Been following you all this year To see if you can stay the pace, And good results both here and there I think show you will keep your place But whether this coming weekend Will be one of those, we shall see, And I will not try to pretend Your loss last week did surprise me For now is by no means the time To start on a poor run of form, As everyone´s looking to climb Away from the struggling swarm 1 -1 when we met before Could happen again easily, And although that isn´t a score I´d prefer, it would still do me For up against similar teams The objective, if you can´t win, Is not to lose, so that your dreams End up in a nightmarish spin And are you feeling more content Post Adkins with your Argentine, It´s hard to see what, since he went Has changed or improved down the line But nevertheless I´d be glad To see both our teams hold their own, Up here for many years, and add More sparkling jewels to their crown. Hoping for a win (home), but expect a high scoring draw
Nice one again royalbarclayfan...........Yes there is a history of high scoring games between us........naturally I will be hoping for an away win.....but reality maybe like you a high scoring draw.
Cheers royalbarclayfan! You have a very good home record and so must be fairly confident that we won't be able to break you down and win. A draw is perhaps the most likely outcome, but I'm really not sure how this one will go. Good luck though and may the best team on the day win.
I think our recent form definitely points to it being a draw, with possibly a sniff of a win if your lads don´t compete for the full 90+ mins, but a lot depends on how we bounce back from our Old Trafford trip. Anyway, likewise, whatever happens this Saturday good luck for the rest of the season.
I hope for a win, but feel that it is very important for us not to lose again...so a draw would not be a disaster. Thanks for your good wishes.
Nice gesture but the poetry had me trying to recall when i'd read worse. I couldn't, but decided Terry Paine (I think it was) on here wrote equally awful ditties. Seems to me the two of you should have a write-off and we'll all vote.
Oh, there is little worse than being ignored. My tongue was firmly in my cheek when I commented, I hope you realise. The spirit of your poem is laudable, and very welcome in a world where some fans seem intent on vitriolic "banter". Let's fast forward to Saturday, get the game played and hope that, whatever the result, it doesn't turn on a piece of gamesmanship (aka cheating) from either side.
I don´t think cheating is in either side´s make-up Channon, so no real danger of that, incidentally I heartily agree with your username, the man was a genius.
I'd agree with this to a point, but it is now so endemic (face holding after near miss; tumbling over dramatically etc etc) that I simply hope that the game does not turn on a dodgy red card or penalty call. As for the genius bit, I totally agree. I loved it when he won a League Cup Winner's medal with Norwich and took about 3 years to come down the steps, so much was he milking the moment. Quite simply the best player to ever pull on the red and white stripes IMO.
Nice blog rbf but come the day we want to win! Always had a soft spot for Norwich ever since we signed the great Ron Davies from you back in the '60's - about £65000 I believe. Wonder what he would be worth if he was playing today? Incidentally do you think Lambert wishes he was back with you? But you have a very good manager now and a nice bloke also! My first ever post - old geezer I'm afraid! My first visit to the Dell was back in the early 60's when Tony Knapp was captain. When people talk about the old days no one ever mentions Jimmy Gabriel whom we signed from Everton. When he joined us we played him in the back four and he was simply magnificent - his reading of the game, his commitment and passing were second to none and what a great heart he had! Not dirty but damned hard! Wish he could be there now in our defence - good luck to the boys on Saturday!
The guy we really need in central defence is "Docker" Walker - he really was a hard case. Don't think he was ever booked - astonishing given the way he played!
My God - you must be nearly as old as me! Not sure how long he would last on the pitch these days! But you're right - I don't think he was ever booked or sent off. As the TV pundit would say 'quite remarkable'! I always remember reading a report of one of our games by a Guardian journalist who wrote of Docker's attitude to the game as 'if it moved kick it' Hard days back then!
In a similar way to you, there´s quite a few of us ( mostly oldies) Norwich supporters who have a soft spot for Saints too. Certainly the Ron Davies, Mick Channon link has something to do with it, but also the fact that both clubs are very similar in many ways, and also our paths have mirrored each other for many years now, so like you I´m hoping for a win, but if a draw turns out to be necessary for you to stay up, then I´ll happily take that too.
There are quite a few of us posting on here that can remember those days. Although in truth perhaps the memory side of things may actually be an exaggeration.... In truth as I mentioned in a post a few days ago we used to have a few "hard men" in the middle of the field but it seemed to me that there was not so many fouls as there is today. Sending off was a rarety you would go weeks before that happened especially at the top level. Now-a-days it is a daily happening......
1 point won't do at all today, if we do t win we will be In the relegation zone by the time we play Reading. This is probably our biggest game of the season sp far.
