From The Rookery End - A show about Watford FC

After another seismic day at WD18, from the Rookery End is back, as we try to untangle the events that lead to Nigel Pearson departing Watford FC late on Sunday night. Jon and Mike are joined by David Cameron Walker and The Athletic's Watford correspondent Adam Leventhal, who discuss what has happened and perhaps more importantly, what has to happen next.   Are the boys able to make sense of what,...

Are Watford relegated? Not yet. Does it feel like we are after a disappointing performance against West Ham? It really does. And that might make you feel angry or it might make you feel extremely sad.  However, Jon, Mike, Colin and Adam try to talk through the game, the ongoing problems - all of them - at the club and try to make each other feel a bit better. We hope it does you. Is the turnover o...

It was (yet another!) must win game for Watford...and they did it! With their blood pressure slowly settling down and smiles on their faces, Jon, Jas and Mike gathered to discuss the latest valuable victory for the golden boys. In this, the latest From the Rookery End podcast, the chaps discuss what was the dictionary definition of a game of two halves, while also running the rule over a number of...

WATFORD 2-1 NORWICH Back at home and back to winning ways with 3 points further away from the dropzone. Jon, Jason and Mike discuss an encouraging performance from the Golden Boys. In what was arguably the biggest game since our return to the Premier League, the boys talk about a performance that saw the Hornets come back for the first time in a long time, a wonder goal from DAnny Welbeck and if T...

Watford return from Stamford Bridge with nothing but a dented goal difference, leaving Jon, Jas and Mike to try and find some positives. With the upcoming game with Norwich now unquestionably the biggest game of the season, you can hear from The Athletic’s Norwich correspondent Michael Bailey as Daniel Farke’s team gear up for a final roll of the dice at Vicarage Road. Another day, another defeat....

After a tumultuous weekend, Jon and Mike are joined by The Athletic’s Watford correspondent as they pause to take stock and examine goings on in the wider Watford world. Adam talks us through his fascinating features with former Head Coach Javi Gracia and current Centre Back Craig Dawson. There’s also a look at the thorny issues involving Andre Grat’s infamous birthday party and the mysterious cas...

Project restart continues to be a false start for Watford, as Jon, Jas and Mike gather in the aftermath of another damaging display, this time against in form Southampton. The boys don’t pull any punches in their assessment of a listless display in which Watford failed to record a single shot on target. This combined with a litany of errors mean that positivity is pretty thin on the ground; despit...

A unique kick off time but an all too familiar tale for the Hornets, leaving Mike, Jon and Jas to sift through the wreckage of a dispiriting defeat away at Burnely. A predictably unhappy Mike is balanced out by a pragmatic Jason, but there is no denying the sombre tone in this one! There is no time to sulk or mope however, so the chaps are joined by Carl Anka, The Athletic’s Southampton correspond...

It’s back! And so of course is From the Rookery End. Jon and Jason are joined by Mike, one of the lucky few to be inside Vicarage Road, to discuss Watford’s hard earned, dramatic point against Leicester as project restart, starts. The game is the focal point of the show, with the boys covering all the main talking points from a fascinating encounter, including praise for Watford’s late saviour Cra...

Project restart is nearly upon us and ahead of Watford’s fixture with the high flying Foxes, Jon and Mike are joined by Adam Leventhal to run the rule over the Hornets’ “pre-season friendly” with Brentford. Who impressed, while who has something still to prove. The boys assess the run in as they try to seek comfort from the tough fixtures other relegation threatened teams face, while in between a...

With a return to football inching ever closer, Jon and Mike are joined by Watford YouTuber Jacob Culshaw to get to grips with all of the news coming out of Vicarage Road. The team discuss the welcome news of Ben Foster’s new contract while also trying to work out who’s time at Vicarage Road could be coming to an end. Atmosphere is also on the agenda with a look at how the lack of crowd may impact...

After our week long tenth birthday celebrations, we’re back with a more modest but still (hopefully) enjoyable podcast to meet your Watford wants. With a date set for the return of Premier League football, Jon, Mike and Colin get together to discuss what the final nine games of this unprecedented season have in store for Watford. Will five subs be a good thing? Will home advantage be an advantage...

