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yes, a club that was supposedly toying with bankruptcy got us winning the title on a shoestring as has been the case this season club that has an abundance of young talent coming through sounds like the job he was brought in to do - if you support the club that is

And there it is. I've been wondering what your angle was since you came out of absolutely nowhere and started 1 in every 3 new threads... What a great topic this is in these really poor times for Norwich fans. Indy LITERALLY pushed this as a positive thread, which it is, yet within 1 response you've made it anti-Delia/board. Real nice work.

He held Freezers hand for long enough I guess. Paddy was fine too with Bailey but I can’t listen to Connor or Dave.

Can I be the first to say Louis Thomson, would be fantastic if he could recover after the terrible luck he's had.

Honestly, the future looks lovely really. This is a long game and our activity in the youth market over the last couple of seasons has been really strong. When its laid out like this in black and white it really shows a positive side. Hopefully fans will start to see that there is a lot more going on than just Farke's substitutions and defensive injuries.

Theoklitos, Dreveld, Walsh, Doherty, Helveg, De Waard, Andy Hughes, Brellier, Matt Jarvis, Hartson, Naismith. 💛💚👍

‘A top heavy approach was asking for trouble’ It’s exactly that kind of comment that got under Farke’s skin. Many fans have asked to see a 4-4-2 deployed before, and I can remember some excitement pre match from not only 1 or 2 when it was announced Pukki and Drmic would partner each other. Fair enough to Connor if he said *before* the game via his twitter or something that *in his opinion* he felt this was a mistake, but I’d wager a bet he didn’t...

Just for kicks as I’ve no work this week thought I’d go through our squad, by god have we got a very young and very powerful squad for next year......on paper! If they fulfil potential we’ll be cruising back towards the premiership. We should be very excited..... 1st team. Aarons, Buendia, Cantwell, Idah, Lewis, Godfrey, Martin. On loan. Bushiri, Famewo, Lomas, Payne, Thorvaldsenn. under 21/23. McCullum, Adshead, Guilmour. New signings. Sinani, Sitti. These are just the ones which I really believe could well push on to better things, but have we really ever had such a wealth of young potential talent in our squad..?

More RWNJ nonsense from Swindon. "94% of Express readers". It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Where do you find this drivel, I can't believe you waste your time looking for it.

Connor Southwells reports read just like Parma’s, in a trendy jargon filled “ I’m telling you how it is and I’m always right” way.

His remit was and is to turn the club around on the pitch etc This he has done exceedingly well, with Webber After the dismal draw at poorman road, no one foresaw we would walk of with the title, but up we went Unlike you most understand that the club cannot borrow money from the bank to fund players. Most also recognise that this is just part of that transformation - NOT the end product, and so most will question what your motivation is May you should change your name to a Number 2 .... given the sh it you post

I'm calling it. Waveney.

Swindon, assuming you're not young, your posting on this thread suggest you will never comprehend what is wrong with the picture you just posted - and it's pointless attempting to reason with you.

https://www.twtd.co.uk/questionnaire/fill/15/page:1 This is not something for naughty City fans to post up their thoughts of how rubbish everything is at poorman road nor to pass it on to others to do likewise ....most certainly not 😏

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53149667 That will disappoint a few binners, some hoped he would join them to lead a promotion charge.

Farke also said that he thinks Big Vince is a helmet

No one disputes we were poor but Farke has every right to respond back to people pretending to know tactics criticising aspects that just werent true. I dont know how many different positions Aaron's played, I only saw 2 but if Farke says otherwise hes pretty unlikely to lie isnt he?

Wow! It is a very harsh criticism unless Connor Southwell has previously been asked to keep to the facts, either personally or via his Editor. The extent to which Southwell takes himself seriously is absolutely hilarious. He writes as if he really believes that he's knows what he is talking about, whereas of course he doesn't. No amount of flowery language can conceal that, quite the opposite in fact. His style and vocabulary is also a bugbear of mine. He often writes as if he were taught English at a very expensive and pretentious Swiss finishing school. Someone on the EDP editorial staff really should be mentoring him better, and tell him it's not a good look. He needs to simplify things, focus more heavily on facts, try to remember that things in football are usually shades of grey, rarely black and white, and lay off the personal criticism unless he can back it up with cast iron facts. It reminds me of the rambling and pretentious Italianate style of Brian Granville, but without the gravitas. It's a very timely reminder for CS that should not have been necessary, but unfortunately was. There have been worse criticisms of match reporters. The late John Lyall, when manager of Ipswich Town, christened a good friend of mine called Dave Allard 'Judy Dench', his Cockney rhyming slang for 'stench'. He also threatened to have Dave run over! Way to go, Connor! I look forward to reading the next match report.

I believe Jordan Thomas is highly rated and been training with the first team? The club is still in an immensely strong position. We need to sort out the defensive/defensive midfield problems for next season but we can still be very positive. Just look down the road to see a fanbase with nothing but misery to look forward to.

