kick it off

Press Conference called for 12:30 today - thats according to the official site. looks like we have Murray to announce. in time for hull. Hopefully there will be more incoming players to announce too!!

well andy - nice to see you have nothing better to do on a friday night than comment on ANOTHER TEAM''S meassageboard meant for NORWICH FANS. but irrelevant of that fact - yes your right you can put a premiership slant on things, what you can''t do is claim your team have any pride as they cheat their way into scraping survival!! i would much rather be a norwich fan, following an honest team in the championship than a WH fan following a team *****************   that curbishley is assembling.

From what i can gather off the match report thats on the official site - Brellier had a decent game - dave striker is playing well and set up drury for a screamer. be interesting to see what people who''ve actually been say!

no - i know worthy reached the playoffs in his first season with the team he inherited. but we finished 8th or 9th in his first full season, with his team, then won the league the year after. there are kids that need 2 be brought through this year also. we should be aiming for playoffs, but i think if we dont reach them, Grant should have one more year to have a crack at them.

[quote user="Cheeky Monkey"]It''s only 6 quid. Why don''t you splash out.[/quote]Because it isn''t that easy to make a 400 mile round trip for a pre-season - i did expect canariesworld (which i ''splashed out for'') to do something but there u go. Not living in Bromsgrove anymore - i''m in worcester (well more out towards kidderminster) but one of my mates is a city fan and he lives in broms.

Its not on radio norfolk schedule!! its so frustrating being so far away, Jas - how much are u charging?!

If you care to notice the exclamation marks around "more creative types" you will find it infers this is not my belief:. maybe i didnt make that clear enough though, so i can see where you''re coming from. But Safri was there primarily to break play up and protect the defence. His creativity was somewhat limited at best. The point i was making was that suddenly after he''s left, Safri seems to have been elevated in the minds of some to levels that his performance and attitude never warranted. They are using this lofty status that they seem to be conjuring, to slate Grant as it is apparently his fault that Safri who now appears to be the best player we''ve ever had, judging by the comments of some has gone and PG is slowly destroying the team. (this is not a dig at you shack attack, more at the likes of smudger etc)The fact remains - that an overpaid, underperforming, player with a lot of quality but a poor attitude has been forced out the door by Grant because Safri could not do what was expected of him. He was always injured/tired/busy picking up agents/flouncing around in morrocco to bother with norwich, the club that paid his wages. he missed 10games a season! (thats an average)Everyone else managed to make training and the photo session, why should Safri be allowed to do what he likes?

Safri was never a creative midfielder - he was the holding midfielder which allowed the "more creative types" such as Etuhu to get forward. Why Saf has suddenly been elevated to this pedestal is beyond me, and I can only see that it''s because people have acknowledged there are sides in this debate and have picked Saf''s due to their unfounded animosity towards PG. This pre-season is the first since we came back down when there has been a buzz about the club. This is due to the players Granty has bought in, not neccessarily the talent, but the fact they want to be here. THEY CARE. look back on promotion season - does anyone really think we had the strongest squad in the league? we didn''t but the players cared, and worked as a unit and that is what Grant is trying to build here. Whatever the doom merchants who refuse to back Grant say, is utterly irrelevant at this stage, as this is his team who''ve played a maximum of 5games together. We have got a decent side here, but to have a decent side capable of winning anything we need the fans backing. If people choose to doubt Grant on the basis of half a season with Worthy''s team then so be it, but I have more sense and more pride in the club than that. I would much rather have supported Grant and been proved wrong than have doubted him and been proved right. So, much as the players and Grant do, I CARE enough to back them to the hilt and see where it takes us, do you?

Is there any commentary anywhere for this game? i have checked 5live and 5live extra, canariesworld and radio norfolk schedules and none of them seem to have it. Is there anywhere it will be commentated on or will it be a case of making do with skysports news?!

not that simple. we couldnt very well just sever his contract as we were short of bodies and he would have commanded a huge payoff. i may be projecting here, but say no-one makes a substantial offer for him in january, so now was the soonest we could get rid - remember we do have transfer window system!! and all the speculation about his collapsed deal to WBA. i am glad he''s gone - wages could be better spent - and his attituide was appalling, people seem to think his attitude has only been appalling for a few months. does no-one remember him being too injured to play for us, but flying out to play for morrocco and getting injured again the season before last? his heart hasnt been in it since we got relegated, and if he has so little grace that he was more interested in picking up an agent (who was in all likelihood engineering saf''s move to soton) from the airport than attending training and actually DOING HIS JOB for X thousand pounds per week, then good riddance.

by the way - the one on the left is a norwich fan (me!)

After all the transfer excitement this week has brought - have a little respite and watch the hero boys performing at PGL christmas 2007 (PGL xmas is in june!) - They are the next big thing! prepare yourselves for the talent explosion that is - THE HERO BOYS!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV5Vh_RXzEU

waiting for new pro ev - alot better

lets turn up in numbers and show people what we still have, premeirhip belief.  a large quantity of good support is vital. 

why does every1 rate him , his poor !!  doherty and davenport

is he really that good?