Tony_Kaufman
Here's a truck stop instead of St Peter's
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How many good games do we get from Norwood compared to bad? He's 50/50 at best and that's being generous. He was great up until about October last season where, alongside Norrington-Davies, he was arguably our best and most consistent player, then he reverted back to standard Norwood. One game good, the next game you'd ask if he was even on the pitch. Throughout his United career he can be summed up as consistently inconsistent.Norwood was our best midfielder from August to Jan/Feb.
He, like others, might be struggling under the overall malaise but he would still be useful when we likely go down.
Next season I want to see someone in the middle who can influence a game consistently, who you look back every 10 games and say he was good for 7 or 8 of those matches, not 4 or 5 of them like Norwood. He's been here for 6 seasons and has regressed. He can't track back and defend anymore, his deadballs are awful. He rarely contributes a goal or assist and his one skill, the ping, doesn't work anymore.
It's a huge no for me. Like Egan and McBurnie he's massively over rated as far as I'm concerned. I'd put a 38 year old Stuart McCall and 38 year old Gary Speed ahead of Norwood in terms of who's been a more influential and better central midfielder for the Blades.