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  1. On 19/07/2023 at 09:07, 2clubbanker said:

    I’m a Luton fan that likes Norwich as my second team watford will always be scum as Norwich fans call Ipswich scum 

    Personally, I would never call another club 'scum'. It's silly, illogical, and shows a limited ability to find some original words to explain what you feel. Whoever started using tbe word about 25 years ago to describe football rivals has a lot to answer for. There are a few people who deserve to be called scum, but other clubs' fanbases do not.

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  2. On 25/06/2023 at 10:40, norfolkngood said:

    one of the biggest supported teams in world football , 50000 fans adoring you at home games and european football ,

    Living in a Big City , Some of the best countryside and areas to explore on his doorstep and more money than he can spend bet he is gutted !! 

    The manager advises all players not to live in Glasgow, so Todd out near a loch (hence the picture). And there's a fantastic bit of family news due about Christmas time. So, all in all, it's going well.

    And guess what, they don't care what car he drives!

     


  3. On 14/06/2023 at 09:24, essex canary said:

    I am usually very supportive of your opinion Jim. Note though that if he does 9 months gardening leave the Club will still have to pay his Salary from which the funding will come out of the pockets of Ordinary supporters. 

    Trust me, if we gave him 9 months' of gardening leave, he would spent that 9 months working in the interests of Leeds United, at our expense. It would be a Godsend to him. He could still operate, develop his connections, make his enquiries, travel the world, arrange deals and contracts.

    It would be gardening leave, not solitary confinement without a mobile phone!!! Gardening leave is not a good idea. 

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  4. It's little over two years ago that Bali Mumba had a really hard time as a full back in a back four for Peterborough United. I love what the player brings to the team but fear that it may be that his future does not lie at Norwich. It would be a great shame and a missed opportunity. There are so few spaces on the field these days, but Bali in in form finds them


  5. I am in two minds as to whether Todd should say any more about his departure. On reflection perhaps not, but he is young, headstrong, and feels wronged. Worse than that, he is entitled to feel that Stuart Webber has tried to damage his career.

    From a subjective viewpoint and a NCFC viewpoint, Stuat's behaviour has been hard to explain. Todd's former Agents had Webber on toast over his initial Premier League contract, but that's not Todd's fault.

    Todd's 'big reveal' would be the infuence that Stuart had on recent team selection. Maybe it is best left unsaid. Equally, there is no golden rule that Stuart has to take calls from Agents, but complete blanking over a sustained period is odd.

    In reality, if the truth does come out it would be best from someone other than Todd or anyone with a close connection, which narrows it down. Todd changed his Agents at Christmas and both former and current Agents would be ill-advised to drop a hand grenade into the conversation and both have a professional interest in not doing so.

    There's no great bombshell other than what I have said above. There was no offer of a new contract, and a tacit message that Stuart wanted him gone.To you and me it might feel like par for the course, but we haven't had to live with the consequences and we don't feel slighted. I won't say any more but may respond to serious PM enquiries.

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  6. He of North Walsham heritage and Diss Town fame as a player.

    Just installed at Derby County and probably honour-bound not to mess them around.

    BUT...he will get few opportunities to manage the club he loves. Many times people have missed such opporunities and lived to regret it.

    In his favour, he is emotionally intelligent, he is of the ideal age and experience, his Rotherham team continually over-performed, he has exceptional tactical acumen, he is a captivating and inspirational character. He knows Norwich City inside out.

    I actually think that all things being equal, he is the perfect candidate. If only all things were equal. 


  7. OK, so it's a sad old cliche, but for once there is no better way of descibing the first half and much of the second. The number of 50/50 challenges that Luton won in the first half was embarrassing. Luton KNOW that if they don't do that against sides, then they will struggle. They have HUMBLE players who know they have to put themselves on the line. They don't believe that they have a God given right to be playing in the Championship. We don't have that.

    Luton's first half work rate was phenomenal, and it was obvious that they wouldn't be able to sustain it for 90 minutes. Sure enough, they dropped the pace after the break.

    The question is "what are we". We're not a side that can dominate sides with our quality, much as we would like to be. We are not a side with the humbleness to get down and dirty. 

    It's a real problem, and it may take a full cycle of player and manager turnover to resolve it.

     

     

     


  8. 1 hour ago, NeymarSmith said:

    This is prejudice in itself you wally. 

    Many Norfolk people are... I mean a stupid comment from you. Especially when trying to put the point of said being being prejudice. Good lord.

     

    I imagine, based on this comment, if you have suffered prejudices against you from said people, I'm going to conclude it's due to your ineptitude and how dense you are, rather than if your local. 

     

    Cheers boy. X

    Methinks he doth protest too much.


  9. 15 minutes ago, Myra Hawtree said:


    Smith seems have been disliked from the start despite his experience in English football and Shakey was coaching at Leicester when they won the Premier League title.

