Gentleman Jim

Good luck Mac'', I can''t see beyond a very good Marseille to thrash an awful LeMans side this Sunday in France div one !    

[quote user="Norfolk White"]I am a North End fan living down here at the moment and would just like to say, all is not lost just yet there is still hope.  Currently, as you know, City have played 33 games and have 32 points, this time last season Preston had played 33 games and had 32 points and the North End fans could not see how we would avoid going down.  However, out of the final 13 games Preston won 22 points giving a total of 55 points and we ended the season above Norwich in 15th place and look where we currently are, 4th from top.  So just don''t give up hope yet although the big difference between the two clubs is that we had/have Alan Irvine as manager and you have Gunny and friends ;0) (who, as I keep reading, bleed yellow and green so that''ll be enough surely to keep you up).[/quote]   Ironically your resurgence  coincided with your signing of Chris Brown from us !  

[quote user="Jim Kent"]I know a lot of us are dissapointed about dropping into the relegation zone, but I don''t think we have such a bad evening. Yes, Barnsley, Doncaster and Watford all won. However, Plymouth lost again and Burnley had a tough game against Coventry, so won''t be that fresh for Saturday! Overall I think it will be Plymouth, who goes down, so this was the most important result. [/quote] . . . . . . dee dum dee dum, always look on the bright side of life, dee dum dee dum !

[quote user="venta icenorum"] Wolves finishing 8th sounds about right, they usually lose it completely at this point in the season! How many games did you base current form on? It''s an interesting little parlour game and could give a few pointers towards general trends, if not accurate predictions. Am interested to see Watford picking up so few points. And Palarse go on quite a slide too. Also maybe there is something sinister going on- if Bristol City do win the League expect one of their representatives to be spotted handing over a large suitcase of cash to a certain referee outside the toilets at Victoria station. [/quote] I just based it on the last three home and away games of each team, Bristol for instance have had 22pts from a possible 24 and if they carry that form on they will be there abouts at the end of the season. On the basis of this I have had a little flutter on them at 66-1. Wolves have gained only 6pts from 24 possible which hardly bodes well for their hopes of automatic promotion, that is reflected in the fact that their odds are starting to drift. Obviously the nearer we get to the end of the season the more accurate this form of prediction gets so I will do it again after this weekend to see how the trends are shaping up.      

Without applying any personal view whatsoever I have fed a little program into the predictor based purely on current form, the pts column is present points, the plus column points to be gained and the "new" column is end of season total. Of course very few teams will maintain their present form, some will improve and some will get worse. But at least it gives us a little hope !   Team pts  + new Bristol City 50 42 92 Cardiff 51 35 86 Birmingham 60 24 84 Reading 59 22 81 Swansea 48 30 78 Doncaster 37 40 77 Wolverhampton 63 6 69 QPR 47 21 68 Preston 53 14 67 Sheff Utd 51 14 65 Burnley 50 14 64 Nottm Forest 34 29 63 Sheff Wed 42 20 62 Coventry 40 20 60 Ipswich 44 14 58 Blackpool 38 19 57 Derby 35 22 57 Plymouth 35 15 50 Barnsley 32 18 50 Norwich 32 16 48 Crystal Palace 40 7 47 Southampton 28 14 42 Charlton 25 16 41 Watford 30 4 34

[quote user="City Till I Die"]Yes we have played more games than anyone else in the bottom half, 2 team below us have played 30!!! and 2 played 32!!! is there any chance of us staying up??????????????????????????????????[/quote] All depends on how those teams'' games in hand pan out, they could well lose them and then . . .    

I have left this as late as possible to see if there are likely to be any matches off this weekend. So far it would seem all is well, so I am going for:- Blue Square, 3:00 saturday : Oxford to beat Barrow , looks a cert to me !    

[quote user="Jellytot"]I''ve also gotta say... Jas, out of all the games to pick from this weekend, why on earth would you wanna pick Norwich to lose? Even if that is your opinion, you could quite easily have picked another fixture ![:@][/quote] It''s his choice what to pick and not  yours to criticise my friend.  

Well then, the concencus of opinion on the one hand is that he is not affected by the abuse from the crowd, fair enough.  On the other hand the majority feel that Durso has it in for us and is biased against us, which begs the question why ?  

[quote user="Dionysus"]If the referee is swung by this then, quite simply, he shouldn''t be refereeing at this level.[/quote] I wouldn''t argue about that !  

From early on in the game chants of "Durso is a ****** ! ! !" hardly encouraged an erratic referee to regard us favourably with any 50/50 decisions that were to follow, and so it proved. Whilst the sentiments were understandable I think they may just possibly been better have saved towards the end of the match when he couldn''t do us any harm.    

Having rallied to the cause when Roeder left, perhaps  he was dissapointed not to  be rewarded with a higher managerial role at City.    

Don''t think so, he didn''t do much for us as a player and doing even less for us in the commentary box !    

[quote user="Arturo Whittlupoli"]keeper to blame-sky sports news centre.[/quote] Gaff-a-game Marshall ?  

Yet another howler from Marshall ! ! ! !

[quote user="1st Wizard"]Sorry guys, you sound bitter and jelous to me, were we to get promoted...................[/quote] Not really Wiz, my opinion was for football in general not Norwich specifically. As one who loves "football" I can hardly be pleased the way the game is going.    

[quote user="1st Wazzock"]It should read HAS ruined British football.[/quote] That''s for sure ! Most of the extra revenue just goes straight into player''s and agents already inflated pay packets.    

With all these postponements we could get a WHOLE MINUTE of  coverage tomorrow !  

Scunthorpe is OFF Nutty, so instead I will pin my faith on Norwich City to win please  

[quote user=shortfatb]I wondered who they could mean! What''s f**king ace about him? [/quote]   A much overused term by the media I feel, almost anyone who wears the colours is described as an "ace"nowadays.  

Well done boys, you done us proud !    

. . . . would be a great achievement if they win tonight, and hold out some promise for our seeing them in the seniors in the future. Is there any way we can follow them on the internet tonight ?  

[quote user="Big Dave"]All 3 Wolves goals due to Mickey Mouse defending.[/quote] Don''t remember signing him in the transfer window Dave ?  

[quote user="ncfc90"] Poor effort from Virgin media, i was hoping to see both of Curetons misses, that both 5 live, and radio norfolk, said were absolute sitters, surely they should be included. [/quote] Yes indeed, I wonder how they compared with Marshall''s "miss" at collecting an easy catch fot their first goal. Also the radio commentry described two of his saves as brilliant when they appeared to be quite standard stops to me.  

[quote user="WrightyBoy"]Does athat commentators voice annoy anyone?? I find his voice so irritating!![/quote] Yes it does, His "commentary" is so obviously dubbed  after the event and his moments of excitement are so poorly feigned that it grates. But we must be grateful that we at least see some of the action.