In the ten years of doing From the Rookery End, Troy Deeney has been a name synonymous with our beloved Watford FC. It's been five years since we last spoke in depth to Troy, where he memorably joined us for dinner a few weeks before promotion was secured. We thought it was high time we caught up with the skipper again, and he kindly joined us to talk about how life has changed since those days in...

It had to happen at some point. We've been making podcasts for the last 10 years, published over 300 of them and this is our first clips show. You know, like the ones they always do on American Sitcoms.  This episode shows off just a little bit of what we have done as a podcast and shows off how its really a podcast about staying sane, celebrating triumphs and chatting to footballers. This is 10 y...

Our testimonial week continues with an interview the man who was the first star player when the podcast began - Danny Graham. In the first season of FTRE, Watford were punching above their weight. Off the field the it was a turbulent time with low budgets and cost cutting where ever possible. On the pitch, Malky Mackay and the players lead by John Eustace did an amazing to survive in the Champions...

In our second special podcast created to celebrate From the Rookery End’s tenth birthday, we talk to friend of the podcast, Nick Cox. Nick is currently Head of Academy at Manchester United and has also had a successful stint at Sheffield United, but here he talks to us about the 12 years he spent with Watford, including heading up the Academy at an extraordinarily difficult and turbulent time. If...

We really have been podcasting and talking about the Glorious Golden Boys for a decade. If you sit back and ponder where we were, where we are and everything that's happened in between, you can only feel proud and honoured to be a Watford fan. In this episode, the first of daily episodes this week, we count down the top 10 seasons of the last decade. Welcome to a week of celebrating Watford FC. We...

Here we are. The last day of the season but will it be the last day in the Premier League for Watford? Colin, and his imagination, is back with commentary of Watford v Arsenal. He'll be joined by former players, Kenny McPhee and David Labouche, to get their insight of the game. We'll also have reporters following each of the teams in the relegation battle. Kelly Somers is live a Goodison Park for...

Jon and Mike are joined again by the Athletic's Watford correspondent Adam Leventhal to have a chat about what's been going on around the Hornets. They reflect on comments of Watford CEO and Chairman Scott Duxbury about Project Restart, try and get their heads around contracts of (possible) in coming young Hornets and consider some of the best comebacks in Watford's recent history. A brand new Fro...

It's the penultimate game of the season and the Hornets (in our make believe end of the football season commentaries) will face Manchester City, a team we have not been able to beat since our return to the Premier League. We sit on 38 points, have two ve Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the Rookery End's search for 100 objects that define life as a Watford supporter and the history of the club continues, with this podcast featuring objects 21-30.  We hear about a sticker album, a beer, three objects relating to a footballers body (only one for aesthetic reasons and one is particularly very painful, a place you're not meant to go, the noisiest thing ever to enter a football g...

No, the football season isn't back. However, the football season hasn't stopped in this magical FTREland of Premier League football. This week, as they should have been, the Hornets are off to the London Stadium to face West Ham, for what many see as the last possible points of the season, Man City and Arsenal next.  The Golden Boys sit on 37 points and the Hammers are down in the relegation battl...

Being a football fan, especially a Watford one, is always surrounded by success, failure and the prospect of a bright future. So on this episode of the award winning From The Rookery End, Jon, Mike and the Athletic's Watford FC correspondent Adam Leventhal gather to discuss just that. Who would has been the player of the season, was Nathan 'Duke' Ellington really a failure and with hot talent like...

It's another Saturday without football, so here we go with another imaginary commentary from Colin. We really hope these fun, some may say silly, commentaries give you some sort of feeling of there being a football match on the radio and it being a normal Saturday afternoon. COME ON YOU ORNS!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our quest to find 100 objects that define life as a Watford supporter continues in this, the second in the series, with this podcast featuring objects 11-20. If you were wondering where you could find a podcast that mentions, among other things, a deceased canary, a German pennant, an obscure Elton John song and details of how the Watford reserve squad ended up as part of an ocean rescue team, the...