**Official Lappinitup Match Thread - Coventry v Norwich**

[Sneider2 1]

45 minutes ago, dylanisabaddog said:

Radio Norfolk at it's finest. Swansea now 2-0 up at Plymouth having been a goal down 

Describing the colours of the teams shorts, shirts and socks to a radio audience beats that.

[GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary 1,791]

Yes, we've got a few injuries...but this manager does seem to get both team selection and substitutions regularly wrong..

[Mike w 46]

27 minutes ago, Helsinki canary said:

Gibson nearly scored a second own goal, amasing save by Gunn. Gibson OUT

he makes too many mistakes shouldn't be in team

[cambridgeshire canary 6,756]

Just now, vos said:

Idah. Just been described on Radio Norfolk as big, strong and tall. Quite correct but as Ron says he just is not a footballer. 

Tall players tend to be able to head balls into the net.

[repman 635]

I say this every week but I cannot believe we let the SD and head coach sign a load of high wages 30+ year olds this summer. This is basically Webber and Wagner's last dance and it's no surprise to see it go wrong. We gave Smith a chance last season when he'd done nothing to suggest he deserved it and the same happened again this summer. 

The fact we knew in March that our SD was leaving and didn't see that as the perfect opportunity to start again is insane. The foundations at the end of last season were there to be built on, now they're saddled by players who will be near enough impossible to shift until their contracts are up.

Last season we had the 7th youngest squad in the league, and that was with Pukki's contract up, Krul being replaced by Gunn during the year and Onel's contract running down too. For some reason we decided to go all in on this season despite us being nowhere near close last year, we are now the 3rd oldest side in the league, and seem to be no better off with this added experience.

It's amazing how if Webber had left in the summer he would have left us in a decent place, albeit not what he or any of us would've liked but certainly better than what he found us in. Unfortunately I think he has done the damage now to take us back to square one (certainly on the pitch, the infrastructure behind everything is undoubtedly better and will serve the club well in years to come).

[By Hook or Ian crook 917]

1 minute ago, vos said:

Idah. Just been described on Radio Norfolk as big, strong and tall. Quite correct but as Ron says he just is not a footballer. 

They could just be describing the Eiffel Tower though. His first touch is up there with the worst I’ve ever seen from a professional footballer. 

[canarybubbles 1,924]

Let's not beat up Gibson about that own goal. It was an awful performance by the whole team and anyone could have ended up being the scapegoat. We are rubbish. Idah and Hwang are utterly useless and should be in L1 at best and probably in L2, we have an excellent creative player in midfield in Sara who could possibly survive in the PL but don't provide support for him when we have it in a player like Forshaw , our central defence is old and slow and always seems to find a way to screw up, and our head coach has encouraged the selling of decent players like Mumba and Tzolis for dross like Idah and Hwang and seems to specialise in making substitutions which leave us much worse than what was on the pitch before he made them.

This is not Gibson's fault. It is the fault of a club that had a wonderful opportunity and pi**ed it up the wall, and that begins at a much higher level than individual players.     

[Mike w 46]

16 minutes ago, First Wazzock said:

Webber has wasted more money than anyone else at this club.

Paid Farke off, employed Smith

Paid Smith off employed Wagner

There's definitely a pattern emerging

No wonder this is the weakest squad for years...

100 % agree weakest squad in many many years. 'lets be aving you'. Come out of the cupboard Delia - tell them..................its not good enough

[By Hook or Ian crook 917]

I think the spine of the team is there. There’s just nothing going on around it 

Gunn Stacey Duffy Sara Rowe Sargent sadly I feel like these players are let down by the ones around them and also tactical incompetence 

[hogesar 9,708]

29 minutes ago, Jim Smith said:

I’m finding it hard to convey how frustrated I am at the ineptitude of our (ex?) sporting director and head coach at the moment.

it’s no surprise to see Idah and Gibson costing us points regularly because both are utter sh*t. Hwang is even worse which is quite an achievement. Webber is a complete fraud.

As for Wagner his tactical inability is now costing us regularly also. We had no central midfield for the last 20 minutes of that game. The goal was coming. It needed Forshaw on and a steady hand but he only ever seems to sub the wide players. Apart from the one time that is when we were completely controlling a game midweek when he decided to f**k it up.

so  frustrating. 

 

I agree re Forshaw. It seemed the obvious one.

[TheBaldOne66 693]

Just seen the stats, we didn’t even have a corner in the game! Can’t remember when that happened last!

[canarydan23 4,060]

If you only look at the squad a league table prospects, we're now emphatically worse off than the day Stuart Webber arrived.

[vos 155]

6 minutes ago, repman said:

The fact we knew in March that our SD was leaving and didn't see that as the perfect opportunity to start again is insane. The foundations at the end of last season were there to be built on, now they're saddled by players who will be near enough impossible to shift until their contracts are up.

