A lot has been written about the famous three, and Hucks in particular. Will they stay? Can they stay? Can the club afford to make them stay? My question would be: Can the club afford not to let them stay? Ten years we have been stuck in this division, each year the ''one season only'' Chase era quote reverbarating around Carrow Road, getting louder and louder with each successive season of mid table mediocrity. The last couple of years it''s started to get better and took us to within a penalty shoot out of the Premiership. Since Cardiff, the squard has been strengthened, and now, with the further addition of Hucks, Crouch and Harper, the playing staff is as good as its been since Walker''s European days. On Saturday at Walsall, the team looked like genuine champions, and thats the first time Ive been able to say that hand on heart, since we were relegated. That is an impartial assessment of a football fan, not the hotheaded response of a Norwich fan. Unbeaten at home, scoring goals, solid defensivly, best keeper in the league, flair, pace, movement, and a team on the verge of something - a real chance of leaving this league and its Muscats behind us. And what''s going to happen? We''re going to let the team break up. Just like the Euro team broke up. And we all know what happened there. Yes, I know the financial arguments, and I have no answers. Im not an accountant, it''s not my money or business on the line. What I do know however is that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. It''s time to gamble. It''s time to get credit. It''s time to beg, steal and borrow. The rewards are too big, and too tantalisingly close not to take that gamble. The other option is to let the team break up and walk away. Harper and Crouch can head back to their respective reserve teams, Hucks will go off on another loan and lend a hand in getting someone like West Brom automatic promotion. Meanwhile, City will finish somewhere between 8th and 13th, and the new stand will look lovely half empty. There really is not an option, is there?
