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[quote user="Citizen Journalist Foghorn"]Eagle is now 21 years old 3 starts 7 subs for city.  I have only seen him play on a handful of occasions, suffice to say I wasn''t particuarly impressed.  I''m sure those making the decisions see something in him worth keeping on, and it won''t be costing us much cash.  What is the problem?  Hopefully he will be loaned out next season and show his worth. [/quote]   I have seen his 1st team appearances and been to many reserve games. Eagle has good technical ability but is painfully slow for a wide player and this will get worse the older he gets. He is very lightweight as well. The low number of 1st team apps up to present when he is 21 tells the story - not good enough and has had long enough to prove himself here.   The club has paid a heavy price in giving the clearly not good enough Ian Henderson and Ryan Jarvis both 2 years longer than they deserved while players with more potential messrs Hayes and Crow were not given less than half as long to prove themselves. I hope we don''t have the embarrassment of watching Tom Miller establish himself at Rangers in the years to come!

Shame after how promising he looked last season, but he has to realise that one good season doesn''t constitute a good pro football career!   One more year, one more chance to prove himself!

All 3 must stay simple as!   Hucks has still got it, that extra dimension. All this rubbish about keeping him and using him as a super sub next season is hilarious. - Do some think our squd is going to be so full of quality that a fully fit and resigned Hucks would only make the bench!! - get real if hes here and fit he''ll be playing!   Fotheringham - After not looking the part last season, this time around he has been one of our best players. Great leader, never say die atitude, hungry for success and great link up play passing. To replace him with a like for like talent we''d have to spend £1M minimum!   Docherty - The perrenial scapegoat at Carrow Road which is so unfair. For 3  months after Taylor left he was outstanding. Yes he can have some stinkers and doesn''t score enough goals from corners or frree kicks but is still a better than average CB at championship level. If he was as good as what some people think he should be then he would be playing for a better club than Norwich. People raved about Pearce but at this moment in time the Doc is the better bet!   The only ones who should be leaving are Dublin (retiring), the loanees and the deadwood who can''t get in the 1st team squad!

The club have done nothing of the sort!   I''d agree that the board have held back at vital times this being when we should of signed Peter Crouch at the start of the Prem season and not signing Taylor in January but I''m glad we didn''t sign Cotterill or Sharp for £2M cause now that would really be sloshing your money away!   Anyone that thinks that NCFC can exist successfully without any other sources of income other than the football is living in a very blinkered world!   The club is in a great shape except for the football team which has been down to keeping Worthy too long and appointing his successor who was not up to the job!   The club has got more money than they make out, but now they really have to back Roeder and at the same time repay the huge supports amazing loyalty!

The odds are on Cureton staying as we need to build the squad so can''t let go our top scorer even if hes going through a confidence crisis at the moment!   I expect that when it comes to it only the cr*p in the reserves, the loanees and Dublin will be the ones leaving!    

I sincerely hope not!   Eagles not good enough and never will be!   Along with the Jarvis bros, Halliday and Cave Brown Mr Eagle should be shown the door! 

I''d give Martin one more year to prove himself!

[quote user="ryank"][quote user="scott"] Huckerby by a mile!   Eadie was good but take away his pace and he was limited. And he was something of a ''sicknote'' always injured - We got rid at the right time!   Hucks maybe seen as something of a primadonna but hes not had many injuries, sweated blood for the Canary cause and has much more skill than Eadie ever did! [/quote] Cant the same be said for huckerby though? (about pace) [/quote]   .Yes obviously Hucks would be limited by a lack of pace but hes a better dribbler than Eadie and can also play on the right hand side and turn both ways - Eadie was very one footed - only could kick with his left foot!   These facts added to Hucks better injury record and Hucks having probably the best part of his career at Norwich makes him the better player!

[quote user="jas the barclay king"] the linnets could do with some help in the conference south next season... send him there... jas :) [/quote]   No way!   I want to see King''s Lynn progress even further!

Gibbs best two games have been the last two home games where he has displayed some good passing skills and tryed to get stuck in more, but still way to lightweight to be deemed good enough for this Division. He may get better in the future but next season I''d rather have players who are good good enough NOW and not be just a nursery for big clubs that gives out of their depth young players the benefit of the doubt just cause they come from Arsenal or another big name.

Huckerby by a mile!   Eadie was good but take away his pace and he was limited. And he was something of a ''sicknote'' always injured - We got rid at the right time!   Hucks maybe seen as something of a primadonna but hes not had many injuries, sweated blood for the Canary cause and has much more skill than Eadie ever did!

Seems a strange on that a boy whos not deemed good enough for us is deemed good enough by a club that get twice the crowds we do and are in the Champions league on a regular basis!   I know for a fact that personalities come into things as in all walks of life.   People question about guys like Paul Hayes who is now a reasonable Championship player, but I know for a fact that he had a fall out over something and refused to apologise while we stuck with the never to make the grade Ryan Jarvis just cause hes a yes sir, no sir sort of boy!

