2009-10 - first game Theoklitos Otsemobor Drury Nelson Doherty Gill Tudur-Jones Whaley Hoolahan Holt Martin 2010-11 -first game 01 Ruddy 02 Martin 03 Drury 05 Nelson 22 Ward 07 Crofts 11 Surman (McNamee 87) 14 Hoolahan 15 Fox 10 Jackson (Holt 72) 16 Martin 2011-12 - first game 01 Ruddy 02 R Martin 06 Whitbread (Barnett - 71' ) 23 Tierney 24 De Laet 07 Crofts 11 Surman (Bennett - 75' ) 14 Hoolahan 15 Fox Booked 05 Morison Booked (Pilkington - 75' ) 09 Holt 2012-13 01 Ruddy 02 R Martin 06 Turner 23 Tierney 24 R Bennett 04 Johnson 08 Howson 11 Surman (Morison - 46' ) 12 Pilkington 07 Snodgrass (E Bennett - 56' ) 09 Holt (Hoolahan - 77' ) 2013-14? Just in case we forget how far we've come.
Thanks for doing that, Kent. It really does help to put it all into perspective when I start getting too negative about our style of play now.
Christ, the amount of people who thought Tudor Jones was a good signing back in those dark days, I know Pyjamas worked for City, was he a scout for City then?
I do genuinely wonder sometimes. It is true I have very little respect for his views (on the rare occasion they are his), which is sufficient, particularly with his assessment of players (physical described first, skills described second). I like his insider information however, I just don't like how it controls his judgement and every comment.
He always reminds me of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army. He takes himself so seriously and assumes he is some kind of leader/spokesperson for the site. But at least he cares about the club passionately, we can't deny that.
No I can't deny that. It's more the idea that he thinks people don't understand the most basic of concepts when they disagree with them.
Beef doesn't understand any concept. Just "I'm a Norwich fan, grrrrr, arrgh, hate every other team, grrr"
Takes himself seriously? Pots - kettles ..... Plenty of them here. In fact apart fom carrabuh I can barely think of anyone who doesn't!
i can assure you i have an alibi! i was involved under worthington looking at specific youth who hadn't been picked up by clubs, aged 13-15 although i had a role looking at professional football in scotland for a short period before. and carrabuh, you'd love to know the reason why i, and indeed a number of other members of the scouting team walked out of the worthy regime... we disagreed with the criteria - 'young players should be strong physical, powerful and if possible quick'. skill, technique etc, not considered a priority. it's one of the reasons why i've always been so damning of him on here - it maybe looked a bit harsh at times but he was very one dimensional
Strange that he would ask for those attributes in a youngster as Worthys teams were always quite technical and liked to play football the "Norwich way".
when you look at it like that,and think what the starting 11 could be this year,you realise how far we HAVE come
How old were you when you took that job fella, I got the impression you were only about 30 now so you must have been a relative pup working under Worthy. I really liked the guy for the first three years or so, always agreed with his team selections and he brought us out of the doldrums for a short time after several years of **** and brought some great players to the club such as Hucks, Ashton, Gary Holt etc. He did lose the plot through towards the end, and some of his later signings were dreadful and it was probably right for him to go when he did, keeping most of his integrity intact. Never really worked out for him anywhere else so I hope he does ok with York this season
On a totally different topic, can someone please explain to this very old, non-techie person what the thumbs up sign is supposed to mean? I had always assumed you gave it to someone else to show that you agreed 100% with what they said, but several of the uses I've seen on this thread and others suggests that it isn't just that.
