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About as classy as your lot booing and cheering when a player is carried off injured!
Bunch of inbred fools
Bunch of inbred fools
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morty
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End of the day, we win. We don't have to live in Middlesborough.
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It's Middlesbrough you illiterate retard!End of the day, we win. We don't have to live in Middlesborough.
Ah that's right, because Norwich is the capital of culture really ain't it
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You must be in a wind up. The amount of stuff the referee let you get away with was a joke. At least 3 or 4 times someone should have been booked for kicking the ball away and the play acting was just embarrassing.
Hoolahan's dive, if it was a dive (I haven't seen a replay),doesn't undermine anything. If he dived he was punished accordingly. If anything it reinforces how one sided the refereeing was.
Bradley Johnson got booked and banned for coming on to the pitch without permission following an injury...a Boro player does the same and he gets politely asked to trot back off, wasting a bit more time.
Fair play to Boro, they had a game plan after the goal and stuck to it, but don't pretend that things weren't made easier for you by weak, inconsistent refereeing.
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Canaryboy
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It was a dive, pretty much the only thing the ref called right all game!
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Well, there you go then. One act of cheating by us is immediately punished. Constant acts of cheating by middlesborough [sic] go completely unpunished throughout the game.
Norwich have to take some of the blame TBH. To have that much of the ball and muster 2 shots on target in total is poor.
The Great Mass Debater
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Those are the two things from our persepctive. Howson really should have scored - look back in the match thread and I said at the time 'Hope that doesnt cost us' and it did. Levelling that early on might have changed the game, but not putting it away simply meant we spent the whole game trying to break them down.
I personally think it was a penalty. The ball certainly struck his arm, the question is whether you give a penalty for it. Hitting his arm prevented the cross, it wasnt just an innocuous ball to hand moment. And secondly if you raise your arms in the penalty area you cant feel aggrieved if the penalty is given. It reminds me of the Matt Taylor playing for Portsmouth incident many years ago if anyone knows the one Im talking about.
Thought the ref was poor in not acting on the blatant time-wasting and injury feigning which not only wasted time but disrupted momentum. No sour grapes, Boro, as the inferior side, had a gameplan, like many who visit Carrow Road and it worked. Just think the ref could have controlled the match better and clamped down on the play-acting and cynical fouls. He also could have given the penalty. Not sure he was fair booking Hoolahan either. There was no contact, but Hoolahan didnt appeal for a penalty and got up pretty quickly.
But penalty and Howson profligacy are the sore points for us
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splutcho
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In all seriousness, gutted. Made worse by the fact I just worked a night shift and spent 9 hours stewing on it, so let's have some positives.
- It's technically still doable. We only need Boro to drop some points and Watford to lose at least 1 out of 3
- If that doesn't happen, we've still got to be confident in the play offs
- We may get another chance to spank Ipswich
- I've always wanted to see us play at Wembley
- Alex Neil is still a god amongst men
Din
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Wow, you would think that we won the game judging by how angry that Middlesbrough fan is
Didn't realise at the time that from the corner Boro scored from we didn't have anyone on the back post. If we'd had someone there then it's likely that the goal wouldn't of gone in. Don't know whether someone was meant to be there but didn't do their job, or whether we just weren't meant to have anyone there. Either way it's frustrating that such a basic mistake could've prevented the goal.
And that Boro handball was so blatant. The Boro player clearly blocks it with his arm. I don't think it's intentional but his arm was up, and you could see from my seat at the other end of the ground that it hit his arm, so I don't know how the ref hasn't seen it.
Also, one thing that I didn't say in my original post, I don't understand why when Redmond was bought on he was played on the left. He wasn't able to get any pace on the balls he put into the box, and it was only with 5 minutes left to go that he was put out on the right.
Didn't realise at the time that from the corner Boro scored from we didn't have anyone on the back post. If we'd had someone there then it's likely that the goal wouldn't of gone in. Don't know whether someone was meant to be there but didn't do their job, or whether we just weren't meant to have anyone there. Either way it's frustrating that such a basic mistake could've prevented the goal.
And that Boro handball was so blatant. The Boro player clearly blocks it with his arm. I don't think it's intentional but his arm was up, and you could see from my seat at the other end of the ground that it hit his arm, so I don't know how the ref hasn't seen it.
Also, one thing that I didn't say in my original post, I don't understand why when Redmond was bought on he was played on the left. He wasn't able to get any pace on the balls he put into the box, and it was only with 5 minutes left to go that he was put out on the right.
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Best one yet...inferior side? 2 games played against you, 2 wins, 5 scored, none conceded! You managed 3 shots on target in close on 200 minutes of football, but hey don't let the facts get in the way of your yellow tinted glasses eh!
Yeah yeah it was all timewasting and cheating in both games. If that's an inferior side to you then God knows what a good side would do.
Poor Norwich, the world is against us yawn yawn
Din
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Very frustrating. Can't remember if having no-one on the posts is something we've done regularly this season, although I'm pretty sure it's not. Would be interesting to know if that was a managerial decision or whether we were meant to have someone there but that player didn't do his job. Either way it's something as small as that that could ultimately decide our season.
The Great Mass Debater
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We're not the only team to decide we dont need men on the posts - I've been screaming it at the TV for years, usually after a soft goal has gone in. Think its such a poor tactic, really dont think you gain much and it makes you vulnerable to soft goals like that.
Definitely remember seeing Olsson clear some from the post area at corners, so we've done it recently, but not sure when it changed.
Man on the post in this game and that wouldnt have been a goal. End of. P*sses me off so much. Undoes all the hard work so easily.
Unrelated issue but did anyone else think we were playing too high a defensive line? Was disturbing how easily Bamford got in on a couple of occasions and I felt we were leaving too much space behind us.
Bassong to me looks fatter, slower and more sluggish than he used to each time I've seen him play this season. Martin isnt exactly quick and Whittaker is really slow. Only Olsson has pace in our back 4 and he's often further up the pitch
Wiz
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What about Elliot Bennett at right back?...he has pace to burn.
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