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Cringeworthy from a player that we've barely seen in yellow and green, so was his goodbye statement on social media. To borrow a quote from Sebastien Bassong "Are we supposed to know who you are?" Played a few minutes for us, completely irrelevant. My prediction is that he'll have a decent long career in the Championship like Korey Smith, Chris Martin, but during that long Championship career he'll watch us have 3 or 4 years in the Premier League, and realise that staying here would have been the key to getting a taste of football at the very top level.

I think Gallagher and Gomes are competing for those deeper roles, even if in Gallagher's case its just because he can put a tackle in now and again in the absence of us having a proper defensive midfielder. But yes, can probably feel hard done by to be pipped to a place by Gibbs-White, who is an attacking mid like Maddison, I do agree with that one. Maddison better than Gibbs-White.

He can be as excellent as he wants, he's firmly below Foden, Palmer, Bellingham.

More than one person can be super mega geniuses, glad to encounter another one in the wild, lets pat each other on the back. Obviously joking, before Kingston Yellow gets upset.

The Forshaw signing felt a bit weird because he was a Farke cast off.

Wrongnaldo.

Does this mean that you might delete this forum? 😬

Not sure why you think I was being egotistical. But you're wrong anyway, my post was made on Monday. Where is it? https://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/Championship/Norwich+City

I suspect there is absolutely no chance that Hibs would have been able to meet his wage demands to sign him on a permanent. Their wage bill is said to be about £10m. That's well under half of what you will (eventually) find out our wage bill is for this season, probably closer to one third. They would only have paid a portion of his wages on loan.

Sounds like I might have got this spot on. 1 year + 1 year option.

I see that the Pink'un got their news from this forum again, and that Ladies and Gentlemen is why they won't ever delete this forum.

Not anymore, just signed for Plymouth.

Depends really, could end up our third keeper like Michael McGovern. Can't say he'd be a terrible third keeper, considering a large part of a third keepers job is to just get battered and bruised in training during the set piece and corner drills to protect the main keeper(s) from wear and tear. I don't rate Long at all and I'd be worried if we had to use him for any more than a game or two in succession. However there could be other factors at play. He could, for example, be a great trainer, good for the dressing room, and have the potential and motivation to take steps towards doing coaching badges and pivoting into a player-coach role. Combined with low wages. Budgetary realities probably dictate that we can't afford decent wages for a strong 2nd choice in this league, and that he'd drop down to 3rd choice if we got promoted and then had the budget to bring in somebody better. Mark Bunn, Paul Crichton, Scott Howie, we've often had a cheap and not very good 2nd choice keeper. I'm just disappointed, if anything, that none out of McCracken, Mair and Barden could break through. McCracken now left of course. We used to churn out good keepers.

We've all got eyes though, and he's a dodgy keeper. If anybody doesn't have eyes, and have a companion providing commentary of the game, then sack them and get somebody else. I just hope he's on a low wage.

His probably no worse than Mark Bunn, who also wasn't very good. Sometimes Mark Bunn was our third choice keeper, and sometimes our second choice. I suspect a promotion would see the addition of a better number 2 and Long being demoted to number 3. Budget realities probably dictate that George Long is about as good as we can hope for, although I was hoping that Archie Mair might take his spot as our number 2 (doesn't feel like Thorup agrees)