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    11 hours ago, Sufyellow said:

    Our best assets are our best players,  that's Rowe and Sara ! Are you sure you are a Norwich fan,  or has the club brain washed you into thinking everything good has to be sold?  I would go for we don't sell our best players and Knapper comes out and tells us we have a plan and it doesn't involve selling any decent player before they have given us a few years. 

    Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely don’t want to sell our best players and would love for something to come out of the club that intimated we were financially sound going forwards with MA at the helm….. but we are supposedly 70-90m in debt and our parachute payment is about to disappear if we don’t make it up. That coupled with the occasional crazy bid by desperate clubs in January might mean we’re in no place to refuse, hence me outline of what I would do in that scenario above. 

  2. Posted · Edited by Big O

    It’s going to be an interesting window for sure. The club are on the verge of losing parachute payments but somehow are only 5 points off the playoffs despite looking very average so far. The run of games between now and the FA cup game could be quite telling. If we get 8-10 points I think we may think about investing and giving it a crack, however lose 3 of them and it’s pretty much over which I would think focus our attention to getting rid of high wage earners and potentially selling our best assets if any desperate clubs throw money our way.

    For me I would look to try and find the midfielder who you are going to base the next 2-3 years around. They need to be strong, defensively aware and able to play for a passing team. Even if there is investment required this seems like a no-brainer as on the assumption that Sara goes we can play them with Nunez or Kenny and have a better balance. I would also be looking for an emerging number 10 we may be able to take a punt on. It’s pretty clear to me that the Ashley Barnes experiment is only going to be short lived in that we might get another 12-18 months max from him,so bring in a youngster who can grow into the role and bed them in during the second half of the season with no pressure and regular rotation. 

    in terms of loans for me, it would be a right back as I think fisher looks a good way short at this level just now and I think a loan would be great for his development. Centre half with Hanley and Gibson back gives us numbers (with hills, Warner allowed to continue their development) so the other loan I would bring in is a creative wide player so we could rotate Sainz and Rowe with Hernandez as a back up.

    if there is any chance of shifting players then for me it has to be Placheta, baath, Fassnacht, Sorensen and Springett. Just don’t see any of them in our future at all so let’s act now. 

     

     

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    I’m not certain where people think we will magically come up with some cash without parachute payments to find 2 new left backs.

    i can’t imagine we will be able to offer Dimi the right package to stay and he will be in demand but otherwise would keep him for sure. McCallum will come down to the dimi decision and whether we have any young left backs coming through.

    Gibson a hard one as we do have Warner, hills etc coming through so he can move on but I would keep one of the keepers, Barden was decent when he stepped in before. 

  4. Posted

    5 hours ago, hogesar said:

    I'm sorry but recent games have been a long, long way from "anti-football". There's been naivety and we've surrendered possession in games but we've scored some good goals recently and seen some very good build up play.

    No chance Wagner goes. He's got the season. 

    I have to admit I find myself pretty drawn on the Wagner issue at the moment. I’m never one for knee-jerk reactions and always like to give managers time and the current form in terms of results is pretty good.

    However, this current team and style is not in my opinion going to take the club forward, the football is slow and turgid at times, we look very frail and in all honesty we were a long way behind Ipsh*t yesterday (although very funny to get a point). The set up, style and tactics are down to Wagner although conversely the players are putting in a shift though so clearly he still has them behind him.

    I’m willing to give Knapper and Wagner the transfer window to start driving change and hopefully start to set a new direction, plus he probably deserves a few weeks with key players back but if we don’t see improvement in the second half of the season then I think we will have to act and be ruthless.

    praying I’m wrong but I just don’t see this team, style and tactics getting in the playoffs but would be delighted to be proved wrong 

  6. Posted

    20 hours ago, Ness Point Runner said:

    They should do away with parachute payments. Enforce regulations that require players wages to reduce when relegated.

    Clubs being helped just because they have spent a year in the PL should be scrapped as not fair.

    It's called "Incentive". Play well and you dont go down.

    It would also make very few players want to join promoted teams 

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    It’s the irony of it all that gets me. When we beat them at home with Farke vs Lambert it was high quality, quick passing football vs physical hoof ball. It is literally roles reversed, they have got Chaplin playing like Kaka, we’re happy that Barnes shouts and kicks a few!

     

  11. Posted

    9 minutes ago, GRB2 said:

    I think that is possibly the worst Hernandez performance I've seen. 

    To be fair to him, Hernandez has always been a player (even when we were good) who needs good balls into his feet to isolate and stretch a full back, hence creating space for others when teams used to double up against him. Yes he was awful but name one single time in that game he was given the ball in that type of scenario with the ability to face up a full back.

    the truth is our style of play is beyond sh*t. We have to change coaching team now and get back to playing passing football and try and get a couple of loans into help. This team and style is taking us nowhere, the atmosphere is toxic. Knapper needs to be brave, state our philosophy, get in a progressive manager and accept it will take a time to rebuild. 

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    5 hours ago, hogesar said:

    But we could have set up differently against a better team? In reality second half we let them have the ball because we realised they couldn't play through us, hence them creating very little for a team with 62% of the ball.

    Equally, the Cardiff result was against the form team and again, we created more than them away from home.

