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Incredible some of you chaps manage to make it out of bed in the morning. Great result, and well deserved.

The question is why he would want to leave our well run club? Is he not happy with the football under Wagner as much as the fans? And why wasn't he given a longer term contract when he looked so promising before this season?

I love sour skittles

Great game of rugby. England will spend the next few days looking at SA's weaknesses. It won't take long.

England would need a twenty point start to get anywhere near either of these sides.

Anybody else raise a Frankie Howard-style eyebrow at this? “The toy may warm up if the batteries are incorrectly placed.”

Would have been nice to hear Wagner say something like this after Plymouth.. 😉 Naughty language warning

I was so sick of football in 2017. NCFC were going nowhere and the whole edifice of the PL was (and still is) just quite disgusting. What Farke did at our club made me fall in love with it again, and with football. It was a really, really special time. I obviously hope we beat Leeds next week, should that need saying. But I'm also looking forward to saying thank you to the great man and, like Midlands, if Leeds win, well, I'll be pleased for Daniel. If that makes me less of a fan, so be it.

What 2 draws and a win in 6 games ? After playing all the top teams in the first 10 games . After having no preseason due to covid. After a season of winning the championship.

He does all the post match bull crap to the Leeds fans with what was his Snake pit love in. It’s like a lot of Norwich fans have some beta male cuckold with dirty Leeds fans. Get a grip on Saturday like me and the family will. And hate on dirty Leeds.

If anyone was looking for a perfect example of Norwich City's aggressive selling of players this was it. I mean, the Canary had hardly hatched out of its shell and it was flogged to Chelsea without making a senior appearance.

Has just died at 102. She was a member of the SOE during WWII and went behind enemy lines to spy and be a conduit. The UK awarded her an MBE. Thats an award that Tony Adams has. Not as important as all the Sirs in football though. Or even Des Lynam. What a load of baldricks our pathetic honours system is.

I thought I understood the rules but it seems not. Sometimes having your hands round someone's throat/headbutting them/jumping on top of them is OK. Sometimes not it seems... (not this game in particular. Just a general observation) I've always loved the refereeing. He explains to the captain. They respect his decision and get on with it.

- Consent now or forever hold your peace.

Gutted about the 2nd six but pleased we’ve managed to add to the pot through the weekend

Who understands rugby anyway?

Who is the captain?

I'm glad to hear he's got lots to improve, but lets be honest. He's doing exactly what we need our midfield should be doing and that's helping out with goals. Sets an example for the forwards as well.

I ask myself the same question as they don't need one because they can buy the oven ready product from any club they want. Must be a vanity project their academy.

Trouble is he didn't get sacked when he should of done .

Farke's great strength is abilty to connect with people. To say that it is just a modus operandi is to belittle it into some kind of technique that he uses, rather than what it is - a genuine character trait that people rally to. There are very few of these kind of people about and we wasted the opportunity to keep him. He's not perfect, no-one is, but our loss is Leeds gain - and he is obviously working in the same way as he was with us - because that is the person he is - he brings people together. Of course, as we've seen, anyone that threatens to spoil that is given short thrift, as with Oliveira, Leitner and others - and he will have issues with that at Leeds and ultimately whether he wins those battles will govern how long he lasts there. At BM, I would guess he never got to grips with the egos there, but Leeds have approached his appointment in the right way to get the best from him. And he will do well if he gets them to the PL - because he will be given enough resources to do the job, unlike with us.

He's probably still pissed off he got sacked and I wouldn't have thought he was too impressed by the reaction beforehand on social media and this forum. He'll be delighted to put one over us. You can be sure the Leeds fans will be milking it as well. Unless our boys put in a performance it might get a bit messy. They're still not great defensively, but then ours is ****e as well, so we do have a chance.

Mind you, Joan Collins wouldn't look out of place in their trophy cabinet...

Anyway, being promoted to the prem is so painful, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but here's to Ipswich getting promoted...

Can I predict he’ll be fired on Monday?

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Of course they can. I can't believe people are even asking the question to be honest. It's October, there is still over three quarters of the season remaining and anything can happen. We have had a good start but that's all it is, a start. Admittedly we have given ourselves a very good platform for at least the play-offs but nothing is guaranteed. Maybe i'm just a pessimistic binner but I really don't see where all this talk of the top two being done is coming from. I heard Andy Goldstein on Talksport the other day talking as though it was done and dusted, crazy. You only have to look at Sheffield Weds last season, they were 8 points clear of us in February with a game in hand, their supporters were lauding it all over the internet telling us to "enjoy the play-offs, if you even make them" etc. etc. and we all know what happened next. Only a fool would do anything other than be happy with the start whilst remaining humble and respectful of the league and the opposition. Besides, we still have to play you lot twice as yet and I really don't have fond memories of those games, especially at Carrow Road! There is still a very long way to go.

What's a mango eh? So the beverage the "Gillimore" named after the scotch wonder kid Billy Gilmour is famed for it's hype, that it hits the right spot always and goes down easy. One for enhancing a high, but not if under the cosh.

