However, Watford ended Rangers' unbeaten start to the campaign with an emphatic 3-1 victory at Loftus Road in December and they wasted no opportunity to try to pressurise a defensive unit that had lost keeper Paddy Kenny to injury during the warm-up.
For his part, Cordes, who is still co-chairman at Genworth Financial's wealth-management unit, actually started his own "Opportunity Collaboration" conference in Mexico to further his foundation's work.