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"See who turns up" ACN Pod 165
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Clare, Jon & Tom talk comebacks after another Mo hat-trick leads us to one in Bristol. Not long left now, still 3 games to have some fun, try some new things and score some more goals in this topsy turvey season.
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Norwich's Comeback & Mo's Performance
00:00:22
Speaker
Welcome the Long Come Norwich podcast, a brisk brief babble on the brilliant comeback the day before yesterday when we bravely beat Bristol City thanks to another bombastic bundle of goals by Mo. We'd best spend a beat debating the visit from Derby on Tuesday as well, the only time I'll be using that word in this episode.
Mo's Goal Potential
00:00:38
Speaker
Claire, another three goals from Mo. So three games left. He can get, what, nine more before the season's out? Well, apparently he's that lucky. He could probably get nine in one game, couldn't he? Hashtag shoot at Mo.
Mo's Positional Sense vs Luck
00:00:51
Speaker
I mean, ah i i dispute the luck thing. I think it's not luck. it's it's His positional sense is just incredible. For someone his age, the fact that he's only just come over to this country...
Team Performance & Mo's Success
00:01:04
Speaker
Yeah, OK, you know, we're playing well around him and Philippe commented on that today, that he's lucky in the sense that the team are playing well around him to give him those balls to get him those um assists. But he's still got to be in the right place at the right time. And he most definitely is that. It's it's marvelous. I just love him. And his interview after the game with Chris Gorham was so sweet as well. He just seems like a really lovely, humble guy. What's not to love about him?
00:01:33
Speaker
it's It's not a fluke now, is it? Like it's been too many games. he's he He is good. Well, also, it's it's too many games either side of an injury.
Mo's Consistency Post-Injury
00:01:43
Speaker
Yeah, he's come straight back into it.
00:01:45
Speaker
Yeah, he's not the unknown quantity. He's not, oh, we can't have prepared for him because he only signed two weeks ago. and He scored some goals, went out, came back, scored some goals again. Yeah.
Mo's Strengths & Weaknesses
00:01:56
Speaker
And he has also, in that time, missed a couple of chances. and So i e he he isn't it's not like he's got ah an x due he's like he's got more goals than XG in terms of the actual time he's in around the box. He is constantly there and he is a threat. And um yeah, so sometimes I still think the first touch slightly lets him down. But but when it doesn't, he he's away because he's so rapid over the first 10, 15 yards.
Norwich Game Review
00:02:19
Speaker
and Yeah, it was one of those one of those games, punt, where, ah but to steal something Claire said just before you you joined us this evening, recording this Monday the 20th of April, happy birthday, Desi, we had ah ah a game of two halves where and there was nothing to play for, so therefore we were on the beach in the first half, and then there was nothing to play for, so we let loose in the second half. That's what it seemed to be. we We got both versions of what end of season Norwich can be like, right?
00:02:48
Speaker
Oh, I don't know if it was the nothing to play for because we still second half, especially we still look like we wanted it so, so very much.
Challenges Against Low Block Teams
00:02:58
Speaker
and And both the local outlets picked up on it. But I did as well, you know, kind of when we got that equaliser, no celebrations, grab the ball, get back to the halfway line. Right. We mean business.
00:03:09
Speaker
So I'm not sure it was an on-the-beach thing or a, you know, look, we're playing without freedom. I just think we weren't we weren't great against the low block. um ah That is going to be a challenge that PC is going to have to unpick. But I think he's going to do that when he gets his creative players all in the right place, all playing, you know, kind of in a way that that they want to. But genuinely...
00:03:30
Speaker
We were so bloody clinical. I mean, it was it's very un-Norrigy. I do disagree with Claire
Debate on Mo's Luck vs Skill
00:03:38
Speaker
a little bit. I still think Mo Torre is the luckiest player I have ever seen in my life. I'll say the third goal was fortuitous. The first two were not luck. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Hear me out. Right. So he misses his header and then it rebounds like basically in front of him and he's got a tap in.
