Making Plans

If I was MA I would be having serious doubts about progressing with my investment. We were a half decent Club when he first got involved but now we are falling apart at the seams. He will have seen what's going on so why would he want to continue with such a lame duck where he is simply going to throw good money after bad and with little or no chance of getting a return on his investment. He might not know much about football in the UK but I'm sure he is pretty adept at reading between the lines and knowing when to cut and run.

I don't know why anyone is still talking about a serious promotion campaign, at least not for this season. In every respect, from Owner(s), Manager, Squad, Star Players, Financial Resources right through to our current Youth development, we are miles away from being either Promotion contenders and/or Premier League material. We have had plenty of goes in the PL in recent years, often in a better allround situation than we have now, and every time we've been up there we have been found wanting in virtually every aspect of being competitive. To their credit, and to put our efforts in perspective, when you consider some of the star players we had, Luton Town have given it a better go than we did. Before mounting a serious promotion campaign we have so many issues and deficiencies to sort out and that process will take longer than what remains of this season and probably next season too.

I think you have misunderstood my comment

Even though I watched it on a free stream, I felt somehow that I'd been mugged.

Don't you mean Hwangstring?

and SFA has changed. Unbeliveable Geoff!

I am truely bewildered as to why 20,000+ people keep turning up game after game to watch this rubbish. Be daring and find a new, more exciting way the spend a Saturday afternoon. Something like fishing perhaps

Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results every time"

We have almost, but not quite, found our level yet

Due to the rain they're all big rivers now

Didn't we think that on the 26th January 2013 in the 4th Round when we were in the PL and Luton were a non league Club. 26,521 people turned up to see us get turned over 1-0. And we had Grant Holt and Harry Kane playing for us then. The BBC report says "Norwich, whose only win in their last seven games came in the last round of this competition at Peterborough, have worrying problems to address as they look to avoid Premier League relegation" Sounds kinda familiar doesn't it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/21095990

Perhaps Wagner had forgot that we scored 4 goals against Southampton away from home a few months ago by playing attacking football. Perhaps he has lost his bottle. The tradegy is that we had already sacrificed a possible 6 points in the previous 2 games by changing the team, following what had been an improved period for the Club. What was the point of doing that if we were not at least going to try and beat Southampton? But, we only went out with one intention yesterday, and that intention was to not lose the game.

Brilliant comment on BBC HYS. Rooney will have to drop down and manage a team like Man United if he wants to prove himself for a big job in the future.

There is a World of difference between being a supporter and somebody who has a season ticket and turns up every match just to watch the game. These people believe they are supporters just because they shell out £500 a season to be there. The problem at NCFC is that the vast majority of the crowd at Carrow Road fall into the latter category who, to their credit, will be there through thick and thin. However, they readily accept whatever happens on the football pitch whether it is good, bad or indifferent, without ever becomming emotionally involved.

Nail on head hit.

Unfortunately the lack of atmosphere is all down to the demographics of Norfolk. County - Higher % than UK average of 60+ year olds. Carrow Road - Higher % than UK average football crowds of 50+ year olds. Season ticket holders - Higher % than UK average of 70+ year olds. Owners - Higher % than UK average Club owners of 80+ year olds.

The odd tackle would be nice

Jacob Murphy is doing ok at Newcastle and there were calls last night on 606 for Godfrey to be recalled to the Everton defence as a matter of urgency. As for Dimi, McCallum, Gibson and Placheta "peaking with us" I would hate to see what they were like before they "peaked"

Badly

The lack of hope and ambition from fans shown in this thread is staggering but nevertheless understandable as it is more than likely in line with how the board will be thinking. And that is worrying on both counts. The tone of a Club comes from the top down.

I hope he isn't in the squad

That says it all although 20/1 to score 2 sounds a bit skinny to me unless the barn doors are bigger at Carrow Road

Never should have bought him. Complete waste of time and can't hit a barn door from 6 yards. Yet another of the so called "experienced" signings last summer that many on here said they were exactly the type of player we needed to quickly propel back to the PL. Jesus, imagine this lot in the PL next season. Laughable. Barnes, Stacey, Batth, Duffy, Forshaw - they are all totally usless. Our recent recruitment strategy obviously has "if they're warm and breathing" as the number one priority and anything after that is regarded a bonus. Not sure why so many fans (circa 80% I believe) continue to believe, and buy into, the utter **** put out by our Club. It's tragic.

The tradegy is that Wagner couldn't wait to get him back in the team. 100 appearances for the Club and barely a handful of decent games among them and that's being generous. Our defence had improved a lot recently so why change it?

All I can say is that it looks damn cold at Cold Blow Lane and the players warming up so somebody has cameras there.