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  1. If this true it really makes you wonder if he regrets not giving 100%, that comment will have affected how top sides view him. it would be an odd career choice.
  2. I think it is difficult - it is unclear how much they are paid and rated by the club. Therefore I have making a load of assumptions on how much they are paid against there impact for the team. Underrated - Gunn (One of our top performers but not paid so) Overrated - Gibson (He has done well this season but is paid a lot)
  3. I was thinking the same about his last game. Glad he got to the century of appearances.
  4. That is a good summary. I agree with most of your points, although the expected drop of income due to losing the parachute payments needs factoring in. I suspect we would like to retain a few more of the players, as that is a lot of first team squad players out at once. Personally I am surprised that we have not got McCallum on a new contract, and would like to see it happen, but I assume Sam thinks he can secure something better elsewhere. From his point of view he hasn’t really improved whilst he has been with us, so he probably wants to move on. We don’t know which players (outside of our squad) the club have already spoken to from elsewhere, and this will affect how they feel about the others leaving. Personally I am hoping Idah bags another 10 goals at Celtic, he will not want to return but it will Jack up his value, and his confidence. Also Norwich will only want him to leave if we can get enough transfer fee from selling him to cover buying the right player. With respect to SvH, it isn’t looking great for him, but Sarge looked like a fish out of water in his first season, so we can’t be sure he doesn’t come good yet. Perhaps Kamara is seen as being ready.
  5. I love how positive and loyal you always are. I think the problem with Dean Smith was that his job was to coach the squad in line with the SD vision. He simply wasn’t very good at it, he wasn’t able to create a side with a specific style, or plan (people may moan about Wagner but there is a style there, although it gets carved up when things do not go our way). He tinkered with the side a lot, adapting for the opposition every game. When it went well everyone was okay with it, when it went badly we were really poor. He played loan players in the side when he should have been developing our own academy players and also he prioritised Pukki as the central striker, whilst Sargent played left winger. Yet the side was set up for a more rounded frontman, which looked like being Sarge or Idah at the start of the season. Therefore he wasn’t getting the best out of the squad, nor growing the squads long term potential - he was wasn’t very good at it, which starkly contrasted with DF. In his defence he should have been getting direction from Stuart Webber, I think Stuart took his eye off the ball, and the situation was allowed to fester as Stuart looked for a way out for himself opposed to looking after the clubs long term interests. I am certain Dean Smith is a nice guy, and was really uncomfortable with the personal abuse he got, but he wasn’t a scapegoat, he was making the decisions. Hayden and Ramsey were his choices, as was playing Sarge out wide with Rowe left in the U23’s.
  6. I totally agree, if the option is being a yo-yo club or accepting mid championship or worse, I would like to yo-yo. If n fairness to webbers and Delia their target was top 26. It is the expectations which destroy clubs, anyone who enters into the discussion proclaiming they are a ‘big’ club need to take a long look at themselves.
  7. Every club has idiots, but this incident seem pretty low. Lets hope he is okay.
  8. I agree he deserves a crack, and I really like him. The reason I think we might need to change is that we only have a chance of staying up if, the sporting director, the head coach, and owners are aligned. If Wagner and Knapper are aligned then fantastic - if they are not, and one wants a squad of experienced high wage players on short term contracts, and the other wants younger players on long term contacts it just will not work. The SD is the one who is responsible for that decision.
  9. I think it would be really tough to stay up, that shouldn’t stop us having a go and doing it with style. Not sure any of the current players would leave if we went us, none of them are immediately ready for a top 6 side annd they should realise they will get plenty of match time at Norwich, although I maybe wrong about Sara. Hopefully Knapper brings in a few top young players and continues to build a squad across the board - including his coach - Wagner has been very good, yet I feel Knapper has a different view of the future and needs to be true to that.
  10. Surely seeing how well Adam is doing surely it seems like very shrewd business, although it does seem to have made our current attacking options a little weaker for the run in - he is worth Millions.
  11. Lee Power was the most exciting academy product I ever saw on debut.
  12. That is a great fact - pope Adrian is up there with King Steven as it doesn’t sound right - but is factually correct
  13. I must be going mad as I can’t see that at all, perhaps from a different angle it is clear.
  14. I guess we all see things differently, for me this shows Sainz plays the ball and is spun around by Howson's momentum / impact.
  15. Fair enough - I thought that Sainz played the ball and Howson impacted Sainz leg with force and as a result he spun around. I am not sure malice is relevant, but fair enough it is a nuanced decision and we all see things differently.
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