That's the last we'll be seeing of him in the dugout I'd imagine. Even if someone did appoint him, he'd have to last 4 games for him to even be allowed in it after his ban today. That would surely give him one of the shortest non-caretaker managerial careers ever...
Yes cannot get away with speaking about players like that these days unless your a top coach and they probably wouldn’t.
Going public is a last resort when everything else has been tried . Players at the lower end of the football league have a different set of off field non footballing matters that ex Premier division players don't have . Finances probably being the biggest .
Absolutely, it’s a ‘break glass in case of emergency’ option, but it can’t be used as an ongoing tactic, and once you do it once you can’t really do it again for a long while. In Troy’s case he’d been a manager for 5 minutes and had zero goodwill or respect in the bank for such a tactic to work or be a viable option. They are league two players, they aren’t that great and any new tactics or style of play will generally take a good 10 games or more for the players to learn and get comfortable with. Throwing them all under the bus so soon really highlighted his immaturity, impatience and planet sized ego.
Imagine , hypothetically, a 25 y.o. player at FGR in the last 6 months of his contract , his wife is pregnant with their 2cnd child and his future is unsettled . Then the new boss comes in , shows zero empathy tells everyone that you are being replaced however can you put a shift in for me ?
I think also, if you’d come into the club fresh as manager and found a really rotten culture you might be more likely to get away with calling it out, but he’d already been there for ages as both a coach and player, so whatever problems there are there, he was already part of them himself.
Yes, given he was a coach. If he feels the players were crap and not putting in the effort either, what does that say about his coaching up to this point ?
Maybe they should have just extended Deeney’s contract, that might have got the players to fully commit.
Sorry, don't follow you ? If he was failing to get them committed and motivated when he was just coach, then....?
Yeah. Too many clubs taking the easy route these days and sacking the manager. Quite pleased to be following a club that has a longer term view.
All this nonsense doesn't change the fact that he's still the only proper Watford legend we've had since Mooney. Not that I would expect you people to understand that.
You wouldn't classify Doyley as a legend? He wasn't the most skilful player but a very hard working player and was with us for over 10 years. Neil Cox? He overlapped Mooney's time but again a hard working player but most important that in the autumn of 2002 when facing administration was the players' PFA rep at the club and had to rally behind the players to take a pay cut to avoid administration. Danny Graham? Only with us for two seasons but scored lots of goals during a bleak period. Almen Abdi? What a great player he was in the Championship.
Not sure you can be a club legend and be here for 2 or 3 years! Legends are players like Blissett, Gibbs or Porter.
Could someone clarify for me? Has he just admitted that he said he'd punch someone in the head if they weren't fourth official and then claimed that wasn't meant to be threatening?
If you think that’s bad, you should hear what the Watford fans chant at the referee each time a decision goes the other way. Just awful things.
Ladies and gentleman, someone who has never played Sunday/Saturday league football before in their life.
Forest Green seem to be doing better under a proper manager who probably supports the players and encourages them .
Deeney will never be happy in a role unless he finds one that feeds his inflated ego. I am sure he has the ability to be a good coach one day, but he needs to put a club first and himself second.
Fairy 'nuff, but as much as it pains me to say, I can't see Lloydihno getting out of the quagmire (apols. T. Challis) of "...paying his dues..." and "...learning the ropes..." in the lower leagues - and he was someone I had hoped had great potential to manage.
