Barclays Premier League 13/14 Thread Part 'x'

[Duty281]

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And Hoddle's ex girlfriend was this faith healer's daughter...isn't love sweet?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Words cannot describe how much of tw@t of a ref Michael Oliver is. Always makes himself the star of the show in these games

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Well we've had three great chances from great pieces of football, shame its been interspersed with complete sh!t

God I wish we could just stick it in the net

[mystiroakey]

Good game at Cardiff. Enjoying it.

Jones is a real find for Cardiff. Really strong lad , can hold it up and get through challenges .not bad skillz either .

Not sure why Stoke got rid after watching his first 3 games at Cardiff .

[Guest]

Jones is not really a find, he's a known entity in this league. That's the problem with Jones. Finds a new club, plays well & can out-muscle defences & then he goes missing for 6-12 months & is offloaded. He's also got an attitude problem & managers fall out with him. He's got the attributes but will never utilise them on a consistant basis to become anything spectacular.

0-1 Chelsea. Mourinho's horse is galloping along nicely.

[mystiroakey]

Jones is a hold up player and ideal for Cardiff.. If he keeps it up the great signing..Don't expect him to score. He isn't that type of player.. Last 3 games he has played well and I can't see why that will change. But I think pulis agrees with you john as he clearly knows him and didn't bother trying to get him , but at the moment he does seem better than Chamack.

[The Special Juan]

Jones is not really a find, he's a known entity in this league. That's the problem with Jones. Finds a new club, plays well & can out-muscle defences & then he goes missing for 6-12 months & is offloaded. He's also got an attitude problem & managers fall out with him. He's got the attributes but will never utilise them on a consistant basis to become anything spectacular.

0-1 Chelsea. Mourinho's horse is galloping along nicely.

Sounds disturbingly like Adebayor. He and Jones are very, very similar.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

This is one of those rare occasions where we are creating chances, but we just can't stick it in the net

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Elmander coming on.

You've got to be kidding me Hughton

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

And he's taken off Hooper. Good god

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

What a save by Ruddy

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

And now he's taking off Redmond for Pilkington despite Redmond being our best player and Snodgrass being utter dross.

I'm perplexed

[Guest]

Seriously? Another 0-0 to add to the Hughton collection. Abysmal viewing, where's the rope?

[Guest]

oh dear!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

AND YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE UP THE INITIATIVE

[Ent]

Not a lot of goals about tonight.

[compelling and rich]

heres one for you olly, im sure you'll enjoy....

Anthony Pilkington comes on for Nathan Redmond for Norwich. It's about time a Chris Hughton sub did something - of more than 60 Norwich changes this season, nobody has scored or contributed an assist. Yet...

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I'm just at a complete loss for words

[Guest]

Hughton must go surely. It's a no-brainer. Scoring no goals, astonishingly strange, non-effective substitutions & another defeat. Only heading in one direction......

[The Special Juan]

Marshall!! What a save!!

[Ent]

So many terrible sides in the pl currently.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Just get the f*ck out of my football club how many times

[Fernando]

Just got wanked on by Diame

#NodgeGoingDownAndHard

[GSC]

Hughton usually wins these games to survive. Would think its time for him to go now

[westisbest]

Much better performance from us, but we should have put 2 or 3 past them.

Gabby taking to long for his shot.
Weimann at the end shoud have side footed it it.
Great save.
We'll curse that for a while.

Good second half performance, but very frustrating.

[Guest]

BBC angry Norwich fan - Chris Hughton has spent 18 months ripping the heart and soul out of a talented team that Lambert built. His tactics and team selection are dreadful and he shows no inspiration or motivation to the players. The board need to act now and dismiss him before it is too late. Save us Malky!

Olly, Ashley sacked Hughton after a defeat to West Brom. It's in the opposition name........

[GSC]

Sounds like West Brom are putting Chelsea under real pressure

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

His time to go was months ago, but we've dawdled for no apparent reason, we've been f*cking useless for the whole of 2013, clear to see for everyone. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Fernando]

Sounds like West Brom are putting Chelsea under real pressure

Sounds like Luiz just tore the shirt off Anichebe in the box without giving a pen away

[GSC]

Still can't see where West Broms goals are coming from. Need a smash and grab again

[GSC]

Anichibe 1-1

Cahill and Terry injured

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Couldnt have played worse, thankfully Norwich are very bad where it matters. Redmond alone is good. To be fair to Hughton, hes bought players you'd expect could shoot, but they're all suddenly bad at it. Draw would have been fair, but after the way we bossed them at Carrow Road for 45 minutes and then melted down I think we deserve a little luck. Never really felt Norwich were playing well either, just that we were playing bad. Having the bench options and the grit we have, we can force something in scraps.

Both keepers were excellent until Ruddy tried to catch Collins' head not the ball.

