Leaderboard

The person I blame is the clown who thought it would be a good idea to have a vote in the first place. 😉🙃

I see that it is currently 49 % to 51 %. Should we maybe discuss this for the next three years and then talk some more about whether we want a second vote?

I genuinely believe they will never play here again. Don't underestimate the financial mess they are in. Last year their wage bill was 105% of turnover. To comply with FFP in League 1 wages can be no more than 60% of turnover. Added to that they are about to lose £6m in tv receipts and their gate receipts will probably drop, so they have to reduce their wage bill by more than 50%. They are already trying to loan out their goalkeeper because they can't afford to pay him. They have no obviously saleable players. Mick Mccarthy revealed this week that some of their higher earners will be taking a big drop in salary under the terms of their contracts but they are still in an awful mess. Added to all of that they have a manager who has barely won a game in 3 years and appears to have taken leave of his senses. I think they are more likely to be relegated than promoted next season.

How on earth did you dig this up. Have you got any of those threads where City 1st is constantly trying to bat off accusations about his multiple accounts😀

I'd take any of them, but not because we necessarily need or want them. Just because we can.

It looks like he is pouring into the right cups, but not necessarily in the right order.

I think there is a risk we may understimate how tough it is for a keeper to play behind such an inexperienced back four, you only need listen to the accolades from the likes of "dynamite" to realise how important he has been this season.

What a ride it's been, it wasn't without anxiety that I put in what to me was a big commitment, but have been rewarded many times over in a wonderful season and now a windfall too. The bond scheme definitely helped me feel more part of the club too, living as I do a fair way away - and it must be the same for everyone who took out a bond. There was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth by some at the way the club was going about things, but all in all, it has brought the whole club together - and this bond definitely helped that for those that invested. Funny how it's gone so quiet from those people convinced we were on a road to League 1........maybe they follow the wrong club.....

Every close season, regardless of promotion or not, the club should be looking at their squad and first team and seeing where improvement can be made. For me, the most obvious position that needs improvement is the goalkeeper. I’ll support Krul for however long he is at the club, but the idea it somehow makes people less of a fan if they point out where improvements could potentially be made is ludicrous.

If I had to put money on one player from the starting 11 being replaced for next season it would be Krul. I will now ritually burn my season ticket and decades of Canary memorabilia and cover myself in the resulting ashes.

This is great. Have a read.....posted September 2003. Some priceless stuff here.

Will this do? Slow news day...

Gawd, can you imagine if it were FLDC vs JTAV? Sky would implode. There'd be days of build-up, pull out supplements in the papers and a call for a National Holiday.

I particularly like the fact that Barnsley and Luton are up because, like us and Sheff Utd, it shows that the 'bigger' teams and bookies favourites aren't pre-ordained to top their divisions in the EFL. It'll also leave at least one of Pompey or Sunderland in L1 for the Binners to fight it out with for the title they are going to win at a canter with their triffic kids. 🤣

Bamford has officially been charged with deception/simulation following the Villa game. Serves him right, he’ll probably not play another game this season!

Check this after our game at Poorman Road

This our 4th promotion in 15 years and I thought it'd be interesting to see which player would be in everyone's ultimate squad of 18. I've put together the main starting elevens (subject to opinion, of course) from each promotion: Worthy's 2003/04 team: Green Edworthy Fleming Mackay Drury Harper Holt Francis Huckerby Iwan McKenzie Lambert's 2010/11 team: Ruddy Martin Barnett Whitbred Tierney Fox Lansbury Surman Hoolahan Holt Jackson Neil's 2014/15 team: Ruddy Whitaker Martin Bassong Olsson Redmond Howson Tettey Johnson Hoolahan Jerome Farke's 2018/19 team: Krul Aarons Zimmerman Klose Lewis Trybull Leitner Buendia Stiepermann Hernandez Pukki My combined team: Green Aarons Fleming Malky Drury Howson Leitner Buendia Hoolahan Huckerby Holt Bench: Ruddy, Zimmerman, Lewis, Holt, Redmond, Pukki, Iwan

Probably one of the biggest testaments to Tim Krul's innate ability is the fact that he rejoined Newcastle when they were in the championship in 2009 and contributed to getting them promoted. They stayed in the Premier League every season that he was first choice, then were relegated in 2016 after he went out of action early in the 2015/2016 season with a cruciate ligament injury. We're very lucky to have him.

