| How do them lot up the road 20:50 - Feb 10 with 4706 views | Ipswich24 |
Always get good strikers, Sargent, Makama, now this Toure. |  |
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| How do them lot up the road on 09:32 - Feb 11 with 920 views | Wright1 |
| How do them lot up the road on 06:29 - Feb 11 by Kieran_Knows |
At least we spent the window chasing 2 strikers who are both 1 hamstring injury away from being out for the rest of the season… |
Aren't all players one hamstring away from being out for the rest of the season? |  | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 11:47 - Feb 11 with 800 views | backwaywhen |
| How do them lot up the road on 21:30 - Feb 10 by RetroBlue |
Scum are one of the form sides and have been for a while. Just have to hope they run out of form b4 we next play them |
Why ? Fu@k em bring it on. | | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 11:50 - Feb 11 with 794 views | positivity |
| How do them lot up the road on 09:14 - Feb 11 by billlm |
Recruitment team are on point, |
how many players have the norwich recruitment team signed in the last 2 windows?
why have they gone down in the league if they're so on point? | |
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| How do them lot up the road on 11:59 - Feb 11 with 774 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| How do them lot up the road on 08:36 - Feb 11 by TownieRob |
Yes, they do. 4 in 2. Not a bad return.
Yet there wasnt a single striker in the world who would have come to us in January, that would have improved us.
We do need to get better at recruitment.. |
Our recruitment team managed to nab their best midfielder (arguably their best player)! |  |
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| How do them lot up the road on 12:32 - Feb 11 with 738 views | Smoresy |
| How do them lot up the road on 21:16 - Feb 10 by SuffolkPunchFC |
And yet we’ve scored 9 more goals than them in 2 less games.
It amazes me the people who follow our games don’t yet realise that a number 9 in our system is not the primary goal outlet … |
Is that quite right? Agree we're far from reliant. Very right to point that out.
If you consider who our top scorers should be this season though, adjusting for Clarke's penalties, it's very much Hirst and Azón for me. They've had the lion's share of our big chances. Azón has the most shots of any player in the league I think, adjusting for time on the pitch. Clarke and Philogene are ahead of them by virtue of being so much more clinical, not because we've concentrated our play on creating more chances for them at the expense of the striker.
Season before, Delap was comfortably in front. Season before that, nobody scored at a quicker pace than Moore. If you tot up our goals by position in 23/24, I'd guess CF just edges it. Would be tight.
So without wishing to be a negative Nellie, imo our 9 often doesn't look to be the primary goal outlet due to struggling strikers, but it is marginally the best position in a McKenna team to score goals from (with other excellent positions too). | | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 12:35 - Feb 11 with 731 views | TownieRob |
| How do them lot up the road on 11:59 - Feb 11 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Our recruitment team managed to nab their best midfielder (arguably their best player)! |
Which club identified him as an unknown quantity..?
I find it quite interesting that those who can never see any negatives in our club, can never see any positives in what them lot do.
Strange. | | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 12:36 - Feb 11 with 721 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| How do them lot up the road on 12:35 - Feb 11 by TownieRob |
Which club identified him as an unknown quantity..?
I find it quite interesting that those who can never see any negatives in our club, can never see any positives in what them lot do.
Strange. |
I find it quite interesting that some on here like to put words in people's mouths. I never said anything about Norwich's recruitment.
Strange. | |
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| How do them lot up the road on 12:59 - Feb 11 with 678 views | TownieRob |
| How do them lot up the road on 12:36 - Feb 11 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I find it quite interesting that some on here like to put words in people's mouths. I never said anything about Norwich's recruitment.
Strange. |
No words were put anywhere. You praised our move, I added context. That’s called a discussion.
My broader point still stands, some can never acknowledge positives elsewhere, but never see faults at home. | | | |
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| How do them lot up the road on 13:40 - Feb 11 with 626 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| How do them lot up the road on 12:59 - Feb 11 by TownieRob |
No words were put anywhere. You praised our move, I added context. That’s called a discussion.
My broader point still stands, some can never acknowledge positives elsewhere, but never see faults at home. |
You insinuated I never see any negatives in our club, or any positives in what them lot do. When all I actually did is remind you we nabbed their best player. It was a lighthearted quip, but seems to have hit a raw nerve.
It seems fashionable, lately, to attack our recruitment team. Forgetting, of course, that it was stripped to the bone under Evans and will take time to bear fruit under the new regime. Norwich's has been in place for decades. | |
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| How do them lot up the road on 14:39 - Feb 11 with 571 views | billlm |
| How do them lot up the road on 11:50 - Feb 11 by positivity |
how many players have the norwich recruitment team signed in the last 2 windows?
why have they gone down in the league if they're so on point? |
Webber ruined them |  | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 14:59 - Feb 11 with 555 views | NthQldITFC |
| How do them lot up the road on 08:59 - Feb 11 by Weekender |
Look a bit closer... 3 of the 4 are tap-ins from a few yards, fair play that he is in the right place at the right time as good strikers should be but, these goals say more about the team than it says about Toure. The final goal v Oxford was a good finish of course.
