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The pressures on Norwich
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They've played very well, don't deserve to be behind
Losing at Anfield on the opening day doesn't put any kind of pressure on a newly promoted side
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Originally Posted by
City123
They've played very well, don't deserve to be behind
Losing at Anfield on the opening day doesn't put any kind of pressure on a newly promoted side
They look exciting going forward and have had chances. However, defending has been terrible and it’s 3-0 after 28 mins.
Could easily be looking at a 6-0 - and Liverpool aren’t out of 2nd gear
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
3-0
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Fair enough trying to impose your style on the PL but fecking hell this could be a cricket score by the end of the night
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
Fair enough trying to impose your style on the PL but fecking hell this could be a cricket score by the end of the night
If it's a Glamorgan or Ireland score you're talking about then you could be right.
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
Fair enough trying to impose your style on the PL but fecking hell this could be a cricket score by the end of the night
Scoring an own goal 6 minutes in didn't help them in fairness
I'd rather go for it the way they have rather than just sit back and hope for the best
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....and its 4
Norwich's heads have gone
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I'm glad we're no longer the Premier League punchbag!
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Liverpool taking the piss now
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Originally Posted by
City123
Scoring an own goal 6 minutes in didn't help them in fairness
I'd rather go for it the way they have rather than just sit back and hope for the best
Hobson's choice really, though. "So little minnow, how do you want your arse handed to you?"
Shit division. The result is virtually certain in too many games.
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Originally Posted by
City123
They've played very well, don't deserve to be behind
Losing at Anfield on the opening day doesn't put any kind of pressure on a newly promoted side
I’m not sure about that now that they are 4-0 down. This could be embarrassing.
I do find it funny how people talk up teams like Norwich this season and Fulham last season, and then they get battered, when we were condemned by nearly everyone before a ball was kicked and made a good fist of staying up.
Call me bitter (go on then....) but I find it quite ironic seeing a promoted team (other than us!) getting battered.
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Bobby Dandruff
I’m not sure about that now that they are 4-0 down. This could be embarrassing.
I do find it funny how people talk up teams like Norwich this season and Fulham last season, and then they get battered, when we were condemned by nearly everyone before a ball was kicked and made a good fist of staying up.
Call me bitter (go on then....) but I find it quite ironic seeing a promoted team (other than us!) getting battered.
It’s when they come out with all this stuff about not changing their style and philosophy.
So they end up trying to play exactly the same at Liverpool as they did Rotherham.
Unsurprisingly, it produces different results
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Originally Posted by
Optimistic Nick
Hobson's choice really, though. "So little minnow, how do you want your arse handed to you?"
Shit division. The result is virtually certain in too many games.
100%, most clubs can write off their games against the "Big 6"
Knowing that, for me teams might as well go for it and see what happens, with some of the chances Norwich crafted they could easily have scored a couple themselves
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Thing is, they’ve created about 4 quality chances, but the only fella that had a go, was 20 yards out.
You can’t walk it in boys, you gotta shoot when you get the chance
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Originally Posted by
Bobby Dandruff
I’m not sure about that now that they are 4-0 down. This could be embarrassing.
I do find it funny how people talk up teams like Norwich this season and Fulham last season, and then they get battered, when we were condemned by nearly everyone before a ball was kicked and made a good fist of staying up.
Call me bitter (go on then....) but I find it quite ironic seeing a promoted team (other than us!) getting battered.
That post was true at the time, two goals have gone in since then
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Originally Posted by
Bobby Dandruff
I’m not sure about that now that they are 4-0 down. This could be embarrassing.
I do find it funny how people talk up teams like Norwich this season and Fulham last season, and then they get battered, when we were condemned by nearly everyone before a ball was kicked and made a good fist of staying up.
Call me bitter (go on then....) but I find it quite ironic seeing a promoted team (other than us!) getting battered.
What's ironic about it?
As for teams from the Championship being talked up, that happened to Wolves. They did alright as I recall.
To be honest, I haven't heard anyone talking up Norwich. On the contrary, most of season previews I've read have had Norwich in the bottom three.
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Originally Posted by
City123
100%, most clubs can write off their games against the "Big 6"
Knowing that, for me teams might as well go for it and see what happens, with some of the chances Norwich crafted they could easily have scored a couple themselves
So treat it as a training session for the forwards? I'm not against it- any attempt at resistance is futile after all. But I suspect it's a choice of losing 3-0 or 5-2
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EastbourneBlue
It’s when they come out with all this stuff about not changing their style and philosophy.
So they end up trying to play exactly the same at Liverpool as they did Rotherham.
Pretty much like Cardiff, then.
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Optimistic Nick
So treat it as a training session for the forwards? I'm not against it- any attempt at resistance is futile after all. But I suspect it's a choice of losing 3-0 or 5-2
At least it gives your fans something to shout about if you at least try to go forward, watching us just sit back, defend and "keep it tight" only for teams to waltz through us was hugely demoralising, why not just give it a go?
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City123
At least it gives your fans something to shout about if you at least try to go forward, watching us just sit back, defend and "keep it tight" only for teams to waltz through us was hugely demoralising, why not just give it a go?
They could ship 8 here. That does count at the end of the season. That's why.
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The Lone Gunman
Pretty much like Cardiff, then.
We were worse.
We had no intention of attacking a top 6 team in some games last season, almost as if we had already written the game off.
Man City, Utd, Tottenham at home were embarrassing.
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Optimistic Nick
They could ship 8 here. That does count at the end of the season. That's why.
