Listen to this and put a smile back on yer face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp5kCdR35M <OK> Sent from my Sony Xperia Z1
If only we could get that feeling back instead of watching a team who only sees being 4th bottom in the Prem as success now.
Adams sums it up for me at the end. You never give up, you never ever give up! Just keep going forward. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end listening to that. I'm not hankering for Lambert but wow he knew how to get them going didn't he? Awesome, simply awesome.
And I´m certainly not trying to degrade what he did here, but it´s an awful lot easier to get them going, as you put it, when the team are on a roll, and has as much forward momentum as we did then, than it is when they´re not, as he´s found out, since leaving.
Oh, still trying to keep my pecker up surgeryman, thanks, but sometimes the Hughton witch-hunt does make it a bit tough.
Not a dig at Hughton RBF or about our current situation. I actually would like him to succeed. Just reflecting on good times gone by, it was the best time and Carrow Road was buzzing, a real cauldron! You could feel it eminating from the ground. I swear it was a tangeable feeling as you walked towards Carrow road. People were singing and chanting even before kick off some games.
I don't think there is anyone who would not have wanted him not to succeed RBF but his record has to be questioned for me. His style of football is awful for me with the focus on inverted wingers creating chances and nothing else. Our approach play is laboured and slumbering allowing teams back to defend, which we cannot break down. The game consists of getting it to the wingers who either fail to deliver a quality ball or fall over. Alternatively they get into a good position and look up to see no one there as they are still defending the half way line. So they therefore check back, pass backwards and it goes to the other side by which time the opposition are back in numbers saying break us down. We are poor defensively also, yes injuries have not helped but I do not think the system will help with them returning. We are like Spurs when AVB was in charge but they had better quality players. Levy did not waste time and they have picked up under an inexperienced manager. I respect any others views but for me watching dire football, seeing thrashings like Man City and Liverpool, no shows at Spurs, Hull, Newcastle, Fulham ...etc gives me no faith in him and we have gone backwards. The now show this week at Fulham was appalling and how he has survived again is beyond me. Also worrying that quality players are turning us down so the only option seems to be his ex players. For me he has to go at some stage but tomorrow I will be there supporting the team as we need the points. The only thing that can save him and get fans back on side is him simply winning games. I hope he can do it but his record indicates that is unlikely.
I don´t disagree they were great times K E M P, just pointing out that the conditions are entirely different now.
Don´t disagree with much of what you say surgeryman, but can only repeat what I have said on other threads, that on many occasions, the players are as much to blame as CH is. As you say, players who can´t put in a decent cross, and who fall over at the slightest provocation, can hardly be laid at Hughton´s door, and nor can the fact that players who last year performed admirably under Hughton, this year have gone stunningly missing. Hoping things seriously improve, and quickly.
I qualify as deeply worried rather than CH out. But answer me this, why when he was announced as the new manager did I instinctively, buttock clenching, scream oh f---k'!!!'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember when I found out we'd appointed him. I was in an internet cafe on holiday in Bali and I punched the air and shouted a big 'Yes!'. Everybody turned around and looked at me nervously, wondering who this psycho was at one of the computers. Ironic that I've spent most of the time since arguing he should go. I genuinely thought we'd got the best deal out of all those teams who changed managers round about that time. As usual, I was wrong. Now I think he's going to relegate us. Let's hope I maintain my record and I'm wrong again.
and one other point that has relation to this discussion, surgeryman. We know the players are low on confidence at the moment, but if they´re really so mentally frail that they need reminding how wonderful they are each week before they´ll go out and perform, then there´s something wrong somewhere. I know, because I had 30+ years in a profession where I also had to perform for an audience of paying customers, several times every week, and although it´s nice to be told how brilliant you are, without a good dose of inner strength and belief as well, you´re not going to play to your potential. There are definite parallels to be drawn between the two jobs, they´ve got a manager leading them, while we had a conductor leading us, but if we didn´t do our bit of it, then any amount of arm waving wouldn´t stop the audience leaving at the interval, and not come back. And while I don´t in any way advocate that the stadium should empty out at half-time, if we happen to be one down, it would certainly make them stand up and take notice.
