Lets look at the candidates...

[Lets look at the candidates...]

CURBS is out of a job because in hisown words he is waiting for the right premier league club, seems unlikely norwich are that but no harm offering an enquiry to find this out for certain.

[Lets look at the candidates...]

that''s harsh on robins, of course rotherham are not setting the league alight they were in administration and had a massive points penalty, they would be in the playoffs without that penalty and on next to no budget.

[Odds on next manager]

god no souness was a mess at newcastle, I once witnessed a training session when I was working at a local paper up there it was stuff out of the 60s coaching manual.

[Odds on next manager]

yeah that was me I mentioned robins who is favurite with ladbrokes, I think the bookies probably know as much as us, ie little.

[Lets look at the candidates...]

here''s a list of the bookies prices9/2        Mark Robins 6/1        Aidy Boothroyd 7/1        Ian Holloway 8/1        Alan Pardew 8/1        Darren Ferguson 8/1        Gary McAllister 9/1        Mark Bowen 10/1        Iain Dowie 10/1        Alan Curbishley 10/1        Paul Ince 12/1        Peter Taylor 12/1        Malky Mackay 14/1        Dion Dublin 14/1        Lawrie Sanchez 14/1        Paul Jewell 14/1        Steve Cotterill 33/1        John Ward for me robins,ferguson, boothroyd and curbs should be the only candidates, unless we go until the end of season appointment then someone like ward or dowie will do short term.

[If Roeder Goes.......]

why would johnson or martinez want to leave acluber higher in the table makes no sense.  yeah agreed someone who is doing well in league 1 or league 2 a young hungry manager

[EDP Text Coverage?]

the bbc text is even worse than watching the club live, dull and no insight whatsoever, the text thing coverage thing is really good and is widely popular.

[Re: How do you post a new topic ?]

I always struggled with replying anyone any idea how I do that?

checks to see if there is a chocolate bar called that.

[Can we have our derby back to a sensible kick off petition!!!]

sorry arthur think it''s where it is for good reason sadly some pople (alleged fans) can''t be trusted.  Football vioelnce is much down but you you can''t tell me it is totally gone we should be grateful it isn''t on at 11.15 like the welsh derby. beside it was just on at 3 it would get buroied by all the other games.

[WHO IS NEXT?]

di matteo for me, young, hungry coach who is making a strong start at mk dons. or maybe even young ferguson a great management win record and has peterborough åushing for a second succesive promotion.

also billy davies would be under strong consideration, did a fine job at preston and derby and has strong league experience.

realistic targets, will they work who knows? but at least they tick more boxes than most other candidates.

[Who would say yes to worthy return?]

and he''s doing a marvellous job at northern ireland isn''t he, there was a reason he left in the first place. we were 17th when he left. the next move needs to be a positive forward step with a new man given a new try hopefully with a new board behind him.

[Question for those who used Ladbrokes yesterday]

First goalscorer - Stakes are refunded on any player who takes no part

in the match or who comes on as substitute after the first goal has

been scored. Own goals do not count for first goalscorer purposes and

are ignored for settlement purposes. On some matches the first

goalscorer betting may be limited to one specific team.that''s the official rules of ladbrokes betting.  I have a feeling that non starter pay out on kennedy may have been a mix up.  I''ve never heard of paying out on players who go off injured unless it is a special concession.

[Match Fixing - Norfolk MP to ask question in Parliament]

logically speaking it would take something amazing for 2 whole teams to fix a match, it is a logistical and financial minefield. So your looking for a few key individuals who could make mistakes or miss chances that could influence the game, I think that''s what we are looking at, who the individuals or are is really impossible to guess at.

[At the end of the game did anyone else notice ?]

tell you what paint me yellow wished I''d asked you for the lottery numbers tonight seeing as your all knowing of things beforehand. IN that way I wouldn''t have to sit around looking at the smug morons with all their told you so comments that are really constructive at the moment.

you know what people thought sibierski was good when he came because they had seen him play when he looked good, when he netted in the premier league. saw lots of him under roeder and newcastle and for a half a season he was quality, now I agree he''s looked rubbish since he got here (minus the plymouth game) but that doesn''t mean it''s c ase of told you so. I don''t think we can get at roeder and say oh told you he wouldn''t work, how did he or we know, there''s not a purchase I can say roeder hasn''t made that I thought that was a bad call. He''s brought in players who haven''t hit it off and are played out of position if any fingers need to be pointed it''s there. But noone should be smug as to come on here and say they knew how a transfer would turn out when they didn''t have a clue and still don''t have a clue as to how it will work long term.

