Category Archives: Sean Dyche

6th April 2012- Championship, Watford 0 Blackpool 2

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5010

Two goals from Stephen Dobbie earned Blackpool victory over Watford and further cemented their position in the play-off places. The striker – on-loan from Swansea – scored his first by beating keeper Tomasz Kuszczak after a mazy run.

The defeat brought an end to Watford’s seven-match unbeaten run which had raised hopes of gatecrashing the play-offs at Vicarage Road.

Sean Dyche, the Watford manager, could not hide his feelings after his side let their unbeaten run slip. “I’m disappointed in our performance today. We’ve gone along very well lately, a couple of hiccups since Christmas but got over that swiftly and had a great run, so I’m disappointed.

Palpable disappointment. Obviously. And that’s the fault of nobody bar those of us who’d allowed ourselves to get a bit carried away with things. There are mitigating circumstances, there’s context, there’s stuff that didn’t quite fall our way (see below). But there’s no two ways of interpreting your visitors being able to take off two key attacking players in the closing twenty minutes or so, for a bit of a rest.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-04-06

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/06-april-2012/

24th March 2012-Championship, Watford 2 Ipswich Town 1

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5008

Sean Murray and Troy Deeney scored second-half goals to cancel out Jay Emmanuel-Thomas’s opener as Watford fought back to beat Ipswich at home.

Watford hit back to beat Ipswich and extend Town’s long wait for victory over their Hertfordshire rivals with a 2-1 win at Vicarage Road.

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We walk to the ground in warm spring sunshine amid the kind of careless end-of-season haze which seemed so distant barely a few weeks ago and so utterly implausible before Christmas.

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17th March 2012- Championship, Watford 0 Coventry City 0

Coventry goalkeeper Joe Murphy produced a string of fine saves to help his relegation-threatened side contain in-form Watford.

John Eustace and Troy Deeney had the best of the chances but Murphy stood firm to earn Coventry a vital point.

The fiftieth graduation from our Academy in 12 years is something to be hugely proud of, rightly celebrated over the tannoy. Assombalonga looked the part, keen, strong, rangy… but also raw, and not helped by the limited service he received from a hurried midfield.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-03-17

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/17-march-2012/

3rd March 2012- Championship, Watford 3 Burnley 2

https://watford.fcdb.info

Burnley’s Championship play-off hopes suffered a blow as Watford came back from two down to win at Vicarage Road.

3 Mar 2012 15:01DM – Part timer
MR – Updates please, mouthy
DM – 0-0
DM – Oooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh….. 0-0

https://oldwatford.com/2019/04/02/2nd-april-2019-premier-league-watford-4-fulham-1/

25th February 2012- Championship, Watford 0 Southampton 3

Rickie Lambert scored a hat-trick to send Southampton back to the top of the Championship table with a comfortable victory at Watford.

Today is bloody awful. The more so for miserable indifference to the sense of anticipation that the arrivals of Kuszczak and Trotta, two big fillips for areas of the team that neeeded fillips. Yes, OK, we may have been dicked by Crystal-effing-Palace last week but we’re at home, and new striker and new goalkeeper, and it’s all going to be fine.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-02-25

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-february-2012/

14th February 2012- Championship, Watford 3 Leicester City 2

Watford substitute Craig Forsyth struck 10 minutes from time to to extend the Hornets’ unbeaten run to four games.

Home ties with Leicester are becoming unmissable (remember this one? Or this one?), and this stood comparison with any of them. Indeed, if the quality of the football wasn’t always the highest, the level of excitement and drama was unparalleled. It was Prison Break as a football match, rejecting credibility in favour of a script that rolled ludicrously from one side to the other affording any number of dramatic cameos and contributions and leaving all those in attendance, surely, buzzing on adrenaline and reliving the highlights in their heads long after the match had finished. This, as I wrote after the corresponding fixture last year, was what you bloody go to football for.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-02-14

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/14-february-2012/