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  2. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Hairy Canary said:

    I have a lot of sympathy with refs but the power is with them. Consistency is the key.

    Sainz gets a second yellow for waving an imaginary card after being cleaned out (the tackle goes unpunished) and Vestergaard gets nothing for screaming abuse in the refs face.

    Yeah, I always thought the way they've stringently clamped down on waving 'air-cards', but not the aggressive abuse, is weird.

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  3. Posted

    Saying we should keep VAR but go back to the daylight rule won't change anything, because unless the camera is directly in line with the attacker/defender in question, how could VAR possibly judge whether there's daylight? We'd end up in exactly the same situation, i.e. using a microscope to look for millimeters of error.

    Using VAR for offside is fundamentally damaging to football because it leads to so many goals being disallowed. When you can no longer fully celebrate your team scoring a goal, then football has lost it's soul. Keep it for red cards, penalties, diving etc if we HAVE to, but offside, no thanks.

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    I have an irrational hatred of Villa due to a smug fan of theirs who I used to live with around the time of us both going up together in 2018-19 and then them surviving the drop that season (due to faulty goal-line tech against Sheff Utd). He used to say patronising things like "I fear for Norwich this season" before predicting Villa would finish in Europe. He also said once, the season after they'd stayed up and we'd gone back down, that he hadn't seen the Norwich result because he "doesn't follow Championship football". None of it was blatant ribbing done with a cheeky smile, which I could have dealt with, it was all genuine, patronising comments.

    It's annoying because I had no issue with Villa before, and I no longer live with that person, but I can't shake off my ill-feelings towards Villa!

    Thanks for allowing me to vent.

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    57 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

    Nevermind that Bayer are of course backed by, well, the Bayer company who are worth 20 billion+. Even added the companys name to their team name which yeah, strange how RB Lepzig gets tons of hate for it but Bayer seems to have been let off

    I think that's probably because a) a fair few people outside of Germany probably don't know that about Bayer and b) RB seemed to go on a total sporting blitz and buy multiple teams across different sports, in a short time spell, which I think feels a lot more in your face. They even owned 2 of the 11 or so F1 teams at one point (maybe still do, I'm not sure).

    Any other company teams out there doing well? PSV is/was a Philips team. Vauxhall Motors...

  8. Posted

    7 hours ago, BroadstairsR said:

    Memories are short, but surely not short enough to forget the derision the man received on this forum at virtually his every move and decision during that recent bad run? It was intense, and apparently the atmosphere at Carrow Road reflected this.

    As a football fan the opposite of having too short a memory is to never let things go, regardless of how long ago they were. Surely there has to be a point where you move on from a bad spell of form? You can't sack a manager for a poor run that came before a much more significant good run (resulting in a playoff place), that would make us a laughing stock.

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  9. Posted

    Believing that Wagner should go if we don't quite make the playoffs, sort of overlooks the fact that we've had Sargent, Rowe and Gunn (+ defensive issues, and Onel out right when he was playing well, Nunez, Sainz etc) out for long periods each. It would feel incredibly unfair on Wagner. Even just to get so close to the playoffs with those injuries feels like a worthwhile achievement.

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    30 minutes ago, shefcanary said:

    Wow! Finally.

    And he was like this far too often during our poor run. But no, never can this ever be said against our Kenny. 

    Until now ...

    I wonder what I was watching back in those dark days, when every game he played like he did on Saturday? 🤔

    I feel vindicated at last. 🙂 

    You feel vindicated that your (erroneous) view has somehow been proved right? A perfect example of 'A stopped clock is right twice a day'. Months of being arguably our best player, followed by one bad game (where no-one played well) and suddenly you're 'vindicated'? How many months of great performances would it have taken for you to finally admit you were wrong about him, or would you forever be waiting for a bad performance so you can pounce on him?

    "He was like this far too often during our poor run" - wasn't every one of our players poor during that run?

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  12. Posted

    Not sure England have had a great kit since Italia 90. We're sadly cursed with a boring set of parameters (plain white, minimal flashes of navy and/or red trim). Euro 96 and World Cup 98 kits became iconic for people of my age because of those tournaments, but aside from that, virtually nothing stands out. This new kit is quite smart but in 10 years no one will be able to place it in time (unless we win a tournament in it).
    I would love to see what Adidas would do with an England kit, especially if they'd made our kits in the mid-90s!

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    Other people may also have heard on the commentary for Saturday's match, that apparently Jordan Hugill was sat in amoung our fans for the Middlesboro match. Love that! I know Maddison also did this for at least one match when he was at Leicester and we played Wolves, along with another player I think, but I forget who, maybe Ruddy? Anyone else know any other examples of former players showing this lasting allegiance to us?

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    I think he's been fantastic throughout this recent run of better form we've been on. If we end up in the playoffs it'll be in large part due to his steadying performances after some very sketchy defensive games last year. He dug us out of some dangers against Watford on Tuesday. Personally I'd have him slightly ahead of Duffy at the moment.

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    I think he was probably being realistic. Not many managers would be jumping around when we'd just equalised mid-way through the first half of a game we were being dominated in. And of course he wasn't overly celebrating Sainz's consolation goal, because it was a consolation.

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    Lots of people are saying we need to start our strongest lineup because of the potential revenue from playing Liverpool, but it is a valuable part of cup games to give second-string players game time. Literally every club plays weaker line-ups in the cup for that reason. I'm sure that won't stop people moaning when our line-up is changed though.

  22. Posted

    46 minutes ago, S_81 said:

    You’ve clearly not encountered Nutty re your Delia point lol. 
     

    Listen, I get what you’re saying. And I’m in no way suggesting someone shouldn’t give their viewpoint. I’m just noting the regularity at which certain people dive in to defend certain club characters. I find it interesting to observe how motivated they are to defend some of these people. Sure - some of us, myself included, can be accused of over reacting. But there’s a flip side of over defending. I just question why someone is so welded to some of these people and their decision making 

    You're acting as though talking positively about your own club is some sort of suspicious conspiracy, it's bizarre.
    Surely the people who devote almost all their energy to being negative and critical of their own club is more weird?

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  24. Posted

    There really is some excessively negative dross on this board sometimes. Some people are commenting on him like he stole all their Christmas presents or something. Let's be honest, how much are our midfielders offering our strikers at the moment? Who is realistically expecting Barnes to have banged in goal after goal since he came back from injury with this service? Give him a break. And people slagging him off for getting wound-up by a Millwall team literally elbowing him then persistently surrounding him like jackals. Which team do you actually support?

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