I really can't be arsed to write an essay about it

And it's not particularly easy to explain in absentia

Basically, one of the reasons that Hucks was a success here was that we were prepared to grant him the freedom to do whatever the hell he liked, which was pretty much the only way to get the best out of him. Earnshaw was similar in that as long as you had no expectations of him doing anything at all outside the box, he would score you goals. Having two players with that sort of license in the same team at the same time put the rest of the side very badly under the hammer.

As it was, Ashton had just left; we could either we put a big, mobile lad alongside McKenzie and leave Hucks to it on the left, or buy a big, mobile lad to play up front with Hucks and an orthodox left midfielder to give the team a proper shape (And IMO Hucks wasn't suited to that role), or what we did do was spunk every penny we had on Earnshaw leaving us with a total lack of presence up front and a hole down the left hand side which teams could take the piss out of.

Sadly, we went for option 3. But, as Worthy's idea of a decent "Big mobile lad" was allegedly Chris Brown, maybe it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Posted By: Iwan Husarmi on May 8th 2008 at 17:53:29

Message Thread

was robert earnshaw a success or failure for NCFC? (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 16:57:54
- big fat FAILURE (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:09:24
- success (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 17:08:14
- Success - scored lots of goals and broke even on him. (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 8, 17:01:28
  - How could anyone ever regard Earnie as a bad signing? (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:10:05
    - wrong signing, badly timed, didn't fit the squad, didn't do us much good really (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:20:13
      - We needed a goalscorer = he scored goals (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:44:11
        
        yeah, and imagine someone having to inherit a that squad without him? (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:45:41
        
        Grant by that point was signing a lot of 'his' players (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:50:49
        
        I think Hamilton was worse than Grant (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:54:52
        
        Agree to a degree (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:59:12
        
        bit like fozzy this season then? (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 18:01:49
        
        Whats like fozzy? (n/m) (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:03:16
        
        injured innit (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 18:05:00
        
        When hes good, hes very very good (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:07:40
        
        not what im saying in the slightest (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:52:09
        
        Calm down dear (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:54:46
        
        haha, pots and kettles (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:56:14
        
        Righto - Well what on earth (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:01:09
        
        that anyone who took the job when he did, had a mountain to climb (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 18:04:05
        
        BUT he was (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:07:09
        
        that's because you've deserved it (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:57:22
        
        As I learnt to expect, and it's never stopped, (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:57:11
        
        SUPER PETER GRANT (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:53:42
        
        nah he just WAS the worst norwich manager ever (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:47:12
        
        to be fair he never saw the impact earnie had (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:45:25
      - yeah 27 goals in 45 appearances was poor (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:23:22
        
        15 love (n/m) (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:25:03
        
        For the team as a whole, very much the wrong signing (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:30:45
        
        so you'd rather he scored less (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:33:28
        
        Er....yes. Are you unfamiliar with the concept of "team"? (n/m) (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:35:43
        
        not really (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:39:13
        
        There's no "I" in team (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:37:19
        
        I really can't be arsed to write an essay about it (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:53:29
        
        being as Chris Brown joined us 3 months after Worthy had been sacked (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 18:55:44
        
        I'm not (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 19:06:45
        
        but he didn't... (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 19:29:26
        
        See again, Chadders is a worthy signing for me (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 19:41:30
        
        even unofficially it was under Grant that he came to us (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 21:10:40
        
        I think of Brown as something to do with Worthy too (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 19:21:33
        
        arrers! (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:40:48
        
        sorry 4 in himself (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:41:10
        
        and also he's being blamed for being too good (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:34:05
        
        You are missing nothing (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:36:31
        
        made money on him :) (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:37:52
        
        Christ, am I actually agreeing with Himmers? (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:32:15
        
        you're both mental yes (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:34:23
- Success for waht he did (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 16:59:59
  - hucks did the same no? (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:03:37
    - No, not at all. (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 17:09:02
      - but nobody wanted to join us (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:10:36
        
        How do you know? and who did we look for? (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 19:02:12
      - oh and a million on earnie would of left £2.5m to spend elsewhere (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 17:10:11
        
        you're speaking as if we had a pick of decent players (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:11:42
        
        too many people here used to playing championship manager (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:14:46
        
        I reckon the word patronizing has more sting to it when you spell it like that. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, May 8, 17:23:28
        
        I honestly believe that, (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:16:02
        
        spot on (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:17:27
        
        i'll drink to that (n/m) (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:21:25
        
        quit moaning about petrol prices then :P (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:34:13
        
        meggers, a suggestion (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:11:19
        
        Yeah, i should HAVE been out the door ten minutes before i posted that though. (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 18:55:57
        
        tell him to fuck have meggers (n/m) (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:12:05
        
        rolf (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 18:54:52
- he did miss a shit load of chances but i reckon he was a success. (NCFC) - NCFC4life, May 8, 16:59:49
  - indeed the stats don't lie (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:01:46
- Success (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 16:59:00

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