When you’re sitting with the new head coach during his first week at the club, it’s probably not a good moment to count up how many times someone covering Watford could have written that line in the last decade.

The turnover of coaches became cannon fodder for the media and rival fans, and a source of angst and embarrassment for Hornets supporters.

While Rob Edwards is obviously aware of the past, he’s purely looking to the future.

“What I’ll bring to the club, and what I’ll be, is me,” he said.

“I’m not any of the coaches that have gone before. I might be too honest for my own good sometimes, but I will be honest, I will be respectful, I will be committed. You will see me trying my best, and driving my team to do the same.

“I hope to deliver a team that the fans are proud to support, that plays in a way that makes the fans, the club and town proud.

“What I’d like anyone who watches Watford to feel is authenticity. I am trying to be a good person that is trying to get my players to do well for the club. I can only influence the future, not the past.”

However, he did look back a few years to when he was playing and named Darius Henderson as the most difficult Watford opponent he faced.

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Darius Henderson. Picture: Action Images

“Yeah, I’ve got to say Darius. He was physically strong, and going up against him was always difficult. I remember him almost breaking one of my shoulders, more than once, in the same game.”

In terms of memorable matches against Watford, Edwards recalls two – for very different reasons.

“I remember I came on as sub for Wolves in a 2-1 defeat at Molineux on the opening day of the 2007/08 season. We were winning when I came on! And that game stands out for the wrong reasons is my part in the equaliser from Jordan Stewart wasn’t great!

“Then I was playing for Blackpool when we won 4-3 at Vicarage Road in 2008, in fact I believe I was captain that day. Simon Grayson was managing and I think we were behind three times and still came back to win.”