Norma Stick

For Martin, read Whittaker.   For Benno, read Pilks (if fit).   For Wes, read Howson (Wes has gone off the boil of late, Howson has always said his preferred position is AM).   For Holt, read Becchio (Holt is a ticking time bomb and it''s time for Hughton to show Becchio was not a panic buy).

What do these 2 do?  I know Lambert had right hand men in Culverhouse and Karsa, but these 2 led training while Lambert did all the other duties required of him.  As far as I''m aware, Hughton conducts training sessions, so I can''t see what worth these 2 bring.  And when you look at their previous coaching records, not exactly pulling up trees.   Are these 2 the problem and not Hughton?  Does he need them?

You must be joking. Getting rid of our 2nd choice striker replacing him with another. A loan from the USA, any better than what we have? I think not. The putting of all eggs in one basket could be a £100m gamble come May

[quote user="mr lister"] Question me all u like. They were in his office so she couldn''t see who it was.   [/quote]   What''s that I smell?  Cat................. Dog............... Cow.................   No, it''s Bullsh!t

Just watched the youtube highlights reel.  Looks a strong lad, reasonable in the air.  But don''t forget, the MLS is not the PL.  He won''t get the sort of space he was afforded in the box in the PL.  And to be honest, there were chances that when he did get space he didn''t tuck away, which he should have done.   Squad player, possibly, is he better than Morison, Jackson, Kane, Martin?  I don''t know, but worth no more than £1/2m IMO.

Personally, I have little confidence in Bunn.  Not a commanding enough presence for me.  I''d rather Rudd in goal in Ruddy''s absence

Players out injured, replacements might be rested in case they get injured.  I think it''ll be a much changed line-up and I can see a win for Peterborough.  2-1

[quote user="GJP"][quote user="CamelFish"] [quote user="GJP"]Injured. Cruciate. Not back for a little while yet.[/quote] Since when?  Don''t remember Hughton saying he''s injured and not shown on Physioroom.   Are you making this up? [/quote] For a few weeks now, I think.   No, I''m not making it up. Why would I? [/quote]   Apologies, just couldn''t see anywhere it had been mentioned.  Obviously not looking that hard.

[quote user="GJP"]Injured. Cruciate. Not back for a little while yet.[/quote] Since when?  Don''t remember Hughton saying he''s injured and not shown on Physioroom.   Are you making this up?

It was Weird Al Jankovic

                                Ruddy   E. Bennett      R. Bennett      Barnett      Garrido                        Howson         Fox           Snodgrass      Hoolahan      Pilkington                              Jackson

That might be the case, GP, I just want to highlight what a bell-end he comes across as

[quote user="Mungo Bumpkin"]If the club banned non-attending season ticket holders (and there were plenty round me) there would be lots of tickets for the little kiddies and orphans who went to last night''s game to see Tottingham. If you''ve got a ticket stub from last night, you get a Spurs ticket. If you haven''t, you dont.[/quote]   Burke.  What about those who would have liked to have gone, but family or work commitments dictated otherwise.  Really haven''t thought it through, have you.

[quote user="Mungo Bumpkin"]And tickets should only be available to those who went to the Scunny and Donny games. All others should be barred. Or perhaps £10 a ticket for the "real fans", £50 for the armchair brigade whio''ll turn up for this in their droves. Somehow I think we''ll get rather more "fans" rediscovering their love for midweek cup games.[/quote]   All others should be barred?  Define a real fan.  What about those "real fan" season ticket holders who didn''t turn up.  What about those "real fans" who can''t get to home matches, for whatever reason.  You don''t have to go to matches to be a "real fan", and if people tuen up for the Spurs game in their droves, then the club benefits.   Oh, well done you for going to the Scunny and Donny games.  Top effort

[quote user="Bethnal Yellow and Green"] [quote user="Wiz"]Send him back then ASAP.[/quote] Doesn''t really make any difference - Norwich will be liable for his wages for the entire season no matter what the injury (subject to any clauses in the loan arrangement of course) and it''s not like anyone else can be brought in as cover.   I would imagine he''ll go back to Tottenham for treatment there - but Norwich will be paying his wages until January at least. [/quote]   And you know that how?  I appreciate that you might have your finger on the pulse due to the nature of your work, but does that mean that you are privvy to what is in individual''s contracts, be they loan or otherwise?   I suggest that you are making assumptions.

