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  2. Posted

    3 hours ago, Segura said:

    This was exactly the first thing I thought when watching the highlights - as good as Gunny has been this season and in fairness he made one great save last night, I thought he was poor on those two goals.

    I also share your irritation here, Gunn is developing into a fine keeper for us, but I don't thinks he's as commanding or aggressive as he should be - something which Krul was good at.

    The thing for me is that Wednesday won an endless succession of corners and Gunn came to punch out several of them, it was just the pressure that wore down the defence I thought.  Presumably the highlights just show the goals, not all the corners/crosses leading up to them.

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    It's  a massive issue, if we're chasing a game, who do we bring on that's going to freshen up the attack and give some threat ?  While Idah has weaknesses, he could fulfil that role, and at the moment we don't have anyone who can, with VH not yet really contributing.

     

    Aside from Gibbs and Fassnacht, the rest of the bench is purely injury cover.  If we're several goals up then you can bring on VH or Aboh for a bit but that's not exactly the point.

     

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    There are so many, but personally when we beat them at home in the playoff semi and that move when we carved them apart for Redmond's shot which could only be saved by the defender on the line using his hand, and we then scored from the penalty anyway after he'd been sent off.  It's even funnier that sometimes afterwards their fans would make comments about the result being caused by them going down to 10 men. 

    And funnier still that when they were discussing their best moments of that decade, their consensus seemed to be that it was playing (and losing to) us in the playoff semi (which objectively was true) while beating them was way down our list of top 10 moments.

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    1 hour ago, JUBWICKS75 said:

    I have a very good friend who is considering sitting in a home stand for the upcoming Ipswich game. 

    Can you please help with a friendly seating area I can advise them on ?? 

    The stand with the tree growing in it would be good.

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    13 hours ago, Nuff Said said:

    Not so long ago, everyone would have said Leicester were certs to be champions.

    Spot on, to say a 5 point gap is enough to make them a certainty for 5th is silly, there are 9 games to go and towards the end of the season results can get very unpredictable e.g. teams at the bottom scrapping for survival can become a lot harder to play.  WBA are definitely front runners in the competition for 5th & 6th but that's all, the chasing pack is close behind them and we're the form team of the bunch.

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    50 minutes ago, Canarywary said:

    Other people may also have heard on the commentary for Saturday's match, that apparently Jordan Hugill was sat in amoung our fans for the Middlesboro match. Love that! I know Maddison also did this for at least one match when he was at Leicester and we played Wolves, along with another player I think, but I forget who, maybe Ruddy? Anyone else know any other examples of former players showing this lasting allegiance to us?

    Credit to Hugill in that case, he never really established himself with us enough to be a favourite with the fans.

     

    Maddison won major brownie points when we were playing Leicester and when their player was down injured we put the ball out  and the throw in went to one of their players, everyone was standing back expecting him to pass it back to us, but he hadn't got the message and started running on goal, Hanley realised and had to foul him on the edge of the box. 

    This was in front of us away fans who were understandably irate and fortunately Maddison took over the free kick and passed it back to our GK.  So major brownie points for Maddison, while they winger was solidly booed from then on and ended up being subbed off not long after.

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    4 hours ago, Ken Hairy said:

    He'd always have a choice, we're not City it's a bit naive to think everyone we're interested in is going to jump at the chance to come here. We were mid table fodder at the time 

    I think you’ll find that actually….

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  19. Posted

    5 hours ago, Thirsty Lizard said:

    Your memory is playing tricks on you. Johnson never fell over. (even though that idiot Warnock claimed that he did). Johnson took a step back and sort of held out his arms as if to say "look what he just did". A bit similar to Howson looking at his thigh after last night's incident. 

    Yeah I'd accept he didn't actually fall over but it was certainly a dramatic reaction and it clearly brought the refs attention to it, but then it was Joey Barton we're talking about.

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    49 minutes ago, wr4sb said:

    Sadly that's the name of the game these days.

    I think we've had another thread on cheating, etc. Playacting to get an advantage for your team, a win at all costs mentality. Just look at all the players that fall over for a penalty if you feel contact. 

    If roles were reversed, would be applauding him for getting an opponent sent off to get us a win from a losing position or calling him a cheat?

    I half suspect some teams have a game plan to target 'volatile' players. 

    It's fair to say the roles were reversed quite a few years back when BJ squared up to Joey Barton and then fell over rather theatrically.  My feeling at the time was it was fair enough given it was Barton, but I was a bit uncomfortable about it. I think there's a difference between intentionally getting a fellow pro sent off and winning a penalty by diving, I'm not keen on the latter but it's not as bad IMO.

    I would feel extremely uncomfortable if we'd won in such a dodgy way.  Stuff happens, I'm not saying we're whiter than white, but we're definitely better than some.

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  21. Posted

    Haven't posted yet as I was so annoyed last night.

     

    It was revealing watching on the sky red button that initially the commentator thought it was a Boro player getting sent off.  Clueless referee, but Sainz gave him the opening by a stupid action, and Howson is contemptible for deliberately getting another pro sent off.

     

    Come the end of the season it's quite possible those 3 points will make all the difference, I'm so frustrated and angry.

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    9 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

    We'll never know, but we did lose to Sheff Utd 4 days later.

    We were probably the worst prepared team when it came to Project Restart. It was almost as though we were convinced the season would be made null and void and went on to lose 10 in a row.

    I went to that Sheff Utd game and it was a 1-0 defeat which came down to them taking one chance and Teemu missing an equally good chance, it could easily have been a draw or a win for us, one of those games with few chances and very fine margins.

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  24. Posted

    26 minutes ago, dylanisabaddog said:

    The video doesn't show him juggling with the ball before he took his penalty. 

    What a great night! 

    Yes absolutely.

     

    I come across the video of Todd juggling the ball and then scoring on Instagram occasionally which is the only NCFC content I can remember seeing on that platform 🙂 

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  25. Posted

    Hmm my recollection of that season is that after being spanked 5-0 by Fulham in the opener, Hughton brought in some defenders and everything came together for a time, culminating in the 10-game unbeaten run which put us in a good place in December.  But things then started to get a bit wobbly and although we weren't in the relegation zone, we were also uncomfortably close.  I particularly remember us hanging on for dear life for a 2-1 win over Reading at home where we really really needed those 3 points.

     

    At the end of the season we had wins in the last couple of games over WBA (the definitive "on the beach" performance by them) and a classic and fully deserved win over Man City at the Emirates, when Mancini had been sacked the week before so they were in a very weird frame of mind.  For both of those wins my feeling was the players unilaterally threw away the Hughton playbook.  And those 6 points leapfrogged us up the table and gave us a flattering end position (compared to the previous season under Lambert when we were comfortably safe well before the end of the season and ended up experimenting with 3 at the back etc and being a bit on the beach ourselves, so our end league position was definitely below the level we'd been at for most of the season.

     

    Looking back my guess is that WFLGH was getting cheesed off with being a lone striker with very little service or support and when he left without an adequate replacement we were always in trouble the next season.

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