Norwich City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Skerra]

Paulie,

You are missing the point I'm trying to make. I don't necessarily mean players that are already in the Championship. I mean players, from whatever division that are deemed good enough, play with a desire to win and, be willing to sweat blood for the Claret & Blue. Whilst, we would all love top quality players to come in, with the present set up at the top etc., who do you think would want to come to us?

[Pat McMahon]

Shearer summed it up by saying players are cheating when commenting on Richardson just standing there when they scored their second.

I'm surprised they laid into Richards as well. He is after all a Proper Football Man. Being English.

Richards is a shit centre back. Has no positional sense at all, goes chasing around like a fucking Labrador.

I was going to say almost the same thing- he has the positional discipline of a cocker spaniel.i have no idea why anybody ever thought he would be a good centre half. Unless my ailing memory is wrong again, he was a full back at Man City and has no pedigree at centre half.

I get the fact we have shit players, but what i absolutely can't forgive is the lack of resilience and mental strength.  Our recruitment last summer in that respect was negligent.

[tj66]

Gardner was a star for Forest in the Championship but would he stay fit?  Let's hope Gabby has a relegation clause in his latest contract as we won't be shipping him out any time soon and it's wages like his that will hinder us.  Who is going to buy our failing players if we go down? We're stuck with 80% of them in the Championship whatever.

[aj2k77]

At least Nzogbia, Cole, Bennett, Senderos and Richardson are all out of contract the end of the season.

[Pat McMahon]

I can see this team dropping straight through the Championship into League One......yes it's that bad!

No it isn't.

We don't know yet, but this argument will be settled very easily next season.

[tomd2103]

At least Nzogbia, Cole, Bennett, Senderos and Richardson are all out of contract the end of the season.

Yep, but the likes of Hutton, Westwood and Bacuna are all sitting on lengthy contracts. 

[PeterWithesShin]

Hutton signed a 3 year contract last season, not really lengthy. If we put Westwood up for sale we'd sell him easily Ireckon, plus I doubt he's on much having come from Crewe. The 3 of them combined are probably not on much more a week than Zog is on, maybe even less.

[brian green]

Not having a go at you ROBBO but if I have to live with any more of this "Traore is not anything more than a half decent prospect" and "he has to be eased into the team little by little" and even my friend BE commenting "why didn't we win we had Traore on for 30 minutes" I shall conclude my interest in football.  It took 2,000 of us, not just me, stupid old Brian, screaming for him to come on before Garde got the message.  When he came on he went right side.  Where did the next series 3-4-5 Guzan kicks go? Down the left.  Traore had their defenders beaten every time he ran at them and every cross he put in could have been doubled in number by lumps like Hutton and Gestede giving him accurate returns.  Compared with the likes of Guzan, Westwood, Richardson, Bacuna, Richards, Gestede, Sinclair, Hutton and Clark, Adama Traore is a towering giant.  To even have to put the case for him playing is symptomatic of how sick we are.

[Bad English]

I know it was a bit of a pisstake but I saw him getting past men and crossing the ball into dangerous areas against West Ham. To no avail. Then I saw him come on and do similar for longer. To no avail.

I can only conclude that he now needs to start because some of the other choices would stink out a game of Hungry Hippos so let's see more of him.

[JD]

Bloody disgraceful. Nothing else to say, I can't be bothered wasting my energy and anger.

[ldavfc4eva]

Didn't Bennett sign an extension before going on loan?

[preston28]

this season really is a death by a thousand cuts.

I think it is death by eleven c***s.

Very good!!

this season really is a death by a thousand cuts.

I think it is death by eleven c***s.

Very good. What was that you were drinking?

Very good humour. The situation the club is in my s not funny.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Didn't Bennett sign an extension before going on loan?

built an extension more like and probably in the neighbours garden by mistake

[baddowvillans]

To reach even 38 points (which might still not be safety) would require top 6 form in the second half of the season.   That would require some pretty dramatic signings which to be honest wouldn't make business sense and there is nothing in Lerners behaviour of the last 5 years to make that remotely likely. I know there are still some brave (or deluded) fans out there but we're down and deserve to be. I remember reading comments on the BBC forum to the effect of what's the point of Aston villa they've been shit for years and feeling it was unfair. It was but not any more

[The Edge]

Not having a go at you ROBBO but if I have to live with any more of this "Traore is not anything more than a half decent prospect" and "he has to be eased into the team little by little" and even my friend BE commenting "why didn't we win we had Traore on for 30 minutes" I shall conclude my interest in football.  It took 2,000 of us, not just me, stupid old Brian, screaming for him to come on before Garde got the message.  When he came on he went right side.  Where did the next series 3-4-5 Guzan kicks go? Down the left.  Traore had their defenders beaten every time he ran at them and every cross he put in could have been doubled in number by lumps like Hutton and Gestede giving him accurate returns.  Compared with the likes of Guzan, Westwood, Richardson, Bacuna, Richards, Gestede, Sinclair, Hutton and Clark, Adama Traore is a towering giant.  To even have to put the case for him playing is symptomatic of how sick we are.

Well said mate.