00:03:56
Speaker
The second one... reacted fast. Yes, yes. thought it was either. It wasn't so bad that the keeper could catch it. Yeah, so that's another interpretation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah um Keep going. Why do but I don't hate him. I don't hate him. I just think that he is not the second coming, and and i and I think it would be...
00:04:18
Speaker
It would be remiss of us. Well, a little bit, a little bit. um It would be remiss of us to hype him up. And then actually he doesn't score 45 goals next season. You know, that that's all I'm saying. Oh, come on. There are elements of luck.
00:04:34
Speaker
There is elements of luck to what he is doing. And a few of his goals, like the Blackburn goal, I don't think was just positional sense when it just bounced to him. And he was like, oh, shit, it's a real open goal. And all I have to do is touch in it and it will go in.
00:04:47
Speaker
um But some of his goals are excellent runs off the ball, in the right place at the right time. um Yeah, it looks like there's ah the raw materials there to be a real, real player.
00:04:59
Speaker
And it was interesting that they touched on um his injury record, actually, and he touched on his injury record a lot because I think that's the only thing that probably is keeping him from developing at rate that is as rapid as his pace because ah I think there ah there is something...
00:05:14
Speaker
really special about him.
Team Dynamics & Player Suitability
00:05:16
Speaker
And if that, and and you know, wrapped around that, if there is the luckiest player that I've ever seen in a yellow and green shirt, then that's brilliant because lucky strikers are great too. As as someone as someone reminded me, Gary Lineker said, um the harder he worked, to the luckier he seemed to get.
00:05:33
Speaker
There you know they go. There you go. yeah And I think PC World made a really good point in that ah saying, know, may yeah as you just alluded to Claire the rest of the team are are performing well so no matter who is the striker um you know they are going to get more goals yeah obviously if they work on their finishing and on being in the right place and their physical prowess then they then they're going to score more goals but also we are yeah know we have got a team that puts that creates a lot of chances so riddle me this Claire why does that not seem to apply to MK why can ah Scrappy do Chris Goren not do it
00:06:11
Speaker
he's just He's just a different type of player, isn't he? He hasn't got the same pace. He hasn't got the height. um i don't think you can't compare him to Mo or even Jove, really. i mean It's interesting. I think Mo is an exceptional goal poacher. He just really is. i don't think Jove would have got the goals that Mo got. I don't think the man we can't mention anymore, Sargent, would have got those goals either. I think they are very much...
00:06:40
Speaker
suited to Mo, but I don't know what it is with with Chris Garden. I love him, but i just he's just not a fit for this team, is he? really want it to work, but it's just not.
00:06:52
Speaker
I don't think he's going to get the opportunity. I i don't think i think he will be and i think he will be moved on in the summer, Punt. Do you agree?
Injuries Impact on Team & Transfers
00:07:02
Speaker
ah We talked about this before, didn't we? i I don't necessarily think he gets moved on if the knee trouble is as troublesome as as maybe has been suspected throughout the season. Because he's still, to me, he's he's a bit like, you know, and look, it's been borne out now, but it's a bit like, I i didn't feel like Ben Kraseni was playing at 100% weeks and months.
00:07:21
Speaker
And then, oh, look, he's been carrying a shoulder injury for some time. I still think it's the same with Chris Corrin. And I think clubs will know that. And it it might be difficult to shift him on with, you know, if he has to go under the knife if there or there is a niggle there that is is just going to take time to right itself. So I could see him being part of it.
00:07:43
Speaker
I'd kind of like him to be... I don't know almost trialled as a wide forward because, you know, we've got problems out on the wings, you know, kind of sometimes in terms of our change options. only Oscar's great.
