Carrow_Road_Canary

Invest in youth? Most of the national team is now young players, which is what the public has been crying out for, unless you mean invest at grass roots level, in which case I think most level headed people would agree with you. But anyway, are we really going to start threads on this every time an England squad is announced? Seriously, grow up. If I was England manager and gad keepers playing in the premier league against Costa, Aguero, Di Maria etc, I''d prefer their experience of facing these players every week over an Everyon reject playing against Rotherham. P.S. That comment doesn''t mean I don''t rate Ruddy, I just can''t see what the problem is in favouring premier league players over ones in the Championship.

[quote user="STAN"]Passion & Pride. The players are lined up at the start of every game and forced to sing a song about God saving our glorified tourist attraction. God save our Queen? 90% of English footballers couldn''t give a t*ss about the Queen. Does the Queen care about me? No. Do I care about the Queen? No. I don''t wish nothing bad upon her but she means as much to me as my neighbour 5 doors down the road. In fact the said neighbour probably means more. Secondly.. England''s a shithole. How many players are proud and passionate of/about this country? This is our problem.[/quote] It''s probably just a shithole where you live. It''s what you make it and judging by your language you choose to make it shit. We do have a beautiful country, you just need to get out more.

[quote user="Just Dan"][quote user="Carrow_Road_Canary"]He''s choosing players from the premier league, are you really surprised?? They play against top opposition most weeks, not Bournemouth and Ipswich. If Ruddy wants to be in the England squad he should either move to a PL team or help get us promoted.[/quote] This is what bothers me about the England team, surely it should be made up of the best English players, not just the best English players in the Premiership. A good player is a good player, regardless of the team he plays in. Until we can scout players lower down the leagues or we get more English players in the Prem, we are doomed. And a poor footballer is still poor regardless of the team he plays for, so it is a shame that Smalling and Cleverly went to the world cup just because they play for Man Utd. Had they been at Norwich, they would not have got a look in. It has to change.[/quote] Yeah, and there''s a reason why they don''t play for us... The best English players are in the premier league. Players who are in the England squad, like Fabian Delph, who people are saying ''wtf is he in the squad for'', would jump at the chance to have him play for us. It''s our national team, and it may be crap at the moment but we support Norwich when they''re crap, why not the country that represents us too? Everyone here will be in the pubs celebrating if we ever do win a World Cup or European championship.

He''s choosing players from the premier league, are you really surprised?? They play against top opposition most weeks, not Bournemouth and Ipswich. If Ruddy wants to be in the England squad he should either move to a PL team or help get us promoted.

I don''t know if I''m allowed to say too much, but we do have fans come in to get stuff signed so it''s no big secret. They''ll be staying over Saturday night but Sunday is when they''ll be signing stuff, usually around lunch time, but as the game is an early kick off I couldn''t give you an exact time to be there.

It''s Sprowston Manor. I should know, I work there ;-)

He''s fine, just a massive attention seeker. The end.

[quote user="Crystal Canary"]A scintillating, awe-inspiring 6-0 drubbing of Swansea, with Hooper and Wolfie linking up in a breathless display of intuition and emotional connectivity. With the final goal, the new partnership unites in a heady display of passion and wanton desire, embracing and collapsing in the goal mouth for a massive make-out session. You reckon? ..no? Just me then.[/quote] I wish that would happen!!

Happy birthday to the boss! No-one mentioned this yet? Disgraceful!

Well, that''s it. I guess we''re doomed then.

The concierge where I work told me he saw McNally leave a conference room with an agent not long ago.

Nothing to lose except a football match

I agree with pretty much all you say... but 1996 aside, and that was on home turf, we haven''t really set the world alight have we? What we need is a good coach who can mould a team and get the best out of mediocre players. Hodgson seems to be doing that - undefeated in the group, only 4 goals conceded, the third highest scorers in qualifying. That seems to be the way alot of the time and then we crumble at the tournaments. I don''t expect us to win it but if you have a united team who respect the manager you can do things. Anything can happen in football. No English manager had reached a quarter final since Terry Venables in 1996 until Hodgson did it in 2012 and he''d just joined. How refreshing was it to see him jumping about in joy? he may have got a reputation as a conservative manager, but not in the last two games! You don''t give Andros Townsend his debut in a vital game if you''re conservative. You mention how bad the current young players are - before, lots of people have been saying we should blood the youngsters in tournaments to give them valuable experience for the future - would you say that is wrong then? To play the Cahills, Smallings, Jones'' etc? Do you not think they have the potential to learn and get better? I agree though that Welbeck is a bad version of Heskey! As ever, i have no expectations but plenty of hope!

My local shop is Morrissons :-P

I live literally next to the stadium. I don''t think it gets any more local than that!

Apparantly he has to play in England for 5 or 6 years before he qualifies to play for England.

Sigh. We lose a game and it''s our record signings fault for not out-scoring the opposition single handed. Sigh.

