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Shane Long seems to be a popular choice and would be one I would like to see us move for. McGugan would be a decent shout, but if we can persuade Arsene to let us keep Lansbury our midfield looks pretty useful anyway!

I think he''ll change very little. I can''t imagine Zak will play - he can put his fragile bones/muscles into cotton wool for the next 3 months. I also presume Fox is carrying a niggle which is why he''s come off in each of the last four games. Other than that - carry on!

We may have a holding midfielder, but we only play with two defenders!!!

Derby''s second was down to some slack defending. Definitely not Ruddy''s fault - powerful shot from the edge of the box, bottom corner - keeper no chance.

He cramped up about 2 minutes before the end of normal time and still he kept going forward. Didn''t have the energy to join in with the bundle in front of the Snakepit so just stayed in front of the Barclay - completely knackered!

........is that this is Bryan Gunn''s side.

The thing which strikes me as odd is that this is with "immediate effect". Andy Cullen worked a quite lengthy notice period and I would have expected someone in Kevan Platt''s position to work three or even six months. Still we can speculate all we want, I don''t suppose we will know the true reasons and neither should we. As for the club''s statement, not sure what more we could have or should have expected. A top ten agenda''s prepared by Kevan? The statement is rather brusque but that''s business. I also don''t quite get why we would be sorry, on a non personal level, that there is no-one at the club who has worked there since the 1970''s. I work for a company who has many employees who were working there in the 70''s and 80''s and are still hanging on - whereas to be frank they should have got out years ago. And if the club wanted to write a history - well doesn''t Mike Damage, sorry Davage, do that sort of thing anyway and he''s not an employee plus Joe Ferrari has been in and around the club in one capacity for a good while now, plus the boring chap who does the programme used to work in the club shop years back didn''t he? Anyway - I echo the sentiments of wishing Kevan all the best, but it''s time to move on now!

Anyone with even a slight knock shouldn''t be risked, otherwise I would hope we would be near enough full strength. Regardless of whether Nelson and Barnett are fully fit, I''m sure Whitbread will start. I''m sure the manager will have had some clear thoughts all week regarding his team selection!

Seems to be a suggestion that the third caller - "Hallo Neeyul I''m out", was Karl Minns on a wind up.

We played the diamond against Derby and Portsmouth - Fox base, Crofts right, Hoolahan left and Lansbury at the tip. Not enough width yesterday especially as Pompey crammed the central areas - should have gone 4-4-2 after 60 mins or so.

If you read Jacob Tabbanor''s Facebook update from last Sunday he says he was nicked for "giving the scum a send off at the station", and he was the "unlucky" one to get arrested. Having seen some YouTube footage of this it seems it was no more than "friendly" cross border banter, and didn''t seem to get physical at any point.

From memory the "Sheffield Wednesday saga" dated back to Christmas time in the play off season - around the time when we did Wednesday 5-0 at Hillsborough.

Silly tashes or not there does need to be more awareness of Prostate Cancer and to my mind Movember is the perfect way to do it. Should we not support the women walking through cities in their bras at night raising awareness of Breast Cancer? We all have charities which are closer to our hearts than others. Personally and due to some close family who''ve been affected The Alzheimers Society is close to my heart, and as something of a pacifist, I have to say Help For Heroes is somewhere further down the line (albeit I acknowledge the outstanding if regretable work they have to do).

I have a 3 year season ticket - my letter from the club says: "Thank you for your advanced purchase of your 2011/2012 Norwich City season ticket.........   From 2011-2012 Norwich City Football Club will no longer run the multi-year/season ticket top-up option scheme."   So effectively as I already have my ticket for the next two seasons, I won''t be putting any money into the club via season ticket purchase until prior to the 2013/2014 season, whereas I have been topping up annually. This means the club won''t get as much in season ticket income for the next two to four years (bearing in mind some people have five year tickets) as they would normally do. Interesting - would be interested to know the rationale behind that. Do we still have a Supporters Forum thing? Has this already been discussed with some of our top fans - Freeloader Gus and the like?  

It''s interesting that some people constantly phone Neil Adams and ask why two or three players aren''t left up field for set pieces. Last night we left Jackson and Wes up field - the first goal came because we got caught two on one at a short corner. Who would normally be closing down those moves - Wes. The more players you leave up field (and bear in mind Palace only left three back), the fewer you have who are not man marking and accordingly you don''t have so many "spare" players to have on the two posts or to close down short corners.

Great choice of interviewee again Hucks. Any chance of a candid interview with Mathieu Louis-Jean, so we can ask him all those questions we''ve been dying to ask?!

That''s a real shame Hucks. It reminds me of when we had to stand up in school assembly and read out our match reports. Is this something that applies to all football clubs or is it just an NCFC ruling?

Thought he had a very solid game tonight and I didn''t think he was THAT bad against Watford.

Bowel cancer. It''s no age. Very sad - RIP Adam Stansfield.

"Neither team played well enough to deserve to win" I think that''s a bit harsh on Watford to be fair... "Whatever any Watford fan may say their goals were not well worked" Their second goal was a nice interchange between the strikers exploiting the weakness in our defence. If it had been Holt and Martin, we would still have been waxing lyrical about it now. Other than that I agree with most of the rest of your points and agree that a 4-2-3-1 could be effective, as it could easily switch to a 4-4-1-1 when defending (I would play Martin wider, albeit not as an out and out winger and Hoolahan centrally behind Holt). To play the diamond you ddon''t necessarily need a destroyer at the base to be successful (Dave Stringer played a diamond a few years back with Rob Newman in the Rusty role), but you do need all of your midfielders to close down the opposition to deny them space. We didn''t do that first half, but were much better in this regard in the second half and as a result we saw more possession.

"Agree with this, I hope Lambert plays the side he thinks will start against Scunthorpe to hopefully boost their confidence and giving them more time to gel"   Playing the side that will play against Scunthorpe would mean that Crofts will not play against Scunthorpe, as he can''t play against Gillingham. After last night I would expect him to be one of the first names on the teamsheet.

The fact of the matter is that we have a very young squad. Only Drury and Nelson are in their 30s (and Nelson has only just turned 30). To me this is a squad built for consolidating this season and pushing on over the next couple of years. If we wanted to compete this year then I think we would need a couple of experienced heads to bolster the squad (this may still happen when the Premiership clubs have decided on their 25 players).

Goalkeepers always take a while to settle at clubs. Remember how long it was before Gunn felt secure (who remembers his headless chicken run in a game against Man Utd, when he blocked a shot from Remi Moses(?) on the half way line?), and even with Forster last year (after his sending off many were calling for Rudd to stay in goal because he was better than Forster). I think Ruddy will be fine - but people seem to think keepers should be turning in top class performances from day one - that rarely happens! The idea is clearly for Rudd to go out on loan soon to get him some experience and hopefully we will have genuine competition for the keepers spot for the first time in years!

This is therefore presumably on the basis that Bury won the FA Cup a couple of times over a hundred years ago. What cobblers - I agree that Talksport is a waste of valuable airspace - I never listen to its garbage.