Malky Mackay (caretaker / permanent) 2008
Brendan Rodgers 2008 – 2009
Malky Mackay 2009 – 2011
Sean Dyche 2011 – 2012
Gianfranco Zola 2012 – 2013
Giuseppe Sannino 2013 – 2014
Óscar García 2014 (September)
Billy McKinlay (caretaker) 2014 (September – October)
Slaviša Jokanović 2014 – 2015
Quique Sánchez Flores 2015 – 2016 (1st stint), 2019 (2nd stint)
Walter Mazzarri 2016 – 2017
Marco Silva 2017 – 2018
Javi Gracia 2018 – 2019 (1st stint), 2025 (2nd stint)
Hayden Mullins (caretaker) 2019, 2020
Nigel Pearson 2019 – 2020
Xisco Muñoz 2020 – 2021
Claudio Ranieri 2021 – 2022
Roy Hodgson 2022 (January – May)
Rob Edwards 2022 (July – September)
Slaven Bilić 2022 – 2023
Chris Wilder 2023 (March – May)
Valérien Ismaël 2023 – 2024
Tom Cleverley 2024 – 2025
Paulo Pezzolano 2025 (May – October)
Charlie Daniels (caretaker) 2026 (February)
Edward Still 2026 (February – May)
Alessio Dionisi 2026 – Present |
That’s an insane amount of managers. It’s a wonder anyone still wants the job! |  | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 06:51 - Oct 14 with 1261 views | Pique |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 00:50 - Oct 14 by Hciwspi |
That’s an insane amount of managers. It’s a wonder anyone still wants the job! |
What's even madder is that there are a lot of pretty decent managers in that list! |  | | |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 08:52 - Oct 14 with 1074 views | solemio |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 00:50 - Oct 14 by Hciwspi |
That’s an insane amount of managers. It’s a wonder anyone still wants the job! |
Oh come on. They've only had 30 managers in the last 25 years. | | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 09:11 - Oct 14 with 1040 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 00:50 - Oct 14 by Hciwspi |
That’s an insane amount of managers. It’s a wonder anyone still wants the job! |
Why wouldnt you? Do 4 months of work and then get sacked with pay off. Any future interviews when asked what went wrong you just say well it was Watford.
If you're really canny they might even employ you twice |  |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 10:31 - Oct 14 with 934 views | _CliveBaker_ |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 06:51 - Oct 14 by Pique |
What's even madder is that there are a lot of pretty decent managers in that list! |
Some shit ones as well to be fair. Can't help but feel they're trying a bit too hard with some of these appointments. Look at their last 4 managers, Pezzolano ffs. Ed Still. Tom Cleverly. Dionisi has been sacked from his last 3 jobs (soon to be 4) and not lasted more than a year in the previous 2.
They're overthinking it, just give a couple of years to someone with proven experience in England. Dyche is available, knows the club, he'd probably take it. |  | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:05 - Oct 14 with 784 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 10:31 - Oct 14 by _CliveBaker_ |
Some shit ones as well to be fair. Can't help but feel they're trying a bit too hard with some of these appointments. Look at their last 4 managers, Pezzolano ffs. Ed Still. Tom Cleverly. Dionisi has been sacked from his last 3 jobs (soon to be 4) and not lasted more than a year in the previous 2.
They're overthinking it, just give a couple of years to someone with proven experience in England. Dyche is available, knows the club, he'd probably take it. |
I dont think they're overthinking, quite the opposite. Pozzo seems to think he can pluck any manager from the Italian league plonk them down in Watford and repeat until it works. I think thats about all the thought there is.
Cleverly could probably be considered a proper servant of the club, stedied them and had them playing ok, loved by fans as player and fresh into management, a moments thought says give him time. Hire and fire stopped working for Watford years ago, but no sacked and someone from the Italian league dropped in (not in this instance but often someone who Pozzo has sacked previously at Udinese) | |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:25 - Oct 14 with 750 views | _CliveBaker_ |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:05 - Oct 14 by BlueandTruesince82 |
I dont think they're overthinking, quite the opposite. Pozzo seems to think he can pluck any manager from the Italian league plonk them down in Watford and repeat until it works. I think thats about all the thought there is.
