Watford 6 Others 0

The friendly fixtures are coming thick and fast now. Saturday saw our annual trip to local Isthmian Premier League side Boreham Wood. Aidy gave the first XI, 60 minutes of what largely sounds like shooting practice, which they won 2-0. The highlight being Marlon's sublime 20-yard curling goal on 51 minutes, doubling the lead earned by Tamas Priskin who is very much making a case for a starting berth on August 11. The stiffs then played the last half-hour, with Boozer opening his pre-season account to seal a 3-0 victory.

The lads then flew out to Germany to begin their hastily arranged tour. This began against Czech Premier League side SK Dynamo České Budějovice, who's chairman is none other than Karel Poborsky. Apparently Karel's a bit of a legend in České Budějovice, having begun his career there, he returned in 2005 and helped the club achieve promotion to the Czech top-flight in the unusual, if not unique role, of player-chairman. He hung up his boots at the end of last season, which saw his beloved club finish a respectable 9th in the league.

Though providing a sterner test than Boreham Wood, Dynamo CB were no match for a strong Watford side who ran out 3-0 winners thanks to goals from McAnuff, Priskin and the forgotten man of vicarage road Anthony MacNamee. You get the feeling Macca is a man having to fight very hard for his football career at the moment.

Another man who I hope is fighting hard for his Watford career is Darius Henderson. There have been as many rumours flying around about him leaving, as there have strikers linked with moves to vicarage road (Latest: Matty Fryatt). I hope Doris stays. He did the job last time we were in this league, and I hope he is given another shot, but given Aidy is yet to give him a run-out in pre-season, I fear his yellow shirted days may be numbered.

Weekly Round-Up

With just three weeks to go until the season kicks off, things are starting to finally get interesting.

Let's start with the bad news. H has gone to Bolton. There has been a lot of noise coming out of the Vic over the last few weeks regarding a possible return of the iconic iceman, but you just had this nagging feeling that it was taking a long time as H and his agent were hanging on to see if he could get an offer from Premiership club. That offer came last night and this morning he is a Bolton player. Bum.

Rumours are abound that Aidy is moving quickly for Birmingham's DJ Campbell instead. I saw him play for Brenford a couple of years back. He's certainly very fast, but my other memories of him are not all that complimentary, I was very surprised Brum splashed 500K on him. I'll be horrified if the reported £2m we're offering is the required asking price now.

In other silly-money news, possible Watford target Michael Chopra has gone to Sunderland for £5m, and Lee Cook is apparently worth half that, of which 15% will be heading to Watford's bank accounts. Which by my reckoning makes Boozer worth £10m and Marlon King worth more than the GDP of most African Nations.

This week also saw a good work-out at Harefield where a first team beat Wealdstone 3-0 in 45 minutes, and a team of youngsters sent out for the second half also managed to get a victory. Next up is Boreham Wood before the squad fly out to Germany for a couple of games against whoever happens to turn up.

Finally, Scott Loach has apparently impressed on trial at League One Leeds United, this trial is with a view to a loan move to League One club, Leeds United and not a permananent move to the third tier side, Leeds United.

Further Reaction to Blades' Relegation

Hello all, I've been away on a conference for a few days, so thought I'd quickly stick up a "lazy post" from You-Tube rather than get depressed about Super Harry Forrester leaving us for Villa.

I'm not entirely certain how it's known that the leader of the Third Reich was a Sheffield United fan, but it made me giggle none-the-less.