There's no way both Cardiff and Villa catch you, surely?
Norwich reverting to type: sharp as a spoon.
On paper no, however Cardiff play Bristol tomorrow, if they win then it's a six point, plus thanks to Sky we have to play our next three games after Cardiff play theirs.
I saw us draw 0-0 at home to Burton last autumn. We played pretty triangles, but looked too pedestrian and clueless to break down a team that had clearly come for a point. Saturday against Bolton was a carbon copy.
Much of the season has been like that bar the James Maddison wonder goals. We've been told since day one this season that we are in transition and effectively are building for next year. It might keep the season ticket holders at bay for now, but similar performances next time around may not be taken so lightly.
Farke has sorted out our leaky defence from last season, but christ, it's chronic to watch.
I wonder if the loss will kick-off Derby's annual end of season nose dive?
Even by Derby standards, this seasons fall off is shaping up to be something special.
Credit to the board though for actually weakening the side in January when sitting second, definite commitment to not making the Play Offs (FFP reasons obviously)
So, after 4 points from 2 home games, including an always welcome victory against long standing enemy Sheffield United, the postponement today gave the teams below us a chance to catch us. Thankfully, they're currently even worse than us. Yay.
Meanwhile, off pitch stuff continues to baffle and antagonise in equal measure. Another meeting with fans representatives took place on Monday, and neither of the Allams were in attendance, instead 2 recently hired minions told those present that there are moves afoot to drop the use of 'Hull Tigers' and consultation on the badge and the re-introduction of concession prices. All sounding good, yeah? That is until fans were informed that only those currently holding memberships will be consulted, and they're 'in the lifeboat' and do quite nicely out of there being no concessions.
The following day, the club signed a raft of the U-23 squad on professional contracts, and given our track record of producing young players, at least one will make the grade and be given away for peanuts, and the rest will go on to have stellar careers in the Northern Premier League. This was then followed by our longest serving player David Meyler been told that a 1 year contract extension option would not be triggered, and ended up having a spat with the club's Twitter feed. Coupled with most of the more experienced squad members either being in a similar situation (McGregor) or already making it known that they're fucking off (Dawson, Hernandez) its increasingly likely that even if we do stay up, next season's squad will look remarkably different, and will be assembled by a complete dickhead. Happy days.
It's a lot of our older fans, mainly, who get a bit fed up with the younger generation banging on about L***s, and apparently stems from some interesting 'get togethers' at Wigan Casino. Plus the whole Keith Edwards thing.
Derby have taken the lead against QPR, in what a appears to be a less than half full Loftus Road. We have 62% possession and 0 shots on target. Too many of our matches have been like this. It's very demoralising.
This little surge of yours hasn't gone unnoticed, you know. Sneaking up on the rails like a sneaky thing.
I’ll reserve judgement till after the next three games - Millwall (A), Cardiff (H), Middlesbrough (H). Can’t get much tougher than that.
We weren’t very good tonight against Burton, though it wasn’t easy on a bobbly pitch against a team playing for a draw at home. Our first shot on target was our second goal.
Got the tying goal with about five minutes to go. The least we deserved really. Fortunately just about everyone below us lost, so things look a teeny bit more comfortable.
For a sheer nothing event of a season, this will be amongst the pantheon of the most tedious. We've never looked like going down but never in contention to go up either, despite the amount of desperate articles in the local press urging fans to "keep the faith" and that "the play-offs are still within reach" (usually tired, poorly written efforts by local bloggers who have to resort to Delia food clichés and "Let's be 'aving you" regurgitations to pad the piece out).
We were in the top six for a week and the bottom six briefly, but otherwise we have hugged the 12th-15th spots for the vast bulk of the season. I have seen much worse Norwich teams in the past and obviously much better ones, but the football has been the dullest I can genuinely remember. The Chris Hughton reign is the only one that comes close for sheer mind numbing negativity, but this was tempered by the fact we were in the Premier League and usually had to grind out results to survive (at least in his first season before it all went sour).
Amazingly, we have only lost one game since the end of December, but the vast bulk of these matches have been draws, four of them 0-0. The stats read like a First Division table from the mid 1970's. 35 played, 34 scored, 37 conceded. 18 played at home. 17 scored and 17 conceded (5 home wins in total). I could go on with so much more, but it is as dull as it sounds.
(Oh, and Nelson Oliveira. If you can't be arsed yet again, then kindly fuck off and disrupt somewhere else like you should have done last summer)
There's no way both Cardiff and Villa catch you, surely?
Norwich reverting to type: sharp as a spoon.
Having had a pretty uncomfortable evening at quaint old Craven Cottage last night it might not be just those two Wolves have to worry about. If Fulham can maintain the standard they played to last night they aren't going to lose again this season. We did not play badly but we were properly worked over.
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