Reckoner

Yep, it supplied the usual level of thrilling questions from callers, such as "Hello Neil, what did you think of the game today?". And then you get some old bugger "Oi''ve bin goin to Norwich games fur 164 years, an that is the worst performance oi''ve ever seen."

Don''t agree at all that it was Bertrand''s fault, for both goals Bell was guilty of not getting back to help, Bertrand was left 2 on 1. Thought Bell had a poor game overall today actually, although he didn''t get much help from anyone else. Agree with the Hoolahan point though, thought he looked sharp when he came on and should have started instead of ''captain'' Fozzy.

Agreed, i thought that the highlight of the game was actually when Doc went on them marauding runs down the right side, made me laugh. But one of them was actually followed by a good cut back, and then a Jamie Cureton fluff. Doc for right wing!! [:p]

Ok, lets get you home...

[quote user="1st Wazzock"][quote user="Broken Bricks"][quote user="1st Wazzock"][quote user="Broken Bricks"] Marshall - 5 - Looked quite dodgy today, doesn''t really fill me with confidence when coming for crosses. Otsemobor - 7 - Got forwards well and linked up well with croft. Bertrand - 7 - A much improved performance from Ryan, linked up superbly with Bell when he hit the crossbar. Kennedy - 7 - A bit of a mixed bag from him, scored a goal and defended solidly for most of the game, but then had a few moments of poor play, and in my eyes was at fault for the second goal. Stefanovic - 6 - Wasn''t on the pitch long, hope the injury isn''t too serious. Croft - 6 - One moment in todays match summed up Croft, he chased down the left back for 30 seconds, won the ball, and then ballooned a cross to the otherside of the pitch. Bell - 8 - Great first half performance, faded in the second, but so did everyone else. He has one hell of a cross on him and finally we have someone who can take a corner. Clingan - 6.5 - Played ok, linked up midfield and strikers well, but was also guilty of playing head tennis with John Kennedy at some points in the second half. Russell - 5 - Was having his best performance in weeks until he got himself sent off, he''s done it a couple of times now and is becoming a liability. Lita - 7.5 - He made some great runs up front, and scored a good header, but does sometimes run to nowhere and dives a bit. Also, a stupid yellow card. Sibierski - 7.5 - I thought he played really well, winning headers, nice touches, hopefully not out for too long but looks like a knee injury. Subs: Doherty - 7 - Another impressive performance from the Doc, solid. Cureton - 4 - Had 45 minutes to do something, and he done absolutely nothing. Pattison - 6 - Done ok when he came on.   Poor substitutions from Glenn today, why bring on Cureton instead of Lupoli, and Pattison instead of Hoolahan? No, i don''t know either. Other than that it was a good performance, should have buried them in the 1st half.     [/quote] Thanks Delia, for what it''s worth I thought it was a pi$$ poor game from 2 poor teams, neither of whom could do anything in possession and gave the ball away cheaply. Nothing for the fans to cheer about, it was dire. What I want to know is, what do they do at Colney all week ? I think we should be getting better from the players we have, the table doesn''t lie. Bell was easily man of the match, Lita, Doc and Clingan were Ok as for the rest God help us. My fear is, if we do go down, we will not get back up again. Roeder and Clark, we deserve better. The attendance was no where near the figure stated, huge swathes of empty seats, which will understandably increase if we keep dishing up garbage like that.  [/quote] What an original post, "Thanks Delia", cracks me up every time i hear it, which is everytime somebody posts something which is slightly optimistic... [/quote] If you can find something to be optimistic about after watching that shower of s**t you need help.   [/quote] Well book me in then doc, i need some help [:p] Personally i thought the first half was quite good, created chances, passed it around well, restricted them to the one chance that they scored. We just lack consistency and the ability to kill off a game. Now, i''m not so deluded as to think we will make the play-offs this year, but i think we could improve slighty on last season, maybe 13th or 12th.

[quote user="1st Wazzock"][quote user="Broken Bricks"] Marshall - 5 - Looked quite dodgy today, doesn''t really fill me with confidence when coming for crosses. Otsemobor - 7 - Got forwards well and linked up well with croft. Bertrand - 7 - A much improved performance from Ryan, linked up superbly with Bell when he hit the crossbar. Kennedy - 7 - A bit of a mixed bag from him, scored a goal and defended solidly for most of the game, but then had a few moments of poor play, and in my eyes was at fault for the second goal. Stefanovic - 6 - Wasn''t on the pitch long, hope the injury isn''t too serious. Croft - 6 - One moment in todays match summed up Croft, he chased down the left back for 30 seconds, won the ball, and then ballooned a cross to the otherside of the pitch. Bell - 8 - Great first half performance, faded in the second, but so did everyone else. He has one hell of a cross on him and finally we have someone who can take a corner. Clingan - 6.5 - Played ok, linked up midfield and strikers well, but was also guilty of playing head tennis with John Kennedy at some points in the second half. Russell - 5 - Was having his best performance in weeks until he got himself sent off, he''s done it a couple of times now and is becoming a liability. Lita - 7.5 - He made some great runs up front, and scored a good header, but does sometimes run to nowhere and dives a bit. Also, a stupid yellow card. Sibierski - 7.5 - I thought he played really well, winning headers, nice touches, hopefully not out for too long but looks like a knee injury. Subs: Doherty - 7 - Another impressive performance from the Doc, solid. Cureton - 4 - Had 45 minutes to do something, and he done absolutely nothing. Pattison - 6 - Done ok when he came on.   Poor substitutions from Glenn today, why bring on Cureton instead of Lupoli, and Pattison instead of Hoolahan? No, i don''t know either. Other than that it was a good performance, should have buried them in the 1st half.     [/quote] Thanks Delia, for what it''s worth I thought it was a pi$$ poor game from 2 poor teams, neither of whom could do anything in possession and gave the ball away cheaply. Nothing for the fans to cheer about, it was dire. What I want to know is, what do they do at Colney all week ? I think we should be getting better from the players we have, the table doesn''t lie. Bell was easily man of the match, Lita, Doc and Clingan were Ok as for the rest God help us. My fear is, if we do go down, we will not get back up again. Roeder and Clark, we deserve better. The attendance was no where near the figure stated, huge swathes of empty seats, which will understandably increase if we keep dishing up garbage like that.  [/quote] What an original post, "Thanks Delia", cracks me up every time i hear it, which is everytime somebody posts something which is slightly optimistic...

