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  1. The piece below is taken fom the Pinkun. Gallacher has now turned in three thoroughly convincing displays for the Canaries in the space of eight days, and with his contract running out during the summer Worthington is anxious to sort something out for next season. But he is prepared to give the player all the time he needs to talk over the situation with his family and advisors before deciding whether to stick with Norwich or return north in search of regular first-team football. “It''s one of those situations,” said the City boss. “Paul has got to decide where he wants to be. If he wants to stay with Norwich City then there is an opportunity for him to sit down and talk. “I am not expecting a rush decision. He''ll take his time and we''ll take our time and hopefully there will be a compromise in the middle which means he will be at the club next season.” ====================================================================== Now I know Worthington is a Uriah Heep character. He would have let Gallacher go if Greeno had not have been injured. Worthington made it blatantly clear a while back that he regretted signing the Scottish International 2 years ago. As for saying its one of those "situations" its a situation of your own doing Worthington. Gallacher should have been Greeno''s stand in before Ward ever came to the club and he should have been given a contract along time ago.  Worthington don''t be so naive by saying we will take our time, Good God Man sign him before we lose him.........Because the majority your dealings in the Transfer Market have been diabolical and the ones that have been good you can''t hang on to them. Remember at the start of the Season you let a lot of the players go, the players I might add that got City promoted I wonder what would have happened if you had hung to them......We could have been in the promotion race again.   YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK I wish it were goodbye!!!!!![:@]  
  2. [quote user="Oso Butch"] "Worthington signs players that work hard, are well disciplined  and that have good energy levels, passing ability is not one of his priorities i''m afraid. That is why we can''t pass the ball well as a team, that is why we rarely take a decent corner and hardly ever take a decent free kick". Throw-ins are a joke too, your Lordship. The team does waxworks impressions when Drury or Fleming stands on the line with the ball.  Frankly, the basics just never seem to get better - except hoof-ball, of course, at which they have all become proficient...[:@] I remember a comment about Bardsley (on loan to Burnley from Man Utd) from one of the TV commentators last Friday - something like: "Just look at the way he passes the ball and then moves straight into space... That''s drummed into all the players at Old Trafford in training every week..."  So simple. Yet, by contrast, when our team passes the ball, they so often seem to think that''s ''job done'' and leave it to the next man.... So, no fluidity, no build-ups, no incisive one-twos (let alone threes...) !!! Give me strength !!!  [/quote] Glad u noticed the throw ins.. most teams will have 2 or 3 players running a few yards to try and make space.. we stand there and get marked up.. a throw in can be as affective as a corner if u move right... we watse our set peices constantly.... this proves we dont train on them... jas :)
  3. Kings in the minority.. even my Girlfriend says if she was married to u She''d Leave u and she''s an Ipswich fan! We will be singing on thew ball city, and many other songs to show we support the players... I suppose by wanting Worthington out it demoralises that so obviously dont want to play for him... and dont quote the clus Piffle that they do!  I will say what i have wanted to say for a while... Nigel Worthington is an idiot!  he isnt a football manager.. would u put a 34 year old left back in midfield and leave 2 midfielders on the bench king???? would u encourage the long ball to a striker who is 5''8 tall against a 6''4 center back????  Remeber sheffield wednesday at home... would u play Peter Thorne on the wing???? I could go on... dont dwell on past Successes.. the England fans have been doing that for 40 years.. thats why they have only won 1 world cup...  Worthy''s promotion and playoffs are in the history books... now is now.. look at whats happening.. dont dwell 3-4 years in the past mate... jas :)
