trying to remain positive

But it is getting increasingly more difficult.

Let's be brutally honest even I got duped yesterday. After 15 minutes I turned to my mate & said we looked a different side to the one that's been playing at home since...well...Christmas time.

Then normality resumed. We scored totally out of the blue (not knocking the goal, quality cross, quality header). But up until that point & certainly after the break it was back to what we have become used to watching - and that is poor, pedestrian & predictable football that was sussed out ages ago & we don't have a Plan B to counter it.

We are narrow. Teams block up the middle of the pitch - we have not got the legs or the know-how to get around the back of them. I remember this was a tactic used by teams over the past few seasons & it worked until last season teams tried but were eventually undone by pace & width (Bellamy) or a bit of creativity.

This season we haven't got either (especially now teams double up on Whitts for 90 mins. And even if he does wriggle free - what has he got to look at except a wall of opposition shirts & no movement?) He has never been my favourite player until this season as he never seemed interested, but fair play to him he could be Xavi/Iniesta or Alonso, no one would be able to feed Miller when there are 17 or 18 players in a 20 yard ball radius! It reminds me of the half time U-10's football where everyone follows the ball!!!!

Anyway - no pace, no creativity, never looking likely to score from open play, the inability to close games out from winning positions, yet somehow if Brighton fail to beat Reading tonight, play off football will still be in our own hands (and who would've thought that a) at the start of the season or b) if you'd seen us the last couple of months!!??!)

Yes we have to thank the other teams around us for being just as bad - but I think 8 /9 points from the next 4 (somehow) & we may just hold on to 6th.

Then it really is anyone's (as we know all too well!) Bring on Barnsely!!!!

You have to agree.

I think the game changed when Conway went off as he was providing the width and stretching the pitch. The game was being played in their half. When he went off we were narrow again and Kenny was isolated beyond belief giving Watford the impetus to attack us.

People often bang on about our formation and disagreeing with the 4-5-1 at home. I think width and creativity is more important to be honest.

Malky might say we have a small squad and limited options on the flanks which in a way is right, but why cant we use Kadeem Harris or even push Taylor forward?

I still think we'll finish 6th.

I won't disagree the tempo changed when Conway went off but what I can't quite see is Malky playing players out of their normal positions?

Seeing what Watford fans have written about Cowie they said he played central for most of the season & was pretty influential behind Danny Graham. When he has played for the national team again he has played central, for us he plays out wide - but isn't exactly wide as the team play so narrow!

Anyway when Conway went off I full expected Lawrence to out to the right wing, where he has played most of his career but he went central.

There's obvioulsy a reason why this happened but if someone knows can they explain it to me as I thought one of the fundamental ways of getting the best out of your players is to play them in their natural positions?