kick it off

I should add, they are charging £44 per FOUR tickets to VILLA fans, whilst the away fan price is £39.

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2935684,00.html?Villa offering 4 tickets for a combined £44. £11 per ticket. A saving of £28 a ticket on our prices.The fact all applicants for away tickets have been successful again is hardly a shocker. We no longer have the demand for balloted/priority away ticketing and it''s hardly surprising when we''re being milked by the home clubs who then offer 4 tickets to their fans for pittance more than the price of one ticket for us. Shame the days of us charging reasonable prices at home are long gone.

[quote user="Mister Chops"]Wouldn''t the donkey need three legs to be able to stand?[/quote]It doesn''t matter mate; a blind, deaf donkey with no legs at all would be better than Turner. The amount of limbs or lack of limbs is irrelevant, it would still be a massive upgrade. At least the donkey wouldn''t actively handicap us.The fact Turner was still on the pitch after half time, let alone at the final whistle has massively swayed my opinion of Hughton. Any manager worth his salt would have hauled him off after he gift wrapped Suarez''s second (The 5th goal he was at fault for in 3 appearances. Not let him screw up and cost us another with his pathetic attempt at a tackle and abject failure to recover for the Liverpool 3rd). Turner is either totally f**king useless, or he sniffs a bucket of ketamine before every game. Either way, he should have his P45 tomorrow. I would actually buy out his contract to get him off the books if I was McNally. Before anyone mentions the lack of options, I''d rather play with a man down than Turner, at least being a man down doesn''t give the opposition a 2 goal head start in every game.

[quote user="Jules"]Well at least we doubled our goals scored tally today LOL Don''t know why I''m laughing because this really has been an utter shambles. Wouldn''t have been so bad IMO if Bassong had been in and Turner out.[/quote]Fully agree mate. I went from angry, to upset, to angry again (via the emotions of shame and embarrassment), and now I just don''t even care, it''s laugh or cry.

[quote user="HoltsDerbyDayHattrick"]I would if I had Twitter. Fucking useless, might sign up and let him know. May also send him a tweet asking him to pay me Turners wages, could do a better job myself.[/quote]I suggest a more prudent use of Turner''s wages would be to pay Ipswich to start him every game.

I suggest people make their feelings clear to Mr McNally via Twitter. I have.

I have been a firm supporter of Hughton. Until Now. He didnt take Turner off and he cost us ANOTHER goal within 4 minutes. Enough is enough, if Hughton is really so stupid as to not to realise not only that he''s s**t but also, he''s sh*t and having a bad game so is twice as sh*t then I can''t support Hughton anymore and will reluctantly join the CH out brigade. I would honestly do a better job than Turner.

Turner has scored 4 goals for the opposition in 3 appearances. Enough is enough.

I swear to god if Michael Turner ever appears in a Norwich shirt again I will do his knees myself. It''s like giving the opposition a 12th man. F***ING USELESS C**T.

[quote user="Beauseant"]Let''s be honest, this has little to do with the rights or wrongs of Hughton''s approach and everything to do with finding another convenient stick to beat the guy with in line with your prejudices. Whether you like it or not Lambert''s gone, and we have a new stamp on the team. Ridiculous suggestions that he''s negative (he put out a much more attacking formation at Newcastle than the Infallible One did last season) again pander to preconceptions. For the record he''s got much more Premier League experience than Lambert, and the reaction that he got at St James'' last week should have given even the most bigoted of you pause for thought. The geordies know a bit about the game and they adore him. How long do you really think that Lambert''s "I don''t know how to sort out the defence so we''ll just try to score more than them" approach was going to continue to be effective? He''s hardly set the world alight at Villa, has he? Oh, and think before you come back with "He hasn''t had time to impose his ideas yet" because you might find that that applies equally to another manager.   [/quote]Excellent post Beau, my thoughts exactly.Imo Lambert''s philosophy is similar to the old Kevin Keegan mantra. As much for he did for the club, and as fantastically successful as the Lambert era was, it always concerned me that in 3 years he never sorted the defence out.This Hughton negativity does my head in, some elements of our fan base hide their petty chil;dish strop at Lambert leaving under a veil of "legitimate concerns", however most of these "concerns" don''t have any legitimacy, it''s just bandwagoneering of the highest order.

[quote user="Jim Smith"]If Bassong is fit then obviously he starts. If not, i would be tempted to play E Bennett at right back and play Martin in the middle with Barnett. Liverpool don;t have any big strikers. Mobility at CB is going to be more important than height and I just don;t trust turner up against Suarez with his ability to run in behind. So I would go for: Ruddy   Martin/Bennett Bassong/Martin Barnett Garido   Tettey  Johnson   Snodgrass  Hoolahan  Pilkington   Holt [/quote]Gets my vote except I would possibly bring little Simeon in for Pilks (who is struggling with a back injury i believe so may not be available anyway). Play more of a 4-2-2-2 with hooly and snoddy given licence to roam. Liverpool defence is significantly weakened although their fullbacks have pace to burn so i think we need to play through the centre at speed, which is why I would put Jacko in as his pace will give them all sorts of problems in the channels and through the middle.