     

    Many Norfolk people are prejudiced against what they regard as outsiders.

    Many football watchers these days get their kicks from laying into good people doing an extremely hard job.

    Sadly, that's why there is a significant groundswell of opinion opposed to Dean Smith.

    Fans these days can be a quite unloveable group 😞

     

     


  10. 24 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

    Having a lot more time on my hands it's been impossible to ignore it, in fact the TV scheduling is great and I've watched pretty much every game!

    It's been a really good tournament, one of the best. The challenge for me will be staying interested right the way through til May once we have to trade down to Championship football.

    To each, their own.

    Personally, in preference to watching a WC game between two sides in whom I have no emotional attachment, I would sooner jump in the car and watch a local game at Wroxham or Mulbarton, or Yarmouth, Lowestoft or Dereham etc. (Obviously only can do in on Sat afternoons or most midweeks.)

    Not saying it's more virtuous at all, and not begrudging you your pleasure,  but top level games bore me and generally I can only watch them for 20 minutes or so. That's long enough to get a feel for the sides, but not really interested in continuing to watch as I don't really care who comes up on top.

    Vive la difference!

     


  11. Commentary without an element of critical analysis is of strictly limited value or interest. A lack of objectivity means 'Boardroom notes' can never be viewed as anything more than slightly repulsive spin.

    The sense of self-satisfaction which permeates anything produced through a 'positive input only' filter is inevitably quite nauseating. 

    We are not stupid, and we do not believe that 'Boardroom Notes' is any reflection whatsoever of serious matters discussed in the Boardroom. The very title is a deceit, and a rather transparent one. It is insulting. It feels like the idea of slick-talking graduate who has never lived life beyond a keyboard. 

    If the Club wanted to improve the way it is being projected they should have invited 40 or 50 local media people into the club and had an open discussion about the insidious influence of irresponsible, untruthful and devious social media. It is social media that is poisoning the well. By this means the club could have built a bond that would have resulted in more positive coverage.

    This new offering from the Club appears at a time when the local press is feeling deliberately side-lined and excluded. The Club has found a way of making itself less popular and less trusted. As an exercise of punching yourself in the face it is a real doozie. I am saddened, not annoyed. It does not bode well.

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  12. Coming from a not very nice estate in Thetford, Hendo has had a great career but as others have said, maybe it could have been at a higher level.

    I think you have to look at the personal tragedy of when he lost his brother Tommy in that dreadful car crash to realise that maybe he sees things in a different context to the rest of us. It effected him more than words can tell). I remember the emotion in his first game back for City in a friendly at Felixstowe. Naturally, he scored two (and should have had three). Maybe with a bit more understanding he could have built a career here, but I think he needed to get away from the memories.

    The move to Rochdale came about as his partner had a very good job in PR or media at Manchester United (I can't remember which).

    He's a good lad, is Hendo. He has overcome tragedy) and made his mark.

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  13. Yes, a very capable player with good technique and very good feet.

    The pace of the English game caught him out in his first few appearances, but he seems to have adapted to it and there may be more improvement still to come. Now that he has adjusted we need him to play with his head up a little more so that he sees things earlier and moves the ball half a secknd quicker. 


  14. 10 hours ago, lake district canary said:

    Still got players in our team whose first instinct is to go to ground. Not going to mention any names, but there were times last night when players could have done more to stay on their feet and rather than battle through challenges and instead go for a free kick - and often not getting it. 

    Refs are not falling for the soft fouls so much these days, so surely the best thing to do is stay on your feet? Losing good positions in an attempt to get a foul is just as bad as giving the ball away cheaply imo. Honesty is the best policy - always has been, always will be.

    Must be talking about Grant Hanley, the only City player who has actually perfected the art of the dive.

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  15. 11 minutes ago, SwearyCanary said:

    I mean, he played well. But why does he need to immediately follow up with a comment about contract/future via social media? Just keep playing football and the offers might come, but saying you look good in the shirt isn’t going to convince anyone but the social media crowd that already either follow you because they love you to the ends of the earth or they want to troll you. 

    So annoying 

    Be fair, Sweary. It's fairly obvious that the intended message behind Todd's post is he loves the club. We are dealing with a complex and seemingly immature individual who wants to be loved by the fans and rather sadly is trying to wave a magic wand so that all the hate disappears. That's the message behind the message.

    Todd has had difficulty in coping with a loss of form, with being dropped from the team, and any adversity at all. His form slumped to an alarming level. He has been through agony and back.

    Now maybe, just maybe, he has come transcended it all and his career can start moving forward again. 

    On one level his posts may be annoying. Personally, I find them sad and slightly desperate, but let's not put too critical an interpretation on them.

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  16. There seems to be fault (but nothing hugely irrepairable) on both sides.

    Firstly, the club can only claim 'breach of trust' if information was gjven to media outlets on an off the record basis, and this confidential briefing was made public. Possibly this happened, but the evidence suggests not.

