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[quote user="hogesar"]Vrancic had a very good game. Couldn''t use his range of passing in the second half as we had limited posession but made almost as many interceptions as Tettey. If he offered nothing in the second half against Brentford as the Madjeski lover above suggests then we wouldn''t have won the game.[/quote]^^This -
Well played City. Great result. -
[quote user="DDD In The Fine City"]Even better, the club was given to him by an elderly relative[/quote]That''ll never catch on either. -
[quote user="RUDOLPH FARKE"]Old Dave from Lowestoft would be having a field day at the moment what with the fire sales and scaling down of a squad by a Board settling down for a long spell in the Chumps.How I miss his doom-mongering. Farke would have gone from absolute messiah to football pygmy and Delia would have been the subject of unrelenting spleen venting.All of that would strangely have made the whole business easier to take.[/quote]^^This. -
*ABP Ultimate not ADP. Oh for an edit button or a brain cell. -
Am assuming your versions of FF are up to date (v57.0.4). Am posting this with ADB enabled, also Adblocker Ultimate enabled and Popup Blocker Ultimate enabled. But last night mine was doing exactly the same as Lapps, even with ADB disabled, so it has to be the good old Pink''Un software! -
A real trailblazer for black players. Put up with, what no person should have to put up with, in the way of abuse etc. RIP Cyrille. -
Did the same to me last night Lapps after I saw your post, when I tried it. Just tried it again, now seems fine with Adblocker enabled.[:D] -
Thanks Hercules[:)] -
Thank God for that. Not a good first half from what I gather, but a much improved second. I hope we have Maddison for the rest of the season, I would fear for us without him, amongst others. OTBC. -
A Merry Christmas to all. -
Rod Liddle
The Sunday TimesUngrateful Norwich fans should be thankful for woman who cares about club
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mince and frozen mashed potato. As a metaphor for the football being played at Carrow Road this season, that just about does it for a growing proportion of Norwich City fans. Towards the end of their team’s guileless and inept capitulation to a rapidly improving Brentford on Friday, the chants began: “We want Delia out, we want Delia out.”Delia
Smith is 76 years old and, with her husband Michael Wynn-Jones, the largest shareholder in Norwich City. A few years back Britain’s best loved chef slightly tarnished her reputation with a cookery book that recommended using those very comestibles I mentioned in my opening sentence. One woman who read the book wrote online: “When I read about the tinned mince and the frozen mash, I began to cry. I’m no cook but even I can mash a potato.” It was an eccentric take on shepherd’s pie, for sure — but then all of Delia’s recipes tend to be more notable for their pragmatism than their haute cuisine elegance. It is one of the reasons I like her books so much.She
is famous as well for standing on the pitch, urging the Norwich faithful to support their side during a crucial game against Manchester City: “Where are you, where are you — let’s be ’avin you!” She denied, on that occasion, that she was several sheets to the wind. Norwich lost the game. It has been a fairly steady, if unspectacular spiral downward pretty much ever since. They now sit well below mid-table in the Championship, having won once in 11 games. They are, by some margin, the worst team to have visited The Den this season, easily brushed aside, seemingly anxious to be bullied out of possession, hilariously lax at the back, threatless up front and, as the game wore on, possessed of all the animation and fortitude of a rabbit with myxomatosis. Score: 4-0 to Millwall. Hell, we almost never score four!Where do the
problems lie? All over the place. Last summer the club announced the appointment as head coach of the completely unknown German, Daniel Farke. At the time, the Norwich sporting director, Stuart Webber, said: “We are not appointing a novice, you know.”With respect, Mr
Webber, yes you were. Herr Farke’s managerial credentials are confined to a lengthy spell with the might of S V Lippstadt, who play in a German regional league, and whom he shepherded to a promotion followed, swiftly, by a relegation. Oh, and managing Borussia Dortmund’s second team — largely the under 23s — who play in the fourth tier. His stats for both clubs are moderate. This season Farke has emerged from defeats sounding bemused and wearied: “I did not see that result coming,” he said, after the hammering at Millwall in August. Nor indeed the rest of them: they are an apparent mystery to him. There is a case for saying that what Farke and Webber are trying to do is laudable — gradually build a team, based on youth and promise and attractive football.But
