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Good to see that Neil is showing more trust in him than his predecessors and it's paying off in spades. Hopefully he can stay fit.
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I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
32 but I suppose he was around the LOI for a long time. Heard he never really looked after himself so maybe that's why the break never came earlier.
Lets talk about six baby
Hoolahan gets Norwich's fourth at Millwall and puts the final nail in Ian Holloway's coffin.
Goal for super sub Wes pulls Norwich level in Huddersfield.
Inexplicably left out of the starting line-up after running the show against Derby on Saturday. Came on after 62 minutes with Norwich losing to Huddersfield and has just equalised after 67 minutes.
I think this manager values him more than Hughton & Adams. The only times he doesn't start are when they play twice in a week.
Oh yeah he's definitely getting more of a look in. He should be well enough rested at this stage to manage two games a week though.
It's something I never quite understand re managers' treatment of Hoolahan. Does he have some sort of fitness issue? He is perpetually subbed and now rested for a midweek game. To my untutored eye he still seems to be going strong when the hook comes out and he is dragged in.Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
3 in 4 games for Hoolahan as he comes into peak form at the right time for club and country; assist too.
SKY reporter said he ran the show.
Hoolahan damned with faint praise on The Football League Show - "he can dictate games at this level".
Norwich finished in 12th place and 11th place respectively when Hoolahan was starting regularly in the Premier League.
They were relegated when Hoolahan was consigned to a bench role.
I don't think it was faint praise. There are very few players who can dictate a game at Premier League level.
Arter and Hoolahan the dream team.
Yeah, I haven't seen Hoolahan dictate an epl game but he's well capable of stamping his influence (a rung or two lower than dictate) in a game, against say half the teams there.
Three PL games off the top of my head where I remember Hoolahan being outstanding were the 1-0 home wins over Arsenal and Man Utd and a 1-1 draw at Villa Park. Everything went through him and he looked a class apart. These just happened to be three games which were covered live so I'm sure there were many more. I reckon Norwich would have stayed up had they not dropped him.
So what are we not seeing here ? Or not being told ? A little like Whelan in reverse, very few of us on here would have stuck with him as Trap did, yet here he still is very much in the fold despite the new regime and may even start vs Poland, and is making some selections / predicted line ups on here too.
I've no idea but I don't really think that these knowledgeable managers have had the results to back up their decisions a such, certainly in Wessi's case.
Maybe I misunderstand what dictating midfield means. Of those games you mentioned, I only remember v Arsenal. afair that was a game where he stamped an impression, Arsenal had nearly all of the game and Wes played very well but there's no way I'd consider that Wes dictated that game. One of those games where the small team pulls one on the big team and Wes played an important role.
If Wes had performed the way you have built him up, he would have been undroppable, no matter who/what the manager/gameplan was.
I thought he was easily the best player on the pitch in those games. I wouldn't really expect him to dictate midfield as he was in a more advanced role. He was at the centre of the majority of Norwich's attacks. I'd associate the term 'dictating midfield' more with the likes of Scholes or Alonso, in that they set the tempo and control the flow of the game. I don't think that's what Hoolahan brings, he's more of a Mata type who will help unlock defences further forward, obviously using the most mainstream of examples for the purpose of my point. I think he should have been undroppable and Norwich looked a far more limited outfit without him.
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