Rudd’s kicking was nothing short of unthoughtful, mis directed and generally poor!

This could be overlooked perhaps, however, Morison needs a reality check if he wants to play at this level.

Body language is actually disrespectful to our club, effort is questionable, ability massively questionable and attitude is disgraceful!

Could anyone explain how a professional footballer can not cross a ball, keep the ball in play when running the line, has a touch like an under 10′s football team, looks like he doesn’t want to be there, expects the ball to come to him!

I could go on, ….sell him for god sake!

Cant string 2 passes together. Players look bored…..you have to ask why hoolahanis picked in midfield against a massively in form sunderland.

Rooney, van persie, silva, aguero etc huckerby in his prime with his immense pace, all are such a delight to watch.

I find myself feeling the same lately about grant holt! its weird, who would of thought that the drubbing by (now minnows ha ha) colchester utd would include one Grant Holt who would go on to be a legend at this club!

The big man is exciting to watch for the neutral i believe, great credit to the man for having the desire and drive to be fitter and better!

I want a statue of Holt and Lambert next to each other, i want it gold!

I could not agree more, to many clubs up their own backside and i’m not being funny here guys, but our club is very guilty of that!

How can players and fans feel more connected rather than worlds apart? Perhaps its the money these players earn that buts the divide between us. I remember my nanny telling me stories where she would go out drinking with the players after the game and that some of the players were avoided cause they were just boring!

Ha ha, how times have changed in just 40 years, different world!

Another Dean Ashton masked transfer sage unfolding?

If this is to be true, how do you feel?

Andy Carol for Liverpool so far has been nothing short of absolute rubbish, now after witnessing such a display from Tottenham last week against us, Gareth Bale obviously stood out like a sore thumb as an immense talent.

If Carol is worth £35 million then we have a £350 million player in the shape of Bale because believe me he is 10 times a better footballer than Andy Carol!

Andy Carol was so poor at Man City this evening that the Man City fans were cheering, that’s right you read correctly, cheering not jeering every time he completed a pass.

That is embarrassing!

Makes me happy mind you, i rated Kenny as a player but as a manager he hasn’t got a clue im afraid, maybe a few years ago in the lime light of the Liverpool greatness he acquired a superb team and ran it well, but in terms of buying in the right players for a club, i’m not convinced at all.

Anybody else think the same?

Now down to 10 i think city will win 3 – 1!

there we go guys, its a really good stream!

Not only his goals, but his sheer mad man like bullet running all game.

Just an absolute legend at this club.

Hoolahan, was the missing player that Newcastle needed today, cabaye should have been that player, but we crowded him out and chased him down!

Tactically, agreed with everything Paul Lambert did today, spot on!

Excuse me Alan but your team were the worst team to visit here this season in the first half and apart from Demba Ba, you looked like a very average championship side!

Granted, second half Newcastle were much better! But it surely could not have got any worse for them!

I do not expect an opposing manager to praise us but i do expect the manager to not totally lie out of his teeth.

Does anybody else agree with Pardew?

Maybe i was watching a different game?

Theo was very good today, made all of teirneys positional play which so far has been great the season look non existent.

V.Persie was on another planet. Its like when ur 10 years old and one kid in the play ground is heads and tails above the rest. He made controlling a football look second nature all game. Lovely to watch.

R.Martin although excellent at times, awful for the goal. We had a shocking show in the first half of barnett etc trying to play pretty ambitious football at the back and luckily getting away with it. I.e Gervinhios one on one. We just didnt learn from it.

Morison was like a statue second half. I was trying to understand his performance but still i can not. He looked like hed given up. Not a usual Paul Lambert attitude. Bit dissapointing.

Massive effort from Ruddy. He was heroic today and for me…kept the score down!

Predictions anyone?

Watching QPR tonight, they have an amazing ability in the centre with Barton and even old boy Derry!

Ok before you lot wave your hands in my face pointing out the financial situation, im not saying i want Joey Barton or we can afford it, but why did we not get Lansbury or Pacheco back?

Players that i feel would have made a massive difference with their creativity!

Sickening, Foster clearly had his hands on the ball! FOUL!

I hate Stoke and Wigan!

And as for Russel Martin, he looked lost, like a school boy in a men’s game for the first time!

Shocking!

I though he was tired, slow and hefty against parma, but then he scored a well taken goal!

Again, the Wigan game he looked out of shape, tired etc. The fact the guy needs his mutt cut is a slight concern too!

How many games will Lambert give him?

Is he too slow?

Does he just need time?

Just some thoughts passed around after the Wigan game Saturday, i wanted to get a good opinion on him so far!

