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Everything posted by Monty13
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Hwang vs Hooijdonk
Monty13 replied to cambridgeshire canary's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
I suspect it was a lot more minutes. -
But which someone of his many someones is banned?
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A well-managed game.
Monty13 replied to littleyellowbirdie's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
That’s a problem Wagner is dying to have. -
Doomsday May Just Have Arrived...............
Monty13 replied to Thirsty Lizard's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Where did he? Because in his post match interview with Connor he confirmed it was fitness related. -
Wagner’s basically made it clear that’s the team, be very surprised if there were any unforced changes other than restoring Duffy.
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Placheta/Springett/Forshaw
Monty13 replied to JonnyJonnyRowe's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Managers are expected to take the flack for everything it often seems. Agree doesn’t bode well for the future, but can’t really blame him especially when he’s basically been proved right. -
Think someone already mentioned them.
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Hopefully, but Leeds need to get their **** together.
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Placheta/Springett/Forshaw
Monty13 replied to JonnyJonnyRowe's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
No. I’m just surprised we didn’t bring in one Loan player to replace them (in terms of squad bodies) with maybe a bit of quality and a point to prove to give another option. -
Get what you’re saying but I kind of think there’s a philosophical conflict internally. Knapper has clearly been brought in to focus on youth/prospects, continue/restart the production line of talent out of Colney and balance success on the pitch with player asset development off it. At least that’s the way it seems to me from what he has said and his background. Wagners remit was to get promotion. Wagner does not seem to be a Manager who focuses on youth to any degree, at least from what we’ve seen. Gibbs has been used sparingly compared to last season, Fisher trusted little to replace Stacy, Warner out on loan after some decent displays. Very little minutes given to youth players on the bench. He said in this interview “they are talented, they are young, they need their time so a lot of players need to play a lot of minutes”. More I think on it, Wagner may get us up and if he does IMO he deserves his chance but I’m just not sure how you reconcile what appears to be an impasse in forward direction of the club and ultimately Knapper owns that.
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Not ignoring it personally but the guy signed a 5 year contract last year. I get he’s been disappointed with his opportunities this year, but it’s also not as simple as a player saying they want a loan and everyone having to bend over backwards to immediately accommodate them IMO, especially mid season. Idah should have had a loan a long time ago, he could have potentially had the desire for that opportunity managed to ensure a promise of finding him one this summer. I just think that’s the difference between a club still expecting promotion and one not, I’m just not sure a club pushing to be promoted doesn’t manage that situation to keep him.
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I agree with a lot of what you’re saying here but I’m not sure it’s clear how much of the summer window was what Wagner wanted. The fact he barely plays Batth or Forshaw before he left makes me doubt how much influence he had over incomings. I think it’s clear there is a level of divide between Manager and new SD, how deep who knows. But Wagner was vocal all through January about bodies, he’s stated that again here. Knapper was clear we need to refocus on youth yet these players are not getting a look in. Knappers one transfer is being effectively ignored (although I’m also in the camp of feeling it was a foolish move in hindsight). I think it’s pretty clear top level management at Carrow Road no longer expected us to be genuine top 6 challengers and that January plans were based on that. I know money is tight but you don’t loan out Idah and not look to bring a single loan in while reducing the squad size if you’re fully focused on promotion, I just don’t believe that personally.
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Who can we bring in for tonight?
Monty13 replied to ron obvious's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
While I don’t think he’s proving to be a successful signing I’m pretty sure SVH is not a similar player at all to Barnes. SVH seems to be the Sargent backup, and the fact we’ll let a clearly not 100% fit Sargent play 90 mins some weeks you may be right in that he’s not trusted to fulfil that role. We desperately need to keep Sarge fit though so if we are winning by a two goal margin I’d expect him to come off at some point. -
Time to accept that Wagner is doing a good job
Monty13 replied to JonnyJonnyRowe's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
They had a run of 1 win in 9 same as us, difference is they picked up 6 draws in that period and we got 1. -
They also did it much more than us Saturday I thought, should have had at least 3-4 yellow cards for blatant pull backs
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Time to accept that Wagner is doing a good job
Monty13 replied to JonnyJonnyRowe's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Except the point people continue to make about the injury period is not that we should have been maintaining top 6 form without these players, but that it shouldn’t have resulted in us producing relegation form. -
Time to accept that Wagner is doing a good job
Monty13 replied to JonnyJonnyRowe's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
I don’t think that’s true at all. Lots of people have had issues with what Webber said throughout his tenure. It wasn’t that people didn’t care, it was while we were doing well he got away with it. Flip side of which though was when fortunes did turn his character immediately got called into question due to what he had been saying, no one forced him to say these things. It was arrogance and hubris. He loved slinging mud at the previous regime and supporters and it inevitably came back to bite him.