chrisr1606

I would guess they will put something out quite late tonight and hope that it is missed under the more postitive appointments of Parks and those in the academy.

I wouldn''t say that anyone playing it in the Premiership would get beaten.  Didn''t Liverpool play a 3-4-3 at times last season?  I thought they did to accomodate Suarez when he came back from his suspension.  Wigan played it as well under Matrtinez when they went on that run towards the end of the season that they stayed up.  All depends on your players and the tactics you use within the system.

It''s how formations and tactics have evolved through the years to reflect the current trend, back from when you would have 2 flat banks of 4 with wingers whipping in crosses to a target man in the box.  It goes back further than that but I think that was when a ''basic'' 4-4-2 was popular.  It''s probably better or maybe more accurate to talk about it as a ''mechanism'' to either attack or defend so you''re looking at it in more depth and what each player is doing but that''s not as easy as just saying 4-2-3-1.  It gets even more complicated as it starts to clouds players'' position - if you start calling the deeper ''1'' behind the striker in a 4-4-1-1 another striker in a 4-4-2 does that make someone like Hoolahan a striker or an attacking midfielder?Jonathon Willson''s book ''Inverting the Pyramid'' is a good read if anyone wanted to read a bit more about it, and explains it a lot better than I ever could!  Although he did predict the 4-6-0 to be the next big formation and evolution in the process where it seems currently there are more teams opting for going back to playing a back 3.

Where does the 10k average come from? How deep into a squad do you go? You''ve got some huge outliers be it the likes of loza and the Murphy''s or Rhodes and zigic. Is an average really a fair representation?

It''s a bit hard to use the POTS as a defence for Snodgrass when Carlo Nash had the most votes by a landslide

Although they brought the points system in at the start of last season most games went on general sale. I would guess and say other than Ipswich, teams around London and possibly Rotherham (new ground for most?) I can''t see there being much trouble getting away tickets, barring any promotions run by the club.

[quote user="Kangaroo Court"]http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/fulham-eye-leeds-striker-ross-3695404[/quote]Can I just check, we are all voting No on the bit at the end right?

Judging from the interview he gave towards the end of last season about how tired he was and that he wanted the season to be over, you would think that jetting around the world to play yet more games would be the last thing he wants.

Regardless of personnel the whole New approach and set up is quite intriguing and I don''t think we''ve ever seen anything like it at Carrow Road before. I''m looking forward to seeing how it all plays out.

That''s a clever and astute signing for me. They need a bigger squad to cope with Europe, he probably won''t expect to play every game but will give them competition up front and offers them something different to what they have. All for a reasonable price.

Does he need contacts? Just reading between the lines of what Adams and McNally have said, but won''t the scouting network find the players and McNally will continue to do the negotiating. All he needs is an opinion on the current squad, assess the gaps and let the head of recruitment know what he needs to fill them.

His LinkedIn says he''s still coach at Ipswich

I always thought Eadie was hinting at Lennon with his ''somebody that has never stepped in side Colney'' comment.

If it''s also true about Moody then how does it work. If we''re employing a technical director to help ensure continuity in playing the ''Norwich way'' but then the manager knows more about what that is than the technical director. Surely as we''ve taken the pairing together we will be playing the ''Cardiff way''. I find it a bit odd, possibly because I don''t really know what it is he''s suppose to do. Is Moody genuinely the best person we could get for this role or is he just convenient? The obvious positive being he and Malky are happy working together, but at some point for the appointment to be successful there will be a split. If he follows Malky to his next job it sort of defeats the object of his appointment.

[quote user="breadman"]It will be Lennon, agreeing compo with celtic has just taken a bit longer than DM expected[/quote] That''s what I had thought could be the case, or that we are doing the gentlemanly thing by giving Celtic a little time to get the wheels moving on finding a replacement. Could be trying to sweeten any compo deal because of that Norwich/Celtic family rubbish, especially if Lennon wants to bring players or backroom staff with him.

It''s something I never thought I''d suggest, but if Derby don''t get up through the playoffs what about Steve McClaren? He supposedly revolutionised Man U''s training facilities and has always been up on the latest technology that can be implemented. He did fairly well at Middlesbrough as manager, winning the league cup and getting to the final of the UEFA cup. He also won the league with Twente, which was quite a young squad and largely unfancied. Then this season he started at QPR helping Redknapp as assistant before going to Derby. QPR''s performance dropped off when he left, while derby surge up the table and finish ahead of them in third, with Chris Martin bagging 23 goals in the process. His time with England is the biggest blot on his record, and he can sometimes make the odd faux pas with the media. His time at Wolfsburg and second spell at Twente weren''t successful either but you would hope he''s learnt a bit from those experiences and at least he had the balls to try his hand abroad in the first place. I''m not sure how easy it would be to release him from his contract but we should be an attractive prospect for him to continue to rebuild his reputation. Personally I think there are a lot worse options out there.

Bassong''s not out of contract, he signed a new deal at the start of the year. Think it was 4 years.

Does a change in management need a majority vote or unanimous? Seem to remember McNally saying both at the time of Hughton''s appointment and sacking that it was a unanimous decision.

Has anyone else heard anything or see the way he left after the game Sunday?  A friend of mine told me he wasn''t too happy, wheel spinning as he drove out of the car park.

I don''t think we''ll be forced to sell anyone for financial reasons. All long term contracts go to the end of the parachute payments were we not to be promoted. I''d be shocked if they did''t work potentially reduced budgets into them.

Not over yet

Not over yet

I''m fairly confident in saying that this must be the first time Steven Whittaker has ever been described as a pretty boy.

[quote user="Surfer"]I wonder when they last lost two in a row ?[/quote]End of last season? Us on the last day of the league and then Wigan in the cup final.

Not really much different to last year though is it? And we were recently coming out of a 10 game unbeaten run then.