Is Vydra the missing link?

[Lower West]

Was last night's performance one of the best debuts seen at the Mad?

Hasn't played or trained with team as a whole before. Yet his all round contribution was terrific. Ran himself into the ground chasing lost causes. Intelligent runs, flicks and passes, many first time. Pace was frightenly quick. Contribution in some of the goals. Didn't score. Obviously not match fit. As ran out of legs. But was he the catalyst that made Sa and Blackman look the players they should be as well. As both received the ball where they could do damage to the opposition.

[Samrfc01]

He's like Jamie Mackie with talent.

[RoyalBlue]

Undoubtedly!

[dogzbollox]

Although I agree with the above I thought Ola John was excellent when he came on ...so, going forward, him supplying Vydra could be an interesting combination

[Schmeichel the dog]

Yes. Pace, anticipation and movement. The contrast with Pog was simply staggering.

[Royal Ginger]

[Steve_Upper_West]

[SCIAG]

No doubt that he's an excellent player, probably the best we've had since Gylfi left (assuming he maintains these performance levels better than Drenthe did) but I don't think he made the difference on Friday. We would still have won comfortably with Robson-Kanu on the left. The big difference was how clinical Sa was, along with Blackman's huge leap in performance.

[Sutekh]

Vydra really helped the tempo though, chased a lot of stuff down and was quick to get the ball back into play. Not seen that from HRK (or anyone really) for a long time.

[Ouroboros]

Nicely done Ginger.

[royal_cornwall]

No doubt that he's an excellent player, probably the best we've had since Gylfi left (assuming he maintains these performance levels better than Drenthe did) but I don't think he made the difference on Friday. We would still have won comfortably with Robson-Kanu on the left. The big difference was how clinical Sa was, along with Blackman's huge leap in performance.

He occupied defenders minds and decision making with his presents. That's a huge benefit to others playing around him.

[Ian Royal]

No doubt that he's an excellent player, probably the best we've had since Gylfi left (assuming he maintains these performance levels better than Drenthe did) but I don't think he made the difference on Friday. We would still have won comfortably with Robson-Kanu on the left. The big difference was how clinical Sa was, along with Blackman's huge leap in performance.

He occupied defenders minds and decision making with his presents. That's a huge benefit to others playing around him.

Hmmm. I guess if you can get them to open the presents on the pitch it's definitely going to affect their ability to defend against an attack whilst doing so.

[bobby m's syrup]

No doubt that he's an excellent player, probably the best we've had since Gylfi left (assuming he maintains these performance levels better than Drenthe did) but I don't think he made the difference on Friday. We would still have won comfortably with Robson-Kanu on the left. The big difference was how clinical Sa was, along with Blackman's huge leap in performance.

He occupied defenders minds and decision making with his presents. That's a huge benefit to others playing around him.

Hmmm. I guess if you can get them to open the presents on the pitch it's definitely going to affect their ability to defend against an attack whilst doing so.

...and then the wrapping paper will need to be recycled.

[royal_cornwall]

No doubt that he's an excellent player, probably the best we've had since Gylfi left (assuming he maintains these performance levels better than Drenthe did) but I don't think he made the difference on Friday. We would still have won comfortably with Robson-Kanu on the left. The big difference was how clinical Sa was, along with Blackman's huge leap in performance.

He occupied defenders minds and decision making with his presents. That's a huge benefit to others playing around him.

Hmmm. I guess if you can get them to open the presents on the pitch it's definitely going to affect their ability to defend against an attack whilst doing so.

Oops presence is the word I was looking for but no excuses I should have gone to school more

[Pepe the Horseman]

No doubt that he's an excellent player, probably the best we've had since Gylfi left (assuming he maintains these performance levels better than Drenthe did) but I don't think he made the difference on Friday. We would still have won comfortably with Robson-Kanu on the left. The big difference was how clinical Sa was, along with Blackman's huge leap in performance.

Not having that. Lovely touch to Blackman for the opener and created the second. If HRK was playing, Blackman wouldn't have got the ball to put in that brilliant cross, and the second goal probably wouldn't have happened.

[CountryRoyal]

No doubt that he's an excellent player, probably the best we've had since Gylfi left (assuming he maintains these performance levels better than Drenthe did) but I don't think he made the difference on Friday. We would still have won comfortably with Robson-Kanu on the left. The big difference was how clinical Sa was, along with Blackman's huge leap in performance.

Not having that. Lovely touch to Blackman for the opener and created the second. If HRK was playing, Blackman wouldn't have got the ball to put in that brilliant cross, and the second goal probably wouldn't have happened.

Tenacity to win the ball to assist Blackman's goal as well.

His contributions, without scoring, were plane to see and it's not exactly a coincidence his debut coincided with the fastest attacking display we've seen in years. The amount of layoffs, first time passes and runs he made were staggering.

[Maguire]

Well played

[Nameless]

Wrong shirt though, no one will convince me that Watford are any kind of evolutionary step forward....

[Ian Royal]

Wrong shirt though, no one will convince me that Watford are any kind of evolutionary step forward....

You could always just look at it from a different perspective and they're a step back from where we are now.