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Really hope not! This has been a game I''ve been looking forward too since the fixtures came out as I work with an Ex Spurs ST holder, and I wanted to be able to go back to work on the 27th and thank him for a nice 3 points at Christmas! Don''t think I''ll be able to get the 27th off work though :(

Yeah, thats one good thing, but we still hold the record of being the only british side to beat bayern munich away, so lets hope man city dont ruin it!

[quote user="NWC"]I have to agree with lincoln. I was never quite sure of this signing anyway - I wasn''t sure if he would give the team anything different. I didn''t like the fact that he came here with the whol;e "i just wanna play in the prem" rather than the "I wanna play for NCFC or Lambert". He was good against Wigan, but that was mainly due to most others being poor. His work rate isn''t that good - I don''t think he closes defenders down with any real conviction - he just seems to be going through the motions. More importantly he hasn''t scored, and he has missed a couple of sitters. Don''t get me wrong - I want him to get better and score for us, but does he?[/quote] Why would he say that he want to play for NCFC? he has no connections to the club, fans, manager or area, of course the only reason he joined us is because we are in the PL! If we were still in League 1 or even the Championship, there is no way on earth he''d have joined us! As I said earlier in this thread, I feel he has a lot to offer, but not on his own upfront. Holt or Vaughan alongside Morison can cause any defence in the League a lot of problems after a bit of time. (he threatened the Chelsea defence when he was with Holty). I think once he opens his account with NCFC we could have a half decent striker here, who, in the current market wasn''t exactly expensive for a center forward in the PL!

Russell Martin 19th minute. He will go to hoof the ball out of the box, after a bit of pressure from Sunderland, and just before making contact with the ball, Seb Larsson will jump inbetween the ball and Martin''s foot and Martin will accidently bring him down, and Sunderland will be awarded a penalty. He will hit the post with the spot kick, however :)

Man City are away at Bayern Munich Tomorrow night in the Champions League. I know no other British club can ever win at the Olympic Stadium, but will our record of being the only British club to ever win at BM be broken Tomorrow do you think? Hope not! Come on Ribery et al!

3-2 win, tierney to bag the winner!

Haha somebody''s been on the morning whiskey?! I really can''t wait for tonight though, even though I can''t stop coughing and sound like a darlek everytime i speak! I''ve put £2.50 (last of the big spenders, hey? ;D) on a 3-2 win Tonight, Ive got a feeling Holt and Johnson are to put us 2-0 up, they will pull it back to 2-2, then about 5/10 minutes from the end TIERNEY is to score the winner!!!

When have I said I hate DD? He is a very gifted footballer, who puts his all into matches for the Chelsea cause, however, all I''m saying is, that despite him being out for minutes, surely if it was ever life threatening, he would have not been released the same night, and back in training a couple of days later?

If I was offered £200,000 a week to play football but had to be knocked out once in a while, I don''t think there are many people in the world who would refuse!!

Feels lucky to be alive after Ruddy''s punch?! It was a nasty incident, but I doubt it was ever life threatenning!! http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/112808.html

I was disappointed with him at the Reebok, BUT, I feel he would be a much better player if he had somebody upfront with him for a match. He was running the channels well, and coming out wide to recieve the ball, but there was nobody in the box to cross it too, so he had to hold it up and go backwards a lot to find support, making him look ''negative''.

[quote user="Yellow Wall"] [quote user="ryan1992"]I have never understood it when people say that ref''s should be relegated to the lower leagues. Why should the ''smaller'' clubs have to have the poor ref''s, just so the ''bigger'' sides can have the decent ref''s? For me, all referees should be of an equal quality, as if a referee can''t see a bad tackle/handball etc, he shouldn''t be doing the job. If a maths teacher couldn''t do his times tables, and was working in a college, he wouldn''t just get sent down to a primary school, he''d be kicked out and have to learn his job before being allowed back in. If a referee is incapable of doing his job correctly no matter what league he is in, he should be kicked out of the FA and forced to do his referee licence again. A referee in a game between Man Utd and Liverpool should be the same standard as a ref in a game between Chesterfield and Burton Albion![/quote] What absolute rubbish! Refereeing is no different to playing, sometimes players have good games, sometimes players have bad games. Those who consistantly play well get to play in the better teams. So why on earth shouldn''t the better referees get the better games? You wouldn''t want to see Wayne Rooney playing in League Two would you? Just as the better players find their own level, so should the referees. If he is not performing well enough he get''s relegated just as players move down the leagues. And when, or if, his performances improve enough he can then regain his place with the best. The biggest problem is how the FA try to ''recognise'' the ''good, young talent'' and push it forward too quickly. Quite often the wrong people are chosing the talent and are pushing forward he wrong referees. There are also some strange requirements needed by the FA in the lower promotion stakes. A good referee who controls games very well who can spot infringements but perhaps does not issue enough cautions to generate income for the County FA and is not as adept at writing his reports will be further down the pecking order than a poor referee who makes money for the FA by issuing unnecessary cautions but has immaculate written reports. Even if they are wrong! [/quote] I''m talking rubbish?!?! Surely any referee in the world should be able to see a player being pulled to the floor or punch the ball into the net?Footballers do have different abilities, as some are not good enough to play in certain leagues, but a referee should be able to tell a foul no matter who he plays. its not like he will be refereeing a barcelona game and say ''i dont know if that was a foul when messi got kicked in the stomach, because he is against top quality players, but had he been playing in a dagenham shirt, it''d definately been a free kick''. the quality of football gets better as you go up the leagues, but fouls are always fouls, and a handball will always be a handball. we had supposedly the worlds greatest ref in charge at bolton, but i dont think the game would have been any different if we had the ref who officiated the gillingham game that day tbh!

