Numero Uno

Quality, but I think you'll have to go some to beat Kent Boys 2 Rent Boys 0 which I think was another one of yours?

We do have a long way to go. Everyone knows (or bloody well should do) that and we've all been told that enough times by the management. We aren't a top 6 side but we have shown more than enough to think that we won't be a struggling one either.

Lost to a better side than us, just go through their team man for man, wage for wage, but still competed. Not going to ruin my weekend.

Massengo knows what he's got to do if he wants more regular appearances. It's been explained clearly enough many times.

I think they might have to wait a few more weeks before they overtake Portsmouth......................

I think that's what a few of the posters starting to panic need to realise.

I would say 1-1 away to a better side than us with a £90m head start on us is ok rather than pathetic accepting that the goal conceded was poor.

The question is can we defend well enough until the hour mark and bring the “finisher” Semenyo on?

Credit to Naismith……..that was a delivery.

Right lads, nice and solid at the back, take the point……

Didn’t need commands there. Atkinson just had to cover the space or close down and the lad can’t score.

Look at that Alex Scott video of Wednesday doing the rounds on Twitter. That’s how you pass the ball. Pretty patterns are useless and, as you say, boring after a while without end product.

I don't think many people are saying we are the finished article by any stretch and I can agree with your view of how we played for "a spell" under Johnson. It is a fact though that it is a number of YEARS since our side has last played any football that we, as fans, can get excited about. As I said originally, we are as frustrating as hell at times (the defending and throwing away late points) BUT I'm not going to throw my toys out over that when I compare what we are attempting to do right now against the last 3-4 seasons of dirge. From the post-match comments, you just know that Norwich fans, management and players alike thought they were in for a pretty comfortable evening on Wednesday and it didn't materialise. Smith described us as the "bravest" side to go there so far and I realise that is also a way of saying "I wouldn't do that" but looking at our squad it is simply a case of Nige being pragmatic. The next step is to retain the bravery and reduce the errors. If (big word) that happens then we could have a very good season. To those (I think it was one person) who say "I would rather a diabolical 1-0 win over a 3-3 draw" I have a money saving tip......buy yourself a ******* newspaper on a Sunday instead. and save yourself the bother of having to sit through it. It's meant to be enjoyment not endurance.

…….if they can see the lads putting in a shift and the management going about the game the right way. We appear to have both right now and that is the result of 18 months or so hard work from Nige, his staff and players alike. We now have a team that might be frustrating but is certainly worth getting off your arse and watching. I was as pissed off as anyone at full time seeing us lose that last night but cast your mind back to the majority of the last 3-4 years and what we have been served up has been shocking. How can you get annoyed when you see what we served up last night? We have youngsters like Scott, Conway and Semenyo who fans of other clubs look at and think “they can play” but we also have a centre half who is Franz Beckenbauer one minute and Frank Spencer the next. Boring it ain’t. To see a team go away from home to a club given every advantage by parachute payments and take the game to them, bollocks to sitting back, and outplay them for long periods with some lovely passing football is something we just haven’t seen since Cotterill steamrollered League 1. If you can’t enjoy our approach and way of playing now you need to find a different sport to watch. Frustrating yes, entertaining yes and long may it continue.

First defeat in 9 and this is what we get……

What I will say is putting errors to one side after years of shithousing results away from home after getting battered whenever we play a decent side isn’t it refreshing to see us taking the game to a good side on their own patch and outplaying them for decent periods. We might be getting carried away with our start to the season but it is clear we are heading in the right direction whatever else happens tonight.

How can you blame Vyner when the other centre half has gifted them two goals?

Naismith just cannot stop making mistakes.

Only if he's changed colour.

Wasn’t Joey meant to have overtaken the PE Teachers by now?

Suicidal against a decent fielding side.

I think most of us will pay our respects tbf. Some are merely questioning why playing football is disrespectful whereas playing rugby isn’t? Surely it should be all out or none out if respect is the prime issue here?

I’m not sure the game was called off by the Police anyway tbh and it would be interesting to know what the increased risk would be tomorrow if it was. I have no issue with the game being called off as a mark of respect but on the grounds of public safety would be very odd imo. What will be interesting is how many empty seats there are at the rugger tomorrow due to people refusing to go to pay their respects at home or the inconvenience of the game being moved when people have made other plans.

That’s not a valid reason in this instance. We were home to Preston. Tbh it’s no big deal to me but as others have said playing a game of rugby when the football should have been on is absurd. Sport as a whole should either go ahead or be cancelled, no cherry picking.

If a prominent black person died and a white person previously convicted of racism against a Police Officer tweeted the equivalent they WOULD lose their job and be labelled a racist for life. You either believe in equality or you don’t, it can’t be one sided. What he’s posted is incitement (not everyone will react but enough will). If he gets fired he can have no complaints.