Alan George

yeah, you''re right canary tom - better be careful on a night out in brighton - i reckon all the men out there will be desperate for a homophobic pissed up twat in a football shirt

I am a daily visitor to the pinkun forum although not as frequent a poster as i should be. Just wanted to highlight a new football blog that me and a mate have set up. For a comedic look at english football (including the championship) have a look and see what you think. Note - recent articles on John Hartson! www.sniffingtt.blogspot.com    

What about Iwan in the playoff final against Birmingham?

I am a city fan currently living in scotland. my best mate up here is a st mirren fan so i go with him most weekends to watch them. I have seen a lot of simon lappin this season and saw the city scout there on saturday. Lappin is a good player. He shines in the st mirren sign (not that that is saying that much). He is quite quick and does have a good cross. he has a good touch and can take players on. My only criticism is that he is not that strong on the ball. But he will run all game for you. I think he will do ok for us but Grant says he can play anywhere down the left or in midfield. I cant really see that, not at left back anyway. My mate is very upset that we got him for 75,000 quid, he says he is worth more like 200,000. so that has to be good i suppose. its very hard to compare the standard of the SPL to the championship but i would say that he should be pretty decent for us, especially for so little money. Just dont play him at the back as PG has said he might. Lappin on the left and put hucks up front

I am a city fan currently living in scotland. my best mate up here is a st mirren fan so i go with him most weekends to watch them. I have seen a lot of simon lappin this season and saw the city scout there on saturday. Lappin is a good player. He shines in the st mirren sign (not that that is saying that much). He is quite quick and does have a good cross. he has a good touch and can take players on. My only criticism is that he is not that strong on the ball. But he will run all game for you. I think he will do ok for us but Grant says he can play anywhere down the left or in midfield. I cant really see that, not at left back anyway. My mate is very upset that we got him for 75,000 quid, he says he is worth more like 200,000. so that has to be good i suppose. its very hard to compare the standard of the SPL to the championship but i would say that he should be pretty decent for us, especially for so little money.

Being up at university in Scotland means it is a long way to travel for home matches. It also means that I get to enjoy Scottish football. Anyway, was out with a mate in Glasgow and he bumped into craig Bellamy at the bar, recently injured for Celtic. He said well done for the goal he scored last Saturday and asked him if he had enjoyed his time at Norwich? Bellamy said that no, he never really enjoyed it, he couldnt wait to leave and the expression he used was that he was a big fish in a small pond. He actually said he was too good for Norich and when my mate joked that he should come back and play for us, he said that he would never go back because he didnt like the club. I was pretty surprised to hear that considering he made his name at the club. I think he really does live up to his reputation and i dont think i would take him back anyway now.

I do appreciate what you are saying. There certainly are advantages to playing in the Championship. My mate is a Stoke fan and I dont know whether he is just being bitter or not but he says that he genuinely prefers playing in the Championship. Why? 1. He says that at least the league is competitive unlike the premiership where winning a quarter of your games will see you stay up. 2. The games are more regular. You dont have to wait two or three weeks for a game because of champions league etc. If you lose on the Saturday you can bounce back on the Wednesday. 3. The league is an English league. Success isnt bought Chelsea style with whoever can afford the most foreigners doing well. The league is still based on yound English players coming up through youth teams. 4. The support is of a much better standard in the Championship. Although the grounds are larger in the Premiership there just isnt as much noise. For the larger teams especially in the Premiership the ground is full of neutral supporters and corporate guests. In the Stoke FA cup game with Arsenal, my mate said that the Stoke fans put Arsenal to shame at Highbury. They didnt sing a song all game. 5. More is at stake. With 2 promotion spots and 4 more playoff positions there is a lot more to play for. This, combined with the lack of competitiveness means that there are fewer clubs left in mid table mediocrity season after season.   The reasons he puts forward are convincing but i cant help feel that he doesnt really believe what he is saying. I think that he still desperatley wants Stoke to go up. Its natural. Its the same with Norwich. Of course we want them to stay up more than anything...but perhaps it wouldnt be all doom and gloom if we do go down.

