The 2019-2020 season.

Lets all vote for Lewis for goal on the month: https://www.canaries.co.uk/News/202...tdId-q3yTV2OHy1YYNiUg-F5d52zu4-jDirTsWblTgSYk

 

Just voted

 

If relegated teams were not to get " parachute " payments, where would that money go? Sorry, but it would stay with the remaining PL teams. If it were to be given to all teams in the EFL, then it would strengthen the whole structure. But teams receiving this bounty would then likely waste it in unrealistic ambitious endeavours.

 

Me too

 

And me!

 

I think that is widely recognised and it's why there is still good will towards Farke as our manager. Can anybody on here honestly say that there is a manager out there who could have done better? Personally I am quite happy to be back in The Championship next season with strong finances.

 

And hopefully the nucleus of this season's squad, though we're almost bound to lose three or four.
But several of our signings indicate an awareness of the need for succession planning to counter this.
Good work once again Mr Webber

 

"You can see the football he wants to play works, he just doesn’t have the players to execute it nor the quality in the side..."

Yes indeed: we've seen this work -- at the Nou Camp and Etihad Stadium for example. It will work at Carrow Road too if and when we have the players of the quality needed to execute it effectively.

Question is, when are we likely to have a side filled with players of the necessary quality? You are not going to get that if almost half your starting eleven are youngsters lacking the experience needed. To acquire that experience you need to keep them, not sell them and replace them with other youngsters, thus starting the whole process again. Secondly, quality and experience cost money; to fund a side of the necessary quality and experience requires us to be a fixture in the EPL. But to become a fixture in the EPL playing Farkeball, we need players of the quality and experience required to execute it effectively ........ "There's a hole in the bucket dear Liza, dear Liza .......")

If DF really is "by far and away the best coach we have had this century", this problem cannot be lost on him. Has he an answer or not? The jury's still out.

 

I think that signings like those are always going to be risks, okay they didn't work out, but at least we won't have another Naismith shaped albatross around our necks

 

We had a good, experienced keeper in Krul who has excelled himself this season. Fährmann was a precaution in case Krul faltered, but instead Krul kept the shirt and Fährmann has now moved on. Roberts was the fourth option wide player who failed to challenge for first team play. Amadou did contribute at CB, particularly against ManCity, but less so in other games. At DM, Tettey raised his game and kept the shirt.

It's unfortunate for those 3 players (and for us) that they couldn't make more of a contribution, but DF has to chose the players he feels deserves the shirt. Yes we paid big loan fees for Fährmann and Amadou, but those are much more manageable than having 3 players who don't fit on long term contracts.

 

Krul has been called up for the Netherlands squad:

https://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/krul-named-in-provisional-holland-squad-1-6556344

It's been quite a season for him.

 

You could say it was a Krul blow to Fahmann

 

the same concerning Felix Passlack last season. Max Aarons emergence ruined his loan appearances.

 

As we ponder our situation, consider this:

"Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Bloody Russians, they're still playing football

 

Ha!

 

With no football there can be only one substitute !

Bah!

 

A bit of fun from Benjamin Bloom.