[Leroy Lita joins on 1-month Loon]

is what we have working up front at the moment? no so fair play to roeder for trying something new, it may come off it may not but I don''t believe there is a better alternative out there with all the restrictions we have and that most certainly includes alternatives in our squad,.

[Sibierski on loan]

especially for that time of the morning:)

[Sibierski on loan]

jas your hillarious, inentionally i''m guessing as well:)

[Second best again.]

I''m not sure if any of you moaners have actually been watching football, I had the joy of watching sibierski under roeder in really what was a poor side and he was excellent and that was in the premiership.  He is good in the air, nice touch and has more footballing talent than a 100 million john stead''s.  It''s probably the precise reason I neevr come on this board much as idiots just sit around and whinge at anything our manager does.  If people are so unhappy i''ll happy take their season ticket off their hand, I''ll come back in a few months time and see just how many of you are prepared to whinge about sibierski then. Maybe when we see him on the pitch we can start to make some reasoned weighted rational judgements.

[Sieberski - 34 years old - 7 goals in last 56 games]

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics” is part of a phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and popularized in the United States by Mark Twain.  I''m not sure who you were expecting to sign but clearly it was someone like van nistelrooy or drogba.  Sibierski may not have a great goalscoring record but as someone who watched him under roeder at newcastle I know how effective he was and that was in the prem, I can''t begin to imagine what he can do in the championship  He is smart and intelligent, good in the air, links the play up wll and can teach the youngsters a great deal.  If you want to judge a player on stats then you can do that , I like most other fans will be judging him where it counts on the pitch. This really is the best signing we could have got on the day and seeing as he was on the subs bench for wigan at the weekend hats off to roeder for pulling off such a coup.

[The BBC debate]

to be honest guys I have little sympathy if they dont have the rights they dont have the rights, it''s an online issue.  They can''t provide you with content they don''t have.  It is two seperate rights, the online rights and the local radio rights. one belongs to bcc one belongs to premium tv. I''m sure the bbc would love to provide the content but they''ve been sold down the river with the rights going to premium tv.I don''t like but the bbc are as much a victim of premium tv''s uselessness as we are.

[The Problems Last Night]

I think pattison was the weird sub when we needed creativity and had chadwick on the bench.  I just hope that was something roeder had in his system as an idea and we found out it hasn''t worked and it wasn''t in a league game.by the way surely archibald henville would have been the logical centre back choice.

[Deserved loss? Where's the truth?]

sorry about that fella didn''t mean to cut and paste so much if anyone can edit that up as my computer is being weird.still plenty of the season to go least we showed some signs as in comparison to most of last seasons where we showed no signs of life.

[Deserved loss? Where's the truth?]

according to sporting life it was ahrsh on us and coleman didn''t seem to happy with his side either so he must have thought they got out of jail.

CHAMPIONSHIP NEWS

McKenzie celebrates making it 2-0. COLEMAN UNHAPPY DESPITE VICTORY E-mail Article Print-Friendly Subscribe to RSS Feed Post to del.icio.us Facebook Click here to bet on football with Sky Bet! Click here for our special Transfer Centre!Click here for more football headlines! Click here for football Text Alerts! Coventry manager Chris Coleman was less than thrilled with his side''s display this afternoon despite seeing them open their Coca-Cola Championship campaign with a 2-0 win over Norwich at the Ricoh Arena. Leon McKenzie''s 100th career goal against his former gave the Sky Blues the perfect start to their season. The forward, who missed most of last season through injury, tapped in an 85th-minute clincher from two-yards after a Clinton Morrison effort bounced off the crossbar. His goal sealed a win after Coventry had taken the lead in the 46th minute through Elliott Ward when he converted a dubious penalty. The result was harsh on Norwich, however, who had outplayed Coventry for most of the game and spurned several good opportunities. Coleman said: "It wasn''t a good performance but the desire and will to win were good. We were desperate at times and we''re a much better team than we showed today. "I''m delighted for Leon. He came on and did well and was unlucky not score with his first touch. "I thought Norwich should have had a penalty and maybe we should not have had one.

[i was so optomistic.....]

couldn''t agree more, spurs will embarass many sides with there slick football not least a side in the league below who had a defence that had hardly played alongsideeach other. Hull lost 4-0 to crewe at the weekend, celtic lost to cardiff, it''s pre season this stuff happens.  I''ll reserve the right to panic until a good month or two into the season when the side is settled and we see how it shapes up.

[*******Norwich V Spurs match thread*******]

I would guess the world''s smallest 4-5-1 with cureton up front.marshall gkostemobor rbbertrand lbstefanovic and omozusi cbpattinson, fotheringham and clingan in the middlecroft and hoola hoop out wideand the giant jamie cureton using his height up front to win the knock on''s.something like that.