We were awful tonight and we are only going to get worse, prepare for Championship football!!! Hoolahan should never play for Norwich again and I don't know why we didn't sign someone like Zamora. Of course I don't really mean this. We were due a bad result, but 3 defeats in 11 isn't bad at all. Sunderland are doing very well at the moment so we shouldn't be surprised. As has been said we will pick up points where expected and lose points where we expect points. These negative people really need to sort themselves out and just look at where we were two and a half years a go.
Yes,The Blackpool Big Dipper ride has begun.Seriously though for a real comparison view the Premiership table for February 5th 2011 and you will see the truth.Blackpool were 15th with 28 points from 25 games.Birmingham City were 18th - on 24 points.Brum had two games in hand and a goal difference of -10 compared to Blackpool's -11. We have 11 points in hand on 18th place with just 15 games left.I could quote the Meerkat on the subject.
It's not all doom and gloom for sure but I would imagine there will be some squeaky bums if we manage to lose to Bolton at the weekend. The next few fixtures following that game (Swansea (A), Man Utd (H), Stoke (A)) are not likely to produce too many points in my opinion. Not saying the Bolton game has become a must win but I think we would all feel a little more comfortable if we got 3 points on Saturday.
The whole team looked lethargic and Sunderland looked more like the team we usually support, they were all over us and brimming with energy and purpose. Just a bad day at the office i guess! wrong tactics and what seemed like a tired team. Id expect to see a few changes for Bolton at home, if we play like that again, we will get beaten again. However, lets not forget Sunderland are the form team of the division at the moment, very bad time to play them and was always going to be a difficult game once MON arrived and turned them round. No need for panic just yet but as Thai says, not many points on offer after Bolton, so we really need to up our game, that match could well be the one that sees us almost safe imho.
Without question it must improve and no one in their right mind is going to argue that point and all of us want to see the 'real' Norwich City play but if push comes to shove I would accept another below par performance (not as below par as last night mind) on Saturday and take 3 points
for me, this reminds me of the Swansea game last year to some extent, and the same scoreline. Not quite as poor a performance, but the same scoreline and tactics wrong. We needed a reaction to that for the games afterwards - a point at Watford and then 3 against Forest both the week afterwards Saturday can't come soon enough
I am certain you are correct. None of the shortcomings will have gone unnoticed by PL or IC and they will work to put it right. Will be intersting to see if they use the diamond again at the weekend, I am hoping not and they start with Bennett & Pilkington to provide width and get crosses in for the hungry Holt and/or Morison
More than a grain of truth.Glance at the current form tables for the last 8 games: 1.ManU 2.Sunderland 3.Man C If we had lost 3-0 at Old Trafford or whatever the other one is called ...Abdul Aziz Memorial Stadium? then we wouldn't be having this exchange of views.Quite simply we are safe.
You may well be right with that statement, put it down to shock In all seriousness I don't think we, as fans, or perhaps even PL realised just how improved Sunderland have been since Martin O'Neil took charge. They looked a class outfit last night with frightening pace going forwards. McLean, Sess & Campbell were a handful for any defence based on that performance.
Morning All, Just a quick question, why did City play in that crap green strip last night?. No colour clash with your usual strip, so why change?.
why did sunderland play in their away strip at carrow road earlier in the season? ps. both our kits this season won awards as best home and away
It will be an obligation to the shirt sponsors to wear it a handful of times during the season - not through choice. Don't all teams do it? Even Colchester?
My real disappointment last night was it took over an hour before we changed what was obvious from the first 15 minutes, that we had the wrong line up and others were off form. Three substitutions nowadays mean you can change a couple as soon as it goes wrong. It was obvious the front two weren't getting ANY service from a muddled midfield. These guys need crosses in the box from width and we had the ability to put that right but didn't until the game was well lost.
redruth, totally agree. my feeling at half time was that if lambert didn't change it we would lose 4 or 5 nil. he didn't. we got away with it in my opinion. the scoreline could have been worse although the stats would have you believe we had the edge! we had more possession, more shots, more corners, more everything!! how absurd - we were never in that match at any stage. just shows stats mean nothing i thought wilbraham did well when he came on though along with bennett and pilkington, and although wilbraham might not, i suspect the two wide men will feature from the start on saturday, hopefully along with fox who for me is still one of our key players. when he plays well norwich play well.
Neither of the first goals were really preventable.The kind of goals that confident,on form teams score.And let us not forget that on another day that early Holt shot might have gone in and left them chasing the game.
It was odd, and commented on by the TV commentators, that PL hardly left his seat in the first half. Why was that? We can not put that down to lack of interest obviously but that is how it appeared. I find it hard to believe the management team needed so long to identify what was not working properly, as you say, it was obvious at a very early stage in the game that we were getting murdered. I even commented on the match day thread after about 70 minutes that we actually got a cross in to the box for Morison! It was glaringly obvious to me, you and most people watching. Why did it take so long to ring the changes??
Morison is awful, lazy as **** and moans all the time, he really gets on my tits he must cover a quarter of the ground holt does.
