Heart and Guts

There is a growing vocal contingent of Watford fans who are moaning about our current style of football and suggesting that Aidy should sort it out. Now is not the time. There will be time for moaning about style. It's September.

Now is the time for the vocal contingent to join us, the Happy Clappers, blindly backing the team, no matter what the dross served out on the pitch. I believe Ken Furphy said something along the lines of "If I bring on a horse and cart, it's the fans job to cheer it". Quite so. Even if that Cart Horse is Jordan Stewart. Whatever you might think of him as a player and a person.

Saturday may not have been pretty, and it may not have been deserved, but for a team largely lacking in confidence and individual flair, it was just what was needed. Add that to Saturday's other results and to last nights Palace win over Stoke, promotion is back in our hands. Five games left. Five wins and we're up. Simple equation.

Also, three-points tomorrow night against Barnsley will take us Top, no matter what the Baggies score at Blackpool tonight.

Read that again. We'll be TOP if we win on Wednesday night.

Promotion from this division will not be won by the team that plays the best football. It will be won by the teams that have the guts, the will, the heart and the sheer bloody-mindedness to get the most points from the next 5 games.

So when Aidy brings on a defender to protect a lead from a Barnsley team scrapping for their lives, cheer the team on. Because nothing will give our players the confidence to play the good football we know they can against West Brom, more than seeing Watford top of the table on Thursday morning.

Come on you Horns!