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  1. Posted · Edited by Christoph Stiepermann

    Common for clubs who want to offload high earners they no longer want on a free. We've tried to get clubs to take some of our players off of our hands for free recently, there's nothing derisory about offering to take on the high wages of another clubs unwanted, expensive failed signing. If Rhodes is on 30k pw and will not play we're basically offering them 1.5m for a player who will leave on a free anyway after Wednesday have paid those wages and not played him. 

     

    They're very naive if they think they're gonna get a fee for a player they're so obviously desperate to get rid of from the only club willing to take him in this circumstance. I expect him to arrive on or near deadline day and i doubt there will be any fee involved. 

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    The team having such a great cohesion and being more than the sum of their parts. Some groups of players just gel spectacularly like this team has, I'm sure Webber and Farke have noticed hence the spate of new contracts being prioritised over new additions. It's still going to be tough because our weaknesses happen to be what many lower Pl teams are good at exploiting. But I feel we have enough about us to get results. I can kinda foresee a weird season where we give a lot of good teams a bloody nose but find ourselves getting done often by poorer teams who sit back and counter, but we'll see I guess. Can't wait for the season to start either way. 

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    The interviewer is really good, so much better and more likeable than the more popular TalkNorwich boys, hope his channel takes of soon as he has some good content. First saw him on the Pink Un show and then the Webber interview, asks good questions and lets the interviewee speak, instead of interrupting and making it all about him.

     

    Jarvis comes across well. Just think the stresses of being a pacy, slight winger who started playing very young in the robust lower leagues ruined his joints and ended his career prematurely, it wasn't his fault our medical evaluation was inadequate or ignored, im sure he'd have rather been playing the last few seasons over sitting in the treatment room. 

     

     

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    Worth hanging onto as backup and will be useful again if we're relegated. I actually rate him, think he would be good for 12-15 goals at Championship level if he played 40 games and he fits our style of play. If we stay up he will need to be shifted for the sake of his career but I'm happy to have him here for the forseeable. 

  7. Posted · Edited by Christoph Stiepermann

    Different diets work better for different people. I tried intermittent fasting after hearing about the benefits and after a few days was completely exhausted, felt like I was on a sleeping tablet and as I was too languid to work out I lost a bit of muscle mass alongside fat, which i didn't need to lose and it took 2 days of normal eating to return to normal. Never again.

     

    The club will probably have personalised diet plans for each player depending on their needs. The only absolutes for a healthy diet are a low amount of sugar/salt, not eating round the clock (ie no midnight or 2 am snacks) and getting at least 20-30 portions of fruit/veg a week. So I'd imagine every player is at least sticking to those rules. But I bet Emi Bunedia and Todd Cantwell's diets will look a lot different to say Grant Hanley's because they're tailored towards the needs of the individual, instead of having one, perfect diet plan that works for the whole squad.

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    2006-2008 are really the only blank spots in my memory of following the club since 2001. It wasn't that i wasn't going, I had a season ticket for 07/08 and otherwise always go to a at least a handful of games every season but I remember pretty much nothing about that era. Most players names ive forgotten, can't recall from memory one goal or pattern of play, it's like my brain has just deleted that era from memory. It's probably done me a favour. Until I saw this thread I'd honestly forgotten Andy Hughes even played for us. 

     

    Good interview though. Also serves as a great reminder of how mostly amazing the last decade has been. For a club our size which is self funded we've been spoilt really and last seasons heroics have ensured at the very least a few more years of -compared to the Andy Hughes era- excitement and success. 

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    Going into a gruelling Farke preseason schedule with only 3 fit centre backs is a worry for me. I would like to see an experienced player brought in for competition, someone from Europe probably 32-34 who would be happy with a 1-2 year contract and wouldn't expect to start every game. They would have to be good with the ball at their feet and physical enough for the PL, I can't think of anyone, over to you Mr.Webber

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    Best signing of the summer. Can't remember seeing a better player in my 20 years supporting. We do need to also credit Farke though. The Emi Buendia we have now is not the same player Getafe were happy to let go of for 5 mil last summer. He was decent in his first few games, but over the course of the season he developed like crazy. For the final 15/20 games or so he looked like he could easily play for a top 4 club and made a mockery of the Championship. 

     

    Playing in a higher league, with games spaced out more and with team mates who will hopefully step up a gear god knows how good he could be next year. 

