milehighcanary

Well said, Blah.Totally agree and I''m glad to hear someone is keeping their wits about them.

"Thanks for showing an interest but Pacheco was dire today, there''s no beating about the bush." Agreed. It seemed he gave the ball straight back to Swansea, or just misplaced his passes at least 50% of the time. He did have a couple of cute little touches under double pressure, but in the open field he lacked that killer ball. The one thing that was demonstrated today was that our bench isn''t as sharp as our starting 11.I''m not sure Jackson was the right substitution for Surman, considering he didn''t really use his speed to cause trouble, and I thought Surman did a good job today. And I''m still undecided as to if an off form Pacheco wouldn''t actually be better on the field than an average Korey Smith.We''ll still be grabbing 2nd.As for Liverpool? You''d have to agree that at best, you''re really nothing more than a shell of your former glory. It''s actually quite sad to hear you guys desperately still referring to yourselves as one of the greatest clubs in the world.No worries. I''m sure a few years of missing out on European qualification will clear your heads.

[quote user="nutty nigel"]A mile high and it still got over your head???   Whhhooooossssshhhhhh..... [;)]   [/quote]Nigel, if you''re suggesting that BBB was demonstrating his skills at satirical writing, then it was poor at best. Maybe he should have a few lessons from mikewalker?So no, it was not over my head, since the attempt was so poor that it never got off the ground.

[quote user="paul moy"]Forest 3 Reading 3  [:D][/quote] Reading make it 4!! [:(]

God, I wish I could be in the QPR changing room when Colin explodes post-match.Just to add to my comment above, I do understand that what happens below us, combined with what we achieve, will create a solid cushion between us and the play-off spots. I just meant that we shouldn''t fixate on the play-off spots. We should be driven to chase QPR, who are looking very average today!!!!!!!!!

Well done! Never doubted you. Only doubted you doubting yourself... [;)]

[quote user="HIT"]never look back remember we are chasing qpr now[/quote]Exactly. It shouldn''t matter what is happening below us, since that''s the fight for the play-offs.We should concentrate of consolidating our 2nd spot and keeping the pressure on QPR.

I truly love the, "don''t shoot the messenger" get-out-clause.If you don''t believe it, why should I?

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[quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="Kevin Keelan"] What a lot of old cock (I mean the OP, not Lambert). I think PL wants to manage expectations and just get on with his job. ''Halo slipping''??.... He''s trying to make the same point as many on here do about ''lil''ol''Naaarch'''' (i.e. last year in League One and ''You Lot Live in The Back of Nowhere'')) and not liking it, not supporting it. He''s also managing expectations. ''Three Points Today & I May Forgive Him''??? Forgive him for being consistent? Forgive him for having never (ever) said a bad think abou any of his players? Forgive him for being a really (seemingly) good guy? Forgive him for consistently saying good things about the fans?   Really, you need to think before you utter..   [/quote] The fact that you have gone to the trouble to create that masterpiece makes that last line a Pink-un classic!   Well done BBB. [:D][:D][:D]  [/quote] Really? Isn''t it great to see that the universal rule of like-attracts-like stands true.

[quote user="Bore Bore Bor"]“What annoys me is when people say I have taken players from the lower leagues along with maybe one or two who have joined who have been in the Championship before,” he said. “What annoys me is these lads are creating names for themselves and they are only young. I know exactly what they have done for me, I know exactly the way they are playing. “I don’t accept if you are saying to me perhaps we can fly under the radar and that other teams around us are more fancied. “Not when you have 27,000 people coming to watch. The crowd generates the pressure. It doesn’t matter who sits in the manager’s chair, you should always feel it because of the amount of people who come to watch you. “I think a lot of people do think we’ve been in the Championship for years. “For myself it’s new, for the team it’s new, for Ian (Culverhouse) and Gary (Karsa) it’s new. There is this perception that we should be up there and that is wrong. I don’t buy into this nonsense that Norwich should be where they are. “You have to earn the right whether you are playing Scunthorpe or Swansea or QPR. “Every game is really, really tough but we have done really fine this season to put ourselves in a position to do something.”   Careful, Paul.  Your halo is slipping.  Archie McCauley wouldn''t have uttered such nonsense.  Three points today and I may forgive him.   But still, be good to one another.   [/quote] No worries, BBB, we in fact forgive you in your failing  to understand the genius that is Paul Lambert. Hey...I have an idea...how about the next time you think about offering you interpretation of Paul Lambert you do so after you''ve contemplated the monumental amount of hard work it has taken to transform a club that was on the edge of extinction into a Premier league contender? How about you offer your shillings worth of shite, only after you''ve fully understood what it has taken to instill into a team that was dead in the water, the fighting spirit and belief that Premiership football is an obtainable reality, which they have EARNED?How about you stop and consider the people and man-management skills required to mend the years, if not decades of heartache, desperation and depression of thousands upon thousands of Norwich City fans, in fact, bring JOY to Norwich City fans; and to do this all inside 18 months, with a limited budget? Hey, how about the next time you wish to twist Paul Lambert''s words, you try first to recognize that you''re talking about a man who has achieved all of this with such CLASS that it makes your comments look like nothing more than something he might step in?So please, BBB, stop acting like your a tosh journalist for the NoTW.Oh ..... and what''s with being good to one another? Be good at what? Be good at pointing out how much of an idiot you are? Halo slipping.........you fool.

