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[quote user="basil brush"]You have to take Mick Dennis ''journalism'' with a pinch of salt and he is so far up the clubs backside that he comes across anything but objective. His ''be careful what you wish for'' stance is somewhat reminiscent of his co-writer Waghorn''s final days in the Roeder era, though to be fair to Rick, he now seems to be fairly objective in his writing approach. MD seems to be discrediting Lambert and using his bias to deflect the heat off Hughton, The Directors and the club in general. Keep and open mind what he writes and more importantly think why he is writing it... As for Wes, I don''t care if they sell him to Villa. Hughton won''t play him, so what is he supposed to do? It''s a bit like an ex girlfriend not wanting you to go out with her mate, even though she no longer wants you. Use it or lose it as the saying goes.[/quote]But if it was an ex wife rather than an ex girlfriend, she would be perfectly within her right to refuse you a divorce if she was so inclined!!!

[quote user="lincoln canary"][quote user="Jim Smith"][quote user="lincoln canary"][quote user="The gut"]I didn''t watch the link but I read RBs comment about the sending off. Bloody bloke - had me rereading match reports because I thought my memory was playing tricks. Seems a fair post to me - I didn''t read it and think oh another sack the board, sack Hughton sack the players thread. I took it for what it was.[/quote] Thank you! Yes I had to read the report again to confirm! Seems bizarre how he managed to forget!! Wasn''t meant as a dig at RB at all. Some people on here need to drop their vicious agendas towards other posters.[/quote] Lincoln - I think the problem here lies in the discord between the title of your post (unecessarily offensive to Bennett) and the content of your post (which points out quite an amusing clanger on his part). Nothing wrong at all with a post pointing out he made an amusing clanger in his interview but calling one of our best young players thick is probably what has got people''s backs up.[/quote] Well people need to lighten up and stop taking things so serious. Footballers intelligence is always a common joke. Nothing new with this one is there?![/quote]Since when???? You have a strange sense of humour Lincoln!!

Coyle can now be added to the list........There''ll probably never be a better time!!!!!

[quote user="Reggie Strayshun"]The board may have lied. Who knows?. I guess we''ll never find out. But I''ll tell you what doesn''t lie....... The League Table.[/quote]Apparently it did at the end of last season.

[quote user="norfolkchance1"]I will retract the above post I believe creditors were paid in full.[/quote]Me too, should have checked facts!!! Apologies

Going bankrupt and paying 5p in the pound to creditors!!!!

[quote user="Jimmy Smith"]The thing is, i agree we have no right to beat Newcastle, but they were there for the taking on Saturday and a combination of negative setup from Hughton and some sloppy play by our under pressure defence killed any chance we had. Is it that bad? No, not really, realistically, we are probably the smallest team in the league other than the newly promoted trio and so anything 17th or above would be quite easy to live with. I''m still enjoying looking down on Leeds, Ipswich and Wolves etc when they celebrate wins over Doncaster and Tranmere and thinking "big whoop, another win against a village side, come back when you''re in with the big boys." There are players with us who have probably reached their ceiling, to name a few, Russell Martin is a competent right back but has his limitations at this level, but for £50k from P''Boro, we can hardly argue, same with Johnson from Leeds for free and about £20k a week, absolute snip for what he''s contributed, but his ability doesn''t seem to match the premiership standard now and it''s finally showing. Nothing personal, but we need an upgrade. It seems that there may be a three tiered premiership this year as opposed to the top 6/7 then the rest, Newcastle and co that were down with us on much bigger budgets seem to have sorted themselves out now and we''re stuck in a group with everyone about Hull City down for them final 3 relegation slots. Our stint in the premiership will be full of peaks and troughs and as long as it doesn''t see us relegated, i''ll deal with a 17th place finish. Having said that, 7 wins in the whole year is unacceptable and i''d be tempted to line up a quality replacement for Hughton as the danger of our bad run taking us down is obvious. Nothing before the Palace game, as i''d rather not have the unsettlement before our easiest game of the season on paper but anything less than a win and Hughton would be a dead man walking.[/quote] This is a really well thought out and constructed post Jimmy Smith; you makes some very good and valid points. For me your post highlights the dilemma the board must be facing at the moment, as I am sure they would like us to have made more progress than we have, however, if ''push comes to shove'', they would probably live with Norwich still being in the premiership next season, and who knows whether a change of manager would make that more likely or not!!!

[quote user="lincoln canary"]There appears to be quite a common theme appearing with regard to players making there feelings known about the current city set up. Both current and former players have made a number of statements criticising Hughton for his selection policy and tactics over the last year or so. I think its hard to argue that the squad isn''t as tight as it has been. And with players like Becchio and Hoolahan not getting a sniff, you have to question whether this good for the overall squad morale.   I don''t like to mention Lambert but he did a cracking job at keeping everyone in the squad happy and motivated. It enabled fairly average players to overachieve. But also players out of the first 11 still felt part of it and would do a great job when called upon. Players like Becchio, Hoolahan, & Whittaker are unhappy and probably don''t feel very part of Norwich city right now. Which isn''t great for the harmony of the squad. I Don''t like the way Hughton appears to freeze players out. It causes squad division. [/quote]How have you managed to include Becchio and Hoolahan in your argument??? I haven''t seen any statements about how they feel attributed to either!!!

I also noticed the West Spam players totally ignored ''Big Sam'' when they scored..........Disgraceful.......Allardyce out!!!!

Beating Man City could relegate Sunderland

All you can truely claim is that Matt Juler is well respected by you!!!

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So really what you are saying is this thead is totally irrelevant until the end of the season!!!!

Now he has found the dressing room maybe he could help look for all the posters that seem to have gone missing tonight....It''s not usually this quite on here after a match!!!!!

I''m amazed nobody has thought of doing this on here before..............

Agree with most of that; I thought Tettey improved greatly once Fer came on beside him.

[quote user="Martin Bryant"]glad to see people agree ;-) there are some of us who remain sensible! re the first reply- i went for a walk .. but in gta5... the trouble with a monday off work is that ive spent all day playing it .. blerrrg! need fresh air :)[/quote]Well at least you didn''t spend all day reading posts on here.................I should know better too!!!

I agree, but you''re wasting your time on here; I''d go for a walk if I was you Martin!!!

Chelmsford City away 3rd August being reported on Essex Chronicle website!

You have made a well reasoned post there, have to agree with all points you have made!

There''s a great line in the film Fever Pitch when the main character is asked by his girlfriend what football fans do during the summer. He replies "it''s boring; we just sit in the park waiting for the fixure list to come out"!!!

I''ve played with the BBC predictor so many times in recent days!!!! I now think it''s simply a case of if we beat WBA (or Man City!!!!) we will survive, just. If we don''t we will be relegated.

Well I''ve been reading on here all week how good Villa are, so my only hope was that their up and coming Champions League Final would be a distraction for them. But I''ve just seen that Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are contesting that. So we are doomed!!!!