[quote user="swindoncanary"]FIFA world rankings don''t count for much, I can guarantee that the top two teams on their rankings will not be the World Cup Finalists [/quote] They do count for alot, especially when it comes to seedings. We''re now unlikely to be a top seed at the world cup if we get there so could find ourselves in a ''group of death''.

[quote user="Rock The Boat"]Sorry but I find all the multitude of international games really tedious and an unwelcome distraction from the Premier League. Every year it''s either qualifying for the World Cup or the Euro Cup and then the actual Cup competition itself. As soon as one competition is finished then games for the next competition starts in the following season. And because there are so many competitions the countries then need to play a set of "friendlies" to sort out tactics and players, while real football gets put on the backburner. This is just the internatonal games and don''t even include club level competitions such as Champions League and Europa cup etc. etc. where the same set of players appearing for their countries just get re-shuffled as club players and appear in a different set of coloured shirts. Same old faces and bad haircuts, though. What''s the benefit? Ok so FIFA and UEFA scam millions of pounds out of the competitions so can see where they are coming from. But suppose Ricky VW gets injured playing for Holland and is out for the season? What good is international football then? I reckon a World Cup and Euro Cup (and African Nations Cup) should be played once every ten years so we can have a few years when we can concentrate on the real stuff without all these meaningless competitions going on. What say you?[/quote] One every ten years??? I say you''re ****ing crazy!! We''re never likely to improve as a footballing nation if we don''t play any meaningful internations in ten years. Plus we''d have, what... 8 or 9 world cups to watch in our lifetime?? How likely would we be to win anything then!! The world cup is special. I look forward to watching it every 4 years - which is a long time. Seeing all the best players in the world having a go at each other. And the pride for playing for your country or even watching your country. All these people who say how they can''t be bothered with watching England.... i wonder if they''d be celebrating with everyone else if we did actually win a world cup?? To me it''s just as important as Norwich. You stick with the team through the highs and the lows, and don''t jump on the bandwagon when things are going well, only to diss the team when it''s not.

[quote user="Houston Canary"]CRC, maybe it seems like more than 10% to you because you have more direct contact but I sure don''t see it. I think it''s a number that got thrown out there, was not widely challenged, and became blindly accepted by the general public. You''re the only poster here to say you''re gay but you''ve had only 38 posts. You''re hardly a regular on here. Who are the 10% of regular posters that are homosexual? Nothing to fear here as we all agree it wouldn''t become a factor in our operation opinions.[/quote] I may not have many posts but i come on here EVERY day. So to me that makes me a regular.

HAHA, i HATE those stupid marches. Please don''t think i go to any!

[quote user="Houston Canary"]The 1 in 10 number has been out there for ages but I never believed it was anything closr to that. If it was, it would be reasonsble to assume there are a handful of gay Pinkun posters who frequent these thresds. I don''t recall anyone announcing their homosexuality here despite this topic appearing occasionally. As for who would care about such a declaration by a current player, gay leaders would be thrilled by it. Recently an NBA and an MLS player have come out and the gay community was quite happy, or gay, about it. Most fellow players seemed quite uninterested, and the rare one with a negative reaction was attacked by the media. Women''s sports is much more influenced by homosexuality and nobody seems to care much.[/quote] *puts hand up* I''m gay!! People seem to think there are fewer gay people about than people think. I think there are more. One quick look at a gay dating app reveals SO MANY gay people in Norwich alone. 1 in 10 sounds so few.... i reckon there''s a bit more,.... maybe they just havent come out, or announced it, or indeed may be bi-sexual?

[quote user="Zak Van Burger"][quote user="The Pinkun Role Model"]What is it with hetros and their fascination with wanting a gay to come out? Seriously that''s half the problem though there shouldn''t be one. Men wanting to know where other men put their penises.[/quote]I don''t honestly believe the average hetero gives a damn I think this entire nonsense about gays coming out being important is firmly rooted in the gay psyche. [/quote] Speaking as a gay, i don''t think that''s strictly accurate. It''s not in my psyche anyway. It''s like when people find out i''m gay, and say ''but you didn''t tell us!'' - why should i? Do straight people go about proclaiming their straight-ness?

I was just going to post something like this! Right now i finaly feel part of an established Premier League team, and not a championship team punching above their weight. A look through the spine of our squad - Ruddy, Bassong, Garrido, Van Wolfswinkel, possibly Toivywooyvyloon - these are the players of an established premier league team. Hughton is clearly building something here and sure there are going to be ups and downs when doing so, but i feel we''re going in the right direction.

[quote user="unique"]Indestructable?..... Who said that? Piling on the pressure?.....I''m sure Hughton reads these boards.... All I''ve pointed out is the potential vulnerability of many of the teams at the start of next season.... Are you a jerk all of the week, or just on Thursday nights?[/quote] Not as often as you, making up pointless threads to start passively bashing the team with your high expectations.