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Alex Neil

Townender!

Townender!

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Now, first things first. No doubt has Alex Neil made a huge difference this season. Some great individual and also team performances. Since the day he came in and after reading a lot about him, I have always said 'he won't be here to long' whether he gets us promoted or not.

I watched him a lot on the sideline today and again and again he seems to have a sulky strop when we lose the ball or make the wrong decision. (Especially if it's Horgan who I can just tell Neil doesn't take to)

Now yes, I get very fustrated especially with our final third decision making but I think this man could lose the dressing room sooner than we think.

Does anyone else feel that his constant sideline strops could have a negative impact on the team?

No-one can question his desire and passion but I do fear the worse. It's happened before at Norwich but hopefully he's learnt his lesson. He seems a good and honest man. Give us a smile AN.
 
Townender! said:
Now, first things first. No doubt has Alex Neil made a huge difference this season. Some great individual and also team performances. Since the day he came in and after reading a lot about him, I have always said 'he won't be here to long' whether he gets us promoted or not.

I watched him a lot on the sideline today and again and again he seems to have a sulky strop when we lose the ball or make the wrong decision. (Especially if it's Horgan who I can just tell Neil doesn't take to)

Now yes, I get very fustrated especially with our final third decision making but I think this man could lose the dressing room sooner than we think.

Does anyone else feel that his constant sideline strops could have a negative impact on the team?

No-one can question his desire and passion but I do fear the worse. It's happened before at Norwich but hopefully he's learnt his lesson. He seems a good and honest man. Give us a smile AN.
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It is easy to understand his frustrations as for sure many of us feel the same way and with regards to his alleged opinion on Horgan I too have a similar worries as, although he appears on the surface to be a busy and energetic performer when he comes on, it seems most of the time he ends up running into a blind alley or simply misplacing his pass or under/over hitting his cross.
 
Townender! said:
I watched him a lot on the sideline today and again and again he seems to have a sulky strop when we lose the ball or make the wrong decision. (Especially if it's Horgan who I can just tell Neil doesn't take to)
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I noticed this after Daryl came on against Sunderland.
 
Euxtonboy said:
It is easy to understand his frustrations as for sure many of us feel the same way and with regards to his alleged opinion on Horgan I too have a similar worries as, although he appears on the surface to be a busy and energetic performer when he comes on, it seems most of the time he ends up running into a blind alley or simply misplacing his pass or under/over hitting his cross.
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Today Horgan seemed to be trying to play to specific instructions and not his natural way of playing, unfortunately for us it meant a very poor contribution, he lost possession, failed to complete passes to our players and was just not influential in the game when he came on ?
 
Wisemen say said:
Today Horgan seemed to be trying to play to specific instructions and not his natural way of playing, unfortunately for us it meant a very poor contribution, he lost possession, failed to complete passes to our players and was just not influential in the game when he came on ?
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I’ll have Horgan a bit more time yet before judging him given that he’s not started a league game yet this season, but in his cameos I have been disappointed with him.

Other than the Hull away cross for the goal, he’s looked very poor. Even last season when he was getting a fair amount of game time he only showed quality in glimpses.

As I said, I’ll give him a bit longer before judging him properly but at the moment I think he’s rather overrated.
 
Today Horgan seemed to be trying to play to specific instructions and not his natural way of playing, unfortunately for us it meant a very poor contribution, he lost possession, failed to complete passes to our players and was just not influential in the game when he came on ?
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think that most of the team looked like they were playing to specific orders. Horgan needs some games.
 
Now, first things first. No doubt has Alex Neil made a huge difference this season. Some great individual and also team performances. Since the day he came in and after reading a lot about him, I have always said 'he won't be here to long' whether he gets us promoted or not.

I watched him a lot on the sideline today and again and again he seems to have a sulky strop when we lose the ball or make the wrong decision. (Especially if it's Horgan who I can just tell Neil doesn't take to)

Now yes, I get very fustrated especially with our final third decision making but I think this man could lose the dressing room sooner than we think.

Does anyone else feel that his constant sideline strops could have a negative impact on the team?

No-one can question his desire and passion but I do fear the worse. It's happened before at Norwich but hopefully he's learnt his lesson. He seems a good and honest man. Give us a smile AN.
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I'm not convinced yet, I'll give him a bit longer.
 
Townender! said:
Now, first things first. No doubt has Alex Neil made a huge difference this season. Some great individual and also team performances. Since the day he came in and after reading a lot about him, I have always said 'he won't be here to long' whether he gets us promoted or not.

