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Can we get McNally back? Always felt he had unfinished business with us. Mind you I think he felt he was not supported enough and so jumped.

I''d add Hooper to that list too, For me the big problems (and I can''t say mistakes) is that we forked out a huge amount of money one season for just 2 players, Hooper and RVW and each time we thought we were doing brilliant signings and fair to say both failed. We need another quality center back, we need someone who can score and we''d be pretty much sorted - where to find that striker thou I don''t know.

I do have some concerns, I remember a few years ago we had the England #2 keeper (Greeno) and he go injured so Gallacher payed, he played well and so when Greeno moved on he became the holder of the shirt. Then that season was the season of 5 keepers under Mr Grant. We''re blessed to have the England #2 keeper in our squad and as long as Bunn is as good a keeper as your average Championship one then we''ll be okay until Ruddy gets back. Bunn looks to have most of the qualities needed of a top level reserve keeper so I think that getting him in was a great decision.

Saw this today: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/birmingham-city/8506991/Birmingham-City-goalkeeper-Ben-Foster-retires-from-England-duty.html Basically says Foster is taking time out from the England squad, Green is probably being promoted to #2 (wasn''t he #2 anyway) and that they are looking at John Ruddy as a potential #3. Given the keepers from England who are playing regular Prem/Champ footy at the moment who are willing to play for England it really does seem that JR is a great prospect. I don''t see the need for another young keeper to come in (we have Rudd/Steer) but more a need for an older chap to help Ruddy develop. As far as I''m concerned Ruddy have the #1 shirt and it''s his to lose.

It was the game earlier in the season when the ball went out in injury time and McNally grabbed it and threw it back to PL as fast as he could, and then Holt went on to score that really made me think this is a guy who is passionate about NCFC and winning games. I like him a lot, he talks sense, fires people when they have to be fired and hires great people and he trying to help the team win games, what more do we need?

Perhaps Doc at RB? I remember Flem playing there, it would make more sense then spliing up Askou and Spillane and it would also be seen as a temporary thing as well for the Doc rather than really giving him a chance to fight for the CB place. He is on the books so should be available for selection.

Could be wage related as well,Doc be captain for the last two chaps and a ''senior'' pro will be on a fair wackHoolahoop will be a large wage as well I should think.Get rid of the wages and perhaps we can get a decent keeper in?

If what you say below is try I''d agree with you, however if you watch the highlight (as I suggested, in fact do you the advantage of being able to watch the highlights on Canary player?) you would probably notice:a) Semmy is not in the middle covering the center backsb) Reid runs past Semi and Semi fails to track himc) Semi is more than 10m away from Reid and 20m away from the bloke who passed to Reid because he is nowhere near the play at all when Reid scores.[quote] Very funny. Having spent 12 years as a manager at a good level and having a perfectly good pair of eyes, I''ll ignore the attempted smart arsery of you post and reiterate that Semmy is pulled across to cover the centre (standard coaching for a fullback) as both centre backs have been pulled towards our left. Whaley then fails to track Reid''s run. I have no problem with your Doc obsession, or, indeed, you attempts to look "clever".However, I would suggest you try to obtain at least one of the following: [/quote]

I''ll give a huge hint here - the bloke with the 2 on his back is the one to watch. I can not believe what you are saying, the only way I can believe is that you have not actually looked at the highlights and is basing the determination of fault on a shakey memory.I noticed on another thread you said the Reid went past Whaley - I suggest you have another good look and look at the number on the guys shirt as he goes past.

Goal 2: (referred to as 1 below) Semi was not overlapping on the wing, when the ball was lost Semi was stood on the about 8m inside the Sunderland half on the center circle line Goal 3: (referred to as 2 below) the unmarked Andy Reid ran past Semi not Whaley [quote] Ok Lincoln.  His opponent was left in acres of space for the 1st goal because Otsemobor was overlapping down the wing, as he should do when we''re attacking, and WHALEY gave the ball straight to a Sunderland player in the centre circle.  Reid was off, pass, goal. Semi didn''t even have time to turn around.  The second goal, if you''d like to watch again,  Semi had to go across to tackle Carlos Edwards, who was unmarked in the penalty area due to the lack of a centre half. Edwards immediately crossed, as he knew Semi had him, to an unmarked Andy Reid who had just made a run past WHALEY who didn''t even look and was just jogging back [/quote]

Goal 3: Sunderland go forward, Semi is ball watching and doesn''t see Reid go past him on, Semi continues running back, makes no effort at all to pick up the free man who ran past him a few seconds earlier.It may well be that when he played with McVeigh then was telling what was happening so he could react whereas perhaps with Whaley he''s not talking to Semi so Semi is missing stuff.Perhaps you want to look at the highlights from canary player where you can freeze frame them and replay them so you can get a better idea before you make pronouncements - in the words of a previous manager ''I must have missed your tenure as the manager of England''.

