A New Hope

Here we are again at the start of another football season in the long life of Norwich City. Last year will probably be remembered for the club regaining it's balance financially and James Maddison flourishing into a genuinely brilliant player. He will tear the Premiership up with Leicester and be in the England squad before the season is over. He has talent to spare and he will play for a club in the Champions League before long, hopefully with Norwich getting a lovely big slice of another transfer fee! He'll probably share the England squad with Angus Gunn, but I feel like Pritchard and the Murphys aren't at that level yet. The young Norwich old boys in the Premiership at least gives Match of the Day some added spark for us Canaries.

As far as Norwich go I'm cautiously hopeful for the season, but also aware there are a lot of clubs with pots of money that dwarf our own. If we're going to achieve something it will be against the odds and hard fought. Daniel Farke is a likeable manager and his knowledge of the German leagues is certainly paying off in our recruitment. We've really bought some bargains from the lower shelves of Europe. The squad looks well considered and nearer what Farke appears to be after.

Random Summer Thoughts:

The new kits are remarkably bold and seem to be very popular. The home shirt's a lovely mix of old and new, well done to everyone involved.

Nelson Oliveira feels like he won't be around for much longer. He seems to have his heart set on wearing as many different clubs kits as he can in his career, so good luck to him.

I really like the look of Pukki, he seems like a busy player with a point to prove.

Onel Hernandez will soon be read out as every matchday mascots favourite player before the match now Hoolahan and Maddison are gone.

Where is Hoolahan heading? I saw he started the Run Norwich thingy, but he must be eager to kick on with a new club sooner rather than later.

The Pink Un magazine is definitely the weirdest Norwich City product available at the minute. It lacks any current player interviews and screams unofficial product all the way through. If you flick beyond the engaging pre-season features by the regular Norwich journalists you'll find: 
A strange 9 photo long pictorial career retrospective on Jamie Cureton.
A 10 (TEN!) page interview with John Kennedy. He played 16 times for Norwich a decade ago.
By far the most cringeworthy feature is the 5 pages they use to pretend Twitter existed during the Man Utd 2-0 from 2005....just...why?
I just feel like if the club aren't allowing them access to current players, then maybe interviews with canary legends discussing their times at the club might be more interesting and entertaining. Surely the success of the Tales from the City books has showed there is a thirst for that.

Anyway, so far we have 1 out of 6 points and have been drawn Cardiff in the next round of the League Cup. Work to do on the training pitch then.

Loving the work of the fans who are trying to create a better atmosphere at Carra Rud. It's already improving!

OTBC