I saw the other thread and thought it was a joke thread. Are we not supposed to get a few seasons at least out of our youth developments before we sell them on. Of course Norwich will be well known as being a place for good youngsters for a decent price so it's not surprised he's being montoried. Tbh in this day and age the great A.I. in the sky will be monitoring every player.

Congratulations Hammond1612!

If we don't get promoted (which seems likely), I could see either one or both of Rowe and Sara leaving in the summer, not just because of a need to balance the books post-parachute, but also because of pressure from the players, who may not want to be part of a mid-table Championship club. Imagining the current team minus these two players looks very worrying.

Well done!

Yes, even when we finished third in The Premier League for many games it was five or six thousand short of capacity. But when Smith and Jones took over they used Andrew Cullen’s skills to get attendances so far up we were close to capacity all the time even when down in the third tier. You possibly should have thought a touch more deeply about whether the point you were making was actually helping your overall view.

Superb. I couldn't agree more. The sooner Norwich City get new fans the better our chances will be. At the moment we are not a football club. We are a player manufacturing business where players roll off the production line in industrial quantities, have a quick spin between the white lines at Carrow Road to impress suitors, then are sold. Existing fans seem to think this amounts to supporting a football club. Sheer madness.

The draw was done quite a while ago, using the rankings at that time. Since then, its changed a fair bit with (I think) Aussie, Wales and England having fallen back. Scotland (who were ranked 5th going into the tourney) in particular seemed to get a poor rub of the green in their group with Ireland (now 1st) and SA (reigning champs and 3rd,I think). It’s left it a bit lop-sided, and with with the current top 4 ranked sides playing each other in the QFs. The lesson to learn is not to do the draw as early as they did. I don’t watch that often these days but tonight’s game, NZ v Ireland, was very good and ought to have been a s-f or final. But it is what it is, you play who you’re drawn against and put up with it,

The balanced view of course it was both of them, and our owners.

Yeah i mean all this love in for Farke when everybody knows it was Webber who got us two promotions.

We've upgraded with Barnes, to be fair.

Wow incredible match. Never rule out the All Blacks.

I wouldn’t have predicted 18-17 to NZ earlier in the half. I can’t see England, Fiji or Argentina coming close to competing with whoever wins.

There we have it! Both games done and dusted before half-time. Congratulations @Hammond1612 £21.85 added to the pot and your third final six win! Good luck tomorrow, let's get them both!

Well, apart from by far and away the single most expensive piece of building since Carrow Road itself - the knocking down of the old South Stand and doubling the capacity with the replacement.

I disagree. Norwich fans can be guilty of overcooking the omlette. Farke did really well with us in the championship, but desperately struggled in the prem, twice. Including a run of two wins in 20-25 or something close to it. It's flippant, naive and foolish to blame recruitment on Webber when we know that over his time at Norwich Farke was responsible for a fair number of signings. Trybull, Leitner, Stiepermann, Vrancic, Onel, Zimmermann, Franke - all players he had connections with. At a bare minimum. We need to stop apologising and just accept that it's football. Yes he did good for us, yes he was committed, yes his leaving left a sour taste, yes he's a nice guy, but ultimately he never fathomed a plan B. Not only that, many said he'd go on to bigger things. He struggled in the Bundesliga, he's returned to the Championship. At least Lamberty kept us in the premier league on a limited budget and then did the same for Villa. Lets just get some reasonable balance in there.

I get you. But pretty much all clubs sell because for the player it is reaching the pinnacle that their ability allows. For some, that will be Norwich City, despite moves. Josh Murphy a recent example, I guess. But Spurs sold Kane, United have let hell and all players go, Beckham, Stam, Liverpool with Owen… The players don’t have, or rarely have, the affection and affinity to stay at a club if they think they can play at a higher level. Coupled with clubs pretty much all having a “price” for any player, the idea of retaining any player through “ambition” is archaic. If Norwich offered Jonny Rowe £250,000 a week but he got the same offer from Man City - or even less in fairness - where do you think he’d choose to play his football? The days where we could sign Martin Peters are looooonnggg gone. Unless there’s a reintroduction of a wage cap, we’re unlikely to retain our very best players for long and even if they did, players with international aspirations will want to play in the top competitions for the best possible team for maximum exposure.

I can 100% state I don’t think the same at all. I am not spending over £100 getting me and my son there and into the game to just be happy with a defeat, because some of our fans have a ridiculous love-in with an ex manager. It’s ludicrous. Get over it.

i remember getting hit by a coin on the forehead in the Barclay thrown by Everton fans back in the late 1980's , the little runt had even took sometime to grind the edges still got the scar today !

A stopped clock is right twice a day. Or 730 times a year. Or 7,300 times a decade. Some of the prophets of doom have been soothsaying about this binner revenge for nearly a decade since we were relegated in 2014. They may be right eventually but you'd be better overall to stick with the stopped clock...

It’s two months away. A lot can change in that time.