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Sometimes comes a poster that I'm not sure is aware of the constraints of Norwich City FC. We only spend what we have. That is honourable. We buy cheap/undervalued players and develop them. Skipp was never ours to begin with, and we would have offered roughly half of our last summer's budget to sign him, but it was out of our hands. Norwich City in this current form is a selling club, and we buy only a certain kind of player. To afford to keep someone like Emi would require sustained incoming PL receipts, which is just out of our reach at the moment. Any other points that you need help clarify?

A club like Norwich does not normally attract this kind of entitled, arrogant thinking. Such people usually support club basket cases like MU or the tractor boys down the road. But I would not support NCFC if it was just another club playing financial russian roulette, and/or was disconnected from its roots, its values and its community. A phrase that my late dad said a long time ago and stuck with me to this day... We may be poor but we're honourable. Being humble does not mean being a doormat.

Could not have said better myself. 👍🏾

FFAF. Football Fans Are Fickle.

Did he intend to make contact with the ball? Yes. Was it deliberate? Correct. By doing that, did he attempt to direct it towards goal? Here I think he instinctively knew if he had made good enough contact, there was a more-than-nil chance of it going on target. Case dismissed. <Gavel bangs>

Most importantly, is what that 1st goal meant to the club, and to Sargent also - the belief "we can do this". I've seen it time and time again, and still a part of me finds hard to believe it. Then his 2nd goal. BRO. Josh Sargent re-born. Like a great man said before, "from doubters to believers."

I have met Simon Lappin, I didn't even know who he was until my workmate turned up slack jawed and starstruck.

"A win" is irrelevant. A few good runs of consecutive wins is what matters.

you just have to see the manU supporters by the Yare...

We are too quick to criticize the leaky defense, but even a Prime Pep team that surrendered possession as much as we do and pressed as little/lightly as us, would start to crack. The key has often been the midfield and how the whole team presses. If we find a cutting edge in our forward line, alongside the grafting in defensive duties for the team - Rash scored against Charlton, Idah Vs Everton - if the confidence goes up we'll see a very different City. Just imagine (ok, maybe help yourself to some stiff drink 1st) if we win a game via a good goal from Josh at the Carrow.

Goats eat all sorts.

Idah'imovic

Goat comment!

No players hiding from the game! PLM has gone missing plenty of games before- not today. He got stuck in, was disciplined, lost balls and missed passes, but kept on it, and played the ball forward. As did everyone in the squad today. Brave. Many previous games the players' belief was sub-zero. No wonder often they did not feel up to it, and frequently felt beaten even before the first whistle. Not today. What do you do when you don't feel up to something that you know you MUST do? You do your best. That's all you can do! When City has been heckled by us, it's because they don't try. But we have to give them credit for the effort and bravery. Williams was super, Idah deserved to enjoy this moment. Aaron's put his best display for a long time - we had a threat going forward. Today, to a man and as a team, they tried. Well done. NEVER MIND THE DANGER!

That's what most clubs tend to do, holding on to players past their "sell by" date.. and then there's outlier clubs like Chelsea who don't mind selling for example Lukaku and Hazard for loads £M, knowing they have the financial muscle to buy them back if they so wish.

Nah mate. I think most fans have a skewed view of players - it's fair to say that PLM maybe hasn't had a run of games, but like everyone else, he has to earn it. We need to judge players across the good and bad games they play, and focus on what they can produce most consistently even if not at their best. Like, Pukki even at his poorest games never gives up making runs for a good through-ball. PLM in preseason had range of passing and timing runs into the opponent's box, but since then I haven't seen it.

Playing devil's advocate. Sargent is blatantly poor. However it's not his fault someone got him to sign for NCFC. And he does give a damn, as hopelessly **** as he is, he'll run himself into the ground. My honest opinion is that he was a sweetener in the Rashica deal. Wish someone would have just drilled him in the basics to a solid foundation when he was a teen - as that ship has sailed, tell him to stay in opponent's box and shoot on sight of the ball. Look at some other clubs... say, Tottenham, where Ndombele is one of the highest wages, is exceptionally talented and can do outrageous stuff with a football if he feels like it - but he doesn't give a scintilla of a f*** about the club. Furthest thing away from a team player. With 4 different managers in almost 3 years, he hasn't come close to being a regular starter. Aubameyang at Arsenal, Pogba (to an extent) and Martial at MU, some teams have players like these, there are too many of them who think they're too good to put the hard yards in, unwilling to do the bare minimum consistently. Josh is not like that, but his self esteem is shot, since he never had a solid base to work from.

hello Scrooge Rumplestiltskin. Hope you're enjoying being bathed in your negativity. Go easy on them bath salts. As for myself, I just want Norwich to give every opposing team a tough game, regardless of where we are and where we're going. That is my standard. Peace out 🔰

Cantwell is done for, I think. Heard a rumour from a workmate (fellow Yella) that the reason Farke froze him out is that Todd supposedly fooled around with DF's daughter, and even tried a move on Pukki's partner - I'm not sure I believe him.. but we live in strange times! Best outcome for this season would be to sell Cantwell soon as the Jan window opens, get a useful striker with the proceeds, return Gilmour to his parent club, send Idah on loan and get a Tettey-type DM. Possibly recall either Hugill or Drmic?

Sargent is really poor attacking but the way he presses is integral to the defensive work of City. So far this game I've seen zero press..

There's swearing i.e, when we score, miss, concede, etc - just venting some emotion, and there is swearing at (you f**k*** c**t ref). The former is ok by me, the latter is abuse and not ok, how to kick that into touch is the question.

Not gonna lie, when I saw CR7 miskick I thought that was on purpose #supportJoshSargent 🤣

If only Todd could have got in the same situations in/around the MU box that Rupp found himself in earlier, he could've got us something. Only, he bought a free kick from the ref, and nothing else..

Would you rather Sargent + PLM or a Naismith? RVW had a good proven record before signing for NCFC. Webber's approach is as thus, buy many on the cheap on the hopes that a couple of them pay off and command transfer fees 10x what we paid for them. Since SW joined the club we're net positive in transfers. Maybe Sargent is a flop (as bad as his ability is, I think it is more of a matter of confidence), and maybe Tzolis or Rashica will be the ones who balance the books.

1st time poster here. Part of where things went wrong with Farke was he lost the ability to motivate the players, at times seemed to undermine their self belief on his comments. As an example, that famous rant about Rupp was unnecessary. A self sustaining club like ours needs to sell from time to time, and while dropping back to the championship is not great (albeit expected), going down with depreciating assets is.worse. Dean understood it's far easier to get performances out of the team if players are motivated and engaged. Leaving Cantwell, Gilmour, Tzolis out in the cold sent the wrong message.