The PL is taking shape already All the teams you would think would be top half are in the top 10, and all the teams you would expect to be in the bottom half are in the bottom 10.
I saw a comment on the BBC Football website that they think they could challenge for a 'Champions League spot' - nearly fell out of bed laughing!!!!
I'm sure his bank balance says he's enjoying it just fine. I'm not missing being in the Prem apart from the crap coverage given to the championship by the media, if your not in the prem they just don't seem to bother !
Obviously I can only speak for myself, but I can actually look forward to going to home games again, safe in the knowledge that we have a chance to win. I would add that part of the more positive feeling is the more attacking football that we are now seeing thanks to NA living up to his prediction of giving the fans more of what we want. On another topic, I was looking at the availability of away tickets and see that Brentford and Blackpool are sold out!!!!!
I'm also enjoying the season so far (apart from the crap media coverage), but I also feel that Adams has assembled an excellent and deep squad that could move up to the PL and do well with balanced attacking football.
I get where you're coming from Thai and maybe I'm in the minority, but I want my club to progress and the Premier League is the only place to be. One day, just one day, I hope to see City challenge for a top six place in the top division once again
It's a great feeling to be winning again. The question is whether this team will be better prepared for a visit at the top table again. I really hope so, and perhaps the last couple of years were important to the mindset of fans and players in that we do not want to be in such a negative place again.
I'm totally divided on it. Was it a couple of years back that a rich foreign owner was suggesting the PL become a closed shop? I think in many ways that would make for a much more enjoyable Canary life constantly (well at least in theory!) fighting for the championship title. Maybe last season (or even the last two) is still too fresh in the mind. but I can't ever see any club such as ours competing for the top six. Look at Newcastle, Stoke etc, they have spent money that one day we might dream of and still not got close to really getting up there and staying up there. Then look at SPurs and Everton budgets we will never have and will we surpass them with out a rich owner from somewhere? Last season kind of killed the dream of the PL. The first season was an adventure and we so far exceded expectation that it was a hell of a ride, the second exceded expectation again but the football! I wouldn't wish on portaloo rd. Already it felt like we were making up numbers. the 3rd season, less said the better, but who isn't so much happier now? Can we win the title and tell the 3rd relegated side, no you stay up but we'll take your parachute money? Maybe with a better manager (Maybe Mr Adams) we will still be entertaining whilst we struggle in the PL? That may be enough? But by all accounts we all seem to be so extraordinarily knee jerk these days lose one (or even a half!) and the doom mongers are out in force and pressure is heeped. Knowledge of being tested against the best and the Blanket coverage as someone who cannot get to every game are about the only things I can think of as true positives of being in the PL. Some will say money but I don't see that. It costs me more to enjoy less. With less games and less prospects. The club may benefit but us the fans don't. Oh bugger all that, lets get up there and give United a damn good 1-0 thrashing. Bah!
It'll certainly be less entertaining in the short-to-medium term, but I want to see us as a regular fixture in the top 10 of the Prem too. Happy to take a bit of pain to begin with if I can see we're moving in the right direction.
Personal for all it's flaws the premier league is where I want our club to be. It's the top table and when it comes to it I want to see norwich playing at the highest level. I understand the complaints but really as a result of our three seasons in the PL we have some great players and I want to see us with the best players possible playing the strongest opposition possible. Yeah you don't win every week but when you do beat United Or Spurs or City like we did it is better than winning a game we knew we should have won.
I like the fact that we are playing to win rather than to not lose. Too much at stake in the premier league.
Well...................a week later and I am eating my words. Wtf is going on in the PL? Liverpool, Man Utd and Everton all in the bottom half.....Foxes 6th, Villa 3rd & Saints 2nd??
A Villa fan a week ago was saying they could qualify for a Champions league spot!!! I wonder where they might be in the league by the end of October????? I'm sure the PL league positions will have a more normal look by Xmas, but it seems mst teams have spent wildly on strikers, but ignored buying any decent defenders.
Robbie Savage wrote a very interesting (I know, I couldn't believe it either!) piece about Villa towards the end of last week highlighting that even though Villa are riding high at the moment, statistically they are performing worse than last season and are ranked in the bottom three for many of the parameters that team performance are measured by. Prior to Saturday they were averaging: Just 6.2 shots on goals per game (19th in PL) Just 1.5 shots on target (20th in PL) Just 37% possession (18th in PL) Just 72% passing accuracy (19th in PL) Just 332 passes per game 918th in PL) Can't imagine these numbers would have improved much after a 3-0 home defeat on Saturday. Crazy to think that they had almost double the number of points than shots on target from the first four games, sounds like they are playing counter-attacking football which can be effective as we all know, but isn't going to get you too far in the top flight if that's all you have in your arsenal. I hate talking about "false positions" because I personally don't think they exist, however if they did then Villa sitting in the top three at the moment would definitely be a contender based on the stats alone.
I can't ever recall watching a match and wanting Man £iteh to score..until yesterday.If Chelsea had been on 15 points With Arsenal 6,City 8 Liverpool 9 and United 10 points adrift I think it might well have developed into a one horse race.As it is Mourinho's little horses are going to take some catching.
I'm sorry folks but in my opinion anybody who would want to see Brentford, Bournemouth and Rotherham instead of Chelsea, Man City and Arsenal is f***ing crackers.
