Juggy

Getting rid of Malky that season was a HUGE mistake. He was a natural born leader and showed that by playing an important role in three successive promotions. To get promoted in three successive seasons with three different clubs is an absolute massive achievement. He had a big turning circle and a lack of pace but he would have easily have justified game time ahead of Simon Charlton and Gary Doherty. Disagree with the person who said Shackell was poor though, he was actually a revelation in that season. We''d have had a much better chance with a defensive trio of Malky, Shackell and Fleming. As for Iwan, I think he was shot by then, and we have to remember that we were unlucky to have Svensson out injured for much of the season. At that stage Svensson was a far better player than Iwan who has 18 months past his sell by date. Breaking up that Fleming - Mackay partnership and failing to invest in a top striker in the summer (rather than January) was our downfall that season.

"As Norwich supposedly have the lowest wage bill in the Prem" Source?

Jarvis has been injured I think, started the season well!

"I would even want him to stay if we were unfortunate to go down. We are a proper football club" You sound like a retard to me. How does that makes us a "proper" football club, even Brian Clough got the push when relegated.

We could go below them too.

A better question would be how many of the 7 teams to sack managers this season are worse off now then when they made the dismissal. The answer is 2 out of 7. This always happens, we put in a good performance, win a game and people start getting cocky. It is almost as if you wish to tempt fate. We play one of those 7 teams next, away from home, and it won''t be an easy game. We''ve played more games than the five teams immediately below us. Please lets not start getting cocky and over confident. Even Sunderland who were terrible today have THREE games in hand on us. And none of them have a run in quite like ours. We are closer to the relegation zone than the table shows us to be.

"Yup. There has even been a thread started about it before!" Well clearly not as today was the first time they had reached 7th place (the play offs). What thread and when? Did that thread talk about how they are unbeaten in 9 games and have won 5 in a row? His remit this season was to keep them up!

Anybody noticed the run that York are on which has taken them from 21st to 7th?

"except the wolf who was again dreadful" I can''t fault his effort in recent weeks, just don''t see what threat he offers. Inside the box, outside the box, on the floor, in the air, offers no threat at all. Not enough pace to run with the ball or for balls over the top, not enough strength to win and hold up the ball in the air. Really just don''t get him or what he was supposed to do, and if I don''t get that then I can''t have a full understanding of whether it is him or the team or the manager or the tactics or what. Maybe one of his ardent supporters can offer up an example of a player that he is supposed to be like? A former player said that Hooper is similar to Defoe just after he''d signed, which former or current PL great would we liken Wolfy to in terms of style of play? Maybe that would help some of us understand what we are supposed to be waiting for.

"If you''d have rather bought Chamakh, Anchiebe or Gayle you''re deluded" I must be deluded then because Chamakh on a free transfer, 5 goals in 25 in a poor team, looks like much better business than £8.5m plus on Van Wolfswinkel... 1 goal in 25. I could be deluded then, but maybe you are the deluded one. Easy to just call people "deluded" though isn''t it, without asking them for alternatives. My suggestion is that we sack of Wolfy and reinvest, talking about who we coulda shoulda woulda is not particularly relevant. What is relevant is where we go from here, and if it came down to it I think I''d be pretty happy if we took a punt on Jordan Rhodes and Steven Fletcher to replace Wolfy and Elmander for next season. Just my opinion. If you don''t like it lump it.

"Oh F off" No. . "8 million on a striker in PL is peanuts" £8.5m minimum actually. It isn''t peanuts to a club our size. The fact that other teams have also bought flops in that position does not in any way make Van Wolfswinkel a success. Easy for you to list a load of flops, quite easy to do the opposite and list success stories. We paid less for Hooper, there is one to start us off. "we could''ve spent 15 million on Osvaldo" Be helpful to others if you make it clear that you are talking about euros there and not pounds. It was £12.8m. He showed his quality and was let go because of a training ground incident. But they got 3 in 13 from him including a ''worldy'', so if we really must compare £12.5m for 3 goals in 13 and £8.5m for 1 in 21 then we can if you want. "Or 8 million on Gayle" £4.5m and 3 goals. "Or 6 million on Anchiebe" 3 goals in 16 "Or even 10 million on Vydra" He''s on loan and has 2 in 10. So if your entire argument is based on Cornelius and Altidore being marginally bigger or equal flops, then sure. But unfortunately not by much. We could have spent £12m on Bony, or £4.5m on Long, or Chamakh on a free transfer. If your entire argument is that there are crapper strikers then that says it all really.

