Canaries City Thread (8 wins to go)

[KunDB]

Team News
(No surprises the worse you play the more you are guaranteed to be picked by a stubborn old fool. Roll on Pelle's departure.)

Hart, Sagna, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy, Fernando, Fernandinho, Navas, Silva, Aguero, Bony (aka lazy bones tube)

Demichelis, Kolarov, Zabaleta, M.Garcia,  Sterling, Iheanacho

[gavin]

Yes, dunno how Bony makes the starting XI again. Still, that team should be good enough to win today.

[KunDB]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/revealed-true-cost-wilfried-bonys-7543560

The cost to City for buying Wilfred Bony; copy of transfer agreement with Swansea leaked online. £33m + Sell On cost.

The real cost is the points we have lost because he is inefefctual through simply not trying.

[gavin]

Sell on only applies above £28 million and I can't see anyone else being daft enough to pay that for him.

[KunDB]

Good early signs, playing with pace and purpose.

[Swiss]

Not impressed with clichy's tracking back there. And also bony's movement is poor

[KunDB]

Bony moves like a broken Tonka tank.

[KunDB]

Now paying the price for playing with 10 men plus Bony. Better job would be done if we played a mannequin than Bony up front with Aguero.

[gavin]

We need to be much more incisive when we're in control. But now we've lost control anyway! It can't be long into the second half before changes are made if we don't see any at half time. And, yes, I would hope to see Bony be the first change.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Fine for the first 20 minutes or so when Norwich weren't pressing - should have turned that into a goal or two. Then Norwich woke up and suddenly we couldn't keep the ball.

We've gone back to the slow decision making, slow build up stuff. I don't understand why - when we have two strikers - we don't put more crosses in? All very well trying to work the ball in behind the Norwich defence for the cut back, but for christ sake try something else!!! And why don't we shoot more?   

Dog shit so far. Not happy.

[KunDB]

We never hug the touchline or attack the dead bal line, hence no crosses and our strikers falling over each other and Silva has in the main been a back up defender for Clichy and never central midfield - WHY? Pelle set up that's why.

[KunDB]

Wake up Pelle change this game before we lose it.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Bony off for Sterling. So what was the point Pellers?

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Three quarters of the game gone and only three attempts on goal!!!  You wouldn't think we HAVE to win this!

[KunDB]

Worse still we are becoming desperate in our passing and giving the ball away. Hugely unimpressive today.

[KunDB]

This is no surprise it is how we have played all season.

Roll on Pep and major change.

[KunDB]

Absolutely clueless stuff to our shame.

Bye bye Premier League, in danger of bye bye Champions League. Good news is bye bye Pelle, hello Pep.

[Neil Mcnab]

Our recent form suggests a struggle to stay in the top four, this game should be the wake up call. West Ham are flying and we are dropping like a stone.

[Ludo]

Dire.

[KunDB]

We have got worse each season under Pelle.

One stereo type game plan, and a poor one at that, and sussed out by opponents. Too slow and always killing the impetus of attack at the critical momemt allowing defences to get back and organised.

Chris Sutton said "This is the end for City now, they are not going to win the title. Absolutely done, they have been like it all season they just haven't shown enough urgency or real effort to win."

Also of note the last shot on target was in the 28th minute of the game!