I have never understood it when people say that ref''s should be relegated to the lower leagues. Why should the ''smaller'' clubs have to have the poor ref''s, just so the ''bigger'' sides can have the decent ref''s? For me, all referees should be of an equal quality, as if a referee can''t see a bad tackle/handball etc, he shouldn''t be doing the job. If a maths teacher couldn''t do his times tables, and was working in a college, he wouldn''t just get sent down to a primary school, he''d be kicked out and have to learn his job before being allowed back in. If a referee is incapable of doing his job correctly no matter what league he is in, he should be kicked out of the FA and forced to do his referee licence again. A referee in a game between Man Utd and Liverpool should be the same standard as a ref in a game between Chesterfield and Burton Albion!

[quote user="Cantiaci Canary"]There''s not even 17,000 at Loftus Road for this match. Pretty poor show from the hoops. Carrow Road would be full to the rafters ... especially if we had signed SWP![/quote] QPR do get very low attendances, but why would it be a sell out at CR if we signed SWP? We have sold out every game just about for the past 6/7 years, no matter who is playing in the NCFC side, what''s so special about SWP anyway?Surely you go to games to see Norwich, not just to see a ''star'' player?!

You mean like when he wasnt in our starting 11 last week Nexus?

[quote user="When Saturday Comes"]So you''re writing Russell Martin off as a centre-back after one excellent game playing there?[/quote] No but I''m just saying that it isn''t ideal having a Right back playing just his second game at Center half against one of the best teams in the world, plus if he or Leon got an injury Tomorrow night, we are in trouble next week! Martin did do a great job at Bolton, and if he play there at OT and Tomorrow night, i hope he can continue that form, but it won''t be easy for him playing in a position which isn''t his natural position

maybe, but after a while out, he''ll need a couple of reserve games to bring him to match fitness i''d have thought?

Can he play vs Man Utd? if not we will have Martin and Barnett at the back and no other CB''s against one of the best attacks in Europe! An injury to Barnett tomorrow doesnt bare thinking about!

-------------Ruddy Naughton---Martin---Barnett---Tierney -----------Fox-------Johnson Bennett----------Wes--------Pilkington -----------------Holt If things arent going well, i might bring on Vaughan at HT for Bennett or Pilks though and then change to a Diamond with johnno at the base, Fox and pilks or benno in the center and wes at the tip, Sunderland have a bit of pace in their side, but not at the back with O''Shea, Bramble and Brown so our wingers could be crucial Tomorrow. I''ll go with a high scoring game with NCFC to win 3-2 and Tierney to get the winner!!!!!

There are the obvious choices (Ippo, Leeds, Man Utd, Wolves etc) but I also dislike Everton, I don''t really know why but they just annoy me, the way they play the game, they think they are a big club due to never being relegated, but a few those seasons have been close to relegation and they just manage to pull themselves away near the end of the season. I also can not stand David Moyes! I don''t think MK Donalds should exist and I would love Man City''s owners to leave and the club gets into administration! I don''t like any other sides other than NCFC, but there are some sides I dont mind, but then there are a lot of sides I can''t stand!

[quote user="Mister Chops"]Illiterate journalists! "CONNOR Wickham has vowed to wreck revenge" I hope he does wreck his revenge on Norwich City. (I have £5 on 0-0 for this game at 10-1.) [/quote] It''s 0-0 and NCFC get a penalty in the dying seconds... ;)

The only people he''s going to hurt are the fans sitting in the Barclay and River End everytime he goes for a shot

[quote user="Herman "] [quote user="Hutcherby46"][quote user="jas the barclay king"]i have seen the chap with the glasses before... He goes to a lot of the Fans forums and used to like to have a say on the microphone...fair play to him... he has some kind of confidence problem i think... he queues up for ages to get autographs and Roger Munby always seemed to know who he was.... [/quote] he ques up for autographs where? because maybe i can kill two birds with 1 stone meet holt and get a word out of mysterious friend [/quote] Don''t the players come in through a part ofthe Jarrold.I am sure i have seen people hanging around waiting for autographs.I could be wrong so any clarification would help[*-)] [/quote] Yeah Thats where my pic was taken! They park in the car park next to the astro turf pitch, then enter through the Jarrold stand near the hotel

[quote user="Kathy "] [quote user="ryan1992"]I didnt want it that big, sorry!!![/quote] I didnt say that when I met him [A] [/quote] Haha, I was waiting for somebody to respond like that!

Bl00dy awsome! The best player I have ever seen play for NCFC with the most passion for the club I''ve ever known (closely followed by Holt!) has written a book?!?! I''ll be getting this when I can afford it, I''m not waiting till Christmas to get it lol