Do Not Scratch Your Eyes

Pete finally gets the new recording microphone working (having spectacularly failed last time) and, before the Leicester game, asks everyone down the Bunker where they think Watford will finish this season! We also find out about a group who have come over from Madrid to the Vic and have manged to find the Bunker!!! The roving mic will be a new feature which roughly means, it won't improve but we'...

PART TWO Rob starts off part two with strong opinions on players and our direction, Danny calls in a gives his opinion on the night having travelled with his dad to Carrow Road, Adam joins us from Florida where he was watching in the office (well done indeed!) and we are able to see what a long range effect “being Watfordy” can have! We speculate what the four year contract for Ngakia might consis...

PART ONE A worldy from Asprilla completes a comeback for Watford, except Norwich didn't read the script and with the Hornets seemingly stopping, came back into the game and grabbed another 2 goals. A frustrating night sees Dylan start us of with the post mortem before Ant asks why the results and performances have dipped so much since Xmas. Alan takes the opportunity to remind us what a prat Stuar...

Matt joins us from @NewYork Talk and describes supporting a club going through an abject season with only 3 wins so far this season (this should fire a klaxon warning for Watford as we all know!), we cover off the 5-0 win at Vicarage Road and the subsequent departure of Matt Taylor and the slow but eventual recruitment of Leam Richardson as a replacement. We find out what the Millers fans might ho...

PART TWO Danny starts off part two – expanding on the difference in tone of the defeats and looks forward to replicating elements of the performance into the next three games if we are to get the season back on track before Dylan enthuses over enjoying the spectacle and reminds us that we have three points waiting for us at Carrow Road (we hope!!) 5 words, Long forms, Haikus and limericks plus Mar...

PART ONE Nellie comes on and thinks that the centre forward problem may have been solved, Wendover joins us frustrated that we didn’t get on the front foot earlier and didn’t enjoy Leicester regularly lying down, Petes phone collapses again before Neal joins us to confirm that the penalty was indeed a penalty and SteveO calls in from the Emerald Isle to offer hope for the rest of the week. All in...

Adam joins us from the Pink 'un to talk all things Norwich City this season including David Wagner's ups and downs, the transfer windows ins and outs, Carls liking of mustard, Jonathan Lowe Norwich academy product seemingly destined for the top flight one way or another and we get into our "1 in 10" section to quickly rate and characterize the oppositions previous managers. A dreadfully organised...

Pete provides a stream of consciousness following the release of the accounts and asks what does it all mean for our strategy going forward when early player sales allows us to turn an operating loss of £500,000 per week in to a very tidy profit! We ask can this be repeated if we are not able to attract investment to make the player recruitment/trading model to be sustainable in the long term and...

We spun up an X/Twitter Spaces after the 3-0 away defeat in the Cup that no one other than those in the ground were able to see - fortunately (for us) Pete Fincham and Doctor Dickie Sutton were there and phoned in to give us first hand accounts of events and proceeding. Some now think that the last week feels like a straw breaking the camels back with a third game with no efforts on goal and 5.5 g...

In light of the FA Cup result we thought we'd put something out to, hopefully cheer people up. We perform the transfer post mortem, discuss did we want to win against Southampton, review Watford Managers from the Pozzo era and deal with questions including TV programmes from the 70s and 80's COYH!!! COYH!! This Podcast has been created and uploaded by Do Not Scratch Your Eyes. The views in this Po...

Brad from “Leicester City til I die” tells us about their season and the FA Cup Final win of recent years whilst effortlessly giving gentle digs at Spurs, Ben Chilwell, Chelsea, Ben Chill’s big toe & in the “One Word/Mark Out of ten for previous managers” interims Mike Stowell and Adam Sadler are given short shrift!!! This is what we like to hear!!! Brad gives us a run down of how Leicester will p...

PART TWO Some less regular callers make some great contributions, Taylor starts us off asking for Dennis (when fit) to play through the middle possibly alongside Bayo as it’s in the final third that we need to improve that final ball, Guy joins us traveling home after a very frustrating afternoon and summarises our position as a club and the day wonderfully, Rob wonders if his ticket for the Leice...

