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  1. Giving possession away too frequently at the moment....makes the task of an equaliser so much harder.
  2. So the majority of recent signings on the bench, and Bamford nowhere to be seen. Pretty much sums up how well the transfer money has been put to use this past twelve months.
  3. I suspect starting with ten men against Arsenal at The Emirates is a disaster waiting to happen.........
  4. ...and the Championship table remained as it is, which team would you rather win the playoffs, or whose promotion would you find the least painful?Brighton and HughtonHull and SnodgrassDerby and Martin, Butterfield & JohnsonSheffield Wednesday and Hooper
  5. .....but then I can''t imagine Norwich defending as well as Sunderland have....
  6. I can''t imagine Arsenal being so toothless next week.
  7. There is not a cat in hell''s chance that AN will be sacked if Norwich City are relegated, and that is exactly as it should be. There is a distinct possibility he may offer his resignation, but it would be rightfully refused. A shake up of the coaching staff/scouting team?....now that''s another matter altogether........
  8. Until Saturday, I firmly believed we would stay up. However, as the players and management would repeat ad nauseous - " it''s not about the performance at his time of the season, it is all about results ", and by that criteria, Saturday was shocking. Norwich have been soundly beaten by each of the three teams below them this season, and their goal difference is now comfortably amongst the three worst - usually a good indication of which teams deserve to go down. Saturday''s performance was not on a par with the capitulation at Craven Cottage, but the result was equally as bad.
  9. I''m guessing Middlesbrough fans will be saying that losing the final was a godsend....they''ll be supping at the top table when all the big money is sloshing around........ .....whilst Norwich will most likely be rebuilding,with a squad that will need dismantling, and dreams of establishing themselves in the PL put back a few years.....
  10. Yesterday''s result has drastically increased the likelihood that we will be swopping places with Middlesbrough in the Championship next season. No Norwich fan would have wanted to taste defeat on the day, but maybe the PL came just too early for AN. The whirlwind months that brought the play-offs, and the euphoria that followed, misled AN into believing that his squad of players, full of PL experience, would give Norwich a head start on Watford and Bournemouth at the very least. Alas, this season has proved once again that our squad is full of players that are simply not consistently good enough to play PL football:- Ruddy, Whittaker, Bassong, Bennett, Martin, Howson, Hoolahan, Redmond, Jerome. If Norwich are relegated, none of these players, bar maybe Redmond and Howson, are ever likely to play PL football ever again. Allied to the woeful acquisitions of Mulumbu, Jarvis, Naismith, Dorrans and Pinto, it is no surprise that the few positives of Brady, Klose and Mbokani( although lacking in goals), has been nowhere near enough to maintain the PL status. If Norwich had lost the Final, AN would have learned far more about his squad of players, developed a style of play ( aka Watford and Bournemouth) that they could rely on, rather than chop and change to try and counter the opposition, and although it would not have guaranteed promotion this season, it would not have misguidedly built up the expectations of the fans that we could finally establish ourselves at the top table. One thing is for sure, Norwich have picked the wrong season to be relegated. The huge gulf is about to get a whole lot wider.
  11. An interesting selection for Saturday - the first time he has refereed Norwich this season. He likes to keep Sunderland in order......has refereed them eighteen times in recent Premier League history........and shown them SEVEN red cards!!
  12. Since beating Norwich, Villa have lost eight consecutive matches, scoring just three goals and conceding twenty-four. A win against Sunderland will go a long way to burying that feeble performance and poor result at Villa Park, which, more than any, has kept our relegation fears alive.
  13. If you''re an Everton player, you''ve reached the FA Cup Final, you''ve soaked in all the hype for the previous few weeks, you''ve been fitted and suited for Cup Final day, and you have a meaningless ( to them) game of football six days before..... Human nature says you will be wary of 50/50 tackles or tweaking a hamstring, or even fully focuses on the league game. Advantage Norwich. It is quite possible that the likes of Lukaku and Barkley will be left out completely. After all, an FA Cup win might help to keep Martinez in a job. If Sunderland are in a similar fixture position, then I think Newcastle are a very strong bet to go down.
  14. There is every likelihood that for the very last game of the season Norwich will be facing a 37 year-old goalkeeper, not currently deemed good enough to play first team football for an under-performing defence.
