A Wednesday Round-Up

Evening Feverettes.

Aidy's newsletter today helped explain (if explanation were necessary) the recent change in style and the introductions of Gareth Williams and Tamas Priskin:

Many of you will have perhaps noticed our slightly different approach to the game with Charlton on Saturday. I know that many people have been pushing for a change in personnel and possibly a change in the system.

We’re still finding out about ourselves and what we can do but the inclusion of Gareth Williams on Saturday made us look more capable of keeping the ball. I was delighted with [faint praise alert] parts of his performance.

Tamas Priskin was also a massive plus for us which will, no doubt, beg the question as to why I didn’t get him involved in the first team earlier this season.

My experience of working with young players taught me that they are very erratic in their development at that stage – the kind of situation that Tamas has found himself in where he’s been in and out of the first team is notoriously difficult for young professionals to deal with.

Williams, along with Lee Williamson and Will Hoskins, are cup-tied for Sunday's Plymouth game, meaning Monday's reserve victory over Tottenham gave a few squad players a chance to impress. The win was presided over by Alec Chamberlain and, for the first time, Malky Mackay. The article refers to Alec as 'reserve team boss', something possibly not officially confirmed before. Also not confirmed so far by the official site: they don't own a dictionary or spell-checker; Keith Burkinshaw is nothing but a reanimated corpse; Clarke Carlisle and Matthew Spring are undercover agents helping to bring about the downfall of that lot down the road.

Elsewhere on the official site Jordan Parkes reflects on his season so far - making his debut, signing a pro contract and getting the call-up for England U18s. Unfortunately, the title of the article is 'Parkes Life'; a pun so rubbish that even this blog would dismiss it out of hand. Also, our Hameur has been called up again by Algeria, this time for the game against the mighty Cape Verde Islands (who are almost certainly better than Wales).

Watford ought to watch out for the pace and trickery of Plymouth's Scott Sinclair, a winger/striker on loan from Chelsea. See the clip below for his exploits in a previous round - about the four minute mark.