Goal 2: When we lose the ball Semi is stood just on the line of the center circle approx 8 m in front of the center and 8 m to the right of the middle of the pitch - not a position I''d expect a right back to be. When Sunderland make the break Semi jogs back.

So I see you also don''t think Doc was the problem as well but perhaps Whaley instead.

Just watched the highlights:goal 1: Doc stumbles and the player gets away to get the cross in, spillane goes to challenge, lappin is nowhere to be seen and no-one is marking the scorer, midfield problem goal 2: semi is no where near his man - semi is the problemgoal 3: semi is no where near his man - semi is the problemgoal 4: Doc pushes his bloke out the way if it does touch Doc at all its the tiniest of touches brushes what little hair he has and hits OTJ and own goal - certainly not the fault of Docthe problem is mainly semi and whaley.On the basis of this I can not see Lambert will be dropping the Doc.Spillane is unlucky to cause 2 injuries with his little push, is a red card thou.Cody Mac in goal - quality.

I''ve heard it said in our Prem season that the city stand was designed to have an extra tier, as someone else mentioned it would involve blocking off carrow road but there was already an agreement for that. However I seem to remember the agreement had a definite time limit on it in that the agreement held for so many years and in those years the club could do it and it would be done, but if the time limit expired then they would have to reapply for taking over Carrow road.

I used to play u11/u13/u15 with Andy Hunt, he was the best player in the league each year, I remember him scoring a double hit-trick in one match we won 8-0.Another player that NCFC let slip by.

Saying that I remember a certain Mr Green twisting his ankle and when Gallacher played everyone was ''He is okay'' ''If Green goes well Gally is good enough'' this was on a basis of a couple of good games and we all remember what happened there - a season of 5 keepers.We need a #1 keeper who will be here all season and it shouldn''t be a bloke who has got in because of 1 good game, in the same way ditching another because of one bad game is also rash, if we had dropped Gunn because of a 7-1 trashing we''d have missed out on a good keeper.Best thing to do is look for a team who has 2 keepers fighting for the top spot and getting one of those on a season long loan. Perhaps we can get a England U21 keeper - oh heck didn''t we iused to have one of those?

Sadly I also think that given the choice between Portaloo Rd and Carrow Rd the sensible option would be Portaloo becauase:a) it''s largerb) it is only an ~1hr out of London via trainc) It''s on the A12 so to can drive there from the south on dual carriagewayd) It''s on the A14?? so you can access it more easily from the west via dual carriagewaycompare that toCR- 2 hrs via train from LondonAccess via the A11 and A47, only holds 25k and you''d be silly to use CR.Sad but true.

Taipei City in Taiwan, approx 5,983 miles away, and no I don''t get to see many games

I use a mac each and everyweek to listen via CW, however as I outlined above it entails booting a copy of windowsXP in it''s own window in a virtual environment called virtualbox.If you can install windows on a computer then installing it under virtualbox is no harder than that.It''s a pain though and is CW is the one and only reason why I have winXP at all on my mac.

Unforunetly the live radio and the highlights use microsoft drm which is tricky to handle.I use virtualbox to boot a copy of window XP on my Macbook inside it''s own little window, this should also work on ubuntu.One nice thing I did find is that you don''t need IE after all, I used google chrome and it then starts up the windows media player which is actually I think the important bit for the DRM.It''s something I really hope they sort out soon, even if they insist on DRM there are other DRM''s that work on mac,linux as well as windows.

For the first Hull goal isn''t there a player at least 2-3 yards off-side standing half-way between Marshall and the next defender? I''m sure that must have had some effect on Marshall for the goal.2nd goal, they all went to cover the line and left the player free, the initial issue is that Doc has to make a challenge well outside the box because no NCFC midfielders are there to do it. After that it goes pear shaped quite quickly but I think the scored should have been marked by Shax better.

As a reserve goalie you couldn''t really ask for more, when he came he was #3 (behind greeno and ward). He''s trained well according to Grant, always been ready and lets be honest if Ward hadn''d had a dodgy back it would have been Ward between the sticks last season with Gally as reserve. Honestly I can''t fault the guy, good luck to him.

It''s getting beyond a joke, last year in the middle of the season they decided you had to have a WinXP machine to listen so I had to *buy* a new computer and WinXP to sit beside by Mac notebook just to listen to the CW. I wait up till 1am to listen to end of matches in Taiwan and the service provided is quite frankly not to to standard.

Re Green, it''s worth remembering he could have played the last few games of the season but choose not too to be sure not to get injured before the world cup. Of course as we all know it didn''t work out for him.However he could have played for NCFC but choose not to. Still the bloke is a legend in my book - I''m sure he could have kicked up a fuss and left years before he did go but he didn''t. Greeno = Canary LegendBellers = Legend, another who didn''t say he wanted to go but was sold anyway to balance the books.People who don''t need to bother coming back for instance are Townsend and Francis.