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I cant believe people are still getting on his back. He has rarely been given the opportunity to play upfront for Norwich and certianly not for a a run of games. I would get cheesed off with being thrown on the wing and as soon as I get an opportunity to play upfront the manager goes out and buys or loans other strikers the same as him. He was excellent the promotion season and that was mainly on the wing. he has fantastic ball control, probably the best at the club, but you dont much of an opportunity to use it running up and down the wing. It is no surprise to me that both he, Jarvis and cureton are all doing better at other clubs as they are being given the opportunity to play in their best positions regularly. I just wish our previous manager had the same outlook on loaning out players, instead of loaning so much crap in.

Shhh! Dont break their bubble, they dont have a chance. We would end up with 79 points if we won every game, which would only be good enough for play offs and we wont do that, but, imo, the team has improved since the new signings and as confidence is such a pecarious thing it would be good to finish strongly.

I cannot believe it was the same player as Tuesday, he was woeful then. It makes me very suspect as to his motives, shop window and all that or is it simply that he believes he is a prem player and cannot get motivted. Either way hes no use to us if he can only turn it on against prem teams.......Get rid!!!

A damn sight more to celebrate under their stewardship than delia''s!  A promotion to the premier league, Wow!! With very little ambition to stay there. Sorry, but our most successful period inthe clubs history was under Chase, What has happened since? Still in huge debt despite land investments by Chase. Still a selling club and nearing League 1. She and the board have made too many mistakes. its just a shame we cant transfer another board in. 

I cant believe how negative everybody is, we dont have the money for earnshaw/ashton type players. Sunderland have just spent 2.2m replacing brown with Stokes. We have nothing like that sort of cash and I keep hearing Eastwood being mentioned, Portsmouth with there foriegn millons cant afford him so we definitely cant. Please people wake up and smell the roses! There are very few good players out there and tall centre forwards are at a premium ie Howard!  I think the guy needs to be given a chance and will certainly be better than Thorne  so has got to be an improvement in the squad. Our days of signing players for more than a million are over for the time being, unless one of you has a spare few quid in your back pocket as Derby have.

Ole thought you were spot on with your reviews, though a bit generous to Etuhu who I thought was poor and Huckerby''s second was not a miss hit. I cannot believe how bad the subs were. IMO we should save our money for 2 midfielders and stick with Dublin up front. He was superb. drury was good defending but his distribution was appalling. Otherwise the whole performance, against a conference side shows why we are struggling against championship opposition.

Whilst it has been good having so many season ticket holders, it must have an effect on future support. Most youngsters cant afford season tickets and if their parents aren''t interested they are stuck. I certainly was in this boat as a teenager, but being able to get casual tickets meant I got the bug and attended more and more regularly. If I got fed up with the standard I would miss a couple and go again. This policy must erode those teenagers going and they are our future support. Also whilst it gives the board a more stable income, the reductions in cost per game via season ticket, must reduce the profit made from the gates. A successsful side filling the ground with 10,000 casual tickets must make a lot more profit than 20,000 season ticket holders. IMO it also breeds the poisonous atmosphere we have had over the last 12 months as people have to go as they have paid their hard earned money already and want to get the full use of it.

Sadly Jim, I think the players such as mullins or harewood would be way out of our finance league. I was thinking more the Carlton Cole or youth players of which WH always have plenty.

I''m gutted! I was hoping our links through PG would mean the loan or purchase of a couple of West ham players. That looks extremely unlikely now.

I would disagree to a certain extent over your belief that loanees are bad for the club. The arrival, not just of Huckerby, Crouch and the winger (forgotten his name) completely turn around our season. We could not afford all 3 and probably only got huckerby because a keen fan liked what he saw. However, IMO because it worked that time Worthy decided that he could do the same again and has over relied on loans. This ahs allowed the squad to shrink and meant squad players have never got a proper run in the team. By the way I believe we should have taken a risk and bought Crouch, rather than Huckerby, if he was available that Xmas. Also when we were promoted he became available and we let him go to Southampton. I am convinced if we had had him from the start of the Prem rather than wait until Jan for Ashton we would have stayed up. The team was crying out for a target man , just as it is now.

You''ve hit the nail on the head, SHTTA People want to be entertained and will attend. We were crap that season and the so people voted with there feet. It would be exactly the same 2 years ago but it is hidden by the large number of season tickets. IMO that is why we had such a poisonous atmosphere in the ground. We certainly weren''t getting the type of behaviour PG has been complaining about (harshly IMO). Fans have spent their hard earned cash to watch high paid players not even try.  Yes it may be good for financial planning purposes, but I would be interested to know the difference between what  the gate receipts are with discounted season tickets and a full house and with 14000 season ticket holders and the rest paying full price. Over a season I bet it doesn''t make that much difference in cash raised. One big advantage is that it removes the fans leverage over the board. P.S Totally agree with your post RH

Wrong, Wrong Wrong. SHTTA I wouldn''t care if they were in division 3 south if they played football which had some entertainment! Fine if you are happy with the dross being served up week in week out. The only way it will change is by voting with your feet. Thats why we had to endure Worthy for so long and why we are even deeper in the dwang. Perhaps if a few more had not renewed he would have gone and we wouldn''t be desperately clinging to the false hope of new players in Jan when every other struggling club is panic buying aswell.  

