Norwich City vs Middlesbrough (Away) Friday 14th April.

[morty]

Will we continue our pattern of being 1970's Brasil when playing away from home? Will Pukki actually ever score again? Our last chance ( again) to make the play offs? Are we past caring, do we even want the play offs?

Boring nil nil draw.

 

[Gunvald Larsson]

Play offs shmay offs ..... nowhere near good enough at the moment. Another season in the EFL with Wagner able to recruit players that will fit into whatever system he wants to play and time to shift the deadwood.

ps - I see Deano is Leicester's great survival hope.

 

[Number 9]

Our away form and Boro's home form, last five games, are fairly similar.
Who knows what might happen.
Boro would surely settle for a draw so might be less motivated to go for it?

 

[Number 9]

Here we are with another 'must win' game

 

[morty]

Bloody hell lol...

 

[morty]

There is a guy on the opposite shift who I work with, who will see me at shift change in about 90 minutes. Absolute die hard Boro fan, and was at Wembley that day. I think I might be in for a bit of grief...

 

[Bomber]

We dont need to be in the Premiership to be humiliated - shows you how poor the Championship is wen we have been so poor all season and still sit 7th - well until tomorrow that is

 

[Bomber]

No wonder Pukki is leaving - would’nt you

 

[gerryinromania]

Another good stream, what's not to like? Just wish we were not appearing on it. Hopefully, that's the last time pukki and marquinos play for the canaries

 

[Bomber]

They were all as bad as each other utterly dismal - but agree Marquinhos offers as much to our team as my 85 year old dad and Pukki is just seeing his time out

 

[ManofNorfolk1805]

1. I said to my wife before the game that Aaron Ramsey would score for them. After 7 minutes I was right.Was in the bookies this morning - I should have had a bet.
2. Midfield of Gibbs, Sara, Marquinhos and Hernandez. Away at Middlesboro - what did they think would happen? Issac Hayden is apparently back and on the bench. Why?
3. Pukki is so far off the pace, they have stopped passing to him (or anywhere near him.)
4. Conceded 4 goals between the 40th and 50th minutes. Nothing new there then.
5. I would like to know the value they put on our "set-piece" coach. Useless at both ends of the pitch.
6. Finally, this is by far the physically weakest team I have seen in Norwich shirts for a very long time. The commentators were suggesting that they still had some chance of getting into the play-offs - cue derisive laughter.How can clubs like Luton, Preston and Millwall on gates of 12,000 or so, and no parachute payments be doing better? Gross mismanagement on and off the pitch.
QPR away Wednesday - that should break QPR's losing habit.

 

[Number 9]

1. I said to my wife before the game that Aaron Ramsey would score for them. After 7 minutes I was right.Was in the bookies this morning - I should have had a bet.
2. Midfield of Gibbs, Sara, Marquinhos and Hernandez. Away at Middlesboro - what did they think would happen? Issac Hayden is apparently back and on the bench. Why?
3. Pukki is so far off the pace, they have stopped passing to him (or anywhere near him.)
4. Conceded 4 goals between the 40th and 50th minutes. Nothing new there then.
5. I would like to know the value they put on our "set-piece" coach. Useless at both ends of the pitch.
6. Finally, this is by far the physically weakest team I have seen in Norwich shirts for a very long time. The commentators were suggesting that they still had some chance of getting into the play-offs - cue derisive laughter.How can clubs like Luton, Preston and Millwall on gates of 12,000 or so, and no parachute payments be doing better? Gross mismanagement on and off the pitch.
QPR away Wednesday - that should break QPR's losing habit.

It's a bit like the players don't want to go up

 

[ManofNorfolk1805]

Gerry, more than just a bit like. My previous posts have said exactly the same thing at much greater length. Too comfortable by half - good salaries, nice houses , good schools, tame local media and no presuure for results - what's not to like?

 

[Number 9]

Gerry, more than just a bit like. My previous posts have said exactly the same thing at much greater length. Too comfortable by half - good salaries, nice houses , good schools, tame local media and no presuure for results - what's not to like?

Our only hope is the American getting it organised in the summer

 

[ManofNorfolk1805]

No9 - Do you mean "Get rid of Webber"?

 

[Number 9]

No9 - Do you mean "Get rid of Webber"?

I can't see him staying IF Attanasio takes over as we believe he will.
Not long term anyway, matter of months at the most.

 

[OldRobert]

Good.

 

[Bomber]

Im sick of reading all the pre-match comments from management and players alike saying this and that about getting into the play offs blah blah blah and then going into the next game and being absolutely awful - the money and lifestyle they are on they should be busting a gut but hey ho has been like this for years with any easy life Norwich side apart from the odd occasion like Wembley so why should I be surprised - have said for years a lovely little club like Norwich with no local competition is a nice little number for anyone lacking ambition

 

[Gunvald Larsson]

All I have to say is ... ''well. that was s--t''.

 

[ManofNorfolk1805]

Im sick of reading all the pre-match comments from management and players alike saying this and that about getting into the play offs blah blah blah and then going into the next game and being absolutely awful - the money and lifestyle they are on they should be busting a gut but hey ho has been like this for years with any easy life Norwich side apart from the odd occasion like Wembley so why should I be surprised - have said for years a lovely little club like Norwich with no local competition is a nice little number for anyone lacking ambition

Bomber , Nice to see that other people are coming around to that point of view. See below my post from April 2nd.

I admire your optimism, but as the American does not appear to have actually put any money into the club and has no real experience of English football so far,why should he have a big say? The present squad are so deep into their comfort zone that they are virtually horizontal. Norfolk - Lovely place to live - tick. Reasonable house prices - tick.Salaries a long way in excess of local average - tick.Decent schools - tick. Low Crime rates - tick. No media pressure for success - local media, papers and TV, deep in the club's pocket - tick. In the light of all of this, why would you want to leave to expose yourself to a lot of pressure to actually get results? Answers on a post card to Paul Lambert, please.