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  1. Posted

    10 minutes ago, CanadianCanary said:

    To be honest, I've never had any issue with it. I've only had it a couple months probably. It seems to run about 15 seconds delayed from any score notifications I get from the team app but other than that, I really can't complain. There might be more issues I notice as I use it longer but in Canada it's really hard to get Norwich matches. So I figured I'd bite the bullet and know most, if not all, will be on there.

    I'd echo that.  Generally the coverage is decent, on the odd occasion the feed seems to start late and misses the beginning of a game, but that is pretty rare.  I'm also in Canada and so have to buy a DAZN subscription too in order to get the games that are shown there and hence blocked on CanariesTV -- probably about 25% of league games.

    You do also get the Radio Norfolk commentary and so its handy for games like today's.....although perhaps not based on cuurent listening.

  3. Posted

    4 hours ago, ec-p said:

    Any coverage of this anywhere? I think the club has streamed friendlys in the past on YouTube and the like.

    Looks like the club are selling match passes for a fiver via Canaries TV, or 25 pounds for all 7 pre-season games.

    Not sure I'm seeing this just because I am outside the UK or if it is open to those in the UK too.

  4. Posted

    I live in Canada and was expecting to watch most games on Canary TV. In the end, DAZN ended up showing quite a few Norwich games which meant they weren't on Canaries TV.  I'd planned to drop my DAZN subscription but ended up keeping it as enough games were not on Canaries TV.  Overall I'd guess I watched about 2/3 of Norwich's Championship games on Canaries TV (maybe a bit less) and 1/3 on DAZN.

    Over the course of the season, DAZN started showing more Championship games each Saturday. At the start, it was maybe 1-2 each week, meaning most games were on Canaries TV.  But towards the end of the season, it was often 4 or more on DAZN meaning fewer games on Canaries TV.  

    DAZN costs me about £15 per month, so it is about £300 to watch all Championship games across DAZN and Canaries TV.  I think I'd agree with Purple Canary -- enough games on Canaries TV to make it worth renewing again next year. 

    The commentary is usually the Radio Norfolk commentary. 

     

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  5. Posted

    16 hours ago, NorthCarolinaYellow said:

    While being broadly sympathetic to the OP as an International Norwich supporter ... I have to say Stateside the combination of the £140 season pass + a $10 monthly ESPN+ subscription is pretty fantastic! I only wish the club would put their app out on the Apple TV platform so I could watch on my TV and not the iPad.

    This year I've found a USB-C to HDMI cable has worked to get the App from the iPad (pro) onto the TV so I can watch on TV.  I don't think that worked with iFollow in the past,  but it so far this year it has been working. 

  7. Posted

    Thanks ncfcstar, like OP I’m in Canada.  In Championship seasons I’ve used iFollow but haven’t seen anything about plans for the upcoming season and so terminating the agreement for iFollow explains that.  Hopefully, there will be a replacement and I’ll still have an excuse to put off shovelling snow on Saturday mornings!  If anyone hears anything, please post.

  8. Posted

    [quote user="Mook"]

    Good point, Ottowa. He could have been attempting

    to keep his job, but then surely it looks more promising to his

    employers that they will have to spend less money on wages (and no

    money on transfer fees) if one of our promising youngsters turns out to

    be a great player. So I think that theory is a little unrealistic.

    [/quote]

    Hi Mook - Maybe, but the cost savings are essentially equivalent to the

    building for the future argument. The point is that the manager makes

    decisions taking an additional factor into account, the need to keep

    his job. This means that he might make decisions that are not

    necessarily in the club''s best interests. However, my guess is that his

    limited ability is probably the dominant factor.

  9. Posted

    [quote user="Tumbleweed"]

    Thanks for the feedback chaps (or

    chappesses!). I would be very interested in hearing whether anybody

    feels that Worthy DOES have a long term plan. He has been here as

    manager for 5.5 years yet I still feel that none exists, unlike the

    Board who do appear to have  long term strategy.

    On the field we are capable of turning up with a 4-4-2 then we lurch

    to 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 and sometimes we appear to have had a 4-4-1-1. Often

    a formation is tried, fails while the palyers get used to it and then

    is abandoned.

    With respect to quality I feel that in the likes of Drury, McVeigh,

    Huckerby, Safri and Earnie we have a good quality core. Shacks and Doc

    are both good championship standard players. However we consistently

    fail to get the best out of what we have, the good becomes mediocre and

    the mediocre becomes poor. Even Crewe looked like a more fluid team

    than us with innate understanding and good organisation. That''s why to

    me coaching is the urgent priority.

    [/quote]

    This second half of this season looked like an example of the

    principal-agent problem that is present in all firms/governments etc

    due to differences in information. Here an agent (the manager) performs

    actions on behalf of the principal (in general shareholders and in our

    case supporters as well) and (in theory) has better information (player

    form/fitness etc) than the principal. The problem occurs because the

    objectives facing the two parties may differ. In the second half of the

    season the supporters, recognizing that promotion is not going to

    happen would like to see the club build for the future by playing

    youngsters etc. However the agent (Worthy) has second objective - he

    wants to keep his job. He may well recognize that promotion is not

    going to happen this year, however he may believe (rightly or wrongly)

    that by finishing just below the playoff places he is more likely to

    keep his job that if he were play some youngsters,  lose more

    games and finish say 15th (the position from which Royle lost his).

    Therefore, given he faces this second incentive he makes decisions that

    are not in the best interest of the principal (supporters). For

    example, he plays a 34 year old defender about to be released from the

    club in midfield instead of a promising youngster. The only reason that

    seems to explain this and many of Worthy''s decisions for this season is

    that he was panicking and trying to keep his job..

    Of course there is also the possibility that he is just totally inept.

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