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  1. Posted

    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!

  2. Posted

    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

  3. Posted

    "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).

  6. Posted

    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!!

  8. Posted

    [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.

  9. Posted

    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.

  11. Posted

    [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?

  13. Posted

    [quote user="Nuff Said"]Despite myself I am amazed at how short the memories are of some posters on here. How many people last season said something along the lines of I don''t care if we stay up, I can''t bear to watch Houghton''s style of football any longer?

    If Pulis came in, I would give you excellent odds that within a season there would be many, many posters on here (ignoring Waveney''s multiple personalities) who would be calling for his replacement because of our style of play.

    What I want is a management team who can make the best of the talent we undoubtedly already have in our squad. If this was Adams I would be delighted but the evidence strongly suggests that it is not.[/quote]

    Exactly.

    Pulis'' style of football is probably even worse than Hughton''s.

    I don''t give a toss about being in the Prem. Prem football is absolutely dire, and we may as well not turn up 60% of the time as we have no hope of winning. Same teams finishing in the same positions year in, year out. It''s boring. The sooner the Top 4 or 5 f**k off to a Euro super-league, the better imo.

    At least in the Champs it''s competitive.

  14. Posted

    Speak for yourself, I certainly don''t want Pulis. He might be effective at winning, but I can''t imagine anything worse than watching his hoofball $hit every week. Stoke had 6/7 years of it, and he was starting to take Palace the same way before he left them.

    Horrible "football" and strikes me as a bit of a **** as well.

    Massive no from me.

    I''m not bothered if we get a new manager in, or Adams stays and we turn it round with Phelan''s input, I just want to see Norwich City playing decent football and getting some results on the board. I don''t want us to be signing players for their throw-in abilities ffs!!

  15. Posted

    [quote user="Newton"]Inchy u as big an idiot as Burger Barry

    They were all at the club - in other words cheap[/quote]

    No they weren''t you absolute moron. Lambert was at Colchester and Hughton was at Birmingham (and cost us several mill in compensation reportedly).

    You''re entitled to your opinion, and if you want to rant and rave about stuff then feel free, but at least make sure it has some factual basis and youre not making up random nonsense, that anyone with half a brain cell would know to be false.

  21. Posted

    [quote user="IceTharu"]Bassong can very well leave after today. Turkey and Middle-Eastern transfer markets still open.[/quote]

    Could easily see him going to Turkey actually. Yobo signed for Fenerbahce at a similar juncture in his career when he was left out in the cold by Everton.

    I think he''d do well there too at one of the bigger clubs to be fair, standard is a fair bit lower than Champs outside of the top 4 or 5 teams,

  24. Posted

    [quote user="alartz"]Nope. Still here

    Still waiting for some real evidence on whether he''s signing or not

    Been seen at the ground means nothing

    If he doesn''t sign I won''t be points scoring unlike some of you

    I know there hasn''t been much to shout about in the last couple of seasons but wind ya necks in a bit[/quote]

    Well being seen at the ground certainly means that the transfer is at least possible and not a fantasy made up in people''s heads as you very clearly stated.

    Point scoring? Well maybe, just maybe, if you weren''t a bellend that went round calling people "halfwits" because you think anything that originates on twitter HAS to be made up, and they are brighter than you and can see which rumours have some substance, then you wouldn''t cop a load of flak back.

    Don''t dish it out and start insulting people if you''re not man enough to get some flak back when you''re proven wrong.

  25. Posted

    [quote user="InchY Grabban by the nuts and wring em out."]Jumping the gun slightly as the guy has been known to not agree personal terms and scupper moves. Will make for a good day though waiting to see if it happens.[/quote]

    Journo who broke the story and has been correct thus far says he has agreed terms, passed medical and will sign a 3 year deal today.

    The move to Everton got scuppered due to them not lodging the paperwork in time, so FIFA refused to rubber stamp the move.... nothing to do with him not agreeing terms or scuppering the move so not quite sure what you''re on about.
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