00:07:56
Speaker
Ali Ahmed is has been in and out, but, you know, kind of largely has been very, very good. And, you know, and his output has been excellent. Magoma can play out there. But apart from that, actually, when you look at the bench, you're like, well, it's it's Tony Springer because everyone else is injured. you know kind of and and that's And Tony Springer is not even making the bench a lot of the time. kip Gibbs has had to fill in there as well. Or even Jack Stacey has played there. you know So and almost i I would be looking at him you know kind of ah from an end of season. Look, we've got nothing to play for. Is he someone who's worth trying there? because And I think the only reason that he hasn't been played there...
00:08:29
Speaker
is because Clement is almost looking for
Squad Limitations & Experimentation
00:08:33
Speaker
players the other way. in a kind of And that's why Magoma could play wide in in a Clement team, is that he doesn't mind doing you know the tracking back. But I think Chris Coren could do that. He works hard enough as an individual. Yeah, the engine is there. Yeah, absolutely. Which is the point I was coming to. so And he's closing down his exit.
00:08:51
Speaker
ah ah I wonder what maybe we haven't seen him out there during this period because there literally hasn't been anyone else to play a striker and he's almost a victim of that. Yeah, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we've only had one fit striker for so long and now we've got Torre back, but he's not fully fit. So neither of them can play full 90. So it's one or the other. and also the wide players came back. get both of them on the pitch, then who knows? yeah So he was he was having to to to do the number nine shift um ah when there wasn't another number nine. So therefore, and there there wasn't a wide player. So at the moment, for example, you know Ahmed has then kind of come back and and been available again. Almost when, that you know by the time we could have played Kvistko in there, we didn't sort of need him.
00:09:36
Speaker
and yeah I think these last these last three games are a really good opportunity to maybe try a couple of different things. It'll be interesting to see um tomorrow as we record this against Derby, what he does. you know He's got two home games left. um So he's going to want obviously build momentum at home before before the break. um at the end of the season. And so maybe he wants to, maybe we do see a couple of slightly different things, a couple of slightly different ways of of playing. and We are definitely limited because, you like you say, a tour, probably you're not sure if he's ready to do 90 minutes um if you needed him to. And you don't want to end up having to put Medici up there for the last 20 against a team like Derby who have been going for the playoffs until recently. So, said We've got some issues as well in the press conference today. Wouldn't say what they were, but there are some issues with some of the players.
Season Reflections & Player Changes
00:10:27
Speaker
Well, we' will in in the in the end of season pod, we will go through we'll go player by player in terms of who we want to who we want to keep, who we think we should move on and who and we think we need to actually bring in from a positional point of view. um But I also think, depending on those fitness issues, Claire, because there might be a couple of people who are robbed the opportunity to, for example, stake a claim. and But you feel like coming back into pre-season, there's going to be enough opportunity to impress Clement.
00:11:00
Speaker
um And he strikes me as the sort of guy that if you do it, and if you can do it in a hot, so sunny sunny afternoon in Vienna or wherever they on pre-season tour, you probably will be given... Vienna, where Hoff is is currently managing, yeah.
00:11:14
Speaker
good Yeah, if if if you if you can if you can do it there, um then then you'll get the you'll get the nod in on August the 8th or whatever it is when we come back. because So I think all of these players are going to have a go. The one thing I pick up on what you said about Magoma out wide... yeah I don't know. i He could do a job there, but but we need to be going into next season with two people. Two people are specialists in that position. not agree. We've got couple of people.
00:11:41
Speaker
If you end up there because you get because both your left backs are injured or both your starting right wingers are injured, fair enough. But for me, Magoma is a 10 and we need someone to compete with him in a 10. Maybe that's Slomani. I still think the ceiling of Magoma is that much higher than Slomani. Although I think Slomani is a fantastic championship squad player because he he will do you a job and when you need him to. um But yeah, I think Magoma has to be competing with someone to be that that electrifying X factor who does something no one else can do. And he does he just doesn't impact the game like that out out out wide. He doesn't. and And he isn't as good at tracking back as some of our real wide players. and
00:12:19
Speaker
Do we know if we're going to see Diallo again before the end of the season? Or is he is he not is he not going to even get any minutes? I don't remember him being mentioned. I think they are both back on the grass. But Magoma, the way that Clement was...
