THIS FROM THE DAILY MIRROR:
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AILING HORNETS AXE BOOTHROYD
By Mike Walters 4/11/2008
Wobbling Watford pressed the panic button last night and sacked boss Aidy Boothroyd.
Boothroyd, 37, who won promotion to the Premier League, reached the FA Cup semi-finals and qualified for the play-offs in his three seasons at Vicarage Road, was fired after three consecutive defeats left the Hornets above the Championship drop zone only on goal difference.
But Charlton are ready to offer him an immediate return to management. The Addicks are poised to sack Alan Pardew after their disastrous start to the season
Watford's 4-3 home defeat by Blackpool on Saturday was the last straw for a trigger-happy Hornets board, who are looking to sell the club for £30million - and who could face a vote of no confidence at an extraordinary shareholders meeting next month.
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Mind you- he might be a good man to fire us up??????
Would hate Boothroyd to come here. Really don't rate him
would he be any good..... maybe.... in fact probably, get in there and take out his anger on the players gt us going.... he has the experience he has premiership and promotion experience and will come into it looking at things positively...
yeah not bad....
Repent before it's too late. ;-)
Why not?
Took them up in his first full year in charge. Relegation from the Prem (which was always going to be hard task of keeping them up) and then play offs last year.
Not too bad if you ask me.
Ah but they are above us so he is goal diference better than we already have
LOL We've already got half a chant for him
Booooooooooooo- throyd
The booers could boo and the get behind the teamers would be happy as well. Perfect.
So he took a team down, failed to get them back up and is now struggling near the drop zone...........hmmm that rings a bell.
I honestly don't see him being that much better than Pardew, and the football Watford played under him was always sh*t.
''Nigel - I am concerned about you - stop reading tabloids. They suck your brain out and replace it with mush.
Repent before it's too late.''
Ha ha! I know, Algarve, I know !!! I actually spent much of my working life as the news editor of a national daily broadsheet. As such it was part of my job to read all of the other papers cover-to-cover every day and then get our reporters to follow up any stories we had missed.
Whenever I got them to check out a story from the Mirror or Sun, it invariably collapsed at the first phone call nine times out of ten.
Mind you, the one of ten that turned out to be true was often quite spectacular...
Since retiring, I still haven't broken the habit of reading all the papers every day - particularly for references to CAFC and Kent CCC. Anything interesting I find that pertains to the club, I feel duty bound to flag it up here for those who don't waste their time reasding this nonsense like me!!!
he has experience and I think we need experience now....
we couldnt get kinear now, 2 wins back to back in the prem is massive as a certain alan curbishley once said....
we need to bite the bullet now......
im with AFKA now lets push it forward, if he has spent 13 million then we as a club were very niave to have given curbs sucha small anount of money in his years... he never got to ten million in a transfer window then we give two complete feckin no marks 10 mil plus, each....
no wonder we are in debt, even if the majority of it is 'friendly'
going to get adrink...
That for me is the biggest mistake the Board have made, not backing Curbishley with decent money far sooner.
:)
Ditto Bart - He is a mini Allardyce.
However, to be fair to the man, there has to be a little sympathy for him given that Watford have lost most of their best players:
Ashley Young 9.65m (20m current value?)
Marlon King 5.0m
Danny Shittu 2.0m
Ben Foster (10m current value?)
Darius Henderson 2.0m
Hameur Bouazza 3.0m (honest it was)
Net gain for period 2007 to 2009 13m.
What you said
Since they came down he got the play offs last season on a much smaller budget than we did, despite there being a firesale and spending exactly £0 on transfers over the summer they're still above us in the league and listening to my own mates and the SSN voxpops, the games were entertaining, and in many cases they were unlucky to go down to the odd goal. Given that they don't have any decent defenders at least the problem is obvious and can be rectified (with money) i'd take over us having loads of defenders that Pardew can't get the best out of...
The only thing Boothroyd could be questioned over is his record in the transfer market (but you could level that at Pardew). Not Saying we should get him, but he's a better manager than we've got and perhaps not the long ball merchant he's made out to be