  4. [quote user="Lord Mouldywart"]I personally think Green is a quality player who has been here too long and now doesn''t want to be here. The result, is that his progress has stalled and he''s looking like a far worse player than he is (and the guy is probably sufferring from nervous strain anyway, the way we''ve defended for the last two seasons). I would sell him for £2.5 mil but i''m not sure about replacing him. The aim has to be to bring Joe Lewis through in the next couple of years, so I think we would need an experienced keeper. Mind you we could always get a youngish no 1 and keep Ward/Gallacher as no 2 (can''t see any point in keeping both)[/quote] agree with everything u have said.. although id doubt we wil get that much for greeno.. no one pays that much for a keeper.. we will get 1 million i think   jas :)
  5. that looks like a tesco uniform.... i think the best one was the all white one from 1997/98.. very swish :)   jas :)
  6. Worthington Did not want to win the game at Burnley did he? The squad selection was a Worthy speciality.......Defensive. With Safri on the Bench along with Earnshaw need I say more. When will Worthington ever realise you cannot defend all the time. In practically all of Cities wins this season we have taken the game to the opposition........can''t he see that.  Chris 
  7. Not a pretty game but another 3 pts in the bag. God knows we need them!  my only concern is for Shacks, although he got MOTM if Worthy sticks true to form we will be seeing Shackell dropped next week for the next game vs Leeds and/or subsequent games.  In a way it is a pity we are winning games because the more we win the longer we have to put up with Worthless. Not that i want us to lose of course, however we can protest till the cows come home, but unless we can convince the suits that sit on the board otherwise, then we are stuck with Worthy until he makes such a fist of it he takes us down again.  Getting us relegated means the board will say "we''ll stick with him because no manager wants the job now!" that doesnt mean that theres no good managers further down, just that we arent the "attractive prospect" the board might have us believe we are.  People always say that we have a good team, the best in the division. If this is the case no matter who is manager then why are we in the position we are in? Surely if the players were that good we''d be running away with it and making even Reading seem third rate in comparison. My closing Question, Why is Dean Ashton banging in goals for the Hammers when he couldnt for us???? the reason is lack of service, something Robert Earnshaw is finding out!.  McVeigh was bought as a striker by Bryan Hamilton, why is he having to set up goals for his fellow strikers when he should be getting the service to stick them away himself. just what are the rest of them doing? excluding Hucks who can cross and provide when needed... but he is only 1 man.  i rest my case...   WORTHINGTON OUT!!!!!! Chris
  8. [quote user="Dicky"][quote user="jas the barclay king"] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/jasbk/protest.jpg that will confirm there were more than 400... nearer 2000 i reckon.. Archant/Pinkun feel free to use the picture for your own purposes if you want.... jas :) [/quote] 2,000!  You are having an absoulte laugh.  250 max, of which most were under the age of 20, i.e. only really known life under Worthy. [/quote] I thought Dickie was keeping too quiet......sigh how wrong I was. Come to think of it were is his pal Mad Dan. Chris
  9. Luton Town Team Stumped at two players My son came in and completed the team in two minutes!!!!! Nothing like a young mind to keep us Senior on our toes. Great Feature Chris[Y]
  10. Does City even know the Offside Rule? Do they even know the height of their team mates? Do they even know how to keep the ball on the ground? When we played against Southampton last I could not believe my eyes was this Norwich city. We were all over them like a rash because we kept the ball on the ground and started playing possession football short passing. people might say that is boring but it gets results. Some posts are having a go Hucks in the second half about not doing anything.....Ipswich had done their homework by giving him no space to turn. He should have been on for the full 90 minutes. Poor old Earnshaw is like Mcveigh. When you are 5ft nothin  you have no chance when you are sandwiched in between two strapping 6ft defender ask Paul. Oh yes by the way he should pick up the phone and give Ashton a ring at West Ham about how good the service is for a striker at City     Wothington you have the players but your tactics, formations and motivatoinal skills are dire. Do us all a favour and go. the Leprachauns have deserted you. You Worthy inners and the Board are all the same saying "well he did take us up" you live in the past look to the future The first Division Calls. Chris. 
