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I really struggle to see how Glenn let Huckerby go, at least he can score goals and beat players! Wes looks good and plays neat passing but never really threatened, sorry Glenn he is not in the same league as Hucks, oh but hey he is young so bound to be better! Too often our attack slowed up because no one had the confidence to just go for it.

All our front players looked as though they couldnt score in 90 years let alone 90 minutes. And the one player who can score recently , Russell sat on the bench most of the match.

Glenn still does not inspire me as a manager and I stand by my prediction that he will be gone by Christmas. And yes its only one game, but believe me Coventry were poor and will struggle this season, should have at least been one point, but with that line up of strikers just aint going to happen. Oh and our right back Omosuzi is very poor and really should not be on the pitch gave away second goal and made countless mistakes.

Only other person worse on the pitch was the Ref who was never up with play and rarely played or indicated advantage.

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I really struggle to see how Glenn let Huckerby go, at least he can score goals and beat players! Wes looks good and plays neat passing but never really threatened, sorry Glenn he is not in the same league as Hucks, oh but hey he is young so bound to be better! Too often our attack slowed up because no one had the confidence to just go for it.

All our front players looked as though they couldnt score in 90 years let alone 90 minutes. And the one player who can score recently , Russell sat on the bench most of the match.

Glenn still does not inspire me as a manager and I stand by my prediction that he will be gone by Christmas. And yes its only one game, but believe me Coventry were poor and will struggle this season, should have at least been one point, but with that line up of strikers just aint going to happen. Oh and our right back Omosuzi is very poor and really should not be on the pitch gave away second goal and made countless mistakes.

Only other person worse on the pitch was the Ref who was never up with play and rarely played or indicated advantage.

[/quote]Not only do I give you a tin helmet CJ, but a spade to dig a trench as well.   [:D]

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I really struggle to see how Glenn let Huckerby go, at least he can score goals and beat players! Wes looks good and plays neat passing but never really threatened, sorry Glenn he is not in the same league as Hucks, oh but hey he is young so bound to be better! Too often our attack slowed up because no one had the confidence to just go for it.

All our front players looked as though they couldnt score in 90 years let alone 90 minutes. And the one player who can score recently , Russell sat on the bench most of the match.

Glenn still does not inspire me as a manager and I stand by my prediction that he will be gone by Christmas. And yes its only one game, but believe me Coventry were poor and will struggle this season, should have at least been one point, but with that line up of strikers just aint going to happen. Oh and our right back Omosuzi is very poor and really should not be on the pitch gave away second goal and made countless mistakes.

Only other person worse on the pitch was the Ref who was never up with play and rarely played or indicated advantage.

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Sorry but I think you still have those 2003/2004 rose tinted Hucks spectacles on! Last season we very rarely saw Hucks beat opponents, that is probably one of the reasons why GR ditched him. Time to move on please.   

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Time to move on - Always!

 

Get over it - We must!

 

But apart from being over critical of Hoolahan who is a class player, the 1st post is quite correct!

 

We were better than Coventry apart from not scoring goals WHICH IS THE BE ALL AND END ALL!

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yawn.. pretty sure huckerby was part of the 4-1 drubbing at the last day of the season, change the record PLEASE.

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We need to get over the Hucks syndrome. We don''t need to say anything about what he has done for us and I have seen enough from Hoola to suggest he will be more that an adequate replacement.

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[quote user="Delias Well Behaved Devonshire Dirtbox"]Why dont you sod of to America and watch him, he''s gone GET OVER IT!  he aint never coming back so go and have a cry in the corner.[/quote]

Why don''t you do us all a favour and "sod of" yourself.

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I really struggle to see how Glenn let Huckerby go, at least he can score goals and beat players! Wes looks good and plays neat passing but never really threatened, sorry Glenn he is not in the same league as Hucks, oh but hey he is young so bound to be better! Too often our attack slowed up because no one had the confidence to just go for it.

All our front players looked as though they couldnt score in 90 years let alone 90 minutes. And the one player who can score recently , Russell sat on the bench most of the match.

Glenn still does not inspire me as a manager and I stand by my prediction that he will be gone by Christmas. And yes its only one game, but believe me Coventry were poor and will struggle this season, should have at least been one point, but with that line up of strikers just aint going to happen. Oh and our right back Omosuzi is very poor and really should not be on the pitch gave away second goal and made countless mistakes.

Only other person worse on the pitch was the Ref who was never up with play and rarely played or indicated advantage.

[/quote]I''m pretty confident this is a wind up.It is isn''t it?

