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    23 hours ago, yavanzhai55 said:

    So I will start this rant off by saying, I'm not a Norwich fan, nor am I anti Norwich in any way.

    There is a few things that have really frustrated me about watching Norwich this season as a neutral, particularly after the restart.

    How has somebody within the club, principally Farke, not identified that they are shipping goals left right and centre from completely avoidable situations. I'm talking about them playing a style of football that can only be played with top quality ball playing centre backs. It doesn't take a genius to see that week in week out they are conceding avoidable goals, trying to play out from the back, losing the ball in their own final third 5,6,7 or 8 times a game and conceding 2 goals from the resulting chances. This might be a viable game plan if the times they didn't lose the ball from the back they were linking into midfield and getting their quality into the game, but they don't. How does your man in charge, your coaches, your analysts not say 'hold up we are getting rolled every week and we aren't helping ourselves at all'

    How has your man in charge not at least tried a different style of play and how has he avoided being absolutely slated for his lack of invention and belief. Watch him on the side line, he has looked defeated and out of ideas since well before the covid break.

    The covid break was a real opportunity for Norwich, they could have come back with 9 games to play and set up for 9 cup finals, instead they have come back without any new invention and no real belief. As a fan of football I would have had more respect for them if they had come back and at least tried to be hard to beat, set up tight at the back, men behind the ball, kicking for position if they are under the cosh and then looking to set pieces, Cantwell, Puuki or Buendia as an outlet.

    I write this as a goalkeeper who played at a decent level, of course I'm not assuming to know better than Prem players and managers but something just baffles me about Norwich's PL campaign this year. I'm watching them and thinking if my CB's were losing the ball trying to play out from the back week in and week out at even a semi pro level I would have murdered one of them by now, full Brucey Grobelaar moment would ensue. Cannot understand how a keeper of Kruul's experience hasn't tore his hair out with this set up in front of him.

    Would you rather play 'attractive' football in the championship or play 'ugly' football in the prem? seems Norwich and Farke stuck to their guns and have inevitably shot themselves in the foot.

    Would love to hear from some Norwich fans, as I cannot understand how the mood around the club can be anything other than disappointed.

    I stopped reading at "Cities". 

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    2 hours ago, Mackrel829 said:

    I think Cantwell is somewhat over-rated and today's game is a good example of how.

    He did nothing for 75 minutes. The second that goal flew in, the commentator said 'now that's Premier League class' or something to that effect.

    There's no denying that the goal was excellent, and Cantwell flashes these moments of brilliance once or twice a game. That goal was literally all he contributed to the win today though. He did nothing else noteworthy.

    There's a strong element of confirmation bias. He seems to have garnered this reputation as being an undoubtedly Premier League level player, so now every time he does something good, this has to be mentioned. Someone like Pukki, on the other hand, has garnered a reputation as not being good enough for the Prem. So when he scores a goal that is equally good - and arguably better - AND contributes significantly more over the course of 90 minutes, his praise isn't as high.

    I like Cantwell, and I think he's a good player, but I think some people are far too high on him. He scored the winning goal, but he'd be one of the last names I'd list as being the reason that Norwich won.

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    36 minutes ago, GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary said:

    Their 2 games in hand are the only thing slightly distorting the picture at the top of the table...if they'd have dropped the points theyve cheated their way to in one/both of their last 2 games , it would be looking a lot more comfortable....a 5 pt gap over second place doesnt look quite so secure

    They play one of these two games in hand away at Blackburn in midweek.

    I'm irritated ..but I'd imagine watford and brentford are moreso.

    The promOtion picture has been changed purely by the incompetence / guessing of two referees in their last two games.

    On balance, I think VAR is probably needed in the EFL when you see the two pens theyve got this past week

    The gap to 3rd place is all that really matters, and that hasn't changed. It would be nice to win the league, but Swansea winning both their games in hand doesn't worry me too much.

  11. Posted · Edited by Wardogz

    It's Emi for me. Such an incredibly gifted player, an all time Canary hero now. Skipp of course is a worthy mention, Pukki has been great too. But Emi is the best player in the league.

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    3 hours ago, CDMullins said:

    There is absolutley no way we coud lose Emi and Max and replace them plus our other shortfalls with £40 Million.

    £40 Million is 3 players tops.

    I have faith in our recruitment that we can replace them (obviously it's doubtful we'd find people of equal quality, but we can add depth in other areas) is important to remember that we didn't pay anything like that for them.

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