holt-falkirk connection in work already? don't know much about him either but he's played a hell of a lot of football for someone so young and if swansea are in for him he must have talent. keeping olsson is obviously a bonus but bringing in a younger left back, if the fee is right, wouldn't be a bad idea as i don't really rate garrido, certainly don't see him as a long term option, and chances are olsson will be off either now, january or at the end of the season if we don't go up.
Fantastic bit of business for the club, and I really think Adams has pulled off a good deal here. Also gives the whole team that much more flexibility - we were just too obvious when Snoddy played for us. Not unhappy at all by this, and I think Adams now has the opportunity to have the ear of the changing room and instill a style that is not hamstrung by playing to Snoddy's strengths, which any Manager in the league worth his salt would have picked apart all too quickly. We need teams to look at us and think, what on earth are they going to do us today?
good points china. it wasn't just a lack of pace which made me think we'd be better off offloading snodgrass. lets not forget that he was always the target for every long ball we played, especially from ruddy. our game will automatically alter without him being there. he's been a very good signing for us, we can have few complaints about his time at the club, but i feel it was right for him to leave.
Kingsley is interesting, it seems like Swansea have all but signed him for £350,000, rising to £800,000. If we could get in on that I'd be happy! He also won't count towards 25 man squads for a couple of seasons yet.
perhaps i'm losing my marbles, but i don't think there are any restrictions, squad-wise, outside the premier league.
No, I don't think there is either. I was more thinking long-term should we get promoted. I think he's still got 3 more seasons until he'd count.
I agree that it looks like Adams is looking for pace and a more varied attack, which is excellent. Sometimes breaking quickly, at others using pace to get behind the defence and cut balls back to the strikers. Pace worries defenders, and we haven't had enough of that.
Many thanks, but It was only a reaction to what I think has been obvious all along in that we were too bloody obvious all season and the sale of Snoddy I think lays down Adams' intent to shift the focus to the team and to flexibility within. I'm actually more intrigued about the new season with Snoddy out of the picture, as one, the youth can flourish, two, VWW might blossom (I do think some took a look at him when he arrived and were slightly annoyed with the marketing that went into him, to the detriment of the players all round and to VWW) and finally to the paying public to get some unadulterated joy from madly joyous wins where strikers bag hat-tricks and OTBC tings out loud and true and perchance, we sing the manager's name again!
i actually think there is the possibility that rvw and snodgrass didn't get along. certainly the penalty against villa will have been a major issue but i never got the feeling there was any chemistry between them and the number of 'scowls' both player directed at each other as the season wore on was quite telling. no evidence for this but i wouldn't be surprised. also funny how rvw tweeted about how happy he was to be back at norwich the day the snodgrass news broke. maybe i'm putting two and two together...
I dunno Supers, I remember watching the Villa penno debacle, thinking wtf is Snoddy taking this for. Can't remember a pass from one to the other for the rest of the season. Two and two make four, but sometimes you can choke the numbers to spit out 5.
I guess we'll never know the truth of that!!!! I sit just behind the N&P goal and on more than one occasion, I saw RvW in line with the last defender and asking for Snoddy to play the ball into the space in front of the defence (as Jackson did with Fox on several occasions in the Championship last time), but no, Snoddy had to 'walk the ball into the area'!!!!
just seen Lafferty confirmed too. Interesting options. A big foil for Grabbon and VWW if we choose to play 4 3 3
I am in no doubt at all that there was no love lost between the two. Snoddy is a very forceful character whereas RvS is a much more placid person. I hate to say this but I believe Snoddys exit is very much in the best interests of the club's progress this season. I fully expect Ricky to have a major impact on our performances should he stay.
I also like China's emphasis on the opposition not knowing what to expect when they play City. When you look at the striker options now it's hard to tell what formations might be used. RvW and Hooper are central strikers but they can also create movement by drifting wider. Lafferty and Grabban can both play that way as well, but they can also play as wide forwards in a 4-3-3 with either Tettey or Johnson as DM and Howson and Fer supporting the strikers. We still don't know who will stay, but whatever happens the football looks to be far more attacking. http://www.canaries.co.uk/news/article/20140627-kyle-lafferty-quotes-1696950.aspx?