They were scummy in the 1970s and they are even more scummy now. I want them to go down to League 2, then out of the league altogether, then quietly disappear. Then they can all support West Ham which is their local team anyway. Is it OK to feel like this?

Whatever is this big obsession to persistently continue to bring up the Ipswich on this forum. it should be about NCFC and issues that affect us. I personally do not gloat because a team has dropped out of TC to Div 1 not due to the loyal supporters who go to Portman Rd to watch football, which obviously has been disappointing. The club has been run into the ground by the BOD. Remember the end of last season and the number of people coming on here saying they will not be renewing their season tickets. Lets count our blessing that we have seen some of the best football I can remember in 70 years of supporting NCFC MOVE ON

I could see the signs early doors - WBA and Sheff U were pretty unlucky defeats and I was roundly slated for suggesting things would turn - I would have been fuming had we binned Farke.

Binsolvency ?

Promotion to the Premier League being worth £20m and that 'new rock band' The Darkness. And to think, in all this time, Ipswich have been in the playoffs twice, ended up midtable 13 times and now finally relegated. What a rollercoaster.

Excellent on first go!

Same. I was at the reserve game having a cracking time listening to Sunderland game and giving the reserve match virtually zero attention. It's one of my all time most cherished memories as my mum (who had a passing interest in Football but nothing major) was there with me and she passed away a few years later. I will always remember that night.

He'll not sell many Golden Goals tickets going at that speed 😁

We do a lap of honour when we get a corner😀

No you're right, immediately after clicking the submit button I realised I've become that person!! The Russell Martin thing wore far too thin, players need to deliver and not live on sentiment. I do feel Krul has delivered though and so it's okay to be a top bloke too!!

For the first part of the season I really doubted whether it would work out here for Krul, and in fairness by his own admission he's had some 'dodgy moments', but I've become a really big fan of his and would be extremely disappointed if he didn't get the opportunity to start the new season as number 1. Whilst he has made some outstanding saves at times in the big games, he's also made some equally outstanding stops in matches we have been winning comfortable (QPR at home for example) and so naturally these tend to be forgotten quickly but shouldn't detract from how important he has been over the season and I'm really hoping the progress continues next season. Plus he seems a really top bloke too.

I think there's a bit of disrespect for Rhodes on this thread. "Just a poacher/goalscorer"? Yeah that's what I thought too until I saw him coming on winning headers both defensively and upfront, hassling defenders, buying freekicks, slowing play down ... plus of course scoring some vital goals. Let's face it, if he's desperate to come, he'll almost certainly come and I think taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture he'd be a great signing.

Nice to see Edna Stevens getting a look in at No 4. I imagine she washes the kit ?

Four foot from it's tail. Now stop being silly.

Not sure if spygate was a storm in a tea cup ? Clearly the other championship teams believed it gained Leeds an unfair advantage and since Derby their results clearly went downhill ?

Promotion was in 2005 not 04. Whatever but whoever were the best team it is not arguable that the 2018\9 is far more exciting and entertaining than City team promoted. We shall see how the team performs and stays in PL to gauge the better team Worthy and Neil's team lasted 1 season so can be discounted.

Sticking yourself up front even further than Pukki and Holt. I like it.

Well, he would, wouldn't he? But in any sport, you have to improve (physically, generally) slightly every year to stay at the same level, as the overall standard creeps up year-on-year. For that reason, I doubt our 2003-04 team would be able to handle the pace and fitness or our 2018-19 team.

Pah! Never forgiven them for beating us in the 58/59 semi-final - never will. Not that I hold a grudge mind you.

Football has moved on a lot in recent years. Players are fitter and more tactically aware. The level of analysis (in all areas of football) is unprecedented. I genuinely believe that the current Norwich team is the best I have ever seen and virtually none of the players from any previous Norwich teams would come close to breaking into this one. The only exception is maybe Huckerby or Redmond could come in for Hernandez, but I am not certain either could match his work rate when we don't have the ball.

