If some supporters were worried that last Saturday’s result against Liverpool was a fluke, they were certainly proved wrong this weekend.

Watford’s performance against Bournemouth was the real deal and offered nothing but encouragement.

Heading into the game, it’s fair to say the Hornets hadn’t endured a great deal of success at the Vitality Stadium in recent seasons, having been on the end of a few controversial decisions.

Plus, in the Hornets’ matches against the Cherries in recent seasons, they had failed to win on the South Coast, drawing three and losing once.

But all of that went out of the window this weekend. The Hornets got nothing more than they deserved as they beat the Cherries 2-0, in what was an excellent performance from Marco Silva’s men. It says a lot that my only gripe is that we should have scored more.

As some have said, this was a perfect away performance from the Golden Boys, who were defensively resolute and attacked with pace and power. Yes, you heard that right. Watford attacked with pace and power, something we’ve been crying out for in recent seasons.

While he didn’t get a goal, Andre Gray worked his socks off up front and was a constant menace to Bournemouth’s back line all game. He wasn’t afraid to run down the channels and it was his ball across the penalty area which set up Watford’s opener. The former Burnley man offers us something different up front and already looks at home in this Watford team.

Then we come on to Richarlison. What a player we’ve got on our hands here. Bournemouth’s Adam Smith will be glad that he doesn’t have to mark the Brazilian again for a while, because the 20-year-old ran him ragged.

Richarlison’s pace and skill caused all sorts of problems, and he also displayed a great work ethic, as he bombed up and down the left-flank all afternoon. He also played a couple of excellent balls into the box and on another day, he would have had a couple more assists to his name.

It’s probably unfair to just single out two players though, as all the team were exceptional on Saturday. Tom Cleverley didn’t stop running all game and got forward whenever possible, with Abdoulaye Doucoure and Nathaniel Chalobah marshalling the midfield well.

The defence were rock solid all game as well, restricting Bournemouth to mostly half-chances and in the end, the Cherries just couldn’t deal with the Golden Boys.

Plus, how great was it to be able to bring on a player of Etienne Capoue’s quality for the final 15 minutes? The Frenchman scored a great goal, but it says a lot about the strength Watford have within their ranks that they can name players like Capoue, Troy Deeney and Will Hughes as substitutes.

But one of the main things from Watford’s performance which gave me the greatest satisfaction was the togetherness the players showed. I said it after the Liverpool game last week, but this Watford side really look like a team.

They genuinely look like a group of players who are prepared to put their bodies on the line for each other and that’s something we didn’t see too much of last season.

For large parts of the campaign, when the going got tough, Watford crumbled last season under Walter Mazzarri. This year it’s a complete contrast.

We could have easily let out heads drop against Bournemouth, having wasted a couple of good chances, but we didn’t. We kept going and kept piling on the pressure until we made the breakthrough and once we did, only one team looked like winning the game. It certainly wasn’t Eddie Howe’s Bournemouth.

As a result, it is hard to feel anything but excitement after Watford’s performance at the weekend.

What’s clear to me is that Marco Silva is building something incredibly exciting at Watford FC and I like the look of it. A lot.

What a thoroughly enjoyable season this could be and I for one cannot wait to see what this campaign could yield.

Bradley Hayden is the founder and sole writer of @WatfordFCBlog