Hugill doesn't offer anything

[cambridgeshire canary 6,676]

3 hours ago, Dr Greenthumb said:

You judge people on Instagram posts

Not judging, just pointing out a strange post.

[NeymarSmith 130]

3 hours ago, Terminally Yellow said:

He's a complete ****, a parody and not even a Norwich fan. 

Don't feed the trolls.

Well if true, that does make sense why most of his posts are provocative

[Yellowhammer 86]

Would preferred to see Drmic given a chance at this level 

[CANARYKING 634]

37 minutes ago, Yellowhammer said:

Would preferred to see Drmic given a chance at this level 

Idah gives you much more than Hugill or Dirmic

[Il Pirata 249]

Hugill will come good. He needs to start games to have an affect, not a super sub for me. Confidence player who needs a run of games to find form - which he hasn't had yet. So seems far too early to cast judgement. With the games coming thick and fast I expect him to start again soon. Pukki needs to be kept fresh. 

Having said that, I wouldn't have minded Toney instead of Hugill. 

[BroadstairsR 2,138]

15 hours ago, CANARYKING said:

Idah gives you much more than Hugill or Dirmic

Exactly.

 

At six foot three, aged nineteen and improving by the week, he is the future to the extent that talk of Hugill coming good will be redundant sooner rather than later.

I cannot see Jordan H. being at City beyond this season, especially if we go up, whilst Drmic (that yellow shirted dead ball specialist of reknown) hasn't even been given a squad number, and by the sound of it is desperate to get away.

When talking of City strikers for this season and beyond it's Idah, Idah, Idah all the way. Watch this space.

Incidentally, his emergence as a force to be reckoned with in the Championship, would seem to re-enforce the argument of the "We should have signed "sniffer" Rhodes" brigade as Idah causes that degree of panic in defences that enables JR to  prosper.

Edited November 5, 2020 by BroadstairsR

[Indy 3,283]

Unfortunately doesn’t look any improvement on Drmic in talent, but certainly looks like a team player and hasn’t got the Drmic arrogance about being too good for us.

Looking at him, certainly not a Farke type player and probably bought in to offer something different, but alas we don’t tend to play hump it forward football suited to him.

So not going to be critical of Hugill but more so of Webber in thinking he’d be a good signing. Not to forget we’re probably restricted by budgets.

He’ll chip in with a few goals but as others Pukki & Idah fit our team and system far better.

[FCC 76]

Give the guy a break.  It is just going to take time for him to get in tune with the way we play.  At times he doesn’t anticipate the balls being played, but that will come.  

[TeemuVanBasten 3,327]

18 hours ago, CANARYKING said:

Idah gives you much more than Hugill or Dirmic

Don't think Idah has been brilliant so far tbh. 

Fight is still on between Idah and Hugill for that supporting role. 

Drmic clearly either not liked by management or on too much money so we're trying to force him out, so he is out of the race. 

[seanthecanary 168]

Since the Derby game where it was crying out for him, the crosses have dried up.  He started the next couple of games and those crosses just weren't there.  In the same way that you won't get the best out of Pukki playing like we did against Derby by continually putting crosses in, you won't see the best of Hugill if you don't.  Hugill is what he is, we all knew that when he signed.  In his defence, has he missed many chances?

Edited November 5, 2020 by seanthecanary

[chicken 2,604]

On 04/11/2020 at 08:54, Uncle Fred said:

It’s not that we couldn’t afford to sign him with our parachute payments sales of the youngsters

its the usual stowmarket 2 not wanting to spend the cash again and their general lack of ambition

You have to keep coming back to the question of where has all the money gone 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Where in the accounts can you identify the fraud then?

[TheGunnShow 5,932]

1 minute ago, chicken said:

Where in the accounts can you identify the fraud then?

As ever with retarded nonsense such as "But Dee-lee-ah tuk da moolah", what is surmised without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Same as those who think there's widespread fraud going on in the US elections right now.

[chicken 2,604]

One thing I am a little shocked about is the number of people saying that Hugill was brought in because he offers something different but we haven't changed the way we play so what is the point?

We have changed the way we play, rather than always passing out from the back, we are looking long. And there have been a number of times with Hugill on the pitch where he is winning those battles in the air and bringing the ball down or knocking it down for others. 

It's just possible that as many of the players we have are not used to this more direct route, they are not always as alert as they could be to picking up the pieces around him. However, that said, there have been some good spells of play coming from balls up to Hugill and him laying them off. The two games with Pukki played in behind him were good in that respect.

