Mr.Carrow
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What a top guy. Also shows how well the club have got things organised behind the scenes.
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3 hours ago, Canary Wundaboy said:The wink against Ipswich still wins for me.
It's funny how such a simple thing lasting all of a second can become iconic. That one moment pretty much encapsulates everything that is good about our club right now.
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What position is Norgaard?
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His set pieces are bizarrely bad for such a brilliant player. I sometimes wonder whether he's developed a bit of a complex about them, similar to golfers developing the yips? Tbh I wouldn't want him taking our set pieces in the Prem.
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14 hours ago, yellow 63 said:The name Tony Swallow probably means nothing to most of this board,but some of us know of him from past matches
Jason Dozzell's cousin I believe and ran on the CR pitch from the 1p5wich end circa 1990?
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I think we have to be very realistic and accept that Buendia and Aarons have almost certainly been told "get us up and you can move". Doesn't mean it's 100% going to happen, but there's no way the club would stand in their way if that is the case.
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McLean and Hanley are both players at their absolute peak who have worked their socks off to maximize the talent they have. They deserve huge respect and appreciation. At current levels they are Premier League players, full stop.
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4 hours ago, It's Character Forming said:Yes good point. Also relevant here that Mario scored in injury time in the home fixture vs Wycombe which also went in the top right corner (from Mario's perspective). For that one, the keeper was much more central and didn't get close to it. Hence I'm sure it was no coincidence yesterday the keeper stood well over towards that side of the goal.
Mario could have decided it might be a bluff by the keeper when he still went for the right, which would have caught out Stockdale had he moved back towards the centre whle Mario was running up,, but given the previous goal he'd conceded to Mario, it was no surprise to me that he stayed there and was able to save it - given where Stockdale was standing, he had that corner of the goal covered against even the best strike of the ball.
I think the answer is that, as with penalties, a free kick specialist needs to vary the corner he aims for to keep the keeper honest. If you look back at Mario's free kicks, he's brilliant but they all seem to be aimed at the top RHC. if he played the occasional one over the wall it would make it tricky for a GK to stand so far over as Stockdale did yesterday. Basically if Mario had put it to the left, Stockdale would have been completely stranded. So that's my view (as a person posting on a Norwich city football discussion board on the internet). Either it's a sensible conclusion or not, (like with Tony Blair making suggestions about vaccines).
And also I agree with @ricardo that I've never seen a better striker of a free kick for City than Mario. But for this very reason, opposition goalkeepers are going to take notice of him !
Yes I largely agree, but take the scenario of the same freekick Vs Brentford. The keeper would've studied Mario's freekicks and may well think "he always goes to his right, but his last one was saved, so this time he'll go for the other side". In that scenario it would be best for Vrancic to stick to the same side! I'd actually be tempted to let Buendia take it as the keeper definitely won't be expecting that!
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As with many things in football it's a game of cat and mouse. Or double bluff. If the keeper starts moving to the right assuming Mario goes for the gap he's left, it's a goal. As it happened it was a good bluff by Stockdale and a good save of an excellent free kick.
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If you look at Sheffield United they had a team many of whom I wouldn't rate as PL quality, yet they stayed up with a flourish. Look at the bottom 6-8 and there are many players who are nothing special.
Our defence has improved immeasurably and we have a much better balance (although the Skipp issue is a big one). If we don't get the ridiculous injuries of last time, and make 3-4 shrewd signings we have a decent chance.
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4 hours ago, king canary said:Did he though? The defence was awful last season. He looked OK but there is a reason he's spent the majority of his career kicking around the Championship.
For me and upgrade in central defence is number 2 on the priority list after a defensive midfielder (if Skipp can't be brought back).
Here's a crazy idea: players learn, work on their weaknesses and improve. When we went up I cringed at the idea of Hanley in the Prem, but since he came back from injury last season he has been superb. Also the defence is the one part of the team which can really be "more than the sum of its parts", and Hanley is a big part of a unit functioning very well this season. I think we'll sign a younger centre back IF we go up and I think that there's a fair chance he would displace Hanley by the end of the season, but Hanley/Gibson is a decent, experienced Prem partnership.
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6 hours ago, horsefly said:Speculating wildly, I can see us bringing in one or two from South America.
I'm currently in Argentina and the currency has absolutely tanked. Football clubs here will definitely welcome some foreign currency and we'd get a lot for our money (as I am right now!).
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6 hours ago, Foxy2600 said:The way to replace Emi is keep him. Pay him £100,000 a week. To replace him, like-for-like you'd need to find a 23 year old International attacking midfielder. you might have to pay £50m and pay him £120,000 a week. All for the privilege of not caming up against Emi next season. Still, there will be 3 teams going down this year. I'm sure there will be some journeymen in there that'll fit the bill. A sort of Naismith, Brady or Jarvis.
There are probably 20 clubs out there who have their own Emi who believe they are doomed if a club like Norwich come in with a £10m offer. We were doomed according to some when we sold Maddison and even the Murphy's and Pritchard. We picked up Giannoulis for £6m who is still getting up to speed but already looks a very good player, there are plenty more out there.
Yes Emi is clearly very difficult to replace but as I said, using the money to replace him plus upgrading other positions means we could net benefit if we find the right players.
