S-Clarke

A nice post from a Norwich fan, lifted from another forum: Originally Posted by canary10 About this time last year we were in a strong position to go up. We went to Swansea, a match live on tv and got beaten 3-0. Southampton did the same thing last week at Blackpool. In the next game or maybe the one after actually we destroyed our local rivals 5-1 and never looked back after that game. I have a feeling it might be a similar sort of thing in this one. 4-1 Saints.

This time on Monday night, we could be sitting pretty. But even if we aren't...people need to remember that it's not the end of it.

Apline has now, unsurprisingly, gone silent.

You know it won't be that easy though Exciting times though.

Probably a couple of Cortese worshiping area's, just as you'd like.

ah ok, didn't think the table had updated. Not as bad as it could have been based on that Barnsley showing!

Nope...tomorrow is as big as the game against Reading next week, therefore tomorrow we should play our strongest available team. None of this resting crap. Every game is now massive.

But it still doesn't mean that result turned our season, or will have any bearing on how it finishes - because it won't. We won plenty of games after that as I said, Bristol City were just a bit of a boggy side for us this year for some reason. And it would have been naive to think we'd win at home all season, it wasn't going to happen and when it did happen it would have been bloody frustrating - which it was. We're in an amazing position and it's a position I never expected us to be in, I thought we'd be in and around the top 10 - with a chance of the playoffs. This season has excelled expectations and we have to trust the guys to take us over the line, because they've been terrific for the last 3 years. They will not let us down, or themselves down.

This is almost as mental as your post last year suggesting we should rest our players and aim for the playoffs, even though we were sitting 2nd at that point. Play the best avaliable players for every game, that's what we've got to do. None of this resting ******** anymore.

No one thinks it'll be a cakewalk, no has said that. I think most people have been reasoned in their predictions that you'd expect us to win, but it won't be a thrashing - which is a fair view. You will come alive if we drop points tomorrow, you'll be in your prime. So let's hope we don't.

That is the biggest load of codswallop I have ever read in my life. How on earth is a result mid-season in December a turning point for the entire campaign? (and our first defeat at home in 27 odd games) We won plenty of games after that. If that result was a turning point, it would have equalled the spirial down the table. But it didn't. We got over it, and I think it's time you did as well.

Sorry, but you're the one whining. Just stop coming alive at the slightest sniff of a negative, you're so depressingly predictable.

26/27 to our 34. Not much in it anymore.

Their GK is a flaming joke.

The big thing is that they have a load of young loanies who probably couldn't give 2 hoots about the rivalry, they will go back to their parent clubs in a few weeks and will forget about Portsmouth. They will be like startled rabbits from the 1st minute tomorrow as they will not be able to match our intensity. The players I'd have been half worried about would have been Lawrence, Husseklep, Henderson their Gk.....but oh, they've not got any of those anymore. Anything but a comfortable win tomorrow will be criminal!

Always the way when results don't go our away, it always deflates you slightly. We could never effect the results though, it was always a case of hoping for miracles at the start of play. Tomorrow will be immense by the way.

Yeah he was, on loan from spurs. He looks to have come from the Tommy Forecast school of goalkeeping. Tottenham half produce some duffs don't they?

and the 2nd.

lol.

It's all gone horribly wrong

If WHU keep going for this, we could have a record score here. Barnsley are that inept.

They are simply atrocious. A sorry excuse for a football team.

God, this co-commentator does my head in. So clueless.

Not today, nope. But if they rack up a big score today which is looking likley, then our GD isn't as far away.

game well and truly over. Let's hope Barnsley can keep the score respectable otherwise our GD becomes catchable.