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He was at Colney in the week having tests, heard he has already signed and will be with the U23s initially, possibly being loaned out for this coming season. The club are waiting to announce presumably next week. Will be an excellent signing with the potential to be a first team player in the not too distant future. Also we are still working hard to finalise a deal for Aidan Fitzpatrick from Partick Thistle hopefully also this week.

Havent posted on here in a while but no better night than tonight to make a come back! Im living in America and will definatly be sinking a few buds to celebrate tonight! Anyway whats your prediction for our first game next season just a bit of fun im just delighted we are back there! so happy i shed a tear when the final whistle went! anyway my guess is....  Stoke at Home OTBC

    Not a true city fan? From that previous post you have made it very clear that you dont have a clue about football in general, im not going to get into a debate over whether im a real fan or not because quite frankly I am, I know how Francis played at fulham I was there along with around 6999 other disheartened norwich fans. To say he got us relegated single handedly is ludacris, francis wasnt the only player who played badly that day, he also wasnt at fault for all 6 goals. We lost 18 other games that season a single win in any any of those game would have seen us safe, so to suggest that our top joint goal scorer is the sole reason we got relegated is very naive, and you have just shown your total ignorance.

I actually feel sorry for damien francis, cant we see past him putting in a transfer request after we got relegated, I liked him as a player and as much as I disagreed with his decision to put in a transfer request in at the time is it fair to call persistance injuries and being forced into football retirment at 29 which is usually a players prime "football karma". As much as i dislike some footballers i would never wish for them to be forced into early retirment! So i say this, Thanks for the 2 and a half years service you gave us damien especially that goal against west brom! and good luck for the future.

I think thats very harsh to single out these players as a reason to why we are playing so poorly. Marshall is definatly our best keeper since green although that''s not a long time we have had a lot of goalkeepers! Fotheringham started very well this season and made the difference against southampton before getting injured. Lappin has been played out of position for most of his games this season first and foremost he is not a centeral midfielder he is a left midfielder and I think he has played well when playing in his strongest postition. First game of the season I thought Brellier looked one of our best players I admit he hasnt played well since but I think he has the potential to be a good signing. We need to look futher than what nationality they are to see what problems our effecting our football club. otbc

Dereham canary fan some of your suggestions are some of the worst ive ever seen. You would rather downing to Joe Cole - you must be the only englishman alive. Hargreaves is world class lampard isnt - tackling is the only attribute hargreaves has on lamps. ashton and johnson not rooney and owen - pure mental. Bale english?? - just about sums your point of view up. Terry not world class?? - would be in the starting line up of any team in the world. ledley king center midfield- and rooney left back or are you happy with him playing in the correct position (suppose we always have bale)????

I would go for                           Marshall Otsembor   Doherty   Shackell   Lappin Croft          Brellier     Russell     Chadwick                   Cureton    Brown Subs- Gilks, Dublin, Fotheringham, Martin, Strihavka   and I fancy a 2-1 win. Cureton and Russell scoring

supposing Hucks is still injured, Cureton, Otsemobor and Martin are still layin low after the BBQ what would your team be for the preston match?? mine would be: Marshall Spillane Shackell Dublin Drury Croft Brellier Russell Lappin Brown Strihavka Gilks, Doherty, Fotheringham, Chadwick, Ryan Jarvis 

                 Marshall Otsemobor Dublin Shackell Lappin Croft Brellier Smith Huckerby             Martin Cureton   Gilks, Drury, Russell, Chadwick, Brown/Strihavka Not playing a target man would encourage the team to play the ball on the deck and with the creativity of smith and hucks we would bang in the goals!

As it stands who would be your first 11 plus subs for our 1st game of the season without any players singing or leaving to what we have already!? Mine would be Marshall Otsemobor Shackell Dublin Lappin Croft Brellier Etuhu Huckerby Cureton Strihavka subs: Gilks, Doherty, Drury, Safri, Martin if you ask me on paper thats a very strong team with good backup with the likes of hughes, chadwick, brown, fotheringham not making the 16! what your opinion??

actually it was £4million plus helguson who is rated at £2.5million thus making the transfer worth £6.5million.

[quote user="Gloucester canary"]                          Marshall Colin        Dublin        Shackell         Lappin Chadwick     Fotheringham    Safri      Huckerby                   Martin            Earnshaw Subs: Drury Etuhu Brown Croft Gallagher Farewell this summer To McVeigh Doc Thorne and MLJ [/quote]   Absolutly agree with all of that. on paper that team should be at least play offs but unfortionatly paper and reality arent the same

Warner Colin Shacks Doc Lappin Croft Safri Fozzy McVeigh Martin Hucks i fancy another 3-2 away win

for me it has to be last season away at the scum after winning 1-0 all the norwich fans were kept behind to allow their fans to be moved on and some of their fans tryed to stay in as long as possible and inparticular a female fan aged 20 odd then around 2000 norwich fans broke into a chorus of "she''s a whore!" her face when we started singing was absolutly priceless!!

