Canary’s Still Missing Home Comforts

Article by e-Norwich City Correspondent Colin Rowe

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It would be very easy for to write a few hundred word on why, yet again, Norwich have managed to back up a fantastic victory at Carrow Road with an abject, vapid performance away from home, but it happens with such troubling regularity it is becoming boring.

Similarly, it will have undoubtedly be written in other outlets about how City keep heaping pressure on their home fixtures when they so consistently lose on the road, with the case now in point next weekend’s game against West Bromwich Albion.

Other reports might also speculate, with differing opinions, about whether or not the Pride of Anglia can now amass enough points to stay up, especially given the tough final four matches of this season.

Of course all Y’Army member hope the boys in yellow can survive another season, but one thing we can guarantee after the Liberty Stadium horror show is this will come down, at least in part, to how other teams perform.

However, this week e-Norwich does not want to talk about any of these things, but to speculate about an idea first conceived during the second half at Swansea.

Is it possible to have a manager specifically for away matches?

What has become increasingly obvious this season is Chris Hughton can get results at home, especially in the must win games, but becomes totally clueless at any other ground.

The statistics on goals conceded has been mentioned before on this blog, but they keep becoming more troubling.

At home Norwich have a goal difference of plus three and have conceded just one goal at Carrow Road in 2014, an average of just 0.16 goals a game.

Away, our goal difference is minus 28 and Norwich have let in 18 goals this year, an average of 2.57 a game.

Although it is dull to watch, Hughton’s defensive tactics at least get us results at home, but a similar outlook away results in Norwich conceding copious amounts of goals.

With this in mind I call upon David McNally to appoint an away game manager, who can at least ensure Norwich battle for results on the road.

Being a smaller Premiership side means away wins are always going to be few and far between, with most relegation battlers relying on good home form to stay up.

However, it is the nature of recent away displays which shocks most Norwich fans.

In our last three trips, to Swansea, Southampton and Aston Villa, Norwich have conceded 11 goals, but in the previous three, against West Ham, Cardiff and Everton, City let in just 6.

Letting in 6 is of cause still a troubling in itself, but it shows we are getting worse at a time when our form needs to be rapidly improving.

The way Norwich are performing at home shows the Canary’s stand a reasonable chance of getting a win against the Baggies next weekend and victory at Fulham the weekend after should be enough for Premiership survival, but given our recent record at Craven Cottage and away form in general it is pretty difficult to imagine a situation where City break their hoodoo in West London.

Many Norwich fans will not want to dwell on the weekends result and it is hard to blame them, but what is becoming increasingly clear is the Canary’s will probably relying on other teams results to get over the line this season.

Oh well, bring on West Brom.

On The Ball City!

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