PART ONE of the fan reaction following a very tepid display against Cardiff who took all three points back down the M4. Rich is very upset so we let him rant to avoid taking the mood into Mrs WFC2's birthday evening, Uncle Ron is in a car somewhere in Florida and is as you might imagine, Wendover wants to "two up" which was and wasn't an innuendo, Danny says play the kids at Southampton whilst Nel...

Charlie warns supporters that if you break everything down, next season losing parachute payments and loan players we could see ourselves next year in a similar position to Wednesday! We have an ongoing fight to get to Alex’s question which we finally get to, but we get to speak to Neil from his 44 tonne truck (being used an aerial to good effect!) and points out the transfer window is very quiet...

Alan chooses to focus on the positives in that Pollock is getting his chance and seems intent on proving his worth and cementing a place in the starting eleven and looking at the away form which is unbeaten in seven! Pete calls out the number of central midfielders is below the “two players for each position” threshold leaving TDB and Kone looking very leggy which whilst still working hard did aff...

We chat to Ben from "View from the Ninian" and discuss all things "Cardiffy" - including current form, past managers, Neil Warnock, Vincent Tan, Red Shirts and badge changes, losing a generation of support, weird games, was Kaba really Sorry? Also we discover why Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a lettuce! The prediction videos are strange as we have Tommy Mooney's stunt double and Ben and Jarvis appear to...

Pete and Justin chat with Ash from The Wednesday Week about all things Sheffield Wednesday and quite a lot of random nonsense as well. We hear about the new manager they do like and the old one that they didn't plus an owner that makes the Watford regime look calm and reliable!!! We relive the semi-final of their play off triumphs last season and how they are now lining up and playing before we de...

Kevin joins us from Scotland and talks about “that Barry Endean goal” and Pete invents a player called Ron Wigg when he meant Ray Lugg who crossed the ball for that famous goal. Kevin gives us some first-hand reports of how Pollock got on and was very well considered during his time at Aberdeen and we discuss Meils point about having to replace the qualities Mattie does have. We get an update on S...

PART ONE Rich is pleased with the performance but, in what would become a theme – frustrated that we didn’t take our chances when presented. Neal thinks a win at St Mary’s is inevitable and then we’ll be off to Anfield to finish Klpp’s FA Cup ambitions. Chip Shop Terry wonders if the wingers coming off was the wrong move for the match. Brett having sat with Pete during the game and discuss what wa...

Yes we're finally finishing!!! Hooray!!! Pete talks about the Spanish Tax charges and we talk about the investors linked via the Athletic, before we finish in the shambolic manner that has become our hallmark (with Carl wanting to eat and go to the toilet - its an odd USP for a podcast we do grant you!). COYH! This Podcast has been created and uploaded by Do Not Scratch Your Eyes. The views in thi...

A range of questions were asked, debated and then probably no answer really given! Subjects include Watford players presenting Homes Under the Hammer, Half men and half goats again (entirely the fault of Barry and Carls 50 mile conversation), Jam & crumpets plus Justin nearly burns down a hotel, defecating inside football grounds, Chocolate Brownies again, whatever happened to "Harry's 50/50, what...

We explain why we held on to the rumour until it broke elsewhere about the return of the mercurial Emmanuel Dennis. A polarizing figure for sure some will be wary of his reputation others will remember what he did in the first half of the season with us and others will remember the second half of the season he was with us. We also talk about Louza and Healey departing and ask will we be getting be...

Carl, Justin and Peter ended up chatting about a range of subjects for a long long time, so we thought we would put out a series of mini pods so you get to chose what topics you want to hear about. We start with a an update on the Stewarding and Matchday Experience from nearly two weeks ago and Carl's take (as he was at the meeting but not available for our previous podcast) and our reactions to t...

After a couple of false starts we get to speak to Kevin living in Scotland who had been to Airdrie vs St Johnstone who gives us a report Dan Phillips now at St Johnstone and is immediately given Ambassador status for Scotland and gives us a tip for a Hearts striker looking to leave who will be a free agent in the summer!! A fine start ambassador! We finally get “Badly Drawn Watford” on having gone...

Part One of the fan reaction following the 1-1 at Ashton Gate. Most seem fairly pleased with 3 defeats in 18 games now but some wonder - was this one that possibly got away? Asprilla missing an opportunity in the first half may or may not have been the turning point however the second half saw some more great saves Hamer and goal line clearance from Livermore that have seen the home side snatch -...