He was there for half a season and was never fancied for a chance. Also, we're not just talking about this season- he's not hit double figures in the Championship in about 3 seasons. The off-field stuff is fine but I don't think squad morale is going to collapse if we don't sign him.

BF, it was that or a two-hour wait for the next train, and I had to catch a flight to Davos for a meeting with George Soros and the other members of the ultra-secret Inner Coven of the Bilderberg Group to finalise setting up the New Global World Order Organisation that Len is obsessed with...

Not any more..!😉

In fact having just read the articles with Zimbo and Farke I think a deal could be reached. It is important to have a squad and team members who can lift a group, they mention Hanley, klose, Rhodes and Krul as those characters. But also acknowledge their quality and that they should have played more minutes but they were never sour as the goal was greater. You need these people, especially when next year is going to be so tough. Pinto has been acknowledged in helping Aaron's and is likely to leave. So we need a few of those blocks. But I also feel he can offer on the pitch next and the season after.

We've a squad of 16 or so players capable and busting for a go next year. We are looking at other options.... Why help improve other teams players when we have enough of our own already!!!! No loans I hope.

We'll see what happens tomorrow at Swansea, if Derby win it's all over, Boro won't overcome an at least +7 Goal Difference. If they draw or lose then it gets very interesting... come on you Robins!

502 is not a database connection issue or a code issue - it means the upstream server (PHP FPM I expect) is not available. It's also nothing to do with the web browser in usage, or the client type. There's a lot of partial and/or misinformation floating around on this thread. In simple terms, the web server (nginx in this case) handles the incoming connections from users' web browsers, and then decides what to do with it. For some files, such as images, it may serve them directly to the user, but in the event it determines it should be handled by another server (in this case I expect everything matching a .php file extension), it will try and connect to the other server(s) and return the response they give. In the event it fails, you get a 502 error indicating nginx has tried to contact the upstream server but not been able to. Whilst the specifics are hugely dependent on configuration, I don't think this forum's problems are resource related; my guess is that the nginx web server and the PHP upstream server run on the same machine. As the nginx server always returns promptly it indicates that RAM and CPU are not particularly stressed. In addition, it usually works 1 in x times if you refresh (although this doesn't help people who have POSTed long posts and lost them), making me think that either the PHP FPM server is not configured to allow enough connections to satisfy demand, and rather than waiting is rejecting connections, or that certain workers processes are dying and not being restarted correctly by the host process. It is also possible they're running multiple upstream services on different servers, and some are timing out - but usually nginx is intelligent enough to exclude upstreams that fail so I'm not sure it's that. In summary, I'm pretty sure this is a config issue that should be easy to fix.

That is just silly. There are plenty of ways the current crop of players can improve - and that is surely part of the development that will be taking place over the coming months. It is ongoing and does not need any great change - just improvement, adapting and raising levels. The PL is just another football league, better players but still just a football league. I do wonder if people think that it is special in some way - well not in my mind. Whenever I look in on match of the day, amongst the sometimes fantastic play, I see a whole lot of poor defending, a lack of organisation in some teams, a lack of desire in others, fear in yet others. In my mind, we will continue as we have been this season, only better - it is how it has to be. Why change a successful formula? It might need a few tweaks, but nothing drastic just because it is the PL.

Can we have a ‘not sure’ button😀!?

Strange girl, that April Fixtures, I'm sure she went to my school.

I was thinking about this the other day. The only way that Leeds could prove that the info they got from spying didn't have an effect on the outcome of games would have been for them to go on and win the league. For them to implode as they have surely suggests that their antics in the bushes have them an unfair advantage. Won't be disappointed to see them carry on the Leeds soap opera in the Championship for a few more seasons.

Gents, we have both defied expectations this season, and both Managers have done amazing jobs. It will be interesting to say the least to see how both clubs prosper next season, and neither will start the season with the same squad it has now, I'm quite sure. I can just about see why some of you don't like Wilder, but I have to say, we worship the ground he walks on. I should also point out that he is not built for failure, he has never failed anywhere, and I don't expect him to start now. Meantime, let's just enjoy the ride, no need for these negative emotions right now, let's leave that to Leeds and others eh? Good luck.