Norwich v Blackpool (Away) 27th September 2014

[Canaryboy]

Josh Murphy take a bow! 

What a goal, what a talent, and he's all ours. 

Best youth player since Bellamy? 

 

[Din]

Great to see Howson coming back on. Redmond thoughhas been excellent again.

 

[Canaryboy]

Yup, take that Grabban off.

LOL. 

This is what makes Grabban a great striker. He has a terrible game, misses a sitter, messes up a cut back.... and then creates a chance out of absolutely nothing and buries it. 

 

[kirku]

Yup, take that Grabban off.

Been poor all game, a deflected goal doesn't change that.

 

[Canaryboy]

Been poor all game, a deflected goal doesn't change that.

As long as he keeps scoring goals he is doing his job. 

 

[kirku]

This is what makes Grabban a great striker. He has a terrible game, misses a sitter, messes up a cut back.... and then creates a chance out of absolutely nothing and buries it. 

Grabban is certainly not a 'great' striker.

 

[Canaryboy]

Grabban is certainly not a 'great' striker.

As long as he keeps scoring he is, in my book. 

Yes it took a deflection but he created the chance himself. 

We constantly justified Van Wolfswinkel's lack of goals last season by arguing lack of service or blaming inverted wingers, Grabban just keeps on creating his own chances. Don't care how limited his all round game is, he is getting himself goals. 

That said, doubt he could do it in the league above. 

 

[Din]

To be honest I agree that Grabban has been very poor, and if I were manager I probably would've taken him off a while ago. But as said above, that's what makes him a great striker. Yes he's been bad, and yes there was a big slice of luck attached to his goal, but the way he managed to find the space was top class.

Tbh, if he hadn't of scored I would've hoped that he was dropped for the Charlton game. He won't be now though after that, and rightly so.

 

[kirku]

That said, doubt he could do it in the league above. 

Agreed, and is exactly the reason he isn't 'great'. A decent Championship forward isn't 'great' by any means.

As for Van Wolfswinkel, a little harsh comparing the two when you've stated you've got doubts as to whether Grabban could do it in the Prem too.

 

[KeiranShikari]

Well, we haven't really 'gotten out of 3rd gear' today so we certainly can't complain about this result. Another good goal for Murphy too.

Forest drew as well.

 

[Canaryboy]

Agreed, and is exactly the reason he isn't 'great'. A decent Championship forward isn't 'great' by any means.

As for Van Wolfswinkel, a little harsh comparing the two when you've stated you've got doubts as to whether Grabban could do it in the Prem too.

Fine, he's a great championship striker and a bargain at £3m.

None of our players are 'great' if we are comparing them with what can be found in the league above.  Grant Holt was also a very limited player, but he was great for us and a legend in my eyes.

Grabban has 6 goals in 9 games now. If he carries on like that then don't see how we can complain if he misses the odd sitter, Bournemouth fans even told us when we signed him that he wasn't too great around the six yard box. That's where Hooper will hopefully fit in. 

 

[splutcho]

Phew. Must stop conceding first though.

Murphy was shocking for ten minutes until we went ahead and then was unplayable. Great finish as well. Well done that man.

Grabban had a really poor game, but I'll still take the goal, albeit with a huge deflection.

We really do need a LM on loan, because if we keep playing Wes there, we will keep playing terribly until he comes off.

 

[kirku]

To be honest I agree that Grabban has been very poor, and if I were manager I probably would've taken him off a while ago. But as said above, that's what makes him a great striker. Yes he's been bad, and yes there was a big slice of luck attached to his goal, but the way he managed to find the space was top class.

Tbh, if he hadn't of scored I would've hoped that he was dropped for the Charlton game. He won't be now though after that, and rightly so.

The problem I have with him is he always seems to miss 1-2 gilt-edged chances but then score the harder ones. If he were more clinical, he'd have about 4 more goals already.

A Bournemouth fan told me that he had trouble scoring when clean through for them. Seems to have similar problems for us.

It is nice to be debating as to why a striker isn't scoring more, rather than at all, mind!

 

[KeiranShikari]

He certainly does have a habit of scoring scrappy goals. Oh well, as long as they go in.

 

[Dandy Mountfarto]

We seem to be cheating a lot this season by having substitutes score I thought that wasn't allowed

 

[Canaryboy]

As for Van Wolfswinkel, a little harsh comparing the two when you've stated you've got doubts as to whether Grabban could do it in the Prem too.

I actually don't think that's harsh at all. 

Grabban was given his #9 shirt, and Adams said that he could choose between joining St Etienne or staying here where he'd be welcomed back into the squad. So if Van Wolfswinkel wanted to stay and prove that he could do the business here and is better than Grabban then he could have? 

This could lead to a real conundrum if he does the business at St Etienne but chooses to return here with us in the Premier League (one would assume that even if St Etienne meet the buy out clause, he would still need to agree terms for the move to happen?).

Would we take Van Wolfswinkel back, at the expense of whichever strikers get us out of this league, or do we go with the players who get us up? How would that go down with the dressing room if he could waltz back into the team? 

 

[Din]

I'll do a longer summary later, but yet again we played pretty poorly on the whole but managed to saved ourselves in the second half. We got pretty lucky today though, in the sense that our first goal was an own goal, and our second took a big deflection to take it in. Which is harsh on Donervan Daniels, who had an excellent game at the back but both of our first 2 goals went in off him. Next game against Charlton though we need to change it back to 4-2-3-1. 4-4-2 isn't working at all, especially with Hoolahan on the wing, who was dreadful again today.  

 

[Yellow Fever]

I can't believe all this negativity. IMO, the first half was very even and City didn't play badly, but there seemed to be a spark missing. The bookings for BJ and AT didn't help, but Blackpool's quick out of the blocks goal was their only really good chance in the match. Fatigue seemed to be a factor for BJ and AT and city seemed to be slow to the ball at times. Time to rotate some players with two home games coming? Josh to start after that sharp performance and superb goal? 

That said, we're top of the league and 3 above Watford as well. Time to celebrate!

 

[Gaffer]

This could lead to a real conundrum if he does the business at St Etienne but chooses to return here with us in the Premier League (one would assume that even if St Etienne meet the buy out clause, he would still need to agree terms for the move to happen?).

Would we take Van Wolfswinkel back, at the expense of whichever strikers get us out of this league, or do we go with the players who get us up? How would that go down with the dressing room if he could waltz back into the team? 

I hope not. Where would be the justice in that? Having played a major part in our relegation he scurries off to France because the Championship is 'not his level', then comes back expecting a place in the team at the expense of a player who helped get us promoted. Bad for team spirit.

 

[Watling the Gnome]

We win from a goal down to go top of the league, what could be a more logical response than bemoaning the performance and slating one of the goalscorers?