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If Jordan Rhodes is our 2nd choice next season I will be seriously concerned.

https://www.canaries.co.uk/Tickets/Home-Away-Tickets/

If you're good enough, you're old enough.

Tenner sent from me for the DS charity.

The Sun - interesting article on Dan Adshead https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/7815330/dan-adshead-rochdale-barcelona-bayern-munich/

Shoot me the details Bill. I may not agree with you in the EU thread, but I'll happily stump up for the dodgy binner.

any more for any more ? story further up the thread - binner weaselling out of paying a couple of quid (or so) will cover that 'loss'

Some now saying he’d be coming on another loan deal. That would probably be the most sensible option if Norwich are keen to bring him back.

The Gary Gower’s tweet is a joke, so I don’t think the situation has changed since the other week. Norwich want Rhodes, but only if the price is right. What Norwich consider to be the right price and whether he would be third or second choice is the crux of the matter. If he’s cheap and can be signed on a shortish contract, then I’m happy for him to come in and be third choice. If Norwich sign him over a Drmic or even a da Costa, then I’m not particularly happy. There is running this transfer window with one eye on whether the club is relegated, which is the sensible approach but signing Rhodes as 2nd choice would be as if the club was never promoted.

£3m isn't too much and at 19 years old he isn't going to be expecting to walk into a prem side. Would like to think he will challenge Stiepermann, supposedly has the physicality to be an awkward number 10. Been compared to Michael Ballack in some write up of him. Very, very smart piece of business in my book. Even if we go down next season we will have a 20 year old very promising player on our books who looks like he would rip the championship apart. Hopefully he can go one better and rip the prem apart but for £3m this is excellent business. Even if it all goes **** up, £3m is barely even a gamble with the money we have earnt.

I think if Vrancic and Cantwell were demanding game time in the premier league, regardless of merit, both would be shown the door and right quick - I think any of our players demanding that would be put up for sale. That isn't the philosophy we have in place now and would seem like career suicide.

My respect for this guy just goes up and up. Was a pleasure to watch on the pitch, and a total gent off it.

Any dumbfeck can buy a bag of Scampi and lob it into a vat of boiling oil. Scampi is as varied and class-ignorant as football. Believe it or not, both Norwich and L1pswich play football ( Scampi). I know which type of Scampi ( football)I'd rather be served.

I wonder how attendances would compare if only those who owned a whippet were allowed into games

Are their owners stinking rich?

When Bill invariably calls them paupers in many of his posts where the "dodgy binners" are mentioned, I no longer perceive this as a dearth of money, but more a paucity of morals.

Looking at the graph of senior contract lengths his is the one that stands out. He may be old but his input last season got us promoted, he earned it.

Righto, name these

This boy could be Maddison mark II. Absolutely huge talent.

Except when you're standing next to a ten foot giant who's chomping the head off a six pound lobster and calling it scampi. 🦐

I see Skysports news are reporting that the most arrests at grounds were by Leeds and Millwall fans. Now there's a shock ! Why don't the fans leave it to the Police to do the arresting?

Agreed . But money is the problem in answer to your question .

Webber said in that interview recently that they were willing to revisit players contracts regularly and reward performance; Ben being a clear example of having a new contract that probably wasn't anything incredible and then the promise being kept of a new one with the next step up, its also locks him in and adds Value if the big clubs do come calling next year. It frustrates me that Cantwells people seem to be trying to hold out for a bigger contract when it seems like Webber is sticking to the principle that if you sign a small improvement offer, play well the following season, they arnt going to wait till a year left to go before you get a new offer, its going to come well within your contract time. Ive got a lot of time for Todd, he broke into the squad, but simply put he didn't have the same impact as Godfrey, Arrons or Lewis who all made the position theirs. Hope they can work it out, but wouldn't be the first time in football something like this saw a player move on.

It is one thread, hardly difficult to avoid clicking on it- I manage it most days...

Indeed. I'm thinking of starting a poll to get it removed.

Not to mention a lifetime ban for whoever started it...😀😡😎

Why is the EU thread there !

Really can't decide...nearly all the goals were superb in some way or other. Can't get Rhodes' second goal against Villa out of my mind though, still not really sure how he did that, or which foot he used. Ok, it's his left....I think....

He would have come in handy against Derby then.

Is overhearing something in a pub, going to replace that they were spotted in ASDA?

I remember that Villa game where he was at his best, standing in for Pukki, taking responsibility and winning us the match. If he can be that kind of player again to come on and deliver after hardly playing at all, we will be lucky to have him.

Thanks on behalf of our DS boys and girls and the CSF. You're a star🌟

Thoroughly meh for me but I trust Webber and Farke have their reasons if true.

I went up on the train for that one LDC, with one of my school mates. Neither of us were quite fourteen and we had no adult with us. Amazing now when I come to think of it. I remember buying the train tickets from George Wortleys in Charring Cross. Funny how that sticks in my mind. That match was a terrible crush with over 65k at WHL. It's the only time I've been frightened for my life. When the crowd surged forward I was tight up against a concrete barrier. Very scary at the time. I was level with the penalty area at the end where Cliff Jones equalised in the last minute.

if you check back on your report of the game your actual words were 'JR had a shot'

Yes lots, I can still remember the opening game against Crystal Palace, that I stood with my cousin and uncle in the South stand (although it was called the ground then because it wasn't segregated from the River End). It was all open to the elements in those days, only the Main stand and Barclay were covered. I believe we won one nil and my favourite player, Johnny Gavin scored. Ralph Hunt was centre forward and it was usually either Oxford or Nethercott in goal. After a decent start things rapidly went downhill and I think we went something like 26 games without a win until Millwall turned up in March and we finally won 2-0. I stood in the enclosure in front of the main stand for that game. It was a season when the club nearly went bust and we had to borrow £500 quid off Kings Lynn and Eastern Counties newspapers had to to pay the players wages. I can also recall men walking round the ground at half time with big white sheets held open while fans threw shillings(5p) in to keep the club going. I remember being worried that we wouldn't get re-elected but my dad said we'd be ok because in those days the other clubs would always re-elect teams that had good attendances. That was because back then away teams got a percentage of the gate. Funny old times and a much different experience compared with today.

The closest it came after they turned professional and entered the third division south was 1956/57, with them top and us bottom. They were promoted to league 2 and we had to apply for re-election. One might feel that by rights we should have been relegated, and the two divisions gap would have happened. But - rules are rules. As I have mentioned before, quite how Ipswich got elected into the third division south after being only third in the southern league in 1938 (displacing Gillingham, and ahead of Guildford (5 points clear) and Plymouth Argyle II (ok presumably a reserve team - but our team II came 5th that year) is a bit of a mystery, possibly explained by the Cobbold family's legendary hospitality. So I'm not losing much sleep over accepting the rules back then. I was always aggrieved as a young lad that Arsenal got a dodgy promotion to the top division ahead of Spurs, Barnsley, Wolves and Birmingham after finishing sixth in 1914-15 (although apparently they were actually fifth and someone got their sums wrong) and have never been out of the top flight since. But the very presence of the Binscum in the Football League is an offence against natural justice. 1956-57 was a tumultuous season for us - any memories from the more senior members of the board?

I give you Ignasi Miquel!

The forward line-up for 92/93 wins it for me.

Easy one, this. Expecting a whitewash.

That was w@nk, by the way. Appreciate it might take some of you guys a bit of preparation.

Don't worry, we're in the queue behind the St. John's Ambulance, 1p5wich Town Council and the Inland Revenue.