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I''m sorry could someone translate this for me? If I may offer a little constructive critisim of your post, there is something called Netiquette. Don''t use Caps Lock ever, it makes it seem like you are shouting at us all the while. Please run it through a spell/grammer check if your not going to re-read your work and check it makes sense.

[quote user="Dicky"]Surely the whole point of being a supporter is that you support your club, isn''t it?  I am not blind to the problems the club has, but I have seen many years when the club has been in a worse position but the majority of fans still managed to get behind their club, which is what I will always do.  As for the obsessive barracking of players like Hughes, who gives his all (unlike other players past and present), that is just wrong.  ....have a little scrimmage.... [/quote]Agreed I go to every game with the intention to support the club as best I can and every supporter should do that regardless of how they feel, but I still believe that I and every other supporter has a right to complain/protest if they wish to. Lets be honest Hughes hasn''t been a good player for us, but his hearts in the right place and barracking him isn''t going to make it better, is it really his fault Worthy continues to pick him? We have to make the best of the situation we''re in and when we turn up at games we need to be positive and in full song. There''s a time and a place for the protests and IMO it shouldn''t be before or during the game....keep it low...

[quote user="Maverick"][quote user="pete"] Don''t get upset at any adverse comments Paul R, as you are one of a number who can say we told you so, whether it be after 6, 10 games or at the end of this season when City''s death spiral will be almost complete, no parachute and only 12k season tickets or thereabouts. I see Dicky has emerged from hibernation. [/quote] So,presumably yourself and Mr Rankin and your like will come out and say you were wrong if the opposite happens ? [/quote]Yes, those of you who are writing the team off immediatly are setting yourselves up for your own "I told you so" but the same is true for those who are at the other end of the scale. For me I can''t honestly say what I think will happen because I don''t have a clue, I guess thats the beauty of football never knowing what will really happen. Personally I''d rather Maverick is telling all us doubters "I told you so" come 6-10 games into the season.

[quote user="Maverick"]This is typical of what''s wrong with the majority of posters on here at the moment. If we''d lost , you would have had a field day tearing into the manager.We won but the margin wasn''t impressive enough for you , so you tear into him anyway. The start of the season is 3 weeks away , its the second warm up game of pre-season and these games are nothing more than a run out for the players to test their fitness and get used to match conditions again. Give it up,mate. [/quote]Exactly, these game have no real baring and ultimatly mean nothing other than a chance to build fitness and gel the team. I''m slightly concerned though that if we do bring players in they will have missed these team building games. Nice to see Thorne score again, keep it up and we''ve got a good partner for Earnie and I know these are lower league but start as you mean to go on is what I say.Oh and IMO 3 weeks is a rather short amount of time.

[quote user="Dicky"]that the majority of poster on here are not representative of real Norwich fans. I got fed up with this board a while ago, as did many fans, but had a look back to see if it was still the same.  Unbelievably it has got worse. I could not believe some of the comments. Certain posters are an absolute disgrace - you are not supporters of the club in any way shape or form. Some of you are obsessive - Paul Rankin you are obsessed with Hughes in a very sad way. Worthy has been slated at every opportunity by certain posters who are now venting their negativity on Delia et al. Bring on the new season and proper supporters will get behind their team, end of.  Those that choose to be totally negative are only harming the confidence of the players and the prospects for my team.  Why not find another avenue for your negativity rather than the club.  Kick it off....[/quote] I agree with you on most of your points dicky, your right some people are obsessed to an obsurd negative level and its ruins what can be a good board when some people choose to post the same negative points over and over. Fair enough they may have a point but there''s no need to repeat it over an over. What I disagree with is that you seem to be suggesting that if anyone has a bad thought about Norwich that suddenly they are no longer "real supporters". I have negative and positive thoughts about the club, does the fact I have negative thoughts about the club strip me of the right to support the club? This is something that really irritates me, this pathetic squabbling of "I''m a better supporter than you". At the end of the day we all love the club and thats what really matters....Throw it in...

[quote user="Herb"]Mine still hasn''t arrived, they said about 2 weeks, 3 weeks and counting :(There won''t be any dread here mate, first season ticket I''ve had and really looking forward to the season.I think a few people might be suprised, I reckon we''re going to do OK y''know...[/quote]I really hope your right, I would much rather us do really well with worthy than having to endure a really bad spell before and after he leaves.

I think it''s a bit silly to claim that the club is 100% better than last season based on playing a Ridgeons First Division team. Lets wait until we''ve played a proper team before we get excited. Its easy for them to play nice, on the floor, pretty football against a lowly team like Fakenham. Lets see if they can replicate it against Leeds or will they fall back into old/bad habits.

Positive attacking football. We need to take the initiative and get the first goal sooner and more often, too many times we''ve been put on the back foot by conceeding an early goal. Earnshaw and hucks like the ball at their feet and thats the way we need to play the game, quick direct passing football.

We don''t have enough players as it, if we start selling anyone we won''t have a team lol

Yes I definatly agree. Well done moderators, your doing an excellent job

[quote] Good to see Thorne in the goals, and Huckerby apparantly playing well. Just to put the result into perspective: Fakenham 1 Norwich 8 - Libbra hat-trick on debut[/quote]Whay am I not surprised you managed to find a negative, lol. [:P]

[quote]Id not go for shackell (yet) its a big responsibility to put on the shoulders of what still is a young player learning his trade (1 for the future captain for me) Doc for me is too quiet, but a likely candidate. For me it would be Hucks, not afraid to tell his teammates if something needs fixing, leads by example, and I actually believe the responsibility might give him a new impetus. Difficult to see any other obvious candidates Drury (maybe a lucky charm)?[/quote] I agree Huckerby has to be the choice for me, he''s vocal, intellegent, passionate for the club, knows the game well and would make a good leader.

blah, do you really believe that our squad has enough depth and quality to challenge next season? Even if our current squad members play brilliantly what happens when we get injuries? We have no cover for them except a handful of youth players, who dont really have the experience yet, thanks to worthy, to cover for these players. For me personally I would like 2 maybe 3 quality players, not only would they be a welcome addition but they may help to inspire the rest of the team to perform.