Hugill was never going to be prolific, at best at this level he is a 15-20 goals a season striker. With 15 being the more realistic end of it. But his ability in the air has also helped us defensively. Much like Jerome used to be half decent to have helping defend set pieces as well as attack them.

[TheGunnShow 5,932]

I'd like to see Hugill up top with Placheta or Hernandez on one side plus Quintilla for a longer spell. And someone can tell Aarons that he should look to hit the byline a bit more - or start driving his crosses hard. He caused an OG against Rotherham when he drove one in. Hugill saw that one and his eyes lit up like a starving chocoholic finding the Cadbury's factory but Ihiekwe bunged it into his own net just ahead of him.

Buendia prefers through-balls, so we're a bit short of tasty crosses coming in from the right. Both Placheta and Quintilla have shown a propensity to hit nice ones from the left.

[TeemuVanBasten 3,327]

3 hours ago, Indy said:

Unfortunately doesn’t look any improvement on Drmic in talent, but certainly looks like a team player and hasn’t got the Drmic arrogance about being too good for us.

Looking at him, certainly not a Farke type player and probably bought in to offer something different, but alas we don’t tend to play hump it forward football suited to him.

So not going to be critical of Hugill but more so of Webber in thinking he’d be a good signing. Not to forget we’re probably restricted by budgets.

He’ll chip in with a few goals but as others Pukki & Idah fit our team and system far better.

We have no idea how transfers really work at the club, but you'd have thought Farke has some input in them? Surely Farke doesn't just arrive at Colney to find a random player he hasn't heard of having a medical, which is what you seem to think happens? 

Edited November 5, 2020 by TeemuVanBasten

[Indy 3,283]

15 minutes ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

We have no idea how transfers really work at the club, but you'd have thought Farke has some input in them? Surely Farke doesn't just arrive at Colney to find a random player he hasn't heard of having a medical, which is what you seem to think happens? 

I’ve not said Farke doesn’t have an opinion on the transfers, I’m sure Farke will have targets he prepares for Webber, but it’s Webber who ultimately signs the player and I doubt Hugill was top three on the list for strikers! Pretty sure he was available in budget and talked about, but certainly not a player which fits our style, it’s noticeable he’s brought on with 15 minutes to chasing games when we go two up top.

Different option, but not really shown much quality on the pitch, works hard enough but sometimes you need more from a player.

[ron obvious 1,501]

Our style of play needs total understanding between players. This takes time. Give him some.

[chicken 2,604]

42 minutes ago, TheGunnShow said:

I'd like to see Hugill up top with Placheta or Hernandez on one side plus Quintilla for a longer spell. And someone can tell Aarons that he should look to hit the byline a bit more - or start driving his crosses hard. He caused an OG against Rotherham when he drove one in. Hugill saw that one and his eyes lit up like a starving chocoholic finding the Cadbury's factory but Ihiekwe bunged it into his own net just ahead of him.

Indeed.

It was both the ball, and Hugill's run that scored that goal. The defender knew that if he didn't do something Hugill would have a tap in. He failed to clear the goal though and put through his own net.

Take away Aarons and you wouldn't have the cross. Take away Hugill and the keeper calls it and gathers it comfortaby.

[Gordon Bennett 780]

2 hours ago, ron obvious said:

Our style of play needs total understanding between players. This takes time. Give him some.

Exactly. People fail to do so time after time though for some reason, and in most cases (particularly at Champioship level) players prove them wrong. 

[Terminally Yellow 2,448]

12 hours ago, BroadstairsR said:

Exactly.

 

At six foot three, aged nineteen and improving by the week, he is the future to the extent that talk of Hugill coming good will be redundant sooner rather than later.

I cannot see Jordan H. being at City beyond this season, especially if we go up, whilst Drmic (that yellow shirted dead ball specialist of reknown) hasn't even been given a squad number, and by the sound of it is desperate to get away.

When talking of City strikers for this season and beyond it's Idah, Idah, Idah all the way. Watch this space.

Incidentally, his emergence as a force to be reckoned with in the Championship, would seem to re-enforce the argument of the "We should have signed "sniffer" Rhodes" brigade as Idah causes that degree of panic in defences that enables JR to  prosper.

Improving by the week? Seriously?

[BroadstairsR 2,138]

Just an expression. Don't get them in a twist.

[Alex Moss 2,165]

Think it would be naive and foolish to write him off so soon after what’s happened with Rupp for example. Sure, he’s not Maradona or anything, that was there for us all to see before the transfer was finally confirmed, but to say he won’t be a beneficial player for us this season as if it’s already fact rather than just early opinion seems very silly to me. He comes across really well, loves it here, does offer something different, and will no question turn 1 point into a crucial 3 at various times this season. He will play his part 👍