it is also precisely the recipe for exiting the Championship in the wrong direction. It is a hard and nasty league and to get out of it the right way you need a tough, resolute defence and a centre-forward who will get you 20 goals a season. Norwich City have neither of those. They are lightweight and ephemeral, engagingly neat in the middle of the park, but dilatory at both ends. That truly is a recipe for relegation, and when you look at the table, there are plenty of clubs below them with the wherewithal to get out of the messes they are in right now. I hope I’m wrong about this, for Millwall’s sake, but I do not see Sunderland, Hull City, Queens Park Rangers (even with the awful Ian Holloway) or Birmingham City going down this season.Farke’s job
is supposedly safe, despite the protests from Norwich’s valiant attempt at a boisterous and threatening section of the ground, the Snakepit. And so instead the odium is being poured upon Delia. And what odium. One poster on a fans’ forum wrote: “She’s an incredibly selfish woman who cannot conceive a weekend without the regularity of wining and dining at Carrow Road. That is her life, and we’re all having to pay for it with our own emotions.”Ooh, my. It is indeed dispiriting to find
yourself in mid-table — or even in League One — when you think you should be in the top four of the Premier League, as some in Norfolk would contend. But it is also a little one-eyed.Smith spent her
own money rescuing the club she fervently supports at a time when nobody else really gave a monkey’s. In this she is similar to Steve Gibson at Middlesbrough, who play in a similar manner to Norwich (more noblesse oblige) and some of whose fans want him kicked out too because they are not in the top six. The general rule is: be careful what you wish for. Both clubs have owners wholly committed to both the area and the team. That is a rare thing in football these days. -
[quote user="Iwan''s Big Toe"]I prefer to be positive in these situations.If we get promoted and finish in the top four, we could see Raggett come up against Messi or Ronaldo. I mean it is a longer journey to Spain, but I hear the weather is pretty nice.I wish these pigs would stop flying over my house, they keep blotting out the sunlight![;)] -
Ridiculous age to go. RIP Cheggers. -
[quote user="Fuzzar"]Lecky off all day here. Just finished eating the cat.[/quote]Are you sure it was the cat?[;)] -
[quote user="norfolkbroadslim"]"Lots of chances .......... so many chances ......... our performance was much better better than the Barnsley game"There are no words [:(][/quote]There are, but not for mixed company.....................[;)] -
Tettey''s Jig wrote Well at least we know we are not going up so we can start the exodus now. Hopefully the stale high earners like Naismith and Klose and Oliveira will be offloaded so we can keep madders and pritch a bit longer There goes Mr Porker flying over my house..................about as much hope of keeping those two as there is Herman voting for Brexit! -
lincoln canary (& Golden Coppel) wrote " Why a dreadful season this is turning out to be.Nice one Webber. You’ve brought to us the most awfull brand of football ever to be seen at Carrow Road. I wonder how much more you have in stock for us.Don''t worry lincoln, it''s called ''work in progress'', if you can stand it. -
[quote user="City 2nd"]Talk about a comedy of errors. A total shambles all round and an even more dire NCFC. Something surely has to give soon. This isn’t entertaining football, or indeed not even football![/quote]You don''t matter my friend, you''re just one of the paying public. -
Surprise, surprise. -
My thoughts are with you. -
[quote user="Making Plans"]Work in progress or Car Crash in progress?[/quote]Verging on the latter in my book. -
[quote user="Rhubarb"]Webber, Weaver and now WrightSome bird called Ward ......making the tea or somethingWyn JonesWildschutt and Watkins..even WesWhere will it end... that''s what I want to know ?[/quote]As long as it doesn''t end in welegation who cares?! -
Not that I''m aware, last I heard he was at Kings Lynn...........
O/T John Ruddy At F/T v Scum.
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