LeJuge

Do you lot argue about everything? FFS. Lack of sex?Cody McDonald is a player that Lambert likes, he proved that by extending his contract. He is proving that he is too good for League Two and if you are too good for League Two then you are good enough for League One.The next step for Cody is to prove that he is good enough for The Championship, if we get promoted this season then we can loan him out to somebody in this league for him to have a crack at doing so, if we don''t get promoted then he can have a go at proving himself here. Either way, he can continue his development next year. If it is clear that he isn''t good enough for The Championship then we release him at 2012 and he goes and has a happy career in the lower leagues, if he proves that he is good enough then we give him a new deal and we have a £1m-£2m striker on the books (irrespective of whether or not we are in the Premiership).I can assure you that there would be other teams in The Championship willing to take a punt on him if we don''t next season, I would rather we give him a shot here than see him go and score goals for Millwall or even worse Ipswich.The bloke isn''t going to be earning a fortune, we aren''t losing anything by giving him an opportunity and personally I am pleased that we did give him this shot because he seems like a decent bloke.

Nobody of note.Michael Nelson, Matt Gill, and some kids. That is it.You can have Gill if you want, will do well for you in League One.

[quote user="nu_matik"]How have you paired him with us? Says nowt about any teams in particular, and he''s 7th in the pecking order at a not so good club. Definately nowhere near what we''re looking for and if this is what Lambert considers we need for a promotion push, i''d be very worried indeed.[/quote]Looks pretty sh*t to me:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm7mgWctn6M

They aren''t dead certs for promotion, but I wagered £50 on them getting automatic after signing Craig Bellamy, so I tell myself that to make myself feel better about their inevitable failure. Please note that I wouldn''t have placed that bet had I foreseen our unprecedented success forthcoming. Obviously I would have placed it on us. Seriously though, Cardiff would have offered him more money, and an extra year, and money talks with footballers.

I thought that at the time to be honest, always rated him at this level. Has a lot more experience at Championship level too.Ultimately though, would he have chosen Norwich over Cardiff? I would say that they are dead certs for automatic, we are mere outsiders, and I would still take play-offs. They are also clearly willing to spend more than they can afford, whilst we have a strategy to get out of debt, and he got a two and a half year deal whilst Wilbraham got a one and a half year deal.I see Wilbraham as a stop gap, Cardiff probably see Parkin as a stop gap too. But you don''t give a stop gap player a two and a half year deal, I would sooner see Lambert save his wage budget for a big name striker in the summer when he gets his next pot of money to splash.

If Wiz had his way Delia would have sold out to Giovanni Di Stefano when he tried again in 2007. Then he could have bankrupted us like he has two other clubs and Wiz could return to his first love, Ipswich Town.Delia is making amends with the help of the new board. If we were to end up debt free and with a 35,500 seater stadium, playing football in the Premier League, with the help of McNally and without investment, would these idiots forgive and forget?

[quote user="Felixfan"]Anyone who thinks that prices will be cheaper if we gain premier league status and expand to 35000 seats is living in cloud cuckoo land. I would expect the minimum casual seat for major games (now £33) would be at least £40 if not more.[/quote]We would be lucky to get 20000 at those prices, you realise that unemployment is going to continue to rise right up to the end of 2012? And will still be at todays rate in 2015? It would be the club living in cloud cuckoo land if they put prices up that much. They would need to freeze prices in order to increase attendance in the premiership at all, with the exception of games against the big four. Although I agree that cutting prices is unlikely, McNally has already said that he intends to increase prices again next year. Let''s hope that we are in the division above if he does so, because otherwise we will see attendances beginning to slide.

I think that extending the ground to its limit (we can''t go higher than that) in one go is by far the most cost effective means, rather than say extending to 30000 and then realising that we need to extend further.If we were to lower ticket prices slightly, say £20 for teams like Blackburn and Bolton, £28 for the bigger games, I could see us getting 30000 week in week out, occassionally more. I can''t see any harm in having a few thousand spare seats, with a stadium that big we would also put ourselves in the line for hosting smaller European Championship games if we were to ever get that tournament again.It should also be remembered that people tend to spend at least a tenner on pasties, beer or programs etc, sometimes a bit in the clubshop. Whacking up ticket prices when there are seats to spare is a false economy. Cutting ticket prices by a fiver might sell 3000 extra tickets, those 3000 people might spend say a tenner at the ground.I would rather 35000 than 30000, if needs must we can always extend the away allocation for the bigger clubs, Spurs and Chelsea etc would sell 5000 away tickets if they had the chance.