That could count at the end of the season. In fact, it's been more than a decade since a team was relegated from the Premier League on goal difference.
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
We were worse.
We had no intention of attacking a top 6 team in some games last season, almost as if we had already written the game off.
Man City, Utd, Tottenham at home were embarrassing.
Actually I take back my last post. That spurs game was an actual disgrace. Forgot about that. I'm with city123. If you are that incompetent at the basics you might as well throw everything at it and show off your total lack of skill rather than put on a shite defending masterclass.
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The Lone Gunman
That could count at the end of the season. In fact, it's been more than a decade since a team was relegated from the Premier League on goal difference.
In the final analysis yes. But it affects the approach to games too. We had additional pressure last season just because of our shit gd.
Let's be honest, for relegation fodder like Norwich, losing 1-0 tonight works have been 0.5 points gained against teams in their sub division
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Originally Posted by
Optimistic Nick
In the final analysis yes. But it affects the approach to games too. We had additional pressure last season just because of our shit gd.
Let's be honest, for relegation fodder like Norwich, losing 1-0 tonight works have been 0.5 points gained against teams in their sub division
Obviously shipping a shedload against anyone isn't good, but in my view if a team has a genuine style of play it's probably best to stick to that as far and as often as possible. I remember the Jacks getting beaten 4-0 at Manchester City in their first Premier League game and the scoreline could have been much bigger. However, they stuck to their style and ended the season in 11th place.
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
We were worse.
We had no intention of attacking a top 6 team in some games last season, almost as if we had already written the game off.
Man City, Utd, Tottenham at home were embarrassing.
The issue was how open our defence was. I thought we did actually attack, well until the game was completely out of sight at least.
We were awful at Bournemouth away first game of the season and were in with a shot of survival really right until Fulham away from home. As long as Norwich don't lost their heads then this result doesn't really matter.
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Originally Posted by
City123
100%, most clubs can write off their games against the "Big 6"
Knowing that, for me teams might as well go for it and see what happens, with some of the chances Norwich crafted they could easily have scored a couple themselves
Couldn't agree more, I turned it off at half time.
Norwich gave it a really good go and created quite a lot of chances and looked really good going forward but they were still 4-0 down at the break.
The Prem is just getting more and more predictable by the year. I can't say I'm going to miss writing off about a third of the fixtures before the season starts.
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What a shit game to televise. Even Norwich at home would have been a mis-match.
The Liverpool love-in has begun :puke:
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MacAdder
What a shit game to televise.
Yeah, what were Sky thinking? I mean, who wants to watch the champions of Europe in action? Ridiculous choice of game....
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The Lone Gunman
Yeah, what were Sky thinking? I mean, who wants to watch the champions of Europe in action? Ridiculous choice of game....
That's a team, not a game. I sometimes go to Wimbledon in the first few days of the competition. Only a mug would go to centre court to watch the stars battering the cannon fodder. You get to watch an actual march if you stick to the outer courts. Anybody daft enough to watch tonight has just seen the number 2 seed win in straight sets. Dull as ****.
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The Lone Gunman
Yeah, what were Sky thinking? I mean, who wants to watch the champions of Europe in action? Ridiculous choice of game....
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm in your reply? :sherlock:
I disagree with your idea that just because a team are European champions your average neutral fan would want to even watch them, let alone put a bunch of newcomers/no hopers to the sword.
My idea of a good game would be to see a fairly even contest, if my team wasn't involved of course, and it ceased to be this after about 10 minutes.
Norwich did have a go to be fair bit only after van Dyke got bored and the strikers also lost interest.
The crux of my post was that Liverpool are back, Kings of Europe, back where they belong, on the nation's TV's as much as possible.
God I can't wait for the premiership season to start proper.... NOT!
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Norwich making the same mistake that Fulham did last year.Just because they outfootballed everyone in the championship last season doesn't mean they can do what Wolves did.Their manager needs to learn that very quickly.
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
We were worse.
We had no intention of attacking a top 6 team in some games last season, almost as if we had already written the game off.
Man City, Utd, Tottenham at home were embarrassing.
We were plucky though.
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Originally Posted by
MacAdder
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm in your reply? :sherlock:
I disagree with your idea that just because a team are European champions your average neutral fan would want to even watch them, let alone put a bunch of newcomers/no hopers to the sword.
My idea of a good game would be to see a fairly even contest, if my team wasn't involved of course, and it ceased to be this after about 10 minutes.
Norwich did have a go to be fair bit only after van Dyke got bored and the strikers also lost interest.
The crux of my post was that Liverpool are back, Kings of Europe, back where they belong, on the nation's TV's as much as possible.
God I can't wait for the premiership season to start proper.... NOT!
Totally agree with your view.
Its also ironic that Liverpool, Champions of Europe haven't even managed to be Champions of England for 30yrs.....oh and counting 🤣🤣. Since they beat us in 2012 to win the League Cup, thats their only trophy, so 1 in seven years. Supppsed to be one of worlds top sides my arse
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Norwich are reported to have only spent £1.1m on transfer fees, bringing 8 players in, including 3 loans. That doesnt indicate to me that they are serious about staying up. Their defence was non existant. Pukki caused Liverpool some problems but Liverpool were playing with them in the second half. If they go on like that, they will be down by Christmas.
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Originally Posted by
MacAdder
What a shit game to televise. Even Norwich at home would have been a mis-match.
The Liverpool love-in has begun :puke:
Sky have Friday night football.
If the game only game tonight was Newcastle Brighton they’d have shown that..