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The players waving the white flag at Swansea and Villa reflects badly on themselves, not Alex Neil.

Three points and players rested..... Anything less than a win on Saturday gets Swansea off the relegation hook.......

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.

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).......

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.

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?

......." three at the back with two wing-backs"............ .....good to see that Alex Neil scours this forum.........

Having lost five out of six games, Southampton have turned their season round with six consecutive clean sheets. Admittedly Forster is streets ahead of Rudd and Ruddy, and Van Dijk is probably single-handedly better than any defensive combination Norwich can put out, but it is an impressive run which has often seen a switch to three at the back with two wing-backs, so......... .....watch the videos of Southampton''s last six games and learn how to set up and defend..........

The FA Cup deserves no sympathy. The FA devalued the competition the day they decided to play the semi-finals at Wembley, no doubt for monetary reasons. The Carling Cup, or whatever it might be called this year, works well with midweek matches and no replays, so no reason why the FA Cup should not benefit as well. Smaller clubs surely have a better chance of progressing in the cup over one match rather than two, so it doesn''t necessarily mean the end of giant-killing. Of the top two divisions, only the mid-table clubs are able to take the competition seriously. Times have changed, and the competition needs to change with it.

When comparing him to Doherty, I was speaking of his pace. Klose gives the impression he is running through treacle. I have been genuinely shocked at just how slow he has looked up to now and it''s not a trait that will sit well when facing lightning pace in the PL.

Norwich may well have spent £20m in the January transfer window, but to be brutally honest, and admittedly it can only be on first/early impressions, Naismith is the only signing that is fit for purpose in City''s current situation. Jarvis is far from an automatic pick, Pinto is not the strong defensively sound right-back that was required and Klose.......jeez......just when we needed a strong, dominant centre-half......we have a player that makes the Gary Doherty of yesteryear look like Usain Bolt.......

Underlines the shocking nature of last ek''s result.

Stories have been appearing in the press regarding a video purportedly showing Mesut Ozil describing the Norwich defence as "f***ing s**t" as he exits the Carrow Road pitch inside the tunnel. The evidence is inconclusive, but it is believed that if the FA gets involved, the Arsenal star will likely be charged with ''stating the bleedin'' obvious''.

Swansea are in their fifth consecutive season, Newcastle are in their sixth consecutive season...... Compared to the number of clubs that have tasted Premier League football this past ten years, I would put both clubs into the category of ''firmly established''. Leicester''s survival wasn''t a miracle last season - it was sheer guts, determination, desire, with no little skill. Liverpool are in the bottom twelve - not exactly scrapping for survival...... If you''re going to try and contradict a post....don''t spout boll**cks...........

Seven..... Leicester Crystal Palace Southampton West Ham Swansea Newcastle West Brom I mistakenly included.........Norwich..........

Norwich City''s instant return to the Premier League last season may well lull fans into the belief that were Norwich to be relegated this season, an instant return the following season is well within their capabilities.Recent history suggests otherwise.Of the six teams that have suffered relegation twice over the past ten years, only WBA are currently residing in the PL, and they are barely setting the world alight.Of more concern is the fact that, despite the safety net of parachute payments, only two of the fourteen teams that have been relegated in the past five seasons (QPR twice), only Norwich and West Ham are currently playing in the PL.Unfortunately, if Norwich were to be relegated, they would be bucking the positive recent trend which has meant that eight out of the fourteen teams promoted over the last five seasons (prior to last season), are firmly established in the PL. Hull and Burnley are making a decent effort towards promotion this season, which would leave Norwich in the illustrious company of Blackpool, Cardiff and QPR, as the small number of clubs who have failed to build on success.The only consolation? would be that Norwich players will be in little demand.Many will have two relegation''s on their CV and will never see the light of the PL again. The four West Ham and West Brom ''cast-offs'' will be of little interest to other clubs. Our foray into European markets will hopefully be at an end, where we must be the worst club when it comes to signing foreign players.An opportunity was missed in the summer when, if wages allowed, we didn''t take advantage of the league we were playing in. The outstanding players in the Championship should have been a priority, hungry and with plenty to prove. Sako, Antonio, Afobe, Demarai Gray (and Alli from League 1), were all stand-out players last season, and will prove themselves far more adept playing PL football than the majority of our flaky squad.Norwich''s instant return to the PL offered AN the belief that the squad he inherited were inherently worthy of the PL. Relegation, if it occurs, will unfortunately prove too late that a sizable chunk of the squad (Ruddy, Whittaker, Martin, Bassong, Olsson, Howson, Hoolahan, Redmond, Jerome) are simply not good enough to play consistently at the highest level.Judging by the January transfer window, Plan B is to build a team in the Championship around the youngsters such as the Murphy twins, Toffolo, Adams, Godfrey, Thompson, McGrandles and the like. At least it will  be refreshing to see ''hungry'' players wearing the Canary shirt once more.

Quite right too. He is clearly doing everything he can to prepare the players for match day and then when it comes down to the ninety minutes for the players to perform and carry out his instruction, they unerringly fail to do so. Individual errors have cost Norwich a considerable number of points this season and without them, we would be comfortably placed in the table........Ruddy/Rudd''s errors.....Martin''s back pass....Brady''s header......O''Neil''s stupidity.......Tettey''s unnecessary recent yellow card and ban.......the list is endless. AN must be fed up suffering the same post-match interviews.

The way he has been playing for Derby County recently, their fans would probably happily return him at half the price they paid for him.

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Appoint Linda Assistant-Manageress.......

....from 2-0 down at Anfield.......

Mulumbu..........O''Neil..........Dorrans........ Jarvis........Wisdom.......mid-table PL teams'' cast offs that add very little to the mix of flaky, inconsistent Championship standard players such as Martin, Redmond, Jerome, Bassong, Olsson, Whittaker, Howson and Ruddy......all bound by the ability to regularly surrender possession and produce an endless stream of mistakes..........

Naismith must be wondering what the hell he''s got himself involved in.....

Too much mediocrity throughout the team.

I can''t say I have checked, but glossing over these team suggestions indicates that each and everyone is different. It underlines the problem AN is now presented with, and goes to show the high percentage of NCFC fans that are disappointed from the start when the team news is announced.