[quote user="lappinitup"]Beelsie, check your PM''s. [;)][/quote]Good lad Lappin, I was about to offer to help the guy out, but I shall leave it in your capable hands sir [:)]

Agree with Joeboy, if you have internet access, u can watch each and every game absolutely free over the internet. There''s a million sites that do it. If you don''t have regular internet access, then it''s not very helpful though, if you do, I''m amazed you haven''t come across streaming before as it''s mentioned on this very forum pretty much every matchday, and it''s been possible to do it for years (although not football league games, so was no use for us until we hit the Prem last year) - I''ve been streaming games for at least 6 or 7 years now.

[quote user="Salopian"]Another thing is to let someone other than Snoddy take set pieces, unless he can do so with much greater consistency. It could be either fullback who could be rather more accurate at finding Holt''s or Moro''s head! Perhaps Tetty could be pressed into service, or Howson.We really must make much better use of free kicks round the penalty area. [/quote]Excellent post generally, didn''t quote all of it as it does my head in when people quote huge chunks of text, but just to address the point above, Garrido is supposed to have "a wand of a left foot", so I''ve been surprised not to see him on more set pieces, but agree, we need to start mixing up the takers rather than Snoddy taking them all the time.

[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="lappinitup"]That''s Cody off on loan somewhere then.....Dartford maybe? [;)][/quote]   Cynic.   My first instinct was to hope that Robins may be able to make something of him. And  I reckon Delia''s reaction may have been the same.   OTBC     [/quote]I think you may have missed Lappin''s subtlety here mate?I could be wrong, but I believe Lappin was making an allusion to the fact that no-one had stated it was the manager''s job, and as Cody and Robins play the same position, the pun was that robins was going there as a player...

Yeah cuz we don''t attack at all do we? Frankly I''m amazed how some people have decided we just sit on our goal line all game in spite of the facts that we have created at least as many, if not more chances than the opposition in three out of four games...Not scoring and not attacking are two very different things, we''ve had several absolute sitters missed this season and seen two outstanding goalkeeping performances from the opposition, if they''d hit the back of the net, then we''d have 9 points in the bag and no doubt you''d be praising Hughton''s wonderful attacking football and complaining that we''re too attacking and leave ourselves open to the counter. It would be nice if people actually thought for themselves instead of jumping on a bandwagon that doesn''t actually have any substance to it.We do play attacking football, we do create chances, we haven''t converted enough of them yet. Simple. 

[quote user="paul moy"]Indeed..... http://services.pinkun.com/forums/pinkun/cs/forums/2793773/ShowPost.aspx[/quote]Thanks Paul, I did have a cursory glance at the forums to see if it had been mentined, but I''m in the middle of cooking so won''t pretend I looked properly lol.

Vs Arsenal.Links in usual places.

I remember reading when he signed that he has a sweet free kick on him. Can''t be any worse than the others, give him a go I say.

[quote user="Ncfc"]We never looked like scoring all match , thats 2 points from 2 of the easiest home matches we will have , be a massive job to finish anywhere but bottom .[/quote]Grow up.

[quote user="Scooby"]Pilks injured ?  I can''t see why he''d not be in the squad otherwise.  Has anyone heard anything?[/quote]He had a child born less than 48 hours or so ago. I''d imagine that has something to do with it. Weird Tettey isn''t in the squad.

[quote user="Kidderminster Canary"]Am I the only one to think Peak District Canary is a nutter/binner or plain stupid[/quote]Yep, I think it''s a satirical attempt at imitation of Lake District Canary. It''s not very good, or very witty, but I think that''s the intent of the post.

[quote user="Bethnal Yellow and Green"][quote user="Indy"]Is this our way of getting into Europe next year, is there still a spot for fair play?[/quote]   Ah Fair Play League. Norwich could only qualify if the Premier Leauge is in the top three of the Fair Play table, it''s not based club v club but League v League and then the team with the best fair play record in each League is selected. (It''s also not just based on cards, but points are scored for attitude of the team and thier fans).   It''s a very, very slim chance, I think the Premier League has only had a Fair Play team 4 or 5 times since it was begun back in the mid 90s. [/quote]Yep, didn''t the Scum get in that way about a decade or so ago?

I think that would give us 58 goals, an improvement on last year''s total of 52 which was the highest number of goals scored outside the top 6.... I think you haven''t really thought this through.

Top bloke. I guess the closest contemporary comparison is probably Balotelli, but even he of bathroom firework displays and telling cops that the reason he has 12,000 in cash sitting on his passenger seat is "because I''m rich, I can do what I want" fame isn''t even remotely close to Friday''s legend.