Excellent article this: http://www.norwich.vitalfootball.co.uk/sitepage.asp?a=401216 Not sure I totally agree with everything said (like it being the best set of strikers) but I completely agree with the underlying point - Neil Adams' reign was doomed to fail because he wasn't good enough as a manager, but he got plenty right and so we have plenty to be grateful for.
That's a superb article, and I agree with every word. I've never wanted a Norwixh manager to be successful as much as I did Neeyull, and I was gutted that it didn't work out for him, but I also totally agree it was the right thing to do replacing him when we did - but I also recognise not everything he did was bad, and this piece outlines that superbly. I really hope he was at Wembley on Monday, he definitely deserves to have enjoyed the day with the rest of us fans, because he is a City fan at the end of the day.
I do hope he can be integrated back into the club this summer in some form, but I don't think it will happen. Would be a huge swallowing of pride to be given a lesser job than he had by his new successful replacement?
I could have sworn that McNally said that Neyul would be returning in the summer in a different role after he had taken some time off away from football ??
Yes I also saw that.....not sure how long his contract was but if the club are paying him anyway, then may as well use his skills. Did a great job with the yoof team. Always seems a genuine bloke, probably just too nice to be boss
We owe Adams a lot. He managed to prevent a total collapse after an awful season which suggested the only way we were heading was further down. The club looked in utter disarray and riven by internal conflict - just look at how we argued with each other so bitterly on here for at least a year. Adams managed to get us over that first hill - compare the starts Fulham and Cardiff made. And at times under him we looked pretty impressive, actually - similar to those 30 first-half minutes in the play off final. His problem was that he couldn't give us the defensive organisation and the mental steel to get through periods in games when we were on the backfoot and couldn't dominate. AN provided that missing piece of the jigsaw and woo-hoo!.
Agree totally Singapore. Superb on attack but clueless defensively. He must be allowed back into the club, he belongs there.
I think his most important role was to convince nearly all of our PL team to stay and try to get back up at the first time of asking. As someone said on another thread, I wonder how Fer and Snodgrass feel now (NO, I wouldn't want either back even in the squad). Let's not forget, he also signed Jerome who has plundered nearly as many goals as the mighty Murphy from down the A140 (none against Norwich though!!!).
Christ alive I'd have Snodgrass back in a flash. I thought he was one of the very few who gave us 100% under Hooot'n. His frustration at some of the squad and the style of play was evident right from the pre season friendlies...... Top bloke.
We're all entitled to our opinions, but maybe you didn't get to many home games to see how slow his play could be at times.
Deliciously ironic that the two (Snodgrass and Fer) who decided that the riches and glamour of playing in the premier league was far more important than helping lil' ol' Norwich back to their feet...now find themselves on the books of relegated clubs, while we are up, up and away. Two successive relegations on your C.Vs, Robert and Leroy No one will be rolling out the red carpet in your direction anytime soon
I dont know enough to comment really but my feelings are he was given a posion chalice no way could he turn around the negative CH era; listening to Russell Martins interview yesterday underlined how constrained the team was under CH and were not allowed to express themselves on the pitch, under the pressure of PL relagation that was a masssive ask to change. I really hope he is given a senior role in the youth set up and that he stays there forever he is a true gent and yellow and green to the core, he can feed some more Murphys through for us
Factor in what we paid for them and the loss we will undoubtedly incur IF we sell RvW and we haven't done too bad, I would say we've probably broke even
I think it reflects far worse on Fer than Snodders. Snods was always going to leave I feel, he was clearly our most effective player and would have been good for any Prem team. To get injured in the first match and be out for the whole season is seriously unlucky and I have nothing but sympathy for him on that side of things. Fer however was only here 1 season, didn't exactly set the world alight and clearly went to the team that offered the highest wages. QPR were always going to be the worst team this season, and Fer chose that.
I just do not get the love in for Snodgrass. He was/is a very good wide player, but very limited in being slow and one footed. All premiership defenders knew what he was most likely to do, ie cut inside onto his left foot. As an out and out left winger would he have been any better? His lack of pace says probably not. He is a very gifted player in many ways but at the upper league in the English leagu's he is always going to be an also ran.