  11. I totally agree with you Wiz.......And on another point they cannot look after their players when they are injured. A couple of cases spring to mind when Ashton injured his nose against Reading and was lead of the field and collapsed on the way and was allowed to play on because the player said he was fit. Any Manager worth his salt or Physio for that matter should have said no. Etuhu when he had his blood injury in the Preston Game I think it was. They could not find a replacement shirt and he spent at least 3 or 4 minutes freezing his nuts of standing on the sideline in a very cold stadium when all it takes is some one from the Dugout to get of thier fat lazy butts and drape a coat over Dickson''s shoulders until another shirt was found. Know if Greeno had managed to get up from his injury in the West Ham game they probably allowed him to play in goal with a neck brace on..  City.... You are a Disgrace!!!!!! Chris[:@] 
  12. ......Worthingtons delight when he heard Etuhu was available, and that he would be within Norwich''s Grasp after a Loan spell for 450,000...  I bet Nigel ran as fast as he could to "Delia Towers" banging loudly on the door shouting "Etuhu, Etuhu.. we can get Etuhu" so that Delia and Michael coughed up some of their hard earned Dosh to finance the move of the century for Norwich city!!!!  Then imagine Nigel Worthingtons disapointment when he finds out that he has to phone Lancashire and not Barcelona.. sadly realising that its not Samuel Eto''o but Dixon Etuhu....  Pray to god no one tells him Ronaldinho is available he''ll go to Mcdonalds and come back with their smiley faced mascot clown! Chris  
  13. What was the excuse again at the start of the Season......up to the last 5 matches eh. Oh and  statstics show there are more injuries a year in the Sunday League Football than in Professional Football......One answer could be that the players have a full time job. So the stress must be greater than a Professional then don''t you think? What Jas is saying is that.... If you can''t take the heat get out of the kitchen and don''t blame it on being fa tigued all the time. Tiredness is not a Defence. Use it once and people accept it. Use it twice and they won''t.   Chris   
  14. Good Luck to him.........He is up against Lowe''s Golden Boy. [;)][;)][^o)]
  15. Happy Christmas to Norwich City and all the fans. All the best for 2006 Chris[:D][^][<:o)][B]
  16. [quote user="jim hupton"] Who else think the 1st wizard is just poison to this msg board? he''s negative jibes all the time, get out mate and have a life ur on here 24/7 opinions are fine but u seem to be running some kind of political campaign Worthington will go if the board want to release him! you have no control over the matter you fail to forget that he is one of the most qualified and respected managers in the business why does people keep backing him? Players, pundits and other managers alike? Yet you with no qualification in the sport and have never been involved in elite football think u could do better? my only concern is that with us no progressing Ashton will go but if for 9 million he went id rather have a money to by 11 top players for this than have just one exceptional one as its currently not working now is it and we need to think for the future in short, think critically yes but lets balance arguments and not try to change other peoples opinions and run mini cults against the club we should all love [/quote] Respected by who????? Ask the Blackpool Fans.......I think not. Having the qualifications does not mean you can to the job. Where did you get that figure 9 Million for Ashton.........Please a little realism. The longer he stays with us in the current climate interested prospective buyers probably will offer approx 1 million. What manager in their right mind would lay 3.5 million plus on a player that has not performed this Season.  Ade Akinbiyi for Burnley has scored more goals this season than Ashton and he is supposed to be rubbish. Steve Cotteril is reputed to value Ade at around 1 to 2 million pounds.      Chris
  17. [quote user="Yellow Fever"] Dumb - le, Do Opinion poles, message boards, Supporters groups all add up to 20,000 Season ticket holdes views, I THINK NOT !   [/quote] You have Yellow Fever alright and I am not talking the fever you get when supporting City. The majority of the 20,000 Season tickets were sold on the assumpton we would be in the  play offs or indeed leading the Championship. I wonder how big the waiting list for season tickets is now. Wise up. Chris  
  18. [quote user="A load of squit"] This ''Worthy Out'' Myth is ill founded rubbish based on short sightedness. The 1st Wazzock & Dumble Delia is Tragic should start to look on the positive. Each journey starts with a single step & I believe we have taken our first one. OTBC! [/quote] Did you think "we had taken these steps" after Ipswich, Plymouth and Luton? Where all the Worthy inners believed it was the turning point. You certainly live up to your Avatar!!!!! 
