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BLIND, STUPID AND DESPERATE
 
04/05: Preview: Watford
Census
The results of a survey of 271 Watford fans

Where will you finish?
Straight up:6
Playoffs:21
Top half:62
Middle:113
Bottom half:57
Going dahn:12

Mean prediction:
13th (19th Most Confident Supporters)
(Last Season's Mean Prediction : 6th)

What would the perfect Division One table look like?
(Last season's position in brackets)

	
			UP	DOWN	SCORE			
1  (1)	Watford     	-	-	-
2  (4) 	Crewe 		60 	1 	59 
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3  (5) 	Ipswich 	59 	6 	53 
4  (-)	Plymouth 	44 	5 	39 
5  (-)	Brighton 	37 	10 	27 
6  (2) 	Nottm Forest 	37 	12 	25 
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7  (15)	Sunderland 	36 	16 	20 
8  (9) 	Wigan 		24 	7 	17 
9  (3) 	West Ham 	64 	53 	11 
10 (11)	Preston 	4 	3 	1 
11 (8) 	Rotherham 	13 	16 	-3 
12 (18)	Stoke 		6 	11 	-5 
13 (12)	Coventry 	4 	10 	-6 
14 (7) 	Reading 	7 	16 	-9 
15 (19)	Sheff Utd 	12 	29 	-17 
16 (-) 	Leicester 	15 	34 	-19 
17 (16)	Derby 		2 	24 	-22 
18 (-) 	QPR 		33 	61 	-28 
19 (14)	Gillingham 	13 	56 	-43 
20 (24)	Cardiff 	6 	64 	-58 
21 (22)	Millwall 	5 	69 	-64 
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22 (-) 	Leeds 		25 	105 	-80 
23 (-) 	Wolves 		12 	102 	-90 
24 (20)	Burnley 	1 	95 	-94

Which player in this Division would you most like to sign?
Lee Cook (23% votes)
(Last Season: Joe Cole)

Who is the club's weakest link?
Neal Ardley (9% votes)
(Last Season: Gavin Mahon. Ahahaha)

What team should line up on August 7th?

Alec
Chamberlain
Jack
Smith
Neil
Cox
Marcus
Gayle
Paul
Mayo
Paul
Devlin
Gavin
Mahon
Brynjar
Gunnarsson
Ashley
Young
  Heidar
Helguson
Danny
Webber
 

Sean Dyche was the most popular replacement for the injured Marcus Gayle. In a tight vote, Dyche had polled 149 votes at Centre Back compared to 155 for Cox and 161 for Gayle.

Heidar Helguson's crown as most creatively mis-spelled Hornet has been decisively usurped... 24 different spellings of his name this year, compared to a quite spectacular 45 different spellings of Brynjar Gunnarsson...

Do you remember Craig Ramage:
84.9% say Yes (Best memories)
12.2% say No
3% claim to be Craig Ramage

Book Lines:
IT Handbooks: 14
Management Twaddle: 5
Foreign Stuff: 9
Porn: 3

More interesting fare:
"Without warning a storm of howls broke out fierce and wild all about the camp"

"Ghosts are scary because nobody knows exactly what they are or if they exist. Follow these stages to draw this spooky phantom in an eerie graveyeard"

"Alan: Good Pump! (looks at name on credit card) F. Raphael. That's funny- I used to have a teacher at school called, er, Frank Raphael, yeah.'Sweaty Raphael' we used to call him. He had er, great big sweating stains under his armpits. I've just realised its you. How the devil are you?"

"The animals would still assemble on sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing beasts of england,and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates"

"Kim Moon observed her husband's newest personality with a certain amount of anxiety, but concluded that Keith as Noel Coward was infinitely preferable to Keith as Hitler"

"'What the hell do you people want?' Web cried out"

"So those barbarians are in a hurry? They'll soon change their tune, by Jupitor"

"Going back to the Godzilla movies, sometimes the phrasing was so outratgeous that a serious exchange between actors became downright comedic"

"Granny was prepared to believe anything about City folk, but here she was on firmer ground"

Name Something Rubbish:
Luton Town (29% of vote)

Other suggestions: Ainsley Harriott, American Foreign Policy since 1957, Basura, Bobby Zamora, Boots Meal Deals, Call Centres, Cheap Bread, Citroen 2CV, Country & Western, Craig Ramage, Drum and Bass, Epaulettes, Eurosport, Franchise FC, Gary Lineker, Hallumi Cheese, Hemel Hempstead, ITV, Jamiroquai, Jonathan Ross, Living 100 miles from the Vic, Mayonnaise, Midget WFC teams coming out with the players in Euro2004, Mike Riley, My batting average, National Rail Timetable, our results against Gillingham, Packaging, Peugeot 307 door trims, Pritt Stick, Rail Privatisation, Registering to look at websites, Roger Willis, the second Stone Roses album, Stevie Wonder after 1975, the BNP, the book I've just picked up, the cult of celebrity, the government's attitude to special needs education, the lift in our office, the Matrix, those toys that come in Kinder eggs, Tomatoes, Trevor Francis, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, West Brom stewards. One wag also replied "thanks to you i now have a dog named "rubbish", i thought it was an order not a question"...

Do you know the way to San Jose? :
21.8% say Yes (9th most knowledgable supporters)

33.1% respond "I've been away so long I may go wrong and lose my way" (15th most musical supporters)

Can you wire a plug ?
82.4% say Yes (11th most competent supporters)

Favoured Pizza Toppings
Pepperoni180
Extra Cheese 126
Olives76
Spinach58
Tuna29
Boiled Egg26
Strawberry4
Don't like Pizza17

What should you have been doing instead of completing this survey?
Work58.7%(5th biggest skivers)
Nothing, my conscience is clear21.9%(3rd least empty lives)
Household Chores10.8%(4th most neglected washing-up)
Sleeping8.6%(16th most deprived of sleep)