Groundhog Season: Assessing Watford’s 2025/26 Struggles
From The Rookery End - A show about Watford FCShow Notes
On From The Rookery End this week, Jon and Mike are joined by Watford Observer’s Adam Drury after Watford’s defeat at Oxford — but rather than pick apart another bad away day,the take a step back and the conversation goes bigger.
With all too familiar questions surfacing again, they look at where the club is right now, why this season feels so unsatisfying and what sits behind the mood around Watford. They discuss recruitment, football identity, squad balance, finanical stablity and the clubs direction.
From what’s happening on the pitch to the bigger picture off it, this is a proper stock-take of a club that feels stuck.
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