00:12:33
Speaker
intimating it It felt like McCarma was a lot closer than Diallo in terms of getting some minutes before the season ends. But let's be honest, is it is it worth risking either of them at this point? It'd be really nice to see maybe McCarma get 15 minutes off the bench here and there. but Against Hull, maybe, yeah.
00:12:50
Speaker
Yeah. But, you know, that's it really. I you i can't see it happening. um But it would it would be lovely to see Jovan back. Maybe, you know, just to chip up and get, don't know, third place in the Barry Butler on the final, you final home game or something like that. Well, I mean, this is all this is our last pod before the Barry Butler. So we do need to do our guarantees for player of the season. And it's, I mean, it's really hard. It really is. I mean, you, no one's done. Have you voted?
00:13:21
Speaker
No. no Has it closed yet? Has it been closed? I don't think so. of yeah i would say i would say there's, well, I'll start with one comment and then I'll pass you, Claire, for you to build on it from a player of the season point of view. My opening thoughts on player season is one of the reasons it's such a wide field and is no one's done it for nine months.
00:13:45
Speaker
Right. no No, no one has looked like player of the season, not even for nine months in all night. No one has done a player of the, I don't think anyone's had a man of the match performance in each of the nine months. If you see what i mean. Right. Whereas usually there's two or three who maybe have done that. and What are you thinking in terms of where it might go?
00:14:02
Speaker
It was very tough to decide between Kenny, Kellen and Pele. And I went with Pele Mattson when I voted. um i just think Kenny's done it before. you know and he doesn't need it.
00:14:18
Speaker
He doesn't need it. He's going to the World Cup for God's sake. He's fine. He knows he's awesome. He knows we love him. um Kellen, there's no really rhyme or reason to why I chose one over the other. But just thought, Pele, he's come over here. new country never played has he ever played for a different team even before I think he's been at silk board his whole career wasn't he um and he just looks immense and I just love that he's a bit of a shit house as well and yeah so I went with John's beautiful blonde boy so who did you go for I don't think he will win it I think I think Kenny will win it so who have you gone for in second and third John
00:15:05
Speaker
i So I've just checked as Claire was talking, their voting has now closed, so I will be denied a vote. um And I would also have been very, very torn between Pella and Kellen. Yeah.
00:15:24
Speaker
Because they've both been excellent and they've both... I mean, Kellen has been more consistent across the piece, I would say, across the season. Pella has been... Yeah, he's played more, but Pella has been better when he's when you know when he's been in real form.
00:15:40
Speaker
The only other one that I would chuck in there, look, I think... um Kenny is a noble shout. Kenny has won it before. um And I sometimes just like seeing it go to someone new. So I'd have probably chucked in Oscar because I just think, you know as ah as I've said on this pod before, Oscar was one or of the only players who looked good and under Liam Manning's tenure.
00:16:00
Speaker
and And that says a lot because we were, you know regardless of what's gone on now, you know and we know a lot more about the situation, But we were utterly dreadful for a long time, you know, to the point where it was becoming depressing to chip up at Carrow Road. you know And and lots I think lots of people were questioning whether they were actually going to renew because it was just it just felt awful. They definitely were.
00:16:23
Speaker
ah Like Glenn Roder, Brian Gunn kind of managerial days of doom. um You know, it was it was that. But... ah Mattson has been excellent since then, but Oscar has been great all season. so The only thing I'd say with Oscar is he doesn't play 90 minutes week in, week out, and all the others really So that's probably why. But i don't know if he's i don't know if he I don't know if he needs to come off.
00:16:47
Speaker
It's not often that I'm thinking Oscar needs to be pulled here. I think he is so needed to be to start again when when he is fit. We're not blessed with loads, no options why from a wide point of view because he whilst he's not been available all season, he's been available way more than others. and Part of me does also think that is that should play into it.
00:17:06
Speaker
i mean Obviously, people vote for for lots of different reasons, but um if if I were awarding a ah top three, I would want to... um bear in mind that longevity.