They were safe and didn''t care so therefore only came for the ''jolly''!   Apart from the ''jolly'' part the exact same could be said of the QPR team!

Evans - Yes please!   Bertrand - Yes please!   Pearce - If we don''t sign Martin Taylor then he would be useful!   Gibbs - Only if he builds himself up more, cause at the moment while hes got obvious good technical ability his lack of physique means hes not good enough!   Taylor - Most definately, should of been signed in January!    

[quote user="ryank"] To help produce the next Ryan Jarvis or Ian Henderson? or to actually help produce a few average players but to see them leave without a chance (Sinclair + Hayes). To fund one of the most unsuccessful youth systems in English foortball of the last ten years? No thanks.   [/quote]   I can see the point but hopefully the club would of learned from its mistakes and has got a manager in Glen Roeder with much experience of youth Academy set ups and we might start going in the right direction, so don''t give up hope! 

Roeder deserves enormous credit for turning us around from our desperate position in October. But he made things harder than they needed to be from the end of January onwards when his constant tinkering of a previously recent successfull team by playing with different formations, picking players out of position, dropping players to play some mainly woefull loanees all of which meant we had to sweat on our Championship status for longer than what it should of been.    

Generally he was one of the better ones I''ve seen this season but he got the sending off badly wrong cause it was the keeper who fouled Evans and should of rightly been sent off and not the defender who didn''t touch Evans!   Not that I''m complaining cause we got the result we wanted!

We must keep a track on the situation cause he''d be a great permanant signing!

Roeder deserves enormous credit for turning things around from where we were in October but he made things hard for himself from the end of January onwards by constantly tinkering, playing players out of position and picking lesser players ahead of better more established players!   Now its a clean slate and he''ll have a full summer to build the squad and next season to see if he can step us up to serious challengers and I hope he does exactly that!        

Hucks is far from beiing a spent force, has maintained his wonderful levels of fitness, would still be a major player for us next season, we wouldn''t be able to afford a replacement of a similar ability and I''ve never seen anyone quite like him play in a Norwich shirt not even in all the top flight glory years.   Hucks is a well known ''dramaqueen'' and has no doubt been stirring things up when he knew all along that talks would only start after we knew which league we''d be playing in next season!   If hes not signed on again it will be a terrible injustice and would heap pressure on Roeder if we have another struggle next season!

Bet she''d of had different opinion had she known of his large salary!   Another person who unjustifiably doesn''t rate Shacks!

[quote user="ryank"] [quote user="Citizen Journalist Foghorn"]I don''t feel there is any doubt that we will be releasing Ryan Jarvis as soon as the season ends. [/quote] Well just in case there is. Jarvis and Henderson sum up everything that has been wrong with our youth team for the last decade. With the exception of Paul Hayes and Dean Sinclair who are both now playing in the champs (and should have been given a chance), and Jason Shackell, who else have we produced since Craig Bellamy and Robert Green? Does anybody know how much it costs per year to run the academy and how much we have gained from selling players in the last ten years? it must have cost at least £3million to run the academy in that decade, money better spent on buying first team players. [/quote]   Precisely!   We could of had this conversation 2 years ago about Jarvis and I''d of said the same thing. - Great technical ability but no physical presense whatsoever or fight, which means he won''t go far. His brother is exactly the same!   Henderson also apart from a brief spell in our title year never looked like making it yet he and Jarvis were given more chances than others who have gone onto to do much better than Jarvis and Henderson ever will!   People knock Shackell but since the days of Green, Russell and Bellamy hes been our only success story from the very expensive academy!   I was slated on here a while back for saying that Gibbs wasn''t up to it. Hes looked better in the last 2 games but is a long way from being a competant Championship player due to his lack of fight and physique. The other boy from Reading we had Henry was even worse! Thats precisely the problem, many fans think that a few nice passes makes someone a good player but without the physique and will to win theres no chance!

[quote user="Fellas"]Hux or Gibbs? Russell or Gibbs? Chadwick/Croft or Gibbs? [/quote]   Precisely!   Makes you wonder whether Roeder had his hand forced in having to play the BOY which is the main problem with him trying to play mens football. Gibbs has been totally out of his depth at times though you can see by his last 2 performances that he has ability but needs desperately to build himself up as ability on its own will not ensure a good pro career.   Believe me I''ve been one of his biggest critics, he has played games in front of better players, too many fans have given him the benefit of the doubt cause hes from Arsenal and Roeders tinkering with a winning side from the end of January onwards ensured we had this recent struggle to get clear of the relegation battle!    

Darren Huckerby is still a class player who can still be a major asset to this club next season!   He must be signed on for at least another year!    

If we''d of bought Crouch for £2million at the start of the Premiership season thens its likely we''d of stayed up if he had a similar season to what he had at Southampton that year. We wanted him but we''re only prepared to pay £1.25M.   Bad misjudgement -  we could of got that money back by staying up and by selling him for £8M like Southampton did!