[quote user="canary_girl"]Did anyone see the poster who thought we were so skint because we have only bought one player this year/season - Jackson?...And the rest! including thier former captain Crofts! lol[/quote]Link please? Pretty please?

If Celtic are genuinely interested then he will be heading their for a winners medal.If they are not genuinely interested then I would without a doubt be up for that, and I doubt that he would be fussed about earning Championship wages if we gave him a nice whack for a goal bonus.For anybody doubting Cody McDonald''s potential, by the way, here are a few facts:Signed for Watford at 22 for £10k who were at the time in The Championship from a non-league team, but got relegated that year. Just like Cody. Played a bit of football in the old Second Division, now League One, scored a few goals. Cody is scoring in League Two, one division below.Got a move back to The Championship with Sunderland for just £350k, aged 24 (current age of Cody), two years later he was an England Striker. Ipswich had offered £250k, didn''t think he was worth an extra £50k! In his first 6 months at Sunderland he struggled at Championship level.My point? Don''t write Cody off just yet! He is only 24, the same age that Phillips was still finding his feet, he could be an England International by the time he is 27!

[quote user="ryan1992"]The recent football manager games have been very good, but tough to succeed with City. After a few seasons of struggling in the Championship, I decided to cheat my way into the Prem. To do this, when the manager of Norwich (or who ever you want to be) Simply click on the fm button in the top right corner, click ''add manager'' and take control of a rich club (man City, Chelsea etc) and buy a player from the Ncfc team you never play ( I usually sell McNamee for 80m to Man City!) then retire from the rich club, and your budgets are a lot healthier for Norwich, almost guaranteeing yourself the title with a few signings! Or just adjust the Budgets on the editor to give yourself a few hundred million pounds to spend![/quote]You have to be really crap at Football Manager to have to cheat, seeing as people can get teams from the blue square north to the premiership without cheating at all.

[quote user="Big Slob"]Is he any better than McNamee? (That''s not saying Mcnamee is of the same quality as a fringe England player, more so that they are both typical black English wingers, lots of pace and skill, but end product 9 times out of 10 is dreadful.)[/quote]Typical BLACK wingers? What are you, a member of the BNP or just plain stupid?You don''t need to look any further than our own Ruel Fox to realise how pathetically weak that comment was, of course we could just sign the WHITE Ian Henderson on the wing couldn''t we Adolf?

A true Norwich fan would not have said that.

[quote user="Coelho"]You can find out how long people have left on their contracts here: http://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/player-profilesGill, Nelson, Francomb, Dawkin, Askou and Habergham are out of contract this summer - would imagine Nelson and Francomb are the only ones there who might be offered a new deal.[/quote]I would keep Francomb, Dawkin and Habergham if we go up. I would keep Francomb, Dawkin, Habergham and Nelson if we don''t. Sorry guys, good enough at this level, but keeping hold of Nelson in the prem would be pointless and potentially embarressing. There are plenty of players who could surprise us at Prem level, Nelson is not one of them. Keeping players out of sentiment is not the way forward, not the same situation as Malky - he was still good enough, Nelson may have done a job for us but he is no Malky Mackay.I am very surprised to hear that somebody suggests Dawkin should or could go, he is probably the most talented player that we have without a pro-deal, I have seen him twice and would say that he is odds-on to get a nice three year deal. In fact, the bloke has the potential to become a top rate player. I would be extremely surprised if we let Dawkin go, and if we do I would expect him to become a Championship player at least. Francomb should get a deal, he has a future in the game if not with us and it is far too early to make the judgement as to whether to release him or not, give him a two year deal and loan him out again. I would send Habergham out on loan too, to see if he can have a similar sort of impact in League Two. It looks as if League One is probably Askou''s level, and it is 100% Gill''s level, I suspect that Askou will go back to Denmark and Gill will look for a move to League One or Two.

If you were a Norwich United player would you rather tell the grandkids that you have played (and possibly scored) at Carrow Road against Scottish and Welsh internationals or a few half-talented 16 year old kids that never made it?If you were a Norwich United fan or relative of a player would you rather pay £4 to watch the Norwich Youth Team or £4 to watch the Norwich reserves? If you were the Norwich United chairman would you rather take a slice of the gate reciepts tonight with first teamers to watch, or a slice of the gate reciepts if we were to play 16 year olds? It will probably put 500 on the gate at least.I know what I would choose in each of those circumstances. This is probably the biggest game that any of that squad will play, they will be delighted.As for the strength of the squad, I can only see 6 players that can be considered players who have "made it", they are Gill, Tudor-Jones, Askou, McNamee, Hughes, Jackson. Many of the others are still playing for a pro-contract, and the others are still a million miles away from establishing a career in football. I include Luke Daley and Jed Steer in that, one being a striker who has yet to score a professional goal and the other being a goalkeeper who may be highly rated but is still very young (I mean, we have been there many times before haven''t we?).

