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Part of me admires the nuts not to do anything. We do have a decent size squad as it stands now - and that actually did us no favours during the covid fixture suspension period. I'd have like to have seen Gilmour go back when he was injured and had him replaced with a specialist defensive midfielder, but it's down to who's available. Clubs logically don't tend to let decent performers go out on loan so anyone bought in would be a risk. I just hope to god Normann comes back in and looks even better now he's pain free and PLM, Sarge and Idah continue their decent form. Keep Rashica & Pukki fit and actually it's not a horrendous side.

A big name, and a once great player, but has he played since the summer? I suppose time will tell, but I guess he will be used very sparingly initially, and in that case is he the player to dig you out of a relegation scrap?

Kenton. I'd never beat him

Burnley even started to put their hands in their pockets. We'll either come out the other side of the break the most cohesive unit or looking like the team the media love to pan for not spending any money.

The irony. Actually your assumption is that a season ticket holder has been in place for 8 years. If you became a season ticket holder 2 (or probably 3-4) years ago a 9% rise would indeed be out of kilter. So you are incorrect in that sense.

That's not how it works. But bless your heart for trying.

A 9% rise would probably be enough for me to cancel out of principle. You cannot preach financial sustainability, and then use working families to sub the wages of millionaires. A rise of current level of inflation is the only acceptable increase.

Do you get a new manager bounce out of 30+ year old players? I think that's more their issue. Foster, Femenia, cathcart, kabasele, rose, cleverley, sissoko, King - all 30 or over - it's an aging squad who will be a bit more resistant to change and have their own ideas. Their only hope is getting Sarr back into the side, the manager is irrelevant. Long may their model continue to reap absolutely nothing but spazz Pozzo's cash up the wall.

Much more comfortable having him available otherwise we were an injury away from playing someone very pedestrian like Dowell or Cantwell in CM. I'd imagine he'll feature but it would be unfair to cut PLM and Sorenson, so I guess it will be as a sub.

Tzolis is struggling with the intensity of Premier League football at the moment, he appears totally over-awed by it. I think there are flashes very occasionally that there is a player there, I've only really seen fragments of it in the Newcastle game. Otherwise he's been a passenger and we can't afford to carry anyone at the moment. Idah, given the confidence the Everton game will have provided, starts over him, no question about it.

With the Everton performance in mind, physically we are perhaps more up to the task this time around especially with Sargent dropping back. They will have their tails up and see us as a nice way to get back on track. Tom Cleverley was a sh01thousing little tw.. when they came to us, so important that the ref sees it for what it is and gets the yellow cards out on them early. I can see us getting a result purely because Sarr isn't available -we need to capitalise. WAT 0 - 1 NOR

Need a complete recruitment team that have been in a coma for at least 6 months, no access to the internet, no access to anyone outside of NCFC, and only archived Radio Norfolk coverage of our games in the Championship to go by. If we can find someone like that we can get at least £20m.

This has Lampard all over it. They have money, they have the name. The squad isn't terrible and have been underperforming so it's an easy-ish ship to turn around. If he fails he can point and say Ancellotti and Benitez couldn't solve it either. Probably have to fly him to Dubai for the interview though.

Pukki Pies has always been a strong branding opportunity. Not sure it aligns specifically with Teemu's dietary intake though.

This is part of the problem. Clubs are now actively discouraged from giving u23s first team game time because an appearance means that they are then considered part of the senior squad for COVID purposes. So, it's in Burnley's best interest not to play them while they wait for their strongest players to return.

When they have Cornet, Barnes, Gumundsson and McNeil back. It's not great.

Yep, like Leeds with Raphina, Everton - Richarlison, Newcastle - Saint-Maximin, literally every other team seems to have at least one player who on their day is totally unplayable. Cannot be understated how much influence him missing has had on them. Last time he played they beat Man Utd in November, they've picked up 1 point since then. He's due back on the 8th Feb, hoping that return is delayed and he doesn't regain any kind of form this season.

Amazing. Garth Crooks is well up there with the most clueless pundits I've ever had the misfortune of listening to, but in this instance I agree!

Other than Saturday he hasn't really done much worth singing about yet.

I'm going to bump this. It's too long, sorry lads. If you start singing it past the 5th minute the half has finished before you get to the payoff (mild exaggeration but we've usually lost the ball!). The Terrorvision song would be a far better one. 'Milot Rashica, he makes us happy, etc....'

Was so pleased to see him kick on from, although a loss, for him a confidence boosting performance against the spammers. Thought he was brilliant Saturday and deserves a song of his own - although 'Idah, idah, idah...' must have been music to his ears. In Idah and Sargent we now have two physical forwards we can actually give a longer ball to who can hold up, flick on, beat a man etc. We always wanted Farke to have that pragmatism, but only now does it seem we have the players capable. The additional goal threat Idah provided was great to see, decent from distance too. Couple that with driving runs from Rashica and Pukki's clever movement we looked less one-dimensional than we have seemed for a long time.

Rowe is mobile and fearless (at the moment) a far better option off the bench. I can see the Hugill factor working in limited situations but generally they are where a 6ft gate post could do a similar job. I can't hate on the lad but he is no PL player.

Peter Crouch said on his podcast that at the end of his career there were players that were obsessed with their stats and would deliberately do things to make them look better - on paper. Pass completion being an example is meaningless if you're playing sideways or have played a ball back to a defender who is under pressure. I read someone on here digging at Normann for his pass completion rate but he clearly plays more positive football and is overall a far superior player than our other midfielders. Stats have a place but can only take you so far down the route of making a decision.

If true I'm sure it serves our purpose to keep quiet so he's probably doing the club a favour. Why tell the world you've got £xm available if trying to negotiate deals elsewhere. Its all a massive trunk load of fairly spurious speculation though.

That's what Boris said