He keeps missing sitters though. What else can his teammates do to get him a goal than stick the ball in front of him six yards out? If him staying prevents us signing another quality striker then I''m saying he has to be a goner. Do you think we really have the budget to keep Hooper, Van Wolfswinkel, and sign another big name? Think I''d rather us just flog him and steal Steven Fletcher.... 44 Premier League goals.

I think he is just a synthetic popularist who says what he thinks will make him popular, and he always has been because fame for something has been his only objective in life. Probably bonked plenty of real fitties though so deseves a bit of kudos.

"What a difference a day makes" So let me get this straight... by wanting Hughton and Norwich to part ways in the summer (my stance for MONTHS) I wave my right to acknowledge the very occasional good performance? But if I don''t acknowledge when we play well, other Hughton inners say "where are all the outers". So damned if you do and damned if you don''t, no matter what you do? Sums up this forum nicely really doesn''t it.

As nice as it is to see him putting a shift in and breaking a sweat these days, he is never going to get an easier chance than that. Can''t see the point in playing him again, get Hooper back in and give Wolfy a goodbye cameo in the last home game. The three worst teams in the league this season are unusually gash, next season we need to spend the bulk of our budget on a proper PL striker.

Nope afraid not, my stance remains unchanged. This performance doesn''t change my opinion one bit, which is that Bassong is not the right captain, Van Wolfswinkel was a huge waste of money, our best player has been left out of the team 23 times out of 31 this season, and that our midfield trio showed that we don''t need to play two defensive midfielders like Hughton has been doing for most of his reign because like many of us have been saying... attack/possession is the best form of defence, and playing Hoolahan and Howson together in the same team is the best way to keep possession. He played two strikers too didn''t he? Nice try but the whole game played right into the hands of his critics, who have been crying out for us to approach games like that for almost two full seasons now. There is also the small matter of no home win being followed by an away win this season, and the simple fact that we will probably stay up this season not by reaching 39 points as is usually required, but because Sunderland, Fulham and Cardiff are completely gash. Hughton still needs to go at the end of the season. I''ve been saying since late-December that it was too late to sack him, and so I remain (as I have been for some time now) a Hughton sacked-at-the-end-of-the-seasoner.

I think Russell Brand will save the day on MOTD by making a joke about boobs out of Tettey, a Rooney joke is a too obvious target.

What do we need now, four points? Fulham, Sunderland and Cardiff are all terrible. No chance we are going to need any more than 36 points. Which is handy really, because we''ve only realistically got 3 games to get them. Can we start to think about finishing above Villa yet? And can we all now agree that Van Wolfswinkel is bloody useless and we should try and get a few million for him to bring in a real number 9 next season?

The opposite of an outer. Outer ------------------------- Inner ^ The spectrum. Like all spectrums you can fall anywhere inbetween it, including the very middle. Political spectrum: Left ----------------------------- Right Not many people would admit to be at the very end of either side of the political spectrum, as that means they hold an extreme view. So quite why so many people are getting offended by my use of the word ''inner'' in the title is bemusing, as by doing so they are admitting to being extreme inners. There are a few ''extreme inners'' and a few ''extreme outers''. LDC is an extreme inner. The person who started the protest event on facebook is an extreme outer. Most people are not ''far out'' or ''far in'', but fall somewhere else within the spectrum. I a centre-outer. I lean towards wanting him out but not necessarily right now and certainly not prepared to get militant about it. There you go the inner outer spectrum.

If we went down, would you?

"Le Juge does seem to be a very insecure man/woman Herman. Starting a thread to belittle those with a different opinion to you is par for the course on here I suppose" Oh dear, have you failed to recognise that the purpose of my post was to show off the funny Hughton masks I''d just found? "Will you be at the match and/or taking part in the protest Le Juge?" No because I think that sacking Hughton right now would probably be a mistake and that holding a Hughton out protest would be completely pointless seeing that the board have already been aware for some time that they majority of fans are not content with the current managerial team and not acted upon it.

The inners can call themselves Hughtonomous.

Rather than moaning about the proposed out protests? For just £2 each you can buy these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chris-Hughton-face-mask-Norwich-City-FC-/370634352984 And wear them at Carrow Road like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Anonymous_at_Scientology_in_Los_Angeles.jpg

Do you realise what Ferguson had achieved at Aberdeen before getting the Man Utd job?

I can''t see what is wrong with a good old loud boo at the final whistle.