New manager Brendan Rodgers *confirmed*

[Hogmeister Royal]

Hmmm, new manager joining shortly, friendly arranged with chelski, away kit likely to be green, I wonder who it could be?

Yes you're right - it's got to be Pards.

[Terminal Boardom]

Thurs 4th June

That's my choice. Thursdays are traditionally good days for Mad Stad press conferences.

I am prepared to be shot down in flames for this

[loyalroyal4life]

I'm getting very excited about next season.

that will be you along with a grand total of approx 9,000 at each home game!!

cant see the appointment of brendan rodgers bringing us 5,000 additional season ticket holders!!

[loyalroyal4life]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

[Terminal Boardom]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

It will piss off Argyle

[I was there at Elm Park]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

At least it means that for once it will be true when the club say the old away kit has become the new third kit.

[Rawlie19]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

At least it means that for once it will be true when the club say the old away kit has become the new third kit.

What? That's always been true. We've just never needed a 3rd kit is where the comment lacks any commitment.

[Rawlie19]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

Please, don't bunk of English anymore. Back to school kid.

[Archie's penalty]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

Please, don't bunk of English anymore. Back to school kid.

Bunk of English?

[Norfolk Royal]

I'll be happy if it's Brendan Rodgers. From what I've read and know about him he strikes me as a highly ambitious young manager who did well at Watford in difficult circumstances this season.

I like the idea from The Times article that he has a hotline to Mourinho.

Mourinho must have rated him highly to make him Chelsea's reserve manager. It augurs well in my opinion and could be just the thing the club needs, a fresh invigorating approach.

Good luck Brendan.

[I was there at Elm Park]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

At least it means that for once it will be true when the club say the old away kit has become the new third kit.

What? That's always been true. We've just never needed a 3rd kit is where the comment lacks any commitment.

Surely if we never needed a 3rd kit then the club was wrong to suggest that we had one which was never going to be used. I can remember the club saying that the 06/07 red and yellow kit was going to be 07/08 3rd kit but it was never seen. You could say that the club was tricking the fans into buying the old away kit at a larger price. Tbh though it's not worth worrying about and whilst I don't approve of a new kit every year there are much bigger things to get worked about.

Anyway back to the new manager thread. Seeing as we were put off Fergie Jnr by the £1m fee, what do people think we will pay for Rodgers and his staff?

[Rawlie19]

At least it means that for once it will be true when the club say the old away kit has become the new third kit.

What? That's always been true. We've just never needed a 3rd kit is where the comment lacks any commitment.

Surely if we never needed a 3rd kit then the club was wrong to suggest that we had one which was never going to be used. I can remember the club saying that the 06/07 red and yellow kit was going to be 07/08 3rd kit but it was never seen. You could say that the club was tricking the fans into buying the old away kit at a larger price. Tbh though it's not worth worrying about and whilst I don't approve of a new kit every year there are much bigger things to get worked about.

Anyway back to the new manager thread. Seeing as we were put off Fergie Jnr by the £1m fee, what do people think we will pay for Rodgers and his staff?

They've always tricked us. I've never fallen for it. The 3rd kit would be a European kit if we ever made it, but you can bet your ass if we ever need a 3rd kit for Europe, they'll make one especially for it and it won't be the previous seasons away kit.

[Gordons Cumming]

I reckon this is a Coppell approved appointment.

[Elliott]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

Sorry, but how many times in the 07/08 season did we win in our black away kits!?!

[Ian Royal]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

Sorry, but how many times in the 07/08 season did we win in our black away kits!?!

Forget that black and grey hooped nonsense. Its the Plain Black that was good. From circa 04 ish?

Not that anything can beat the Blue and Yellow Hoops of the 90s.

[loyalroyal4life]

green away kit? oh god you would of thought the club would of learnt their lesson by now with appointing flash colours as away kits, stick to black!!

Sorry, but how many times in the 07/08 season did we win in our black away kits!?!

Forget that black and grey hooped nonsense. Its the Plain Black that was good. From circa 04 ish?

Not that anything can beat the Blue and Yellow Hoops of the 90s.

Exactly the plain black strip looked decent and we played decent in it

[I was there at Elm Park]

From http://watford.rivals.net/News/pgArticl ... 0955&id=85:

"There was talk of cuts in certain areas of the club which I could understand but there was also talk of cuts into the training environment, which I couldn't compromise on.

"Because if we have players coming in and we do not have the money to buy players, then we will get players in to develop.

"We need them to come into the right environment to develop.

"Otherwise, I said to the club, that if there is not those then I will go because it means you have the wrong type of manager and what you need is an older type of manager that maybe doesn't care so much about the training and the development of the players and the culture and the development of the club - someone who is only interested in driving in, watching training and then turning up on a matchday and win, lose or draw picking up his money and driving off again. And if it doesn't work out in six months then he goes.

"I was never interested in that. I was here for the long-term project. That was to develop the club initially and inspire Watford and make it feel proud of its football team and the club.

"These things were going to compromise that project but I got assurances that it wouldn't and from then on there has been growth and I felt happier that we could then develop, even in difficult circumstances."

Reminds me a bit of Pardew in both a positive and a negative way.

[Agent Balti]

Done deal, so says journalist of the year...

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... ng_fc_boss

[I was there at Elm Park]

Done deal, so says journalist of the year...

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... ng_fc_boss

Brendan Rodgers barmy army! I for one am glad, roll on next season.

[Rawlie19]

Blimey, he's sticking his neck out on that one. What if it's not true? He could get the sack and never write for the RC again!