Petriix
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This is a bit of a sensitive topic for me. I had a very good friend who lived very near to the ground so I was able park close by as well as enjoy a pre-match cuppa most home games. Unfortunately he passed away last year. The last time I saw him was on a match day where we enjoyed a meal in Yellows together.
Obviously the parking situation is insignificant compared to losing a friend but I often think of him as I'm scratching around for an alternative parking solution. Today will be the same.
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It's almost as if spending huge sums on players doesn't really work for us and we're better off developing our own...
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19 hours ago, Nuff Said said:The correct response is "exactly".
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Who are they?
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7 hours ago, Hook's-Walk-Canary said:Renewable energy needs shed-loads of taxpayer cash to survive, and when the subsidies are taken away it goes to the wall…
Electricity is 20% of our energy supply. The rest comes from fossil fuels, and will for the foreseeable future.
Renewables provide 40% of that 20% which is 8% of our energy needs - A decent proportion of that 8% comes from burning wood pellets, which emit more carbon dioxide than coal...
Go figure...
That's nonsense. New solar and wind projects haven't been subsidised for years. I'll never understand why people feel the need to make stuff up to support their agenda.
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12 minutes ago, Pugin said:If ever an issue demanded a cross-party approach, it is Climate Change.
But no, clearly Labour and Tory will use it as a political shuttlecock as we stagger towards real world crisis.
It proves that nothing is above party politics and that those in the political arena are shameful, self-seeking inadequates. it is appalling beyond explanation.
Let's not get caught up in false equivalence. The tories have been an unmitigated disaster in everything they've done in 13 years of power, not least trebling the national debt while giving us absolutely nothing to show for it. Yes, Labour are pretty rubbish but, at this point, I'd take 'pretty rubbish' over 'utterly reprehensible'.
Labour do have some plans for a green economy although these have apparently been paused until they are 'affordable'. But Clive Lewis is actually one of the most progressive MPs so, at least in Norwich South, we're well represented. I am, however, deeply skeptical about the central (right wing) core of the party.
Unfortunately sometimes the best choice is to vote for the least bad lizards.
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This window in isolation is not bad at all. But we're still trying to recover from the U two summers ago. And, because we failed our GCSEs, we're now only doing a random BTEC and hoping to get onto some performing arts HND course and, ultimately, joining the circus. Yay!
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2 minutes ago, Yellow Fever said:I'm much happier with this squad than last year. Much more workman like and no overhyped players. All have something to prove amd hopefully the team this season and its character will when settled be greater than the sum of its parts.
Challenging the autos so top 6.
The trouble is we need professional footballers not workmen. They're not digging up the road (I hope).
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Head says 8th
Heart says 13th
I'm just not feeling it with this squad. Not enough firepower and a period of transition required before it starts to click. I'll be happy if we're in the top half.
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I think the biggest problem will be trying to remain patient and open minded while we work out our best starting 11 and the players learn how to play together in a competitive setting. I still see a lot of over expectation on here with people assuming we'll be competing for the top 6. Before we can contemplate that, we need to find our feet having basically been in free fall at the end of last season. Fans getting on the players' backs early could totally undermine the efforts to bring Wagner's tactics to fruition.
The underlying concern that some of us have is that it takes a certain level of vision and skill to convert a high turnover into a goal. It's all very well pressing high and winning the ball, but you have to be able to pick that final pass and make the crucial run behind. I fear that we are filling those advanced positions with players who lack the ability to create and score goals. I very much hope to be wrong about this.
Whatever happens we will have to do our best to get behind the team, especially if it doesn't start well.
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I'll always retain hope that he'll be given a run of games in the team. I think there's a top level player hiding in there, severely lacking in confidence and suffering massively from having played minimal competitive football while the club has been falling apart around him.
If only that penalty had gone in...
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1 hour ago, canarybubbles said:I think there's an argument for starting the runners, to keep the game tight and wear out the opposition. But once the game gets more stretched because players are getting tired, I think fresh creative players can make all the difference. In a way that seemed to be what happened today - that the creative players came on in the last 40 and turned the game around.
That just about sounds like a plan I could get behind. Let's hope we've actually got enough firepower to score the goals.
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3 hours ago, Badger said:They play in different positions, in different systems for different teams - a bit like comparing orange production in Helsinki to vodka consumption in Nottingham - meaningless!
If anything, Onel plays the more attacking role.
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6 minutes ago, Indy said:I think we really need to move on, proof is in the pudding as they say, so let’s take stock after 23 games, see how Mumba’s stats line up against our own players then.
As said the reason behind the transfer is going to be multiple reasons including Mumba having a great season there, getting game time and being wanted.
We will have our wingers to compare against him and in our squad should look far better than Mumba.
Great idea. Let's revisit this thread...later (I was going to say 'at Christmas' but it will undoubtedly be resurrected whenever the lad plays) and see how he's getting on compared to the youngsters we have retained. I'll quietly wager 100 Pinkun kudos points that Mumba will have more goal involvements than Onel.
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1 minute ago, hogesar said:I dont think we really struggled to score goals when we had a fit team under Wagner.
But the goals we did score almost exclusively involved more talented players than those remaining at the club today.
