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  1. Posted

    Although I’m totally against his zonal marking system I certainly wouldn’t sack him. Despite conceding a lot of goals I still feel he did brilliantly last season, and if we manage to keep enough talent I do believe he could take us back up next season. Let’s also remember that the reason why we have had such a poor season isn’t just down to poor management by Farke, it’s also down to a season plagued by injuries and being unable to invest in players much due to debts.

    Sacking the manager after relegation isn’t always the answer either - a few years back Wolves sacked McCarthy after relegation to the Championship and the following season they found themselves in League One, I believe that’s also been the case with Sunderland.

    Maybe consider sacking him around December/January if it looks like we don’t stand a chance of going back up 

  2. Posted

    Although I do believe that Leeds are finally going to get promoted this season, it’s not over yet and we’ve all seen the number of times they’ve slumped in the past. Although the board have said they believe we won’t need to sell this summer, I think we will end up selling some of our talent but if we do I don’t think we will sell it cheaply. Emi said recently he was happy to be at the club and if Leeds want him so badly ask for £40m+ for him

  4. Posted

    Personally I can only see us playing in the 2nd tier next season. I know survival isn’t impossible, it’s just we’re currently 6 points adrift of safety (effectively 7 when you look at our gd), with 9 games remaining. In order to stay up I feel we will have to win at least 4, lose no more than 2, and hope that all the teams around us are dropping points.

    As I said, we might stay up - there have been some surprising comebacks over the years, it’s just I see it very unlikely.

    My main hope at the moment is that we finish above Villa, then at least it’s guaranteed that we won’t be playing in a lower league to them next season.

    Anyway, OTBC! I’m hoping for the best, it’s just I’m afraid I’m someone who tends to fear the worst

  5. Posted

    Don’t come very often as I live quite far away although came twice last season. Of what I can remember from the times I have been these will have to be:

    5-0 win v Huddersfield (think it was 1997), including Neil Adams spot kick

    3-1 win v Rotherham, when Cantwell scored his first goal for us

    4-0 win v QPR although despite scoring for us first half I thought Buendia was a disgrace, and the ref was totally right to send him off 

  7. Posted

    If the season doesn’t get completed then I think that there should be no champions, promotion, or relegation as no teams are officially champions, promoted, or relegated yet - anything is possible and we might have stayed up. I also feel that a lot of our autumn results were down to injury - had Klose/Zimbo been fit when Amadou was playing I think we could have done better. Also ban all clubs from signing players who aren’t out of contract so teams can restart next season with how their squad would have looked in case they’d received no offers for players

  8. Posted

    Am desperate for Villa to go down with us - they don’t deserve to stay up in my opinion. They are supposed to have spent over £150m on players and when you compare that to how much we’ve spent and the difference between how us and Villa have done this season it’s completely ridiculous. When I look at how us, Sheff Utd and Villa did last season and how much we each spent last summer I feel realistically that really we should be in a relegation battle, the Blades should probably be challenging for a top half finish, and Villa should be challenging for Europe (i.e. looking to do what their West Midland rivals did last season)

  9. Posted

    I see what everyone is saying by his injuries now - I don’t think I knew he’s been quite that injury prone. Only started this thread to see what the rest of you thought about him. At least he’s only cost us his wages in case he does turn out to be a failure - unlike Naismith who I believe is supposed to have cost us somewhere in the region of £10m and where Thirsty Lizard mentioned Joelinton in an earlier post - it’s believed he cost Newcastle £40m

     

  10. Posted · Edited by HazzaJet

    58 minutes ago, ron obvious said:

    I'd go:

                                                        Tim

    Max             Zim                         Ben                   Grant                 Jam

                                                        Alex

                               Emi                                             Todd

                                                         Mario

                                                 Jos               Teem

     

    Gives great flexibility in personnel as well: Kenny, Adam, Marco, Rupp, Duda could be swapped in as necessary.

