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    [quote user="Old Boy"]We''ll get thumped at Maine Road, no doubt, but a good, committed, determined, united performance like we saw against WHU in pre-season would, as you say, be a big step towards recovery. With Drury still out and Murray at left back, and Shackell out, I worry though.
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    We''ve got more chance of winning at Maine Road than Carrow Road at the moment, but I''m not confident at all and think we probably will get thrashed at the City of Manchester Stadium![:P]

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    I agree 100% with that, it''s exactly how I''m feeling.  I''m no longer proud to say I''m a Norwich fan, in fact I''m embarrassed.  I''ve regularly gone since 1996 and this is the worst I''ve felt.  Very sad times indeed.  I personally blame the board, Grants had an impossible job from day one thanks to them.

    RIP NORWICH CITY

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    I''m not so sure he will.  Grant saw the game and admitted how bad it was, declaring it embarrassing among other things.  Huckerby also said how bad it and everything else is.  I believe them 2 out of all the club want to do well.  I know they''ve had run ins in the past, but I don''t think so this time. But we shall see.

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    Sorry for the long post, but I just had to say it all!

    A year on from Worthy''s sacking - we have clearly got worse, obviously.  He had to go though he had as we all know ran his course and I think we''d have been relegated without sacking him.  Losing key players (no matter what people think of them or the reasons they left) like Etuhu, Safri, Earnshaw this summer clearly has made a difference.  That said I didn''t think Etuhu would be missed, but a bad Etuhu is better than what we''ve got at the moment.

    Do I think Grant should go?  No, he needs at least a full season.  I think also that the problem is so deep rooted even someone like Mourinho would struggle to improve things.  Sacking him will just make the problem worse imo.

    Ever since we won the division in 2004, there has been something not right with Norwich.  The premiership was poor, and it''s just got worse since then.  I know a lot of us (me included) didn''t rate the majority of worthy''s signings since promotion, but why did so few of them settle and leave within a year or 2?  Also I don''t understand why the confidence is so fragile.  After a fine start last season, who would have thought that the 3-0 defeat at Coventry was the start of the end of Worthy''s time - I think we conceded something like 14 goals in 5 league games up to and including Burnley.

    Grant as we know inherited a completely inbalanced squad, no strength in depth at all with only the odd bit of quality.  You would hope the board would have seen that and given grant a decent budget to work with, but despite that and making a good profit on sales, they haven''t.  Yes Grant has bought 9 or whatever players in, but the fact of the matter is that he just had to, whatever budget he had.  I know we didn''t get the centre half we desperately, and I''m sure he wants a centre half, but I agree what''s the point of getting someone either no better than what we''ve got or way to expensive.  Some people will just whinge and complain anyway.

    The day Grant walked in I don''t think he realised what a massive job he had on his hands.  In some ways impossible.  Now I think he knows only to well he''s got a very tough job.  He''s criticised players in the past, and does seem to leave some out, but if all he did was complain about the team what would it achieve?  He has to encourage them.

    I''m really not sure what the actual problem is.  The board should take a lot of the blame, for not releasing enough funds.  I''m not sayin millions, but I doubt even £1-£1.5m more (including wages) in the last few years would affect the finances so much we do a ''Leeds, Bradford or Ipswich'' as the board like to say they are not prepared to do.  I can understand them wanting to invest in as many things as possible to create revenue, as it should help the club.  But not to the extent the football team suffers so much we are at the stage where people for 18 months have thought about us having to just think about avoiding relegation and not having any realistic ambition of promotion.  They are the ones who have dragged us this low. 

    However I don''t think you can just ''sack the board'' as they are the ones who run the club and own it.  Also they would need replacing, and that will only happen with a take over.  That is unlikely to happen anytime soon.  Yes we still have 24000 people every week and we know we have a lot of potential, but really what else is there that could attract a takeover?  Also we know Delia''s stance on that.

    The club are in a total utter mess.  It hurts, it really does.  All I''ve ever known in football is Norwich City.  I used to be proud to support Norwich even though I''ve always received stick, but yesterday as I left Molineux I was glad it wasn''t obvious I''m a Norwich fan, for the first time ever.  Who''d have thought the day we won promotion the club would be where it is now?  I don''t think any of us did.  I thought maybe we would get relegated and possibly not get straight back up, or back up at all.  But I didn''t think it would be as bad as it is now.

    As a Norwich fan I don''t care if they win, lose or draw.  I just want to see a team with fighting spirit, commitment, pride in the shirt working together as a team giving 100%.  When that happens I will love being a Norwich fan again.

    I''ve been to well over 200 games in my time, and yesterday was the worst I have ever seen.  It beats Fulham any day of the week.

    What next for Norwich City, where do we go from here?

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    Yes I agree, I was there too.  Grant is not perfect but to want him sacked is ridiculous... If you sack if it doesn''t instantly bring rewards we are never going to get anywhere.. We are not a parachute team so why should we still have the expectation of it?  That said, it''s sad both NCFC and Worthy messed us up when we had the chance to be good.  Grant has got a very difficult job.  The signings are mostly his but he has done well with the extremely limited resources he has had.

    Grant was not really at fault yesterday, there''s only so much he can do.

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    [quote user="ob1"][quote user="Michael Starr"]

    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11827_2691349,00.html

    Such a shame... his collapse is on youtu0W, he appeared to fall to his knees, then collapse... they brought him round on the spot and he walked off the pitch only to collapse again in the dressing room moments later... he died today... it''s Vivien Foe all over again. Horrible, just horrible!

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    Reminds me a little of this footage below, of Miklos Feher - gets carded by the ref, has a laugh and joke, bends over - then dead. Unbelievably tragic...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8mzeRVuDBU

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    oh my god that is horrible, don''t know why i watched it!

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    [quote user="jas the barclay king"]

    dump them in the conference! the players would leave and theyd be up the creek.

    10 point deduction too!

    jas :)

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    to be honest, the majority of their ''big names'' are probably only there for the money... e.g. lucas neil turned down trophies at liverpool for more money and relegation battle (then, and now probably only mid-table) at west ham... and therefore would probably play for them at conference level as long as they got their fat wages from magnusson.

    i know he''s ex scummer, but i think darren bent deserves credit (yes, he''s still on too many thousands of pounds a week, but still) for rejecting west ham despite them offering about £30k a week more than spurs, as he wanted to have success in the game not just a lovely bank balance

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     that''s really interesting, actually.  even though i have many things that concern me about the current board - and in particular delia and michael, maybe she does have a point about foreign ownership, and, having read that article i''ll back her stance on that..  i think it show''s that finding Mr & Mrs Turner was a great piece of work as it seems they want NCFC to keep it''s values to the community
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