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Phil Mulryne or Wes Hoolahan?
kick it off replied to Katie Borkins's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
I didn''t realise quite how many Mullers scored for us! That goal at Reading was class though. It was Easter weekend IIRC and it was a televised game. Quality. -
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Google search "feed 2 all" I hope this stays up long enough for you to see it!
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Jarders, yes, pretty much. Sometimes you have to click the little circle next to "Norwich City" at the top of the page next to the player, but most of the time it starts automatically.
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Only comes on 5-10mins before kick off. You can listen to the rest of the build up before that (if you are so inclined) here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_norfolk
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NORWICH FANS GO CRAZY IN WATFORD PUB
kick it off replied to TalkNorwichCity's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
You''re not allowed to use the word "crazy" as an adjective unless there is significant harm caused to bins in the vicinity. -
LDC - In response to your point about lack of highlights/interviews after the game, they are contractually prohibited from doing so until Midday on the day following the game. BBC holds exclusivity rights until then (Radio for interviews and Football League Show for highlights). CanariesPlayer/NCFC Youtube ALWAYS have the highlights up within minutes of the time they are allowed to put them up.
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In response to the actual thread, CanariesPlayer is crap, but for us exiles who unfortunately can''t afford to spend hundreds in petrol every week it is a lifeline. It is pretty cheap, and you get what you pay for really. Other clubs do offer more out of their player services but if the FLi contract is (finally) ending then it doesn''t really make any sense to put much effort in for this season as it will be a revamped new product when the contract expires. It is a service, a crap service, but well worth the money to me, and I only use it for commentary and the occasional presser.
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Will miserable Peter star on Canary Call?
kick it off replied to pete's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
He''s on with some bizarre anecdote about Greg Downs'' that he seems to think Greg will remember (when he clearly doesn''t) 35 years ago... -
We only got beat by Brentford due to having no fit CMs and having to play bloody Whittaker in midfield. Full strength we would have beaten them, they weren''t very good. We have a new messiah.
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Suck that you scummy little pr1ck
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Wolverhampton is an absolute dump and the accent is probably the worst in the country by quite a long way. The scummer coming on here has some pretty poor banter to be honest, and harking on about the "all time table" is not much use when Wolves haven''t won the title, or the FA cup in well over 50 years (probably before this muppet was born as I would hope someone of 50+ years of age would have better banter and more intellect). They won the League cup in 1980 but we won it more recently than that, so our history over the last 50 or so years is pretty similar, if not marginally better, and we''ve spent nearly double the amount of time in the Prem that Wolves have. I hope we smash them today, as they have a vile set of fans (even the desperate attention seeker on here is trying to offend us, he''s just not very good at it). Dirty yam yam b*stards.
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Funny people are bringing up the coining incident. Whoever mentioned the bleeding child, you may well have been sitting pretty near me all those years ago, as I was struck by a coin which cut my head open, I was aged about 7 or 8 at the time. I would''ve been sporting a classic ''bowl'' haircut (probably with a lopsided fringe as my Mum used to trim it with kitchen scissors thinking she was Nicky Clarke!). Agree about West Brom fans being some of the best in the league, with Wolves being right up there with the worst. We only hate Wolves and Ipswich!
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I clearly said he reminds me of Earnshaw in the aspect of conversion ratio. Clearly I wasn''t comparing their overall contribution to games, nor was I comparing their quality as players. I''m not really sure why I have to explain that, it was pretty straightforward to understand... People seem to have this bizarre thing on here where they take a comment, put all kinds of conjecture on it, twist it around a bit, add a few bits in, and then reply to whatever they''ve made up in their heads, as if that was what was originally said. Earnshaw was never a clinical finisher. Trawl back through the forum and read the posts from when he was here and see for yourself. Yes he scored shedloads but he was a clever player who got himself in the right place at the right time, and was lightning quick. He had more chances than most due to his positional intelligence and pace, therefore could still miss loads and have a great strike rate. The only stats I can find on Earnshaw''s conversion rate is this comparison to Andy Johnson which gives him a 17% conversion rate of shots in open play to goals (which puts my earlier statement of scoring one for every 3 or 4 misses pretty much bang on the money for the record) http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11698/2340023/opta-feature-earnshaw-v-johnson And this article from his time in the MLS which has his conversion ratio at 14%... which puts him at 5 misses per goal.... http://www.squawka.com/news/tracking-progress-of-former-west-brom-norwich-star-now-in-mls/10268 Maybe it''s the low percentages that were on target that is why I recall him missing a lot. Maybe it''s just that he lost his man so often his chances seemed to be more clear cut than other players. There''s lots of ifs and buts, however that''s how I remember him, that''s what the stats say, and that''s something I believe Bryan Robson who was his manager at WBA said publically at some point (something like "He misses 5 for every one he scores") Surprised you don''t remember this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQdPlp01hH4
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"Can''t remember seeing any striker miss as many clear cut chances as Grabban. Inexcusable." Wolfy missed his fair share. I reckon he must have missed at least 3 or 4 tap ins from 6 yards or less, with an empty net in front of him last season. Grabban reminds me of Earnshaw. He missed an absolute boatload every game, for every one he scored, he would miss 3 or 4 clear chances.... but Earnshaw never seemed to lack confidence (which Grabban seems to be at the moment).