    Secondly, and far, far more importantly, both sides seem to be variously sensitive to, and influenced by, the toxic verbal detritus that is posted on social media. STOP TAKING NOTICE OF IT. BOTH, SIDES, JUST STOP. Use you own intelligence, and don't be influenced by random and deceiptful nonsense. Show some maturity. Show sound judgement. Don't listen to social media voices as they are not a sensible median consensus. They speak with an extreme voice in a desperate attempt to gain attention.

    And to Stuart Webber, stop being prickly. You are a cog in the wheel. You cannot control everything. 

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  17. Those of us who have been around for the last 10 years or so have seen the malcontents trot out their cliches across football in general, not just NCFC.

    'The manager has lost the changing room' circa 2017

    'The manager has no Plan B' circa 2019

    Now, 2022, it's 'We have no identity / the manager has no plan'.

    It's trite, formulaic, and just so tiresome.

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  18. There is a difference in that Peterborough tried to play him as a full back in a four-man defence, whereas Plymouth play him as a wing-back, and suddenly he looks worth £5m+ of anyone's money. Really pleased for him as he plays with a smile and he brings a smile to supporters' faces.

    I bet Dean Smith was smiling too, realising that he has a real talent that he may not have been aware of.

    I am not a great watcher of televised footy, but yesterday's game was wonderful. So many positives. Also, there will have been a throng of referees watching and they will have all been alerted to the fact that Ipswich's armoury includes a fair degree of very unpleasant thuggery and serious foul play.

    I like the look of McKenna but the halo wobbled and slipped as he was bested by Steven Schumacher. Luvverly!

    PS And I have never before seen shot struck as cleanly as Bali's with LITERALLY no backlift. It defied human mechanics.

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  19. 4 hours ago, Chelm Canary said:

    Why is Bali Mumba not playing for us?

    He was awesome against Swansea a few seasons ago and I thought he would be pushing on in this squad.

    It is a disgrace he's been loaned out.

    I love Bali Mumba, but have to point out that he failed to hold down a place in a poor Peterborough side last season. So its not as black and white as you may think. Maybe he took a long while to get over that severe injury, but based on game evidence, it wasn't a disgrace to loan him out. It was a way of getting him a run of games. And boy, has he benefitted and found his best position.

     

    PS But Whittingham up front looked great as well. Those two were the difference between the sides.

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  20. 2 minutes ago, urdie_Canary said:

    I mean in terms of all the hype, ended up fizzling out and being bang average... like Jamal Lewis 

     

    Max is a great asset to the club. The only problem is that when we are struggling to break teams down, as we were against Wesr Brom on Saturday, a lot of the emphasis seems to fall on Max to make things happen, to get down the line or to cut in and attack the box. He does it well and with great energy, but he is still actually a full back.

    He's one of those players that we would think of as great if he was an opposition player. We would see the many good things in his game and be impressed.

    Now that he has been in the side for years, we take the good things for granted and some people start to focus on the less good things. Ho hum. That's football fans for you.


  21. 1 minute ago, urdie_Canary said:

    because he is nowhere near good enough and when he has been in the prem he has been torn apart.

    9 times out of 10 he doesn't cross the ball when he should, on the off chance he does its dreadful. 

    Doesn't seem like he has that pace now either, struggles to take a man on 1v1. 

    Another Jamal Lewis 

    You are right of course. Jamal has no pace. None at all. So slow. Bully for you to have spotted this flaw in his game.


  22. 8 minutes ago, Petriix said:

    Let's be honest. West Brom were athletic and organised - as you would expect - without any real weapons. They had a very limited game plan which they executed well, but you can see exactly why they haven't been winning.

    You can argue that they contained us (and particularly Pukki) well. But I'd counter that we nullified ourselves by dropping Cantwell and reverting to the 4-3-3. It's very hard to break down teams who are happy to stick everyone behind the ball. That's why you need creativity and movement.

    The most significant factor (which people are ignoring) is that this kind of fixture represents just about the easiest games in the Premier League. If we go up then West Brom at home would be one of the 'must wins' required for survival. As a measure of progress it shows that we aren't close to closing that gap. 

    Yes, it's still (relatively) early in the season. We've got injuries and players just getting up to speed. But other teams aren't going to stand still while we get better. West Brom are hardly firing on all cylinders.

    I'm OK with a draw, but I want to see a semblance of a game plan for how we intend to win this kind of match. 

    I think you are right that it was a mistake to drop Cantwell.

    I suspect Dean and Craig believed that Todd would hate the physicality of the game. If so, they were mistaken. Todd knows how to look after himself and would have loved to have been getting in dangerous areas where be would either have cause mayhem or been fouled. It could have won us the game. Fortune favours the brave. Totally over-thought by the management team. It happens 🙂

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