Temp the Revelator

Nice. Like it a lot. Nice little nod to history again with the hatchings on the shoulder

I suspect the A N Other goalkeeper will be Remi Matthews, who everyone seems to have forgotten!

And what you want to see Indy is every other club better than your own, and your own being in a terrible state.

I think people may be underestimating Remi Matthews a bit here - most even seem to have forgotten about him. Wouldn''t be at all surprised to see him as either No 1 or No 2 next season. I would certainly expect him to be part of our squad rather than loaned out again, but I could be wrong!

Born in Ely in 69, as an impressionable kid was a Liverpool fan but fell out of love with the game completely during my teenage years. First ever game though was at the Carra for a Liverpool game - when I got interested in football again aged 16 chose Norwich - have never looked back since, and was the only City fan in a bar full of Bayern shirt wearing Scotsman in Peterhead on that night.......and lucky enough to be the only yellow and green shirt in a bar in Cagliari the night we played in Milan.

I fancy 2-2 as well Ginja, only I can see us going behind at some point in the game......

Why the snide response Tilly? Why not just answer the question instead? McGovern Pinto (I hope) Klose Bennett Brady Tettey Howson Pritchard Hoolahan Naismith Jerome Subs; Jones Bassong Martin Canos Mulumbu Oliveira Lafferty Not the team I would pick, but the one I think most likely. Oh, and a 3-1 win thank you very much.

LOL at that one Bor!!!

[quote user="City 2nd"]I would suggest this is more the case of a panic buy by Moyse, signing a player who he could not find room for in his starting eleven at Everton on a regular basis, that''s how NCFC came to sign him. He will struggle to impress there just as he has here, and if you think NCFC fans give him a hard time, it will be far worse on Tyneside![/quote] He actually played for Moyes quite a lot at Everton - it was Martinez who stopped picking him so regularly. Definitely a Moyes-type player.

That''s not a bad shout Bor.....

KIO doesn''t say he/she is offended by accents, only that they dislike them.....then goes on to state most accents are inoffensive. Read it again! I''m not keen on Brummie accents either fwiw, nor Stoke or Derby accents. Yuk!

quote user="Jim Smith"If you look at it in isolation I don''t losing Ruddy as he has not been great since his injury and I think he probably needs to get away and start again. What I do have an issue with though is the lack of strategy and planning if it transpires that we cannot now recall Rudd from his loan at Charlton. If that is the case it just re-enforces my impression that our strategy/planning when it comes to transfers is non-existent and I worry what else might happen today in terms of outgoings./quote But if the reports are to be believed and we have rejected a bid for Ruddy, wouldn''t that suggest that we do have a good strategy in place? I suspect Ruddy will only be sold on our terms - i.e. we have replacement lined up AND we get silly money for him. Don''t really see how a deadline day bid that has yet to be accepted for one of our players can be seen as a lack of transfer strategy on our part?

[quote user="NCFC198"]I don’t really get why some are so offended by the booing. It was a tedious game, maybe they just wanted to express their dissatisfaction at that. People should attend matches to be entertained. Our general play and approach was so similar to last season, it was the frustration of this spilling over. And my point about them being correct given the next few games, if we suddenly improved maybe we could sy the booing gave them a kick in the backside. But unfortunately we have just produced three lack-lustre performances.[/quote] ....with the booing.....

Interesting - a number of my work colleagues and friends are Newcastle fans and they are incredibly pessimistic of their chance of promotion. I know of at least two people who have decided to bet on them not making the top six. Seems it''s not just NCFC who have miserable fans!

[quote user="SeattleCanary"][quote user="AJ"]What an interesting suggestion! Sadly, probably never going to be a reality. He does more than often play left wing though so not sure he would be a good option if AN sticks with playing one up top. He also played 12 times last season in the Prem without returning a single goal.[/quote] You mean he''s a......... Midfielder!!!!! AN is going to go all out then! Haha. He''ll need to do a good Scottish accent to sweeten the deal.[/quote] Where does this idea that AN is obsessed with Scottish footballers come from? We only have 4 Scottish players in the entire squad at last count.....

pete - you are aware there are still over 4 weeks left in the transfer window?

[quote user="Essjayess"]so in effect since Saturday times been wasted messing around on this nonsense.[/quote] Do we know that for fact? For all we know, Norwich made their offer before Saturday and haven''t budged since. Nothing has come out of Norwich to suggest anything other than that - other than rumour, agents, sky etc. we may well have been spending all our time, effort and energies on a different target since Saturday for all we know....

I am inclined to agree TJ. Would rather we went back in for Walters than pay 15m for McCormack. Oumar Niasse anyone? Surplus to requirements at Everton by all accounts now Koeman has taken over. Arouna Kone?

No, fair to say Olsson''s agent wants him out for a cut of the nice signing on fee and transfer fee.....

And how do we know that we didn''t? One thing for sure, this whole saga wouldn''t have been happening had we not sold Redmond for £11m nice and early.....as Branston has mentioned in another thread, these transfers are often reliant on a chain of events - Fulham need a replacement, the selling club there may need a replacement etc etc As it stands, we have no idea when we opened negotiations with Fulham over McCormack. All we have is unfounded rumour from social media. But don''t let that get in the way of finding a stick to beat the club with.

Getting it sorted earlier is all well and good Jim, but it isn''t solely down to us as a club - we are reliant on other clubs wanting to sell their players at a price we think is acceptable and wanting to buy our players at a price we think is acceptable - if that doesn''t happen early, it''s not ENTIRELY our fault! Unless you are advocating selling cheaper and buying more expensive than we can realistically afford to, just to get the business done earlier? Market forces Jim - that second option is the fast track to going out of business.....

@ king canary decided to do a little research. There were 93 transfers in the last week in July ALONE last summer. As I suspected, this transfer window is definitely slower than the norm.

@ king canary how does that compare to most other summer transfer windows though? 100 transfers across all the English league clubs doesn''t seem like many to me with less than a week before kick off - that works out at just over 1 per club, so therefore with two in already we are ahead of the average!

Just look at the transfer window all round though - a couple of clubs aside, not many have done much business yet, and there seem to be more transfers than ever dragging on all summer. It''s easy to panic if you only look at us, but the window is very very slow all round this summer.....

The squad - once we have added at least one forward to it, happy as a pig in ....... well, you know. Looks like the squad most capable in the league to me, so many of them already know how to get out of this league in an upwards direction. And a relatively settled squad, no great upheaval. The manager - relatively happy. He has already shown he knows what''s needed to get promotion. Only hope he doesn''t get as easily spooked as he did at the Newcastle result last season. The board - guess I would like to see one more experienced business-type appointed to the board who could bring a different perspective. No idea who though! As happy as I think I can be with the appointment of Moxey - not sure who we could have got who would be any better. Transfers - too early to say. We have done well getting shot of Kean and RVW and for getting 11m for Redmond. Like the look of McGovern and Canos. Still need at least one forward though. Chances for the season - I think we are capable of a top two finish. However, we all know what a bitch this league can be, so a play-off place would be an acceptable finish.