Mattie Pollock

Absolutely diabolical.

We signed Matty Pollock, son of Jamie Pollock.

We've signed Joe Grayson,

son

Both goals, yeah, they're not great defending from Norwich's point of view, especially the second.

I think Matty Pollock just absolutely cuts the Canaries' defence open and The two good finishes from Baudot up front, but as Norwich did against Charlton when they won 3-1, they went down early on and turned it around.

Ben Cressene smashed it home for 2-1.

Anthony Musaba, who I think has been really good for Norwich this season, he helped an own goal find the back of the net at the Valley and he got his own goal through sheer pace and power, really, that Watford couldn't handle for 2-2.

Yeah, it's not like anything, but you can sort of see the worst bits of them still there, but still feel like you can see that young potential that we are desperately holding on to a little bit.

Did you see anything particularly from one of them? That you think, you know, you let in three goals, but you are progressing because we know Pollock's been around a while.

Kevin has shone, dipped and isn't quite back where he should be, where we want him to be.

And Milacic is...

What do they feel for you? What do you see in them in the games?

For both of them, confidence is something that they're both struggling with at the moment.

I think they're both, particularly Pollock, who's been here now for a while and he's taken on that captain's armband and...

He is someone who deeply cares about Watford Foot Club.

But when you've got these players coming in, how sure can you be that they are going to come and put a good run together to get Watford out of this right now I don't feel confident saying that

You're talking about character aren't you? I think that's a fairly big thing to point out because Matty Pollock for example has been made captain I think Matty Pollock is a very solid defender at this level but for him to be the main source of leadership probably again speaks of the lack of recruitment or character identification that you need in a squad at this level to perform.

For example, I really do criticise John Eustace at Derby, but the thing that he has done well is He has got in players who perform at championship level, who are experienced at the championship with Lewis Travis.

There's nothing sexy about Lewis Travis apart from his teeth, great pair of teeth, good hair on him as well.

You know, Nabizadeh up front has done all right.

And Matty Pollock, I think, is a player of substance at the back who's sort of trying his best to sort of lead by example.

And he's been good.

But... it's really more than the players it's about it's about the club and the way it's being run and they're heading towards relegation I don't because I don't see Burnley being relegated I don't see Norwich you know your Prestons and your Derbys might be down there but I think Watford are in massive trouble and I think they probably will get beat at Carrow Road

Because the only time we engaged with them was when we were on the six-yard line.

And Pollock or Kevin or whoever, you know, and who's the new right-back? It's only happening when we were completely overwhelmed that suddenly someone said, we better put a tackle in.

But apart from that, the midfield was nowhere.

Their full-backs could just walk around the side of us whenever they wanted.

And they're not doing that.

And whether D&EC can do it.

I don't think it's entirely on his shoulders, but he has to lead the club and Pollock is the captain, so he has to lead the players.

And if you can get that mindset right, there's no reason why we can't pick up enough points to end up mid-table, which is the height of my ambition for this season, I would say.

I'm going to ask you another question which I would like you to adjudge the decision of.

Rich came on and he had a debate on our Telegram group about his frustration with Matty Pollock.

One of the questions that went back to him was, well, who are you going to replace him with? And the answer is, well, that's just about the problem as well.

However, Philip Crouch on YouTube – hello, Philip, hope you're well – He says, don't blame Pollock.

You know what? I was a little bit worried there, Arron, because you just said, like, we obviously did a bit of Watford last week, did a bit of Leicester.

I actually went into Watford in an interview with Matty Pollock off the back of what was a horrendous week, and fair play to him for fronting up.

Great interview, really honest, and they go and win the game.

So I thought just for a minute then you were gonna try and send me back up to Burnley.

Which I thought was interesting, the conversation with him.

Matty Pollock came over and we, we were just chatting, and, um, and Valon doing what Valon does, knows how to prod me.

Mm-hmm.

And was like...

Honestly, there, there, there's more of the same, you know? And, um, and you know, the bit that, the bit that I hate about it is because some of them, obviously, uh, uh, we played...

I played with Jeremy Ngak, yeah.

I played with Quadrangle Barr, I played with, uh, Matty Pollock at football, by the way, just before that gets clipped and made weird.

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