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Replacement for Emi, plus a big upgrade at number 10. I think after last season Webber owes Farke some real strengthening.
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Farke said recently that 2 years ago we were basically playing with two number 10's in front of the central defenders. It was fantastically exciting but frankly that is no way to prepare for the Premier League. We will be much more robust if we go up.
Main negative is that unlike 2 years ago we barely score from outside the box. Our poor shooting really is quite bizarre considering the quality we have.
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Buendia sold and Olise here in the summer? Yeah I know bigger clubs will want him but maybe he'll put actually playing first.
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7 hours ago, king canary said:Have to agree to disagree on the attacking threat they offer but what someone like Lewis would give over Sorenson is more balance. Saying that Sorenson showed more of a willingness to use his left foot and go on the outside of the opposing fullback last time out so more of that would be good.
I literally barely remember Lewis ever getting in the area. A player who can register no goals and two assists in a high scoring promotion season is not an attacking full back.
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3 hours ago, king canary said:I think it was always pretty clear he was the most limited of our crop of youngsters- Aarons, Godfrey and Buendia all feel like they have the ability to be regulars at clubs playing in Europe, Lewis feels more like a player who'll spend most of his career at a lower Premier League/higher Championship level. I was a bit surprised to hear Liverpool were interested on that basis.
I have seen a few saying we've got 'better options' at left back now which I don't understand. Quintilla isn't all that, we've not seen the greek lad kick a ball and Sorenson is clearly playing out of position still. If Lewis came back he'd walk into our first team.
Sorensen offers more of an attacking threat and wins more headers. Lewis a bit quicker and maybe better on the ball but the fact that Sorensen isn't a Left back is pretty irrelevant if he's playing very well there.
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If you could cross Vrancic with Steiperman you'd have a hell of a number 10. In reality neither are quite up to it in the Prem and I think both will be off to free up wages and squad space for a really quality operator in that position.
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1 hour ago, cambridgeshire canary said:Except Mourninho has already said he wanted to bring Skipp back to Spurs this window but has given him a little extra time to see how he does.
I can almost but gurantee there is no way Skipp is staying with us when this season ends
Mourinho can hardly talk about him staying when we haven't even said we want him to, imagine how that would sound to Skipp? To be fair, Mourinho might be thinking that he will play in the cup games and if he's outstanding get in the first team, so it's certainly not a given. Maybe 50/50 chance.
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I think there's a reasonable chance that Skipp will stay. I know Mourinho said he'll be "back next season" but he kind of has to work on that assumption before any deal has been agreed. If not I'd say it isn't a disaster with Sorensen primed to step in. McLean the best midfielder in the championship on current form.
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5 hours ago, king canary said:This, for me, is the long term issue with the model.
If we're self funding it means that we need to be able to either chop our wage bill down to a self funding level in the Championship very quickly or we need to subsidise the wage bill wtih player sales.
Our turnover without parachute payments in the Championship is somewhere around £30-35m. So we need to be able to swiftly slash our wage budget to around £20m in two seasons to remain self funding, meaning we can never really push the boat out wages wise.
But there is a "third way" between splashing loads and ending up hamstrung a la Naismith, RVW etc and spending almost nothing and running a club simply to sell players and stay afloat. That is to invest in youth, training facilities, coaching, scouting etc building a fantastic reputation which encourages players to take a risk in proving themselves at City even if they have to accept that wages will reduce considerably should we be relegated. Giannoulis looks like a high pedigree player and is probably thinking "I'll probably be first choice in a Premier League team next season, yes if we go down my wages will be much lower but if I've done well enough I'll get a move back to the Prem". This is our niche and it's pretty similar to the one Leicester and Southampton have been built on.
I think your point about Godfrey kind of illustrates the disagreement here. You see it as entirely negative, others see that we have replaced him with an England squad player who is playing very well for a third of the money and when it comes to Buendia the line across the media is we "don't need to sell" BECAUSE of the sales of Godfrey and Lewis. If I got the impression that as a club we were desperate to sell our players once any half decent approach is made I would fully agree with your "glass half empty" approach. There is absolutely no evidence of that though.
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1 hour ago, king canary said:Yeah, spending it badly has done that, for sure.
But you can also find examples of teams where spending large sums well has made them better.
What I've never seen any evidence for is how spending a historically low amount on your squad helps you stay up.
Errrr, as I recall we didn't spend much staying up under Lambert and Hughton. In fact it was spending (at the time) a considerable amount of money under Hughton that started the rot.
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9 hours ago, Jersey Canary said:I think they are without Kiefer Moore and Morrison the CB for our game. Due to their aerial ability they are the most likely to cause us problems and without them we have a better chance of a result.
I’m going for 2-1 to Norwich. Pukki and Cantwell (seeing as I’ve been critical of is play on the message board he’ll score! Lol).
Is there any confirmation that their two giants are missing? That would be a huge plus for us.
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With respect, there is zero chance we will spend what we get for Aarons or Buendia on replacements. Look at Sheffield United for another example of how spending huge money often actually has negative effects within a club. The likes of Dijksteel and Roberts are good shouts imo and wouldn't cost crazy money.