  15. By a strange fate of fixture fortune, four of the six teams that Norwich have yet to play, remain in the FA Cup. Whilst the Palace game is unaffected by it, further progress in the competition may play a part in their league form. As long as West Ham don''t put a fly in the ointment, and assuming Watford can be single-minded enough to beat Palace, two out of Norwich''s last three games will be against FA Cup finalists. The best case scenario would be a Watford v Everton final, Norwich''s last two Premier League fixtures. As crucial as the next two fixtures are looking, Arsenal apart, the final three fixtures might not have fallen at a better time.
  16. Colback banned for Norwich game. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing, he always seems like a red card waiting to happen.....
  17. Over the last four and a half seasons, Norwich''s games against Man City are rarely short of goals. The 0-0 result at home in 2014-15 was the exception rather than the rule. The 3-2 win at the Etihad at the end of the 2012-13 season was welcome, but nevertheless thanks to exceptional circumstances.Although he has missed two and a half games from the eight since the beginning of the 2011-12 season, Aguero has scored on six occasions, scoring more than once on only one occasion, thus,(dare I say it before Saturday''s game), is no Suarez.Over the eight games, Norwich have scored nine and conceded twenty-nine, not far short of four goals a game, and the most worrying statistics are these appearances:- Martin - 8Ruddy - 7Bassong or Bennett - 7 (They both played in the last game)Ruddy and Martin suffered the 1-5 thrashing away in 2011-12, Bennett joined them for the 1-6 thrashing at home the same season.Four years hence and these same players put on a no-show in the FA Cup tie and  still form the backbone of our defence...........Have the club/managers/coaches honestly learned nothing over the past four seasons?
  18. Bamford, Naismith, Pinto and Klose.........names that would not look out of place on a page of an Alexandre Dumas novel.... " All for one"..........measily point...... £20million hastily squandered to compensate the dearth of expenditure in the summer, hence paying double Naismith''s true value and triple Klose''s...... Any player arriving in January clearly had to hit the ground running, unfortunately (Bamford aside, as he hasn''t been given any opportunity), they clearly have not. It could be argued that the woeful positioning of Pinto and Klose has directly contributed to a high percentage of goals recently conceded. Where exactly was Pinto when Sigurdsson was afforded the freedom of Wales leading up to his goal? We are only just into March. Bamford has barely featured. No City fan could be surprised if Pinto or Naismith were not in the starting line-up. Klose is the only guaranteed starter - and that''s as much to do with the paucity of alternatives rather than his own scintillating performances. Relegation might be a blessing as recent history suggests Norwich City are pretty clueless when it comes to spending large sums of money on player recruitment, and next year''s TV money could exacerbate this trend.
  19. All other avenues seem to have been tried and failed, it would appear that Bamford has to be our final roll of the dice.......
  20. The players waving the white flag at Swansea and Villa reflects badly on themselves, not Alex Neil.
  21. Three points and players rested..... Anything less than a win on Saturday gets Swansea off the relegation hook.......
  22. Norwich have been exceptionally lucky with injuries this season, up to now, so it is no good moaning about them when we have so far failed to take advantage of nigh on a full squad all season.
  23. I noticed one of the linesman giving Costa a lovely smile at the end of the game as they shook hands - I''m just not sure whether it was the corrupt one........ .....the camera didn''t linger long enough to catch the wink ( assuming there was one).......
  24. If we''re playing the blame game for the goal, then it is a catalogue of collective incompetence, rather than any individual contribution. Tettey made a tired challenge in the midfield and failed to stop the move initially. Brady gave far too much space to Albrighton, who is possibly the best crosser of a ball in the PL. Klose find''s ''no man''s land'' like no other Norwich City centre-half before him. He offered absolutely nothing in preventing the attack. Martin attempted to cut out the cross but couldn''t. Bennett was probably wrong-footed by the slight flick off Vardy''s foot which prevented him from kicking the ball. Pinto was probably the most culpable. He was trotting back as the attach developed and should have been busting a gut to mark their last man, Ulloa. Norwich needed to strengthen their defence in January. Klose and Pinto, so far, seem to have weakened it.
  25. Showed 6 Leicester attacks compared to 2 Norwich attacks, and yet the attempts on goal racked up as 13 - 9....... Can anybody that went comment on whether the MOTD highlights was actually reflective of the game?
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