It’s end of season party podcast time! The campaign is finally over, and the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast will see you to the conclusion in style, with a supercharged episode to round off the season.This feature-length episode stars Steve

#156 A tight podcast on a tight 90

May 14th, 2024 53m 53s

Let's be fair, that wasn't what we'd hoped for. The On The Ball Norwich City Podcast takes stock at the halfway stage of the play-off semi-final between Norwich City and Leeds United, with no goals to speak of.That didn't stop Steve Sanders (a

#155 A double date with Daniel

May 7th, 2024 1h

Call off the trepidation - the top six spot is booked and the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast can start looking ahead to a date with the ex, as Daniel Farke arrives with Leeds on Sunday for a play-off semi-final.Steve Sanders (aka NCFC Number

#154 Don't say 'we made it' yet...

Apr 30th, 2024 1h 13m

You will hear no presumptions made on this penultimate/not-penultimate On The Ball Norwich City Podcast for 2023/24. That's because the Canaries are nearly in the play-offs but not quite rubber stamped yet - with a 2-2 draw with Swansea at the

#153 Top Gunn and praying for sun

Apr 23rd, 2024 1h 3m

It's eight and out for the Canaries, as the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast assesses the game that ended the winning run at Carrow Road, the 1-1 draw with Bristol City.Steve Sanders (aka NCFC Numbers) bravely soldiers through cold with Dan Br

#152 Tears, cheers and 15 years

Apr 9th, 2024 1h 19m

Well...what were we worried about? An On The Ball Norwich City Podcast to enjoy about a game worth remembering, as the Canaries got (another) one over their old rivals Ipswich Town with a 1-0 win on Saturday.A panel of Steve Sanders (aka NCFC

#151 Cornering the set-piece market

Apr 3rd, 2024 1h 3m

For the first time in quite some time, the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast does not follow a win, after the Canaries' 3-1 Easter Monday defeat at Leicester. The panel of NCFC Numbers (aka Steve Sanders), Dan Brigham and Dave Powles review tha

#150 A statement win for a landmark pod

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 6m

The On The Ball Norwich City Podcast turns 150 episodes old! And celebrated by doing what it's done for the previous 149 episodes: talking about the football. Luckily the Canaries obliged with a thumping 3-0 win at Stoke for the anniversary pod

#149 S-caping to victory

Mar 12th, 2024 1h 10m

Five goals, five goalscorers beginning with S - some sort of sorcery... Episode 149 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast deals with the alliterative, but also revels in a thumping 5-0 win for Norwich City over Rotherham on Saturday that lift

#148 Sargent's on fire

Mar 5th, 2024 55m 58s

...and Sunderland's defence, for one passage of play at least, were terrified. Episode 148 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast focuses squarely on Norwich City's American beauty of a striker, Josh Sargent, who has turned his goalscoring for

#147 Adam and the eve of deadline day

Jan 30th, 2024 1h 8m

The transfer window will dramatically slam shut on Thursday, and all the talk is suddenly about an Adam Idah move to Verona in Serie A. So naturally that's what a lot of the talk in Episode 147 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast was about

#146 Play-off choices and panto voices

Jan 23rd, 2024 1h 8m

Episode 146 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast falls on that rarest of occasions: a two-win week for Norwich City.The most recent of those came in an improved performance over West Brom on Saturday, and NCFC Numbers (aka Steve Sanders), D

#145 Rowe-ing to Hull and back

Jan 16th, 2024 1h

So just how much do you allow a performance to gloss over a result? That's the main debate on Episode 145 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast, which focuses on the Canaries' eye-catching 2-1 win at Hull, which was achieved with a slightly l

#144 'Tis the season to be Jonny

Dec 19th, 2023 1h 13m

Episode 144 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast has more than one reason to be festive, after Jonathan Rowe's finest hour to date kept their unbeaten run in the East Anglian derby going.Naturally the 2-2 draw against Ipswich, and all the s

#143 Derby day memories and derby day dread

Dec 12th, 2023 1h 5m

The return of the East Anglian derby looms large over Episode 143 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast, as the team pick some of their favourite games and moments from derby duels gone by.The alternative for host NCFCNumbers, aka Steve Sand

#142 A win is a win

Nov 28th, 2023 53m 30s

After a lovely goal decided a not so lovely game, Episode 142 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast asks whether points trump performances, as Norwich City enter the Ben Knapper era.Host NCFCNumbers, aka Steve Sanders, Zoe Morgan and Ben Mou

#141 Bonus pod: Best and Worst Webber signing XIs

Nov 23rd, 2023 42m 53s

If you've finished of the main course, then how about something from the dessert trolley? Episode 141 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast is a special bonus podcast where the OTB gang set out to find a best and worst XI of Stuart Webber's r

#140 The Stuart Webber years

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 11m

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In a special edition of the On The Ball Norwich City podcast, the crew look back at the six-and-a-half rollercoaster years under Stuart Webber, who departed last week as the club's Sporting D

#139 Rovers and not out for David Wagner

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 9m

It looked like the end, it smelt like the end, it wasn't the end. Episode 139 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast assesses a wretched couple of weeks for the Canaries, culminating in a 3-1 defeat to ten-man Blackburn Rovers last weekend. H

#138 The trouble with Leeds, and the trouble with leads

Oct 24th, 2023 1h 10m

How to rile a fanbase in 45 minutes? Episode 138 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast takes in the best of times and the worst of times as it looks back on the capitulation at home to Leeds United.NCFCnumbers AKA Steve Sanders is joined by

#137 Victory by a matter of inches

Sep 18th, 2023 59m 43s

The signs of things to come?... Episode 137 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast assesses the Canaries' early action and standout performances as the 2023-24 Championship season finds its rhythm.NCFCnumbers AKA Steve Sanders is in the hosti

#136 The rumblings of a plan

Aug 14th, 2023 46m

The train has left the station... Episode 136 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast assesses the opening skirmishes of the new Championship season.Michael Bailey hosts alongside NCFCnumbers AKA Steve Sanders for former Canaries head of conte

#135 Away we go again!

Aug 3rd, 2023 1h 13m

Let's do it all again... Episode 135 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast rings in the new Championship season and all the hopes and dreams you would expect from any preview.Michael Bailey hosts alongside NCFCnumbers AKA Steve Sanders. They

#134 And with that, it was finally over

May 9th, 2023 1h 20m

Out of its misery... Episode 134 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast digests the Canaries' season finale - another defeat! - and surveys the resulting damage as the close season arrives.Michael Bailey hosts alongside NCFCnumbers AKA Steve

#133 Fighting among ourselves

May 1st, 2023 1h 10m

A tad inauspicious... Episode 133 of the On The Ball Norwich City Podcast digests the Canaries' defeat at West Bromwich Albion, as the campaign's final game comes into view.Michael Bailey hosts alongside NCFCnumbers AKA Steve Sanders, City aut