The CanariesSoccer Match Center for: Trotters @ Canaries

[ThaiCanary]

True, no "controversial" incidents, and no title contenders. But it did have a bearing on the relegation battle. However, as I have argued before, those are pretty pathetic criteria for judging the intrinsic interest of a football match. We lost both centrebacks before half-time, had to play the rest of the game with two right backs in the middle and bring on a right winger to play right back against a very skilful and strong Bulgarian international, and you go along with the idea that it was just "an uncontroversial home win"! I'd say that ours was actually the perfomance of the day and deserved a detailed analysis from the so-called experts.

Yeah right - Change our name to Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham and we might have a chance

[Canary Rob]

True, no "controversial" incidents, and no title contenders. But it did have a bearing on the relegation battle. However, as I have argued before, those are pretty pathetic criteria for judging the intrinsic interest of a football match. We lost both centrebacks before half-time, had to play the rest of the game with two right backs in the middle and bring on a right winger to play right back against a very skilful and strong Bulgarian international, and you go along with the idea that it was just "an uncontroversial home win"! I'd say that ours was actually the perfomance of the day and deserved a detailed analysis from the so-called experts.

I'm not saying I agree with them. I'm just looking at it from their point of view, and I think Norwich are very low on their list of priorities. We're now into anonymous mid-table territory- if we take a big scalp, we'll be on early. If it's a 4-3 thriller, we'll be on early, otherwise no one will want to know. It's the relegation and title battles that matter to the pundits now. I think we should be happy in being under the radar, I don't need Anal Shearer and Mark Lackingsome to tell me how well we played yesterday

[robbieBB]

I'm not saying I agree with them................

Apologies Rob. Just jumped on my hobby horse. In my book "Match of the Day" should mean what it says and the headline match should be the one of most intrinsic interest from a football perspective. The criteria the programmers use are all extrinsic to the matches themselves -- viewing figures, fan base, top or foot of table, and so on.