Norwich (A) match thread

[The Doctor]

At least that Vietes is a real player then. Can we try him up front?

[Noahfence]

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

Anyone who saw pre season could see Evans wasn’t ready. Doesn’t mean he might not be very soon but you have to get this right. Evans far more use to us getting it right. 
 

Presume you’ve seen Silko play before. 
 

You’ve listed 2 15 year olds who have only just started playing for the u21s. You are clearly off your rocker. 

Lorenz Hutchinson is 17 I believe  

[FoxesWalk]

Ricardo and Winks are the only players in our squad that are absolutely top quality for this league. Fatawu on his day, but he’s been pretty shite since coming back from injury. 
 

Another season down here with the same decision makers and it only gets worse. 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

Anyone who saw pre season could see Evans wasn’t ready. Doesn’t mean he might not be very soon but you have to get this right. Evans far more use to us getting it right and playing at World Cup helps him. 
 

Presume you’ve seen Silko play before. 
 

You’ve listed 2 15 year olds who have only just started playing for the u21s. You are clearly off your rocker. 

Wowzers fella calm yourself down

 

These are suggestions (as You asked who) of who COULD be put on the bench or at least around the first team thinking 

 

Monga was 15 when he made the first team so I don't think age figures in reality as long as they are good enough 

 

it's about opinions bud and just because I have one that differs slightly from yours doesn't mean I'm off my rocker and quite frankly it's offensive of you to say this 

[studentofthegame]

14 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

He did play page. And I am pretty sure if page was available he would be in the team. Personally think Aluko must be close. It’s a process with the youth. 

Page hasn't even made the bench in over 2 months

 

Long old international break for him it seems

[KFS]

Who cares 

[Lambert09]

55 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

No Thomas. No Bob. No Carranza.

 

Means we are fielding 11 professional players. Baby steps.

Yet we have skipp, daka and ayew on…. There’s just not many actual footballers at this club 

[Chelmofox]

2 minutes ago, Noahfence said:

Lorenz Hutchinson is 17 I believe  

Oops. Still. We can’t have a pop at Marti for not migrating him to the full squad after 1 sub appearance in the u21s. 

[Chelmofox]

2 minutes ago, studentofthegame said:

Page hasn't even made the bench in over 2 months

 

Long old international break for him it seems

Because we signed Ramsey. Who is now injured. 

[brownboy93]

He’s lost me 

win = we have a shit tactician/motivator who seems at a loss with ideas/profiles.

And they always say teams resemble the manager’s personality..

[studentofthegame]

Just now, Chelmofox said:

Because we signed Ramsey. Who is now injured. 

So "he would have played Page" 

 

Except for all of the occasions he could have (or even had him on the bench) and chose not to, right

[Clarkey123]

Only rationale is to bring Mav/monga on against tiring legs. If we aren’t already 2-3 down by then 

[Blueman1967]

Need Mav or Monga starting

[Dahnsouff]

Looks like we are planning for two separate games/plans (I hope) 

[UniFox21]

Ricardo starting at LB and Okoli RB says a lot about what Marti thinks of the others 

[An Away Move]

5 minutes ago, studentofthegame said:

Page hasn't even made the bench in over 2 months

 

Long old international break for him it seems

I said all along he was only being picked because he was up for a new contract. They did the same with Alves, “You mean a lot to us. Look you’re part of the first - just sign here’. They sign and then are dropped. They’re not to be trusted. 

[StanSP]

Same shit, different day. 

 

If Daka scores I'll donate £50 to Loros. 

[Richmondfox]

Glad we have Ayew in the middle to really bring the wingers and forwards into play.

 

Ayew attack stink out bingo -

Falls over diving - winning foul.

falls over diving - play on and they attack.

Stops running and passes backwards.

Runs to the left wing, ignoring players around.

holds onto the ball, twisting and turning ignoring plays around, tackled/falls over. 

long shot. 

[whoareyaaa]

anyone got a link for the game ?

[StanSP]

Just now, whoareyaaa said:

anyone got a link for the game ?

Why would you do it to yourself? 

[studentofthegame]

2 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

I said all along he was only being picked because he was up for a new contract. They did the same with Alves, “You mean a lot to us. Look you’re part of the first - just sign here’. They sign and then are dropped. They’re not to be trusted. 

Yeah the whole "commitment to promoting youth" from him was a load of bollocks, he has had so many opportunities and he just chooses not to

 

[WigstonWanderer]

Watching more out of duty than any expectation of enjoyment. It’s turning out like last season but at a much lower level.

 

Well there’s always hope 

[Pliskin]

20 minutes ago, TrentFox said:

I wouldn’t necessarily disagree with any of that. The football we play, currently, is abject. Marti gets an out card by virtue of us not having a forward worthy of starting.  But what he is getting back - either due to his strategy or the personnel - is frankly abysmal. Personally, I’m “Marti out” as I don’t think he has it in him to turn this around. If today is a genuine 3-5-2, then I think this is the last roll of his dice. 😞

I agree with you, him changing the formation, but playing the same way isn’t changing anything…. He needs to try something completely different. There’s some proper dross in this league that are able to do fairly well playing fairly simple football. 
 

We were getting away with it at the start of the season, now we’re not. I don’t really blame Marti, because he’s been hired to play a certain way, and we know his thanks to Enzo revealing what Top said to him. But it’s like hiring a Plumber to specifically lay your carpets…. Marti will carry on trying to play his way, even if it doesn’t work, nothing will magically change, and we will just continue to get worse until he eventually leaves. 
 

This squad is at the stage where need needs a bit more of a old school touch dare I say, and someone who can get it playing in a way that benefits their skill sets, and makes up more of a threat. 

[JimJams]

Is this not going to be Enzo style with Ben being the Doyle role and Skipp   and James being Wilf and KDH?

[SafewayFox]

I can’t shake some of Marti’s comments about certain players, a couple of weeks ago he said something along the lines of “Jordan is an international captain, I don’t need to discuss his record/stature in the game”.

 

Marti is so out of his depth and almost star struck by players who have actually played for their countries, we are and will be the biggest club that he’ll ever manage.