Leic 2 - 3 Norwich - Post Match Thread

[Christoph]

From here :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/08/norwich-capitulate-to-colchester

To here

http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city-fc/norwich_city_boss_lambert_that_s_as_good_as_it_has_been_1_824059

In 17 Months

Our players are slower than yours and most of them dont have the technical ability like yours but if you get a manager can install belief and suck out every bit of determination from them then you will witness something special.

If we get promoted and then relegated we will not ever sack Paul Lambert, stick with one manager and over the years he will build you a team

Thanks for last night great stadium miss filbert street though

NB

Good post and I agree. Good luck with the rest of the season. Norwhich played a lot better than us and deserved the win tbh.

[The Doctor]

Our play-off dream isn't dead yet but after last night it's in the ICU and on life support.

Abe and Naughton aside there was minimal effort and desire on display from the team through-out the match.

The stick ricardo was getting was unwarranted - I would prefer weale, he didn't deserve to be dropped but ricardo didn't do much wrong last night and while he's on the pitch you should be getting behind him:

the first goal was discraceful defending, for no-one to pick up the run and instead allow probably the smallest player on the pitch a free header is not good enough. The second - not a penalty, although what mee is doing diving into that challenge i will never know and the third: Bamba should not be going to ground like that, he's got to stand up and force the man away from goal, ricardo had the shot covered but for a cruel deflection.

credit to norwich, they set up well and harried us, stopping us from getting the room on the edge of the box to get a shot away, instead forcing us to play from side to side, trying to find non-exsistant gaps and eventually forced us to take a long range shot which was blocked with ease. However they are us from last season: an average side overachieving due to the momentum from promotion and i seriously doubt they will achieve this again next season should they fail to win promotion.

What we have to do now is get this out of our systems and bounce back with a win at scunthorpe this weekend.

[Delia Smith]

Good post and I agree. Good luck with the rest of the season. Norwhich played a lot better than us and deserved the win tbh.

With all due respect to you all the big factor to success is making sure you fill your stadium week in week out , The walkers seemed a little souless last night, make sure everyones on there feet, never let anyone leave until the game is over, Its not very motivational to hear booing and people leaving, ok youve had a bad day at the office but when you came to carrow road earlier in the season you were well and truly in it and singing your hearts out , doing a little better now, we need you to do a job on the teams around the top 6 so lets get behind your boys

Good luck

[Stevosevic]

With all due respect to you all the big factor to success is making sure you fill your stadium week in week out , The walkers seemed a little souless last night, make sure everyones on there feet, never let anyone leave until the game is over, Its not very motivational to hear booing and people leaving, ok youve had a bad day at the office but when you came to carrow road earlier in the season you were well and truly in it and singing your hearts out , doing a little better now, we need you to do a job on the teams around the top 6 so lets get behind your boys

Good luck

If your stadium was the size of ours you wouldn't fill it either at this level.

[Leicester Lass]

If your stadium was the size of ours you wouldn't fill it either at this level.

Very debatable. Norwich's support is very good. They currently average nearly 2,000 more than us at home.

[m00nie]

With all due respect to you all the big factor to success is making sure you fill your stadium week in week out , The walkers seemed a little souless last night, make sure everyones on there feet, never let anyone leave until the game is over, Its not very motivational to hear booing and people leaving, ok youve had a bad day at the office but when you came to carrow road earlier in the season you were well and truly in it and singing your hearts out , doing a little better now, we need you to do a job on the teams around the top 6 so lets get behind your boys

Good luck

thing is away support always comes across more as all huddled together in one area..

that said though we was overly quiet last night i admit, even birch tried to get the crowd going saying how important it was but it didnt seem to work.. think everyone was too nervous..

[Stevosevic]

Very debatable. Norwich's support is very good. They currently average nearly 2,000 more than us at home.

I am from Norwich, and i have been told by many people that they have only filled it once since they increased it to 27,000 over the summer, against Ipswich. They won't fill it every week until they get to the Premiership, like us,

[iBleedLeicesterColours]

Norwich put in a good away performance. Solid, organised & clinical. Hoolahan ran the show.

As for us, well we got to 7th playing 433, so why change to 442 ? Ludicris, especially with FOUR centre mids, no width whatsoever. Poor decisions by Sven there.

Bamba got torn a new arsehole by Holt, couldn't handle him. Ricardo does some good things but mostly dodgy. Although I cringe when people shout 'Weale', what on earth does that achieve? I also want Weale, but turning against one of our own team doesn't help.

Yakubu is too lazy, Sven needs to decide wether to have a striker that is lazy and can finish, or a forward that can do a bit of everything. Vassell didn't offer much either.