Just catching up with everything over last 5 weeks or so, excited by the season ahead.

Really enjoyed reading back through everyone’s posts and opinions, cheers everyone.

I suppose it all starts to kick off from here in!

Just never looked like we can put together a good attack over the 3 games!

Is this the future of English football?

Bloody hope not, what a load of tosh!

Coventry pretty much only team that would give him a chance, he turns around and verbally agrees a new contract and then f***s of to Birmingham!

Interesting thing is, Marlon King is a complete W***er and unloyal and yet Roberto Martinez has shown amazing loyalty today by staying with Wigan, supposedly a lovely bloke!

Chalk and Cheese!

It was a Villa fan on sky sports news that said he admires Lambert and would be very chuffed if they got him!

With Villa running out of options it does make me a little edgy! Doubt he would leave, but the wolves are sniffing!

The animal kind not football club kind!

Designers have tried to make it far too classy and its ended up looking far too busy!

Really really let down I have to say!

Also why does the ncfc official site display really crap images, I couldn’t make the images out on my phone!

Dont rate the guy at all. Hes a poacher yes, but i see nothing in him to suggest he is a top tier player.

I trust the man but i dont think its a fair reflection of our real thoughts to keep agreeing with everthing he does.

I think Vaughan is a really 50/50 signing. I know some palace fans who are shocked thst he is here. They didnt rate him!!!!!

Of course i hope he does well but are we guilty of being to nice on here a bit?

However i feel you need a blend of both, a big name that currently plays in the prem week in week out and consistently performs well will always raise the excitement of the season ahead.

Players like Mackail-Smith, Elokobi etc are good examples of one lower league players who are more than equipped to play at the middle to lower end of the prem, its just a case of getting out there and finding them!

What do you think? Experience, youth, a blend of both, a few “has been’s” thrown in?

What a super player he is, would be class to get a player with that amount of ability and experience.

Still upset about our result at reading this season, however, rather reading go through than Cardiff!

For me, this seasons best footballing sides were in order of:

1.Swansea
2.Norwich
3.Reading or Forest
4.QPR

So it is fitting Swansea should get a good go at going up! Swansea or Reading?

I don’t mind, here is to a great play off final!

A note for the board also, ive never been a Delia fan to be honest, but she has proved me wrong by sticking by this club!

Also Mcnally is also a very inspirational tuff nosed businessman, thank you for a great two seasons.

And thank you admin for providing a truly stunning forum this season! Been very impressed with what you’ve done, please don’t sell this site!

OnTheBallCity!

People are branding us as the new Man Utd of the championship, which in reality is saying we are a bit lucky although realistically it is more of a desire and never say die attitude!

I also heard that we tried to land Graham and Shane Long but were too much money!

A real true gritty performance, so so so chuffed!

Jackson you are a legend.

CARDIFF FANS ARE APPARENTLY FURIOUS!

Yet again for the second time today Norwich have been played down or not even mentioned!

Throughout the whole of the Cardiff Vs Qpr game all we heard about was cardiff getting promoted, even after they drew there was a slight mention of Norwich being in a good position.

Part of me cant help but think that if Sheff Utd was in 2nd place this evening that they would be talked about a lot more!

Phil Brown just said on Sky “We have a big game against cardiff who are automatic promotion favourites”?????

What the hell are you on Brown, there is a little team called Norwich F***ing City that hold second spot and are looking much more likely to go up than Cardiff!

I really am sick of it and before anybody dares answer this with a “well we are the small unknown team etc”…dont bother cause weve been the silent assasins for too long now.

Even if we dont get automatic, give us some bloody praise for god sake!

One really P***ed off canary!

I truly believe that if Paul Lambert guides city to a win away at Ipswich and takes us up this season yet again, he will go down as one of the greatest managers in our clubs history!

Personaly i felt our creativity dropped by 70% without wes. You really can tell the difference without him. Holt is trying to his heart out but he lookef a little confused as to where the next decent ball was coming from.

Im not sure what the hell happened to Tierny and Crofts. Both massively underperformed with crofts looking like an awkward two left feet sunday park player.

Dont get me wrong. Im fans of both players but yesterday they looked clueless.

All in all. We will beat forest. We will beat Watford. We will go up automaticaly and if we dont. I fancy us in the play offs any how!

Heres to an amazing season so far. Let us re group and go again tuesday night.

By the way does anybody know why peter the pratt beagrie hates norwich so much?

Otbc.

I think the handling of Wayne Rooneys celebrations has been sickening.

Whilst Rooney has not done himself any favours being exploited by the dirty media, he is also a person who makes mistakes!