I agree that worthington should stay but not because he is perfect. He has made a number of errors in his running of the team throughout the year and is still learning as a manager. However i do think that Worthy has got to know his team, is building up the squad, has experience in the championship and the premiership, has acheived promotion with us before and knows how do do it again. Asking him to keep up a team who were relegation certainties on paper was a big ask. The real question to ask i who would replace him, and why would they be considerably better than worthy?

The Soton game is a must win. I think that we need seven points from the next three games at least. Even then palace could quite easily beat us to 17th. five points will just not be good enough. i think it really is 50/50 between us and palace at the moment, we jsut really need newcastle to give them a good drubbing. i think that the game against soton is definately winnable and i do have confidence, but we must not get complacent after our mini-comeback, we are only half way there. all three games are must wins really, perhaps 7 points might do it but i doubt it. fingers crossed though

I dont know what you are bragging about. the season isnt over yet. i dont think you are as safe as you think you are. I hope you enjoy sitting in your half empty huge stadium next year. i think its high time you replaced fratton park which is quite frankly a s**t hole. i have been down there too often over the last few years in the rain without a roof over our heads and watch us pump you. So i hope you enjoy your new stadium and the enourmous debts that you aqquire from building it. why would you come on to the norwich forum and give us stick for going down. you obviously have nothing better to do with your time than to incite other teams fans and i think it would be better if you concentrated on your own problems rather than give us advice about ours. i hope you go down and keep dropping. With any luck southampton will stay up as well and they can laugh at you as you languish in the lower leagues as you had been doing until somebody bought you promotion

Dont get me wrong, i hope and pray that we stay up this season. I know we can do it if we try. I could think of nothing better than beating chelsea on saturday. I appreciate your point about pessimissism not getting us anywhere. But we cant keep shouting the clubs praises when they are playing so poorly. Being critical does not make me any less of a fan. i just want to show that the way we are playing at the moment gives us no chance of staying up. saying every player is amazing and playing really well while assuming that we will stay up is just unrealistic. The point of my rant at the team was to highlight the room for improvement and the need for change within the mentality of the club. 

this ridiculous optimism doesnt do anyone any good. if we cant beat man city at home i cant see us being anywhere else next year other than in the championship. Team spirit is all well and good but when your defence is substandard and has no fight, or passion about it, the club cant stay up. I was so dissapointed last night. I really thought that we would have them, i really had faith that we could beat them, even when it was 2-2. But we just sat back and waited for them to score, which they only managed after 92 minutes because they are so crap. I hate to be the pessimist but i just cant see us doing anyhting from now on. Three wins (one of which was bloody lucky) from a whole season is just not good enough. Palace are only five points above us but have proved themeslves to be a proud club who battle and are passionate about the game. we just lie down and take it from clubs like man city. i really hope that we beat chelsea on saturday, and you know what, its not impossible. If we play anything like we did for the first 20 mins last night against chelsea then we could turn them over two or three nil. If we fight for it, if we have belief, and concentration, passion and a bit of luck then we could easily stay up. Unfortunatley i cant see us doing that.

Keeping dean ashton is the most important thing we need to do if we go down this season. I cant realistically see him going bearing in mind the club had to fork out three million quid that we dont really have, also the fact that he would seem like the most disloyal player ever and no other prem club would want him anyway. If he jumps ship a few months after joining the club because they go down, why would any bigger club want him anyway? I agree that we have to strengthen the defence because that is where we are really being let down at the moment. Our strikeres and midfield can actually look quite dangerous when they want to but we just keep leaking careless goals at the back, most of which seem to be free headers in the box. The teams suggested above would certainly compete in the first div. I could really see us having som,e success and im glad that the majority of our team should stay next season if we go down. Lastly, last night against man city was poor. I was so dissapointed with the way the team''s heads dropped the moment they conceded. At two-one up it was inevitable that we were going to lose. Ashton had a great game but that was where it ended. Their first goal was a shambles with the entire defence literally watching man city queue up for the header. we played so well in the first 15 minutes and i just couldnt believe the turn around after they scored. We need some guts and committment and most importantly, concentration. If we cant do this at this stage in the season then we dont deserve to be in the premiership. it just means now that we will have to beat chelsea on staurday....should be easy.