[quote user="Chunky Norwich"]I must admit when this year''s kit was released last season I hated the yellow. Far too luminous. But it''s grown on me; looks a bit more canary yellow than gold. I don''t rate Xara as a global brand but in all fairness to them, they''ve done a pretty decent job with most of our kits and will be sadly missed; especially if it''s Errea which makes Burrda and Lotto look like Armani. Fingers crossed it''s Umbro or Puma...[/quote] Umbro is owned by Nike.

Just heard this myself.I agree; QPR fans should be very nervous.

[quote user="chicken"]Every game is a knife edge at the moment. We just can''t afford to loose. For starters we absolutely have to win our last three home games. Forrest, Derby and Coventry. The real problem is that we have two away fixtures first and it could already be decided by the time we play Coventry. Forrest will be the toughest fixture out of those I should think. Derby are likely to be safe by then or at least in the same position and unlikely to get sucked in at the last minute. Our away fixtures worry me more though: Swansea, Watford, Ipswich and Portsmouth. I wouldn''t like to have to get a result at any of those places right now but we are going to have to to get an auto spot. As some people are saying, four wins should be enough but its all about whether Swansea or Cardiff can match our results and then grab an additional two wins, or win and two draws. Swansea have four home fixtures: us, Hull, Ipswich, Shef Utd. Away they have: Burnley, Portsmouth, Millwall. A lot depends on whether Swansea continue to stutter slightly but I can see them drawing with us and then winning the other three home games. And then getting at least one win out of their last three away fixtures. That would give them an additional 13points. Cardiff have 3 home games: Portsmouth, QPR and Middlesborough. Away: Donny, Shef Utd, Preston, Burnley. I can see Cardiff beating Portsmouth and M''borough but having a tough game against QPR - lets call it a draw. I think they will also get results against Preston and Shef Utd and at least a point from the other two. Total of 14points. That would leave Swansea on 79points and Cardiff on 80. We are going to be relying on a lot of other teams to provide hazards for them to stumble up on - Ipswich even. I think Cardiff have the easiest run in on paper, the only have to play two teams in the top half of the table. All I can say is ouch! Edge of the seat season continues! I am way past nail biting, my fingers are almost bloody stumps![/quote] You need to pull out a pipe and start smoking it, or take a vicodin. You''re way too high strung and it sounds like you may harm yourself, or another, when that aneurysm kicks in.I suggest you sit back, strap yourself in and leave it to Lambert and the boys to give us a level of entertainment that has never before been witnessed by Canaries'' fans.I for one gave up worrying back in January and have believed in nothing less than 2nd spot ever since. If at any point you begin to doubt, simply recall this one unequivocal fact: Paul Lambert is a genius.

[quote user="barclaystand"]I did have something soft for Ipswich.... Then I flushed it away![/quote]Exactly!!!I''d go as far as to say that I would genuinely dance and rejoice if portaloo road burnt to the ground....as long as it was empty at the time of course.What the heck kind of thread is this anyway? Have you had a recent head injury Woodsy? Or, maybe you''re a binner yourself?

[quote user="Chirping Canary"]Throughout our championship campaign, I''ve always regarded ourselves as a ''weaker side compared to the top teams''. But after todays result, I can really see how much of nuisance we can be to other teams. Does anybody anybody else think the same?...[/quote]I''m sure this will not be the last time I say this, but ever since we ran QPR off the park on January 1st, with a tired, virtually 2nd string team, I knew without a doubt that we''d take 2nd spot in the table.I can''t agree that today''s game should be used as a turning point for believing we''re a strong team. Scunny were woeful and played with 10 men. We simply did what was expected and we did it in a clinical fashion.However, the one major positive that I take from today''s result is that finally we did not play down to our opponent''s level. Finally we stuck a team to the sword and didn''t let go for 90 minutes.Also, the clean sheet was a bonus. Now if we can only maintain the same level of play, against the remaining stronger opposition, then we should walk away with 3-1, 2-0, and 1-0 wins. I can not honestly say that I can see any of the remaining teams beating us, unless we fail to turn up.