Impact of Coaching Changes
00:17:18
Speaker
Like if in a season where so many have gone down, the players that have actually managed to keep themselves available do, do deserve a bit of power back. Whoever stayed the fittest, the longest wins. Yeah. My issue with, my issue with Kellen, as excellent as he's been, and he was amongst, he, his drop off was amongst the biggest. I mean, so he was,
00:17:39
Speaker
and dog shit under Manning and we know that there were issues think that's unfair I think he had a couple of games where he was really poor but not like complete dog shit for the whole of Manning's The Birmingham 11, it's really difficult for me to to put that. That performance was up there with the worst I have seen in in person. It was so rotten. God, don't start this. I can't drop it because it was bad. having to relive it again.
00:18:10
Speaker
It was so fucking bad. And and it was the it was the it was the it was the lack of responsibility that Kellen showed, which was the thing that I thought... We'll talk Ipswich the The challenge the challenge is that he he dropped he dropped those levels, in way I think, to a greater degree. Now, some of the other players who were rubbish...
00:18:33
Speaker
they were rubbish and I didn't know they didn't know they could do any better because a lot of them were new, see I mean? So, you know, they they started off okay. know like Darling started off okay and then started off really well, in fact, and then started to drop off towards the end of Manning. Whereas, whereas you know, Keller was like, you've just won whatever it was, young player of the season. So I don't think he can win it because of that for me. For me, he has to come he has to come second on that. ah Maybe a joint second with Kenny.
00:18:57
Speaker
um But i I do think in terms of someone coming in and grabbing a...
Norwich Midfield Praise
00:19:02
Speaker
grabbing a ah a team identity by the scruff of the neck. Few players have done that like Pella because whilst he was, he he also made the wrong choice too often early on in his Norwich career, again, under badly coached, we think, turning backwards too often.
00:19:19
Speaker
Once he, once he, it once Clement figured it, figured him out, unlocked him, started feeding him that special brew, whatever it was that, that they, that they turned the key on him.
00:19:30
Speaker
he he just, he has brings, a he brings a character and a personality to our midfield alongside Kenny that, um, it was special in a way that, that lots of other, the new players are great. Like Ahmed's good fun and Toro's great, good fun. And McCarma is good fun. Obviously if he if he'd have stayed fit and scored goals all season, McCarma would walk it because strikers always do. Um, but no, I think Mattson should actually get it, but, um, It probably will be Max and Kenny.
00:19:54
Speaker
ah Maybe McCarma might sneak in there third because he... I think he might get there, yeah. I think he might because sergeant sergeant when Sargent let us down, he basically stopped us going down. You know, his goals when it looked incredibly bleak.
00:20:08
Speaker
is such a like I probably voted Pele partly because he just scored those three goals at the point where I was voting. Look at the the ah Championship Team of the Year yesterday. That was a load of crap. they were Well, yeah.
00:20:21
Speaker
It's the same thing. They were obviously good then, but... Yeah. Well, it's like the manager manager manager of the season stuff. You know, that we we have had a we've had a season of two halves, which is why it seemed fitting that one of the last away games of the season was of two halves, and which in a beautiful segue got me thinking and got us thinking around the the the the games of two halves we've seen
Memorable Comeback Games
00:20:42
Speaker
in Norwich. Because when you look back, there's loads of them. So, ah Claire, give us a couple that ah tickled your fancy that came in on the socials medias.
00:20:52
Speaker
Well, yeah. I think my favourite one is is is, as Rob Turner mentioned, was the Middlesbrough 4-0 game where it really actually wasn't even a game of two halves. It was a game of 80 minutes and then 10 minutes. But for me, we were, as I recall, it was pretty dire for those first 80 minutes. and We looked like we hadn't got a hope in hell. And then the fans all started leaving And then the fans that stayed just started cheering and yelling and screaming the team on and
00:21:30
Speaker
Miracles happened and we scored three goals in nine minutes and drew. and that that game for me is the one I always think back to when I see people leaving football matches. That is like my the pinnacle of why you never leave a football match early.
