A very prescient OP! There is a lot of balance on this thread, quite funny to read in retrospect. The past is a different country!
Why did you have to go and do that Grin? FFS! It's gut wrenching reading threads like this back. Can't blame to wums much for coming on here givin' it big if this is how we sounded before the season kicked off.
actually in fairness you all sound pretty balanced in this thread. I imagine most boards had a thread with unrealistic 'hopes and aspirations' being expressed by some parts of the support base. If you looked on the Norwich board after our unbeaten run, i'm sure you can find some people suggesting european football as a possibility and now we're scrabbling to get away from the increasing possibility of relegation too.
Fair enoug mate But as the OP states, this was a reality check, just imagine the other threads making Sooper post this thread...
Very interesting reading through this thread again, and personally I’m glad to see it come back for review. Many of Sooper’s doubts did indeed prove to be well founded, and I think if you take a look at other threads from this period many of us were uneasy about a lack of goal scorers in the squad and an over reliance on an aging and injury-prone strike force. However, what strikes me about the thread is just how unforeseen was the utter underperformance of our team over the course of a season really was, and how much blind, stupid luck plays a part. Ultimately nobody knows what’s going to happen. Hindsight is a great thing, but I don’t think that it’s fair to chastise people for their pre-season optimism. The fact is it looked like we really did have a very strong squad, and a manager who at the time was almost universally regarded as one of the strongest in the prem. There really was good reason to be optimistic that we would at least improve upon the previous season. But no one knows what’s round the corner, and we had absolutely no luck with either key moments on the pitch, or with injury to key players. Two things sum up the season for, one is a statistic and one is a moment in a game. The statistic is that we’ve only won 3 penalties all season… and we’ve missed them all. A penalty should be a goal on a plate, goals win games, and wins create a winning momentum. We’ve never really had that. The moment in a game was conceding that free kick to Wigan two weeks ago. Despite everything that’s happened this season I still think that had we not conceded that free kick and had won that game then that would have given us real confidence and we would have had a great chance of staying up. All ifs, buts and maybes now of course. But I really don’t see how anyone could reasonably have foreseen the underperformance and sheer bad luck we’ve had this season. Hopefully, by the law of averages if nothing else, next season we’ll have only good luck, and a team of players at the top of their game. But, as I said at the beginning nobody really knows what the future will bring. Maybe that’s what makes following the Rs so interesting, and almost what makes it so painful.
Christ reading back though that lot what an eye opener, how could we be sooooooooooo wrong & who would have thought that come april time to see where we are depressing, will we do this again come august i think so & build our hopes up again.
if we lose to reading i know there'll be at least one happy person! Now please go against everything you know about the sacred art of norwich hating and cheer on the rrr's to beat stoke please!
Ouch! This thread is clearly capable of making you look stupid. . . Cheers Sooper . . Guilty as charged.
Thought I got it bang on as usual myself. I was let down only by the team and the results apart from those minors I stand proud
