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 07/10/2008, 10:48 PM
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Hughesy
 
Joined on 01/10/2006
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if he wasn't any good why did leeds want to buy him?
Hucks has gone, get over it!!!
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07/10/2008, 11:04 PM
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Tim Allman
Joined on 15/11/2005
Kenton, NW London
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07/10/2008, 11:08 PM
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Queen Delia
Joined on 08/08/2007
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Chunky you talk cr@p. I hate people like you who have clearly never played footie in your life. Robinson wasn't the greatest player but he was a half decent midfielder, to say he was up there with some of the true rubbish that have played for us is a joke.
Football is a possession game, maybe thats why England do so badly. Too many England fans boo if we're not hoofing it down the line or punting it forward just for the sake of it. A side-ways or backwards pass is not always bad and if there is no movement ahead of you there is no choice.
Any of the abuse people like him or Hughes got - and what Fozzy is getting now - is a disgrace. What happended to supporting your team and the players? As long as they try and run thats all you can ask. You may be surprised to discover that supporting them would bring improved results.
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07/10/2008, 11:10 PM
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Graham Humphrey
Joined on 21/06/2007
Norwich
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 Hughesy wrote: | | if he wasn't any good why did leeds want to buy him? |
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Well they are in League One...
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07/10/2008, 11:25 PM
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Chunky Norwich
Joined on 03/01/2006
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| Queen Delia wrote: | |
Chunky you talk cr@p. I hate people like you who have clearly never played footie in your life. Robinson wasn't the greatest player but he was a half decent midfielder, to say he was up there with some of the true rubbish that have played for us is a joke.
Football is a possession game, maybe thats why England do so badly. Too many England fans boo if we're not hoofing it down the line or punting it forward just for the sake of it. A side-ways or backwards pass is not always bad and if there is no movement ahead of you there is no choice.
Any of the abuse people like him or Hughes got - and what Fozzy is getting now - is a disgrace. What happended to supporting your team and the players? As long as they try and run thats all you can ask. You may be surprised to discover that supporting them would bring improved results.
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Okay then we'll just have to agree to disagree (but I won't "hate" you for it if that's any consolation). What was Robinson's position though? Was he a tough-tackling defensive midfielder who protected the back line? No. Was he an attacking midfielder who'd get into the box, link up with the strikers and thread delicate through-balls? No. Did he stand in the middle of the park and dictate play, holding up the ball up or switching it from one flank to the other to stretch the opposition? No. Could he take a mean free-kick, a brilliant corner or pass through the eye of a needle? No. Would he stand around aimlessly in the middle of the pitch and pass the ball 5ft backwards or, joy of joys, sideways the second it came to him? Yes. This is why he's only ever commanded a single transfer fee in his entire history (from us, unsurprisingly) which was a whopping 50k and was then released to go and play football in Canada.
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07/10/2008, 11:43 PM
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viennacanary
Joined on 03/05/2007
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he doesn't even get in the team though hughesy, so if they did go up they would be off, probably to a league 2 side.
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08/10/2008, 12:21 AM
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Dion Dublin=Legend
Joined on 13/12/2007
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Brilliant, brilliant thread Beaker. You've managed to wind virtually everyone up just by mentioning the name Hughes; your posts should lighten up the mood on this board, but only seem to make everyone EVEN MORE ANGRY. I feel I should stick for Carl Robinson though; being exiled in Manchester I mainly attend away matches in the area, and found myself at a windswept, bleak Bloomfield Road in January 2007 to watch Peter Grant's Norwich get battered by League One Blackpool (led by a certain Wes Hoolahan) in a 1-1 FA Cup draw. Carl Robinson was playing central midfield, and due to an injury (I forget who got injured and why we couldn't bring a centre back on) dropped back to play central defence for the last 20 or so minutes. Blackpool absolutely battered us, and Robinson headed the ball clear, tackled, got his body in the way and showed true grit and determination: exactly what was needed in the circumstances. He obviously wasn't a great Norwich player, but he showed a lot of bottle, determination and leadership that day and as a result I'm not liking all this slagging off that's coming his way. He wasn't great, but does anyone else remember his perofrmance that day or is it another case of Norwich fans accentuating the negative and ignoring the positive?
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08/10/2008, 1:05 AM
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viennacanary
Joined on 03/05/2007
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How many transfer fees has Sol Campbell racked up in his career then?
Chunky - I really can't agree with what you are saying (but as you say, I won't hate you for having an opinion). We have had some poor players at Norwich over the years but Robinson was not one of them. You can't label desriptions of players like that. How many of the current Norwich team would fit any of those descriptions? Robinson was a decent defensive midfield player. An intelligent player, who rarely gave the ball away and could protect the back four. This is the role he plays very well at International level, and is why he has carved out such a very good international career.
He went from Wolves to Portsmouth in the Premiership on a Bosman and was also considered by a lot of Sunderland fans to be their player of the season for Sunderland when they got promoted to the Premier League, and he was an ever present for them.
And also, I do remember that Blackpool game - it was a good job he was there! We could have been in deep trouble without a couple of experienced heads that season. It's a bit frustrating that some others can't see that!
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08/10/2008, 7:45 AM
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huckster
Joined on 16/07/2008
Norwich
Posts 18
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No mate that was Darren Beckford
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