Squeeky Bum Time

Now that the promotion band-wagon seems to be back on track and my internet connection is up and running again, this feels like a suitable juncture to post a bit more on this here blog.

I don't know about you, but I'd have taken a point at the Valley last August, so given the situation we found ourselves in on Saturday at 15:45 I was very happy indeed to come away with a two-two draw.

John-Joe O'Toole, has somehow, while we were otherwise engaged worrying about our sieve-like back four, has managed to sneek his fourth senior Watford goal. That's twice as many as Tamas Priskin, even if you genourously give him that goal he scored in a swimming pool against Wigan.

But now we have Big Dan back from Africa, new robbo at left-back and surely two of the finest deadline signings in history in John Eustace and Leigh Bromby, and the back-four is looking far more solid.

Looks like it's gonna be a pretty tight run thing going into the end of the season, so there should be plenty to chat about. In the mean-time the FA Cup has given us a fairly decent draw, with the Boing-Boing-Baggies in with a decent chance of being distracted by an FA Cup semi-final given they face a trip to League One Bristol Rovers. Though either way, one suspects that being beaten by the Gas might be quite a downer too, so I think the draw is win-win for us, especially if Rovers can pinch a draw.

Elsewhere in the sixth-round draw, Barnsley on the right side of a last-minute win at Anfield will be rewarded by welcoming Chelski to Oakwell. We were due to play the Tykes that same weekend, so looks like we'll be be letting Bristol City and Stoke have a bit of head-start. In the words of the beetroot-faced scot - it's squeeky bum time.

P.S. Speaking of Liverpool, I'm starting a sweep on when Benitez will be sacked. I'm having Friday, what about you?