Getting ready for Zava’s entrance into the team, Roy discusses with Ted and Beard who to drop in favour of Zava whether it be Jamie, Dani, or Colin. No definitive solution is agreed. Later, Roy offers to help Keeley in her work with an ad shoot with some Richmond players. He is put off by Shandy who is there with Keeley, who asks Roy why he broke up with Keeley. Roy asks Keeley why she works with Sandy and also remembers Shandy used to eat her hair. Keeley and Roy are discussing about the possibility of him accepting the pundit job on Sky Sports television channel as a part of Gillette Soccer Saturday panelist. Roy refuses as he hates those panelists. At a dinner with Keeley, Rebecca, and her boyfriend John Wingsnight, Roy doesn't want to talk about him being a pundit on Sky Sports or his past career choices. Rebecca asks what they think about her new boyfriend, and Roy thinks that John is boring and fine, so he makes a passionate plea to Rebecca that she deserves more than someone “fine” to be with. As Richmond prepares for the new season, Roy goes over a coaching system with Ted and Coach Beard. He recommends the 4 - 4 - 2 formation as Richmond players will have used that formation since they were children. This is good news for Ted who has also heard of this formation from his time with Henry and playing FIFA. Later, Roy joins Ted and the team down to the sewers where Ted teaches the players a lesson of how to deal with other people’s problems. Later, news gets out of Richmond’s players going to the sewers and they begin to discuss how fans are reacting to that. Ted begins to talk to the players, but Roy stops him as Jamie settles the situation. Three months later, Roy asks Keeley to go on vacation but she refuses, citing her new work as the head of her own PR firm. Roy asks whether they are breaking up, which surprises her. She assures him that they are not breaking up, she is just busy that is all. Roy seems unsettled about the whole thing. Before Richmond’s game with Wolves, Roy goes over the plan with the players which is to pass the ball to Zava wherever possible. With this tactic, Richmond go on a win streak and move up to third in the league. To celebrate this occasion, Roy and the other players and those who work at Richmond are invited by Sam to his restaurant to eat. While there, Roy talks with Jamie about his attitude since Zava arrived at the club. In response to Jamie feeling not as good as Zava, Roy says he can train Jamie to be better and tells him to meet him at 4am the next day. [2] From Arlo White's cheat sheet ( Man City match): [ ]

At the office, Nate confesses to Roy that he kissed Keeley while they were shopping together. It kind of angers Nate that Roy forgives him and doesn't consider him as a threat to their relationship.

Ted corrects him that he's actually a football coach, but Hus thinks it's similar anyway, and tells a story about his own relationship with his father, and how he was supposed to be a surgeon, but he'd rather be a cook and make Kebab. The point that Hus is making is do whatever it is that makes you happy.

In the next match against Sheffield Wednesday AFC, Isaac is doing a fun warm-up handshakes with his fellow teammates and coaches. It prompts Chris Kamara to comment that it's nice to see Isaac's smile which makes Roy abruptly leave the panel and run off to the Nelson Road Stadium to accept the coaching position. Isaac sees Roy enter the stadium and hear the crowds' chant, welcoming him while the new coach takes a stand beside the coach team. Roy is allergic to impure metals, therefore he does not use whistles during his time as assistant coach. Instead, he shouts whistle in place for a whistle.Roy is always angry or at least has a permanent scowl on his face. Instead of talking, he would grunt or yell at someone. But deep down inside, he is actually very nice and vulnerable which Ted, Keeley, and Phoebe notices. Roy sees Nate being bullied by Jamie and his cronies, Isaac McAdoo and Colin Hughes, so he asks the coaches to stop it, but Ted declines citing that it would make everything worse. Ted also wants to develop Roy into a proper leader, including encouraging the captain to sort out issues of teasing and misbehaving among the players. During the 10th Annual Benefit for Underprivileged Children, Nate is thankful to Roy for defending him against bullies, and goes to hug the captain which makes both men uncomfortable. Keeley admits that Jamie confessed that he still in love with her. Roy is angry and confronts Jamie at the club, but before he could do anything to him, Jamie apologizes and realize that what he said to Keeley was inappropriate, which makes Roy angrier because he can't do anything so he leaves.