When we had him in season 2010/11 he and Anthony Gerrard formed a great centre back pair. Sadly injury has now taken over Ayala's career. He needs a solid season somewhere to get him going again. A season loan at say Forest may be what he needs. Just hope that his injury woes are behind him now. Super player when fit.
Odds tonight 9/4 on both Hull Win and draw, Norwich win evens. Personally I think all we have to do tonight is turn up, we've already won.
Thanks guys. We all expect great things from him if and when he is injury free and gets to play regularly. The current debate amongst us fans is whether a season at Forest, where he would likely be a first choice CB, is what he needs, or whether he should stay and compete for first team selection here. Trouble is we've seen so little of him, and he's never had any sort of run in the side. It's a punt on his classy but unproven (in the PL) potential against a less classy but more experienced alternative. Fortunately it's Hughton's call, not ours! Hope Steve Bruce does well for you. We had great times when he played for us. Nice guy, but yet to convince as a manager.
It looks like Hughton has made up his mind, Ayala just went to Forest. I'd have Turner as one of the first names on the team sheet.
Anyone have any ideas about the teams yet? I fancy a flutter on the Tigers but I wanna know the teams first.
#hcafc starting line-up: Amos, Rosenior, Dudgeon, Chester, Faye, McKenna, Cairney, Aluko, Koren, Mclean, Proschwitz #hcafc subs: Jakupovic, Stewart, Simpson, Fryatt, McShane, Devitt, East, Townsend Norwich starting line-up: Ruddy, R Martin, Turner, Johnson, Holt, Pilkington, E Bennett, Tierney, Howson, Snodgrass, R Bennett #hcafc Norwich subs: Rudd, Morison, Vaughan, Jackson, Surman, Martin, Lappin, Barnett. Francomb #hcafc
Norwich team: Ruddy, R. Martin, R. Bennett, Turner, Tierney, E. Bennett, Howson, Johnson, Pilkington, Snodgrass, Holt [Edit] Oops! Beat me to it!
Nice to see Rosenior back, just hope it wasn't rushed, and it looks like Stewart is out of favour already!
I see he's left junior out all together. He knows he'll be out of his depth. ****ing ridiculous signing!
Will it be a 4411 with Koren in the hole or 442 with Macca up top with Nick and Koren on the wing, Cairney is too slow for the wing, I wonder
Listening to occasional snippets of the game on RH with the one dimensional Matt Dean commentating, the match sounds a very tepid affair - crowd noise doesn't suggest there's a lot there, like me many haven't bothered to turn up.