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6 minutes ago, Dr Greenthumb said:He just won the league with a. Champions league team, he can’t be that bad
I have only watched him play for Norwich. In the times I saw him play I watched him repeatedly fail to play simple passes that would/should have created goals. I've seen enough of him to believe that he won't improve on that deficiency.
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1 hour ago, Google Bot said:To be fair, we've not even seen him within a Wagner team yet so I don't see what advantage in jumping the gun is.
PP has looked clueless in the past and yet come on much better, citing the instructions under Wagner being a lot clearer than he's received in the past. You can see the work that Wagner has done with Onel in regards to sustaining his energy across the game and thinking about his final ball.
Why not just keep an open mind? It can't be that important to slate a player and then be proved right on a forum can it?
I'm totally open-minded and would absolutely love to be wrong. However, I've seen plenty from all three of the players you mention to lead me to the conclusion that they are significantly worse than the previous incumbents of those midfield positions who have now left the club.
I found Rashica an infuriating player to watch because he seems to never want to pass the ball, even to an unmarked teammate. For me, passing is the single most important thing in football.
A player should almost always be looking for how to create the next pass to progress the ball, exploit the space and create an opening. If there's no opening then they should be looking to retain possession and engineer a positional mistake from the opposition.
Players like Rashica, Placheta and Hernandez all like to get their heads down and run with the ball. They tend to take far too many touches and lack awareness of the movement and spaces around them. Dribbling with the ball seems to please the crowd, but it's a very low-percentage option. It's far more productive to pass the ball and then move.
Having won the Championship twice recently by playing a passing game, followed by watching the utter dross that's followed as we've abandoned that style, you'll have to forgive me for being more than a little skeptical about how these players who weren't very good before are suddenly supposed to deliver.
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17 minutes ago, Yellow Green Army said:Serious option for us???? 😂😂😂
He is our player for goodness sake. If Gala or any other team don’t meet our valuation then he will be in our match day squad, make no mistakes about that!
It's not about who owns him, it's just that he's proven himself incapable of playing to anything close to the required standard. While I think he probably possess the technical ability, he's so completely lacking in a footballing brain that he can't link up play or create opportunities. If we bring him back into the team then it's yet another step backwards (in my opinion).
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It doesn't really matter how strong and powerful we are if we can't control or pass the ball. This is undoubtedly the least skillful squad we've had since we were relegated to League One.
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3 hours ago, Branston Pickle said:Are you clamouring for us to sign any of the other L1 ‘team of the season’ and/or do you even know who any of them are?
Yes, it's fairly obvious that a club of our stature should be signing and developing the best young players from the leagues below us. Remind me again where we signed Maddison, Godfrey and Aarons from. It's exactly what we've done so successfully over the last decade.
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This is incredibly disappointing for a number of reasons but the biggest issue is that it's yet another step in our disastrous transition away from skilful/technical towards physical ('pragmatic') football. It's Webber continuing to chase his losses two seasons after he gambled his house on red and blew the lot.
The hope that many of us retain for the medium term is entirely based on bringing through exciting young players like Mumba. Selling him removes that hope and leaves us with the stark reality of a squad bereft of ability and confidence. Where does our future lie if we're going to let players like this go?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Plymouth have a far better season than us. We seem to be rapidly becoming a basket case of a club. I've been calling for patience but we need something to be positive about. As others have said, we should be signing players like this, not selling them.
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Some excellent replies and debate here. Well done for keeping it in good spirits. It's great when differing opinions can be explored with decorum.
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2 hours ago, canarydan23 said:I'm not sure there is anything remiss about discussing the prospect of sacking a manager who ended the previous season with 1 win in 11, and zero home goals since February, particularly when said manager was in charge of one of the most valuable squads in the league.
I think you're confusing the terms 'valuable' and 'expensive'. Our squad was definitely the latter but mostly not the former.
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1 hour ago, The Real Buh said:You could have just said “it’s the fans fault”
have a great morning, Stu.
You could have tried to read some of of the words I wrote. It's hardly pro-Webber. I'm not blaming the fans for anything in the past, just suggesting that the biggest current issue is that there's a collective sense of entitlement which doesn't reflect reality. The reality being that Webber totally ****ed up the squad so now we're back to square one(ish).
33 minutes ago, Dean Coneys boots said:we lack investment
Yes (sort of). But stop pretending that new ownership = sustained investment. There are many clubs which have been bought, laden with debt, failed on the pitch and fallen into decline. Just take a brief look at League One.
Webber should have understood that his hands were tied and not tried to assemble a new squad for a new system on an impossible small budget. It's a bit like selling a 3 bedroom house in Norwich and trying to buy somewhere in London with the only thing you can afford being a run-down one bedroom flat in a shady estate.
The truth is that our budget actually matched the competition in our last relegation season. The money was just very badly spent.
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Hull Predictions
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We'll be much harder to beat with a solid defensive structure at the expense of a bit of attacking intent. It will be bit of a stalemate until a minor defensive slip lets Hull score against the run of play. We'll pile on the pressure towards the end but ultimately lack the cutting edge, with Idah hitting wide from 4 yards, his blushes being saved by an erroneously raised off-side flag.
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