00:21:46
Speaker
So yeah, that one that one I think is my favourite one. There's the obvious one which I'm going to leave for John. um Another one was ah Cardiff away under Neil Adams, um which we were 2-0 down at half-time and went on to win.
00:22:00
Speaker
four two I think Cameron Jerome scored a couple in that one. So I'd forgotten about that one. That was a good one. He was a good servant. Oh, I loved Cam Jam. He was awesome. um John, you're going to go with the main one? Yeah, I mean, you know, our good friend, um Mr. Thornhill, Spud, got in touch and he's, I mean, he shared about 15 in his email, you know, of comebacks, but then Spud is going to remember all of these games of two halves.
00:22:26
Speaker
but And what the weather was. yeah ah Well, exactly, yeah. um And what he had for tea that day and you know all of those kinds of things. But my very favourite, and I am clearly very biased on this, was um the 30th of August,
00:22:41
Speaker
1986, Norwich 4, Southampton 3. And we were, think Spud says we were 2-0 down at halftime. I can't remember it because I was eight years old, but it was my very first match at Carrow Road. So um yeah, that is definitely a lovely one.
00:22:57
Speaker
ah There is clearly the obvious, the opening day of the inaugural Premier League where there was a small matter. Yeah, exactly. All of that kind of stuff. And there was the small matter of, you know, Norwich playing Arsenal, relegation favourites, et cetera, et cetera. We all know what happened next. Mark Robbins. And it was just,
00:23:14
Speaker
Yeah, lovely. I've got a funny little story for that because we were on holiday when that game was being played. we were in Spain and um back then there was no internet, no mobile phones, no social media. So you didn't know what the score was. You had to go and put some pesos in a pay phone and hope to God that the person were trying to ring was in their house when you called them. they i were I can't remember whether they were or weren't, but I've got a brilliant photo of my sister on our bed in our hotel room holding the two day old newspaper when it finally arrived, pointing at Norwich at the top of the chat of the Premier League. So yeah, amazing awesome. noise no idea not
00:23:55
Speaker
So I didn't live through that whole we were 2-0 down and 1-4-2 because as far as I knew we just 1-4-2 and that was it. Coasted to it. Yeah. Yeah. Easy. I remember watching it on Teletext basically. It's just, you know, waiting for it to update. 3-2 no. 3-5-2 was the table.
00:24:13
Speaker
Yeah. yeah and Oh, God love it. You know, if if you if you're on 3-5-2, that means you're top half. You didn't have to wait for it to refresh to get to bottom half. and Yeah, that's a nice that's a nice tangent, actually. I'd be interested in people's be in people's memories of ah following games in foreign climes. um You know, people who are normally in one place. like My favourite one of of those is i i because of ah a staggering lack of confidence ah in the way that the fixtures were going to work out, I was away for the Cardiff away um Simeon Jackson goal.
00:24:47
Speaker
um so i was in uh the caribbean when that happened and cardiff away or portsmouth away well portsmouth away fratton park nothing to do with cardiff i said cardiff on the brain from from yeah claire sorry yeah yeah the fratton park park one i cocked it up and i was and i basically was going to come back at the wrong time and thought it would be okay but obviously it wasn't it was a crucial game uh and um
00:25:11
Speaker
ah I was in a very questionable choice to leave where we were because it wasn't it wasn't the sort of place that you probably should have gone out sort of just randomly. I said there must be somewhere that has that shows like football, scoat satellite football. And and I was sort of directed to a place that I was assured would. and There was mobile phones because it wasn't that long ago, but there wasn't proper internet everywhere. ah at five g and stuff where I was in the Caribbean island I was on.