Don't want to be disrespectful to Connor but if the future of a premier league club revolves around the analysis of a new young reporter in Norwich ....we are fu***d!

Farke seems over sensitive. After a dodgy decision by a linesman (as they were known then) I asked Ron Saunders what he thought. He said: "If i see that c**t on the zebra crossing outside I'm going to run the c**t over." I know he had similar sentiments towards awkward reporters because he told me! I've never felt happy on zebra crossings since.

The media, and most people, quite understandably don’t understand the concept of risk. Everyone wants binary answers and questions are often driven by journalists trying to achieve a gotcha moment rather than asking questions of genuine public interest inviting an open and not guarded reply. I think the professionals have carried themselves pretty well, anyone appointed to head up a government executive agency realises that they are moving into a political arena so maybe sympathy isn’t appropriate, having said that they have all been professional and maintained integrity imo. The biggest concern for me is whether Van Tam has been silenced for his implied criticism of Cummings, if that is the case then it’s appalling.

Whoscored, via their match center.

Ignoring the quality or lack of it with our current Archant journalists once the manager starts having a pop back it sometimes ends in tears . Rather than enter into a war of words get the team to do his talking.

Whilst I haven't exactly been bowled over by Southwell since his appointment, I have to say I agree with most of the article. I'd agree with Mason in that maybe the style upset Farke, in the sense that it comes across as being very strong and damning, which is quite unusual. Maybe it could've been a bit more passive. Also, Farke is a man with a UEFA Pro licence and seems to enjoy a bit of analysis himself, so he'd probably see a young reporter's analysis and criticism of his tactics in a 500-word article (roughly; I didn't count) as being highly superficial, bordering on insulting, compared to the hours of work he put into them during training. But as I said, I think what Southwell said about Farke's was generally correct. I'd say Southampton's players, particularly those like Ward-Prowse, Hojbjerg, Ings and Redmond, probably have more right to be upset by Southwell saying that Southampton don't have the individual quality to win matches.

And you forgot Jonathan Tompkinson Purple! He of the Michael Palin book of stories...😉

I know it sounds horribly negative, but I agree with this, aside from the somewhat harsh 'cannon fodder' comment. The vast majority of U18/U23 players, certainly in this country, fail to make the grade at their respective clubs. If three or four become first team players, that's an excellent strike rate. You cannot compare the German second tier and the Danish top flight to Luxembourg. It's like comparing Championship/League One level to the National League North/South (as a rough guess). Surely several on here would've heard of Pukki. He spent a season at Celtic and was the star player for the Finnish national team. Again, you can't compare the Czech league to that of Luxembourg. Lots of world class players have come through the system in the Czech Republic, but I can't name any top player who has played in Luxembourg. I'm not writing Sinani off by any means, but there's no doubt that signing a 23-year-old from a nation that doesn't even have a professional league and most of the players work second jobs is just a cheap, low-risk gamble. The Cody McDonald comparison was pretty accurate, in my opinion.

There's also this boy (mentioned recently,) who's: 1. Fee is on the high side 2. Imminent departure has upset the Sunderland fanbase. https://lastwordonfootball.com/2020/06/14/report-norwich-city-closing-in-on-sunderland-youngster-bali-mumba/

How do you decide who those people are? How do you police entry? How do you spread them out? How do you deal with others who show up? A few reasons...

Seems a bit unnecessary to me. I'm sure if Lambert was calling out Ipswich reporters for being critical of performances we'd all be saying he's losing it...

People certainly shouldn't assume he'll come good, just like people shouldn't have written Pukki of so early! Pretty decent trust in our youth scouting nowadays to believe he's obviously worth the gamble.

I needn't have worried. "Intrinsically, the concept was designed to match up Ralph Hassenhuttl’s side, with Tom Trybull deployed as a deeper midfielder to screen the central defenders and offer a ball-playing pivot to help break the Saints’ adept and intense press." "Trybull’s role was designed to get City playing through the thirds with progressive passes to Emi Buendia and Todd Cantwell from deep. Instead, Southampton used him collecting the ball as a trigger point for their press, and they flooded the transition to construct overloads."

It was an interesting read, and obvious at the outset that it was going to be a whitewashing pro-UK nationalist one, due every skepticism. What evidence is there for the this statement ? It’s just thrown out there as a fact. “ The EU is now under existential threat, while the US risks high inflation. “ Then in the main body of the article, he correctly says the true measure of a country’s response is the excess deaths over prior year averages. But we do not need to wait “ many months yet “ for that data - is available now; and on both an absolute and per capita basis the UK is the worst in Europe. Waiting until the pandemic is over to make that analysis may be tempting to do when you are in this position, but it’s a head in the sand idea.

Ooft. I haven't read it tbf, I'd be disappointed if there was no mention of the transition or the press, though.