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It''s a shame we never got the chance to watch Huckerby and Hoolahan in the same team, because I think they''d have linked up well together. There were times today when Hoolahan fed inch-perfect balls through to Cureton, Croft and Lupoli but none of them had the pace or skill to get onto them properly.

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I really struggle to see how Glenn let Huckerby go, at least he can score goals and beat players! Wes looks good and plays neat passing but never really threatened, sorry Glenn he is not in the same league as Hucks, oh but hey he is young so bound to be better! Too often our attack slowed up because no one had the confidence to just go for it.

All our front players looked as though they couldnt score in 90 years let alone 90 minutes. And the one player who can score recently , Russell sat on the bench most of the match.

Glenn still does not inspire me as a manager and I stand by my prediction that he will be gone by Christmas. And yes its only one game, but believe me Coventry were poor and will struggle this season, should have at least been one point, but with that line up of strikers just aint going to happen. Oh and our right back Omosuzi is very poor and really should not be on the pitch gave away second goal and made countless mistakes.

Only other person worse on the pitch was the Ref who was never up with play and rarely played or indicated advantage.

[/quote]Were you there? If so are you blind? Hoolahan controlled the first half, and looked 10 x the player Hucks did last season, his link up with Lupoli was stunning and he took players on at every opportunity - Doesn''t matter how good he looked though, some people will never be able to admit he is a decent player because his name isn''t Huckerby - Jesus man, let it go, not once in the entire game did i think we missed Hucks, and guess what? Hoolahan even crossed the halfway and helped out defensively - believe it or not LW are meant to have an attacking AND defensive element to their game.

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[quote user="Disco Dale"]His link up with Lupoli was "stunning"?You really havent got a clue mate, just like all the other Hucks haters.[/quote]

im not a hucks hater.. i was critical of him when i thought he needed it in his time here... no ones beyond criticism when they havent played well.. but i do feel it was the right time for him to move on.... Look at the MLS.. he is setting the league on fire over there... somethign he hasnt done in the past 2 seasons here...

 He was starting to find it harder to stake his authority on games in the championship and looked slower last season... the time was right for him to go...

if that makes me a hcuks hater then so be it.

jas :)

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Roeder''s currently one of the outsider''s to be the first one to lose his job at 20-1...

Aside from that Huckerby is gone to San Jose, there is no chance of him re-signing for Norwich whilst Glenn Roeder is in charge. If he does not ''inspire'' you as a manager then perhaps you would have been happier with the people mentioned for the job at the time; Paul Jewell, still looking for his first league win at Derby... How about Ian Holloway, plenty to say for himself, did a good job with Leciester and did something Roeder failed to do with Norwich (that''s relegation in case you''re wondering). Now I only hope that eitheir this is a joke thread, although I have my doubts, or you''re one of these attention seeking negative posters who need to just take a deep breath and relax a little...

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Now I''m being a 100% honest here. In December (ish) I was one of the few people on this message board whom were hyper-critical of old Hux, I''ll hold my hands up and admit that. There were many people on here who disagreed with me, very vocally. Come the end of the season Hux proved us doubters wrong. In those last 5-6 games Huckerby was the premier performer of the team, and I don''t think you could really argue against that, he was good, and probably one of the deciding factors in us being the right side of that little white line come the end of may. He proved he still had it in this league and I believe he still has the ability in this league to perform to some level. I find it rather annoying that now he was released that people are very quick to jump on the critical band-wagon. The facts of the matter are; Huckerby had a poor season, he suffered with injuries but come the end of the season he came good. You can''t deny that to him. He''s moved on, he''s spanking teams in the MLS and it''s a shame he''s not in our squad, I''m gonna say that because I believe that. Would any of you actually prefer to not have him in our squad now then not have him in our squad? Because if you do, then either you know little about football, you believe the stupid stuff you think up too much or you are just trolling to upset people who are generally un-happy that one of the best players we have had in recent times was un-ceremoniously dumped with no thank you. And please don''t give me none of that "get over it" s***, because quite frankly if you can''t be bothered to counter-argue then don''t even bother.

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Fellaa, I would still have him in the squad no problem at all, although his wages were not cheap he would have still done a job for us. We did rely too much on him and I think sometimes our play was affected by this. But he won''t be back, well maybe if GR goes.

