Chunky Norwich

Would take a draw now.Stoke = good home recordNorwich = awful away record

I''ll admit I only read about a third of that but my humble two-pence worth is that football - at the end of the day - is an entertainment business. Pundits bang on about it being a results business and for the Man Utds and Chelseas of the world it is; ''six months without a trophy'', ''haven''t won the league in three years'' etc etc. But for a club like ours, I just want to see good football and have a cathartic experience once a week. I think we were really spoiled under Lambert - flowing football, players giving their all for the club, last-minute winners, lower-league players plucked from obscurity who turn out to be rather good, a fairytale rise from League One to the Prem etc. I have never felt such joy and pride at going to football games - both home and away - in the fifteen years I''ve been regularly following Norwich. Bizarrely I quite enjoyed our League One experience.I am just one man and realise I don''t speak for every football supporter but I do want to watch a good game of football. I also completely understand that for Hughton, his entire brief is ''keep Norwich in the Premiership'' and I cannot really blame him for his cautious approach. I am very proud to have a Premiership team however and the increased coverage and money that comes with it. However you compare us to someone like Swansea and we were always mentioned in the same breath as them in 11/12. We''re now at a stage where Swansea have continued their trajectory, and are still being cooed over by the media, but we have become stagnant and the mainstream media are now starting to notice how horribly we are playing and the poor away form.Basically football is expensive - very expensive. I wouldn''t pay a load of money to watch a play where they whisper to each other in case they lose their voices.

Out of interest then, has anyone ever asked one of the board what happened with Lambert? I assume it would be a ''no comment''

Does TDVOC still exist? I remember it being quite big in the late ''90s, early ''00s but almost became such a cliche that it stopped happening.With regard to the current board, there will be absolutely nothing coming out from them, no soundbites, until Hughton is sacked (whenever that may be, if it even happens). Gunn was out of the blue, there were no hints to Holt playing his last game, the Lambert thing was hushed and still is now. Our old board seemed to be a lot of noise and barely any action, this current one is quite different.

Nobody but nobody associated with Norwich wants us to lose this game

Ha ha [Y]

Beaten

For me, Cafu was man of the match. Looked the most likely to make something happen and played a couple of really good balls - one ball to Snoddy was absolute class just before Clark nearly scored an OG. Some players are not performing but Cafu is not one of them

I''d rather they said nothing and cooed over Spurs than analysed our every misplaced pass and said we were rubbish

[quote user="Scooby"][quote user="Chunky Norwich"]Or maybe it''s just time to start playing him on the left? So he can actually start crossing and playing the ball into the danger areas with the foot he actually uses? With regard to his ''poor'' set-plays he scored the most freekicks in the Premier League last season since Ronaldo.[/quote] I wish people would stop harping on about LAST bloody season!! THIS season he has been awful!! Yesterday, as he told Pilks to ''f'' off, we sat saying ''into the wall again mate?'' Sure enough, he didn''t disappoint. EVERY BLOODY TIME FFS!! Hughton should ban him from taking them. And the refs have sussed out his diving, it''s embarrasing. It is definitely time for him to go. Redmond on the right, Pilks on the left next week.[/quote]Whilst I''m not arguing with your logic, I would point out that this season he has played 3 games and last season 30+.

*sniff sniff sniff* This has a faint whiff of bin and troll on it.If, on the very slim chance, you are real, I apologise and suggest you switch allegiance to another soccer team and save yourself the pain. Grant Holt joined Wigan so you should follow them. Isn''t that how American sports work?

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It sounded like Captain Bass had a very good game. It''s also not a bad thing that we ''only'' lost 2-0. It may also - *also* - mean Hughton gives some players a kick up the bottom and looks at his tactics and squad a bit. His post-match interview was not the usual "players were great but other side are better than us". He did sound, relatively, a little annoyed.

But then I don''t get why you''re so quick to derogatorily label The Wolf as the next Dave Striker and start a ''witch hunt'' against the nine million pound ''flop''. Do you have split personality syndrome, Jas?

Or maybe it''s just time to start playing him on the left? So he can actually start crossing and playing the ball into the danger areas with the foot he actually uses? With regard to his ''poor'' set-plays he scored the most freekicks in the Premier League last season since Ronaldo.

Javier''s Deaf Translator: prove your opinion is wrong? oh wait, it''s not a fact. so that''s an idiotic statement to make. we lost to a team that spent over 100m this summer? oh no! the end is neigh''Don''t worry JDT; just a load of moaning whinnies

Judging by your photo, are you sure it hasn''t arrived?

Presumably they couldn''t have got in for the rest of the season - what with throwing their tickets away and all...

It could be Hairy Hatman though

Re: #28; that''s Bunn isn''t it?For what it''s worth on Wikipedia, he''s #11 with Fer #10 but that doesn''t mean anything at all. Also shirt numbers pre-season don''t really tell us much as I remember Whitaker wearing #6 for all of pre-season last year before being given #3.

[quote user="ReadingCanary"]#MOYESOUT[/quote]Ha ha

Bite their hands off. Bassong, Turner, Bennett and Cafu all better than Barnett for that centre-back spot and Hughton also appears to be giving Ayala a crack during pre-season.

I think the whole Worthington/Grant/Roeder/Gunn times really show how lucky we are with our current board who back their manager and play hardball with other clubs; I was a Worthy Outer (although never cheered opposition goals nor booed our players nor the man himself) but with hindsight I just don''t think he was backed at all. Even with the famed signing of Hucks, the board deliberated forever over whether they could afford 750,000 quid and then Carl Moore paid his wages.Before Worthy, Rioch resigned due to a lack of backing and then Hamilton, then Worthy took over as number twos. Worthy wanted Ashton and/or Crouch pre-season but the board wouldn''t fund it. When we went down we sold many of our good players and replaced them with freebies in Thorne, Jarrett, Colin etc. Roeder was/is an absolute tw@t but he went on record saying many times that he wanted to sign players but simply couldn''t get the funds and the board favoured a loan policy, perhaps still clinging on to the myth that Harper and Crouch''s loans were what got the club promoted in 03/04.Incidentally the supporters cheering the QPR goals were not cheering them gleefully, just ironically; making their displeasure known through sarcasm and not vitriol. From memory, the goals we conceded were comical and highly representable of the way we were playing/defending at the time. I''m not condoning what they did but they do appear to be being portrayed as genuinely supporting an opposition.

I found this quite funny in a ''Naarge are gorn tu Hell'' way. As others have said there are so many contradictions;He shouldn''t go to Norwich because we already have two strikers so he should go to QPR where they have four (Mackie, Remy, Johnson and Zamora)He wants to prove himself in the Prem so he should move to the ChampionshipHe''s already proved himself in the Championship because he scored loads of goals for Scunny... in League OneNorwich are the money-orientated club and poor QPR are trying to drive hard bargains and go for young, English talent.

How do people find these posts? Blimey.Anyway, it is interesting to see a time when Ipswich fans used to trawl, read and post on our forum; that hasn''t happened in a while...