I think the moderators are just trying to be careful and stop the board dropping into petty name calling and silly insults, remember the BBC board and now its gone and I don''t want it to happen to this board. To be fair to the moderators it must be difficult for them to differenciate between a simple joke and proper insults.

[quote user="Mook"]"I''d have him back, at least he''s class when he tries, some people will never have it, however much they run or clap." Thank God Nigel is our manager and not you, Shortfatb! Nigel has not done very well in the transfer market, but making £1.5m on a lazy, disruptive pre-madonna is damn good business if you ask me. [/quote]Unfortunatly Nigel ruined it by spending that 1.5 million on bad loan signings and poor transfers. Too be fair though I think some of the players could have been good but Nigel ruined that chance as well.

Personally for me its the waiting thats doing it for me, I just want to get on with the season. No matter what state the club is in, the anticipation before a game is always magical for me.

[quote user="Paul Rankin"][quote user="Stortford Canary"] Etuhu is 10 times the player Robinson is. [/quote] What on earth do you base this on............................  Dickson Etuhu was the WORST PLAYER BY SOME MARGIN in a canary shirt last season.....  He had the worst loan spell of any player I have ever seen, he was worse than even Trevor Benjamin. [/quote]Have you not heard of Andy Hughes? had 35 starts and still looks completely incompetent, compared to etuhu''s 11 starts and has actually shown signs of improvement. Is it really fair to brand him the worst player, No.

[quote user="Branston Pickle"]I don''t agree.  Iwan was completely pants in his first season, so you presumably would have shipped him off as well?  Well, we all know whathappened there.  Thorne is a good proven striker - just because he has had a bad run here does not mean he is suddenly crap, nor that he won''t turn it round.  Of course he still might still be used as a makeweight in any transfer dealings, but I''d be prepared to give him a second try.[/quote]A bad run, he hasn''t had much of a run at all to be fair to him and I agree with you it isn''t worth shipping him out even though he has been poor. Also for the big reason that we do not have anywhere near enough players for the coming campaign, he is certainly worth keeping at least as a backup for now. IMO he is yet another victim of worthy''s poor management and coaching.

[quote user="Web Team - Pete"]Simple enough reason and it happens every summer. This is a football messageboard and there''s no football at Carrow Road at the moment (although some would say there''s not been any there for a while now...)[/quote]lmao, cheered me up no end that joke did, cheers pete

Well like it has been said there isn''t anything to post about, with such a lack of activity about the club what can we possibly talk about, apart from the usual stuff that has already been posted 10 times.

[quote user="Mook"]"I hate to see the club in this state more than anyone else"  Don''t you remember what a state this club was in 7-8 years ago when we had NO money and Derveld and Sutch raiding down the left flank? The mighty Bryan Hamilton as manager? Ok, we''ve spent a fair bit of cash, we have made mistakes, but it could be a hell of a lot worse. We''re in business, we''ve got a bit of money to spend, we''ve got the nucleus of a very good Div 1 side and hopefully some of the people in the club will have learned from their mistakes. I expect a flurry of signings in late July / early August and I predict a good season to finish in a play-off place. And you can quote me on this if we get relegated! [/quote]A good point we are in a much better finacial position than before but dosn''t that compound our underachievement with such a stable finacial situation and such a good squad at the start it really baffles me why we didnt do better. Now with a skeleton squad that would need IMO another 5 or 8 players to bring it up to a good size squad and they need to be good players not last minute rushed buys. I certainly hope your right, I would be more than happy in a years time to be having to admit I was wrong and saying what a great team and manager we''ve got but for now it looks nothing like that.

I wouldn''t get your hopes up so soon personally. I am trying to be realistic, we have an average team that will get us most likely an average season again. I just don''t want to be too over abitious like last season and end up very unhappy. So other than its a new season, do you have any posistive points to make about the team. Lets be honest we have next to nothing left of our promotion winning squad or the team that nearly kept us up. Currently IMO we have 15 first team players, I didnt count youth players as most of them don''t have enough first team experience or long term injury or anyone soon to be leaving. Gallacher, Drury, Fleming, Louis-Jean, Doherty, Shackell, Colin, Robinson, Hughes, Safri, Etuhu, McVeigh, Huckerby, Earnshaw, McKenziePlease correct me if am wrong, I would love to be, I hate to see the club in this state more than anyone else but we can''t pretend its all wonderful because we''ve got a new season, there are still glaring problems and none of them seem to be being fixed so its hard to be posistive when nothing posistive is happening

[quote]we got a quite hard game for the first day[/quote]There all going to be hard games especially every away game, I don''t think I can honestly pick a team in our league and say that will be a walk in the park. I can look at games and think we should win but that usually means we won''t lol.

Investing in a very young talented player would certainly be my choice, although maybe a gamble. Lennon would probably be a wise investment. Personnally one player is probably not enough for us.

[quote]Does that mean we can get rid of the depressing reading that is last years fixture list off the home page. Please.[/quote]This one is even more depressing, looking through it and thinking "we should win that one and that one..." but then realising that I''ll probably end up bitterly dissapointed again