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Imo it's pretty hard to put too much blame on Farke. He is not playing on a level playing field with managers like Wilder who was given the opportunity to strengthen his championship side with 40 odd million. The options on the bench are limited to say the least. I imagine he would be more willing to make earlier changes if he had McBurnie and Mousset on the bench.

The promotion team from last year was certainly a much stronger team than Lamberts promotion team. But... I remember Lambert brought in a fair few important reinforcements on promotion. Signings that didn't cost us much money at all. We predominantly played a very narrow 442 diamond in the championship, and hence recruited two new wingers in Pilkington and E Bennett who allowed us to try something new. While we certainly gave the promoted squad a chance, both new signings ended up with a lot of game time come the end of the season. That is one of the biggest differences imo between that PL campaign and the current one so far. We have nothing but like for like changes for the system we played last season. It is proving incredibly difficult to change games with such subs.

I assume this must be a miss quote or out of context. One would assume that 'disappointment' would be 0 points, if 'delighted' is 11.

I have to agree with this... Going down would cost us most/all of our best young players. Footballers have short careers and want to achieve success. You don't make it to a professional level without a strong mental desire to be a winner. If any established premier league team fancies one of our youngsters in the event we go down, you can bet good money they will be off. The decision not to bring in support for the best batch of young talent I've seen come through the club, will likely see us lose them.

Let's be honest, it would be a fantastic move for him. A plus side to our strategy of limited investment is that we can attract ambitious top young talent to the club. Players want to join us as they know they will get a chance. Aarons, Godfrey, Lewis and Cantwell have all had incredible starts to their careers that they would not have got by joining a premier league team. Having so much experience at this point in their careers is invaluable. The downside to the strategy, is that unless we show a willingness to take the club to another level - we will more often than not be seen as a stepping stone to bigger things. I suspect none of the four mentioned players will be at Norwich come 2022.

Leitner has been perhaps the most disappointing player this season for me. I don't mean it in a "Oh God, he as been awful" perspective... Rather, I really had him pinned as a player who could translate really well the PL, due to his technical ability. He had a solid run of games in our poor run and I was disappointed that he didn't perform better than he did. He has always been a bit of a liability defensively, but could rely on his ability to control the midfield from deep. He's lost a lot of form and confidence which is making his defensive slights show a lot more. The villa game is a great example of this. With Vrancic coming back in to the picture, I think Mo is going to have to work extremely hard to get back into a starting xi. Especially if we are potentially looking to play a pairing of Tettey/Trybull/Amadou more often. If there is any truth to the rumours he is being an **** behind the scenes, he will have to nip that in the bud ASAP - or he will likely never play Premier League football again.

A new left back would be handy - I love Lewis, but Heise does not seem to be a backup that the manager trusts. A pacey winger would also help us. We look so much more threatening with Onel in the team, when he was injured we really struggled for pace. While we will not be spending much in January, we are normally pretty consistent in bringing in first team players (even if they are loaned back for the rest of the season).

Never thought I would wish for an international break every other week.

Very well taken goal. Thought Teemu also did brilliantly to slip the ball through under pressure. 👍

Fantastic to see him back. Have to say, I'm a little worried it may be too soon. Ideally you would like him to have a few u23 games to get his sharpness/fitness back.

Krul Byram Godfrey Amadou Lewis Tettey Vrancic Roberts Cantwell Hernandez Pukki We need to change the team, the current lineup is not scoring goals. Unfortunately there is not much we can do at the back due to injuries and poor depth. Buendia needs to be dropped and given the chance to show what he can do from the bench. I thought Roberts looked useful in pre season and should be given a chance to show what he can do. Onel aside, the players picked in front of him have shown nothing for seven games. Roberts deserves a shot.

Unfortunately couldn't make the game yesterday, but the boos were definitely audible on the TV. I have publicly have strong reservations about how the club did in the summer, window but booing the players/manager is not on. They were brilliant for us last season and still are giving their all.

I can't fathom how the club have managed to convince the local media that the pitiful 750k investment in our squad is justifiable on a premier league income. Every time it is alluded to in interviews, there is some babble about "doing things the right way", "the model" and "silly money" - as if there is no middle ground between £750k and £100m. The media seem to eat it up. There are clubs in league 1 who have invested more than this in the playing staff. Webber loves to patronise fans and journalists alike with his "people don't realise that we are paid transfer fees and TV money over a period of time". Everyone knows this, but no one has the balls to remind him that we are paying for players over a period of time too. What we are left with is a young squad who have had any confidence absolutely lashed out of them. If we get relegated, the group will be demoralised and the best talent plucked off by ambitious prem teams. We will be further backwards than we were last year. It upsets me to see the young, great players from last season hung out to dry. It is not good for their development and it is not good for the club. The players have been let down by the club not giving them the support they need to compete.

This season is quickly becoming embarrassing. The young players are being hung out to dry. Getting thumped 2 or 3 nil every week is not helping their development. We should have signed the experience required to compete at this level. If we go down, we will end up with a worse squad than we had last year.

Well I can't imagine we will hear much about the finances from Webber, any time soon. He only ever emerges from the shadows when we win a game.

Absolutely pathetic start you have to say. All over the place.

They invested significantly more money - and maybe that is the difference. I suspect there is more to it than that though. The core of that Sheff Utd squad is the same as the one we beat to the title last year.

The last goal we scored from passing the ball was six games ago. We are desperate to 'keep our identity', but I bet most neutrals couldn't tell you what our identity is at the moment. Passing the ball well is certainly not it.

Seems like a poor signing. Not apparently good enough to improve the first team, won't help us next year if we get relegated and taking up space in our tiny wage budget.

Well put! I think the one point I dispute strongly is that we will tear up the championship if we got relegated. Momentum is huge and it will be a huge challenge to get back to being a winning team. Huddersfield and Cardiff were both disciplined with spending and have struggled to adapt back to the championship. We will also have to adapt to being be plucked clean of the youngsters, which is a depressing but realistic thought. I believe we can turn the corner, but we have to do it soon. We need to start getting more points on the road and getting our mojo back at home.

It was farcical today - no doubt. Seems like it was terrible across the board in the other games as well. Ironically, the two penalties probably did us more good than Man Utd as it at least gave the crowd and players a boost for 5 mins or so.

Agreed that Emi had a poorer performance than Cantwell today. He seemed completely rattled and proceeded to play 60 minutes of the game in an unproductive sulk. Definitely not what you need when you are up against it. Would swap Emi for Onel next week. Emi will be desperate to make an impact from the bench and can hopefully get his mojo back asap.

He was definitely the bright spark from today. We've really missed his pace and directness.

Oh I fully agree. At the start of the season, most would say if we can improve at the back, we will likely score enough to stay up. Now I am not so sure - and that really worries me.

Lots of focus on our defensive problems, but I'm more worried by the fact we've only scored two (soft) goals in five winnable games. Even with our strongest XI in the championship, we struggled to defend.