Gallagher played well when he came on, another cracking free kick too. Waghorn, Gally & Dyer should all have been on earlier IMO.

Think we've blown it now.

Anyway credit to the Norwich team and fans, both superb.

[Delia Smith]

I am from Norwich, and i have been told by many people that they have only filled it once since they increased it to 27,000 over the summer, against Ipswich. They won't fill it every week until they get to the Premiership, like us,

Excuse me when we got relegated to the third tier of English football the pre order season tickets was 21000 the only reason we have tickets left is because they charge the away team £32 for a ticket, daylight robbery, Plans are being passed to knock one side down and bulid a two tier creating a stdium of 35000, It makes me so angry, for example birmingham bring 40000 to wembley but the very next week theres empty seats everywhere, I really believe if the walkers would of been full and 80 % of the fans losing there voice it would have been a differant story, The players dont want to hear a constant groaning of a drum they want to hear you guys going red in the face because Leicester is more than a club to you, As you all pointing out we are an average side but there must be a reason we are where we are and I beleive the level of support is a big factor.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Excuse me when we got relegated to the third tier of English football the pre order season tickets was 21000 the only reason we have tickets left is because they charge the away team £32 for a ticket, daylight robbery, Plans are being passed to knock one side down and bulid a two tier creating a stdium of 35000, It makes me so angry, for example birmingham bring 40000 to wembley but the very next week theres empty seats everywhere, I really believe if the walkers would of been full and 80 % of the fans losing there voice it would have been a differant story, The players dont want to hear a constant groaning of a drum they want to hear you guys going red in the face because Leicester is more than a club to you, As you all pointing out we are an average side but there must be a reason we are where we are and I beleive the level of support is a big factor.

Good Luck to you Norwich City fan, your club deserves what it gets at the end of the season be that promotion or whatever. I would just like to point out that 90 per cent of the home crowds ive been to over the years have always been the same and there is very rarely a club anywhere that the home fans are as passionate as the away fans, thats just the nature of the beast unfortunately and i know a few people (including myself) have been to Norwich over the years and your support is definately no better than anyone else's at home. Good luck anyway

[The Sven Revolution]

Norwich put in a good away performance. Solid, organised & clinical. Hoolahan ran the show.

As for us, well we got to 7th playing 433, so why change to 442 ? Ludicris, especially with FOUR centre mids, no width whatsoever. Poor decisions by Sven there.

Bamba got torn a new arsehole by Holt, couldn't handle him. Ricardo does some good things but mostly dodgy. Although I cringe when people shout 'Weale', what on earth does that achieve? I also want Weale, but turning against one of our own team doesn't help.

Yakubu is too lazy, Sven needs to decide wether to have a striker that is lazy and can finish, or a forward that can do a bit of everything. Vassell didn't offer much either.

Gallagher played well when he came on, another cracking free kick too. Waghorn, Gally & Dyer should all have been on earlier IMO.

Think we've blown it now.

Anyway credit to the Norwich team and fans, both superb.

Listen, Sven backs some players (Beckham, Lampard, Stevie G) to perform and eventually most of them do! He backs his instinct on players and thats what managers are paid to do..1 million pounds in Sven's case! We must stop over-analyzing every move, every player dropped or picked every time..sure we have our own preferences but judge him over a period of a season..

This season is not yet dead..as someone wrote..in ICU perhaps..but not dead..stranger things have happened..lets back OUR MAN SVEN and see where we land up in early May!

In Sven I trust...BACK HIM UNTIL YOU SACK HIM (which will be a disaster whatever way you think of it)

[Number 6]

When you're smiling

When you're smiling

The whole world smiles with you

When you're laughing

When you're laughing

That sun comes shining through

But when you're crying

You bring on the rain

So stop your sighing

Be happy again

Keep on smiling

Cause when you're smiling

The whole world smiles with you

[Stevosevic]

Excuse me when we got relegated to the third tier of English football the pre order season tickets was 21000 the only reason we have tickets left is because they charge the away team £32 for a ticket, daylight robbery, Plans are being passed to knock one side down and bulid a two tier creating a stdium of 35000, It makes me so angry, for example birmingham bring 40000 to wembley but the very next week theres empty seats everywhere, I really believe if the walkers would of been full and 80 % of the fans losing there voice it would have been a differant story, The players dont want to hear a constant groaning of a drum they want to hear you guys going red in the face because Leicester is more than a club to you, As you all pointing out we are an average side but there must be a reason we are where we are and I beleive the level of support is a big factor.

I know for a fact that your home areas are not selling out every weekend, and won't until you hit the Premiership, like us. So if you had a ground our size, it too would not be full at this level.

[MORGAN]