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[quote user="Fellas"]Now I''m being a 100% honest here. In December (ish) I was one of the few people on this message board whom were hyper-critical of old Hux, I''ll hold my hands up and admit that. There were many people on here who disagreed with me, very vocally. Come the end of the season Hux proved us doubters wrong. In those last 5-6 games Huckerby was the premier performer of the team, and I don''t think you could really argue against that, he was good, and probably one of the deciding factors in us being the right side of that little white line come the end of may. He proved he still had it in this league and I believe he still has the ability in this league to perform to some level. I find it rather annoying that now he was released that people are very quick to jump on the critical band-wagon. The facts of the matter are; Huckerby had a poor season, he suffered with injuries but come the end of the season he came good. You can''t deny that to him. He''s moved on, he''s spanking teams in the MLS and it''s a shame he''s not in our squad, I''m gonna say that because I believe that. Would any of you actually prefer to not have him in our squad now then not have him in our squad? Because if you do, then either you know little about football, you believe the stupid stuff you think up too much or you are just trolling to upset people who are generally un-happy that one of the best players we have had in recent times was un-ceremoniously dumped with no thank you.

And please don''t give me none of that "get over it" s***, because quite frankly if you can''t be bothered to counter-argue then don''t even bother.
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Thing is though that he came good only in the last few games of the season, and we needed that every game, Hucks will always be a NC legend, no one will ever deny that fact.  I would however question whether he suddenly came back good because he knew that he wasn''t going to be offered a contract and he was ''''putting himself in the shop window'''' a bit.  It''s all what if''s and maybe''s.

But, would I have the Hucks back, the one of 2 + years ago, you''re damn right I would, but he lost his pace and seemed his hip problem wasn''t going to go away, and as he ages it might have got worse.

I don''t see anyone on here saying that it was right the way he was dealt with, it wasn''t.

However, it would make more sense for people to move on and sometimes I get fed up with some posting on and on and on about Huck''s, he''s not coming back, he knows it, and we know it.  I don''t think I have ever seen so many posts about one player leaving and those mourning his departure like you would a long lost relative.  As they say life goes on, and so must we.

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Hux basically wasn''t interested last season (and I would argue the season before) - not motivated and just going through the motions. There was also the mystery of the hip injury (did that clear up on its own, or has he had surgery?). Whatever, Huckerby wasn''t a threat to anyone last season; he didn''t score many and didn''t create many. Roeder wasn''t having any more of that attitude and didn''t renew his contract, and I support him in that. Regarding Hoolahan, I didn''t go to the game, but listening to RN he pretty much ran the show attack-wise in the first half. He''ll be much more valuable to us than Hux has been in the last 2 or 3 seasons, even though he may not be as talented a footballer. A great signing, and I reckon if you took a poll among other CCC managers, our signings would be the envy of most.

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There was also the mystery of the hip injury (did that clear up on its own, or has he had surgery?).

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He had injections from a specialist in London.  The first time it worked for a while, the second time he sat out a few games afterwards and seemed to be OK from then on (about mid March onwards). 

 

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[quote user="Fellas"]Now I''m being a 100% honest here. In December (ish) I was one of the few people on this message board whom were hyper-critical of old Hux, I''ll hold my hands up and admit that. There were many people on here who disagreed with me, very vocally. Come the end of the season Hux proved us doubters wrong. In those last 5-6 games Huckerby was the premier performer of the team, and I don''t think you could really argue against that, he was good, and probably one of the deciding factors in us being the right side of that little white line come the end of may. He proved he still had it in this league and I believe he still has the ability in this league to perform to some level. I find it rather annoying that now he was released that people are very quick to jump on the critical band-wagon. The facts of the matter are; Huckerby had a poor season, he suffered with injuries but come the end of the season he came good. You can''t deny that to him. He''s moved on, he''s spanking teams in the MLS and it''s a shame he''s not in our squad, I''m gonna say that because I believe that. Would any of you actually prefer to not have him in our squad now then not have him in our squad? Because if you do, then either you know little about football, you believe the stupid stuff you think up too much or you are just trolling to upset people who are generally un-happy that one of the best players we have had in recent times was un-ceremoniously dumped with no thank you. And please don''t give me none of that "get over it" s***, because quite frankly if you can''t be bothered to counter-argue then don''t even bother.[/quote]

 

Thing is though that he came good only in the last few games of the season, and we needed that every game, Hucks will always be a NC legend, no one will ever deny that fact.  I would however question whether he suddenly came back good because he knew that he wasn''t going to be offered a contract and he was ''''putting himself in the shop window'''' a bit.  It''s all what if''s and maybe''s.

But, would I have the Hucks back, the one of 2 + years ago, you''re damn right I would, but he lost his pace and seemed his hip problem wasn''t going to go away, and as he ages it might have got worse.

I don''t see anyone on here saying that it was right the way he was dealt with, it wasn''t.

