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  1. Fantastic. [quote user="blahblahblah"][quote user="Cluck "]Perhaps they are just doing what NCFC are up to.....calling someone else "Chairman" in order to deflect criticism away from someone within the Boardroom who has a "squeaky clean" reputation to protect. Just a hunch............[/quote] Or maybe they haven''t got around to changing the website yet, or issuing a press release.  Aren''t there enough serious conspiracies in the world to get your teeth into ?  If I were you, I''d be far more concerned at the stifling of development of zero-point energy solutions, or whether 911 was an inside job, or whether Princess Di was really knocked off by MI5, or anything involving America, rather than who''s the top volunteer in a fans association. [:|] [/quote]
  2. Personally I think he has had a shocker of a season, cost us a few cheap goals and is poor coming forward, looks like he is losing his pace and stamina a bit to.  One more year and then cheerio in my opinion.  And he is not a captain. [quote user="Rudolph Hucker"] Drury has expressed his loyalty and love of the Club and wants to sign a new contract. This is the much criticised for lack of demonstrativeness on the pitch, son of Worthy, can''t tackle captain who should be replaced according to some. But he is our quiet legend who will rack up a significant number of games to be one of our longest serving players before he retires; who lifted the Championship trophy; who gets up from and recovers from injuries like no other player at the Club; who has done sterling work as a full back compensating his reputation for the side in having Hucks in front of him leaving him exposed; who would walk into most Championship teams; who is low maintenance off the pitch as he is a sure pro and who basically just gets on and does a job for us a la Dave Stringer. Good on you, Adam; you are truly the type of Club player every side needs. May we prosper with you. [/quote]
  3. This sums up why perhaps your absence from games will save you pain.  You obviously cannot spot a decent footballing talent when you see one.  He has all the attributes and will figure strongly next season in our team.  Lets see who is right. [quote user="Cluck "] I said he''d be on loan to Rochdale next season...and I stand by it.  Too many fan''s desperate for a "hero" I''m afraid....and a club so desperate to hold on to one that they break the bank to do it. I''m pleased the lad can afford a Hummer now.......but he''s been sussed and eliminated as a threat.   [/quote]
  4. Worthington is history, and we have a new manager.  At the end of this season we all hope to see the underachievers go, and to be replaced with fresh blood.  We all hope to see the board refuse to sell Earnie. From where I am standing, at the dawn of a completely fresh team on the pitch and on the coaching side, next season is the ''last chance saloon'' for our current board.  A season of selling Earnie, no team strengthening, and a mid table or lower finish, from a team with the THIRD biggest attendance in the division confirmed, is a disgrace and I would hope lead to a change at the top of the club, by force if neccessary (the force of opinion I hasten to add, I am not advocating seeing certain posters on this board in balaclava''s holding a gun to Delia''s head and declaring a coup!).
  5.     [quote user="ricardo"] [quote user="It''s All About The 2 M''s Movement & Positioning"]Ive seen him play many times and his movement and touch reminds me of somebody like Teddy Sheringham. I think he could certainly do a job playing in the hole behind a fit Earnshaw?quote] Yep, you are dead right there. Andy Hughes would be great playing in a hole. [/quote]
  6. Why would you think it funny or amusing that people disagree?  There are many reasons why we have failed as a club, many, and debating those and trying to make sense of them is a key part of this forum, and debates with your mates in the pub.  I see no part of the current divide in the fans and the underperformance of the club as a laugh. Yes we are all watching the same team, however, some people think Brown, your reference, should be given a chance.  From where I am standing he had a chance at Sunderland and blew it because he acted like a moron, got shipped out for a fee well above what we should have payed for a fringe player at Sunderland.  In his games for his new club he has not had significant pace, killer instinct, cleverness of passing or movement, leadership qualities, strength, or indeed anything else that anyone could put their hand up and say ''he is great at....''.  He is at best an average squad player.  