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Don’t Panic! (Part One)
‘Keep calm and carry on’. The words are enough to send any right-thinking person ducking for cover. In the last few years the words have gone from being a wistful hark back to the stoic days of triumph...
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Don’t Panic! (Part Two)
We wrap up our note to the overly worried Watford fans out there. It’s important to stress that we’re not asking you to stop being sceptical, not telling you to just shut up and like what’s going on at...
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Loan Report (September)
I know, I know: you’re sick of loans right? Well, for all you Martin Samuelses out there, here’s a novelty: a feature on proper English loanees (barring the Congolese bloke, the Irish one and the kind...
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Fans’ Forum Transcript: Part Two – On the Pitch
Your four predecessors all gave same answer to this question. Which player impressed you most when you arrived? And don’t worry, Bob Paisley never knew his players’ names either! GZ: In terms of...
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Half-Term report: The Loanees
When the Gino Pozzo rocked up to Vicarage Road this summer and initiated more change than can be found in a programme seller’s fanny pack there were more than a few voices of doubt. The Harefield...
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Half-Term Report: Winners and Losers
Having looked at how the new guard have settled into life in leafy Hertfordshire, ITWM looks at which of last season’s squad have benefitted, and which have suffered from the new way of doing things…...
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Internationals – Ready for Palace?
Two offences have seen us in this week’s predicament. The crime is success, as we are both victims and perpetrators. First, the schedulers at Sky, scouring the post-Christmas fixture list saw the most...
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A Response to Ian Holloway
Clearly envisaging a defeat against the division’s form team last night, Ian Holloway, an experienced media manipulator in the mould of ‘dear old’ Harry Redknapp, got his excuses in early with a...
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Incoming: Matthew Briggs
So Gianluca Nani has broken out the ceremonial club scarf to welcome Watford’s first signing since the August deadline day. Having risen through the academy ranks at Fulham, Matthew Briggs joins with...
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What’s the Matej with Vydra?
We at ITWM Towers are nothing if not forthright, so let us say what we’re all thinking: the last month’s Matej Vydra – he’s been a bit… crap, hasn’t he? Now, now, I know what you’re going to say: “How...
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Incoming: Arie Ammann
We considered sleeping on the two personnel moves to happen so far this Summer. But how could we look in the mirror knowing that we’d let the acquisition of a 16 year old American go undocumented? So...
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Incoming: Javier Acuña
After all the rampant online speculation, fueled mainly by now infamous ‘ITK’ accounts on Twitter, Watford have their first senior signing of the 2013/14 season. Kind of. Javier Acuña joins from Real...
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Outgoing: Craig Forsyth
Watford Career: 26 games (19 starts), 5 goals To: Derby County (undisclosed fee) It’s very easy when looking at all of the players who leave Watford these days, to point to the massive overhaul of...
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Outgoing: Stephen McGinn
Watford Career: 42 games (29 starts), 2 goals Going to: Sheffield United (free transfer) At the end of the day, the footballing gods were against Stephen McGinn’s stay at Watford. Though he only just...
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Incoming: Lewis McGugan
Our summer has so far consisted of a number of protracted transfer sagas – mostly involving the will they/won’t they decisions of the Udinese triggermen, but the two signings that the club have...
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Incoming: Iriney Santos da SIlva
The Championship. A year-long battle, so they say. Fancy pants football will only get you so far, you’ll not succeed without some experienced heads on the pitch. This, ultimately, is where Watford fell...
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Incoming: Gabriele Angella
When Martin Taylor was controversially sold on August deadline day last season (remember that uproar?), the problem that most fans envisaged was not that it left us bereft of central defensive talent...
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Incoming: Marco Davide Faraoni
Of all the players that we have acquired over the past two years, Faraoni has the best pedigree. While others have been snapped up by Udinese from smaller European or South American sides and then...
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Outgoing: Lee Hodson
Total Watford games: 91 (83 starts), 1 goals To: MK Dons (free) Watford fans have seen their fair share of youngsters come through the academy over the past few years. One or two have gone on to better...
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Incoming: Returning From Last Year
You all know them, so we’ll spare you the fanfare. Here are the “loanees” of yesteryear, “the permies” of today. Marco Cassetti, 36 – Signed until 2014 Old Italian man returns for one last year....
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