I was responding to you statement that Walters "was on a different planet" which he wasn't. He read the back heel and I agree he could have done better, but would have been closed out in either case.
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I was responding to you statement that Walters "was on a different planet" which he wasn't. He read the back heel and I agree he could have done better, but would have been closed out in either case.
Hoolahan on the bench for a third consecutive game tonight.
Brady starts.
Norwich 2-1 down at home to Huddersfield since before half time. They've made three second half substitutions and none of them involved Hoolahan coming on. What's going on there? Brady assisted the Norwich goal.
Surely a managerial change has to be on the cards at Norwich...... Alex Neill must have lost the dressing room for Norwich to be doing this bad .
Just looking through Norwich's Championship results with and without Hoolahan starting this season.
With:
PLD 16 W 8 D 3 L 5 F 25 A 25 PTS 29
Average points per game = 1.81
Average goals scored per game = 1.56
Average goals conceded per game = 1.56
Without:
PLD 7 W 2 D 0 L 5 F 13 A 13 PTS 6
Average points per game = 0.86
Average goals scored per game = 1.85
Average goals conceded per game = 1.85
Some other points:
Of the seven games he didn't start, he was only used from the bench in one of them, despite Norwich needing goals in most of them.
In the interest of balance, Norwich's form had dipped before he was dropped. They've lost the last five games he's started along with the majority he hasn't.
Of the 16 games he's started he's been substituted 11 times. Of those 11 games the scoreline changed in 5 of them after he went off, but only once for the better (when they went from 2-1 up to 3-1 at home to 10 man Burton Albion).
Hoolahan just on the receiving end of a fairly poor looking tackle from Derby's Jacob Butterfield, for which he received a straight red. Norwich lead 1-0.
Completed a rare 90 minutes today, probably because Alex Neil didn't want him to get cheered off the pitch.
He ran the show by all accounts even though I don't think he was directly involved in the goals. The guys on Radio Derby said he was the best player on the pitch by a mile and can't understand how he's been out of the side. To give Neil his due, he did resurrect Hoolahan's Norwich career in the first place so hopefully he can show a bit more faith in him from now on.
I finished Jason McAteer's autobiography over Christmas, and there's a bit in it just after the World Cup in the States where he's been dropped at Bolton and he has a go at the manager for it. Manager turns around and says he had to drop him at the start of the season, so he'd still be firing on all cylinders at the end of the season, when he'd be needed to try and keep them up. Was wondering if this also applied to Hoolahan lately at Norwich - did Neil drop him to keep him fresh for the second half of the season?
Hopefully that's what Owen Coyle is doing with Anthony Stokes.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Just watched the highlights on Sky Sports News. That tackle and the defending for the 2nd and 3rd goals. Welp.
Derby have appealed Jacob Butterfield's red card for his tackle on Hoolahan. McClaren didn't see it as excessive and questioned whether it was even a foul.
Decide for yourselves!
Jason didn't play much for Ireland at WC 94, did he?Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Hard to say about Wes, probably his fitness re injuries/niggling issues was a more obvious reason for him being dropped this season. In all of Wes' club career the most baffling questions are to do with Hughton's use or rather non-use of him in the club's critical period where they could have survived the relegation drop from the epl, also Hughton's sub hardly played Wes.
Putting in a masterclass against Nottingham Forest.
Involved in all three goals so far, scoring the third.
What a finish from Hoolahan!
https://twitter.com/FootballOn5/stat...67177857875968
He hit the target and thats good enough for me:D.....A good goal alright he either saw that the goalkeeper was off his line or took the chance that he was....either way its a cracker......
Good goal as was the first one, keeper too far off his line though.
He had another chance at 1.25 ish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiMufZ7oUSU
Yeah, just saw that Howson one while ago, insane goal. A bit tough for Wessi not to get goal of the day, but bizarre that he can't even claim goal of the match!
Some cracking goals in that game alright!
Just read that Irish keeper Stephen Henderson injured himself badly scrambling back in trying to save Wessi's strike yesterday. Achilles injury and he's out for 6-8 months. Poor guy.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin...ng-781172.html
A bit of a stretch I'd say......... Anyhow a new manager for Wes at Norwich.....
Norwich concede twice after substituting Hoolahan but they equalise immediately after going behind.
Norwich 2-2 Blackburn now.
Hoolahan went off injured with a hamstring issue in the first-half of Norwich's game against Barnsley today.
Will be a big loss if we don't have Wes ready for Friday night. Looking around the place - Clark didn't play for Newcastle, Arter didn't play for Bournemouth, McCarthy was another inactive for Everton and Whelan was also a spectator for Stoke. While Whelan wouldn't be in my game planning, if both Wes and Harry are out then it may be opportunity knocks for Conor Hourihane.
Norwich urge Ireland not to risk Hoolahan.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/socc...l-not-10056010
Hoolahan's goal against Rotherham nominated for an EFL Goal of the Year award: http://www.canaries.co.uk/news/artic...n-3634265.aspx
Wes will return to action sooner than was originally anticipated, according to Paul O'Hehir. There'd been a fear that he might miss the Austria game in June due to the current injury, but all should be OK, so long as he otherwise stays fit.
'Wes Hoolahan's 'season ending injury' not as bad as first feared, and could be back for Austria tie': http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/socc...njury-10133900
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul O'Hehir
Has two already today as Norwich are 6-1 up at half time against Reading.
are Reading even on the pitch?
First time Hoolahan scored more than once in a game since December 2010!
His second was his 50th for Norwich. Also assisted Alex Pritchard.
It's as though he heard some people comparing Liam Kelly to him and he was like "alright pal, watch the master in action."
Let's hope he stays injury free until June. A home game is always a Hoolahan game.
Was happy to see Paul McShane wasn't involved in any of that. Is he injured or what?
Disgraceful that Wes is happily able to play and score only 2 weeks after our Wales game. And he didn't even come over to Dublin to have the FAI doctors look at him. I can't imagine any other players in the squad getting away with behaviour like that. Probably driving his car around to the shops all the time too and not resting.
Arter played on 01/04/17 a couple of days after the Iceland game. Hoolahan played on 08/04/17.Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
I'd quote what he said in relation to Arter but I can't find anything.Quote:
“Wes is definitely out,” the Ireland boss said after today’s training session at the FAI headquarters in Dublin. “We got the news through about the scan this morning and obviously it’s not great for us, not great for him and not great for his club.
“I have often said this before, you just curse your luck and get on with it,” he added, when asked about absentees.
I was joking, everything I said is ridiculous.
Video of the goals from the Norwich-Reading game here: https://vid.me/21Mj
Yes, he was out with a calf injury.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
DeLorean delighted to see an Irish patriot injured. Disgusting. I bet he was go-karting on cows when he said it too.
Ha... lesser of the two evils maybe. :o
Back on the bench this evening against Brighton, game live on sky.
Scored as Norwich lead QPR 1-0 at half time.