    Would go with pretty much the same formation Ron - would just drop a centre-back as we would be playing 11 a-side football, not 12 a-side! 

  11. Posted

    I don’t know what the rest of you think about Drmic, but would you think he should be getting more game time? I have to say that I feel rather sorry for him this season as I was looking forward to seeing him play, although he’s not played much due to injury and being confined to Farke’s late subs bench

    He’s said that he came to play and feels fit and determined to help us. Personally I want to see him play more as I thought he would be a good signing and the last thing I want to happen is him handing in a transfer request at the end of the season due to lack of game time. Would love to see Farke playing 2 up the top with him and Pukki starting.

     

  12. Posted

    I agree it’s time for a new formation as 4-2-3-1 just doesn’t seem to be working for us. When Lambert arrived he started playing a 4-4-2 with a diamond midfield and straight away we were a completely different side

    Although I have belief in Farke and don’t want to see him go, I still feel he needs to find a variety of different formations/tactics he can use as he may need them in case of injuries or to break down the other team’s style of play

  14. Posted

    Just love how they were doing so well earlier in the season and have completely turned things round - especially when their fans were hitting back at our “City going up and Scum going down” song by making up their equivalent with things the other way round.

    We were lucky as we had players like Great Grant and Wonder Wes. I don’t know much about the Ipswich squad other than they signed a lot of 3rd and 4th tier players under Hurst last season which was what sent them down.

     They now sit 10th, 7 pts adrift of the playoffs, 10pts off automatic promotion and 15pts off the title, with 8 games remaining. Every other team in the table also has at least 1 game in hand to them. This has made me very convinced that although City are set to be playing in the 2nd tier next season, Town will be staying down and may even be there for quite a while

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  15. Posted · Edited by HazzaJet

    Although my Dad reckons Pukki will go this summer as he thinks he will want to spend the remainder of his career with a big club I think Pukki will stay. I can’t see us selling him for any less than £30m and I can’t think who would want to buy him - ok he got off to a flying start but he hasn’t exactly been great this season has he? If we did lose him I think we will still have Drmic who although is clearly a bit more injury prone than Teemu, I do believe could turn out to be a good replacement. I reckon we will also probably sign someone else and send Idah out on a season-long loan.

    There was also an opinion article by Robin Sainty last month “Why Norwich City won’t abandon policy on transfer window spending” that says in it about how if Villa go down they would have huge financial problems, City would only have to sell players on their own terms as there are key players on long term contracts with relegation clauses in them that would slash wages.

  16. Posted

    Hughton was the most boring manager we’ve had so far in my lifetime. I know he got us to 11th in his first season in charge but despite keeping Brighton up last season he still got the sack as the fans were fed up with his boring style of play. Although I do believe we are going to end this season with our worst ever premier league points tally Farke has had very little money to spend on players when Hughton had £7.5m to spend on players like Ricky van Wolfswinkel. Just look at what Farke has achieved when the strength of the squad on his arrival was rather poor.

     I my opinion only call for Hughton as manager if you don’t follow the games live or watch highlights

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  17. Posted

    I think you’re being very optimistic believing we will beat the Reds. Ok, you can never write it off - I originally thought the victory over Man City was going to be a 5-0 defeat but personally I think we’ll get thrashed when you look at how well they’ve done so far this season, having still only dropped 2 points.

  18. Posted

    Totally agree. Although I think we are going to end this season with our worst ever premier league points tally, you have to bear in mind that he had very little money to spend on new signings. What you have to look at is how poor the squad was when he arrived and how great a value a lot of the signings have turned out to be, especially when some of them have been from the youth academy.

    Although lots of people are putting Hughton above Farke, in my opinion Hughton is one of the most boring ever managers. Despite keeping Brighton up last season he still got the sack as the fans were fed up with his boring defensive style of play.

