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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    Zzzzzzz.
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,002
    Surprised to see that of the 13 professional clubs he has played for there is only one club he played more games for than us.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,789
    timken said:
    Surprised to see that of the 13 professional clubs he has played for there is only one club he played more games for than us.
    It says it all about him that, in 11 years as a pro, he has averaged just 6 goals a season. For a bloke of his talent that really is poor and I suspect that not many would have said that, when he scored that double for Celtic on debut, his career would end up going the way it has. It also tells as much about the equivalent standard, for all bar the top two sides, of the Scottish highest division is the fourth tier in English football. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    No.1 in South London said:
    on his way to on his way to Salford City
    Got a ticket for next Tuesday has he? 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,035
    Addick Addict said:
    timken said:
    Surprised to see that of the 13 professional clubs he has played for there is only one club he played more games for than us.
    It says it all about him that, in 11 years as a pro, he has averaged just 6 goals a season. For a bloke of his talent that really is poor and I suspect that not many would have said that, when he scored that double for Celtic on debut, his career would end up going the way it has. It also tells as much about the equivalent standard, for all bar the top two sides, of the Scottish highest division is the fourth tier in English football. 
    Scoring that goal was a gift and a curse for him.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    se9addick said:
    Addick Addict said:
    timken said:
    Surprised to see that of the 13 professional clubs he has played for there is only one club he played more games for than us.
    It says it all about him that, in 11 years as a pro, he has averaged just 6 goals a season. For a bloke of his talent that really is poor and I suspect that not many would have said that, when he scored that double for Celtic on debut, his career would end up going the way it has. It also tells as much about the equivalent standard, for all bar the top two sides, of the Scottish highest division is the fourth tier in English football. 
    Scoring that goal was a gift and a curse for him.
    His debut goal or the one against Barcelona?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    I don't know why he left Motherwell. That's the one place since he left us where he seemed at home, and was playing well. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,680
    killerandflash said:
    I don't know why he left Motherwell. That's the one place since he left us where he seemed at home, and was playing well. 
    Maybe they didn't mother him well?
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,035
    Scoham said:
    se9addick said:
    Addick Addict said:
    timken said:
    Surprised to see that of the 13 professional clubs he has played for there is only one club he played more games for than us.
    It says it all about him that, in 11 years as a pro, he has averaged just 6 goals a season. For a bloke of his talent that really is poor and I suspect that not many would have said that, when he scored that double for Celtic on debut, his career would end up going the way it has. It also tells as much about the equivalent standard, for all bar the top two sides, of the Scottish highest division is the fourth tier in English football. 
    Scoring that goal was a gift and a curse for him.
    His debut goal or the one against Barcelona?
    Definitely the Barca goal. It was amazing, a really great moment not just for him, Celtic but also Scottish football which was seriously starved of hero’s at this point (still is!).

    The pressure and expectation that came with it though was enormous, there was hype around him before that, but it became ridiculous after that goal. That would be hard enough in any environment, but in the goldfish bowl of Glasgow and all the madness that comes with it then it probably would have been very challenging for anyone. I also have a suspicion that he himself started to believe the hype, believe he had “made it”, when really he was still just an unfulfilled potential that very sadly was never fulfilled.

    Despite being a Rangers fan, I like Watt. I think, at heart, he’s a good guy and he’s always spoken highly about Charlton (think he slagged off Lyle Taylor on social media too!). He struggles with his own demons which he has spoken about and I’m sure we can all empathise with that. I wish he had stayed at Motherwell, he seemed happy there and was banging in the goals before he moved to Dundee Utd last January. I worry that the move to Salford will be a negative for him (both on and off the pitch).

    Didn’t expect I would be writing three paragraphs about Tony Watt today when I woke up this morning!

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