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4 pointsI and I'm sure all Norwich fans will wish Ricky well and hope for a full and speedy recovery.
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3 pointsWell apart from the hyperbole about our defending being League One standard. We wouldn't be in the Prem if that were the case. Also, Lawrensen is a massive tool
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3 pointsMy apologies folks, I certainly should not have said that. We have brilliant fans, and a truly amazing community on here of which Iâve been a part of for many years - I most certainly should not have reacted on here to a couple of really stupid and insensitive comments (since deleted) Iâd just read on Twitter regarding Ricky. I was very annoyed but I was wrong to react, so my apologies guys.
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2 pointsRubbish. How many times did we name the starting 11 last year? E had an empty physio room lots of last year and form was keeping those players out. The issues we have had are with the same players picking up new injuries, I think it says more about those players tbh. One of the hallmarks of Webber and Farke has been careful attention to easing players back for the long term benefit. This is a freak week I would say.
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2 pointsI don't think you can pick up a knee injury from being hacked on social media. I know that hackers are developing their skills all the time, but I doubt they've got this far.
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1 pointI hope none of them lose their trousers while running onto the pitch, you might get into trouble đđđ
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1 pointHope he does a Godfrey, a season at Shrewsbury and returns as one of our most valuable assets.
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1 pointNot a surprise we get underated....we are the easy targets. If we can get a few types of results like last season - I mean the 3-2's, 4-3's, last minute equalisers/winners etc - against teams supposed to beat us, we will start to be taken a little more seriously as a team that can do things - and in a much more entertaining way than most of the bottom half of the PL. As for the many lazy and stale pundits who are somehow still being asked their opinions, they will hopefully have to backtrack as the season moves on.
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1 pointNo, just 100 lines: I donât deserve these tickets and would like to apologise to everybody more deserving for taking what was rightfully theirs.
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1 pointHuge loss. Hernandez on his day is a one of a very few match winners we have. His pace and directness will be missed, hopefully Roberts can step up. Cantwell on the wing isn't the answer for me. With regard to Tettey, I really hope we don't have to resort to starting him in the PL. Quite frankly he just isn't good enough at this level. If Amadou has settled in and fit then he needs to play. We also need to find a way to accommodate Leitner and Vrancic together. We need our best players on the pitch asap. Drimic and Klose are concerning. With a recent history of injuries, general fitness and injury resilience will be questioned.
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1 pointIs there a prize for this quiz? How about a poor quality NCFC scarf.
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1 pointAlways fun when you can entirely predict someones opinion before the event.
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1 pointShi*e news indeed -- The last Roberts who played for the club did okay mind đ
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1 pointI think he is just an unlucky chap. I really hope he does well at Shrewsbury, just as Ben did, and comes back an injury free, strong player.
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1 pointPukki needs to be wrapped in cotton wool from match day to match day. If only Hernandez was as enamoured with bungalows as he is with Argos!
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1 point3 months at least, if he's done his ACL he may not feature at all this season. Awful luck.
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1 pointSnap On the way back thought it would be a good idea to go into Grimsby a bit to get fish and chips. Coach was surrounded and pelted with stones ( those were the days ). Coach was organised by us all from The Mustard Pot as it was then.
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1 pointNo worries Alex, you're the best herpetoligist we knowđ
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1 pointI didnât know David but I do recognise him as Iâm sure plenty of others do too. A minutes applause on 49 minutes when we play Chelsea has been planned I believe
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1 pointPosted this in another thread but I think it deserves its own after the negative press weâve received. In the first of a brand new Monday column, Mark OâHaire (@MarkOHaire) shares his thoughts on one of the weekendâs major talking points from across the footballing globe. Weekend Debrief: There's more to football than the final score Liverpool kicked-off the 2019/20 Premier League campaign with a 4-1 victory over newly-promoted Norwich in front of the Sky Sports cameras on Friday night. If you missed the match, headline reports would back up your probable assumption that the European champions handed out a âthrashingâ and a âdrubbingâ to the wide-eyed Canaries at Anfield. However, anyone who watched the 90 minutes â or inspected the performance data post-match â would tell you that Norwich put in a bold, brave and competitive effort. Sure, the newcomers showed signs of naivety, yes, the Canaries werenât great in their defensive transitions, but itâs true too that the final scoreline flattered Jurgen Kloppâs charges. If weâre going to be governed by goals, Norwich conceded a daft own goal to break the deadlock, before a wicked deflection in the penalty area gave Liverpool a great opportunity to double their lead. Terrible defending from a set-piece â a reasonably low percentage goal to concede in data terms â ended the encounter as a contest soon after. All three goals were completely avoidable. But not just in terms of luck or fortune, which the opening two strikes could be considered. The third was also entirely preventable, although how many players can genuinely say theyâll come out on top of an aerial duel with Virgil Van Dijk this season? Theyâll be few and far between, thatâs for sure. Iâve seen suggestions that Norwich âoffered very little resistanceâ and that the Canaries were âbatteredâ. Other reports described a âfirst-half blitzâ as the Merseysiders sent out a âstatement of intentâ. None of this is true. The visitors actually won the shot count in the opening 45 minutes and Iâm convinced these reports are born out of outcome bias. Were we governed by outcome bias? Outcome bias is an error made in evaluating the quality of a decision when the outcome of that decision is already known. In this instance, weâre being