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@JosephBloggs88 @GavinBarwell I’m assuming English isn’t your first language?

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@MerrynSW Fair point. But then what about other non-contributory benefits like healthcare and education, should they come with strings attached? This just feels like a bit of a selective attack on the ‘undeserving poor’.

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@ezraklein @JensenHuang JensenHuang who makes his money selling chips to AI companies? Him?

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@WatfordPod Thought Bove was always going to be 6 weeks, so probably the Charlton game.

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@Adam_Drury1 Good piece Adam. You can have a small squad to promote unity, or a cheap squad built on players with poor injury records. But to try and do both is madness.

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@TBBodell @machornet1978 @Steve70_WFC Not at Watford. The best ability is affordability apparently. Giving me Ogbonna vibes this one.

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@Adam_Drury1 Do you mean the views of supporters on Twitter rather than all supporters? I’ve tended to find most offline fans think he’s a perfectly average Championship squad player. Some of the wingnuts on this platform however…

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@TheBigO @JordanWiemer This is a good question, because despite the Twitter vitriol, he seems relatively popular with the Vicarage Road crowd. And multiple managers appear to have trusted him, at least to some extent. They can’t all be wrong, can they?!

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@sjjarrettHR Troy Deeney’s only 38.

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@BaitVic Rajovic looked like he’d never seen a football before. But Jebbison was also shit and seemed to be a bad egg to boot.

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@WatfordPod Injury prone ☑️
Serious car crash ☑️
Proven inability to score goals ☑️
Old ☑️
Expensive ☑️
Get him in!

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@JordanWiemer Apart from the obvious:
+ Payero / Kayembe
- Baah / Traore

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@TheBigO From a Watford perspective, some of this sounds frighteningly familiar.

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@TheBigO @TBBodell @JordanWiemer @MessyMesiano You’re right, there must be a better way to balance the financial necessity to trade players with building a competitive squad. My suspicion is they’ve completely given up on the second part because it makes the first part more difficult.

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@TBBodell @TheBigO @JordanWiemer @MessyMesiano I think this is key as well. For whatever reason SD and co. feed us what they think we want to hear. And then when this doesn’t match up with the decisions we all see being taken we think they’re idiots.

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@TheBigO @TBBodell @JordanWiemer @MessyMesiano I think this is exactly it. The only strategy we can afford is a player trading strategy. And the decisions the club makes don’t look quite so stubborn/stupid in this context.

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@louorns Nailed it.

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@WatfordPod Mamma - attitude, ability, age

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@JordanWiemer Worth mentioning that Ipswich are a very good team and will likely go up automatically. We limited their chances first half and arguably matched them in the second half, and that’s despite the issues you’ve rightly highlighted. We’re just going to run out of road sadly.