Max Watters

[Donnybax]

Sold to Cardiff

[Spud]

Great move for him, see how he gets on.

[sha66y]

Around a Million......ifs buts and maybe’s
I think we should have developed him by sending out on a seasons loan...but eh,ohh...

[TheDonnyPop]

Makes you wonder if he has Mckay connections. Think he took his 2 sons there?

[drfchound]

Around a Million......ifs buts and maybe’s
I think we should have developed him by sending out on a seasons loan...but eh,ohh...

You appear to have picked up the forum trait shaggy.......hindsight that is.

[since-1969]

Around a Million......ifs buts and maybe’s
I think we should have developed him by sending out on a seasons loan...but eh,ohh...

It’s certainly one that was allowed to escape !!

[dickos1]

Odd that someone with that amount of potential and we couldn’t spot it

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Odd that someone with that amount of potential and we couldn’t spot it

Odd that he also didn't perform on loan...  Sometimes players fit somewhere and something clicks.

[dickos1]

I don’t know if he performed out on loan to be honest.
But if we’ve a player that’s good enough to play championship football within 7/8 months and you’re seeing him train everyday I’d have thought he would stand out and definitely worth keeping hold of

[redarmy82]

I don’t know if he performed out on loan to be honest.
But if we’ve a player that’s good enough to play championship football within 7/8 months and you’re seeing him train everyday I’d have thought he would stand out and definitely worth keeping hold of

This

[Padge_DRFC]

Really really poor decision the fact many as it happened thought it and not just now he's gone to cardiff for a million quid says it all. Can't even blame our club policy of improving other teams players as he was probably on next to nothing wages wise at the time.

[RobTheRover]

To be fair, I don't recall too many bemoaning him not getting first team opportunities with us when he was here.

[dickos1]

To be fair Rob we don’t see him everyday in training there’d be no reason for supporters to call for him to be getting more games.

[Glyn_Wigley]

I don’t know if he performed out on loan to be honest.
But if we’ve a player that’s good enough to play championship football within 7/8 months and you’re seeing him train everyday I’d have thought he would stand out and definitely worth keeping hold of

He'd stand out in a squad of players that weren't good enough for Championship football. Do you really think that little of the Rovers squad?

[mushRTID]

I think we’ve just made a mistake, it happens.

[Filo]

I don’t know if he performed out on loan to be honest.
But if we’ve a player that’s good enough to play championship football within 7/8 months and you’re seeing him train everyday I’d have thought he would stand out and definitely worth keeping hold of

How do you know he’s good enough to play Championship Football, given he’s never played at that level?

[Glyn_Wigley]

I think we’ve just made a mistake, it happens.

Who's to say that Cardiff haven't made a mistake too and he doesn't make the grade there like he didn't here?

[andyst79]

Mourinho let DeBruyne & Salah go at Chelsea it happens to the best

[Spud]

I bet the "Fejiri Okenabihrie" thread is going mad on the Shrewsbury forum.

[vaya]

Mourinho let DeBruyne & Salah go at Chelsea it happens to the best

Blades repeatedly letting Sharp go and buying him back always springs to mind as well.

[andyst79]

I bet the "Fejiri Okenabihrie" thread is going mad on the Shrewsbury forum.

What's Mandeville doing these days? Didn't we have a season long thread last year with someone wetting themselves that we'd let him go ?!

[Michael Gibson]

Sell whiteman for barely 1.5 let waters go for nothing.... says it all I’m afraid,

[mushRTID]

I think we’ve just made a mistake, it happens.

Who's to say that Cardiff haven't made a mistake too and he doesn't make the grade there like he didn't here?

Yes it is a possibility that Cardiff have made a mistake

[Chris Black come back]

Odd that someone with that amount of potential and we couldn’t spot it

Odd that he also didn't perform on loan...  Sometimes players fit somewhere and something clicks.

If he makes it, then great for the lad. He has scored pretty much a goal a game in League Two. We sent him out on loan to Grantham Town and Mickleover Sports in the Northern Premier and Madistone United in the National South. He managed less than 1 in 6. Maybe he needed something different and Crawley gave him this.

[Chris Black come back]

Mourinho let DeBruyne & Salah go at Chelsea it happens to the best

Blades repeatedly letting Sharp go and buying him back always springs to mind as well.

Twice. They had to buy him back in both 2007 and 2015.

[steve@dcfd]

I watched Max in U23 games he had potential but did not stand out. He lacked self confidence for and allowed games to pass him by. He did not impose himself on games. The best game he had was  against Aston Villa in the premier league cup but in that game he had three good trialist  playing with him in the front four. He was released because we weren’t having a U23 team this season, may be we should have kept and try loan him to a league two side. But his record may not have tempted a league two side to loan him. He was pick up by Crawley when he played against them when on trial for Maidstone. We will see what happens to him now at Cardiff will he play regularly, will his confidence increase or dip but good luck to him.

[dickos1]

I don’t know if he performed out on loan to be honest.
But if we’ve a player that’s good enough to play championship football within 7/8 months and you’re seeing him train everyday I’d have thought he would stand out and definitely worth keeping hold of

How do you know he’s good enough to play Championship Football, given he’s never played at that level?

You could say the same about whiteman
But championship teams have just spent a lot of money on them both

[dknward2]

Maybe he realised that this could be his last chance and has started to push on. He must take his chances at Cardiff and work harder than the other strikers they have if he want to be in the team

[CoppsChop]

I don’t know if he performed out on loan to be honest.
But if we’ve a player that’s good enough to play championship football within 7/8 months and you’re seeing him train everyday I’d have thought he would stand out and definitely worth keeping hold of

He didn’t.

He was one of many on the fringes who we would have kept had we not been decimated by this virus. Players, coaches and other staff who will go on to have good maybe great careers all found themselves out of work from us and other clubs through no fault of their own but could we realistically keep everyone?

Maybe being released triggered prompted him to find the mentality that was lacking before, and he has the confidence from scoring goals.

Liam mandeville did far more in the first team than max for us which just goes to show how hard it is to turn that early potential into a career. Good luck to the lad


good luck to him

[POD]

I only saw Watters play a couple of times off the bench for Rovers.   I thought that he had something about him at that time, but no more so than Mandeviile and Beestin who both showed great potential at L1/L2 level but couldn’t sustain it. 

Scoring regularly for Crawley and being able to do the same at Championship level are very different things and I think he may need a season or two to develop, possibly out on loan.

One other thing, I have a feeling that ‘struggling’ Cardiff will part company with Manager Neil Harris quite soon and it may turn out that this is his last signing.