[quote user="haisbrohacker"]That will be a big step from 2 to the Prem HRH[/quote]Have you seen the Blackpool squad?

[quote user="s10_yellow"]Of course we wouldn''t have taken 4,500 on Boxing Day. Football Ground Guide says the allocation is 2,000 so if we''ve nearly sold out that sounds about right.[/quote]That is the minimum allocation that they must provide, not the amount that they always provide. Every ground has a minimum allocation of away tickets, they are permitted to give more tickets and most teams are clever enough to do so if they have the seats spare.

The Ian Crook Autobiography is satire you bleedin muppet.That means that this article: http://www.the-gaffer.com/features/columnists/too-many-crooks/wogan.htmlIs not true. Therefore, it doesn''t have to be somewhere, it has to be nowhere. Epic fail. In fairness, you are in the right part of the world to be clueless when it comes to satire and parody.

I just want to put this one to bed. I have seen three or four people on here in the last week or so state that Cody is out of contract at the end of the year.He signed a contract extension in March 2010, it is now due to expire at the end of NEXT season. This also suggests that Lambert is willing to give the lad a chance when he returns.Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/8549366.stm

[quote user="Gareth"][quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="Nexus_Canary"][quote user="LeJuge"]So what is he supposed to do whilst sitting deeper than Grant Holt? If he is playing a support role to a main striker then I would expect him to be able to play a through ball or some decent link up play.[/quote]Thats his bleeding strong points for crying out loud.He is probably the best link up player we have got. Spend some time and watch him on the ball, try to actually spot the GOOD moves he makes as opposed to the crappy ones.Seems that people see the 1% of mistakes and discount the 99% of the time he doesnt.Martin''s control is superb and he is often playing quick short passes and moving to space or freeing up players by dragging defenders and midfielders.I will say again, his link up play is second to none in our squad.[/quote]Are you saying that he is a centre midfielder then? If his strong points are link up play and playing quick short passes then he is a centre midfielder, only he can''t tackle either, so he really isn''t.I 100% believe that his inability to play a final ball is hindering Grant Holt''s goalscoring, he has set up 2 goals for christ sack, a deep lying forward has to be able to play a through ball. I do rate him, I really do, as a striker. But when he isn''t converting his chances he isn''t contributing much to the team. His strong point is his finishing, if you believe anything other than YOU are the muppet. When he isn''t in goalscoring form we aren''t benefitting from his ability. Chris Martin was touted about as a star because of his sublime ability to finish from pretty much anywhere in the 18 yard box. This year he isn''t doing it. That is the difference from a £500k striker and a £3m striker, unless he can play a role as a foil. When playing that role you have to create chances for the primary striker, that is Grant Holt. He isn''t doing that.You keep going on about your amazing football intellect yet fail to recognise the role of a deep lying forward, your holier than you attitude is failing you deeply. I used my female friends email address for this account, because I want to post anonymously, but I have played two seasons of football in the Blue Square Prem, a few games in League Two, before quitting a few years ago. I don''t claim to be blessed with insight, but I know enough about what happens on the pitch to know that Chris Martin is not currently fulfilling his potential. In fact, I would swap Grant Holt and Chris Martin around completely; if Chris Martin can finish, and Grant Holt can hold the ball up and create chances (which he can). Chris Martin desperately needs to add something to his game, whether it is an extra yard or two, or rediscovering the form which had us praising him last year.I like the bloke, I really do, but he is average at best this year and showing nothing which would suggest he could do a job in the league up. [/quote]If we''re going on pure stats than Chris Martin has more assists than Hoolahan [/quote]He also has twice the strike rate of one of our strikers, Martin is being out-scored by Hoolohan, matched by Andrew Crofts, he has now been matched by Russell Martin. You need 40 goals from your strikers to get out of this division. If Grant Holt is going to score 20, who is going to get the rest? Martin has 4, Jackson has 4, either they pitch in with another 6 each or we are going to really struggle to break the top two. At the moment neither look capable of achieving that. I don''t care what it is that Chris Martin is supposed to be doing in the jigsaw, we need another goalscorer.

