Just finished watching the second half. Typical "game of two halves" match. First half wasn't brilliant but we mostly controlled the game but coming into the second half a goal down Watford understandably now showed far more desire and intent which led to a few tasty challenges (not helped by the rain and pitch conditions).

Our problem seemed to be that we couldn't cope properly with their new found intent and when we did regain possession we too often tried the sideways/backwards passing thing rather than getting the ball forward quickly enough. We might have been able to get away with this in the first half when Watford were content to sit back but not now with them continually pressing and too often we were either forced further back or lost the ball. When Campbell was beaten for pace and Phillips couldn't get the cross out from under his feet it was almost inevitable that Watford would get their equaliser and then their tails were up.

Wasn't quite as bad as I envisaged as we had a few runs and chances with Mikey and Mowatt particularly still up for it but couldn't really get back into it. Mowatt put a lovely ball in for Price to head but that was about it really.

As Watford continued to look to increase their 2-1 lead while we struggled to pull one back, I could understand the subs tbh. Styles had been ok going forward but replacing him with Taylor shored up the defence, Heggabo had worked hard but produced little so Maja replaced him and Junior had had a few decent runs but had faded in the game (as had Price) so Grant replaced him. Neither Maja (mostly an end product man who needs the service) nor Grant made much of an impact though.

Not quite sure about swapping Diakite for Dike. Didn't think Diakite played that badly tbh (though I'm sure he wouldn't have started if either Collyer or Molumby had been available) but maybe the thinking was to both give Dike some game time and that bringing on another striker might increase our chances of getting another goal? In any case Mason didn't have any midfield options on the bench to replace him with-though I'm sure Al would have preferred seeing Ollie Bostick being given a chance than Dike.

Not a good performance by any means, especially second half when we really struggled to deal with Watford's new found intent but IMHO not as poor as the Millwall game which was far more disjointed and where too many didn't have the desire. Watford looked nothing special first half and with more momentum maybe we should have gone into the second half 2-0 up rather than 1-0 but-as Al, bomber and others have already said on numerous times-we simply do not move the ball forward fast enough.