  19. Well Done good result.  Of course you know what this means we still have Worthington!!!!! Saints next week 2 0 defeat......The board will say wait till the week after.  If we are holding on to Worthington for his past achievements what happened Mike Walker, after all he took us into Europe. We did not pull all the stops out to keep him.  I could name a few more Norwich City Managers who have done more for City than Worthington and yet the previous boards have let them go with no compunction what so ever. City reminds me of the Jimmy White of snooker. Always the Bridesmaid never the Bride.    Chris.
  20. To all those Fans who are against George Burley becoming a Norwich City Manager just because of his Ipswich connections. Just think a minute about what you are saying. Okay Burley used to manage Ipswich but if he got the job of manager at Norwich he is not going to get us relegated on purpose just for a laugh is he? If anyone connected with football be it Managers, Players, Physios and Coaching Staff because of their passed connections to rival clubs there would be no need for the Transfer Market. Daryl Sutch gave 10 Years sterling service to Norwich City and yet he was an Ipswich Supporter and still is.  A lot of people in football work with clubs but are supporters of  other clubs as fans are you going to hold that against them? My choice is Simon Clifford who is at Garforth Town and was released by Southampton because his coaching methods did not fit their regime. He coaches the Brazilian way and does''nt suffers fools gladly. He is a bit like the late Brian Clough. He brings a bit of fresh air to the modern game. Chris      
  21. [quote user="ZippersLeftFoot"] I agree rossi - the board are taking a decent stance and I perhaps naively feel that pressure is being applied by them on worthy to do get things improved.   They are successful business people and know that our success is founded on having full grounds each week and disatisfied customers they can not afford to have. The board are taking a reasonable approach - different from my choice - but they are fully aware of the perils of chopping and changing managers too quickly.  As with Hamilton they are fully supporting Worthy until it becomes clear that there can be no support - in many ways worthy is digging his own hole so deeply there comes a time - approaching fast and probably quicker with a crewe defeat - when the board will act. I see nothing yet that says they are negligent in their duties and would still not swap our board with another - sheepshanks, mandaric or lowe anyone?   OTBC    [/quote] They might be successful business people but why wait till the Crewe game. Send Worthy on his way now.  Any new Manager we get in will most likely keep us out of the relegation zone and in the Championship.(in past history when a team is not doing well they bring in a new manager and they start playing well again). The longer the board drags its feet about wether Worthington stays or goes they will be doing no favours to the man they would want to bring in to replace him......and who would want to have the remit of  keeping City up in the Championship at such short notice. Worthington must go now!!!! Before it is too late.  I can see it now if we win against Crewe they will say lets leave it for the next game against Southampton and the next and the next and before we know it we will be in Division 1 with players asking to be put on the transfer list.The gate receipts  will drop and we will be back in the Chase Years when we got relegated from the premiership. The Football Pundits always speak of the YOYO effect at the end of every season about the teams that get relegated from the Division wanting to get straight back up the following season. Sadly in the case of Cityour string broke. Chris      
  22. [quote user="SPat"][quote user="1st Wizard"] [quote user="SPat"]Why is it that you''re more interested in trying to score points off your fellow supporters than in anything else? You sad man. [/quote] Keep the faith and keep hurling the insults SPat. And you call ME sad!. Haven''t you learned anything yet?. [/quote] I doubt there''s anything positive to be learned from you. You''ll be whinging forever regardless of who we have as a manager and I think you hold a good deal of responsibility for the split that''s happened amongst supporters on this board. As it goes, I thought Worthy should have resigned after the Wolves game and said so on here, but I also think the players have a lot to answer for, they clearly can play well when they want to. Listening to (Derby) radio commentary, the most notable comment constantly made was that the players looked like they couldn''t be bothered. If that''s true then they should force Worthy to resign or start putting in some decent effort rather than keeping their heads down and doing sod all. [/quote] Spat Are you insinuating that most of the fans that have these opinions of Worthington and his players are just jumping on the bandwagon because of  one supporter''s comments?  Think again before making such sweeping statements!!!!  We all have our own opinions and if those opinions happen to agree with the majority what gives you the right to blame one man for the split. The Worthy outers which I myself am one were shouting Worthy out and could see this disaster approaching approx at game number four at the start of the season. A lot of the Worthy Inners have changed their minds about Worthington. This is not to say they are jumping on the bandwagon, they are beginning to see we are in a real dilemma.......But you will put it down to one man causing the split. Do''nt ever agree with Wiz because you might be accused of jumping on the bandwagon and becoming a follower and we would ''nt want that would we. Chris  