Small sample size so lets see how he goes for the next few weeks. He will have plenty of opportunity now Makama is out for the season and Sargent has been banished. |
Is Makama out for the season? Hadn't heard that.
Ouch! Has Sargeant gone yet?
Poor old budgies could be straight back up sh!t creek then.
Oh dear. |  |
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| How do them lot up the road on 15:19 - Feb 11 with 515 views | positivity |
| How do them lot up the road on 14:39 - Feb 11 by billlm |
Webber ruined them |
no, they've always been ruined! | |
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| How do them lot up the road on 19:05 - Feb 11 with 392 views | armchaircritic59 |
| How do them lot up the road on 21:16 - Feb 10 by SuffolkPunchFC |
And yet we’ve scored 9 more goals than them in 2 less games.
It amazes me the people who follow our games don’t yet realise that a number 9 in our system is not the primary goal outlet … |
Some truth there, would just be nice if they remembered that they are allowed to score at all. Given that our starting striker has scored just once in the last 12 games and twice in the last 19. Which at best if projected over a complete 46 game season would yield 5 goals, from the starting no9 position. Tells you just how very very important to us our two wide lefties have been so far this season, doing their jobs and the no9's too. | | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 20:48 - Feb 11 with 329 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| How do them lot up the road on 19:05 - Feb 11 by armchaircritic59 |
Some truth there, would just be nice if they remembered that they are allowed to score at all. Given that our starting striker has scored just once in the last 12 games and twice in the last 19. Which at best if projected over a complete 46 game season would yield 5 goals, from the starting no9 position. Tells you just how very very important to us our two wide lefties have been so far this season, doing their jobs and the no9's too. |
Don’t get me wrong, our strikers have missed some sitters, and those could have helped us change a few results. We just need to not miss the woods for the trees.
Our strikers proved a very valuable service for the team, and we need to understand/accept that. They have had opportunities to contribute a few more goals, and those may have put us in an even better position than we already are. But an alternative striker may have lost us more goal than they scored. | | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 00:35 - Feb 12 with 238 views | armchaircritic59 |
| How do them lot up the road on 20:48 - Feb 11 by SuffolkPunchFC |
Don’t get me wrong, our strikers have missed some sitters, and those could have helped us change a few results. We just need to not miss the woods for the trees.
Our strikers proved a very valuable service for the team, and we need to understand/accept that. They have had opportunities to contribute a few more goals, and those may have put us in an even better position than we already are. But an alternative striker may have lost us more goal than they scored. |
And I also forgot to add. the humungous addition of 3 assists between them all season so far. So they are scoring very few, and assisting even fewer!. Don't get me wrong, I'm behind everyone we have at the club right now after the window, including GH, IA and CA, as I think that's how it should be. Just pointing out the rather obvious problem(s) we have with out forwards, not going to call them strikers. | | | |
| How do them lot up the road on 11:14 - Feb 12 with 120 views | HighgateBlue |
I think the contrast is particularly striking, if you'll pardon the pun. Norwich have done extremely well in terms of impact and value, whilst we have, to put it deliberately politely, not made a number 9 the priority when it's come to shelling out the big fees. When you consider players in our squad plus those still under contract but out on loan, we have I think five wide players (for two positions) who each cost many multiples of any single number 9. (Showing my workings: Egeli, McAteer, Ogbene, Clarke, Philogene). And we were looking to keep going on that acquisition spree with Femi Azeez. It's not that dissimilar at number 10 either, although Mehmeti was good value. I'm not saying that a striker can't be good if he didn't cost a lot (indeed - see Makama), but it's an indication of priorities, and McKenna just seems to have quite extremely weighted priorities in the transfer market.
Delap was really good recruitment, and the club were not afraid to back themselves and their judgment despite his relative lack of experience. They got it right, and deserve the credit for that. But since we've known he was leaving, we have needed a really good Champ number 9, and I'm not really sure why we've proved so incapable of acquiring one, especially when (a) Norwich have shown you can get quality for a fraction of what we have available to spend, and (b) we have spent big on squad players in other positions.
One thing that has been impressive about Norwich's Clement-era recruitment (I'm thinking Toure and also Ali Ahmed) is that they have seemed to come in and hit the ground running very quickly. The same can be said of Mehmeti, I suppose, for balance. But it hasn't been the case will all of our post Prem signings by any means.
Again, the contrasts maybe magnify trends, and the ineffectiveness of Manning compared with the professional effectiveness of Clement is conspicuous. |  | | |
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