Another small bite of news…goalkeeping
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Another small bite of news worth mentioning.
At the end of last week Roeder signed former Wimbledon/MK Dons Manager Stuart Murdoch to become Norwich’s new goalkeeping coach. He made a statement to the press saying how great the facilities were and the potential of the goalkeepers astounded him.
Sadly, he left after three days at the club citing “personal reasons”.
A couple of weeks ago too Joe Lewis, a product of the goalkeeping academy, was sold to Peterborough for £400,000. It is a shame as I remember Bryan Gunn saying once he should have had a promising future for Norwich. Lets wish him the best!
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Tags: A win, a draw and a cup exit
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Sorry for not updating this page in a while. Many things have happened and I will summarise them as follows.
Three players have left the club…Strihavka, Brown and Brellier are gone. Brown was sold to Preston, the other two had their contracts terminated with immediate effect. Pattison (permanent), Camara, and Evans were resigned along with the the arrival of Chelsea left back Ryan Bertrand.
Another draw, and another poor cup result
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Norwich, Norwich, Norwich. Why can we never drive a stake into the heart of lower league teams, especially when they come to Carrow Road on a cup visit? It just seems a superstition must lurk in the changing rooms, or on the training ground. Thats more likey. Managment doesn’t seem to make much difference. Under Worthington we always had difficulty getting past our first stage of the cup, and under Grant we got dumped out early on penalties in his breif but hideous tenure. So it continues with Roeder, however we were spared some unpleasant headlines. Just.
Two draws against Wolves and Palace
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Well, a few months ago in the darkest, gloomiest days of Norwich football, with depressing shadows lent kindly by a certain Mr Grant, we would have shrieked and sobbed our optimism away from fixtures such as these. Yes, to a degree, draws aren’t much good to us but it is far better for confidence and team morale to keep picking up points, especially against teams that not so long ago we feared a hiding from.
Norwich 1-1 Charlton
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Norwich started the game very brightly, a hatful of missed chances…then, as is typical with that type of opening, the other team scores a goal from very little pressure. Norwich 0-1 Charlton thanks to their multi-million pound signing Zheng Zhi.
Having said that, Charlton’s Sodje made a string of important moves and blocks in defence and looked an integral part of the Charlton machine…that was until he decided to lunge two feet off the ground at Darel Russel and was correctly sent off (after the game, Alan Pardew decided he agreed…how humble).
This changed the nature of the game, and not for the better as some commentators expected. Norwich piled forward but weren’t seeing much coming to fruition…Darren Huckerby had a shot blocked, Ched Evans was denied…but eventually Darel Russel converted a Darren Huckerby corner into a 1-1 scoreline through a good header.
It was ours to win really, Cureton was operating the channels…all players were working really hard and as always…when Lee Croft comes on a new side of creativity is introduced…. which is really what you want when you are playing ten men! But we didn’t win, we managed a draw. And, as a tad of disappointment sizzles in the back of your mind remember only this:a month or so ago we would have been terrified of playing Charlton. Now we gave them a good game and should have won. Still a few points from safety. Keep it moving!
Scunthorpe 0-1 Norwich
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More points, three at that…and away! And the table shows we are now up to 18th! The game wasn’t pretty, like our previous fixture admitted Roeder, but then he rightly said he didn’t expect it to be. These games aren’t and never will be BUT they have to be won. And we did.
It was a tricky, labouring affair with Scunthorpe showing how they have gone eleven games now without a win and Norwich fans praying their team would take advantage. They did in the end, in a fashion the BBC described as “smash and grab” and it was particularly savoury because of its importance. Six games unbeaten? Picking up points is great!
Jamie Cureton made the difference in scoreline when he came on for Dion Dublin on 61 minutes and after about ten minutes his impact was made when he converted Otsemobor’s cross to send us home 0-1 happy!
Ched Evans had a one on one and Darren Huckerby seemed to blaze wide but we were also indebted to Mr Reliable David Marshall for a string of important and typical saves. The best from a powerful Scunthorpe header.
Having said all that positive comment and logging about what happened on Saturday I do feel a little nervous about how me might fair against a club like Charlton on boxing day…
Colchester 1-1 Norwich
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Jamie Cureton could barely disguise his delight - and frustration- regarding Norwich City’s late equaliser against Colchester last Saturday. Colchester’s McLeod scored in the 79th minute to make it look like a 1-0 defeat and I thought we were facing a relegation battle setback…swapping places with Colchester once more. But, ten minutes later on the 89th minute, Danny Granville scored an own goal…with former Colchester player Jamie Cureton nearest the ball. He could not contain his delight and rightly so. He was booed consistently for 90 minutes. What booing stamina! He said after the game “I expected to get booed but to be honest I am a little disappointed. For what I achieved at the club, I don’t think I expected it - to come here and get booed the whole 90 minutes.” He finished off his comments by saying, in a striker’s gladiatorial fashion, if they don’t respect me I won’t respect them!
Taylor leaves…
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The great loan addition, Martin Taylor, with two goals to his name (and surely key to recent revivals) has left Norwich after his loan period was not extended and has returned to Birmingham City…even though new boss Alex McLeish has made it clear he ‘does not feature’ in his plans for the blues.
It’s a shame. I thought perhaps he might stay… but Roeder has said there were several other Championship clubs interested. So, it appears to me there’s not much room for sentimentality these days. Taylor did extremely well for us, and I grew to hope in sentimentality that having won such widespread respect from the fans and helping us out of the bottom three he might stay. Wrong! Sentimentality check everyone! He played out of his skin because he wanted to get his career back on track, he wanted to raise his asking price, boost his wage demands from other Championship clubs, perhaps not lurking so near the foot of the table. I have now had my reality check. I don’t blame Martin Taylor, I am just disappointed by the nature of things.
Is ‘the Doc’ up to it? The old relationship resumed, Doherty and Shackell…then?
Norwich 1-0 Sheffield United
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Norwich score early again! Ched Evans scores early again! But, Norwich are now out of the bottom three!
Ched Evans scored from a superb Darren Huckerby cross on ten minutes. Huckerby more than making up for the hard time the crowd gave him on Tuesday night. He summoned his old sparkle and match-winning qualities for the first half against Sheffield United.
Norwich 2-1 Plymouth
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The survival fight continues, three wins in four now. More cause for belief?
I think so. I went to the game on Tuesday night and it was refreshing to see Norwich take the lead in the opening minutes through a slicing pass from Jamie Cureton to new loanee Ched Evans to score on his full league debut.
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