  23. Derby Match what a load of crap (excuse the language). I am sick and tired of everyone saying we have a quality squad....what quality?   I thought we had Professionals at the club how wrong I was. From the the Manager down through the Training staff to the Players how can they pick up their wage at the end of every month and still take to the pitch for every game and expect the fans to give them support. Even the Sunday League is of a higher standard of football so to is school boy football and they do not get paid to play or Manage it.....They do it for the love of the Game.  There may be Quality players as individuals but playing as a team there are none and while football is a team game, at Norwich City there are no Professionals. Norwich City can count their lucky stars that Football does not come under the Trade Descriptions Act because  I wonder  how many fans would ask for their money back which I might add they work bloody hard for and do not whinge about being fatigued about it. As for the Board at Norwich City they can sit back and say we have a strong support at home games and a good following at away games because we have sell out crowds at Carrow Road the numbers speak for themselves........YES YOU HAVE SELL OUT CROWDS because you have had our money already and no fan is going to boycott matches are they? Norwich City have accused fan of being disloyal to the club by not getting behind the team. They have got that the wrong way round it should say                NORWICH CITY HAVE BEEN DISLOYAL TO THE FANS!!!!!!!! I heard Marc Edworthy on the radio before the match saying how good the setup at Norwich City was. He left under black cloud. Marc you are not missing much all the best to you. Perhaps you should have taken the offer of the Captaincy your manger offered you at the start of the match.......but you are to much of a gentleman. Worthington''s comments after the match were unbelievable especially the one where he said we have to move up a gear......Christ almighty they can''t get out of neutral yet( I am being kind) I meant to say they can''t even switch the engine on. Chris           
  24. On the Question of Hendo being Offside or not. The Linesman and the Referee got it spot on. Hendo''s first run was putting himself offside. Nigel Worthington must have warned him to the danger of him being offside as he went pass the bench. Hendo checked his run and began to run back to put himself onside. Hendo then made the mistake of resuming his run that would put him in the same offside position as he was before. The Linesman could not flag offside until he was passed the second to last Luton player. If the ball had touched any other player before Hendo had reached or was level with the second to last player he  would not have been Offside in other words he would have timed his run and we would probably come away with a 3-0 Victory. Well Done the Canaries Chris[:D]   
  25. [quote]My answer. Why should you and a lot more of worthy outers keep condemning worthy when you know and i know the same eleven have not played together for the majority of games.Why is it you will not wait...[/quote] Who shall we blame then......The Tea lady!!!!!! Lets face it in his recent post match interviews Worthy was sounding as if he might have lost the dressing room. As for Robert Green and Dean Ashton staying at Norwich is stifling their careers especially in the case of Green''s international Career.....it said it all when Sven recalled James as the No.2 to replace the injured Chris Kirkland. Still we shall see. In the January Transfer Window my guess would be Saffers to Feyenoord and both Greeno and Ashton to Everton  but where ever they go it would be our loss financially and on the field of play. Nigel Worthington is a nice chap perhaps to nice and that is his downfall. All you supporters who want Nigel to stay, just want him to stay on the grounds of the promotion he gave us.  Those of us who want him to go do not want him to go because of the relegation to the Championship but because of the results so far. The teams that were relegated with us are doing far better than us. The Bookies had us favourites to go up but today they have us favourites to go down. I only hope they can be wrong twice. Chris        
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