Gall- 5 not even close to being as good as david marshall Hughes- 5.5 effort without any end product Drury- 5.5 too negitive when attacking otherwise solid Doc- 4.5 terrible gave their attackers far to much time and space Shacks- 7.5 can see what a good effect dion has had on him definatly motm Lappin- 6 did well without excelling Fothrington- 5.5 ineffective Etuhu- 6 won headers and tackles but tends to go missing Hucks- 6.5 caused them problems but is to regulary offside Martin- 7 tooks his goal well and done well without much service Brown- 5 very poor didnt win headers and didnt even look like scoring subs McVeigh- 6.5 played well when he came on Safri- 6.5 dont care if he is tired we need him to start every game for the rest of the season Croft- 6.5 caused the problems and tracked back very well Grant- 6.5 the subs he used did well and he brought off players who were either not playing well or not going to cause any attacking threat

i think it should be Marshall Colin Dublin Shacks Lappin Chadwick Fozzy Safri Hux Brown Martin subs: galls, doc, hughes, Thorne/strike from the youth team, Croft I think drury has been awful last few time he has play lappin look 10x better than drury also i would go as far 2 say if needed any hughes could fill the left back position just as comfortably. However when/if earnshaw returns before the end of season he should take browns place

Craig you are a true gentleman and one hell of a servant to our great club I shall always think of you as one of this clubs alltime greats three thing will stick with me forever though, your celebration after phil mulrynes goal against reading, you doing a kuqi in our final game of the championship winning season at crewe and the additional roar after you did it. And you begining ole ole ole ole going up up up at the civic reception. Thankyou for everything Craig

[quote user="ronbol ronbol"]I think norwich have just secured our relegation to the lower division. you lot on here can try and gloss over this as much as you want. This bloke is pants (mr brown) and this stinks of lack of ambition. just about sums this club up at the moment. Disgraceful SACK GRANT NOW [/quote]   Some posts really do annoy me. i suppose you have seen him play have you to warrent that opinion? lack of ambition yeah we really should be signing henry shouldnt we? and i think u lose all credibility by having "sack grant now" at the ends of post it truely shows how little you know about the game what would sacking him achieve? less money to spend after another pay off? turmoil in the club? how many managers do you want to go through in a single season?

Just seen the match on the championship and I am absolutly appalled at two thing first how the linesman missed that a player was about 5 yards offside in the lead up to their first goal, he should be punished by the fa to be an offical that high up and miss an offside by that margin is unforgivable i wouldnt accept it in my sunday league! and secondly the amount of time and space we gave their midfield and attackers.

What i find interesting is that kings lynn are a part time club with part time players Andrew Cave-Brown has just got back from injury will will go from training 5 days a week too maybe 3 evenings a week same wages he must be rubbing his hand with delight because of the time he''s going to have off..

What game were you watching? oh thats right you were listening werent you. This board is starting to annoy me. Win and we are going to win the league. lose and we are doomed to league one. Sunderland is a hard place to go as most teams will find out this year. Just so i know are you gutted that we didnt take all 3 points? I am! so whats wrong with our manager being gutted that we didnt win I would rather that than the man not giving a toss.

Was absolutly superb tonight played out of position at left back and dare i say it he looked worth £500k there: strong, good in air, good on the deck, knew when to play, knew when to launch it. In my opinion was man of the match tonight. He deserves this praises I think after all of the stick he gets off the fans. Well done andy! 

I do agree with you alot of fans pay 100''s of pounds a years to support norwich me included, however i do think peter has a point, inside carrow road today was like a library, and i dont know how anyone could deny that. Give the guy a chance he has even signed anyone yet appart from loan deals. I know today was crap but you cant blame the manager the whole time the players have to take part of the blame.

1, norwich 2-0 ipswich 2, 0-10 minutes 3, 8 4, 0 5, 31-40 6, Etuhu 7, n/a 8, 49 9, 28, 732 10, 5 11, 7 12, 3 13, 10 14, Dublin 15, Norwich

If all the injuries we have rule out those injured players what will our team look like saturday i was thinking.                Gallacher Colin  Shacks  Fleming  Boyle                    Jarvis Croft                          Huckerby                  Mcveigh         Jarvis               Earnshaw