Ok, so it's the morning after the night before and how do we all feel right now? A lot of heated discussion yesterday and rightly so, a lot of name calling too. I appear to have fell out with a senior poster having been told to '**** off' and was labelled an idiot. I decided not to get into a slanging match as that does no good at all. I have already admitted on here before that I sometimes type and hit 'send' without thinking, but my stance on Chris Hughton remains the same and he should be relieved of his duties with immediate effect. I have fallen out with RBF, Superman and Longsight in the past and probably others without knowing. Look, I'm sorry I'm just a passionate fan who, believe it or not, really does want the best for NCFC and my personal opinion is that we would be better to get a new man in now before it's too late. I may even have fell out with Dave now as I remarked yesterday that he seemed more concerned with his twitter following while we were being humiliated at The Etihad. I may not be able to express my views as eloquently as Carrabuh, who had Hughton sussed even before I did, but I believe that his views on him, his management style and the way he sets up his teams to play are similar to mine. Hughton has won just 12 out of 48 Premier League games, drawing 16 and losing 20. But that doesn't really tell the whole story as in the last 31 games he has won only 6. Now you tell me, what other top flight manager would still be in a job today with a record like that? Notwithstanding all of this, during his tenure we have had to suffer the ignominy of being the first Premier League club to lose to a non-league team in The FA Cup, at home to boot and yesterday his team loses 7-0 to Manchester City our worst result since 1938. I fear that once West Ham score their first goal next weekend the atmosphere will start to turn rather nasty and poisoness and should City end up losing said game, Carrow Road will not be a pleasant place to be. Remember, Brian Gunn was, still is, a City legend but on that fateful day against Colchester he was abused by those two muppets who threw their season tickets at him. Worthington also left under a dark cloud because the board failed to act quickly enough and as much as I want Hughton to go, I would not wish any vitriol or abuse on him because he is a nice genuine fella but simply not right for our club right now in my opinion. Worthington's last game against the claret and blue of Burnley was shown 'live' on television, the game against the claret and blue of West Ham is scheduled for live transmission on Sky next Saturday evening, could this possibly be lightening striking twice? I can't believe for one minute that McNally does not have a hit list when it eventually does come down to replacing the manager. We have some good people at the club and perhaps elevating Neil Adams and Ricky Martin to caretakers while the new permanent boss is put in place might not be such a bad idea. OTBC CTI
Firstly Kio, that twitter followers is automatically generated, I didn't do it, second, I haven't fallen out with you but I am on the other side of the fence from you, therefore when you overdo the Hughton out spouting, I will argue with you! Unfortunately, it now seems that the vocal outers have had their desired effect and ground the manager and players down to a position that is almost too far to come back from! I'm very much afraid that your side has pretty much forced DM's hand then we will all see that a new manager was NOT the answer after all, but it will be too late! OTBC
Your right, could well be too late, should have been done last season. I wonder what would happen if he's replaced and we improve immensely, show a little positivity Dave instead of this desire for "I told you so" at the expense of the club.
That is completely impossible to categorically say for certain - or even guess at, at the moment. It may however explain McNally's continued 'better the devil you know' philosophy. Plus the fact that we've had to face most of the perceived 'top eight' sides already this early in the season, so in theory, there should be some "easier" games to come?
I'm watching the goals at the moment on Goals On Sunday, because unlike certain people I tackle the problems head on rather then hide like a coward and pipe up when it seems right. Most of the players yesterday gave up after 3-0, now four of the goals yesterday were preventable we had some bad luck with people being offside and deflections etc but it was sloppy, we talk about Hughton but we lack leadership on the pitch, there wasn't a single situation yesterday when Martin and Bassong rallied the troops, actually there has barely been a single occasion this season they've done that, we lack the confidence and the direction on the pitch we need leaders! Saying we'll do this and that to Archant won't wash with me.
carrabuh and Cromer, I'm basing my stand on what alternatives are available atm, to be brutally honest, the thought of getting Pulis or McCleish or Hollowhead scare the living daylights out of me!
Agreed, frying pan < fire springs to mind. DM surely needs to look further afield as there's clearly good reasons why the three you've mentioned are clubless at the moment. Even thinking seriously about appointing any of them would be a retrograde step. Stick, rather than twist if those are the only valid options!
I fully expect it to be announced that he has gone tomorrow at some point and rightly so. He is tactically useless and for a so called defensive manager we look a complete shambles in that area of the pitch. Why are our players not pressing to get the ball back, he has them playing with 9 men behind the ball, none of them really marking just guarding their patch on the pitch, there is no pressure on the man with the ball, the opposition are allowed to pick as many passes as they wish before the simplest piece of movement splits us like a knife through butter. Now for the attack, if you can call how we play having one, our forwards so far this season have had a combined 6 shots on target, that is a staggering stat in 10 games of football, I honestly can not see where our next goal is coming from. If he is allowed to continue we are likely to end the season the lowest scorers and possibly the most conceded. Get shot of him now and give the new man a chance, Zola or Ole gunnar Solskjaar for me if either would come.
KIO has it right, does not matter how much you dominate the game if you can't score. Dominating a game does not get 3 points in any league.
to be honest, i'm getting to the point where I couldn't care less about the Hughton saga, sack him and string him up by his bollox, give him a contract for the next decade. I can see Hughton getting more out of the team and I can see a new manager getting us relegated or vice versa. Whatever the outcome for Norwich and their manager this season there'll be a huge dose of finger pointing. The only way out is to become a plastic manc, given I live in manchester and can just about pull off the accent, just undecided about red or blue.
Domination or not the strikers have still only had 6 shots on target and scored 1. 10 games in it is not an over reaction to say that's unacceptable! Bah!
Lucky bugger, I live in Nottingham so would be stuck with Forrest or county! Even with CH at the Helm I'm better off staying as I am Bah!
It's quality of chances that is important. Too many water carriers brought in and too many passers shown the door.