00:25:38
Speaker
And so i ah Brad was giving me text updates. That was my friend Alec ah because I was watching... I'm not a hundred percent sure on this. It was Lazio, but it might, and whether it was Lazio Milan or like Lazio Bay, because the, own yes, that, that was the only place um nearby that showed the football, but they were showing a Serie A game at the time. And so I was watching a very dreary nil-nil. And then all of a sudden the the the text came through using up my credit. and to say that that was... that that And then I it had a very, very hairy ah wait for a taxi as it got started to get dark in my bright yellow Norwich shirt and bright red lobster skin sticking out like sore thumb. But that's a story for another day. So I'd be interested in ah in in other fans' experiences of of desperately trying to follow Norwich when you are away. And and also when you've got...
00:26:26
Speaker
when you've got the dates wrong and when you think you've booked a holiday and it's not going to matter. And then all of a sudden, ah like like me this season, might have booked a holiday when the playoff final is. My mum and dad were on holiday on a cruise in Germany for the playoff final. Unbelievable. What's wrong?
00:26:46
Speaker
They were on, yeah. Well, to be fair, when I booked it, that was 150 to 1 territory. Whilst I did put some money on it, I lumped on with everyone else got 100. You better have paid for your cruise, mate. Yeah.
00:27:01
Speaker
I've never been on a cruise. and Anyway, sorry for digressing. and yeah the the the comebacks are The comebacks are special and and they are they do live long in the
Predictions for Derby Game
00:27:11
Speaker
memory. i mean there's yeah a late equaliser can often feel sends you home in a better mood than an early 1-0 that you hold on to. So what are going to get against Derby tomorrow night or probably tonight by the time you listen to this, friends? um We go into it in scintillating form. We just scored four goals away from home. A very, very decent team, similar in the table and to to where Derby are. So can I have your guarantees, please? I'm going to come to punt first, please.
00:27:40
Speaker
Twist. I think we're going to catch Derby. and so And in order to do so, we have to beat them tomorrow night. So I think... It's five points currently.
00:27:53
Speaker
Yeah, so we've got to beat him. So Carlton Morris is going to score the opener. That's what I'm going to guarantee. Obviously. um We're going to be 1-0 down at halftime and then it's going to be spectacular. And I think possibly someone like Slimani off the bench will inspire a performance to win 3-1 and Mo Torre might get one off his bollocks and it'll be fine. LAUGHTER
00:28:18
Speaker
John hates Mo. What your problem? He hates Mo. There's no problem. You wouldn't tell him to his face. I would. I'd the luckiest striker I've ever seen in a Norwich shirt and he'd be like, that's brilliant.
00:28:35
Speaker
like you know If you can be a lucky striker, that's all that's all you really need. Right, come on then, Claire, but the non-hater. What are you saying? We're going to win 9-0 and Torres score in the mall. Yes!
00:28:49
Speaker
Claire loves my... Brilliant. I actually think... I won't be there to see it. God damn it. Well, it's okay. I'll cheer all nine. I'll ring you after every goal. and cheer down the phone at you. We've got, I think it's, I think it might be with time, it's with you and Magoma, a masterpiece. I think that comes, can't guarantee, I can guarantee it's this week. It might be Hull,
00:29:15
Speaker
Because he's got he's got last game of the season show-off vibes for me, his Magoma. So it might it might be Tuesday. and It might be Saturday. But I think we've got another Magoma brace. And I think we've got some, you know, unlucky not to get a Hattie and just absolutely ruins the defence of either Derby or Hull. And we're singing he's just too good for you. That's what I think is going to be happening.
00:29:37
Speaker
So I predict, I guarantee that chant comes out at some point as well. and I think we win them both. I think we, I think we will beat both of them and because Holla going to turn up nervy, whatever happens during the week. and You know, they are precariously positioned.
00:29:52
Speaker
Hang on, are we Swansea? We've got Swansea first. i thought I beg your pardon, I've got my i got my fixtures mixed up. I'll play the last game. We're still definitely going to beat Hull. But yeah, and so I think because because of how nervy it will be, we definitely will be in that kind of on the beach happy days. But we can preview Hull in the next one. So Swansea, yeah, a guarantee for Swansea is we're still going to win both.