He has been slated over the last 6 months or so, perhaps even since the world cup, from t.v pundits, managers, ex prem players etc…. shaming Rooney for his performances.

The guys has had to suck it all up and take it on the chin, rightly so i hear you say….mmmmmm…..really?

Still a young man, still learning the game, still a thug from a chavy council estate from the slums of Liverpool!

A leopard never changes its spots, Rooney will always be a hot head, but a hot head in the sense he loves the game.

How many times will i have to watch match of the day and watch hangers on, players who want their pay check, players who used to be something (robert pirez!). passionless players!!!!!!

Rooneys hunger for the game is not questionable, I love the way the guy plays and swearing at the camera after scoring a hat trick is worthy of this over hyped media scam? No way!

I just feel it is so easy to get on a players back because they earn so much money and we should expect them to behave according to it!

When he scores a hat trick, he loses it a little and shouts out about it! I just can not see how this is deemed that bad!

What about fining the tv stations for repeatedly showing it, hyping it up and making a bloody meal out of it!

Just crazy. Tried to take the shine off of holt but imo holts hat trick was crafted much better.

Happy for jackson but still questions over his ability against the top defenders in this league.

Yet……..we cant attract quality here?

Bloody Leicester get Yakubu and Kamara on loan, what the hell? They were torn to shreds in their own back yard by none other than the mighty city and yet we still cant attract anyone?

All this fuss over sven, who cares….Leicester are going nowhere!

What do you think?

Come on city!

Now can we beat our sky curse this Monday night? If we were away i would be slightly more confident which is just crazy really!

Wilbraham to pick up his confidence now and start to score?

Wes to show the home fans just how well he can continue to play at home?

Holt to work as hard as he does no matter when and where he plays?

OTBC

Mid fielders of Ipswich were prepared to whole heatedly shoot outside of the area.

Crofts apart……we dont do that!

There was nothing wrong with that referee today, in no way the worst ref i have ever seen!

As for Wes’s pen, wake up wes, you are not Henry.

In all honesty Norwich were very good, you can not knock them at all and as for the all round booing, im not sure why you would boo!

Holt and Hoolahan are both guilty of bad choices today which did cost us the game! But how many times have they pulled us out of a situation and also been the heroes?

Look at today, Preston never looked like scoring at all, yet when they did, heads went up and holt came up with the goods!

Just not good enough!

Time is a wonder so whilst im not hanging the poor bloke im not liking what im seeing so far!

Possibly Lamberts strangest choice so far!

Sick of sky sports showing his west country mug all over the screen, he sits their being sarcastic, rude to reporters and other premiership managers pretty much every interview.

Tactical from him perhaps?

I actually think he is doing a quality job on the field and the fine he received from F.A is a joke!

This time last year he was an emerging championship player who was handed the chance of regular first team football, even by the end of last season with 18 goals he couldn’t be worth much more than 3 – 3.5million!

4 months into the premiership season his worth is x 11?

Torres only worth 15m more than him and yet he has world cup winner medal, european championship experience, champions league experience, not to mention 5-6 season at the very highest level in England and Spain.

If Carol is worth 35m then Torres is worth 100m.

This scream panic buy from Queen Kenny!

Sorry I am just sickened to understand football fees any more!

It was incredibly coincidental that my girlfriend said ro me on Sunday “im really not kean on women officials it just doesnt feel right”. I infact turned to her and disagreed although we both agreed that female commentators sounded like they were trying to read lines from spielbergs next big movie and it just did not work.

I know quite a few women who feel much more comfortable with male officials.

After all i like most hold my hands up to a little foul language here and there but it just doesnt feel right to aim that towards a woman.

Andy Gray is a scapegoat for Sky wanting to introduce a new regime, a fresh face of football commentary.

The scottish accents personaly grates on me but Andy Gray was different.

Sky sports will never replace his passionate commentary. I.e Sam Alladyce on this Monday nights football. He sounded hacked off.

Rip Mr Gray

I think it would look great and I like many would surely be super proud to wear one, what are the chances?

Anybody else agree?

The source is normally quite good but its just a rumour for now of course.

Big Sam another casualty after the crazy crazy crazy sacking of poor old Houghton at Newcastle.

Yet the Martinez the Wigan manager is still in charge?

Second half pompey piped up and had a go at us, we looked totaly shocked! A very fit side were pompey, chasing everything down to the last whistle!

Simon Lappin was an absolute disgrace, im not one to criticise a player trying for me team and try he does but his ability is far below average for this league!

All in all well done Pompey, clever play!