My fear is that people who say ''give him a chance'' either cannot, or will not see the reality of what their eyes see every single game, which leads to the situation we are in of being a nicey-nicey give everyone a ticky bun type of club. [quote user="Michael Starr"] I''m gonna do a Springer final thought... So most posts / threads these days here always seem to bring up disagreements between fans of the same team. It is quite funny how some people here rate Etuhu and others absolutely do not, or how some are firmly backing Grant, others are not. I find it also amusing that fans of the same team have such differences of opinion here over the basics such as formation, and team selection. Are we all watching the same team? Clearly, some are more influenced by media than others. How many here read an article posted on Sky Sports for example, and have their thoughts dramatically changed as a result? Even though you''re going by third party opinion? If we all listened to just one media stream, would we all think alike? Of course, most opinions here are direct spews from 3rd party, and one or two posters are certainly enjoying pink''un celeb status with consistant negativity, potentially this being a self gratifying thing on the ego front? So, why do we currently have such extremes for postings in the forums right now? Is it a case of "glass half full" or "half empty"? I personally sit in the "half full" category, and while most of us share extreme thoughts about the current situation, why can''t we just get behind our fantastic club together as a unit, and really encourage those that are struggle, as well as celebrate those that are doing great. Especially with the squad age being as low as it is! Give the likes of Brown a chance, we''re talking about humans here who have moved away from family, normality and in some cases there is a settling in period required. I honestly believe Etuhu is a good player, but he''s also confidence driven, therefore its in our best interest to encourage him, i think u''ll find it''ll boost his performances dramatically! [/quote]
  7. I think one important point to remember is that when he was bought for £325,000 it was potentially NOT a big chunk of the transfer budget.  I believe he was snapped up as a short-term ifx for the imminent departure of Earnshaw, which never happened due to his injury. You say he should only be criticised if he does not perform...his position is...someone tell me again....oh yeah he is a striker...who should score...GOALS! [quote user="nutty nigel"] All this is so wrong yet so typical of what happens on this board. Chris Brown hasn''t had a proper chance yet so we are all flying a kite to in predicting what the future holds for him at this club. Do we back the managers judgement in spending £325,000 of a limited transfer budget on this guy or do we write him off in the way some posters are doing here. Wiz - How can you possibly already say he will go down as Grants worst signing ever? I have no idea whether Brown will prove to be a good signing or not and I have seen just about every game he has played. What I have seen is a player who gives 100% and looks as though he wants to be here. I may be wrong but I believe supporters should welcome new players to the club and give them a fair chance. But if he lets the club down or doesn''t perform then criticism on here would be fair. I''m afraid it''s scapegoat time again. People are waking up to the fact that Etuhu is not the waste of space they said he was so turn their attentions to someone else.   [/quote]
  8. If this was the true crowd figure, then it certainly makes me feel even more sick about the whole little Norwich mentality around the club. [quote user="AJ"]add on the Blackburn''s Edgeword park faithful and you get a grand total of..... 16,035 shocking! [/quote]
  9. Despite the venom being spat by the board puff-adders, I have to say, Roy Keane got rid of him and is now pushing for promotion - if he was any good at all, Keane would have kept him.  On the evidence I have seen of him, he extremely limited as a player and does not have a single attribute that will make him a certain starter in any game. [quote user="Konstantin Pobedonostsev"] It''s funny that despite losing 3-0 to a poor team and playing a 16 and 19 year old upfront I have heard nobody lament Brown''s absence. In fact ever since he got injuried - few people seem to ''care''. Is this an indicator that his absence is not missed? Would we rather see Martin and Renton upfront and Brown benched (or knackered)? For me it has nothing to do with him not scoring for us yet - or feeling that he must be given time to settle in - or that he is more of a ''holding man'' ... I honestly believe that he is not good enough (even for how we are playing at the moment at times).   [/quote]
  10. I am still unhappy about our freebie approach at the minute, but it is about NUMBERS right now.  Lets see what Grant gets to spend in the summer, and then we can shout and scream.  For me Fotheringham can pass well, tackle and move, and is better than Carl robinson, on that benchmark I reckon he is worth a punt for a year.    