As is the case for every club outside the top 4 in the country.

I posted a list on another thread, although I have no idea whether any will really make the grade. One I would hope does is Mair, the goalkeeper, because we are going to need one such soonish: Daniel Adshead (aged 18) Archie Mair (19) Charlie Gilmour (21) Aidan Fitzpatrick (19) Melvin Sitti (20) Sam McCallum (19) Rocky Bushiri (20) Adam Idah (19) Josh Martin (18) Daniel Sinani (23)

And to think the money from their sales will go straight to Delias wine fund

Trybull was very good in the Championship.

Maddison is quite clearly a top Premier League player. You said McLean is 'a long way from being good' at Championship level, but seem unable to provide examples of good, or very good, Championship midfielders, i.e. players who are better than McLean but still not Premier League quality. It would be interesting to see who you put in this bracket.

There is definitely something to be said about how left of center parties stopped talking to their traditional supporters in down to earth. language, and they need to fix that, but the role that print, radio and social media have taken in stoking fears and selling nationalistic “solutions” to the problems that countries and these section of voters have faced cannot be ignored either. Now a heavy price will be paid before these voters “come back home” once more. But to the sneaking neo-fascists, yes they will come back home, your symbolism only has a certain shelf life and it’s quickly running out. We see your incompetence and cynicism, so you better do want you want now as in a few months it will be too late. Enjoy your power trip.

That's true over here in the US too. The six mid west states that gave Trump his victory were royally scr*wed by the Republican Party power brokers for years who broke the unions, then shipped their jobs and factories to China, so who did they turn around and vote for?

You want to come and live in Aylsham when you move back https://www.slowfoodaylsham.org.uk/

usually something like this to have with their half time cuppa

Don’t look at Burnley, Southampton or Palace though.

Could be a big war chest for Daniel to use in the summer then.

Especially Bruce and Watson, what price those 2 in today’s market.

The passage of play that highlighted our issues all in one go against Southampton was when they hit the bar in the first half. We were in possession coming out of defence. When Trybull (I think) plays it into Cantwell who is dispossessed, our two centre halves are 25 metres behind Trybull, Cantwell is 25 metres ahead of Trybull. Aarons is thirty yards out to the right and further forward than Cantwell - not only ahead of the ball but ahead of the player who is likely to receive the ball. I can’t see Lewis, I can only guess he’s about 30 yards out to the left in a similar position to Aarons but on the other flank, otherwise he’d be on screen. Buendia is about 20 yards from Cantwell. McLean isn’t on the screen but as Southampton break, you see him virtually playing at left wing back and jogging to get back in. So that’s our entire midfield and two full backs and they are all 20/25 yards apart in some sort of random star formation, one player is around 25m from the centre backs and everyone else is pretty much 40 metres away or more from the centre backs. This is at 0-0 in the first half - we’re not chasing an equaliser in the 85th minute. Yes we’re in possession but there’s just no shape. There’s no moving up through phases. Top sides move in units until the final third. If Aarons and Lewis are ten yards deeper, they’re still ahead of the ball offering an outlet for Trybull, but can get back in more easily if Cantwell loses it - they can still bomb on if Cantwell doesn’t lose it but you’ve reduced the risk. Instead they’re isolated and caught out of position. If McLean and/or Buendia are fifteen yards closer to Trybull, then we are more likely to break up the counter. If the defence is ten yards further up the pitch and Cantwell (and Pukki or Drmic) is/are ten yards deeper then we squeeze the space and make it much harder to break through. That’s all down to the manager and coaching staff - it’s not enough work on team shape moving up through different phases. But the players aren’t faultless. It’s a “nothing” pass through the middle of the pitch into Cantwell where he has nothing on. Even if he shields the ball well, he can only play it backwards or turn into serious trouble. Trybull should be able to see the danger - his team are hopelessly wide open, you can’t play nothing passes - you need to play a proper pass or make sure it’s out wide so you have a better chance of defending it. Cantwell should be stronger. Trybull and Buendia just let the attackers stroll past. McLean jogs back in. Neither the set up from the manager or the players themselves are prem quality. It’s that simple.

Watching Cardiff battling for it, throwing themselves in to challenges, chasing down 50:50s.... rams home just how little our players gave on Friday.

What a juvenile post! As a proud city fan I love our club through thick and thin. We don’t glory hunt I support the team I have affiliation with and I’m a ‘football’ supporter too. Ipswich fans are the same, (better than supporting Man Utd or Chelsea or whoever just because they win). They have passionate fans (football fans) too, they’re in a low now and our fans are basking in it, that’s how it is but don’t you think that’s far enough! As our local rivals we have a history and necessarily a future of ups and downs, high and lows... Exactly how is Ipswich’s demise doing the football world (or us their main rivals) a ‘favour’. Be a football fan.

It's not turning down success it's investing the rewards from that success shrewdly ... which we are.