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Palmer asked to leave because he didn't get the promise of more game time he was after. That's from Guradiola too. He is no victim, just a young player who thought he was ready to play regularly.

He came from Colney...

He's lined up as a number 10 and Barnes has gone up front.

We can kill this off by half time if we keep creating opportunities like this. Stoke look awful when we run at them.

Last line of the Sara song is "and we signed him from Brazil". Any in particular you want to know?

I thought the reaction was well over the top and really not needed when we were 2-1 up. Wagner has surely earned some respect. Feels like plenty made their mind up long ago and are looking for any reason to justify their opinion now. Yes the subs didn't work at QPR but there have been plenty of times he has impacted games positively and tonight was another. There's certainly been occasions where he deserved criticism, but recently he's got us playing much better and it's good to watch whilst giving us a shot at the playoffs. Should be the time to get behind the team and see where it goes!

I think that ship sailed when he joined Southampton unfortunately. The only way he would end up with us now is if it goes wrong for him in someway.

Really interesting piece here, can't help but feel we missed a trick in not going for him when Smith got the boot. Seems to have taken on a lot of Farke in terms of the style he wants his teams to play and combined it with the aggressive edge of a Paul Lambert team (when he was still good). https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/09/southampton-record-unbeaten-run-russell-martin

His first game there since Leeds last week where he also didn't look comfortable in that role. Much better as a box to box midfielder with the game in front of him.

All those clear cut West Brom chances I keep reading about on here seem to have been omitted.

Only for a medical assessment which is fairly normal when a player picks up an injury.

Whilst it was a decent ball (with a deflection) to put this to bed he needs to do it regularly. How many is that for recent seasons?

Hojlund cost £60m and missed a similar one this week. Idah at least has it in his game to get into those positions to miss them. I didn't Hwang get into them.

Yet has only scored 3 in 18 appearances. Half that of Idah.

Ball was played backwards, unless the rules have changed then that's not offside.

Has he been injured since last week? I haven't seen it mentioned.

And Sainz

Reminds me of Away Days by Kevin Sampson. Had a chapter called Norwich Away and made it into the film adaptation too.

First half was a tactical plan to contain them and make it hard for them to break on us. That was certainly no disaster and the game was finely balanced. We got undone by firstly a strange decision to penalise Gibson, a foul not given then Stacey getting sucked forward leaving his man exposed which meant Fassnacht had to get back and cover causing a clumsy foul. Whilst the first half wad short on chances by both sides it was actually a decent game all in all.

No he wasn't jogging from my view in the ground. Ran around a lot trying to close things down but only had maybe two touches.

Seems like an interesting rumour, like Webber has a strong affinity for developing young players. https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/introducing-man-utd-head-of-academy-nick-cox https://elitescholars.co.uk/2023/02/05/nick-cox-manchester-united-academy-director/

Sounds like a good quiz question. Only know of Danny Mills.

How could I forget about Gibbs! But yes, Norfolk isn't known for producing many footballers. The Murphys were from London originally and I think that's the case with Rowe too.

Add Kellen Fisher to that list too. I don't think it's an unusual amount but up on last season. It's just only few make it so the rest get forgotten about. The season we signed Omabamadele there was also Barden, Soto, Mumba and Josh Martin. I can also remember Melvin Sitti, McCallum was 20 when we signed him, Rocky Bushuri, Simon Power, the lad from Peterborough who's now out on loan but the name escapes me. Daniel Adshead was another.