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    [quote user="Temp the Revelator"]I am still around too, but post infrequently these days - read much more than I post.  I also remember the primitive message board - used to post on it regularly when I was down the Falklands in 2001........[/quote]

    Your location says Crewe Temp - but you have a picture of Ely Cathedral!?

    Another August 03 joiner here. If i remember correctly i think the very very first to join did so in July.

    As Ricardo observes, much water under the bridge - 3 promotions and 3 relegations. Proof if it were ever needed that it''s a rollercoaster ride following football! What awaits in the next 10 years?

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    Sorry, who is this Waveney Binner bloke? Can''t believe any of you would take him seriously and dignify his clueless drivel with a serious response. He''s clearly just a troll. But since this has now developed in to a 4 page thread i feel the need to wade in! If there was half a brain cell between the OP and his pet goldfish he''d realise that no-one knows how to run and manage (off the field) Norwich City FC better than McNally. When/if to sack Hughton was a flip of a coin decision. We don''t know if sacking him earlier would have prevented relegation anyway. Reality was, when Lambert left the board''s ONLY priority was getting a new, available manager in to keep us in the league for another season, the season with the new rights money. They got that decision right because the new manager achieved that goal with points to spare. The fact that new signings made the following year didn''t work out and the manager couldn''t get the team functioning effectively was not directly McNally''s or anyone else''s fault come to that, it''s just a fact of football. The OP also talks like it''s HIS club and the fans are like him and want the board to pay the price for relegation. Actually, you''re in a minority binner, for most fans the last thing they want is for McNally to go. He could do with making a statement though, confirming his commitment to the club and to finding a manager to return us to the top.  Or not, as the case may be. I''m certainly keen to know his intentions.

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    Sorry sg this is nonsense. Football is a game. Every time a team wins another loses. You can''t stop that happening as the manager and certainly not in the board room. What they can do in the boardroom is create a business environment that gives the football on the pitch the best chance of succeeding. McNally has overwhelmingly achieved that since arriving at the club as a league 1 outfit. This is his first year not seeing success on the pitch in 5 years of being with us.

    That is an unprecedented record in football across the country but for perhaps Swansea, Southampton and a couple of the big 5.

    So what has been the cause of this year''s failure? Is it McNally''s "fault"? The fact is, Hughton was a good appointment in the wake of Lambert''s departure and was proved such by the end of the season. As subsequently happens at every club without fail, is that managers who have has success have a period or periods without success. The board then has a decision to make. That decision is a simple 50 50 choice which is impossible to know which will or would be the correct one. It will probably turn out that we go down so you can say it was the wrong choice or that he made it too late but are you really going to blame him for that when anyone else could have made the same choice or when 90% of the choices he has made in 5 years have been overwhelmingly the right ones?

    He''s human but when it come to making the right choices behind the scenes to run Norwich City Football Club as best as it possibly can be run, there is no-one better to do that job. Simple as.

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    [quote user="MancCanary"]I''m tired of this stupid, spoilt-brat routine from our fans.

    "For 4 years McNally ran City to our complete satisfaction but has failed singularly this season and therefore ought to seriously consider his position. "

    - So even though you acknowledge you have had 4 years of complete satisfaction, you think after 1 bad season and 1 bad decision that McNally has to go? Where''s the fairness in that?

    And as for McNally being lucky with Lambert - why, exactly is hiring Lambert lucky (when he was obviously targetted for very specific reasons) and hiring Hughton a mistake?

    Only the top 3 or 4 clubs in the premiership expect success EVERY season. The rest of the 88 football league clubs realise many of the decisions they make are gambles, some of which will not turn out, and will result in a period of decline.

    If you''re going to throw your toys out of the pram when it''s not going well so soon after such an unprecedented period of success for our club, then you shouldn''t support a club like Norwich. Your mindset is more suitable to supporting a club such as Manchester United.[/quote]

    This, this and then this, a hundered times over.

