It's ridiculous, our fans are like lambs to slaughter sometimes, back around 2007/08 when we were in real trouble before the game I would observe the behaviour of fans outside the game and you could tell they had no idea what was going at the club, people just walked around in a day dream. I remember reading about our match day overheads being about the same as fairly big Premiership club and then when McNally comes in and adjusts prices people start complaining about the price of food going up! The family and community club thing really pisses me off, all football clubs have families supporting them, all clubs carry out work in the community, it's pompous and self righteous, we're no different to anyone else as far as I'm concerned.
Snodgrass should be kept at all costs. He scores goals, rallies his team-mates, has a much better end product than anyone we currently have and is passionate about being successful with Norwich. He will destroy the Championship. I wouldn't sell him for anything.
I wouldn't go that far, but if a bold statement is going to be made as to how we play then Snodgrass may need to go. I wouldn't personally because he is a guarantee for goals, as is Pilkington and Hooper. If we get those 3 firing we have a very good base. Of the 3 however, I think he will prevent us from developing a footballing culture because of how he thinks and plays. I'd still keep him though. NA has got a very tricky problem regaining an identity because most of the players are pretty bland.
Depends how much we want to create a 'culture' and how much we want to get promoted. Snodgrass is our most effective player. We can't not compete in the Championship with him in our squad.
If we keep Snodgrass, then I would like to see him actually cross the ball more, as opposed to trying to dribble his way past numerous defenders and score himself. He's had a good season and he's one player for whom we could get reasonable offers.
It's no point he, or anyone crossing the ball if there's no one in the box to get on the end of it, which was one of our main problems last season.
for me, our biggest stumbling block was the lack of speed to orchestrate attacks. we could have lived without a creative spark had we used pace out wide more often and played a few more balls over the top. i think becoming a bit more direct would have solved the goal issue. indeed we often played better when we had a target man (elmander) and others could feed off him. it was the attempt to play more intricately and therefore slowed our game down that lead to the ball failing to arrive in the box enough and when it did, it invariably lacked quality or our opponents had time to retrieve any situation. that was hughton trying to adapt our style and make us a little more pleasing on the eye, which bizarrely he did to a degree, but to the detriment (further) of our goals-for tally. lets play with pacey wingers and get the ball out of defence and midfield quicker. we'll soon start to see more goals even if we don't end up looking like barcelona
It was pretty infuriating watching Redmond, who has lightening pace, standing 5 yards over the half way line when there is 40 yards of space behind the defender! He would get the ball at his feet and be asked to run at the defender. That was easy to defend. Even if he beats 1, 2, 3 players, he is just getting into more congested areas and he didn't have much support. I can only think of maybe 3 or 4 times in the WHOLE OF LAST SEASON that the ball was played into the space behind the defence for Redmond to run on to. He needs to be told to move off the ball more and to pick up his head more. He has great control and pace but he needs to get his brain up to speed with it!
Our problems were midfield based too much dithering and sloppy passing, we had tons of possession in the final third but done nothing with the ball, where we got it wrong was not signing a playmaker or a creative attacking midfielder, we didn't have the brains to unlock defences it's as simple as that.
