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If its a current Norwich player, I hope it can wait until our last kick of the season, don't need any distractions.

I watched an interview with Neil Warnock the other day who said far too many people go into football clubs and state "my philosophy is this, and this is how we are going to play" and then fail because they've got centre backs who can't pass a ball accurately over 5 yards. He said that what you need to do is go into a club, assess what you have got, and then implement a system which works for that group and then tweak it as you develop your squad. Wagner has done the best that he could be expected to do with no defensive midfielders (which we know he used at Huddersfield) and a few old cluggers like Barnes and Duffy to accommodate. If Knapper is coming and with grand ideas to play like Arteta's Arsenal, then good luck achieving that with a severely limited budget and a team half full of workhorses and if Gibbs & Springett are somewhere towards the top of the talent pool from our current under 21's.

Well half our fans seem to want Wagner out with us in 6th, and yet think Rosenior has done a stellar job with Hull in 7th despite being backed in January with them in the play-off places and falling out of it. And they simultaneously think that Russell Martin is doing a good job with Southampton in 4th after they bottled their automatic promotion challenge despite having a squad containing the likes of David Brooks, Adam Armstrong, Che Adams, Flynn Downes, Joe Aribo, Kyle Walker-Peters, Joe Rothwell etc. I probably don't think that Rosenior or Martin have failed by conventional standards, they are probably just about meeting realistic expectations, I'm just using the benchmark which is being applied to David Wagner by Norwich fans, who by conventional standards has done a stellar job.

I can't get excited about Rosenior when some other Championship club is probably going to get Steve Cooper or Scott Parker. But I think us sacking Wagner would be just as silly as Hull sacking Rosenior. Both have got their players working for them!

On what basis? Didn't Wagner do the double over him this season and that's why we finished the one place above them? I'm not a particularly big fan of Wagner, but certainly don't think that a manager who managed to be beaten tactically twice this season by Wagner is the man we should be giving his job to. Rosenior is just another Russell Martin, talks a very good game while failing.

I don't think Maresca was at Man City until 2020, and Angus Gunn left them in 2018. However I did notice Maresca and Gunn having a lengthy chat after our last game with them, that did worry me!

Just as well really that MA and Knapper want to develop a player trading model then, buying and selling players, rather than relying on the production line to keep churning out a saleable asset. Brentford and Brighton do just this, buy young players and polish them up. Has kept them in the top tier.

I was on board until you called Jewell a "Hollywood manager", he'd been on the dole queue for 3 years and would have taken on just about any Championship job at that point

I think we all know what one of our wingers will leave. I suppose it depends whether you want us to continue the ultimately the model of flogging a player or two every year to fund infrastructure investments or whether you think we should try and stay in the Premier League for a change. Average age of the Leicester Squad is 26, same as Ipswich at 26. Forest staying up with average age of 27. Burnley average age 24, youngest squad in the league... I'm sure Burnley will have a few they can flog in the summer, but I'm sure there fans would have preferred to stay up like Forest. Need a decent blend if you ask me, Abu Kamara clearly the young player with the potential to do a Rowe. If Wagner leaves then can't see a new manager having much interest in Fassnacht, and Onel is clearly just going to see out his final season as a bit part player (if he doesn't go out on loan again). 26 is mid-point in career and he's a free agent this summer, McLean who just won our player of the season was signed at the same age! I think it would be a shrewd signing.

26 is a great age though? Typically the point at which a player is entering into their peak years, and the age that Kenny McLean was when we signed him. Hoolahan was 25 when we signed him, Holt was 27, Pukki was 28. So what's wrong with his age? He also plays mostly on the left, whereas Abu Kamara primarily plays on the right. Having let Placheta go (left sided), with Onel being frankly not good enough (left sided), Springett not being good enough (left sided) and Tzolis likely to be flogged, then I'd consider there to very much be a vacancy here?

You are missing the point, I am suggesting Southampton will rest fatigued players BECAUSE they have something to play for, at least two play off games!

Swansea and Preston?

Its a shame Jordan Rhodes is out on loan.

They don't have play-off games coming, what a silly reply.

They can't move in the table, and Russell Martin has blamed their recent defeats on fatigue. So why would he put out a strong team and risk injuries? I suppose he won't want the psychological impact of a severe defeat against Leeds in case they meet again in the play-offs, but on the other hand if they are fatigued they'd have no chance in the play-offs anyway without resting players? Just trying to work out whether there is any realistic hope of Leeds winning and Ipswich losing on the final day, just because, well, that would be just fantastic wouldn't it.

None of these players were "unknowns" Nunez was a Chilean International, Sainz had played 40 games in La Liga, one of the strongest leagues in the world, and Sara played for Sao Pualo in front of almost 50,000 people a game?

Just checked, and yes you have the right one.

He's such a sad act, he presents himself as some sort of corporate governance guru with experience in high level business as an executive. Reality is that his own business has never had a turnover above £100,000 in a year, I know a Corgi registered heating and plumbing contractor who makes more than that, Essex is an absolute Walter Mitty.

That is the crux of the matter. If we had 20 years apart, they'd become completely irrelevant, and your grandchildren won't understand why we hate them, but hating them is a large part of being a Norwich fan. In fact things could become so placid and cordial that your grandchildren might become friends with Ipswich Town fans, and then go to a few games, enjoy the atmosphere, buy a shirt, then decide that they are Ipswich Town fans. And that is why I want us to keep playing them, so the next generation continues the tradition of hating Ipswich.

I love a derby day! Obviously I would hope that we'd mostly be superior to them, and that will involve us being a division higher than them much more frequently than they are a division higher than us. Meeting every few years in the same division just to beat them twice and remind them of their general inferiority. If they were to end up in League One for 30 years then they'd become as irrelevant to us as Stockport County are to Manchester Utd fans, and what fun would that be? And we need benchmarks for our own expectations. As long as we remain generally better than Ipswich, that will do me. They get to be humbled in the Prem next year and normality will swiftly resume. If we were to ever win an FA Cup, what fun would that be without the opportunity to rub the scums noses in it and make jokes about stars on their shirts, and ridicule them for reminding us that they were good 42 years ago.

So you didn't really enjoy beating them this season then?

St. Johns Ambulance it was.

Football is cyclical. Time for Ipswich to have a bit of time in the sun. It was funny seeing them in League One, but its been nice playing them again this season. Hopefully we can creep up with them, if not I'm sure our paths will cross again soon. Them having two decades in League One wouldn't have been a good thing, it would mean that the rivalry would just die and they'd become completely irrelevant, we'd have an entire generation of fans who had never been to a Derby and we'd effectively be left without any rivals. Nobody truly wants that.

Ipswich are up. I'm now just more worried about one of Leeds or Southampton gaining confidence from their fixture. Hopefully a shambolic turgid 1-1 draw with both teams looking sketchy, so that neither gain any confidence before the play offs, particularly with us uncertain which of them we'll face in the semis. At the moment we are in the in form and consistent team in the play off places.

Marriage material tbh.