Total and Utter Dross

I haven’t said anything for a while because I have been very busy but watching Norwich is so predictable every single game.

Try to keep it tight… fail.

Try to score goals… fail.

Try to pressurise the opposition… fail (to be fair I don’t think we have ever pressurised a team well this year, especially away from home).

Try to keep a shape… fail spectacularly as your style becomes predictable so the opposition know how to play around you and it is an absolute bore fest for any spectator to watch.

Over the past few years you would watch teams come to Carrow Road and think 'damn they are a poor side' – now I think that of us. Totally and utterly without ideas.

Pump goal kicks forwards towards Snodgrass – Why? He hardly wins a header and the people around him aren’t skilled enough to pick up any pieces in tight areas.

Knock any ball long and it doesn’t stick / try to put some passes together and that is beyond some players.

I know... we will win a game with a free kick or corner – that’s no good either as we are crap at them this year - that's even if we get into a position to win one!

Use the same formation over and over when it clearly does not work.

We are a poor team, a shadow of the team we once were and the only way will escape relegation is if there are three worse teams than us. At this moment in time, that is hard to believe.

The quality of football is atrocious. There appears to be no leadership anywhere on the pitch.

I go to games because I feel I should rather than with any excitement or anticipation. The heart has been ripped out of the club and despite many people's half glass full attitude our club has peaked and it looks like we are on a downward spiral.

In summary, I am fed up. I am sad. I am resigned to us being ****e for the foreseeable future.

However, I am still 'City till I die.'

 

Yep, and still we have to sit through this. The last 2 seasons have been F****** embarrassing, I feel ashamed to be a Norwich Supporter. Everyone takes the piss, everyone mocks and is laughing at us, because every one in the world apart from Chris Hughton knows our problems. Yet every depressing half arsed match is exactly the same! I can't watch anymore. I get so so angry, exactly the same mistakes, exactly the same style which never works. This guy is a thick as pig S*** and his skills as a manager are worse. Bring back Peter Grant! I was so overly sick of this last season. This seasons has been hell. So many teams owners have screwed up big style with fiddling with their team and managers, and yet they are still in touching distance of us and look better on the pitch.

 

Try supporting Hyde. Then I'd understand your anger. Chris Hughton is not a Premier League manager for nothing, and he did well at newcastle and birmingham. Admittedly, I don't watch Norwich every game, but for goodness sake, the persistent complaints of the fans seems ridiculous. Are you expecting to qualify for the champions league or something?

 

Yup, true. Shame we are suppose to be a Premier League club.

 

Well at least Hyde have scored 33 goals this season and have taken only one less point from their away games than us this season despite being rooted to the bottom of the Conference!

With regards to expecting Champions League Football that is tosh. It's about being proud of your team and club when they walk out onto the pitch and giving everything they have got for 90 minutes. I honestly think that many fans wouldn't mind languishing in such a precarious position if we had played with belief, style, effort and had gone down to an odd goal here or there. They might be disappointed to see us in that position but the situation we face now has led to many fans being fed up and expecting the worst before the game even starts. To make my point, Hull are a point better off than us but I doubt you would here much dissent from their fans.

I'm sure as a Hyde fan you will now what is a realistic expectation of your team. I don't profess to know much about Hyde but is it a team capable of Conference football or higher, in which case you have every reason to feel disappointed right now. However, if you are overachieving in comparison to the level of investment in the teams you are competing against, perhaps you have found your natural level between leagues.

With the fan base and finances Norwich have, our natural long term position is yo-yoing between the Premier League and the Championship. I am not stupid enough to know we wont get relegated somewhere in the near future, perhaps even this year. What I do expect though, is to go down with a fight and know that the team who goes down is in a fantastic position to give it everything the following year. My own feeling is if we do go down this year, that we now have players who will not know how to scrap through the rigorous and never ending league that is the Championship as the heart and soul of the team is long gone.

 

In the recent past both Southampton and NCFC have achieved two promotions in successive years. Clearly this is where the similarity stops. Southampton are succeeding where I expected us to succeed this season. Why have they managed to comfortably sit in the top 10 where we are uncomfortably struggling in the bottom 10? Have they invested more money in players or have they developed a better style of playing or both? If they have invested more money why have we not been able to match their spending power? My gut feeling about Hughton not being sacked is that DM doesn't want to splash out on redundancy money.

 

Saints were taken over by money people, just one of their players cost £15M!