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[quote user="Smudger"]It ENDING!!!  [;)][/quote]   Why? you don''t even go

CA I have only just read it and it is indeed a quality post, feel free to go up there every week of the season as it was more readable and enjoyable than a lot of the professionals. Well done

absolute quality post, please do another one.

I think it shows Grants man management skills, he bigs up Dickson for a while and after a bit Dickson believes it and plays with more confidence. Good for Grant good for Dickson and good for us!

Having been to Goodison Park and seen us humiliated 5-0 Simon Tracey has to be the one

I agree, after all he got us promoted and sadly could not sustain the momentum, not exactly a reason to make him public enemy number one

Personally I would never be surprised to see crowd trouble involving MU, last time we were there, after the game a City fan in front of me got a smack in the mouth, as far as I could see, because he had a Norwich shirt on, he wasn''t aggressive, making a noise or doing anything, he just got smacked in the mouth. Having said all that the Rome and Spanish police were well over the top last week and I too was pleased to see the mancs win

Well done you reminded me to do my prediction in the league I put 2-1 aswell

What is a Portman pie? or should it have read poorman''s pie which might have been more appropriate!

[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"] Generally I think we have done rather well when captained and led from centre half. My vote goes to Shackell - leader of the ''next generation" and a local lad to boot. OTBC [/quote] I know he has been around for some time, but I don''t think he is a local lad, I thought he came from Stevenage or somewhere like that.  

[quote user="ricardo"] One of the best we''ve had? Yes. In my time of over 50 years watching Norwich I would have to say................................ Martin Peters was the greatest all round player we''ve ever had in City colours. Keelan the greatest Keeper. Ron Davies the greatest pure Centre Forward And a toss up between McDougall and Earnie as the greatest goal scorer. We have had some great ball playing midfielders, Crook, Suggett and Jimmy Hill being my personal favourites. But for all round excitement when he''s on the ball and some of the most memorable goals ever scored at Carrow Road. then Darren Huckerby has to be right on that top shelf. [/quote] Ricardo you have hit the nail on the head.........................but what about Percy Varco?

Why should Grant blow part of his budget on loan players this season, we wont get relegated or promoted so it is an ideal time to blood some youngsters, you never know another Chris Martin may be lurking.

Presumeably how much we get paid by West Ham depends on appearances etc, anyone know?

[quote user="Smudger"][quote user="EadiesRight Foot"] Spot on post LGT. I know that we arent the most affluent (or should that be effluent?) team in the division, but we have been let down badly with the boards refusal to back the manager financially. This is what cost us our place in the Premier League, and has made us hugely disappointing in the Championship. At a time when you mention clubs like Derby, Sunderland, Birmingham releasing funds for players, we are getting loans, freebees, and £75k worth of players. Doncaster should do away with the "prudence with ambition" nonsense, as it has us fighting relegation, paying overpaid wages to injury prone / lazy / inept players, and unhappy supporters. But as long as we are buying season tickets in large numbers, hey - who cares. They are probably cacking themselves with laughter.   A more suitable phrase might be "speculate to accumulate". After all, not many clubs are able to go forward without some investment.   [/quote] Bang on ERF!!! Best post I have seen in a long while....  Doncaster & Co will be cacking themselves with laughter right now... rest assured about that. There was a thread posted about Birmingham supporters on here the other day...  The party line being how poor supporters they are blah blah blah.  Are they really as bad as people have painted them?  They are not happy about what has been happening at their club the past couple of years, they reckon that the football that they are seeing is poor and they have wanted rid of Bruce as manager for as long as we have wanted rid of Worthy (yet Brum are still stuck with Bruce). In my opinion the Birmingham supporters have shown some backbone... they have called for the sacking of Bruce, the Birmingham board haven''t listened, they are not happy with the football that they are seeing and they have voted with their feet. What is so wrong in that???  If Birmingham wanted their fans onside and to be selling out St Andrews week in week out then perhaps they should start listening to their supporters instead of digging their heels in over Bruce remaining there as manager??? [/quote] Where are Birmingham in the league? Good idea sack the manager who puts you second in the table. Another quality post smudger.

[quote user="the son of doc"]i agree completely with you - although earnshaw is norwichs top scorer at the moment, you have to look beyond that. martin is possibly england finest upcoming player - and hes going to go onto play amazing football as he grows up, but he aready is now. and as it has been said in previous comments, huckerby is playnig his best football at the moment. a team up between huck and martin would surely benefit us a lot more in the long run. i would even go so far as to say if we got offers from earnshaw to consider taking them in order to pump money into transfers to strengthen up our team in other departments.[/quote] Steady on, quality...yes Englands finest.........no by some way

Ridiculous, in my opinion, to have unearthed players and sell them for £9m after promotion without replaceing any of them. It strikes me the board should have gone. I do think he should keep some of his opinions closer to his chest though.

No, ridiculous idea. Tell you what though, stop a lot of people leaving early!

Keelan or Peters

I thought Safri was correctly awarded man of the match, but Etuhu had as good a game as I can remember. Does make you wonder if a bit of competition for places has spurred him on.

Well done Tim, scummer by any chance?

[quote user="jas the barclay king"] agreed. more board spin im a fraid...  the other teams have done very very well since relegation and i agree that the 3 who came donwn last season could all bounce back up, with Soton and Palace having reasonable seasons by their standards. so why have we failed to compete with these sides? of those clubs Palace, Sunderland, WBA, Southampton and us have all changed managers... out of this list the other 4 have fared better due to axing their managers sooner than we did. Birmingham have the backing, Sunderland and southampton have the managers to do it, But all clubs have football minded boards who accept that success comes on the field not off it... Prudence with ambition is safer than spend spend spend. however.. Palace, southampton, sunderland, WBA, and Birmingham dont have Travel Agents, Hotels, Car Dealers, and "exclusive" resturants tacked onto the back of their grounds.. all their money is going into getting back into the premiership.. they are starting to reap the results...  Whats the answer to that then chairman Mumbles? enjoy coiffering the champagne on hotel open-day. when the other 5 teams are enjoying battling it out for the right to lose to chelsea, we will be waving to the siffs in suits in the hotel windows, as they proudly wave the keys to their protons they bought from the Jarrold stand dealers at us. we''ve got it so badly wrong havent we... ? jas :) [/quote] Jas are we losing money in any of these businesses?, if not the profits are there to plough back into the club

Seems to me that there is a lot of reliance on a young lad producing the goods on a regular basis. Magic if he can, but I would rather have both of them

I wish I had taken your advice

The place might be but the ground is quality

To be fair they did say so at the beginning of the season, I seem to remember they brought the white one out first (good marketing ploy there)