Tony Watt

Best he has been was under Robinson for Motherwell. I doubt if any form he finds there will last though. Stupid move when he chased Utd move, when he’d finally found his rhythm

 

Me and a mate had a convo about his career last night, he’d met him a couple of times and said he was sound, normal, no arrogance or cockyness about him but had an absolute confusion about manager after manager criticising him.

Obviously that’s stupid but it got me thinking how weird a time that must have been and why a guy his age would be confused at the criticism. He didn’t come through club systems, he signed for Albion Rovers and then immediately got signed by the biggest team in the country after impressing straight away, scored 2 on his debut at 18 for us, then had 2 appearances in the CL that were extremely impressive and one * legendary.

Got loaned out to a different league and country, top scorer in that team as well. All the while getting told work harder, train, talent isn’t good enough make the most of it don’t be lazy. In 2 years or so, he went rapidly through different levels and always done well immediately, the criticism always seemed to be the tough love way. I wonder if he had a manager take a different approach, arm round the shoulder and encourage that professionalism into him positively reinforcing what he was doing well if it’d be a different story.

Him with a different mentality is a what if for us, because at that age breaking through he had everything to kick on to be a great here. He didn’t want it or really know how to do it.

 

Pretty sure it was Airdrie he came from.

From what I remember a lot of the criticism he got at the time was about not turning up for training on time and lack of effort when he did. Think there was even some suggestion he sometimes didn't turn up at all.

None of that is remotely connected to being professional, it's just the basics.

He had an opportunity for doing better, he decided it was too much to bother. All his choice really. Hasn't turned out too badly for him really.

 

It was Airdrie, * knows why I said Albion Rovers I knew that

Turning up late and not putting the required effort in is something I would say is textbook unprofessional, the guys that get praised for their professionalism and how serious they take the game like Calmac always get praised as first at training, last to leave, and works more than anycunt else and strives to improve.

Late and lazy is the opposite of that and then every time he stepped up a level on the pitch, he didn’t struggle, excelled even. Didn’t heed the warning every manager gave him about that not lasting. He had similar good starts at a lot of clubs as well, I think it was Charlton he ended up at once, looked amazing for 5 games or so. Then got dropped to get fit and train properly again. Weeks before was being praised like *. Daft as * boy clearly cos 4/5 managers in if we’re being generous as *, saying the same thing, you think the penny would drop into even the densest of heads

 

Comes across really well in that Warm Up podcast on YouTube. Seems to have matured a lot, enjoyed listening to him.

 

Get the feeling he’s hard to manage in all honesty I thought Hughes was wee bit distant from him due to managment fraternity …. Not once did he blame himself btw for what a * show career it’s been so far behaved like a ned for the first half of it


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Can't believe teams in the top league are still taking him on. Looked absolutely done any time I seen him last season.