I've seen posters repeatedly banding the above or words of a similar sentiment these last few weeks. These comments irk me for two reasons, not least because it is IMO unfair on Hughton, but also he is not even our manager anymore and yet people still feel the need to keep going on about him. I simply cannot comprehend how anybody could come to such a grotesquely one-sided opinion on Hughton's tenure or even close to that sentiment. I would be interested to know exactly how Hughton has destroyed the club (as far as I am aware our club still exists and contrary to popular belief is actually in rude health). As far as I can tell Hughton kept us up in a difficult transition season and was firmly on course to do the same again. He is often accused of leading a team with no creativity with is a gross distortion of the truth; I hold the opinion that we played to at the very least a reasonable standard in a significant chunk of our games and were pretty unlucky not to have alot more points on the board. All the while Hughton was working with constant injuries to important first team players, a negative atmosphere due to lack of support from many fans, incompetent referees and never getting a rub of the green.
The King is dead ,Long live the King. Adams is in charge talking about Lambert or Howten will not change the present .
I find anyone who says he destroyed our club to be over dramatic. Sure ok he hasn't been our best manager, but he is far from being our worst too. It irks me too when people say McNally should take some of the blame as well. What blame? for sticking with the manager who kept us up last season and out off the bottom 3 most of this season.
Where would we be without all the hyperbole? At the end I agree that Hughton had taken a lot of the passion out of the club and he never really fitted the mould that many wanted to see but those that have said he ruined us (and I remember someone saying "He has undone all the good work of the past 5 years") is simply ridiculous. He kept us up last season but couldn't push us on further, simple as that. If we go down we will continue to exist and in a very healthy position where we aren't relying on the pay outs from the Premier League because we are debt free. Many didn't like his approach, me included, but there's no need to over exaggerate the situation. Lets just look forward to these last 3 games and hope the players can scrape themselves out of this mess.
Everybody has played a part in the current situation the club see's itself, I'd say at least one third of Norwich fan's didn't want Hughton to start with but I think a lot of that was down to what happened with the post Lambert fallout and following comment's from a certain player. I can't ignore the brand of football I saw which at times was abysmal we were never strong in any particular area with the exception of our defence which on occasions crumbled against higher end teams, in most of the game's I've seen us under Hughton to some degree we've looked lost and hesitant, we were always nervy looking, he didn't fit the club properly. The players have been woeful most of the time, pedestrian, nervy, frantic, all over the place, we definitely lacked a leader out on the pitch Martin and Bassong are not leadership material. The Board didn't call it quick enough, it should of happened back in January and I don't think we really had a Plan B. I think a lot of people are hang out McNally to dry after this but If the worst thing happens and we go down and rather have no-one else leading this club. The fan's have pissed me off something chronic when we were first in this league there was a good atmosphere about the club the fan's made some noise, gradually over the years the fan base has changed dramatically practically over night long gone are the people signing in the stands of some random rain swept Northern ground on a Tuesday night, they've been replaced with machine's, f**king bores in my opinion who sit there for 90 minutes and don't do anything, the attitude being I'll sing and support the team when I feel like I'm being entertained, people like that can f**k off and support Manchester City if that's how they feel. Stoke used to play awful football under Pulis but they support their club no matter matter what, no club liked to go to the Britannia because of the atmosphere. We're entitled to our opinions after the game but for those 90 minutes they are on the pitch we need to be with the players, we haven't had that properly for a while.
For defiance in the face of adversity, I'd give it to them three, they could almost fit in with us for their never say die **** off attitude.
If we stay up, Hughton did nothing that a good pre-season can't sort out. Our problem in the games that you say we played ok in was our ability to truly break teams down, we could get too the final third a lot and look pretty in control in midfield but our slow build up allowed the defence to organise and set themselves meaning that we needed creativity to get through to create goal scoring opportunities largely what we'd do is probe down the wings, give up and pass it across to try the other one then eventually have a shot from outside the box. We broke slowly because players were thinking about turning the ball over then defensive duties. The more our lack of goal scoring continued the more we lost confidence.
I am afraid to say but it appears that the change of manager should have happened earlier. I am still confident of survival though.
With regards to the "difficult transition", it wasn't difficult, he managed it very easily. We turned into exactly what he set out to do.
And yet you decide to write an article about him. He's gone, forget about him. I'm doing my absolute best not to write a massive article about why he was so bad just to get two years of his vile negativity out of me.
Go on, write it! Might make you a happy, light hearted individual after getting it all off your chest