    People should be more worried about what will happen if he leaves. The guy knows everything there is to know and more about running a football club effectively but about running Norwich City effectively. What do you suppose Vincent Tan knew about running Cardiff City when he turned up there? What about Tony Fernandes at qpr? Mr Allam at Hull? I realise they are owners rather than CEOs but you can guarantee that people like them are running the club from on high and doing much of the job that McNally does at Norwich. People who want him gone or "blame" him for our current predicament have absolutely no clue and have absolutely no idea about what they are wishing upon their club by calling for him to go.

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    I think we''re wrong to think Arsenal is going to be our best chance, we could be gone by then anyway if we get nothing at OT. The return of a rested Ozil and Ramsey is a serious blow to our chances. People seem to have forgotten how they were playing earlier in the season - when they took us apart - and were top of the league. The advanced three of Ozil Ramsey and Wilshere behind Giroud were unplayable at times the way they were interchanging. Ok no Wilshere but they''re starting to get back a number of the personnel they had in harness when they were top of the league.

    The only hope is that they rest a few for the cup, which i agree is likely to take on huge significance for them as a chance for some all too rare silverware for Wenger.

    But my main point is i feel certain that we need 3 points from OT or Stamford Bridge and 4 from the two games minimum.

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    I disagree smith, respectfully.

    A bounce comes from the relief and the removal of stress or burden that had developed under the old manager. And even that wasn''t enough for us.

    But at OT the problem was never the manager. There is still huge uncertainty there, the players have nothing and no-one to play for, even after the sacking. I fully expect them to make a good appointment and to recover but for now until the end of the season, they''re in limbo.

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    Giggs, Butt, Neville and Scholes have all jumped on board to help. Is that really the answer? Why not add Roy Keane just for good measure? Getting them in is probably the only short term answer for now, but they have little or no managerial experience - even less than our Neil! - and are sure to expect things from players that they themsevles were able to offer and deliver. Which is one of the reasons great players often make sh*t managers.

    Also they really have absolutely nothing to motivate them.

    Impress new manager? Nope, he''s going to be replaced as soon as the season''s over.

    In the running for silverware, top 4 finish? Nope.

    Thinking about where they are going to play next year? Yes.

    The players heads are going to be all over the place. This whole situation at OT might JUST be the holy intervention we need to get us a win and a springboard to Chelsea who will either have their priorities elsewhere or be on a massive downer, what with their Champs League second leg game a few days before they play us. I suppose what we don''t want is them to beat Liverpool and go out of the Champions League. Then they will still be in with a shout of the Prem title.

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    What''s up with Yobo? Tricky one though as i like the Russ/Turner pairing simply for, as Adams said, their guts and whole-heartedness and leardership and organisational sense. But Yobo brings that too and i just think we need that much more athleticism v Liverpool and wonder if Turner gives us enough of that.

    Regards the front, if we were to go with a front two, and i expect we probably wont for Liverpool, we could do a lot worse than Hooper and Becchio. Surely those two have the most convincing goal scoring records.

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    First it was Man City who were title shoe-ons, then it was Chelsea, now it''s Liverpool.

    But of them all, the media love in over Liverpool has been the most nauseating, with their lauding over Gerrard just because he shouts a bit on the pitch. Never mind that Suarez should have been sent off for some outrageous cheating, that Skrtel had a bout of volleyball in their penalty area. Ok, so i''m bitter, but what better way to change the record than to stick a spanner in the works on Saturday, rather than just roll over and submit to the media''s pre-ordained "fairytale" outcome!?

    (Personally i''d like to see Chelsea win it but there you go, who knows. I would have said Liverpool but for that horrible little cheat.)

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    The worst thing for all of us, is that i''m pretty certain if we ARE going to stay up, it will require a win on the last day of the season v Arsenal. Which is possible - perhaps the most possible of all our remaining games. But of course this sick feeling i woke up with this morning, flashbacks of stockdale saving from Ricky, will go on until the last game of the season. I can barely cope with that [:''(]

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    Of course, that''s the other option, to try and match them up.