  11. I personally expect a Director, unless ill, to make every game.  They run the club and have a duty to put other affairs aside for one day a week. Oh, and to the person who said they do not get piad, Doncaster does it for free does he..? [quote user="ob1"] You can''t expect everyone to attend every game. Director or not. Will you lot grow up... please!? [/quote]
  12. Spot on. [quote user="blahblahblah"]I think that Primus never wanted to move away from his family, he just used Worthingtons'' interest  to get more money from Portsmouth. The talk at the time was that Primus was on 5k a week when we wanted him, and Portsmouth doubled that to keep his attention.  The people that knocked Primus when we were interested were wrong about him though, he''s still playing alongside Sol Campbell after all.[/quote]
  13. Yes they damn well should be there!  They are paid to manage our club from the top and show leadership, holidays and family stuff should not clash with matchdays.  LEADING BY EXAMPLE.  Something that does not happen on and off the pitch. [quote user="sheded"]Who gives a sh*t if the directors attend a match or not ?  what matters is that the players attend !!   and there are times when you wonder where the hell they are .....   [:''(][/quote]
  14. What amazes me is that Grant HAS told Huckerby to defend - he strongly criticised him for not defending shortly after he arrived.  Then suddenly when Hucks wins us two games,it is suddenly because Grant told him not to worry about defending!  Grant I am afraid does not yet convince me as the way forward. [quote user="a1canary"]It shouldn''t be so much of a surprise given the squad Grant has to work with and the team he eventually chose. Progress from the level where Grant started is always going to involve 2 steps forward and 1 step back. Yet when that one step back occurs out comes Smudger declaring how we''re headed for division 2 football yawn yawn yawn. And before you start, no i''m not happy we''ve lost to Colchester, it''s embarrasing but anyone should know just by looking the table this far in to the season that they''re a decent team and we''ve no automatic right to beat them. Their home GD is +24 - the best in the league. The fact is we had key components missing from the squad. Whatever you say about Dickson Etuhu, few teams are going to walk through our midfield when he''s there - his absence showed that - and him and Safri are an imposing partnership in this division. Then there was no Drury - even at the top of his game he has his work cut out playing with Huckerby in front of him so to leave the less defensively sound Lappin out there on the left with Huckerby was a bizarre decision by Grant. Compounded by the resultant separation of the Huckerby Martin partnership. Chadwick can play both wings - why on earth couldn''t we have Chadders and Croft running the wings? Grant does make some strange decisions at times. And i find it odd how, when Huckerby has been on fire he goes on about how "i''ve never asked Darren Huckerby to defend" - why tell us that? No-one asked! And if this is the case, why does he then stick him on the left in front of a part time full back? And the Colin situation is just too ridiculous for there not to be something we don''t know about going on. Presumably that he''s off in the summer, esp given the interest being shown in Ostemobor. But overall, I do think there is light at the end of the tunnel, he has shown that he can get his preferred team to beat the best in the division, and i like most of what he does and says (esp in PFA/Martin saga). It''s when he has to move players around and cover injuries that he keeps being found wanting. If he can build the squad he wants, that shouldn''t have to happen too often. [/quote]
  15. A prize due here for the weirdest question to be asked in some time???     [quote user="sheded"] .........if Hucks  was loaned to Nottingham forest till the end of the season  ?   we  are now safe from relegation  , and we  don`t have a prayer of the play-offs  , so why not ?   Forest just do not  belong in league one  ,   and I`m pretty sure Hucks  would  do some hard thinking  about giving  Forest a leg up   at this crucial stage  ...   [/quote]
  16. I was going to formulate a serious reply, but I was so distracted by your avatar that I have forgotten what it was.... [quote user="USA Canary"]...Chris Martin been given the same opportunity if Worthy was still in charge?[/quote]
  17. I have seen figures of around 12k quoted for both players, I would imagine that 12-14k is the top limit of what Earnshaw and Huckerby earn. [quote user="Danny G"]I know Iwan Roberts was earning 4K a week in 2000 for norwich + goal bonus ! I know this because i asked him myself while out on the razz and chatting to him . Adrian Coote was on about a 1K around the same time . I am guessing but i think Hucks will be on around 17K - 20K a week and he is worth it .... Earnie 14K / 15K ( guess)[/quote]
  18. If you remember (evidently not!)  Peter Grant asked for the proclaimers to be played shortly after he arrived (I believe there was a story in the paper about it?).  I remember it being played as pre-match theme twice before being quietly dropped....a bit like poor old Jurgen...  
