He must be excellent so :)
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He must be excellent so :)
He's a James McCarthy waiting to happen.
Hopefully a good preseason will mean a good season ahead. We really need young CBs to emerge!
http://www.watfordfc.com/news/articl...w-1677842.aspx
It would help if they weren't all crocks; Egan, Duffy, O'Brien and Hoban are probably our best young center backs and they have all missed years of their careers to injury already. Kiernan has settled in surprisingly well at Wigan though and Kevin Long didn't do too bad at Burnley last Autumn, though I fully expect him to be loaned out to a League 1 team next season.
I really hope O'Neill selects Duffy in the Autumn and by early next year, Hoban and Kiernan, may be ready if they continue at their current rate of progress.
Better to bring people through with a bit of upside rather than expecting a 28 year old to suddenly learn how to do the basics of defending and finally develop upper body strength.
And you've brought up Richard Keogh in a completely irrelevant thread again.
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/spo...erham_United_/
Doesn't look like Hoban has missed a step, despite being out of action for over a year. Good to see.
http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport...le-out-8189866
Hoban could join Irish contingent at promotion chasing Brentford.
being watched by O'Neill this weekend: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30933185.html
Not going well for him, 2-0 down at half time. I don't think O'Neill is there to see him anyway - looking at O'Dea I assume.
He was taken off at half time.
And now, four goals for Watford in 12 minutes has them 4-2 up.
O'Shea and Wilson it is going forward, so.
Make that 5-2. Not a good day for Hoban.
7-2...holy crap. Inspired substitution it seems.
Poor old Darren O'Dea...
O'Dea may well have screwed up his chance of ever playing for Ireland again. He looked terrible for several of the Watford goals.
That's a dramatic conclusion.
Sent off in injury time against Wolves but still managed to help his team come back and draw 2-2. Watford climb to third after Middlesbrough are beaten.
Live on SS1 at the moment against Middlesbrough. He's been very impressive so far standing up to Bamford as Watford have been really under the cosh, but as I type they've just taken the lead against the run of play. A win will take them top, for a couple of hours at least.
ya he looks good playing on the left side. has a good left foot on him. they've been saying Bamford has a lot of these type of games. its definitely better than the Ipswich game the last day but still no great amount of skill on show.
I just saw some incredible skill.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Watford and their cabal of loaned foreign players promoted today.
Tommie Hoban, Sean Murray & Connor Smith all at the club.
Smith has no chance of featuring in the PL next season. Hoban has a decent chance. Murray has an outside chance.
Now that they are in the PL, I don't think they are going to reduce the amount of foreign players they bring in.
Hopefully this won't affect Hoban in particular.
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/spo...Season_honour/
Hoban named Young Player of the Season at Watford's awards night.
Sebastian Prodl has signed for Watford from Werder Bremen. He has vast experience playing in International tournaments for Austria and European competition for Werder Bremen. He can play CB and LB. Potentially spells bad news for Tommie Hoban, who has played mainly as a makeshift LB in recent times.
If Watford are going to step up their recruitment of high profile foreign players now that they are in the PL, then it may be a good idea for Hoban & Murray to pursue loan moves.
He has his work cut out for him either way!
http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=38334
Ever so predictably, Hoban is being made available on loan; Charlton and Rotherham are among the teams linked.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...ers-pre-season
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The closest Watford have to a prodigy is Hoban, an assured centre-back who at 21 and four years after his debut has made 54 league appearances, precisely half of those coming last season. That he was such an important part of a promotion-winning squad is testament to his character as well as his ability: Hoban missed a year’s action from February 2013 to February 2014 after sustaining an ankle injury that required surgery. He has also appeared for Ireland at youth and Under-21 levels and, prior to that period on the sidelines, was linked with a number of top clubs. Watford have already signed another central defender this summer in Sebastian Prödl, an Austria international, leading Wolves, Nottingham Forest and Charlton among others to attempt to convince Hoban’s employers to allow him to leave on loan, but he certainly has the potential to play in the top flight. SB
These are the types of player we need to blood in or prior to the next campaign. Hoban should've been called up already to be fair.
Hoban signs a new four year deal at Watford, some other stuff in here too. :p
Tommie Hoban on the bench for Watford tonight.
Connor Smith started and was substituted after 59mins.
Had a bit of a look and found this from the Watford website earlier this month.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Collinge (Watford Head of Medical)
linked with a loan move to Charlton, Leeds, Reading and Brentford according to today's Mirror. The article isn't online, but it's mentioned in today's transfer round up on teamtalk: http://www.teamtalk.com/news/paper-t...ted-in-england
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Watford defender Tommie Hoban is being pursued on loan by Charlton, Leeds Reading and Brentford. (Mirror)
Hoban was back playing for the Watford reserves against Coventry on Monday night - http://www.watfordfc.com/news/articl...t-3042486.aspx
There's a short interview with him about it on Watford's site here: http://www.watfordfc.com/news/articl...n-3044268.aspx
He did go play in the game mentioned in the quote above - http://www.watfordfc.com/news/articl...t-3048144.aspx - and came off after 75 minutesQuote:
The medical team are in charge of managing how many minutes I’m doing and I’m playing quite carefully. I’ll recover from this, and then see if I'm able to play again for the Under-21s on Thursday.”
on the bench for Watford today against Chelsea: https://twitter.com/WatfordFC/status/766983298258173952
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Great stuff. How are Watford for injuries and suspensions at the mo? Is Hoban there via form or necessity, I wonder.
Watford have just signed Kaboul though. You know because he has been so impressive over the last few seasons and clearly has more upside than Hoban.
Maybe Kaboul has been signed to take Hoban under his wing and teach him the art of defending...
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Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Hahahahaha yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyc
Kaboul did play well near the end of last season to help Sunderland survive.
I always seem to delete posts on the phone too when i try and edit...
Jees del dont be posting all the stuff i said about everyone :P
Multiple posts deleted, for being off topic or grossly childish
Guilty as charged. :o