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" What has happened is that Scott has decided to stay at Colchester United and fight for his first team place, which is his priority to do if he wants to do that. That is what he has decided to do so we have to respect that and get on with our search for trying to bring other players in, it is as simple as that you know. It is disappointing obviously because we thought that it was very close to being done but he has decided to do that.
" Ben (Williams) going might still be an ongoing thing but from our point of view Scott Vernon decided to stay at Colchester, so we will have to see what happens with the Ben situation now. I would think that there is a chance that he might still go, that is the thing with transfers, they are never dead until they are dead. Once we have got a player saying that though then obviously it is pointless us pursuing it any further. So with the Ben situation that could change, it could still happen.
" With the Scott Vernon thing and things like that, we always have people, we do our work through the winter and we always have targets. So you just can't sit down when we lose out on a player and think where do we go now? We will be pressing for that and then if that one falls through then we try to go somewhere else. So it is typical in football, one minute something is happening and the next nothing is happening.
" There is no update on a new goalkeeper as far as I know, I have only just popped in, I have come back to the office. Greg was teeing off straight away so we haven't had a great deal of time to discuss that. We have got this player in mind though and it is positives that we are getting, but there again things can change rapidly.
" This is why I thought that I would come back in the office and do a bit of phoning around and finding out what is happening and things like that. There is a lot of movement and clubs looking for players and there are a lot of phone calls going on, which we are always doing anyway, but so are a number of other clubs. We are hopeful that in the next week that we should have it all sorted out though, hopefully anyway. "
" You want to get them in as soon as you can because it is important that they get into the club, that they get to know the players and that they spend as much time with us as possible before we start the season. It has been very good in pre-season so far, the players have come back, they had a programme which they took away with them, have a couple of weeks break but then get on the programme.
" Everyone has come back and they have obviously stuck to that programme. The heat was horrendous in the first two days and they were very good, they looked very good, it is a problem though when it is that hot and humid. Most people are just walking about in it, or even sitting in it in the back garden and it can be awful.
" They have come back and they have worked very hard though, but we have had to be careful, you have to be careful when it is that hot but so far we have been very pleased with the attitude of the players. Obviously they have stuck to that regime as well that we gave them before they went away.
" It is up to Danny (Graham) to see if he can step up to the Championship now isn't it. He has got a very good move, I was at Watford many years ago and I know the club very well when Graham Taylor was there, and it is a good club. It has obviously progressed since then, it has the potential to be a bigger club, they have been in the Premiership not long ago.
" So Danny has got the chance now to play at that level and who knows if he continues scoring his goals? Of course we wish him all the best, because he got us some good goals for us here, but that is the thing when you are in a football club like ours. Players do move on and if they do very well at Carlisle, that is what we try to say to players, if you could join Carlisle and clubs like that then if you start doing the business on the football field then it is going to be hard to hold onto you.
" Obviously if players do move on though, then it has got to be right for the football club. Danny's contract had run out though and he decided that he wanted to move on and we can't stand in the boy's way. We wish him all the best and it will be interesting to see how he goes, obviously he might find it a little bit difficult at first at that extra step up. There is no reason though why he shouldn't continue getting the goals for Watford. "