To allow Webber to buy new players when we knew he was leaving is probably the most stupid decision in the Club's history.

[rock bus 854]

7 minutes ago, By Hook or Ian crook said:

I think the spine of the team is there. There’s just nothing going on around it 

Gunn Stacey Duffy Sara Rowe Sargent sadly I feel like these players are let down by the ones around them and also tactical incompetence 

I agree, how uninspired must those players be when they look and see only options are players like Gibson, gibbs, springett, placheta and Idah.

 None of those are anywhere good enough for a team with any hopes of play offs

[baldy09 158]

Dads army is not the answer to city problems -we really need too rebuild 

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

4 minutes ago, hogesar said:

I agree re Forshaw. It seemed the obvious one.

Why didn't he start? I cannot see Wagner's reasoning. 

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

3 minutes ago, canarydan23 said:

If you only look at the squad a league table prospects, we're now emphatically worse off than the day Stuart Webber arrived.

Except we can sell Sara and Rowe.

[canarydan23 4,060]

Just now, keelansgrandad said:

Why didn't he start? I cannot see Wagner's reasoning. 

Because he's cr@p and now failing his third club in a row.

Awful appointment in the first place, so it's on Webber really.

[canarydan23 4,060]

Just now, keelansgrandad said:

Except we can sell Sara and Rowe.

Look who we had to sell when Webber arrived.

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

I know Sarge had a bad injury but I do wonder about the others. How has Sainz been injured in an academy match? Is it really that bad enough to stop them playing?

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

1 minute ago, canarydan23 said:

Look who we had to sell when Webber arrived.

But we didn't need to apparently.

[Mello Yello 2,297]

Will the pugnacious Pink Un Patron's kindly refrain from criticising the abject performances, the players, the board or any aspect of our self-floundering funding family friendly Club....It's rather unhelpful and downright unfriendly.....They're all trying their bestest....

Kind Retards from the resident narcissistic sociopathic club can ne'er do wrong Oedipus complex sufferin' pseudo-intellectual know it all better fan than yow Club crawly bum lickin' tongue straight down the back of the trousers toady sycophantic lickspittles....and we'll be along shortly to put you no experience of business or football ignorant infidels in your rightful place.... 

 

Edited October 7, 2023 by Mello Yello
meh...

[canarydan23 4,060]

5 minutes ago, keelansgrandad said:

But we didn't need to apparently.

No, but on his first day we had a squad with way, way more potential and considerably more market value than the one we now find ourselves with. The Murphy twins, Maddison, Lewis, Godfrey and Aarons were already here, Pritchard would bring in an eight-figure sum.

We have Sara and Rowe, the rest are worth peanuts. It's mismanagement on a scale that would even embarrass the Tory Party.

[flying fokker 6]

1 hour ago, Samwam27 said:

We're playing bang average teams, and our "experienced defenders" can't keep a clean sheet or see a game out to save their lives.

Yet Wagners tinkers with every other position, yet won't drop Gibson!!

Sorry, you’ll eat your words at the end of the season NCFC and CCFC to make the play-offs.

[flying fokker 6]

2 hours ago, Mr Angry said:

Decent chance there for Gibbs, well blocked.

He made amends for us.

[Yellow Fever 3,810]

I think the defence is fine.

The issue is we don't take our chances when we should and put the game to bed.

[S_81 816]

1 minute ago, Yellow Fever said:

I think the defence is fine.

The issue is we don't take our chances when we should and put the game to bed.

Gibson and Duffy together? Is this sarcasm? 

[Unthink road 132]

5 minutes ago, Yellow Fever said:

I think the defence is fine.

The issue is we don't take our chances when we should and put the game to bed.

I don't think it is. Although it would be better if we stopped the midfielder dropping in between. I would rather see the two centrebacks play closer, passing shorter playing further up the pitch. Play tight pass to midfield who can be more expansive. 

[GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary 1,791]

Thought by and large Duffy and Gibson stood up to what was thrown at them today....you have to wonder whether bringing on Baath only added to the confusion in ouf own back line. Might we have been better bringing on Forshaw to play in front of the back line??

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

It has to be down to the coach first and players second. If a player isn't up to it its hardly his fault. But the coach is now allowed to stand on the side of the pitch and bark out orders to his players. So was Wagner the one telling the back four to pass it among themselves rather than go for a second goal? If not he had ample time to tell them to stop it and push up the pitch. If you are Pep with the players at your disposal then you can keep possession for as long as you want. Unfortunately we don't have that luxury and knowing that we concede at 1.6 goals a game, it should be evident a second goal is important.

So I have lost patience with the man. Its not the players, its him.