Watson sacked

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[Thunder Road]

Following today’s scheduled monthly board meeting the club has stood down Head Coach Ian Watson with immediate effect.

[Thunder Road]

Luke Robinson will take charge of the team ahead of the upcoming Betfred Super League game at Leigh on the weekend, neither the club nor Ian will make any further comment.

[LeytherRob]

Been coming for a while that one

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

Surprised he's lasted so long this season.  Rowley to Leeds and Watson back to his beloved Salford maybe.

[Chrispmartha]

8 minutes ago, Wollo Wollo Wayoo said:

Surprised he's lasted so long this season.  Rowley to Leeds and Watson back to his beloved Salford maybe.

Rohan Smith to Huddersfield to complete the merry go round

[Guest]

Jake Connor being made player-head coach apparently

[Thunder Road]

I think once the Chairman put out that statement after the Warrington drubbing last week,  it  set the back drop to what's unfolded today.

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

Where did it all go wrong Daz?

[phiggins]

They should've given him at least one more game

[OMEGA]

Watson can’t have any complaints, he’s had the backing of the board, money, staff, facilities and he inherited a decent squad. His tenure has been marked by strange decisions, none more so than choosing Jake Bibby over Jake Wardle and pushing the best English Centre in the game, a home grown player out of the club. Matty English is another who would run his blood to water, another home grown player whom Watson seems intent on forcing from the club and there are many others, including the Senior twins and Owen Trout.

The terrible style of play and unacceptable results throughout his 3 years and an inability to recruit top class players left the club with little choice

[Damien]

Seemed to be inevitable the way things had been going

[Angelic Cynic]

Another great decision by Ken Davy.

I hang on his every word.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/ken-davy-on-strongest-huddersfield-giants-squad-successful-super-league-stint-and-early-img-impressions-3976933

[Human Punk]

Completely agree. The number of decent players who could have contributed to a positive season, but who have been allowed to leave, is baffling.

[Hammerless Nail]

It'll be interesting to see what happens next. When he left Salford, there were a few players who were keen to follow him. One even threatened to return to Australia if he wasn't allowed to go, despite having signed a contract extension a month or so before.

If those players do the same again and follow him to his next top coaching role, Salford Schools Under 12s Touch Rugby Taster Sessions will have a pretty impressive array of talent at their disposal.

[Thunder Road]

What Jake Connor will turn up on Saturday when they play us I wonder.?

If Ian Watson struggled to cope him I'm not confident that Robinson will fare much better..And it will all be played out in 4k on sky sports....

[Barry Badrinath]

From thr outside theres been a weird scattergun approach to signings,  at one point it seemed like they had signed 5/6 outside backs, but then let the senior boys and wardle go, leutele walked. At the same time a had too many spine players last year, connor tui,  fages, russell.

 

All been a mish mash.

 

I'm really not sure why English has been sent on loan, and to cas of all places, he's a decent prop

[Barry Badrinath]

3 minutes ago, Thunder Road said:

What Jake Connor will turn up on Saturday when they play us I wonder.?

If Ian Watson struggled to cope him I'm not confident that Robinson will fare much better..And it will all be played out in 4k on sky sports....

Did you mean, in front of 4k,  on sky sports? 

[Zilla Budgie]

12 minutes ago, Barry Badrinath said:

Did you mean, in front of 4k,  on sky sports? 

Be at least 6K on. North Stand is sold out and that holds 3500.

[Thunder Road]

Apologies I meant UHD 4K 

[daz39]

36 minutes ago, Wollo Wollo Wayoo said:

Where did it all go wrong Daz?

I don't think it ever went right for him/us.

We had a good 2022 but the recruitment and retention since then has been pretty poor to be honest, we have never replaced any of the players that have left with better or even equal quality, some of the signings have been awful and/or baffling at times.

I think the club desperately wanted it to work out for him, i did too but alas it hasn't and probably was never going to.

I wish him well, i've had a fair bit of personal involvement with him over the years, he's a lovely guy and an absolute RL nut but unfortunately it hasn't worked out, we had no choice really, the fanbase was shrinking dramatically and the ones who were becoming toxic towards the club.

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

2 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

 

Big budget, full backing and had loads of time 

Not really surprising 

[johnh1]

2 hours ago, Wollo Wollo Wayoo said:

Surprised he's lasted so long this season.  Rowley to Leeds and Watson back to his beloved Salford maybe.

What makes you think that Salford want him back? I don't.

[Barry Badrinath]

53 minutes ago, Zilla Budgie said:

Be at least 6K on. North Stand is sold out and that holds 3500.

Sorry I thought it was at Huddersfield 

[LeeF]

2 hours ago, OMEGA said:

Watson can’t have any complaints, he’s had the backing of the board, money, staff, facilities and he inherited a decent squad. His tenure has been marked by strange decisions, none more so than choosing Jake Bibby over Jake Wardle and pushing the best English Centre in the game, a home grown player out of the club. Matty English is another who would run his blood to water, another home grown player whom Watson seems intent on forcing from the club and there are many others, including the Senior twins and Owen Trout.

The terrible style of play and unacceptable results throughout his 3 years and an inability to recruit top class players left the club with little choice

Apart from that what did he do wrong?