Match Day Thread Unofficial match thread for Norwich (ko Sat 20th 3pm)

I am not convinced. This will be a very tight match. If we win by the odd goal I will be very pleased.

 

Wasn't he from Norwich?

Oh hang on, that was Bernard Mathews

 

Looks like Redmond became a father today (not sure if it's his first), so I don't know if that effects anything.

 

Just his celebration if he scores I’d imagine

 

Let's do this, 1-3

 

I’m going for another clean sheet here. 0-2 win.

 

I'm sure you've been wondering.

Dishwasher went excellent.

1-4

 

Agreed, Smith would quite happily take a 0-0 here you'd think.

He has only had a few days with the squad so will probably send them out to just keep it tight at the back and try and get a point.

1-0 Saints Adam Armstrong with the goal

 

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You mean he may possibly have been fathering children all over the place that he doesn't know about. ****ing hell he'll be standing for Prime Minister next.

 

Haha

It seems more like it is because it is not on his wiki page. And some small suggestion that a player might be more likely to take time off to be with the partner for the birth of the first child than later ones ?

 

Did you stuff them?

 

Tino 3rd most fouled player in EPL, 3rd most fouled defender in Europe ...

PLAYER FOULS WON
Wilfried Zaha 31
Ismaila Saar 31
Tino Livramento 26
Ivan Toney 24
Jack Grealish 22
Andros Townsend 22
John McGinn 21
Allan Saint-Maximin 21
Max Aarons 20
Conor Gallagher 20

and here's why The Ralph hasn't played him in midfield ...

"Receiving the ball deep in his own half, the 19-year-old often has a clear picture of the pitch ahead. And this normally results in there being a good amount of space down Southampton’s right flank, should he skip past the oncoming challenges"

(Article in The Athletic)

 

Just saw someone post this on twitter:

‘Can’t believe he hit the target… He must have been aiming somewhere else!’

 

The Ralph ...

“We’re preparing for our game to be tactically as flexible as possible. We have been this in the past and I think this makes more sense than to concentrate on any shape or particular habis from the opponent because you don’t know what you get"

I think in the past we have all seen that we lacked this and were consequently often great first half and struggled 2nd following tactical changes from the opposition
Ralph knows his players better, they know how he wants them to play better, some better players and therefore an ability to adjust according to circumstances

COYS - Surely we can win this

I hope any of you who are there, get entertained

(I'm off to watch Weymouth play Altrincham this afternoon COYT)

 

Given Norwich picked up their first win of the season last time out and have the positivity of a fresh start under a new manager you’d imagine they’ll be pumped up for this from the start. The players and the fans. Think it’s important we match their intensity for the first 15 minutes or so, don’t concede and hopefully our quality will show over the course of the game. COYR!

 

Hopefully Normann has a quiet game for them, been very impressed with him when I’ve watched Norwich

 

Hopefully we can take this opportunity to make Dean Smith really hate Southampton

 

Yep. That will teach him for taking Danny.

Danny who?