Tommie Hoban

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 25/04/2015, 4:52 PM

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.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 04/05/2015, 1:50 PM

http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/spo...Season_honour/

Hoban named Young Player of the Season at Watford's awards night.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 01/06/2015, 4:29 PM

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!

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 02/07/2015, 4:50 PM

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.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 18/07/2015, 2:29 PM

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...ers-pre-season

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 Pr�dl, 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

**SkStu** · 18/07/2015, 4:58 PM

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.

**DeLorean** · 22/08/2015, 9:18 AM

Hoban signs a new four year deal at Watford, some other stuff in here too.

**Closed Account** · 25/08/2015, 8:21 PM

Tommie Hoban on the bench for Watford tonight.
Connor Smith started and was substituted after 59mins.

**DeLorean** · 29/10/2015, 9:32 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

well I do believe he is injured as he missed the last U21 set up. So he hasn't been in and around the Watford first team but is in their first team squad. He signed a 4 year contract extension during the summer.

Had a bit of a look and found this from the Watford website earlier this month.

Originally Posted by Richard Collinge (Watford Head of Medical)

Tommie�s had a problem with his hips and groins. He had surgery in London on Monday and he�s doing really well, everything went to plan. We�ll be looking at around the eight-week mark with him.

**tetsujin1979** · 15/02/2016, 9:25 AM

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

Watford defender Tommie Hoban is being pursued on loan by Charlton, Leeds Reading and Brentford. (Mirror)

**tetsujin1979** · 09/04/2016, 10:29 PM

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

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.”

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 minutes

**tetsujin1979** · 20/08/2016, 1:19 PM

on the bench for Watford today against Chelsea: https://twitter.com/WatfordFC/status/766983298258173952

#watfordfc subs v @ChelseaFC: Pantilimon (GK), Nyom, Hoban, Zuniga, Anya, Doucoure, Vydra.

**johnnyc** · 20/08/2016, 1:54 PM

Great stuff. How are Watford for injuries and suspensions at the mo? Is Hoban there via form or necessity, I wonder.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 20/08/2016, 1:55 PM

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.

**johnnyc** · 20/08/2016, 1:58 PM

Maybe Kaboul has been signed to take Hoban under his wing and teach him the art of defending...

**SkStu** · 20/08/2016, 7:59 PM

Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks

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.

Originally Posted by johnnyc

Maybe Kaboul has been signed to take Hoban under his wing and teach him the art of defending...

Hahahahaha yes!