    A point would be a good result and a decent set of results all things considered. 

    Usually with you Hogesar on the optimism front but fear for us a little tomorrow. They are a bit of a bogey team for us (although we did win with the Sarge flick the other year). Don’t fancy us getting much tomorrow but would be overjoyed to be made to eat humble pie. 

  16. Posted

    I think it was pretty obvious we were looking at cheap options in the summer and thought Duffy and Barnes would add some leadership. Stacey was a must so we could cash in on Aaron’s. Having this many 30+ in a team is not ideal but we do have some youngsters with talent coming through like Warner, Hills, fisher, Gibbs, Nunez, Rowe. The summer will be massive  as we will have to try and shift the deadwood like Gibson, Placheta, Hernandez and we won’t get much for them, so we will continue shopping in the bargain bucket for a while. 

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    As has been discussed on other threads, knapper has a massive amount of work on his hands to help drive up standards, instill a way of playing back through the club and frankly find a way of getting rid of the deadwood and bringing in hungry players. It is always easier to do this when you are winning games, it was turgid, hardworking, low quality but a win all the same. If we can get something from the game Tuesday we have something that might start to lift confidence of the players. 

  20. Posted

    3 hours ago, king canary said:

    This is a well articulated post that sums up my wider concerns.

    If we exist solely to exist then it becomes pointless in my view. Developing players just so we can sell them in order to tread water and keep us going for the next player off the conveyor belt so we can have some nicely balanced books isn't something that appeals to me. At that point I'd rather go down the sell our soul to a possibly dodgy sugar daddy route because at least it would be interesting. Surviving just to survive is not for me.

    I agree with the sentiment of this and the original post but it does slightly walk past the fact that virtually every other championship club is in exactly the same boat. We are all effectively feeder clubs for the premier league, it’s not just happened. When historically tiny clubs like Bournemouth can spend £27-£30m on defensive midfielders like Tyler Adam’s from traditionally bigger clubs like Leeds then it should ring alarm bells. 

    We are not unique to not having the ability to compete at the highest level either through playing ability or financially and this won’t change until wider changes are made in football such as capping the amount of players that clubs can sign to stop the practice of hoovering up young talents from everywhere with no intention of every plying them or heaven forbid closing the financial gap.

    This for me is one area of optimism, we have proven once already that a good philosophy, brave management and some good youth development and sage player purchases can take you to be competitive. We just have to find a way to get back to it and accept that one or two players a year will continue to move. Ipswich have rebuilt from being a mess so it can be done. We are not In a great position I agree but we will have to find a way as we always do and the fans will have to understand the reality of the situation.

    secretly I am hoping that @Parma Ham's gone mouldy is a secret billlionaire who wants to take over the club but failing that it’s going to be hard and steady progress again

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, benchwarmer said:

    He was reputedly sacked by Archant after being caught on camera in the Snakepit cheering on Burnley at Worthy's infamous final game.  He directed his bile at players and especially managers instead of at the boardroom, where it really belonged.  In so doing, he became part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

    He absolutely did, as I used to sit about 10 rows behind him. He was absolutely mocking Andy Hughes all of the time as well. Don’t get me wrong he was very very poor for Norwich and we have all expressed frustration in the direction of our players at times but it was the constant, permanent hammering that wound me up.

    Anyway, as I said earlier, he is fully welcome to his views and I’m not quite certain how this turned into “are you for or against the club” thread but my point remains that it’s very odd we give people like this a platform. 

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  22. Posted

    59 minutes ago, S_81 said:

    Good on Richard Balls for speaking out about the state of things and not brown nosing the club just to keep in the media mix. It’s not hard to see that the ones who criticise him the most on here are the ones regularly shouting down any club dissenters. If they were a journo we know firmly that they’d have brown all over their noses. 

    I’m not certain I’ve ever shouted down club dissenters on here (or atleast not consistently) but you’re free to check. I have just personally watched him boo and laugh at our players which made me question the level of his support and there is quite clearly a heavy level of narcissistic behaviour there, I mean would a usual person feel the need to publish themselves giving up a season ticket on social media? Nope we would give it up, maybe mention it to our mates in the pub and crack on. So that’s the basis of me not giving him much credence but I do agree that he is entitled to air his opinion. Mr brown nose. 😂

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  23. Posted

    5 hours ago, shefcanary said:

    The music biographer and ex-journo and ex-season ticket holder Richard Balls is joining Butler and Reeves on next Monday's Scrimmage on Snorefolk. This should interest @TIL 1010 in particular. No I'm not a PR for the Beeb, just highlighting what might be an interesting night where we might hear a more incendiary view on life at the Carra. Get your pitchforks out! Vinnie and a few others will be taking notes.

    Why do we give these people a platform? I mean he’s an awful fan who I’ve witnessed booing and taking the mick out of our own players on several occasions and his columns were utter dross. Very odd. 

     

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  24. Posted

    Think we should draw a line now in the Webber era. Some great times, some hard times. People will have differing views overall.

    What is most important now is that we use the Knapper appointment to reset the club. There is no point looking backwards anymore with a coulda, shoulda mindset. We are where we are and he has a big job on his hands and the fans are going to have to be patient and support him 

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