Ok, so as I'm currently 3-0 in my match day thread career I'm guessing I keep the job for the next game so here we go. Once again I'm not promising anything to compare with those put together so superbly by KIO earlier in the season, but hopefully this will be a bit better than last week's "piss poor" effort at least, and of course I hope it brings the same result for City. So welcome to the thread for the next of our remaining 'cup finals' as the Canaries travel to Bolton to take on Neil Lennon's Trotters on Saturday. Things are looking very good indeed for Alex Neil's boys in yellow and green, three wins on the bounce have helped to extend our six-game unbeaten run, and surely this is the perfect time to be putting together such sequences if we want to claim one of those priceless automatic promotion spots. Of course our plight will be made just that little bit more difficult after our Player of the Season elect Bradley Johnson picked up his tenth booking of the season to rule him out of the next two games, and it will be very interesting to see who the gaffer decides to replace him with. He certainly won't be short of options, and hopefully it will be this strength in depth of the squad - as well as it's undoubted quality - that gets us over the line. Our rivals are coming off the back of a very impressive 3-0 win at Cardiff, and are now unbeaten in the their last three after a couple of draws before that game. Currently in 16th place, 13 points above the relegation zone and 22 points from the play-offs, Bolton only have pride and preparation for next season to think about, though this lack of pressure on them may release their shackles as it clearly appeared to last week. City won the home fixture 2-1 at the end of October thanks to a brace from Cameron Jerome, and our top scorer will be looking to score again to take his tally for the season into the 20's. (I'll finish the rest later, but it's a start at least)
Long may your winning efforts continue TMC. You may end up with a job for life if we win all our remaining fixtures. ( Fingers crossed ).
Good stuff TMC, though you may wish to edit the "and are now beaten in the their last three" long may your winning run continue! Bah!
Teams playing with freedom plays into our hands I think. Not having to break down a resolute defence looking to scrape an important point makes it easier for us to break down. I'm not saying it will be easy, it rarely is but with the exception of Boro no team we play should have anything, but pride, to play for. I believe both Fulham and Rotherham will be say by the time we play them and will probably be drained by the effort.
My compliments as well, TMC - you're doing a great job following the legend that is KIO! Like China, who suddenly seems to have revealed Irish roots, I certainly hope that Bath's comment come true.
Brighton V Bournemouth is 0-0 at half time and doesn't sound as though Bournemouth are creating much.
Drat, Bournemouth have just gone ahead from a free kick!!! And Brighton have been denied a penalty!!!
2nd will do fine for me and 1st may be out of our reach now, but we just have to keep going to the last kick of the last game!!! Bournemouth are away to Charlton on the last day and they have only lost one of their last 5 home games.
still looking at 1st, never give up! seriously i think bmouth looked half the team tonight, brightons keeper gifted them the game, granted it was a well taken shot but if he had not moved hed have saved that all day long. That goal gave them the spirit and the edge to go on to a comfy win, i guess that is the signs of a winning setup winning when playing bad but it could have been so different. We win tomorrow and they still only a point off with 12 still on the table, all to play for!
Paddy Davitt @paddyjdavitt now7 seconds ago #ncfc XI: Ruddy; Whittaker, Martin, Bassong, Olsson; Tettey, Howson, Dorrans, Hoolahan, Redmond; Jerome. Michael Bailey @michaeljbailey 11s12 seconds ago The rest of the #ncfc bench - Rudd (GK), Hooper, Elliott Bennett back too, with Ryan Bennett, O'Neil, Odjidja....and GRABBAN!
Paddy Davitt @paddyjdavitt 3s4 seconds ago #ncfc XI: Ruddy; Whittaker, Martin, Bassong, Olsson; Tettey, Howson, Dorrans, Hoolahan, Redmond; Jerome.
Dorrans and Redmond wide? Or Hoolahan on the left and Howson in the hole with Dorrans alongside Tettey?
