Youth coach turns us down

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by UEA_Hornet, Oct 30, 2014.

  1. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/watfordfc/watfordfcnews/11567094._/?

    According to Frank Watford went for Stephen Robinson, one time scummer, now Northern Ireland youth coach, to be our new youth development head honcho. We were in negotiations since August but he's turned us down. The club claim it's because he made unreasonable financial demands. The man himself says it's out of loyalty to Michael O'Neill. Although he denies it I think this is the McKinley shenanigans coming back to bite us on the arse.
     
  2. BigRossLittleRoss

    BigRossLittleRoss First Team

    I'd say it's more his loss than ours . Work part time for Northern Ireland or for a future EPL club ?
     
  3. Whippendell Woods

    Whippendell Woods Squad Player

    Go get Sir Tommy Mooney
     
  4. nornironhorn

    nornironhorn Administrator Staff Member

    Quite a good coach actually, shame he hasn't moved to Watford but at the same time I'm glad he has stayed with NI
     
  5. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    **** this guy. If he was that good, he'd have a club already.
     
  6. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Northern Ireland are ****. Glad we aren't picking up any more of their cast offs.
     
  7. J.B

    J.B First Team

    Good, don't want his sort of filth at this club thank you very much.
     
  8. Why is the club issuing statements on this? Not very classy.
     
  9. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    "McGuane's comments came in response to the interview Robinson gave to the Belfast Telegraph"

    I guess the club vehmently disagree with his take on it and want to set the record straight. Possibly as part of a overture to someone else?
     
  10. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    I think the club are within their rights to comment if the other party is (in the club's view) distorting the truth to the media. They didn't make it a public issue, but someone else has and I think it's appropriate for them to speak up at this point.
     
  11. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    So this guy is a filthy liar as well?

    Sue him.
     
  12. yellowyeller

    yellowyeller Reservist

    Greedy scummer
     
  13. yellowyeller

    yellowyeller Reservist

    Incidentally, has everyone seen the latest pikey hashtag trending on Twitter - #LutonAreCack ?
     
  14. EltonHorn

    EltonHorn First Year Pro

    Edit: Sorry, originally referred to Stephen Robinson as O'Neill in error. My research is dreadful, I should be sacked (thank heavens no one give a to55).

    The guy said nothing to upset either Watford or his employers, and it should have been satisfactory for all parties, as little cost had been wasted in negotiations that were being repeated elsewhere with at least one candidate. We all know that loyalty in football almost invariably has a price, so if he turned down the job, we can assume that his loyalty, or his family's wants and needs, were not much more than ruffled by whatever we offered. In which case, good luck to him, and please may we have some like him who are not too easily swayed by the moolah.

    So, where in Frank's article did Watford say it was more about the money than loyalty. Nowhere. It was just pointed out that whatever the deal we offered fell short of his needs. Did he come back and demand more after he rejected his stated requirements? Not according to the article.

    Did we, after he turned down our offer, increase our bid to further entice him? Not according to the article. So we can conclude that our interest in him was at an end, unless he came back to us with a change of mind.

    Is it Watford who declared the guy to be more interested in money than loyalty? Not according to the article, indeed it is made clear that what was offered was not enough to draw him and his family away: nowhere does it state that we offered anything more than was reasonable, nor does it state that he was unreasonable. It is made clear that no further demands were made, and that is where it was left.

    So who is it that made that bold statement, casting this club and that coach in a bad light when there was no conceivable reason to do so, and when both parties were happy to carry on with business amicably? Here's a clue: if you said w4nk, you'd have got three black pegs at Master Mind.

    So, can we assume that following an interview with our man, likely involving a discussion about the in the news under twenty ones, Frank asked a question along the lines of "tell me about this Robinson chap" to which he received an unguarded and honest answer, which neither declared the guy a liar, nor claimed "loyal my but cheeks". Yet what article do we end up with?

    Frank has come up with his own spin on the story, and it is totally unnecessary, and inflammatory to both the club and the coach, where both were happy to tootle on, the matter settled. This was no press conference responding to the club being pilloried by a liar, requiring the record to be put straight. It was two parties giving honest and reasonable statements, and some hit hungry terd out to make deliberate mischief.

    Got to love him though; lovely fonts.

    At least they let the other chap write the important and interesting articles. I get half way down an article these days thinking "Good for Frank, this is alright, and well written" then I check the top and find that it was written by Adam Newson (no, he is not related to me). But these days, it's the hits that count I guess.
     
    Last edited: Oct 30, 2014
  15. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    And yet this inflammatory man is retained as the chief Watford FC correspondent by the newspaper that pays him and the club seemingly allow him access to these people to interview. You'd think they'd learn, right?
     
  16. Poole07

    Poole07 First Year Pro

    It's news like this that makes me happy :)
    For no particular reason of course ;-)
     
  17. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    He has a good record of developing players so a shame in a way. However there are plenty more fish in the sea (metaphorically of course not in reality).
     

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