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Top reply - cheers mate, you are right ...

No I haven’t - but thanks anyway

Apologies Graham - I obviously got that wrong. Really sorry about that

Really?! That’s sad - they only support a different football club to you - that’s it ... how pathetic to say you’d be embarrassed to admit you know them ..

It’s always amusing when a City ‘fan’, who is glued to their armchair, decides to slag off the gas attendances - yep their crowd figures are low, but at least those guys and gals get out there and support their team. I suppose that’s better than prowling this forum non stop whilst never bothering to actually go out and support your team ...

Notts Forest - really?! Can’t believe in 2024 this basic error is still peddled out - it’s Nottingham Forest and Notts County - never Notts Forest - incredible how ‘football fans’ can’t grasp the difference and get it right - and before you say it’s pedantic or trivial - go up there and talk to the two fan bases - it’s incredibly important to them - Nottingham (Nottm) Forest and Notts County - two different football clubs with different names

“Most”? Really? Well, I may be wrong, but in the 9 Rovers’ league victories this season they’ve been awarded one penalty and their opponents have received two red cards ... hardly “most”? It’s always fun to mock the delusional gasheads, but surely getting your facts right makes it better?

Really? Bit pathetic don’t you think? I think quite a few City fans have Rovers fans in their lives and social circles - I wouldn’t pretend to know how many but if you live in Bristol and don’t know any Sags - then you probably haven’t been past your front door ...

Oh, ok - so you do know more than half their fan base - so you know what the majority of their fans think about any issue regarding their club - sounds plausible ...

Yeh, fair enough, but we all know that people on football forums represent a tiny, tiny proportion of a club’s fan base

Hey, I was responding to someone who said more people watched the darts final on tv ‘than any football game’ - clearly incorrect

I don’t think we are - we leave that to clubs such as Partick Thistle and Raith Rovers ...

I guarantee they won’t say that, unless they are discussing Dundee United, Raith Rovers or Partick Thistle ...

... “than any football game”

... but you did say the darts final had more viewers “than any football game” - quick example, England vs Italy 2021 - 31 million viewers ... You said the darts final had more viewers “than any football game” - not true

I know, I didn’t claim it was unique viewers

I didn’t say that - I said 4.7 billion people watched premier league games last season - I didn’t say each of those 4.7 billion was a unique person - although I knew you wouldn’t get it

Fair enough - but if you divide 4.7 billion by the number of prem games per season then it comfortably beats the darts viewing figures per game ...

How do you know that? I personally know four gasheads who refused to attend games whilst Joey was in charge - they went to watch Yate Town or Mangotsfield instead - but I wouldn’t pretend to know what the “majority of gasheads thought” - you obviously know better ...

“than any football game” - are you sure of that? Credible, independent sources say that 4.7 BILLION people watch English premier league games each season on tv - surely more than the 4 million who watched the darts?

Yeh, but with all due respect - that FA Cup final wasn’t within 20 years of our epic top of the table duel with them - I listened to the ex Spurs and Watford keeper Gomes on the radio today and he said in his first season with Watford they had five different managers - they seem to change them for fun a couple of times a season - I know they’ve had their forays into the promised land but they are hardly a stable club in my opinion - but at least it’s never boring being a Hornets fan - us on the other hand ...

Are you sure you don’t mean the 1-6 Wolves debacle under Benny?

What ‘plenty’ cup finals are you highlighting here for Watford FC in the 20 year period from 1998 to 2018?

Cheers for the reply - however, I really don’t understand your point that “every assist from a corner was a pass played backwards”, with all due respect, I really don’t get that - so if we won a corner and the corner taker whipped it in with a wicked inswinger and a City player headed it home - how is that a “pass played backwards”?! Cos you said “every assist from a corner...” Under Lee Johnson I was totally fed up watching the keeper pass it to a full back who knocked it back to a centre back who passed it to the other centre back who then passed it out to the other full back who then passed it back to the keeper - and off we went again - just so LJ could boast in his un-decipherable language that we’d had ‘pleasing possession stats” - even when we’d been beaten - don’t forget, we once went from November to March without a win in a Lee Johnson season - yet he still wanged on about ‘box penetrations’ and possession stats - “Box Penetrations” ? I reckon I once viewed a dubious DVD with that title!! Back in the day ... Even though you are totally against ‘getting the ball forward’ - I want our centre halves to play crisp early passes to our midfielders who are poised on the half turn - and they can then bang in early passes to lively strikers who are making runs in behind static defenders or they can play in wide players down the channels - quick, crisp and lively - that’s my formula for ‘getting the ball forward’ I’m sorry you don’t want our lads to ‘get the ball forward’ but I think we are more likely to score goals if we do...

Having followed our glorious club home and away for 49 years, I can confirm that every goal I’ve ever seen us score has been as a result of us getting the ball forward ... if you get the ball forward you get closer to your opponents’ goal - and you are then naturally more likely to score - the opposite of what annoyed you is ‘getting it backwards’ - hardly a footballing tactic likely to produce goals ...