What Watford say and Watford do can often be two extreme ends of a well-meaning line, but the appointment of Rob Edwards could be a turning point at Vicarage Road.
Renowned for their hectic hiring and firing policy, Watford’s hierarchy have succumbed to the fact that such a policy is no longer working. Prior to the successive appointments of Claudio Ranieri and Roy Hodgson, it had been more successful than not. Spending all but one of the past seven seasons in the Premier League is testament to that; it’s the most consistent top-flight football the Hornets have tasted in their 124-year history.
But the combined failures of the two veteran managers made the Pozzos sit up and take notice. Time for change was nigh, and what better time to change than ahead of a new season in a new division when the supporters have lost all faith in what came before.
Hodgson has pissed off the majority of Watford fans almost since day dot of his brief tenure. In some ways, Watford have felt doomed since before he took over, such has been the mesmeric shipwreck much of their season has been. In reality, they were just two points off safety when he took over. Every home game of his reign has ended in defeat. It has been a thoroughly miserable existence and their immediate return to the Championship alongside Norwich is an indictment of how both clubs set themselves up last summer.
Now, with the season not even over, Watford are looking to avoid the definition of insanity at last and change tact. CEO Scott Duxbury has drawn valid criticisms from Watford supporters this season but has at least now attempted to bring about change.
Unlike other troubled clubs, Watford’s problems can mostly be fixed by the man in the dugout. That has been their main failing in recent years, with even promotion-winning boss Xisco Munoz looking an ill fit for the number one job in Hertfordshire.
Duxbury had spoken of changing the profile of the next Hornets manager in April. A number of the EFL’s…
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