What's happened to us? We are so boring, I hope we score a goal at some point this season it's just so boring.
For a neutral I suppose it is a little boring, but as a fan it's still nail biting. At times we can play well, we make chances but for most of it we're chasing the ball and giving it away too easy. No doubt CH knows this, I'm sure they'll work on it and try to keep improving. But hey, could be worse, we could be Villa or QPR...
No, for me a fan, it was just boring. The reason for it is Hughton's mindnumbing and negative tactics. We played most of the game on the counter-attack FFS. That was just **** I'm afraid.
Well for me as a fan, it was still tense to watch. I admit it was boring but as a supporter it was still worth watching. I don't think CH is being negative, he's still trying to change the team. Sorted our defence out and you could see in the window he tried sorting our attack out by bringing in attacking players. If we survive, I suspect we'll improve on both sides of the game.
Well I'd rather be us than QPR... =/ Anyone would think we're in the bottom 3 with some of these reactions. Yes it's not perfect, but they could be worse and no doubt we will improve.
I wont be staying up for match of the day for about the 5th week running. Ive got some paint to watch dry instead, far more exciting!
I think the problem isn't that we didn't score. It's that we barely even tried. I'm just terrified that Hughton is perfectly satisfied with what he saw today. Because if he is, we're doomed...
Fulham didn't come close either, just another one of those games. Why would anyone think Hughton would be satisfied? looking at him he didn't look very happy. Although a clean sheet and a pt isn't the end of the world, plenty more winnable games coming up and to improve.
It's really starting to p*** me off to be honest, Hughton as managed to get the do not lose this game into the players minds and thats it! We go out not to try and win against a mediocre premier league side at home really really dissapoints me. We don't look like scoring again this season to be quite frank. We have the players to be able to play nice flowing passing football in the formation we line up in but he doesnt seem to want to use them to that strength! Why hoof the ball upto becchio/holt or whoever when 9 times out of 10 they're not going to win it especially against the likes of hangeland. The tactics and instructions that are going to our team is beyond belief to be honest...
CH and his team now have 2 weeks to improve our tactics and we'll certainly need to improve if we're to get anything from the visit of Everton. There was some good passing football at times, but it was in VERY short supply and again we were gui;ty of giving the bal away too cheaply an dputting pressure on oursleves. Snoddy was MoM for me!!!
The big problem with using this strategy to maintain PL status is once you have been tagged with a dire football and hard to watch it's really hard to shake off regardless of how creative you become. I'd hate to see my friends or fellow football fans referring to Norwich in a Stoke kind of way.
I'm not saying we didn't want to score, or that we didn't put in the effort. I'm just saying that we weren't positive enough. The instruction seemed to be, 'defend first, score if you can'.
Its the same old statement. Look at where we are. I don't watch NCFC to be bored in the Prem. I watch them to excite me and if the opposition are better than so be it. But to offer the opposition a draw without them breaking sweat is indefensible. Do you really think we can defend like that at OT or Emirates? If you get pushed back, fair enough but just to sit and wait is not good enough.
Its supposed to be up to the home team to do the running and apply the pressure. All we did was wait and wait and wait for nothing, until the last 10 minutes. Then throw kamara on for 5 minutes and hope for the best. Rubbish. Hughton is not very good at making tactical substitutions, they are always too late to effect play or like for like replacements. We should of gone 4-4-2 for the last 15-20 minutes to try and at least show some endeavour and give the fans something to cheer.
No Norwich in the world would either, but it wasn't as bad as most people are trying to make out. If we had played like this vs QPR we would have won.