[quote user="Ben "]So we''re not signing Huth? [:(] [:''(][/quote]It depends. He''s trying to get two weeks in the caravan in June and two weeks for his mum in July.

I don''t fear any team that will give us  a good game. I hope that Swansea and Forest both come out strong and we come out on top. That will send a clear message that we have earned our rightly place in the Prem.The two things that do concern me are poor referees and injuries. Both of which we have no control over.As far as fearing any one team, I agree with Making Plans.

Don''t be so easily thrown off the scent, Norfolk Mustard! Reading through this thread it''s easy to see that there are far more posts that support the transfer of Huth to Norwich, that not.Therefore, it must be true that Huth is at Carrow Road having tea with Delia and negotiating with McNally his time-share Waxham carvan deal as part of the personal arrangements.[;)]

I''m not alone when I say that since we played QPR off the park with a back-up team in January, that NCFC would take 2nd spot. NCFC have all the required skill, desire, determination and leadership to gain automatic promotion to the Premier league.Playoffs is not something we need to be wasting our energy on. Such talk is pure speculation at best.Oh, and the question should be, "Whom do you fear?" [;)]

[quote user="Bovril"]Mile-high....that''s what I was getting at with the drafting system. In your opinion, what do you think works better? the NFL system (evens out competition, but if you win one year, you potentially get bad players the next) or the EPL (certain teams dominate but relegation provides extra excitement for the whole table)[/quote]Good question, Bovril.For me the NFL draft system operates for the benefit of the sport and the fans, while the EPL system operates for the benefit of the owners. I can not pick one over the other, since both have positives and negatives. IF I had to pick one system over the other, I would pick the NFL system. But then I''d like to see relegation/promotion fights in the NFL.The only change I would like to see introduced into the EPL is a salary cap. This change will prevent the few clubs collecting all the talent. And as rightly mentioned by Jas, a team could still pay a Tevez or Rooney an exorbitant amount of money, but it would then have to be compensated elsewhere in the club. Regarding promotion/relegation, I can''t see why the system would want to be changed, accept by those who fear dropping out of the EPL and losing the financial benefits and thus, their poor business models and practices being exposed, and the club falling into administration.The other change I would like to see enforced is that ALL teams playing league football must do so within sound financial guidelines and practices. It truly burns me that clubs such as Manchester United are able to operate under such huge debt loads and clubs like Portsmouth are not shut down for good. What kind of message does this send to those clubs who are operating within fiscally sound methods? It is truly beyond my understanding how such unsound behavior is not vehemently crushed and the clear message sent to all, since such behavior truly threatens the very foundation of English football.

Sorry, I can tell you right now that the EPL doesn''t really have anything in common with the NFL, accept that it''s a sport.First, the reason teams in the NFL seem to come from nowhere and make the playoffs, or win the Super Bowl within a few years of having an awful season is because of the ''draft system''. The draft system works in such a way that the team with the worst record the previous season, is allowed 1st pick from the incoming new players for the next season. Therefore, overtime, a bad team can bring in the best talent offered for a few years and next think you know, they''re able to compete. The draft has multiple rounds each year and each round the worst team gets to pick from the best of the rest.This is the simplest definition of the draft. Trust me, it can become complicated.Second, the NFL has salary caps which prevent any one team from gathering together all of the super-star players. Therefore the athletic talent is spread ''somewhat'' across all teams.Third, there is no such thing as ''relegation'' or ''promotion'' in the NFL, which allows a losing team to mail-it-in half way through a bad season and begin to play their rookies, or youngsters at no real loss to a budget based on television deals, determined by which league they play in. So overall most NFL fans feel a sense of ''hope'' that their team will come good every ten years or so. This is something that doesn''t really happen in the EPL.

[quote user="nycanary"][quote user="Phyxius"]Have to agree, could hear all the songs loud and clear through sky sports.[/quote]hmm...maybe i''m just spoilt with the commentary from chris/neil/crowd on the radio......[/quote]You can''t beat those guys for commentary. I watched the game in America over the internet on Fox Soccer Plus and thought the crowd were quiet. I tried to turn the sound off and listen to the commentary through the internet radio, but the radio was almost 10 seconds ahead!Kind of spoils it when Chris and Neal go crazy and nothing has yet happened on the TV...[:(]Overall I thought that Norwich controlled Bristol for most of the game. Bristol had a few brief spells, which every team will have, and only rarely looked threatening.

you get the point.......