blinded by the goals in the game, and not the process, nor the actual opportunities created and conceded at Anfield. Youâd have to be a dope to ignore the fearless intent from Norwich on Merseyside. Liverpool allowed more shots at Anfield on Friday than in any home Premier League game last season, and the Reds conceded five on-target efforts â more than any Anfield outing in 2018/19. So why are focusing all our attention on their supposed defensive flaws? Firstly, Liverpool were below last termâs average in their Expected Goals (xG), shots, shots on-target and shots in the box figures. I know game state plays a part here and the hosts noticeably took their foot off the gas in the second period, but Iâd still argue they were far from dominating in the first-half. Secondly, Norwich were without key centre-half and skipper Christoph Zimmermann. Peculiarly, Aston Villa were described as âbraveâ and putting up âstern resistanceâ following their 3-1 loss at White Hart Lane. That was despite grabbing an early breakaway goal and facing a relentless Spurs side that pressed and pressured before finally getting their rewards for an assertive performance the final half hour. Villa were well and fairly beaten whichever way you look at it. Ignore the media narrative The narrative weâre fed by the media rarely reflects what was seen on the field. Jamie Carragher seemed confused in his assessments of Norwich throughout Friday evening; at one point, Daniel Farkeâs men were praised for staying true to their principles with âCarraâ comparing Brendan Rodgersâ Swansea side to last seasonâs Championship champions. But by half-time, Carragher was panning the Norfolk outfit for their suicidal attacking approach. Pragmatism was being pleaded for when â anyone who saw Norwich take top honours in the second-tier last term would tell you â itâs simply not their style, nor their strengths. Why curb your instincts, or whatâs worked so well for you for 12 months? Near the end of the contest, Carragher changed his tune again. âIt may seem like a strange thing to say off the back of Liverpool winning 4-1 with 10 minutes to go, but against a better side who are more clinical, Liverpool could have lost this game.â Gary Neville also chimed in post-match, âOn another day there's no doubt Norwich could have had three or four goalsâ. So why on earth arenât we queuing up to pile plaudits on the Canaries for their adventurous approach? After all, this match was pretty much a free-hit for the newcomers â nobody expected Norwich to pick up points at Anfield on the opening day. Sticking to your principles Speaking after the match, Farke quite rightly stressed the importance of remaining faithful to the formula that had earned his side top-flight promotion. He said: âWe have to stick to our beliefs. Of course, we have to defend a bit more solid, but it's also a few lessons for the lads on the pitch to learn.â More sense was spoken thereafter as Farke added, âI know no-one wants to speak about it now after this result but in that first half we had nearly the same possession, we had more chances and more shots, but the reality is they had four shots on our goal and were 4-0 up at half-time. That is unbelievably unlucky. Our performance deserved much more.â Here, here. What was rarely touched upon across the mainstream media was Norwichâs starting XI, with only Grant Hanley and Tim Krul enjoying previous Premier League experience. This is a young team, an exciting side thatâs packed with potential and Iâm adamant theyâll bloody a few noses over the next nine months, especially the sides looking over their shoulders. Parallels with Bournemouth Bournemouth are a fine team, and there are parallels with the Carrow Road club. Since promotion to the Premier League, the Cherries have pocketed just W7-D6-L35 against the Big Six â thatâs a 73% loss rate with just 6/48 (!3%) clean sheets kept. Eddie Howe refuses to change tact against the leagueâs elite and instead produces against the lesser lights. Bournemouthâs four previous campaigns have seen the south coast club finish 16th-9th-12th-14th for an average position of 13th. Why? Because they score goals, they attack teams and their audacious and courageous approach pays dividend. Last term, only the Big Six scored more than the Cherries, whilst just Fulham and Huddersfield conceded more. Looking at Premier League records this century, the lowest-scoring side has been relegated 74% of the time across those 19 seasons. On three other occasions, the team to finish with the fewest goals (and survived), suffered demotion the following year. Meanwhile, in each of the last four campaigns, a team has shipped at least 67 goals (1.76 per-game) and stayed up. The top-flight has evolved in recent years. The standard of coaching in the Premier League is at an all-time high â the best minds in world football are all congregated in England and itâs led to an exciting transformation towards attack-minded football. Clubs know the value of three points over one, and the days of Sam Allardyce and co. appear behind us now. Use data to your advantage So how can we avoid the pitfalls? Inspect or analyse games independently, without worrying about the final score. The result should be secondary in your assessments â the process is the most important aspect, and then you can understand if the winning team was dominant, deserving or even fortunate based on the available evidence. Football is a low-scoring sport and luck plays an enormous part. The league table always lies and results do not tell the whole story. This is where data can help; even the most basic review of shot counts can help point you towards a team that are over or underachieving. We canât watch 20+ football matches every weekend and itâs impossible to see all 92 teams in action. Here, data is your friend. Would you continue to back a team thatâs won 10 consecutive games 1-0 if you knew they had been out-shot in every game? You wouldnât, so why ignore the evidence which is largely available? Ignore results, focus on the process. *Published on 12th August 2019
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1 pointTerrible news. He was unfortunate to be here at a time playing for the a City side that was moulded into one of the worst NCFC sides Iâve ever seen in over 30 years. Iâm not sure Messi would have got more than 1 goal under Hughton. I would put money that under the combination of Farke and Webberâs offensively fluent footballing style, and their incredible way of installing confidence in a player despite outside noises, heâd have been a hit. His record speaks for itself elsewhere, thatâs no coincidence. They are the management team we needed for a guy whoâs managed to score everywhere else but here, but unfortunately the stars didnât align at the right time. Best of luck to Ricky! He has all City supporters thoughts and we wish him well!
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1 pointWho would score more? Ricky in a Farke side or Pukki in a Hughton side?
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0 pointshttps://duncanedwards8.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/how-much-do-you-deserve-an-away-ticket/ Just a little fun quiz. See how you do.