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POST-MATCH THREAD: Norwich City v Charlton Athletic: Boxing Day 2025: KO 15:00

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  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,389
    Too many players having an off day. Nathan Jones didn't instruct James Bree to waste countless dead ball situations or instruct players to play within themselves, not making runs, not making tackles and not creating chances. As Garrymanilow stated, we would have been the happier walking to the dressing room at half time, I think the substitution of Bell would have been the only thing that would have placed a spanner in the works but we still hadn't created anything up to that point and James Bree was well into his personal nightmare when Bell left the field. It's down to a number of players not playing at their max for whatever reason, I expect that not to be the case against Pompey and I expect changes to ensure it isn't. 
  • Powell2ThePeople
    Powell2ThePeople Posts: 397
    I think if we can just start playing better and scoring more goals than the other team, we'll be alright.  
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,321
    edited December 26
    Being an optimist, I thought I'd compile a list of positives:
     👉 Bell is on his way back from injury and we got a reasonable half out of him.
     👉 Young Gough did well and hasn't been Charltonised yet.
     👉 There's a transfer window just about to open and we saw nothing today that would persuade the money men that they can get away without a spend up.
     👉 I had a nice chat with some old friends who now live in Norwich.
     👉 Roads were pretty clear. Easy to get home.
     👉 Err, that's it. Everything else was rubbish.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,578
    Our strikers can't hit the target with an open goal face on easy tap in... Meanwhile... https://x.com/i/status/2004617367150886952
  • Major
    Major Posts: 1,046
    As much as I have supported him, I think Nathan Jones had a stinker today. I know it's easy to second guess but after pretty well holding our own in the usual ugly style, the first substitutions messed it all up.

    Further - and this is what I marvel at - it seems pretty clear that Bree is not 100% recovered from his groin injury. We all saw what he can do before he got injured.

    If you have to play him because there is no alternative, why the hell do you also make him kick dead balls when he can't get the ball up in the air?

    It was blindingly obvious and yet the manager sits on his hands and makes him keep doing it.

    Seems pretty brutal. 

    Now wondering if this thinking was why Dr. Will Abbott left.
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,087
    Chelsea will make mincemeat out of us on that showing, another fun heavy defeat at home to endure. 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,891
    Bree's delivery today was so bad that I could only assume that he'd been instructed to play the ball low because that was a perceived Norwich weakness.

    I just can't understand how a player can go from looking like a masterstroke loan signing to looking like he's got a clubfoot.

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