[GSC]

Tbf I often get mixed up between Collins head and a ball

[GSC]

FT and Chelsea drop points

[Fernando]

WBA 1-1 Chelsea FT

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I'm not gonna blame Hughton for the missed chances, we should've scored at least once, but West Ham were not in that game in the second half, we're well on top and actually creating chances for once, and you take off Hooper for someone who couldn't score if you put him one yard out with nobody in the goal and then take off Redmond who is scaring the life out of Demel and causing problems.

Still I guess he's finally made some subs that have changed a game!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Cutting Edge. Norwich don't have it.
Momentum. West Ham have it - they are up to 10th. It is good that Sam Allardyce wasn't sacked because he has a good record of keeping teams up.

[Guest]

Mourinho dropping points will hurt. I wonder if Juan Mata can hurt Arsenal tomorrow night & minimise the effect of drawing tonight.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

At this point I'd be more confident with the Aviva Lemur in charge of our team

[Guest]

Sunderland have a difficult run in too probably more difficult than Norwich except the difficult matches are not all pushed to the end.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

We've got 11 days until our next game.

Plenty of time to get a new manager to work with the players for a few days.

Just read we've only scored more than one goal in a game 3 times in the league all season. And we've failed to score in 11 games out of the 26 so far. 1 win in about 12 games now.

How just how is he still in a job

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Chris what were the reasons for your subs tonight

"Fresh legs"

       

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Singaband4Ingerland ‏@singaband
Hughton: "We can only keep doing what we're doing"...

how about no

[Dolphin Ziggler]

I'm not gonna blame Hughton for the missed chances, we should've scored at least once, but West Ham were not in that game in the second half, we're well on top and actually creating chances for once, and you take off Hooper for someone who couldn't score if you put him one yard out with nobody in the goal and then take off Redmond who is scaring the life out of Demel and causing problems.

Still I guess he's finally made some subs that have changed a game!!!!!!!!

We were in the game, thats the problem. You were never really good enough to have us out of it. Even the big chance Hooper had was down to some ridiculous defending. And if you count the chances I would say the clear cut ones were level, probably a little stronger to us in the second half. Adrian was better than Ruddy come the end, on the night. Great distribution mind, Ruddy is the playmaker.

Came into the last ten and with Diame and Nocerino fresh I just felt like the only team that would nick it was us. Quality cross and quick thinking takes the goal.

Redmond justified much of the hype btw, had to have two on him, every time we didnt Demel couldnt have the pace. Fine with Redmond back to goal, but if we was exposed theres not a lot he could do.

[Guest]

If Norwich do get relegated (must be about a 65% chance they will) - will they be safe financially - or did they overspend in the summer?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

If Norwich do get relegated (must be about a 65% chance they will) - will they be safe financially - or did they overspend in the summer?

We're debt free (bar what we owe to Delia, which aint a lot now), we sell out every week, we're in in a pretty damn safe financial position

[GSC]

Best tell Delia to warm up the oven

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I'm not gonna blame Hughton for the missed chances, we should've scored at least once, but West Ham were not in that game in the second half, we're well on top and actually creating chances for once, and you take off Hooper for someone who couldn't score if you put him one yard out with nobody in the goal and then take off Redmond who is scaring the life out of Demel and causing problems.

Still I guess he's finally made some subs that have changed a game!!!!!!!!

We were in the game, thats the problem. You were never really good enough to have us out of it. Even the big chance Hooper had was down to some ridiculous defending. And if you count the chances I would say the clear cut ones were level, probably a little stronger to us in the second half. Adrian was better than Ruddy come the end, on the night. Great distribution mind, Ruddy is the playmaker.

Came into the last ten and with Diame and Nocerino fresh I just felt like the only team that would nick it was us. Quality cross and quick thinking takes the goal.

Redmond justified much of the hype btw, had to have two on him, every time we didnt Demel couldnt have the pace. Fine with Redmond back to goal, but if we was exposed theres not a lot he could do.

I can't argue last ten minutes you looked more likely, that's cos you made subs to try and win the game, and it worked. We made subs to play for the 0-0.

I just cannot fathom taking Redmond off. Allardyce must've been laughing when he saw that board go up.

[Fernando]

#JonasToTheRescue

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

#JonasToTheRescue

Don't, just don't   

Our remaining fixtures are;

Spurs (H)
Villa (A)
Stoke (H)
Southampton (A)
Sunderland (H)
Swansea (A)
WBA (H)
Fulham (A)
Liverpool (H)
Utd (A)
Chelsea (A)
Arsenal (H)

I see only 1-2 points from those final four games plus the Spurs game at best. That'd put us on 27 pts with 7 other games. Two tough away trips to Southampton and Swansea, best case scenario maybe 2 points. That'd put us on 29 pts with 5 other games. One of them is Fulham and we never ever ever get anything from them so 29 pts with 4 other games. So in my eyes we need 8/9 pts from Villa away, Stoke/Sunderland/WBA at home.

We're screwed

[Fernando]

If you aren't safe by the Liverpool game you won't be at all

#JonasGutierrezChampionshipLegend

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