Agreed, but it’s the sort of ****housery that successful teams in the Premier League use regularly. We have to go toe to toe on this stuff.
I know, Rob, and I hate it. It happened in the USA vs Mexico game last night. A player rolling on the round like his leg was broken but play continues and as soon as the ball comes his way he's up like a jackrabbit. I love Cantwell but stays down way too long after getting knocked over while play goes on.
Just as the positive vibes return to Carrow Rd, the club decides now would be a great time to mess about with the badge
I hope there's going to be a public vote on that. The badge is part of the club's identity. One possibility is the simplified badge used on the away kit with just the Canary sitting on the ball. I suppose that's similar to Spurs' cockerel and some of the other 'modernised' badges, but it seems to take the 'City' element out of the club's image to suit the kit manufacturers and make us more 'stylish'. In any case, the decision has been put off because of all that's going on now and the new badge won't be used until next season. https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city/modernisation-of-ncfc-crest-put-on-hold-8504252
I just did a back of a fag packet calculation of how we did in corresponding fixtures in our season where we finished 12th in 2011/12. For these purposes I counted the rank of the team the season before as equivalents - so for 2011/12, playing Manchester United (1st place in 2010/11) is the equivalent of playing Manchester City this season. I made QPR the equivalent of Watford and Swansea the equivalent of Brentford. Interestingly, if you do that, we won nine points in equivalent fixtures. So only four points ahead of where we are now - we beat QPR at home (but lost to Watford) and drew with Arsenal away (hammered by Chelsea…) - and we would still be in the relegation zone. So if we manage the Lambert equivalent performances for points from our remaining fixtures we would end this season on 43 points…
That's dedication to the cause Rob! It gives some substance to my feeling that the 'weight' of fixtures so far has been against us. Add to that 9 new players, mostly from abroad and needing to adjust to the squad and the PL and the scope for improvement seems considerable. We could have had a point against Leicester and another against Leeds as well. Then there's the new manager bounce to give a lift following on from the first win. Are you going to keep your comparative table going Rob?
Those early fixtures were in my opinion the killer. With the exception of Watford they produced exactly what I expected . Two pints from ten games. It's wrong that the fixtures are allowed to come out like that.
Totally agree with all of that. Those first four defeats eroded confidence when the Watford game came around. Brentford were fortunate to get Arsenal at home when the gunners were in a mess. That added to the adrenalin of first time promotion and carried them through the early games, but now the adrenalin is dropping and they've taken 1 point from the last five games in a confidence sapping slide as their lead over us has dropped from 10 to 5 points.
Man Utd are after a new manager too, just checked, they're not playing the Saints- Dean Smith is safe with us
From what I remember of the consultation, a lot of it was to do with what the fans thought was central to the club's visual identity. The canary, the castle, lion, ball, crest shape, etc. But also Delia, cooking, yellow/green. I suspect there's an aim to simplify the design as you said.
Promotion obviously a factor in this, but an interesting stat highlighting the degree of change in our squad. Anyone want a stab at naming the 37 NCFC players to make league appearances in the last 365 days?
Krul McGovern Barden Aarons Mumba Gibson Hanley Zimmerman Omobamidele Kabak Quintilla Gianoulis Williams Sorensen Placheta Skipp McLean Rupp Tettey Vrancic Gilmour Normann Lees-Melou Cantwell Tzolis Martin Hernandez Stiepermann Dowell Buendia Hernandez Pukki Hugill Idah Sargent
Bravo to all for that accounting! Back to this season, we now have one point more than after 12 games of 2019-20 and we're level with Worthy's class of 2004-05 at this point, but still 5 points behind Lambert's survival season of 2011-12 and 6 behind Hughton's 2012-13 after 12 games when we were in the ten game unbeaten run.
We need six points from every five game tranche. That would take us to 38 with one game spare. Currently it looks like the teams above the bottom three are running at around a point per game. So it looks like 38 ish will be a requirement for survival.