Its only my opinion

I find it worrying, We have a new deffence which needs games together to Gel. we saw what happened to England at the world cup, having to switch the defence about..Am also slightly worried our midfield is light weight.... That will encourage teamstobe aggressive against us causing maybe more injuries also players like Holt and Martin will see this happening and maybe get a few unwanted bookings/sending offs.. Or we might be far to quick passing the ball about like brazil  and rip the league to pieces[:D]  

Did holt play inthe behind closed doors game in germany? Martin scored 2 then.....

[quote user="RUDOLPH HUCKER"]Spelled out like this, Angel, the squad looks light. I wonder why Spillaine was able to leave as I am not fully confident in Martin at RB, plus, we are one injury short of a striker dilemma and need four capable strikers anyway. I guess Championship quality strikers are the hardest thing to come by and just hope PL is getting the backing he needs. You can see the risks here; any side needs injury luck to do well but we have a shortage of cover in some areas plus inexperience. If we are really going to go for it we will need a squad of 22 capable of playing first team and we do not have that at present. On a positive note, the fact PL acted early is looking to be a really good move and the stalling on the final players might be down to other sides still sorting their squads. I would be interested to know how posters would deal with an injury to Martin at RB ie who would they play or what would they change formation wise and likewise with an injury to Holt or Martin because that is a situation which might occur.[/quote] We be Fu cked!

people useing cup competitions as an example are delusional. you can have good games or good cup runs but over the course of a season you can''t rely on luck... The is no way our current squad would finish 17th in the prem! we have brought a player who can not get in the wolves team and we think he is head n shoulder''s better than our current players and  wolves are likely to get relegated this season.      

If our players where good enough to play prem footbal,they would be playing prem football. they are mid table championship footballers at the min same as the rest of the division... !

I''m looking forward to watching us play against Newcastle and Everton before the start of the season. I hope we don''t get beaten heavily in these games and destroy our confidence! I remember 2 years ago being all up beat and looking forward to the new season.Then we played spur''s and got thrashed 5 1...It destroyed any confidence in the players before the season even began then we went on and got relegated!!! I hope we make a good account of ourselves in the 2 friendly''s and not get humiliated and start our season with no confidence. Anyone else worried, or are you confident we will do ok?

lot''s of fans are starting to go in rocco''s now so lloyds shouldn''t be any worse

Soon as Clark left we started to free fall....He was carrying roeder and alot of what we did the 1st 6 months, when we went on one of our best runs ever to stay up. was down to Clark not Roeder

[quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="First Wizard"]I''m 11 at the moment,[/quote]Idon''t think that will surprise many Wiz! [;)][:D][/quote] If we lose the 1st game that will soon become a 3[:#]

4-6 at the min with a new right back and keeper would be 5-7 with a right winger and a proven striker aswell 7-8........thats if the players signed, are as good as they are built upto be and we don''t get any injuries. injury to holt and hoolahan with our current squad we will find ourselves in a bit of a dog fight at the bottom. Also if ward gets injured am worried about our defence... Am hopeing witbread will be much better with a pre season behind him because Nelson and Askou are not good enough for the championship.. With more additions and a packed carrow road of 27000 fans roaring the team on week in week out. Anything is still possible!

[quote user="steakbearnaise"][quote user="ryan1992"] What, so if we got to the Play off''s, you would go to the games hoping we lose? surely the aim for Norwich is to be the best it can be, and if we did get to the play offs (or even top 2!) this would be fantastic for the club. take it one season at a time,[/quote] No of course not - I want us to do as well as we possibly can, and if we get to the play offs I''d be desperate for us to win. I just think that in the long term two seasons in the champ might not do us any harm and allow for incremental improvements to the squad. If we go up again, the pressure here from everyone - and presumably the pressure on the board of the club - will be to invest heavily in the team to ensure we''re competitive and to a certain extent we would have to do that. But it''s hard to transform a team as Lambert has done over the past year, then bring in new faces over this summer, and then once more suddenly change the whole team again next summer - however good he is the chances are that Lambert cannot get it right every time and if you make a lot of changes at once it''s easy to mess things up. Someone else posted about prospects for the new season and said that momentum was important - a good start and we can do alright - how easy would that be in the prem in 2011/12. Of course that''s not always true - Colchester last season being a great example. But we had to change the manager to do that and bring in even more new players after Gunny had already signed a shed load. Do that with prem quality players on prem wages (imagine having bought 2 midfielders like OTJ and Gill for the prem, only to see them basically sit on the sidelines for a 3 yr contract and draw prem wages) and that windfall money will quickly be spunked away. And Lambert would be gone, of course. As I said orginally, it doesn''t necessarily have to happen that way, so if there''s a chance of going up I''d sell my grandmother to achieve it, but I wouldn''t be disappointed with a slightly slower improvement in the team that keeps Lambert with us and steady investment into new players that fit with the best we already have (whilst giving those best ones time to adjust and improve). But - as you say - one season at a time... [/quote] Could someone please explain this phrase?[:S]

He played 3 games at the world cup you can''t say that about any of our squad.

In our relegated squad we had lot''s of good players who i think could get in our current squad, such as: Leroy Lita,Alan Lee,Ryan Bertrand,Alan Gow,Dejan Stevanovic,Sammy Clingan,Chris Killan,David Carney,Lee Croft,Arturo Lupoli,David Marshall,Antoine Sibierski,Johnathon Grounds,John Kennedy,David Bell,Jason Shakell,Gary Doherty,Matthew Pattison...Then current players such as Adam Dury,Daryl Russell and Wes Hoolahan.   Those are the players that got us relegated, I can''t see that our current squad on paper are alot better than those Yet we seem to think we have a chance of promotion. Lambert is are far better manager than Roeder/Gunn but to get promotion are we currently over rateing our players as they played in a far easier league last season?

Dos Santos plays for spurs and has been one the best players in the world cup.... i can''t really see us being able to afford him... spur''s paid a fair bit for him from barcelona

Just wondering what people''s thought''s are... Personally i would like to see us get someone.

More money has already gone on them... we were both the same at the end of last season

How does anyone think grant holt can play for england[:$]  

[quote user="I am a Banana"] Norwich Holland leicester hereford arsenal        99. England, [/quote] Sounds a bit like supporting Man United,Arsenal,Chelsea etc at club level........

Norwich/England                             1st Any English team playing a foriegn team in europe      2nd England U21''s                             3rd

I can''t be botherd to read the whole thread..... My opinion is the whole thing is very childish..... the e-mail is slightly perthetic...Archant should know better, to print the story on the front page! someone died on old palace road during the week and 6 people where arrested as it looks like murder... the was hardly anything said.... 2 perthetic e mail''s are sent and it''s on the front page as if the world is coming to an end!

lambert said fox will only play through the middle

If only football management was as easy as typing on a message board.... It''s not as simple as saying he is worth 500k and i would get him....if only it was!

I know the feeling!lol  

I live in norwich and support norwich, most my mates support man u, arsenal etc How many of you actually live in norwich. I guesse most on here live in surrounding areas? Would like tobe wrong but i think most people that live in the city are noty normally norwich fans.....

They where saying on talk sport today the goalkeepers numbers always go by age order the eldest keeper always get''s the number 1 jersey for england in cup competitions