I watched him a lot on the sideline today and again and again he seems to have a sulky strop when we lose the ball or make the wrong decision. (Especially if it's Horgan who I can just tell Neil doesn't take to)

Now yes, I get very fustrated especially with our final third decision making but I think this man could lose the dressing room sooner than we think.

Does anyone else feel that his constant sideline strops could have a negative impact on the team?

No-one can question his desire and passion but I do fear the worse. It's happened before at Norwich but hopefully he's learnt his lesson. He seems a good and honest man. Give us a smile AN.
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except the players go out of teir way to say how good he is in the dressing room and on the raining field....often praising when it isnt asked for.....

maybe he will loose those who haven't the bottle to battle....but I've no problem with that;
 
sports rehab said:
except the players go out of teir way to say how good he is in the dressing room and on the raining field....often praising when it isnt asked for.....

maybe he will loose those who haven't the bottle to battle....but I've no problem with that;
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The players are hardly likely to say anything else, really, are they?
 
This seems to be one of the issues that the Norwich fans had with Neil. The always said that he never had a plan B when games were going badly or they needed to see out a win/draw. I've really enjoyed AN so far, think he's injected some much needed pride, passion and work rate into the side. But it seems as though we need to change tactics during games sometimes. We never seem to adjust the formation for the personnel coming onto the pitch. Wolves was a prime example of this. Furthermore, something that is incredibly apparent, is that he clearly doesn't rate our bench whatsoever, and I for one am with him on part of it. We made one sub at Wolves, and that was young Stephy. We have a top class starting XI, but lack the players on the bench. Harrop for me is the only real option off the bench, bar Horgan's raw pace, but his end product is questionable. Neil set up wrong yesterday, Robbo shouldn't be starting anytime soon. We need to start adjusting to the occasion, for example playing two up front in the tail end of games to try and get on knock downs and cause tiring centre halves a problem. Onto Wednesday, I'm sure we'll learn from these errors.
 
Townender! said:
Now, first things first. No doubt has Alex Neil made a huge difference this season. Some great individual and also team performances. Since the day he came in and after reading a lot about him, I have always said 'he won't be here to long' whether he gets us promoted or not.

I watched him a lot on the sideline today and again and again he seems to have a sulky strop when we lose the ball or make the wrong decision. (Especially if it's Horgan who I can just tell Neil doesn't take to)

Now yes, I get very fustrated especially with our final third decision making but I think this man could lose the dressing room sooner than we think.

Does anyone else feel that his constant sideline strops could have a negative impact on the team?

No-one can question his desire and passion but I do fear the worse. It's happened before at Norwich but hopefully he's learnt his lesson. He seems a good and honest man. Give us a smile AN.
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Said when he was appointed that I didn’t like his dour demeanour, seems to have a chip on his shoulder & the world is against me mentality.

That said if he got us promoted then would I care? Absolutely not.
 
The defence is absolutely decimated at the moment so any plan B C or D pretty much have to be shelved as options at the back are pretty much at zero. Great start to the season and it's a shame AN doesn't have the luxury of choice at the moment in that backline. AN is passionate and certainly has most fans backing and still only 1pt off the play-offs.
 
He did ok when he brought on Hugill and Gallagher when we beat Reading.

Thought he could have brought on Gallagher v The Bees.


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Loved his quote.......... " We had spells on top and they had spells on top. They just scored more than us when they were on top "...... Simple with no bullshit. 🙂
 
Since his appointment there has been a definite improvement and the football at times is great to watch. I don't think he has a plan B if things re going wrong but the players re young and learning,well most of them. We missed an old wise head in midfield Saturday but that said give credit to the opposition who I thought were a very good side.

the players themselves have to look at their own performance, 2 things stood out for me from Saturday, MAGUIRE missed a sitter of a header and if he had scored we would have gone in 2-1 up at half time.

secondly BARKHUIZEN put in on goal albeit he was probably edging towards on his weaker left foot but instead of shooting he decided to pass it back out of the penalty area towards a crowd of players I couldn't get my head round that, he has to shoot no matter the outcome.

did we deserve to win that game - probably not Brentford certainly didn't deserve to lose it

Did we deserve a draw - only possibly - and Brentford deserved at least a point.

we will get better and they will learn from that result hopefully.

The CH situation is a real concern and I dread the villa game but upwards and onwards. mid table finish is accepetable
 
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