Yellow Rose of Texas

Some very good points. I can see Snoddy replacing Bennet in the line up, especially if we have a target man for him to aim at, but for this weekend we need pace on the counter attack and I think we get more of that with Redmond and Bennet both in the team.

"dissapointed at finishing 15th or below because of our investment" seems to me to be a dubious argument - because everyone else has or will invest to strengthen their team too. However we did finish mid table the previous two years and this weekend suggested that Stoke (mugged in a 1-0 loss at Liverpool), Cardiff, Hull (ditto 2-0 at Chelsea) and Palace have a lot of work to do to survive let alone thrive, and I have serious doubts that Villa, Newcastle, WBA, Sunderland, Fulham and Southampton can sustain good form over a season... so putting 3 of those below us too my "minimum acceptable" would be 13th.

Watch out - the forum police will be onto you for not putting this thread into "other football" - as it clearly has nothing to do with Norwich now or in the future :-)

"Bruce is quite a bit younger. Perhaps he''s just embarrassed to be a Tiger" He''s been that way since Sundeland, maybe even Wigan. I just showed my daughter a clip of Norwich v Ipswich Milk Cup semi-final when he played a blinder (and scored) and was thinner :-) Of course all she noticed was the short shorts!

Enough said - and with their full strength team.

Thanks as always Ricardo.

Not even close to 70% possession to Everton. That said, it is true they had most of the ball but our counter attack was so much quicker than last year. You can see how much better we are going to be once Fer comes in and we get a few more games under our belt. The Wolf''s header was class.

We may not win, we may even lose, but we ARE goig for it!

How about Arsenal, Chelsea, Swansea, NORWICH, Man C and Spurs? Sounds much better...

Scotch is a drink :-) It''s a friendly, and it may do England some good to be embarrassed by losing to Scotland, so I for one will be pleased to see any of our lads do well.

Excellent analysis PH, these characteristsics were on full view today...

Do they mean Anglia = England, or do they mean East Anglia? They really are TATSP ....

There should be one measure of a striker and that is does he score goals. Not how much did he cost. Picking carhorse Caroll over Holt the previous Euros was crass stupidity and exactly what others have pointed out was "big club" bias.

Quagliarella is playimg for Juventus tonight v''s LA Galaxy. Yes understood that this is also pre-season football, but he''s looking very good.

Holt''s goal must have been a cracker too as the BBC and Sky credited him with 2! Anyways great see QPR have been knocked out of the automatic promotion spots. :-) Isn''t it amazing how quick that table started to read like you think it probably should.. Wigan Bournemouth Leicester QPR Reading Forest ------------------ Ipswich MIddlesborough Sheffield Wed Birmingham Huddersfiled Barnsley

No you can''t just pull another player down which is why it was more galling that he didn''t give us a free kick when Bassong was hauled down for their second. (And the third was clearly offside, but it was the 2nd that made the difference)

Edit button one more time ... " Are you saying that overseas players are better than those based in the UK? Because I''d argue that the Premier League is the strongest league in the world" .... etc etc "Of course £15m is too much money for McCarthy" " We don''t know how much Maloney would cost of course" Look, most of what you wrote has nothing to do with what I said... for example I never mentioned Maxi Lopez. Your original question was why didn''t we structure these Holt and Barnett deals to buy either MCarthy or Maloney? I''ll stand by what I said " Because we are looking for better quaity than that... " and " We aren''t going to bid on players to only improve a position a little bit, when we buy we are adding serious quality .. which means overseas buys mainly, or from clubs who need to sell, or both" and if 15m quid is what McCarthy is valued at and if Maloney is only marginally better than Hoolahan - who has just had the quality of players around him upgraded - I think you more back up my point than refute it.

" Are you saying that overseas players are better than those based in the UK? Because I''d argue that the Premier League is the strongest league in the world" .... etc etc "Of course £15m is too much money for McCarthy" " We don''t know how much Maloney would cost of course" Look, most of what you wrote has nothing to do with what I said... for example I never mentioned Maxi Lopez. Your original question was why didn''t we structure these Holt and Barnett deals to buy either MCarthy or Maloney? I''ll stand by what I said " Because we are looking for better quaity than that... " and " We aren''t going to bid on players to only improve a position a little bit, when we buy we are adding serious quality .. which means overseas buys mainly, or from clubs who need to sell, or both" and 15m quid is what McCarthy is valued at and Maloney is only marginally better than Hoolahan - who has just had the quality of players around him upgraded - I think you more back up my point than refute it.

Oh for an edit button ... " I''d stick to baseball mate if you think we will get better than James McCarthy. In fact he is so highly rated that my suggestion is actually ridiculously unrealistic - considering Spurs and Everton are said to be offering £15m" Then that would be a wasted 15m quid... We aren''t going to bid on players to only improve a position a little bit, when we buy we are adding serious quality .. which means overseas buys mainly, or from clubs who need to sell, or both.

" I''d stick to baseball mate if you think we will get better than James McCarthy. In fact he is so highly rated that my suggestion is actually ridiculously unrealistic - considering Spurs and Everton are said to be offering £15m" Then that would be a wasted 15m quid... We aren''t going to bid on players to only improve a position a little bit, when we buy we are adding serious quality .. which means overseas most mainly, or from clubs who need to sell, or both.

Excellent. Now I hope he gets a massive pay cut to go along with that demotion too.

Because we are looking for better quaity than that...

Michael Nelson...

If we are to expand it''ll be at Carrow Road. It''s big enough to accoodate a 30,000 - 40,000 seat stadium, the issue is where does $25 - $35m come from? IMO we''ll see some alternative means explored to expand access to matchdays - such as video streaming to local theatres with the club revenue sharing.

Agree with the comment re a pacy RB