Are you honestly telling me that you didn't think Houghton played well for the first of this season?? We were conceding goals because we were attacking, so that was tactical rather than all on one person.
Luckily the vast majority know what they are looking at and at the half stage fo the season when there was a 'player of the season' thus far poll Houghton was up there alongside Morgs, Gibson and Hardie.
Ask me, has he improved from last season. The answer is yes. The championship seems to allow him to showcase his abilities better.
However, is he good enough. Obviously not. If he were good enough we wouldn't be at our best playing a counter attacking transitional style.
Even Schumacher himself said in a interview about his lack of althetism. Now look in the championship & see the type of central midfielders these clubs have. They are all like durrcell bunnies for 90 mins.
You say he was up their as player of the season. Cooper who season was cut short by injury had more impact in games than Houghton last season. Then there is Niall Ennis. I can you don't even mention Randell who played alongside him all year who had a more impactful season than him.
Tell me something he does really well that impacts / influences our team & gets it playing well. Infact better still show tell me a game this year he was MotM in that we won. As he was that good. He doesn't even defend well which if you watched yesterday even one of the commentaters said 'Norwich players shouldn't be able to run at our back line like they are doing'.
I'm not totally biased, l did see a loverly ball he played for Hardie to fluff his second best chance. Yet he is a soild league one player. The same as Dan Scarr. You need more pace & althetism the higher up you go. Or you need to be exceptionally gifted technically on the ball.
However, if you really think Houghton is the answer to our midfield then l watch a totally different game to you. Fans give up on Foster after 3 months. Yet they give Houghton 3 years to be nothing more than mediocre. Crazy.
