Man u beat us in the last minute and man city beat us 6-1 at home last year and we still did alright, at least you have those two out the way, believe and kick on best of luck excepting our meetings
Nice easy game against Arsenal who are bang out of form next . As long as we are not cut too far adrift & players heads don't drop we will do ok. How do you Norwich fans see your season going?
Damn hard but believe we can survive another year like what has been done with the squad and think Snoddy and Holt will tear some teams up for us, we will be debt free by the end of the year that's a result in itself!
Thank you. You observe us from a far off perspective and see a much more balanced view. The Saints fans who have followed the team since the PL demise in 2005 are, I'm sure, possessed of enough patience and sense, and see the recent unfortunate results in a similar light. Those having cardiac arrests are of a new breed to me.
We have some " fans" who seem to think we should be in the top 6 spending a fortune, us old guys ignore them and are grateful for what we have knowing where we have been.
Another Norwich fan in peace. Don't worry, and in particular don't worry about your defence. To survive in this league (which is your target for the season), you just need to score goals which you've already shown you are well capable of doing. If you want the evidence, look at us last season; only kept one or two clean sheets (none at all away from Carrow Road); conceded 66 goals, but finished mid table. Different example, Arsenal: over the last several years any team playing Arsenal in any competition went into the match believing they could score; but Arsenal finish top 4 year after year. How? They score goals. Put it another way, don't worry too much about goals against, focus on goal difference; you just need to keep the goal difference below -20 or thereabouts. You've got good strikers, and score goals from mid-field. You'll be fine.
Cheers I hope and believe so! We will certainly score goals and have not been outplayed by either of last years top 2. Good luck to Norwich apart from against us of course
Thanks chaps. It is good to hear sensible things from great fans. I have always liked Norwich having worked for many years with a one of your fans who came from Lowestoft who really liked football and was not tribal in any way. The ony thing I would say to stilljaroldcanary is wisdom is not the exclusive preserve of the aged. We have some very good young posters on our board and a very small minority of rather hot headed ones. I am sure you have too.
Can't read too much into these early games, things haven't settled down yet. It's actually a good time to have played the Manchester sides; by the time you play them again they'll have stopped worrying about their Ferraris and summer tans ........
Indeed! Actually the problem fans are not the real youngsters, but the ones who grew up believing the club has a divine right to be in the top tier. I'm sure you have some too: "We are a Premier League club, FULL STOP". The older ones amongst us can remember life in Divisions 2 and 3 in the 50s and 60s when Division 1 seemed just a pipe dream.
Thanks for the kind words - the fact that we lost to united in that manner is not bitter luck it is just van persie at his best!!! It's only 3 games i and twice on tv we have played well. once our new signings gel and our team and youngsters get used to the EPL we will be fine!! Only three games in so far.. I no doubt believe we have what it takes to stay up.
Thanks to you canary fans for the sensible advice - it is very relevant advice given Norwich FC similarity to Saints in many ways and your experiences over the past two seasons. I just hope that a few who post on this board and call post match phone-ins on Radio Solent etc read your advice, take a deep breath and think again. St Mary's was rocking yesterday and thats what we got promoted for - real pity that we couldnt hang on but.........................! Good luck for most of the season ahead guys.
Thanks for the kind words, and must say that Snodgrass and Howson both look to be properly good players.
Of your opening three games, only the most blindly optimistic Saints fan with the reddest of tinted spectacles would have expected any-thing from the two Manchester matches. If To 'only' have -2 goal-difference from them should be looked upon as a plus point. Wigan is a different matter. That's the sort of game you need to be winning at home to get above the trap-door. It's early days yet. Every-one will pick up points where not expected and drop them when they shouldn't. There are so many sides of a similar ilk in the bottom half of the Premier League that you could literally perm any 3 from 8 or 9 for the drop. It's going to be quite a spectacle down there for the neutral.
I will be an 'interested observer', but, to be honest, I'll spend more time worrying about Pompey's plight than the race to be one of the top 17 in the Prem
Thanks Canaries. One thing I can't believe is why no one in the PL snapped up Snodgrass before. He is a quality in-play player as well as a set piece specialist. But, as we all know, Lambert is far better than Holt. Finally, is CarraRud still on the boards? We used to have many a light-hearted argument on the old 606.
Good question. We had been trying to sign him for well over a year. Paul Lambert wanted him (knew him from his Livingston days). I think the Premiership has tended to believe its own hype about being the best league in the world, so players like Snoddy get categorised as "good Championship players". Even now none of the pundits can really get their heads round the idea that teams fashioned largely from League 1 and Championship players and with managers without PL experience can be anything but cannon fodder in the top tier! And who likes to have it drawn to their attention that they have vastly overpaid players on their books who are no better in truth than "good Championship players" or get rings run round them by lower league "journeymen"? Incidentally, you could ask the same question about Howson. He's a fantastic player. Not to mention Bradley Johnson who got MOM at Spurs. The three ex-Leeds boys are enjoying being back together and playing some great stuff -- enough to make any LU fan weep ........
