QuoteHoolahan on the bench for a third consecutive game tonight.
Brady starts.
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.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
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.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?
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!
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He hit the target and thats good enough for me.....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.
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.
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