http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/9318402.Watford_looking_to_send_goalkeeper_out_on_loan/? give him 2 games drop him then farm him out on loan ! interesting man management!
I have a feeling that he put him in the first team to get a response, he didn't look that sharp so is sending him out to get that match-sharpness! 'Keeper is a role you have to hit the ground running!
Besides the lack of goals from our strikers, the GK position is a worry for me. SL has never got the form back he did have and RG I don't think has been give a fair crack of the whip, yes GK's have to hit the road running but that is difficult when you don't get game time. The lack of games as in the no reserve fixtures and the 5 man sub bench have really affected us and the rest of the FL, you just cannot afford to have too many if any kids on the bench and then again where do they get their game time!!!!
I never really liked him anyway. But that is the way it goes with alot of keeperes, 2nd choice unhappy with no action, moves or goes on loan and then 3rd choice steps in his shoes and then replaces 1st choice. it happed with Loach.
If I was Gillmartin I would have asked firmly to go out on loan after winning a place in the 1st team and not being given a proper run. I would be really pi@##*d tbh whether he is good enough or not is another matter.
This is crazy.........I just cannot understand this! This is now managerial inexperience beginning to rear its ugly head, I kinda knew this was going to happen but I didn't know it was gonna happen soooo quick
I may be alone on this but I think it's a good idea. How often does the keeper get injured these days. As long as we have a 3rd choice on the bench we may as well send out the 2nd choice for some real experience. We send the outfield youngsters on loan so why not the keeper. If all else fails I nominate Lloyd for keeper duty!!!
In my opinion SD doesn't know which way to turn. He appears to make decisions which I for one do not understand. If he decided to drop Loach he should 've at least given Gilmartin a fair chance,then to drop him and to rub salt in the wound by saying he needs game time and will look at sending him out on loan beggars belief-what does that do for the lads confidence. Bad man management
I'm with you Sandy. Rene Gilmartin is currently our second choice keeper. With Bond and Bonham waiting in the wings I don't know how long that'll be the case for, but to me it's good that the two keepers we are realistically picking between are both playing regularly. I take Norway's point that this does not look like good man management on the surface, but whether by accident or design I think the right result has been reached.
Certainly looks odd with RG just getting into the team but Southampton was a baptism of fire. I can understand and agree with the logic Sandy proposes though
One other possibility springs to mind - selecting him for two games was a shop window exercise. I'm more inclined to think that, during the two game 'run' that he had, SD saw some potential to justify keeping him, but recognises that he needs more game time which at the moment he can't promise. It's simply one of the problems facing managers - how to keep players match fit/motivated when you have a largish squad but only one avenue for competitive football. I wonder what will happen, for example, when McGinn is back in the frame and there is even more competition for a midfield spot. Something will have to give/someone will have to go - I wonder what/who?
Dunno if any of you listened to Alecs interview on the HP where he basically said that they would have liked to send Bond on loan at lowest to a Blue Square Premier side, but teams at those levels, aren't too keen to take a keeper on board who is that young, even though he's been called up to a full Welsh squad. If he does manage to get RG out on loan, does that mean that JB will play for us in the FA Cup?