Cleverly could probably be considered a proper servant of the club, stedied them and had them playing ok, loved by fans as player and fresh into management, a moments thought says give him time. Hire and fire stopped working for Watford years ago, but no sacked and someone from the Italian league dropped in (not in this instance but often someone who Pozzo has sacked previously at Udinese) |
He's plucked a few out of Italy, but not all of his 400 hires. I just think its a bit too contrarian, irrespective of where they're from. Even Cleverly and Still, not particularly experienced anywhere and no EFL experience between them. Ismael is the last appointment to have managed in the EFL, and he was pretty mediocre at WBA.
Wilder and Hodgson were temporary firefighters, but I think they're the sort of profile they need on a more permanent basis. Agree about the hiring and firing, its ridiculous. To appoint Rob Edwards and sack him 4 months later is ridiculous. They spent 6 out of 7 seasons in the Premier League from 2015 - 2022 but have been pony since. No real surprise when they've gone through about a manager every 6 months. I can see why the fans are annoyed, it must be so demoralising. | | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:31 - Oct 14 with 730 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:25 - Oct 14 by _CliveBaker_ |
He's plucked a few out of Italy, but not all of his 400 hires. I just think its a bit too contrarian, irrespective of where they're from. Even Cleverly and Still, not particularly experienced anywhere and no EFL experience between them. Ismael is the last appointment to have managed in the EFL, and he was pretty mediocre at WBA.
Wilder and Hodgson were temporary firefighters, but I think they're the sort of profile they need on a more permanent basis. Agree about the hiring and firing, its ridiculous. To appoint Rob Edwards and sack him 4 months later is ridiculous. They spent 6 out of 7 seasons in the Premier League from 2015 - 2022 but have been pony since. No real surprise when they've gone through about a manager every 6 months. I can see why the fans are annoyed, it must be so demoralising. |
Think that's all pretty fair. I think Cleverly has stepped in as interim previously and did ok and then they hired and promptly fired someone else before giving it him. Once done, of all their recent appointments you'd think he'd be the one to get a bit of time. Plymouth stuck with him and atm its working for them.
How Duxberry remains in post is also mystifing, presumably by saying yes Mr Pozzo alot | |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:37 - Oct 14 with 719 views | _CliveBaker_ |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:31 - Oct 14 by BlueandTruesince82 |
Think that's all pretty fair. I think Cleverly has stepped in as interim previously and did ok and then they hired and promptly fired someone else before giving it him. Once done, of all their recent appointments you'd think he'd be the one to get a bit of time. Plymouth stuck with him and atm its working for them.
How Duxberry remains in post is also mystifing, presumably by saying yes Mr Pozzo alot |
To be fair, if he wanted to pay me £1m a year I'd say yes to him as well.
Its a circus, can fully understand the fans frustrations. | | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:47 - Oct 14 with 695 views | Superblue95 |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 00:50 - Oct 14 by Hciwspi |
That’s an insane amount of managers. It’s a wonder anyone still wants the job! |
That list is missing Vladimir Ivic as well before Xisco Munoz |  |
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| I see watford lost 5 1 on 14:08 - Oct 14 with 666 views | Bury_St_Emersonn |
I'm uncertain if it's coming up to my turn to manage Watford or marry Katie Price... |  | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 19:24 - Oct 14 with 543 views | rgp1 |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 13:37 - Oct 14 by _CliveBaker_ |
To be fair, if he wanted to pay me £1m a year I'd say yes to him as well.
Its a circus, can fully understand the fans frustrations. |
I wonder if the Chairman has a trapdoor in his office. | | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 19:42 - Oct 14 with 521 views | Pique |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 10:31 - Oct 14 by _CliveBaker_ |
Some shit ones as well to be fair. Can't help but feel they're trying a bit too hard with some of these appointments. Look at their last 4 managers, Pezzolano ffs. Ed Still. Tom Cleverly. Dionisi has been sacked from his last 3 jobs (soon to be 4) and not lasted more than a year in the previous 2.
They're overthinking it, just give a couple of years to someone with proven experience in England. Dyche is available, knows the club, he'd probably take it. |
Absolutely there's a lot of shite in there as well, particularly recently. But there are some big names in there for what is a relatively small club in a Hertfordshire commuter town - if they'd given a few of them a decent run in a more stable environment they might have actually got somewhere! | | | |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 20:08 - Oct 14 with 479 views | WeWereZombies |
| I see watford lost 5 1 on 14:08 - Oct 14 by Bury_St_Emersonn |
I'm uncertain if it's coming up to my turn to manage Watford or marry Katie Price... |
I was thinking more in terms of that statistic you used to see about Elvis impersonators taking over the planet if the rate of increase remained as it was, but now it's Watford managers... |  |
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