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    All it takes is one of these gambles to come off it it''l pay for itself several times over with the added plus of a higher standard throughout the under 23's to help push every player along in training. Good sensible management. The hope is most will breakthrough into the first team but in reality most will go the way of Fonkeu/McGrandles etc But like I said odds are one will come good and that's all we really need to justify this approach. One thing you can guarantee though now is they will at least be given a chance, any talented young player would likely favour us over other clubs because they're more likely to break through here. Under the old regime I doubt we'd be seeing so many young players from around Europe happily upping sticks to come to Norwich but with our current setup we're obviously seen as a very attractive bet.

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    Looks really good 1v1. Good pace, technique, dribbling and finishing. Perfect type of striker for a lower PL team basically. Looks a good signing but he's got a hell of a challenge dislodging Pukki. Good to have two international regulars competing for a place, Drmic's record is pretty much 1 in 3 at international level

  13. Posted · Edited by Christoph Stiepermann

    Nope. 

     

    Stay on course as we are, wait until we sell one of our young players for 30m plus and use that to build over the City stand. The bubble isn't going to burst anytime soon and transfer fees are going to keep on inflating, soon 30m for a new stand won't seem that extravagant. It would require us to spend a few years in the PL and to keep unearthing young talent but I'm confident we can do it. It's better than taking out a loan or gambling with TV money.

    There's no need to move anyway. We'd rarely sell above 35k and it's not worth relocating for an extra 5-7000 seats. I think around 32-34k would be a sweet spot for us and enough to sustain us at the top level.

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    With Thompson I'd try to get him a loan in somewhere like Holland where it's less physical and he can hopefully get a full season under his belt, he'll just get kicked about in England/Scotland and I doubt he's up to the pace of The PL after such a long lay off. Our DM signing will no doubt be someone we've never heard of who turns out to be brilliant but i think for the start of the season at least Trybull has earned the chance to make that position his. Who knows, he's improved constantly as long as he's been here, he might improve even more next year.

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    Apart from starting and finishing away it looks like we've gotten luckier than any other team to me. Liverpool when they might be slightly undercooked and tired having played a game a few days beforehand and Man City when they may potentially not have anything to play for in the league and may want to rest players for a cup final. 

     

    Who knows, liverpool could start like a train and the title might go down to the last day but those two fixtures wouldn't be any easier in any other slot, they just might be when we play them though if we're lucky.

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    Roy Hodgson is a good club manager who sets his teams up effectively and gets results at PL level but is he and his coaches going to work on improving Aarons or any other player individually? I'd say no. For the sake of his career he'd be better off staying here for a season or two working on his game with a good coach then moving to a top 6 club. Makes good financial sense in the short term to move to Palace but I would hope he's taking a longer term view of things.

  22. Posted · Edited by Christoph Stiepermann

    He kept offering the option but the defenders opted to hoof instead every time and his other midfielders just hit it into the channel for Frazer when they picked up second balls. Bet he'll be glad to be back here and playing proper football again. 

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    Given our financial position and how strong the PL is in this era I would count finishing 17th next season the greatest achievement for the club since I started supporting in 2000. The talk of a top half finish is insane, I think we'll give pretty much every team a good game and will probably dominate a lot of games but we're vulnerable against pace and direct running on the counter, against long strikes and defending set pieces, these areas are where most of the also rans in that league are strongest and where most of their goals come from. 

     

    We have a great footballing team, but in that league we're going to find it really tough to pick up results. I can see a lot of frustrating encounters where we come away feeling hard done by, thinking we should have won but the opposition digs us out with a cheap, low percentage goal or wonderstrike. We're going to need a lot of luck next year that's for sure. 

  24. Posted · Edited by Christoph Stiepermann

    Top of a bottom 5 of

     

    Us

    Sheff Utd

    Burnley

    Villa 

    Brighton

     

    Think Brighton will finish with a v low points total and rock bottom, then the other 4 in any order really but hopefully with us at the top. I can't see any other clubs struggling by the end. Villa won't be as strong as many predict, Burnley I just have a feeling about and I think us and Sheff Utd will just scrape to safety. I do think we'll get off to a shaky start though while we adapt, probably bottom 3 going into the first break.

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    The key for me won't be spending money it'll be improving significantly from set pieces. We can go toe to toe with any lower half PL team in open play but we were average last year defending set pieces and most lowe PL teams are very strong in this area, it could be our achilles heel next season. We could also improve on our concentration just before half time and after kick offs. Address those two issues in pre season on the training ground and it will greatly improve our chances of staying up. 

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