    Tempted top think even if that worked they would switch to a 5 man midfield mid game. Rodgers might be tempted to start that way anyway withouth Henderson and Sturridge. The diamond vs a high quality 5 man midfield can get torn to shreds, exploiting holes in midfield, as Lambert''s diamond demonstrated for us a few times! I would be nervous with that.

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    We know from our own extensive experiences of the diamond formation that it is fallible and that with all that attacking intent, it can leave big holes behind in midfield.

    Hull of course beat Liverpool at their place. I guess you have to decide if you''re going to try and neutralise them with somethign like a 5-3-2 system or 4-1-4-1 that might take advantage of the narrowness of their diamond without giving away your own solidity.

     

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    [quote user="Gingerpele"]If he wins POTS it just sums up how underwhelming this season has been.


    Snodgrass wasn''t good until after Christmas. If someone can win POTS having only played half a season well then we should just not award it.

    [/quote]

    Nonsense. Lets face it, no-one has been ripping trees up all season, that''s why we''re where we are. Fact is though, without Snodgrass we''d be down already. What is also now starting to become apparent is that he may well have been playing without truly beleiving in the way we were playing and being set up. Most players in those circumstances would just fade away and stop playing.  

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    All the pundit''s predictions last week were that we would beat WBA and that they would be doomed!

    The national media''s "faux horreur" at the startling news that "struggling premier league teams sacks manager" could help to galvanise us and create a really strong vibe in the dressing room to come out and show them.

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    Absolutely right of the OP to point out the difference in language. Who cares if it''s more like Lambert than Hughton - that''s just an opinion. The facts are, this is a coach with a very different philosophy to the last one, and, let''s be honest, a more exciting one. For me, the key line is this one:

    "What I like is players who can receive the ball into feet and they are looking to play it forward, to get in and hurt the opposition."

     

    Yes, Lambert also was most interested in hurting the opposition, in being a threat, whereas Hughton''s priority was being solid, hard to beat, not conceding first, attacking second. It looks like Adam''s is closer to Lambert in this respect and we all know that we associate Lambert with a golden era in the club so inevitably people are going to feel more positive towards Adams if he sounds more like Lambert than Hughton.  And if that generates a wave of positivity between fans and players, that gives a better chance of the players performing to their maximum ability than if the fans are getting in to fights with the players and throwing things at the manage, so frankly i don''t give a sh!t if it means comparing x with y. Who cares? All that matters is points.

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    I was contemplating why our record at Craven Cottage is so appalling and wondered about the dimensions of the pitch. The width is actually wider than Carrow Rd by one yard but it''s the length and the variations in the PL that caught my eye looking at the dimensions of all the pitches. Most are 114-116 yards but a fair few are just 110 yards. These are the 110 yard pitches:

    FulhamSelhurst ParkAnfieldCardiffGoodison ParkWhite Hart LaneUpton Park

    I don''t need to tell anyone what our record is like at these grounds!! Probably nothing in it and just a coincidence, but interesting to note nevertheless!

    http://www.openplay.co.uk/blog/premiership-football-pitch-sizes-2013-2014/

     

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    As for Ricky, it''s true we need to be playing a different style to get more from him, mainly quality balls played in to the box from further up the field, at least level with the penalty area. Ricky should be recieving the ball in the box from there with pace.If you can cast your mind back real far to his one and only goal, this came from a mishit shot by Whittaker from the edge of the box and his header had to be quick and instinctive. This, imo, seems to be the way he prefers to operate.

    But it''s a nonsense to suggest we don''t have the players who can give him that service. It''s the sort of service we gave Holt under Lambert using the full backs and it''s the sort of service the likes of Redmond and Pilkington and Snodgrass could easily provide if we played higher up the pitch and weren''t so pedestrian and predictable in our attacks. 

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