Saturday saw a second straight home defeat to start 2025/26 for Norwich City, and the On The Ball podcast picks apart the good, the bad and the Jacob Wright challenge in their defeat at Carrow Road to Middlesborough.

In homage to City's new formation, a five-star panel of Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan, Conor Southwell and Steve Sanders try not to get too bogged down in systems, rue those shoddy five minutes before half-time, applaud the second-half endeavour and ask why this football team has spent the last few years making so many bloody errors.

Plus, Captain Cantwell on the horizon, the panel's choices on the best vendors to follow Lacons into the Lion & Castle, Stringer's recruited Holty and Wes to his investigation in episode 3 of 'Chat GPT Get Banged', and the pressure of the 'Wright Or Long' hotseat forces Conor to unveil a simply incredible revelation about his shins.

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And the Liam Manning era has lift off. After opening weekend had some podcasts (not this one, obviously...) worrying about Norwich City's prospects this season, a pair of 2-1 away wins at Watford and Portsmouth have got things back on the rails.

The On The Ball panel of host Ryan Livermore and guests Craig Draycott, Maddie McKenzie and Steve Sanders toast the hero of Fratton Park, Big Vlad, and wonder if pragmatism over idealism is the way forward. There's also some Nick Stanley redemption and a warm hello to Diallo.

Plus, a Norwich v Boro game without Jonny Howson, knock-knock run with Leroy Lita, the second coming of Tzolis, some less-than-classic names from Norwich City past in Ryan's quiz, and Maddie makes the ultimate call on the Panenka in the new feature/hit gameshow 'Wright Or Long'.

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After the pre-season excitement came the inevitable disappointment of the action. The On The Ball podcast takes a look back at a (familiar) Norwich City opening day defeat at home to Millwall that just about took on the dictionary definition of 'anticlimactic'.

Host Ryan Livermore and panellists Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders pick out the positives (we're looking at you, Josh Sargent), remind everyone it's not time to panic/scrap the manager's system and philosophy just yet, run the rule over some of the new lads, and ask whether a different pre-season might have yielded a different result.

Plus, new feature 'Useful or Useless Mulumni' assesses the cult status of two of Norwich City's Class of 2021, there's a new half-time competition to get excited about, and on a scale of 'very to 'extremely', just how embarrassing is it to have a pop star in your squad? And it's Episode 2 of the mystery thriller everyone east of Swaffham is talking about: it's 'Chat GPT, Get Banged', and McNally's entered the building...

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New season! New manager! New players! New features! Same old podcasters banging on about Norwich City!

The On The Ball Norwich City podcast is back for the 2025/26 season. Host Ryan Livermore is joined by Steve Sanders, Zoe Morgan and Dan Brigham to look back at a big summer of change, assess the club's prospects under a new head coach (it's Liam Manning in case you've slept through the last couple of months), work out who on earth all these new players are, and bask in the usual positivity that greets a fresh season. Mainly though, we're here for the predictions, and it's predictions we deliver.

Plus, a brand-new feature that sees Grant Holt and Wes Hoolahan getting their sleuthing on to solve a Carrow Road crime, rating the new kits, (just about) remembering the time Steve Morison came on the show, and, as it's episode one-hundred-and-eiiightyyyy, we have a special darts quiz. Simply, everything is as packed in as a Topic bicep into a yellow-and-green shirt sleeve - the 2025/26 season starts here!

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You didn't think we'd leave this season unfinished did you? The On The Ball team convene for one final time this season to talk through a weird Norwich City season, taking in the Hoff's departure, the short rein of Wilshere, Knapper's gamble, departing players and the shape of the squad.

Host Ryan Livermore is joined by Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders to formally announce the OTB Player of the Season (sponsored by Farming Simulator 25) , hand out their awards (Best Game, Worst Mistake, Best Rallying Call, Best Schadenfraude) and look back at the good, the bad and the 3-5 against Portsmouth of an up-and-down campaign.

Plus, there's time to go back over some patchy predictions (featuring Liam Gibbs), get singed by a hot potato in a new quiz from Ryan, and pitch a sponsorship offer to David Bentley. Thank you to all for another highly enjoyable season (we had fun anyway), see you in August to do it all over again!

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Sometimes the end of a Norwich City season is all about the football, sometimes it's about the madness off it.

This is definitely one of the latter, in a week that has seen the shock departure of the head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup (less shocking six days after the fact, but we're still not over it), the instalment of the baseball cap/cardigan-wearing Jack Wilshere in the interim, and the departure of three long serving players in Angus Gunn, Onel Hernandez and Jacob 'Lungi' Sorensen.

Host Ryan Livermore, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders reflect on the rights and the wrongs of the big decision, debate the legacies of departing stars, worry about the possibility of Daniel Farke having scurvy, and the latest bout of fully-seated comic acts to be performed at The Riverside.

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Zero points and eight conceded - that's probably not the Easter we all had in mind. Hot off the heels of a 1-3 defeat at Millwall, which itself came off pretty sharply after a 3-5 at home to Portsmouth, the On The Ball podcast dissects Norwich City's terrible slump in form.

Host Ryan Livermore, Craig Draycott and Steve Sanders chat youth v experience, set-piece woes, bad starts, and crosses, and what this all might mean for next season's chances.

Plus, rolling through who to keep and who to shift for next season, the players and managers who never represented Norwich City but should have, and adding items to the club shop.

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Is that it then? Well yeh, probably... Norwich City's play-off dream all but died on a sunny afternoon in Plymouth, as the Canaries lost 2-1 in a limp display at the Championship's bottom club on Saturday.

The On The Ball podcast, featuring a panel of host Ryan Livermore, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders analyse the Canaries' troubling return to old away game woes, fragile confidence, Kenny the sacrificial lamb, Sargent's two-touch beauty, and Norwich City's new Mr Wright.

Plus, community heroes, Onel gets nearer to needing a social media intervention, getting up close to a wedding proposal (in a Canary suit), whippets, and Ryan, Ed Sheeran and Ben Godfrey convene on the world's least enticing hill.

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The last couple of weeks haven't exactly gone as planned for Norwich City. But why review just one depressing result when you can pick the bones out of three!

That's what this week's On The Ball podcast - with Ryan Livermore in the host's chair alongside Dan Brigham and Steve Sanders - attempts to do and with the play-offs seemingly now a pipe dream for this season, the panel delve deep into the project: Is Hoffball better than the Wagner-vision? Is the short-term pain worth it for the long-term gain? And, of course, what do the numbers say?

Plus, The Brigham Rule and the slimline penalty areas, contract conundrums, Northampton Town spin-off podcasts, and you're guaranteed a top-tier podcast when you have a man literally listing off positions on the football pitch.

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Is there anything worse than conceding a last-minute equaliser? Conceding a last minute equaliser when you've failed to run the clock down and you're playing ten men? Yes, probably that. The On The Ball podcast team reflect on a painful finale in the 1-1 draw for Norwich City at Blackburn Rovers at the weekend.

Steve Sanders, Zoe Morgan and Ryan Livermore discuss the right time and the wrong time for Hoffball, feel sad for the short-lived joy of Crnac, and posit the theory that Angus Gunn wasn't Scottish enough to avoid punishment on Saturday.

Plus, VAR in the Championship rears its head, choosing between your three favourite children (Sainz, Sargent and Nunez) and one man's struggle to name anything that you might find in a washbag

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