We always go on about results but the was as convincing as it gets!

I still dislike robbie savage! Total C**k!

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I’m calling for Mr “Norwich and Lambert are a joke, Gunn was king and wasn’t given enough time to show what he could do”.

Are you alive Yellow trench coat wearer?

But since Danny Murphy’s plea for all other players to stop going in hard (next he will be asking for plimsolls as boot replacements).

Now every ref seems to be on fire, they cant wait to pull out the card, I cringe every time there is a hint of a tackle, purely because of the ref’s reactions!

Yes I am bitter about Saturdays joke of a ref, but this seems to be spreading to all leagues!

Danny Murphy you may have just entered the game into non contact sport consideration for 2011!

My friends that play rugby always laugh at me for following a so called bunch of nancies kicking a ball around!

What next? Simon Lappin in a nice frilly white leotard and matching ballet shoes?

Sorry, one very frustrated, p*s*ed off canary!

Just like Charlton last season, were out to prove a point. Reading can be tidy and we must watch our for the quick thinking Long, under rated striker, give him a sniff and he will punish you.

I’m so bloody upset about it,

Looking to go down everytime he should be challenging for the ball in the air.

Simeone Jackson was also poor but with nothing to feed on….i.e grant holts flicks and layoffs…. its very tough for him.

Holt needs to reinvent his game at this level. We need much more than a statue winning free kicks in and around the area.

With Holt l hit and miss and looking a little down on our luck. Paul Lambert needs to earn his money and get the boys up for this tough game.

However, almost every conversation without fail brings to a head whether Chris Martin is good enough at this level.

Now I personally say give the lad some time, it is not as if his performances have been woeful…so I was interested to hear your thoughts on this matter?

OTBC

On to Tuesday!

Hopefully he has a stinker cause i can not honestly see our midfield dealing with him in full form!

Just what the hell are the club doing, appointing mediocre boss Hodgson was nothing short of disaster and a desperate attempt to try and get a manager in on the cheap!

Managers like Hodgson work well with teams on shoe string budgets grinding out the odd unexpected result here and there, but Liverpool? Seriously.

Liverpool sign players like Koncheski whilst Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea etc are buying up bigger names and yet Liverpool still seem to hope for the same success.

Hull are just awful, Forest are making them look very poor indeed!

Temporary blip or not up to this standard?

Preston next and it is perhaps fair to say that after the superb away performance against Burnley at the weekend, Norwich will need to be tacticaly and mentally much better prepared for this one.

Massively underrated team that play good football, score lots of goals away from home and seem fearless at home.

Our fans are so out of reach of the limelight staff and players.

Watching the football league show just proves that other clubs are much more open and warming.

Even the staff in the ticket office try and look down on u.

Sort it out Norwich.

Keep out the kids and keep up the good work admin!

I hope we can continue from our form against Forest and take it through to the games ahead!

No more tv games though please Sky! They never do us justice!

Make yourselves heard and report back after the game, looking forward to your mobile phone reports!

In my opinion Norwich were second rate for most of the game, only showing glimpses of looking confident on the ball for brief moments of the game.

Ward was quite excellent throughout and Holt always looked full of effort.

Midfield was completely out of sorts today, Hoolahan with miss placed passes, Crofts going missing most of the game. As for Corey Smith, he tried his heart out but looked lost at times.

Ruddy was fantastic, not just for the save but for the whole of the game.

I made comments regarding Ruddy not having that special element to his game, I do not mind admitting that i may have been very hasty in my verdict on him so early.

Super finish from our Canadian friend!

Playing like this won’t earn us many points however, let us not take away the fact of a good win!

The guy is looking great, sharp, fit and still so full of effort down to the last whistle.

So Manchester City can still pay his 100k per week wage bill and loan him out for free? How can the football league allow this to happen?

I think every football club in the league should complain, would I want him back here? yes I would, but at the same time by default of scandalous controversy like this, then no!

He acts like a spoilt kid, he id nothing but a miserable milionaire.

Still questions on Ruddy and Nelson.

Time will tell.

Ward is def one of those to me, seems that some city fans will try and mask fitness down to actual ability!

Why do clubs always break up winning teams infear that they MIGHT not be good enough?

I would have played the same team for the first 4-5 games to see how they cope. If not then bring in the new faces accordingly.

martin i take my hat off, worked hard all game.

I am going for a convincing 2-1 Victory!

I have thought it for years, especially when he is trying to get his point across on canary call and a caller is trying to batter him!

“Yeah i know what your saying and i agree with ya!”

Love it! Neil Adams for Sheriff!

He would be my surprise player for the season ahead!