Archive for January, 2009

New City boss Bryan Gunn promised that it would be a busy 48 hours for all concerned on the transfer front ahead of Monday night's 5pm deadline and this evening, he was proving as good as his word with reports that the Canaries had signed Celtic striker Chris Killen on loan until the end of the season.

With nothing official emerging from Carrow Road tonight, it was left to a senior source to suggest that this morning's reports north of the border weren't too far …

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Wolves boss Mick McCarthy turned up the heat on all concerned this week as looked forward to 'a big week' at either end of the Championship table.

McCarthy was one of a whole clutch of managers, coaches and scouts that were in the stands watching last night's 1-1 draw at the KeepMoat Stadium.

In no particular order, he was joined by Alan Irvine (Preston North End), Alex McLeish (Birmingham City), Brian Laws (Sheffield Wednesday) and Nigel Clough (Derby …

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Jonathan Grounds' first-ever goal in senior football kept Bryan Gunn's unbeaten run as City boss intact tonight with a 1-1 draw at Doncaster Rovers.

The result keeps Rovers beneath the Norfolk side in the table and with five points in the three games since the City goalkeeping legend took charge of the Championship, City are starting to dig themselves out of trouble.

It might be slow progress, it might be hard work and, at times, it might not be very pretty. But …

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Quite why new City boss Bryan Gunn was quite so keen to bring Ian Crook's one-time Aussie pupil David Carney into the Canary fold became clear today as David Bell joined Coventry City “for an undisclosed fee”.

The 25-year-old had already caught the Sky Blues' eye under ex-boss Glenn Roeder – at the time, of course, Bell was linked to a swap deal for Sky Blues centre-half Elliott Ward.

Roeder rubbished such talk; suggesting that he knew “where the stories came …

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City boss Bryan Gunn this morning made another welcome departure from the norm when he held his hands up and took his share of the blame for Tuesday night's home draw with Southampton.

Flying at the break and already two goals to the good, the new Canary chief was big enough to suggest his half-time team talk might have played its part in Norwich's subsequent downfall – that perhaps he had unwittingly sowed a seed of doubt in the players' minds as the Saints dug out a …

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Ian Crook's knowledge of all things down under paid dividends today as Bryan Gunn welcomed Australia international David Carney to Norfolk as his first signing as City boss.

The 25-year-old midfielder joins on loan from Sheffield United until the end of the season and having worked with him at Sydney FC in 2005, Crook will know all about the Socceroos star.

Both of them helped the club to the Australian Hyundai A-League Grand Final in 2005-06 and Carney can regularly …

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City star Wes Hoolahan was in little mood to celebrate his wonder strike last night after watching all his hard work undone by two, “sloppy goals”.

For just as the 26-year-old's 30-yard strike was out of the very top drawer before the break, so the manner of Southampton's two goals after it were a case of Norwich once again fumbling around in the bottom drawer. The pants drawer, in short.

But had Hoolahan ever hit a sweeter strike?

“No – I don't …

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Bryan Gunn's management style became ever more apparent this evening as he mulled over two big points dropped. It could, he said, yet prove to be a very big point gained. The Gunner's glass is likely to remain steadfastly half full.

Certainly, it remains as tight as a gnat's a*se at the foot of the Championship. The fact that the bottom six features the likes of Charlton, Watford, Norwich, Southampton and Derby just goes to show what getting relegated from the …

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Quite why Cardiff City's no-nonsense centre-half Darren Purse was figuring large in Bryan Gunn's transfer thoughts this evening became ever more clear as the Canaries threw away a 2-0 lead in familiar fashion and ensured that the new manager's opening game in full-time charge didn't quite go off as planned.

In fact, it went off as all too many Norwich games have in the past. Badly off, as Kayne McLaggon's deflected reply 12 minutes into the second period was …

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The Canaries today found the cash for, say, one year of Lee Croft's new City contract after announcing the sale of a majority stake in EventGuard Ltd to Norfolk County Services.

The deal was this afternoon reported to be worth in the region of ?300,000 to the Norfolk club. And by retaining a 24.9% stake in their security and stewarding business, so the Championship outfit could yet profit again if the concern continues to flourish under its new owners.

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