[quote user="San Miguel"] i can''t agree that it was a goog performance - at home against a poor uncreative side and we couldn''t win is a bad performance to me the first goal was madness and all involved should get their wages docked or something to remind them that the first 5 mins of the game aren''t a warm-up Bell was amazing in getting us in front, but after that the whole team were complacent and arrogant. poor coaching, no real leader on the pitch, and i''ve had enough of this dross... trying hard isn''t good enough, it''s points that count at the end of the season, just look where the scum have got themselves rant over... [/quote] Fair enough, agree with most of that actually, we seem to need to concede a goal to wake us up, and at the start of the second half i would have thought we would have come out all guns blazing after our good first half performance, but it was the most boring 15 minutes of my life. What i meant by good performance was that we did actually play good football and created chances for once, but only in the first half unfortunately. Obviously the result wasn''t good, and our defending was poor to concede two goals to two of the most useless strikers in the league, but we actually played some nice stuff at times.

Completely agree, what did Cureton actually do in the 45 minutes he was on the pitch? All i can remember is when he was in the box and had a choice to either shoot or to pass, and he done a kind of combination of both, and just kicked it out for a goal kick.

Marshall - 5 - Looked quite dodgy today, doesn''t really fill me with confidence when coming for crosses. Otsemobor - 7 - Got forwards well and linked up well with croft. Bertrand - 7 - A much improved performance from Ryan, linked up superbly with Bell when he hit the crossbar. Kennedy - 7 - A bit of a mixed bag from him, scored a goal and defended solidly for most of the game, but then had a few moments of poor play, and in my eyes was at fault for the second goal. Stefanovic - 6 - Wasn''t on the pitch long, hope the injury isn''t too serious. Croft - 6 - One moment in todays match summed up Croft, he chased down the left back for 30 seconds, won the ball, and then ballooned a cross to the otherside of the pitch. Bell - 8 - Great first half performance, faded in the second, but so did everyone else. He has one hell of a cross on him and finally we have someone who can take a corner. Clingan - 6.5 - Played ok, linked up midfield and strikers well, but was also guilty of playing head tennis with John Kennedy at some points in the second half. Russell - 5 - Was having his best performance in weeks until he got himself sent off, he''s done it a couple of times now and is becoming a liability. Lita - 7.5 - He made some great runs up front, and scored a good header, but does sometimes run to nowhere and dives a bit. Also, a stupid yellow card. Sibierski - 7.5 - I thought he played really well, winning headers, nice touches, hopefully not out for too long but looks like a knee injury. Subs: Doherty - 7 - Another impressive performance from the Doc, solid. Cureton - 4 - Had 45 minutes to do something, and he done absolutely nothing. Pattison - 6 - Done ok when he came on.   Poor substitutions from Glenn today, why bring on Cureton instead of Lupoli, and Pattison instead of Hoolahan? No, i don''t know either. Other than that it was a good performance, should have buried them in the 1st half.    

A pretty terrible game of Football, i was falling asleep for most of the game, i think them scoring was good for us, gave us a kick up the backside. Marshall - 6 - Not much to do, never looks confident. Omosuzi - 7 - Thought he was one of our better players, solid defensively and got forwards a bit too. Doherty - 7 - Another solid performance from The Doc, not the biggest fan of him, but he has been awesome the last 2 games. Stefanovic - 7 - I thought he was very solid at the back today, couldn''t really see the penalty incident. Bertrand - 5 - One of the poorest games i''ve seen him play in our colours, looked shaky and distribution was very poor. Croft - 6 - Played ok, but went back to his usual self of head down, run towards the corner, poor cross. Clingan - 5 - Once again, worst performance i''ve seen by him for Norwich, gave the ball away too many times. Russell - 5 - Poor performance, not for what he did do but for what he didn''t do, which was anything. Our central midfield was non-existant today. Hoolahan - 7.5 - I thought he showed a glimpse of what he can deliver today, skinning defenders, running at the defence, the only thing missing was the final product. The final pass was always misplaced, after getting into a good position. Sibierski - 7 - Would have been a 6 but for the last 15 minutes, but to be fair he did win a lot more headers today than other matches, and also managed to stay on his feet a bit more. Lita - 7.5 - Worked hard, chased down defenders, took his goal superbly. Subs Kennedy - 6 - Doherty looked better to be honest. Bell - 6.5 - Some good crosses to cap a promising performance. Cureton - 5 - Not enough time to evaluate fairly. All in all a poor performance but hey, lets take the positives; we played badly but still won, which is what we need to do to do well in this league.