[quote user="urdie_Canary"]You sound like his mother, also why do people refer to him as Jamie, like they know him ?? [/quote]Sorry Sir, I will refer to him as Mr Cureton for now on.Actually, I have met him a fair few times, so I do know him.

[quote user="ricardo"][quote user="Captain Holts Derby Day Hat-Trick"]First time I''ve come here since last night with all the Martin stuff I''ve been saying, and at last some people are backing up my points. The people who think he''s the dogs goolies need to realise that they aren''t necessarily right.[/quote] Well I think he''s the dogs goolies and based on 55+ years of watching City youngsters come into the team I was more than confident on first viewing that he would make the grade. I was equally confident on first viewing that Sutton, Fox and Gordon were good enough and that people like Danny Crowe, Broughton  etc weren''t.I am also confident that Ollie Johnson and Cody McDonald will never make it at this grade. You might think it a bit Bolshy of me to make such catergorical statements but when I''m proved wrong you can tell me.[/quote]I believe that Cody McDonald will play Championship football again. You talking about a bloke who was a scaffolder 2 years ago and has scored 12 in 19 games in professional football. Chris Martin only banged in 11 in an entire season, remember?Out of interest, what did you think about Paul Hayes?

Awesome vid, I would have been very angry with that penalty!Although, in fairness, Hucks didn''t really appeal for it. He was clever, but the ref was at fault there.

[quote user="Nexus_Canary"][quote user="LeJuge"]So what is he supposed to do whilst sitting deeper than Grant Holt? If he is playing a support role to a main striker then I would expect him to be able to play a through ball or some decent link up play.[/quote]Thats his bleeding strong points for crying out loud.He is probably the best link up player we have got. Spend some time and watch him on the ball, try to actually spot the GOOD moves he makes as opposed to the crappy ones.Seems that people see the 1% of mistakes and discount the 99% of the time he doesnt.Martin''s control is superb and he is often playing quick short passes and moving to space or freeing up players by dragging defenders and midfielders.I will say again, his link up play is second to none in our squad.[/quote]Are you saying that he is a centre midfielder then? If his strong points are link up play and playing quick short passes then he is a centre midfielder, only he can''t tackle either, so he really isn''t.I 100% believe that his inability to play a final ball is hindering Grant Holt''s goalscoring, he has set up 2 goals for christ sack, a deep lying forward has to be able to play a through ball. I do rate him, I really do, as a striker. But when he isn''t converting his chances he isn''t contributing much to the team. His strong point is his finishing, if you believe anything other than YOU are the muppet. When he isn''t in goalscoring form we aren''t benefitting from his ability. Chris Martin was touted about as a star because of his sublime ability to finish from pretty much anywhere in the 18 yard box. This year he isn''t doing it. That is the difference from a £500k striker and a £3m striker, unless he can play a role as a foil. When playing that role you have to create chances for the primary striker, that is Grant Holt. He isn''t doing that.You keep going on about your amazing football intellect yet fail to recognise the role of a deep lying forward, your holier than you attitude is failing you deeply. I used my female friends email address for this account, because I want to post anonymously, but I have played two seasons of football in the Blue Square Prem, a few games in League Two, before quitting a few years ago. I don''t claim to be blessed with insight, but I know enough about what happens on the pitch to know that Chris Martin is not currently fulfilling his potential. In fact, I would swap Grant Holt and Chris Martin around completely; if Chris Martin can finish, and Grant Holt can hold the ball up and create chances (which he can). Chris Martin desperately needs to add something to his game, whether it is an extra yard or two, or rediscovering the form which had us praising him last year.I like the bloke, I really do, but he is average at best this year and showing nothing which would suggest he could do a job in the league up.

[quote user="grantroederdisaster"]By all accounts off the pitch Chris Martin can be a nasty, niggly unpleasant young man but on the pitch his temperament is normally very good and he rarely reacts.   On his day hes good enough for this level on an off day he isn''t. He will improve if he can get more consistant! Hes certainly he best bet for the role alongside Grant Holt!  [/quote]My understanding is that he has matured a lot and is actually a pleasant young man who is generally happy to talk to fans. He is quite down to earth, judging by his decision to frequent an everyday public swimming pool after matches. He has been happy to talk with my friends in the sauna about games, even when we haven''t played well. He lives in Norwich now, away from distractions. We must remember that he was a young Norwich city player living in an area with lots of Ipswich fans, it is easy to see how he could develop a slightly aggressive attitude in the circumstances. I also know plenty about the incidents which have led to his court appearance, my understanding is that he knew the ''victim'' very well and that it was six of one half a dozen of the other.