KeiranShikari

I remember really wanting us to sign Henri Camara back in the day, he played for Wigan.

I did edit in a little more on the woman moving to the men's game after my initial post, i pretty much agree on that point. Still can't really see an experienced bloke going to coach in the WSL though, not any time soon. I could absolutely see a future where there's a lot more coaches moving between the two though.

Money and the macho nature of male sports make me think that's probably unlikely. An elite male coach probably isn't going to want to be the guy to go into women's sport and fail. A woman at the top of women's football essentially gets a free shot at the men's game. Ther's obviously a different pressure there too, not wanting to 'set the women's game back' for a bad tenure.

She'd walk into the celebrity jungle but would she walk into any of the top jobs in men's football? No. The women's game has less quality and depth and that's something that people in the women's game admit. The men's game had a 50 year head start and the women's game is still underfunded in this country, a country that funds it more than most. Winning the women's Euro's is an elite sporting achievement but so is Farke getting Norwich promoted to the Premier League.

Yeah, I'd seen the TV figures of both the FA Cup and the Euros final. Globally though the Premier League is watched by a few more than 17 million and we've obviously been a part of that 2 of the last 3 years. I don't know how many people watched us play Man Utd last year but I'm thinking more than 17m. My point with this was tv audience is something you could give in favour of the England Women's team, although if a coach was looking for overall eyes on them they'd probably still pick Norwich. It's really nothing like speculating that Smith will be replaced by Klopp. The women's and men's games are almost 2 different sports entirely. Obviously coaches and players are different entities and coaches will be able to transfer over but until that happens we'll never really know.

All of them other than it's a National team that can draw a big tv audiences if things are going well during a summer tournament. Although even that you could counter with we'll have big audiences whilst playing big sides. Comparing club and international management is difficult in 1 version of the game let alone 2, so there aren't many perfect metrics to do so. Also if this is legit she's obviously shooting fish in a barrel at the moment, might fancy a change.

Not sure this will do anything to a fan's expectation level. RVW's marketing campaign probably played a small part but I belive that most of the hype back then was fee + his scoring record at previous clubs. I think we're more mature a fanbase now, the novelty of silly money has worn off (untill we hit the 15m up front incomings i guess).

Would really depend on how she views things. She might consider it mission accomplished with England, she might want to be a trailblazer for female coaches. No matter what people with Ukraine flags in their twitter handles tell you Norwich City is absolutely a higher profile station than the England Ladies team, maybe she wants that and the cash that would come with it. I'd imagine she'd consider it if offered a chance to speak to the club. Or at least It probably wouldn't be met with offence like Emma Hayes and the Wimbledon link.

My read on it is that Sara is McLean's replacement. Although McLean obviously isn't moving this season, Sara has to adapt to the country as well as bedding into the team and league.

I don't think many of us were expecting Drmic to be a world beater. We picked him up to play second fiddle and looking to rebuild his career after injuries.

Found this interesting.

Beating Wigan will keep us in the division.

Fans only want 'safe standing' because it's the shiny new thing. Spending it on virtually any other infrastructure project would be money better spent.

I think it's less about coaches and more about players. Farke is a far better coach.

Significantly different expectations on the season. Smith obviously deserves time but he'll be gone if we don't make the playoffs that's for sure.

They were 18th last season but it was hardly that team.

I thought he reacted to the second 'extra' challenge on Pukki.

All depends on how he settles in but I think we should be expecting more goals and assists from our central players than under Farke. I think the most advanced of our midfield 3 be that McLean or Sara will likely be aiming at 12-15 goals + assists.

Was hoping Burnley would take time to adapt to the new style but they look like they've balanced it well. Look a good side considering where we are in the season. Certainly better than anything we've served up in pre season. That being said Huddersfield looked really poor.

No chance Soto will be with the first team and I highly doubt Martin will be. Not this close to the real season starting. Here's a recent training vid for you to trawl through if you're interested.

Don't care this early. Wonder how many of ours will complain if Tino Anjorin plays well.

I'm not sure we do undersell our players, at least over the 20 years I've been watching. Maddison is the standout counter to that but the mitigating factors around that deal were pretty huge. Cutting our losses on PLM is fine but I'm sure that one will go down as a cheap gamble that didn't pay off, not good business.

Unless he's said something new I've not really gotten the impression that Smith is in love with Onel. I would imagine Hernadez is in a similar situation to Zimmerman, especially if Bailey is right and we sign another winger. Don't know if we'd force him out but he'd be picking between a deep squad role here or more elsewhere.

On my 3rd watch of the supercut vid despite telling myself I'd not get excited about these things again after recent seasons.

Legacy fans aren't ready for this.