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Like the new format, forget the presenters, just letting the callers argue with each other. Quite amusing :)
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Balls - Watford just scored. Never mind, 3 points off the playoffs if scores stay the same.
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Connor Sammon just stuck one past the scummers (his old team) to put them 2-0 down away at Rotherham... and suddenly the gap is just 4points and they still have to visit Carra Rud. Wolves 1-2 Reading Blackburn 0-0 Watford (draw is best result for us) Sheff Weds losing too so with Blackburn dropping points, the gap is opening up between the top 8 and the rest of the pack. Just need Dirty Leeds and Charlton to take the points off Brentford and M''Boro and it will be a very good day!!
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Anybody coming down today (or in the area) and not got a ticket yet? Was meant to be going with my Dad but he''s not able to make it, so I have a ticket currently going to waste. Would rather chuck it to someone for a pint than waste it. I live in Derby so can meet outside the ground.
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[quote user="Mickdundee"]Yes because yesterday was great wasn''t it. It''s all about results not pretty football I[/quote] Have I said yesterday was great? Actually Results, and pretty football are not mutually exclusive. Believe it or not, you don''t have to play hoofball to win, and you don''t always lose playing pretty football. I swear the IQ of some people on this board is single figures.
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So my post is ignorant Barclay 48/49, but foregoing 6 full years of evidence on the basis of one game is well-informed? Clearly you have something more to support your opinion, otherwise yours would be the one considered ignorant.... I know a few Palace fans, and all said he was slowly but surely dismantling the football and replacing with hoofball. None were particularly sorry to see the back of him. But then there was that one game where he didn''t play hoofball crap, wasn''t there? In reality, at Palace, he wasn''t half as hoofball minded, but that''s because he didn''t have the players to do it. You can''t exactly hoof it up to lightweight Chamakh can you? Hoofball is all Pulis knows, and it''s all he can do. Give him chance to build a team, and we''ll be stuck with a legacy of cloggers with little passing ability. "He did what he was asked to do" - So he deliberately went down a route of having a fair bit of money to spend, and spending it on players who suited hoofball because he didn''t want to exceed expectation and finish above 11th? Or were the board asking him to play anti-football every week? Your post is utter tosh. The only reason Pulis didn''t play hoofball all the time at Palace was because the players weren''t suited to it. You can call it tactical nous if you like, I will stick with calling it basic common sense.
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Time to forget about Pulis!!
kick it off replied to Baldyboy's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
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[quote user="OldRobert"]If the Championship is so competitive Kick It Off, please tell us what it is about, say, the last 10 league matches that you like so much, that make you appear to want to retain the services of our current manager?[/quote] Clearly literacy is not your strong point, as I said very clearly earlier in this thread that I don''t care who is at the helm, I just want to see Norwich putting some results on the board, but not at the expense of entertainment. If anything, the last ten or so games have shown exactly how competitive the Championship is, albeit it''s not been very pleasant for us, but teams that haven''t cost a lot of money have consistently put one over on one of the league''s big boys (us). The level of footy in the Champs is technically not as good as the Prem, but it''s generally more entertaining. Football is meant to be about entertainment. Now maybe I''m a little less simple-minded than some, but watching our defenders by-pass midfield with aimless hoofs up the pitch to a 6''4+ striker is not my idea of enjoyable watching. Sure, it may be effective but when I''m shelling out my hard earned cash to go and see it, I expect better. The Prem under Hughton was the most boring, soul-destroying waste of time to watch. No entertainment value whatsoever, going out, with both teams setting up to play for a dull draw if they were a similarly poor team or going 1-0 up and time-wasting and parking the bus, and knowing that you have no chance of actually beating the bigger teams, nor any chance of achieving any success without spending hundreds of millions that a club like us doesn''t have. Seriously, how many games in the Prem were genuinely entertaining to watch once Lambert went? Even the unbeaten run was dire football and parking the bus. Please tell me what is so exciting about having Pulis come in, take us to the Prem (which isn''t guaranteed) and watching him build a team of hoofball specialists who can''t finish above 11th in 6 years (something Mark Hughes managed to do in his first season at Stoke). I''m quite happy to get a new manager in, but Pulis would be a horrible choice, and can you imagine if he wasn''t effective? We''d have to endure his hoofball crap and still not getting the wins to take us up?
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You know things are bad when Tony Pulis seems to have morphed into a footballing demi-God in the eyes of a good chunk of the fan base.