Duncan Edwards

[quote user="Rock The Boat"]I think we should be proud of Seattle Canary. A Norfolk lad carving out a good career in the US. Wish there were more like him.[/quote]   Absolutely. He is very rude to other posters though.    

ICF, you demonstrate my point perfectly, can you really not see where the media are coming from?.   I''ve tried to indicate how our recent activity is likely to be perceived to those with no attachment to the club.   Sherwood was given far longer, we''ve replaced a manager who averaged more than a point a game over two seasons with a manager that''s never won a point in the PL. With five games to go, a point a game would keep us up. CH has managed against the big 4 previously and had obtained wins against Man U and Arsenal. A repeat of either would keep us up.   Your assumptions from our point of view as fans is exactly how most NCFC fans perceive it, we''d lost our last 6 away, put in an abject display against WBA and all hope appeared lost. Adams has come in, given the fans a lift, freshened things up and we believe/d we had half a chance.   But - if you take off the fan glasses - it''s not difficult to see why the media think that the move to sack Hughton is bonkers. It''s not my personal opinion but I can see their thinking. They aren''t attached, they''re not aware of the intricacies, they just see a few highlights and then a league table. If it had been a rival club taking this action this late in the season, what would your reaction have been?   And when Hughton was sacked, we weren''t favourites for the third relegation spot. Before Saturday''s game we were still odds against at 11/10. We are now 4/9 third favourites.    

I''m not sure you can be TOO critical of the media position.   The facts are that Hughton was sacked while we were 5 points outside the drop zone with 5 tough games to go. They replaced a manager who had managed to mastermind just 4 away wins in nearly two seasons with a guy who''d never even managed a PL away game let alone won one ahead of a crucial away game. Hughton''s win% was a little over 25, with 4 games left we need the new guy, realistically, to hit a 25% win ratio.   If you remove the emotion - not easy as fans - you can see that to an outsider who has no attachment to the club at all; this could look mental. To us, the crack had become a crevasse and was irreparable, but we''ve essentially put a guy with zero experience in his chair and asked him to do as well as the last guy had been doing in order to keep us up, but from the toughest run of fixtures.   It''s impossible to say whether we''d have fared any better or worse under Hughton, Adams or anyone else, but while as a fan I can''t agree with the media standpoint, it''s not difficult to see where they are coming from.

[quote user="Jimmy Smith"]Sod loaning him out, if we are going to get rid, get shot of him properly.[/quote]   A bit harsh?   He might have missed a few chances but killing him seems way over the top.    

[quote user="Jimmy Smith"]If we went down, there''s nobody i''d be that gutted to lose to be honest.[/quote]   And if we stay up?    

And mine.

Fulham 8 Norwich 3. Adams has never managed to achieve a single away win in the premier league. We''ll play some lovely pacy forward play because Adams used to play on the wing but with no solid defenders in his coaching team we will be CLUELESS at the back. And he''s a nice man. IN all seriousness, I expect us to lose 5 or 6.

Old Hapuselesston got 5 points from 10 games, so we can assume he''d have got 2 from the last 4 then. That means Neyul is charged with just getting us a solitary win or three draws from those 4 games in order to better what could have been reasonably expected. And we need to win Saturday of course....

Bears an uncanny resemblance to a modern day Vicarage Road

What about Andy Townsend?

[quote user="The ghost of Michael Theoklitos"]If this is even remotely correct, I''ll donate my left testicle to medical research. [/quote]   Boll*cks to that..

Theme park rides are exhilarating. "Them" at the start of a sentence. You''re welcome.

Hughton didn''t "leave us" he was sacked. Upon his sacking the club were left 5 points above the drop with 5 tough games to play. If we go down, he won''t be there to take the flak. If we stay up, you won''t be able to thank him for the 32 points we had in the bank either. Swings and roundabouts really...;-)

The Throstles

You could call it "The Fibbers"....    

Surely Lincoln Canary did?

Fat fingers City1st?

[quote user="Le Juge"]"Not very nice, is it?" Am I in any way morally or contractually obliged to be nice? [/quote]   Implying that you''re morally or contractually obliged not to be?   I don''t see why we can''t all get along irrespective of how much we want Hughton to be the manager or RVW to play.

[quote user="Le Juge"]At least if we go down you will feck off because you won''t be able to watch any streams and can''t listen to Radio Norfolk in Cumbria. [/quote]   Not very nice, is it?   Are you the PinkUn Plod?    

[quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="tom cavendish"][quote user="Le Juge"]"but there''s no reason why you couldn''t tell us which players you unearthed and are now (or have been) playing in the higher leagues" Maybe that''s why he isn''t scouting now, he couldn''t find any! [/quote] It wouldn''t be right of me to name players that I recommended in a professional capacity. Sometimes it was about saying who not to sign. A manager would call me and say that he was interested in a particular player. I would go to a match to see the player and then the manager would call me back within a couple of days. Bizarrely enough, on every such occasion I said not to sign the player in question and they never did. I always made the right call. I would sometimes be notified by a chief scout or manager that the club would be looking for a player to play in a particular position and I would be asked to forward my suggestions. My track record was fantastic. Sometimes I would see a really great prospect that would be a bargain but a manager wouldn''t be interested in taking it further simply because they were not looking to sign a player in that position at that time. It became frustrating for me to then see the player go on to much better things with another club. I would also do opposition match reports. Basically, it was form filling and drawing diagrams of what teams do at set-pieces etc. A lot of clubs now don''t have much of a scouting network and management teams have become heavily reliant upon using agents. [/quote] I admire your modesty Tom but surely you can give us one player''s name just to shut the doubters up. [/quote]   My son is an excellent prospect, quick, two footed and an eye for goal, do you think you could put a word in for him Tom?    

John Lennon

[quote user="TIL 1010"] Ginja believe me there is someone dedicated to social media who was appointed at the time Mr.McNally stopped his dialogue on Twitter and without going into it I know for a fact this messageboard is monitored at Carrow Road. Now then Jimbo ( or is it Wiz being as you have called me Mr.Til which is one of his pet names for me [;)] ) I am merely suggesting in view of above that this in my opinion is why the original thread was deleted. Everybody on here knows of Wiz and his antics including his numerous rants at Delia and Stephen Fry that go unchecked so why would anyone want this current subject matter pulled ? Just maybe the media office did not want all their good work undone. [/quote]   Now, I can''t believe that this message board is monitored at Carrow Road, it doesn''t make sense.   If they did, Tom Cavendish would surely have a scouting job...??    

[quote user="Helsinki canary"]I see a banana skin.....[/quote]   Agreed. I just can''t see how we can win this game. In fact, I hope we play with a midfield 5 to try and at least safeguard a point.        

[quote user="Reggie Strayshun"][quote user="Carlos Valderrama"]I can''t understand why Becchio is constantly overlooked either. The thing that is frustrating me the most is Hughtons insistence on playing Johan ''the goal machine'' Elmander!!!! The man has done absolutely nothing, and yet continues to do nothing week in week out. For all that is not going right for RVW the boy does put a shift in. I also believe that once he gets one he will be much more of a handful. The problem for the strikers is the system. Negative, defensive, cautious, not one of these is conducive to goalscoring.[/quote] Hughton could play a front 3 of Messi, Negredo and Robben with his system and they''d all look ordinary....... [/quote]   In fact if Maradona, Cruyff and Pele were pulling the strings for them I reckon we''d still get tonked by everyone....   Stupid posts.  

If it was going to be about that sanctimonious git Nutty Nigel, surely it would have been titled:   OT - Our buddy Eddie   [;)]