Tommy Watson joins on season loan from Brighton - Official

[sm1]

Strange game, scored 2 cracking goals but overall I still wasn't too impressed with him. Gave the ball away alot and his crosses rarely found a city player.

[dmayne7]

Hopefully gives him some confidence. Still think tonight highlights just how far ahead Alves is

Edited 22 September by dmayne7

[moore_94]

Seems to have finally remembered he has to put some power on his shots

[CleudoG]

Think he’s just showing that he’s still young and raw. Has got something but seems better when he’s pushed inside or left unmarked outside the box. With a good defender tracking him down he beats them for pace but they catch up before he makes the right decision so it invariably goes out for a corner. And we don’t often score from those. Two good goals tonight might help his confidence. 

[South Shire Fox]

Clearly has something, not often Brighton get a signing wrong in recent years. Just very inexperienced and raw

[AKCJ]

Can we try to not forget Saturday before we heap praise on him for scoring against Fulham Under 21s (where all of the decent players are playing internationals).

[Tommy G]

19 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Can we try to not forget Saturday before we heap praise on him for scoring against Fulham Under 21s (where all of the decent players are playing internationals).

Can we try and be positive now and again 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

His technique of striking the ball is so bizarre. That goal he scored for Sunderland at Wembley was a genuine miracle

 

But also worth bearing in mind he's young enough to have been lining up for that Fulham side last night. 

[shilton_fox]

Pony

[Fish]

He’s shite. Not good enough to be paid to play football.

On 29/08/2026 at 14:29, CosbehFox said:

Making football complicated against one of the worst sides we’ve played for a very long time. Every shot bar a couple was with their defence in situ, very rarely got behind them by having second or third runners 

 

[Lambert09]

He’s a winger version of Luke Thomas 

[fox_favourite]

I think I have more powerful shots than him. Really disappointed with him, I had high hopes when he signed. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

7 hours ago, shilton_fox said:

Pony

Extremely fair. 

 

Pony as **** I'd say 

[HitchinFox]

Can't quite believe that he's made it this far in professional football without having the ability to make the correct decisions or execute what he's trying to do (manifested by not getting his shots off) in games. 

 

I'm sure he's brilliant in training. But get him in a real match situation, where he faces pressure from the opposition and has less time, he is incapable. 

 

Seen it so many times. Usually, guys like him get released way before this stage. 

 

 

[funkyrobot]

Grasped the opportunity to be on the bench on Saturday with two strong hands last night. Aimless balls into the box, weak shooting and didn’t worry his full back with any kind of aggressive take-ons. Alves guaranteed a start against the Posh. 

[Haywood_6]

His shots are weaker than a rich tea biscuit dipped in tea

[David Lowe]

Surely the scouts are just as culpable for all of this as the others. How can they  watch some of these players and think they are the answer?

[RowlattsFox]

Pretty inevitable that Brighton don't get many wrong but we find the one they did.

 

You just know he'll go somewhere next season and do well though. 

[MS0204]

18 minutes ago, David Lowe said:

Surely the scouts are just as culpable for all of this as the others. How can they  watch some of these players and think they are the answer?

The way this club has been run in the last few years, the scouts have been absolutely appalling. How they can look at the likes of Ayew, carranza and Bobby DR and think these are goal scoring machines I’ll never know. We know vardy would take a long time to replace and he still hasn’t, but to give Ayew the number 9 was one of many two fingers the club has put up to the fans in the last few seasons.. 

 

but back to the original topic, I don’t rate Watson at all. He’s weak and his shot power is non existent unless it’s against a bunch of school kids.. sack him off 

Edited Wednesday at 07:49 by MS0204

[HarryTheGenie]

He looks absolutely bereft of any confidence whatsoever. Like a strong breeze would blow him over.

[RowlattsFox]

You do forget he's still pretty young, we had to use the loan market wisely but the evidence so far is we haven't. We have just added other teams developing youngsters to our own. 

[Clogger_]

Made some good runs yesterday with no end product. Hope this changes quickly

[CrazyKopCorner]

He can't kick a ball. 

[RedSoxUK]

4 hours ago, David Lowe said:

Surely the scouts are just as culpable for all of this as the others. How can they  watch some of these players and think they are the answer?

Scouts??????????????

[lfu]

1 minute ago, RedSoxUK said:

Scouts??????????????

Scouts must be the name of the coffee shop in Brighton that Russell met the players he wanted to sign at