7 days. 3 wins.

How cool is that? Six points and top of the league for a couple of hours before Stoke overtook us on alphabetical order. We may not have played all that well, but we've only conceded one goal, scored 6 and the kids are all knocking on Aidy's door asking to be played. We can only get better. The video below shows Williamson's classy strike that totally surprised Fat Paddy in the Blade's goal. It also shows Smudger's awesome goal-line clearance, even with the replay you'll not be able to work our how he did it! Also isn't the man behind the wall interfering with play, given that his sole job appears to be to put-off/unsight Mart Poom?

In player news, Clarke Carlise left at the end of last week for rivals Burnley with a fee of around a quarter of a million quid. This is a slightly strange decision, but with Shittu and Jay from the USA in good form Clarke was at least third choice, if not worse with the performance of Avinel last week. As usual being closer to his family in the north was cited as a motivating factor, which is weird as wasn't being near his family in the south the reason he moved down from Leeds? Either way it'll be interesting, given recent inter-league transfer activity, to see if Clarke plays at the Vic in November. I suspect he may take a light knock in training the day before.

Also leaving the Vic, Johan Cavalli has climbed out of the transfer window and gone looking for first-team football, thus cementing his place as a Watford enigma, remembered for helping mastermind that win at Upton Park which gave us hope, albeit rather fleetingly. He made four appearances for the club, never for a full 90 minutes.

Newspaper rumours today suggest that Jay's agent wants 15% of a new signing on fee. This is actually good news, because presumably he was touting Jay around the not not clubs earlier in the summer, but now they've come to the negotiating table at the Vic instead. Danny Shittu's Mr 15% is not resting either and seems determined to take the man mountain north of the border. The quoted £4 million fee would be awesome business if he really wants out, but with the window shutters closing in just ten days would a replacement be found in time? Lets hope we don't regret offloading Carlise.