I don''t think that Hughton is the problem.  I am of the opinion that it is his backroom staff, Calderwood and Trollope who are the root cause of the problem.   I know the buck stops with Hughton, but he obviously trusts Calderwood and Trollope to run the drills in training, but it is obvious that what they are doing isn''t wholly working.  Sure, we won''t concede as many as under Lambert, but 2 goals in 5 games is a worry.  It says that we''re not incisive enough in the final 1/3rd.   So no, Hughton to stay, backroom staff to go.

[quote user="Steady On..."]Lamberts better than Hughton because we didn''t win yesterday YAWN, go and listen to some emo music with the rest of the depressives.[/quote] What an absolutely ridiculous post.  Hasn''t taken anything on board.  Idiot

Couldn''t agree more.  No adventure, midfield stifled and forward momentum sporadic.  Holt was awful though yesterday.  Barely got off the ground when competing for a header, can trap a ball further than I can kick one and when he did get to lay a ball off it was straight to a West Ham player.   Hughton has certainly made us a harder unit to break down but better teams than West Ham will work it out and when they do, we''re in trouble as 2 goals in 4 games, and having played 2 of the poorer sides in the division spells trouble.   With the run of fixtures we have coming up, we could be fighting a losing battle by the end of October.

I was standing in the Holte end that day, somewhere close to the middle that separated the Norwich and Everton fans.   I remember seeing on the scoreboard at the far right of the ground as I was looking, which said that the match at Hillsborough had been abandoned.  I turned to a copper in the middle of the two sets of fans and asked if he knew what was going on, to which he replied that he didn''t but guessed it would be the "Scouse fans rioting".  How wrong can you be.   The journey home was very quiet once we had found out what actually happened.  In fact, barely a word was spoken between the 6 of us in the car that day.  The result at Villa Park seemed irrelevant.

I''m no good at these, but a couple of lines; feel free to finish off the verse :   There once was a striker called Robins The manager''s daughter he was kn0bbin

[quote user="peter2704"]Got all bar the left winger!! ARGH![/quote] Was also a binner

[quote user="Taiwan Canary"]With Pardew banished to the stands for our visit, surely our chances of 3 points are increased? Come on city![/quote]   Why, was Pardew playing?

I got the impression that it was in general, not aimed at him particularly

Just listened to Alex Tettey on Soccer Saturday.  They had interviewed him after training at Colney.   To paraphrase, he said "there was no structure, just go out and play" and compared this to his training with Rennes where he said there was emphasis on possession.   No structure.......................go out and play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   What the bloody hell are Hughton, Calderwood and Trollope running at Colney?  A playground?   What are these clowns doing?

[quote user="thefutureisyellow"][quote user="CamelFish"] [quote user="Sim086"]What a crap signing so inder-whelmsed its true. this idiot manager will send us down. Bloody harry kane. great![/quote] Totally agree.  Harry who?  Would rather Vaughan stayed and fought for a place.   Absolute garbage.  I''m having £100 on us at 5/4 to be relegated.  Hughton hasn''t got a clue [/quote] "absolute garbage" When I read remarks like that about signing a young striker who has huge potential and could do really well for us, it just makes me think that you must be a very sad individual.[/quote] I was going to have money on us being relegated before Kane was signed.  I was waiting to see what transfers were made before I placed my bet.   Why loan in Kane when we could have kept Vaughan.   And if you want to make personal remarks, send me a pm and we can have a chat about it.  IN PERSON