Vs. Burnley

[Huckerbys right foot]

The Canaries will have to draft in players from their youth team as Jason Shackell, Adam Drury and Jurgen Colin are all ruled out.

Defender Gary Doherty is still struggling with a stomach problem.


Injured
Doherty (stomach strain, mid-April)
Brown (back, mid-April)
Colin
Drury
Shackell
Louis-Jean (Season)
Safri (hamstring, May)
Chadwick (torn thigh muscle, May)
Marshall (ankle, May)
Thorne (thigh, May)

On loan
Rossi Jarvis (on loan to Rotherham, May)
Fisk (on loan to King's Lynn, May)
Henderson (on loan to Rotherham, May)
Ryan Jarvis (on loan to Leyton Orient, May)
Lewis (on loan to Stockport, May)
McVeigh (on loan to Burnley, May)

Available
Gallacher, Warner, Cave-Brown, Spillane, Halliday, Hughes, Eagle, Etuhu, Fotheringham, Lappin, Huckerby, Croft, Martin, Dublin, Earnshaw

My Team:

GK) Tony Warner

DL) Simon Lappin (if fit)
DC) Andrew Cave-Brown
DC) Dion Dublin
DR) Andy Hughes

ML) Robert Eagle
MC) Dickson Etuhu
MC) Mark Fotheringham
MR) Lee Croft

ST) Darren Huckerby
ST) Robert Earnshaw

Very weak side due to defence being hampered with injuries!

[Huckerbys right foot]

Result: Burnley 3-0 Norwich City


Scoreline only got that way in the last 5 mins of the game

it was a predicted defeat after the line up got announced

Darren Huckerby injuring his back during Warm up so that took him out of the game

1st 11 looked like a youth game .. 2 off the strikers upfront for us was Kris Renton who is 16 & Chris Martin who is 18 ..combined age of 34!

both played well great news for the future of the club

1-0 down .. Akinbiyi who went through our youth ranks scoring the goal

we didnt really produce only producing easy saves from Burnleys keeper

HT - 1-0 Burnley

2nd half was a little bit better ...Earnie replaces Eagle on 72nd min and shows signs of getting a goal

Burnley finds the net again ..Andy Gray scoring to make it 2-0

introduction of another youth player of ours ..young South African - Bally Smart making his debut for the 1st team and been highly rated as a 1 for the future by Peter Grant ...but it goes tits up ..Burnley makes it 3-0 - Elliott scoring

all these youngsters playing due to our huge injury build up

our subs bench looked like this:

Paul Gallacher (GK) -- ok his in his mid 20's only back up keeper we have

Andrew Cave-Brown - Young defender who is only back from long term injury

Robert Earnshaw - half fit (if that!)

Bally Smart - never even appeared on the subs bench in a 1st team game before

Patrick Bexfield - again never even made a subs appearance for 1st team before


good for the future ..nothing to play for in this game

bring on Ipswich

[Budgiebasher]

All these injuries eh? Not making excuses for Sunday are ya?

[Huckerbys right foot]

if our players were fine im sure we wouldnt off used a Youth Team tonight

[Mighty T.A.L.]

Grant upset with referee

Peter Grant was unhappy with the referee's display in Norwich City's 3-0 defeat at Burnley, whose manager Steve Cotterill has thrown down the gauntlet to his players.

Former Canaries striker Ade Akinbiyi opened the scoring after half-an-hour at Turf Moor before Andy Gray and Wade Elliott scored late on for Burnley.

Norwich boss Grant was happy with his players' performance, despite the result, but was not so enamoured by the display of referee Martin Atkinson.

"The only thing for tonight - yes I hate losing games of football - but if you're going to lose, perform like that and what you need is a little bit of help and honesty from the officials," Grant told Sky Sports News.

"By honesty, I mean by making the correct decision for both teams, not just one.

"They'll be getting the story right in there. You know the usual one, wait half-an-hour - that's not to tell you the truth, that's just so they get the story right."

The result means only a freak set of results could condemn Burnley to relegation, with Cotterill already looking towards next season.

The Clarets boss does not want his players to take their foot off the gas, hinting some are playing for their futures.

Cotterill said: "It's more like the Burnley we had at the beginning of the season.

"Unfortunately, it's too late for us to do anything about it, but, as I've said to the players, everything we do now is towards next season.

"So I don't want to see anybody go missing now because it means they need to be replaced in the summer."

Source: Skysports