Lloyd Doyley

He will come back to haunt us and score the winning goal next season at the Vic to send us down to league 1...

 

A journey always has an ending at some point.
Thank you Lloyd.

 

Good luck Lloyd, you done us proud :sign15::sign15::sign15::notworthy::notworthy::notworthy:

 

Good bye and good luck Lloyd.

An incredibly average player, albeit a supposedly good guy, who has done very little to warrant the weird, obsessive infatuation some Watford fans have with him.

 

Great one on one defender most of the time, especially against pace but he was always a bit prone to the tricky ones. If only he had the necessary footie skills he would've been a real class act.

Good luck Lloyd ... your legend status is deserved.

 

You think it's weird how fans have grown so attached to an academy graduate who has gone on to make over 400 appearances for the club? And you say he's done very little to be held in such high regard by the fans? Sigh.

 

When he is and always has been as average a player as he is, yes, I do find it weird.

 

I assume all those who believe Lloyd shouldn't be retained also believes that Gilmartin should leave as well?

 

How many regimes did Doyley inexplicably survive? His resilience as a Watford employee is remarkable.

I'll never get over that 3 months when Stalin took charge of the club, exiling the entire first team to Siberia, with Doyley somehow getting a new contract instead.

 

Fantastic servant to the club but it's best for both parties he moves on.

 

Not my favourite player down to the fact he was distinctly average and the whole "Lloyd is the greatest" thing will always confuse me but he's been a credit to himself and a great servant. Good luck to him wherever he ends up

 

By implication that means that all the managers that he has played under barring Sannino have rated him good enough to regularly select him are weird. Please explain?

 

And leave us with only two goalkeepers on the books ???

 

THAT goal and the pass to Priskin...

Best of luck to him.

 

No, it really doesn't.

Selecting a player for your squad as a manager is a far cry from the ridiculous love-in some of our fans have with him.

 

Don't think anyone's ever said Lloyd is the 'greatest' to be fair. He's not loved because he's a great footballer, he's loved because of his attitude and his service to the club.

He was a very good defender, but a poor footballer. As H23 points out he's an academy graduate that played over 400 times for the club and in some of the most challenging years of the clubs history. His playing style only made me love him more.

He sort of embodied everything good about pre-pozzo Watford. Local, a tryer & an incredibly nice/well mannered man to boot.

 

End of an era of sorts. More importantly what the hell am I going to do with my Title now? Doyley Fanatic only works when you have a Lloyd Doyley at the club!

 

If the Pozzos care anything for the ethos of this club, they'll erect a Lloyd Doyley statue and rename the Rookery after Him.

 

Loyalty, workrate, average ability and giving 100% is sometimes more important than skill. For example Holebas is obviously different class to Doyley but to be honest I would rather have an average player who gives his all than a better player like him who clearly doesn't give a toss for our club.

Remember Doyley stayed loyal to the club during our bad days.

 

Let's end this right here

Lloyd always gave 100% for the club and that is all you can ask of anybody

Legend x 443 .... end of!

 

I am Sad.
[video=youtube;_KKaD5nBs3c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KKaD5nBs3c[/video]

Any chance of an update to this most excellent video Mr TheDon sir?

 

You want to play without a goalkeeper now?

 

Would love to! But do lot of video work atm and I'm trying to stray away from things that might anger Mr Copyright. Glad you like it though, personally I can't watch it as it's so badly made. Thank God I went to uni and learnt to do things properly!

 

I love Lloyd, as should any Watford fan. He's not the best footballer in the world but he did a good job for us over many years.

You can't say he was average (even if he was, that's not really the point) because in truth with hindsight and experience, for the last 20 years we've been an epitomy of the word "average". Yet in this average team there was a full back called Lloyd Doyley that consistently was the best right back the club could find, being replaced many times and then recalled because his "averageness" was better than the more deluxe right backs we brought in. Indeed he's so average that he was able to fill in at left back for a year to thoroughly average effectiveness.

He'd be rated low on FIFA for crossing, passing, shooting, heading or dribbling, key attributes of any pro footballer - yet somehow despite these flaws he's been average for us for over a decade and 400 games. It makes you wonder if perhaps, just maybe, he's actually a little above average at some other skills? like tackling, man marking, positioning, pace and teamwork? He's not Johann Cruyff, despite the occasional Cruyff turn but he's a better full back than 75% other average full backs and he was pretty consistent with it, rarely putting in a performance that was LESS than average. So he's an average footballer but an above average full back, he'll go to Charlton or somewhere similar and be average for them and they'll be happy. God bless you Lloyd and good luck.

 

I was wondering how many mangers Sir Lloyd managed to out-last? It must be quite a few. He was written off every time a new one came in, but still ended up on the team sheet in the end.

I guess there would always come a day when that would come to an end. Good luck Llloydy, you were great.

 

Agreed.

Doyley didn't win anything so hardly can be considered a Watford legend.

 

Let him make 4 sub appearances so he can hit 500

 

They are Morons. They support Charlton for a start.

 

Lloyd was our star player at the Palace Wembley play off final, and that performance typified the man - always gave 100%.

Never again will a player stay and play for WFC throughout such a long career under so many managers/coaches.

End of an era in this commercial world ...

 

Lucky this commercial world only just started or else someone might have tried seriously to buy such a key player from us in the last decade.

 

Noooooooooo

 

Feel sick.

 

Plain wrong.