  19. I would say a side seriously pushing for promotion next year can afford to let any of them go!  Earnshaw is a guaranteed 25 goals next season, Martin is your third striker, and dont forget brown as well.  That is four into two, or into three if we play huckerby behind a front two. Losing any one of the three from Huckerby, Earnshaw and Martin is in my view a serious mistake, and if the club is serious about promotion next season then these players need to be available.  Do not forget that they are not all going to be fit for the whole season. [quote user="BlyBlyBabes"] And what is that? Huckerby and Earnshaw in the same team? I don''t think that a side seriously challenging for promotion from this tough league can afford to accommodate both of them at the same time. Huckerby cannot defend to save his life (& is not inclined to) and Earnshaw is a pure, old-fashioned, tunnel-visioned ''goal hanger'' in the Jimmy Greaves mold. Unless Grant can somehow get them working together as twin strikers. Just as Alf Ramsay had to drop Jimmy Greaves for the rather utilitarian Geoff Hurst in order to win the World Cup in 1966, it is very likely that Grant will have to chose between Huckerby and Earnshaw to challenge for promotion next year. Now for the firestorm![st] I''m taking cover![um]  OTBC   [/quote]
  20. Gallacher - Obviously Safri - never going to go back to Coventry, what on earth would be the incentive?  Also, Grant is not a complete fool and knows there are no better defensive midfielders who can pass for under 1.5 million floating around. Thorne & Mcveigh - we all know that as well, may as well add that young clown henderson to the list Non-leaguers - these boys are playing there for a reason, so nothing to get excited about, just people to pad out a squad Huckerby - he will retire at Norwich City, next season could be his last, I cant see him changing for one season personally.     [quote user="BlyBlyBabes"] Are these Peter Grant''s "Kids for buttons" a la West Ham strategy? Norwich Rumours Heard from a good source, that Paul Gallacher will be leaving the Canaries in the summer, as he has become unhappy at being dropped everytime a new keeper has been drafted in on loan. Safri is heading back to Coventry on a bosman. Expect a massive clearout with, Thorne and Mcveigh. There is the possibility of Earnie leaving if West Ham stay up, however this is very unlikely. Expect lower league players to be signed such as the 18 year old from Queen''s Park, Lee Kerr from Whitley Bay, Jon Main from Tonbridge Angels and Matt Mitchell-King from Histon. Another post on this site reckons that Leicester will be targetting Huckerby  At least these changes would reduce the wage bill! But I really do think that Peter Grant should do everything he can to retain Safri. As for Hucks, he  is already signed up for another year - but he could be off in January if we falter again and Leicester under Mandaric are in with a good shout of promotion. OTBC       [/quote]
  21.   [quote user="Jersey canary"]Dean Coney[/quote]
  22. Give him time.  Anyone can see he has energy, can pass, and can read the game.  Something Mr Etuhu fails to do week in and week out.  Let him get match fit and then judge.  Also remember that if we keep Safri, that gives us two midfield options who can actually pass the ball. [quote user="Hardhouse44"] I have not seen anything from him to indicate he is good enough to be part of a team pushing for promotion next year. Don''t suppose this will be a popular post but he look like more fodder to me.   Yes I know give him 300 games first before I judge. [/quote]
  23. What is wrong With Colin at right back????    And where is Earnshaw?  Surely you don''t think we will sell him do you....   [quote user="Ulf Ottosson"] Yes things since he took over haven''t been great but I have been impressed with the way he talks after matches and the way he has conducted himself in the transfer market (so far) but compare the squad he''s going to be left with compared with the one worthington inheritted. Next Season (to be successful) the team will need to be New GK, New RB, New CB, Shackell, Drury Chadwick/Croft, New Midfield Partnership, Lappin                   Hucks and Martin Where is going to find the money to sign 5 new quality players is still a mystery compart this to the team Worthington could have fielded after he took over and was then heralded with a remarkable turn around job : Green, Kenton, Fleming, Jackson, LB Steeno,  Mulryne , Russell , McVeigh             Roberts   ???   [/quote]
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