Norgood

[PokerBlade]

Played some sublime passes in the first half. Somehow in that second half the whole team collapsed. Norwood made the more noticeable mistakes but if we're criticising anyone then Fleck had a really poor all round game by his standards.

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

I agree, Lunny is far better and more physical. Norwood is just lightweight and passes sideways and backwards. Neshed about 5 tackles tonight. Bring back Evans, Lenny and Monty.

To be fair if Evans had put in a performance like Norwood tonight, there'd be people round these parts who would be prepping a lynch mob...

 

[Bartleby]

Now know why he gets dumped by premiership sides appalling bring back lunny!!

troll

 

[GrayBlade]

Ollie is one of our 4 best players if not the best. How can one post from a new poster who’s either on the wind-up or maybe even Pork mask the fact that the second half was probably down to the kid being knackered, he’s not had a break since he came. I can’t believe thst some are taking the OP seriously.

 

[stringer]

Great Dane's cheekbones,
Teenage hormones,
Young complexion,
Non-physical affection.
You're a god send;
Do you want a boyfriend?
Crazy crazy, easy tiger!

Underrated post.

 

[1889]

I’m not making excuses for him, but it has been slightly breezy today. Who knows how strong the wind is out on the pitch or how that affected aerial passes?
Granted, it doesn’t explain him passing it straight to their player in the second half, but I think he’s probably earned the benefit of the doubt

 

[SUFC Guy]

The woodwork is predictably turfing them out again tonight. God help the poor little souls if we go and beat Preston

 

[Northyorksblade]

Played some sublime passes in the first half. Somehow in that second half the whole team collapsed. Norwood made the more noticeable mistakes but if we're criticising anyone then Fleck had a really poor all round game by his standards.

Was Fleck playing?

 

[Trigger Blade]

It's taken a few weeks, but we've dragged him down to our level.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I’m not making excuses for him, but it has been slightly breezy today. Who knows how strong the wind is out on the pitch or how that affected aerial passes?
Granted, it doesn’t explain him passing it straight to their player in the second half, but I think he’s probably earned the benefit of the doubt

No. Let's hate him now.

 

[grafikhaus]

How he was still taking all our set pieces at the end of the game I’ve no idea, they’d been awful all match and we kept letting him take them.

Because our set pieces have been appalling for about a year until Norwood arrived?

 

[Houston_Blade]

1/10 for effort.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

This is an awful lot of discussion for what I think was a (shit) attempt at sarcasm in the OP.

 

[Jon Bon II]

Shut up you fucking dickhead.

Shut the fuck up, nobhead.

Hmmm... I like 'dickhead' but I also like 'nobhead'. But which one is worse? Only one way to find out.....

 

[Chali 2na]

We not giving him any credit for the title?

I thought Norgood was quite funny.

 

[I should coco]

I thought Norgood was quite funny.

I believe that the nice Michael McIntyre is hilarious too.

 

[BLADES1988]

Now know why he gets dumped by premiership sides appalling bring back lunny!!

NORGERRIMSELTTT

 

[Chali 2na]

I believe that the nice Michael McIntyre is hilarious too.

You're just jealous because you didn't think of it

 

[GroovyBrad]

Now know why he gets dumped by premiership sides appalling bring back lunny!!

 

[Fulwood Blade]

One of the best defence splitting passes we'll see all season.

This is what he can do - even when playing poorly, in what was a generally poor team performance (defence and GK excluded)

UTB

 

[blade67]

Norwood played more missed placed passes tonight than Lundstram has in half a dozen games or more. However, I'm not gonna get on his back. Nor should we get on Lundstrams back.

Poor game all round tonight. They're in a false position, it will click and they will challenge top 6. May see that as a decent point come May.

Agree regards Birmingham, I've seen them 3 times now and they look a decent side but can't put the ball away. If 1 or 2 of their forwards starts to finish the chances off they will fly up the league

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Everybody has a stinker.

 

[Bergen Blade]

For the sake of balance, I'd say that 50% of his passes/set pieces were misplaced and 50% were excellent. He put over a couple of good corners first half that just needed a connection and the pass to Baldock (from which he should have scored) was sublime.

Just thought it was a flat and lethargic performance all round tonight, apart from Egan and Basham who at least defended well and Henderson made a couple of excellent saves.

Noticed Norwood did complete more passes than anyone else on the pitch... His pass completion was 79%, bettered by four teammates, though this includes Washington, who played 5 passes all game, 4 successful.

Player - passes - successful - %

Henderson 17 12 71

Bash 58 45 78
Egan 61 55 90
O'Connell 78 64 82

Baldock 25 16 64
Norwood 86 68 79
Fleck 49 38 78
Johnson 39 26 67

Duffy 36 30 83

Clarke 9 6 67
Washington 5 4 80

 

[Working Class Hero]

Noticed Norwood did complete more passes than anyone else on the pitch... His pass completion was 79%, bettered by four teammates, though this includes Washington, who played 5 passes all game, 4 successful.

Player - passes - successful - %

Henderson 17 12 71

Bash 58 45 78
Egan 61 55 90
O'Connell 78 64 82

Baldock 25 16 64
Norwood 86 68 79
Fleck 49 38 78
Johnson 39 26 67

Duffy 36 30 83

Clarke 9 6 67
Washington 5 4 80

Duffy's stats are impressive there when you consider how much further he plays up the pitch and the tight spots he tends to be in when playing those passes. A few have said he had a poor game Wednesday but I actually thought he was one of our better players.

 

[Benny and the Blades]

you are definitely as good as your last game on this board …….

 

[Bergen Blade]

Duffy's stats are impressive there when you consider how much further he plays up the pitch and the tight spots he tends to be in when playing those passes. A few have said he had a poor game Wednesday but I actually thought he was one of our better players.

My immediate reaction to those numbers are that our defenders make a lot of passes, while we struggle to get the forwards involved. Not an expert on these stats though, it would have been interesting to see the numbers compared to ones vs Villa, where we seemed to have great rhythm to our passing.

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

To be fair if Evans had put in a performance like Norwood tonight, there'd be people round these parts who would be prepping a lynch mob...

Not if Evans had put in the kind of performances in that Norwood has in his previous games.

 

[Balham]

My immediate reaction to those numbers are that our defenders make a lot of passes, while we struggle to get the forwards involved. Not an expert on these stats though, it would have been interesting to see the numbers compared to ones vs Villa, where we seemed to have great rhythm to our passing.

Calling Blades Analytics

 

[LenTednTony]

Let’s be honest, it was a ‘meh’ first half and Norwood was the best of the bunch. The second half was poor and no one shone except McGoldrick and that was only for his big heart full of running and doing a CAM job!

 

[blade67]

Duffy's stats are impressive there when you consider how much further he plays up the pitch and the tight spots he tends to be in when playing those passes. A few have said he had a poor game Wednesday but I actually thought he was one of our better players.

Duffy is bloody fantastic isn't he?

Genuinely brilliant signing by Wilder, I love watching clever players. He;s not big quick or strong but just finds space and then in dangerous areas picks his man time and again