    I know Hughton got us to 11th in his first season in charge, but if you’re going to him credit you have to give Farke credit because of what Farke has achieved out of the little money he has had to spend and the youth academy - lets not forget Hughton also got us relegated when he had something like £7.5m to spend on players like van Wolfswinkel

  19. Posted

    Although most people think that Ipswich should come first I don’t hate them as much as I did when I was younger, mainly because I now have some friends who support them - 10 years ago I did refer to them as the scum, but don’t anymore

    My teams would be:

    1) Leeds

    Anyone remember that fan “spainboy” who was on here and constantly wound us up during our League 1 season? I think fans of all other teams hate them 

    2) Aston Villa

    They’ve spent over £150m so in my opinion should be challenging for Europe, not just scraping survival. Also took Paul Lambert off us

    3) Ipswich 

    Although most people think they should come first I don’t hate them as much as I did when I was younger, mainly because I now have some friends who support them - 10 years ago I did refer to them as the scum, but don’t anymore. I still dislike them though and always want us to be the “Pride of East Anglia” - love this long unbeaten run we are on with them.

  20. Posted

    15 hours ago, Alex Moss said:

    From the Spurs message board...

    ’This is the perfect opportunity to blow away a hapless bunch of bottom dwellers, and give Tottenham Hotspur Football Club the shot in the arm it so desperately needs. 5-0.‘
     

    Arrogant tw@. I hope we batter them 🤞

    In my opinion that fan’s idea that they will thrash us 5-0 is utterly ridiculous. You never know, they might as we have the worst away record but they have not scored in their last 3 games. Had Pukki’s goal been given at Carrow Road I think we may have gone on to win as there would have been less pressure on us in the 2nd half. Spurs will also be without their key player Harry Kane.

    Would love it if the score line was the other way round as it would be great for our confidence, goal difference and a hugely embarrassing for the fan who posted it on there in the first place 

  21. Posted

    I’d try to keep all our best players for as long as possible to boost our chances of going straight back up next season. Lewis is still very young and I reckon he may wreck his career if he moves to another Premiership club as I can’t see him getting regular first team football anywhere else because he’s fallen out of favour with us. 

  22. Posted

    I originally I was completely against selling any first team regulars this season but I’m 100% convinced whatever happens for the rest of this season we will find ourselves in the 2nd tier next season. I would only accept an offer of £50+ though as we are rather stricken for CBs at the moment and so it might not be a wise idea selling but if we got £50m it might turn out to be quite useful for a club our size. If we do accept an offer though we take it at our own peril as we are very limited on CB availability, and Godfrey accepts the contract at his own peril as he is still young and may wreck his career - I just can’t see him getting much game time at a big Premier League team at the moment.

  23. Posted · Edited by HazzaJet

    Webber has already stated that we don’t need to sell in January. Just like others have said there is always plenty of speculation over players when transfer windows are being approached. I also doubt we would sell to a relegation rival and can’t see how any top flight club would want him at the moment. I know he set up Srbeny yesterday but he made an absolutely horrendous mistake against Watford and started this season with no PL experience.

    Buendia was decent last season but I think that lack of experience has caused his form to drop. Next summer maybe as he will have a bit of experience.

  24. Posted

    At the start of the season several of my mates who all support other teams said they thought we will survival and still do. I’ve had strong doubts since the start (I always do when we win promotion) but what we must remember is that any game is winnable, we are still only 4 points adrift of safety, 8 points adrift of mid-table, and 10 points adrift of the Europa League. Though I think that if we are going to survive, we have to start making a comeback very soon.

    To be honest I don’t think we will survive as I can’t see us making a comeback but hopefully we will.

  25. Posted

    Webber has already stated that we have no need to sell in the January transfer window and personally I can’t see them letting him go as I don’t think we would stand a chance of survival because Drmic is our only cover for him (I don’t think Idah is ready for this level yet) and he is also out injured till then. If we go down at the end of the season he might hand in a transfer request but I think at the moment he is happy to be at the club. We’ll wait and see.

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