Joe Garner
Joseph Alan "Joe" Garner ( born April 12, 1988 in Blackburn) is an English football player who is under contract with Watford FC since 2011.
Sports career
Joe Garner began his professional career in his home town of Blackburn at Blackburn Rovers, for whom he had played in his youth. In the team of coach Mark Hughes but Garner had it hard to compete against such well-known competitors such as Benni McCarthy, Shabani Nonda and Jason Roberts.
Therefore Garner joined in January 2007 initially on loan to Carlisle United in the third highest English league, the Football League One, and came up with five goals in 18 games. After the season he joined in August 2007 for a club record fee of internal £ 140,000 on a firm basis the " Cumbrians " to. The year 2007/ 08 began very successful for him and he scored 14 goals in 31 league games. In February 2008, he retired against Derby County cruciate ligament injury, which he did. Saisonausfiel for the rest of the His teammates, meanwhile, closed the season as the fourth- off and failed in the semifinals of the Ascension Play-offs at Leeds United.
Joe Garner denied the season 2008/ 09 but in the second highest English league after in July 2008, the second division promoted Nottingham Forest paid the uncommitted transfer fee of £ 1,140,000. He signed a contract until 2012, denied in the first season, 28 league games, scoring seven goals. Nottingham secured only at the penultimate round in the league. In season break Nottingham undertook with Dexter Blackstock, Dele Adebola and David McGoldrick three new striker, so that Garner began the season in the unfamiliar position for him in the right side of midfield, a place to he lost in November, and then only rarely was used. His two goals this season, he scored only at the end of the season, as he stood twice as a striker in the starting lineup. In the subsequent semi-final of the Ascension Play-offs against FC Blackpool he did not play.
In July 2010, Garner signed a temporary six-month loan contract at third division Huddersfield Town. At the end of the lending agreement, he moved on 31 January 2011 to the end of the season to Scunthorpe United.
On 31 August 2011, he joined the second division rivals Watford FC and signed a two-year contract.