Joe Royle Quotations

He is a nice kid with a great attitude and wants to learn. I am pleased, it is good to see the good guys doing well.

I thought at most it was an innocent tangle of legs. Having seen it four or five times on TV, I'm not even sure there was contact.

It is a victory for common sense and obviously we are delighted to have Ricardo with us again.

Jason suffered the injury in training and has to be a doubt for the Cardiff game.

We have brought in Danny and if Jay and Jim are struggling, then we might add one or two more of the younger players. Jimmy Juan is recovering from a foot injury so he is another concern for us as well.

We have made Dean aware of the situation and there are other bits and pieces to the deal tied in, so we will see what develops.

Wycombe have been in touch and Aidan is going down there to have a look around the place and train with them.

We did ask about Rossi some while ago and it was a non-starter.

Sam Parkin is still our top scorer and he's been out for two months. You never know what will happen, we're still talking to people.

Adam will be with us for two weeks and we are aware of the problem with the registration. This even applies to a reserve game and as yet we have still not received the necessary clearance from the FA for him to play against Crystal Palace on Wednesday. Suffice to say we are addressing this problem.

Any team is only as good or bad as its front players and at the moment we're bereft. It's simple mathematics.

They're very impressive. They remind me of my Oldham team: no household names but a team in every sense of the word. They look like a team that's been together for a while and fairly unchanged.

It's a blow losing Ricardo but we have to deal with it.

They were very good and we were very poor.

In Supple and Lewis Price, we have two of the best young goalkeepers in the league. These lads have exceptional talent and Shane is great at crosses and has terrific quick feet.

Gavin has had a scan and it looks like he will be out for three to four weeks. We will be missing Jimmy Juan for two to three weeks as well. He had to stop training on Friday with a sore groin.

I believe it came off his chest or his hand, but I don't care. We were terrific today - even the most ardent Norwich fan would admit we deserved to win - and I was worried we wouldn't get the result we deserved.

If Dean goes off and kick-starts what we all know is an outstanding talent we will all benefit.

He came back and proved a point. When he plays like he did today, with all his running, he is a great asset to us.

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.

I don't make promises, I promise results.

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

The individual will be fined, which is our new rule.

The chairman has agreed a deal with his agent for the framework of the deal we're 90 per cent down the road.