00:30:16
Speaker
um Claire, what do you reckon the score is going to be against Swansea? Yeah, we're going to win 9-0 and Torre is going to score them all. So he's going to finish finish finish on 18 goals. No, 21 goals this week.
00:30:29
Speaker
Yeah. or Why not? I would say that's lucky. Punt? um I think Matthias may start that game and he will score a goal.
00:30:41
Speaker
And that's all I'm going to guarantee for you. Oh, that'd be nice. That'd be lovely. game so we think So we think we're probably going to be in our fish and chips on Saturday night on 67 points, which currently would tie us with Wrexham. So yeah, we we're going to be three, based on that, we're going to be three to five points away from from the playoffs at the end of the season, which...
00:31:00
Speaker
you know, is ah is a great season even if we didn't start badly or, you know, or rather a season where you've won a lot more than you've lost even if you do throw away the first two months of it. You know, if if if we just fell short. If we'd been average, we wouldn't be happy with where we are now. We're expecting more.
00:31:18
Speaker
Yeah, but I ah don't know. There's ah there's a lot of teams that are not going to finish in the top eight or nine.
00:31:26
Speaker
That team was built to be promoted. That's why we bought those players. That's why we need to get rid of Napa. That's why we need to get rid of Napa. No, because they are capable of it now.
00:31:36
Speaker
but oh oh We'll come to that next week because I i think it's a summer of change. Don't give Claire time to prepare her argument. You had her on the hop there. She doesn't need She doesn't need time. Yeah, tune it tune in next week for Punt talking about why this latest hat trick that Mo has scored doesn't really count because he was offside and and and why VAR should be introduced just for Mo. Lucky, lucky, lucky ki boy.
00:32:04
Speaker
I do think that third one came off his hand, though, didn't it? Did you see the slow-mo video? Oh, I thought was his thigh. Oh, I haven't it again. see the slow-mo video the club put out to, like, really, don't know, some music, and it was, like, really slow, and then kind of looked like... He had his hands on his waist, on his stomach, so it didn't, like, change the direction.
00:32:22
Speaker
But I'm sure it hit his hand. if If we had VAR, they might have ruled it out. but Anyway, we haven't, so it doesn't work. Well... We haven't, thank goodness. um But yeah, okay, look, we'll have that argument next week. um But for this week, it's going to be a very, very interesting game against a Derby team who, similar to us, well, they probably think they probably can still do it. They're one win away. So tomorrow is last chance saloon for them.
00:32:48
Speaker
and Tomorrow is one of those where if they wouldn't if they weren't to win, and they probably would feel like um ah it was ah it was over, especially if Wrexham and Hull got results. and So I think that that that suits us down to the ground. like As Punt was saying around the kind of low block being difficult,
00:33:04
Speaker
A draw is no good. A draw is not going to do it for them. And anyone this season, anyone at Carrow Road who has attacked us this season, we have done really, really well against. and Very few teams have chosen to try and get points off us by doing that, to be fair, especially under a PC World.
00:33:20
Speaker
So, yeah. I was to say, and apart from the first seven games, home games, where they all attacked us and we ah ah we went to shit. No, not not not at the start. The Millwall game, the Middlesbrough game, you know, there there were several game there were several games where we scored first and we we had the better 20 minutes. And that it was then as soon as any adversity hit, we we crumbled.
00:33:39
Speaker
and You know, they were setting up to to sit up against us. That's been the way all season. So, yeah, we'll see. it' It's something that Clement has got to find a recipe for. So another another couple of tests in the last three against playoff adjacent teams is is ideal to practice how you break down better defences than the shit we've been beating late.
00:33:56
Speaker
um And so I will, on that note, say enjoy Tuesday night. ah Enjoy Swansea, Hull, whoever it is on Saturday. Don't care, we're winning anyway. um It's that point in of the season now where doesn't really matter, does it? Let's just turn up and see who turns up. and Do mind how you go.