I must agree with RH I haven''t regretted not renewing. I wish I did because it would have meant that we were playing watchable football. That was the reason I didn''t renew and despite Worthy going we are playing exactly the same tactics and producing exactly the same performances. The odd 1-0 win with a smattering of away drubbings. How can you expect to keep crowds happy with 1 shot on goal all game!This league is wide open at the moment with no team looking superior and a bit of risk taking would pay dividends, IMO. I know we have been unlucky with injuries but that was inevitable with the size of the squad. the clubs wage policy must be completely useless if we have the 3rd highest wage bill and 3rd smallest squad. I will buy a season ticket again once we start entertaining again, something I think will take longer than a few buys in Jan will take. Until then I suffer the radio!

I went and it is true, but not a supporter or on a train from Norwich, so thats why it didn''t get much press. We were held up for quite a while, but it was worth the wait as it was one of the most most memorable footballing days of my life. Not for the football, that was poor, but the atmosphere of the 96,000 fans ( it was called the friendly final) was brilliant. Oh those were the days!

I am not saying the policy is wrong and it has meant a full Carrow rd week in/ week out. What I am saying is that it has a big effect on the atmosphere when the team is poor. I was a season ticket holder for the previous 5 years and for spells previous ( I''m in the forces), but just couldn''t warrant spending saturday afternoon away from the family, bored and frustrated, while I work away all week. I just sit by the radio instead! 

I wonder if the atmosphere at the ground is down to the high number of season tickets that have been sold aswell as the s**t football. Fans are forced to go as they want to get their monies worth and are just fed up with the rubbish being served up each game. You will always get a hardcore of season ticket holders (probably about 12000) who go regardless, and the casual supporter who just wants a day out. At the moment we are getting over 23000 attending, which is fine when we are playing well as they want to be there and enjoy it, obviously the opposite kicks in when they are sat, fed up and wanting to be somewhere else. IMO most of these supporters renewed a) in fear of not getting in if the team did turn it around and b) because they new Worthy wouldn''t last and a new manager might turn it around and (a) would happen. I think the balloon will burst on the boards season ticket policy next year.

Problem is if this type of football continues will we still get 25000? The board played it perfectly when they raised the season ticket level to 20,000, it now means people will renew otherwise they are worried they wont get a seat if we improve. I think by the end of this season fans will realise that those good times are a long way off and wont renew. With the loss of parachute payments and a big debt we will struggle to bring in new players without selling, making it even more difficult. However, I think it may almost be a blessing in disguise. I hope we clear out a lot of the expensive deadwood and bring in young hungry players from the lower leagues with something to prove. We need a team, not a group of mismatches as it is at the moment. Thats how worthy got us up last time and how many have gone up.

I should imagine he is one of the high earners at the club aswell. We could probably get 2 young, up and coming midfielders from the lower leagues for his wage.

The only way we will find out if they are good enough is if they get an opportunity to play. If they aren''t impressing on the training pitch then I can understnd them not getting a chance. However all I''ve heard from Worthy and PG is how good all the players are in training but are not following it up in the matches. Saturday was an ideal opportunity to play eagle after a promising couple of games. There is a need to protect young players, but NCFC seem to be taking it to the extreme. Ryan jarvis is a prime example. he has shown potential, but has very rarely had an opportunity in his position as striker. I know we keep going over old ground, but I really thought PG, with all his rhetoric about playing the right person in the right place and giving youth a chance, would not have gone against that so early in his career. I hope and believe he will come good, but needs to learn his mistakes even if he wont admit to them!

That is the biggest load of nonsense I have read from a manager and has got me worried. He raves on about having to play injured players as if he has no other choice. Hughes not fit but only choice on left, so play Eagle!  No fit strikers so had to play dublin/Thorne, what about Jarvis. Players played out of position, as he previously stated, do not play as well, are often more nervous and will make more mistakes. WHY change a back four that had not conceded. I hope this was a blip, not from the team (they have had too many poor performances to be a blip already over the past 3 years) but the manager. He may bring the whole deck of cards down if he keeps hammering an already under confident, thread bare team over their performances.

MMMMM, let me think what did we achieve in the chase era. Quite a lot actually! A lot more than the Delia era and we probably owe the same  now as we did then?

Some people have very short memories, the club wouldnt be here today if it wasnt for Delia putting her own money into the club over and over again. I am fed up with this statement.  You name me a club that has gone bust over the last 12 years the size of Norwich.  Someone else would have stepped in.. I am grateful to Delia that she was the one, but we cannot hold her on a pedastal forever!

Noticed that Norwich have picked up nothing when Huckerby doesn''t play or is injured. The spell that cost Worthy his job started when Huckerby was injured and he was rushed back too early so wasn''t fit for the Burnley game. Have we become a one man team, I think we have.

We would start the season well ( though not playing the same football as we have been though).  Just enough that Worthy wont get sacked, but not enough for us to be serious challengers for promotion. We will go along winning most of our home games, losing most of our aways. When will the board say ''enough is enough''? or are they content with this. Another defeat at Plymouth or another few months of the same yo-yoing as last season, what will it take? I gave up my season ticket last year in protest at the poor football on show. Sadly the first game I went to this season was Crystal Palace. I have obviously missed the blip of good football. I know this post is negative, but I''m so cheesed off with the club as a whole at the moment.

People forget we are nearly £20 m in debt and on the last visit to the premiership we actually went further in debt without spending much. we will never have a good run in that league unless we remove the debt. How? except from a sugar daddy.