However, it would make more sense for people to move on and sometimes I get fed up with some posting on and on and on about Huck''s, he''s not coming back, he knows it, and we know it.  I don''t think I have ever seen so many posts about one player leaving and those mourning his departure like you would a long lost relative.  As they say life goes on, and so must we.

[/quote]Very good.It could be reasoned that Hux was "shop-windowing" but in relatity he never sought a move to another club in this country and that norwich was the only club for him. That said if he was only doing it to get a new contract it would seem very strange that he feels so passionately for the club to 1. not play for another rival in this country, 2. to buy a season ticket and 3. to sing the praises of the club so much. Hux was fore-most fiercely loyal to this club and obviously a big player in the dressing-room, maybe too big, but I''m not gonna get involved in that minefield because only 2 people know whethere that''s right or not and they aren''t gonna come on here and say.Now the reason I post on this subject is because I''m genuinely intrigued as to a situation that may arrise: Come November and maybe we are still struggling to score and create goals, and although he we aren''t doing that bad we need to bring somebody in. Huckerby has just come back from America, he''s netted about 8 goals, he''s in form and living in Norwich. Would you have him back on a loan? Rather than seeing him sitting in the Jarrod Stand, would you like to see him sitting on the bench ready to come on? I''m under no illusions, hux would struggle to complete a 90 in this league now, but the thought of him coming off the bench with 15 to go and charging at defenders is one that would be very welcome in my mind anytime. That said that''s my opinions and thoughts and it''s obvious a lot of people don''t share those.Now for me there is little difference between Hux and several other players who have left and I have followed their careers thoroughly, just because they gave me such pleasure to watch during their time here. I''m probably one of the few who really likes Dean Ashton, of course because I''m in such a minority I don''t go shooting off about it, I''d take him back anyday of the year and I probably would of even say Leon McKenzie. These views of course aren''t shared so much by the NCFC public I don''t give a s*** what most of the NCFC public say because to be quite frank quite a few of them are idiots. I like Hux and so I''ll follow his career, that''s my decision and if some school kid doesn''t like then don''t bother to post, simple as.[quote user="Old Boy"]Whatever, Huckerby wasn''t a threat to anyone last season; he didn''t score many and didn''t create many.[/quote]I bet QPR, Burnley and the Uwes wern''t saying that... lol...

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[quote user="Fellas"]Now I''m being a 100% honest here. In December (ish) I was one of the few people on this message board whom were hyper-critical of old Hux, I''ll hold my hands up and admit that. There were many people on here who disagreed with me, very vocally. Come the end of the season Hux proved us doubters wrong. In those last 5-6 games Huckerby was the premier performer of the team, and I don''t think you could really argue against that, he was good, and probably one of the deciding factors in us being the right side of that little white line come the end of may. He proved he still had it in this league and I believe he still has the ability in this league to perform to some level. I find it rather annoying that now he was released that people are very quick to jump on the critical band-wagon. The facts of the matter are; Huckerby had a poor season, he suffered with injuries but come the end of the season he came good. You can''t deny that to him. He''s moved on, he''s spanking teams in the MLS and it''s a shame he''s not in our squad, I''m gonna say that because I believe that. Would any of you actually prefer to not have him in our squad now then not have him in our squad? Because if you do, then either you know little about football, you believe the stupid stuff you think up too much or you are just trolling to upset people who are generally un-happy that one of the best players we have had in recent times was un-ceremoniously dumped with no thank you.

And please don''t give me none of that "get over it" s***, because quite frankly if you can''t be bothered to counter-argue then don''t even bother.
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Fellas, I don''t get to see the games so I cannot comment from that point of view, however, surely the relevant argument to counter anyone who thinks Huckerby should still be in the team is that it isn''t what the manager wanted. It is Roeder''s responsibility to determine what he feels he can make work effectively as a manager. That encompasses everything on the pitch during matchday along with everything that goes on in the build-up to that. Roeder made his determination for whatever his reasons were and he is the one best positioned to understand all those elements. Time for everyone to support what we''ve got, not what we had.

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LOL hahahahahahaha

I love how everyone still talks about Hucks everyday, even the people who keep typing ''get over it'' enjoy talking about him. You''re just swimming in the Nile.

 

OTBC

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Can''t this be moved to the Huckerby section please, I CAN''T BELIEVE IT HAS ITS OWN SECTION, I am fed up of hearing about this bloke.

We have a new team to follow now, so get behind them.

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[quote user="Canaries in Bed"]Agree with Jas. He has gone, we have new ''heros'' so let it lie please.[/quote]

 

So who''s your new hero?

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