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As a Remainer, I'm proud to say that Delia is the (joint) owner of my club. If you're not, well you probably don't agree with a lot of what Sheik Mansur and his lot get up to at home, but I doubt you would turn them down if they wanted to buy NCFC. I'm also proud that my club has got to where it is by doing things the right way, investing for the long-term, shopping for talent wisely, contributing to the wider community and playing entertaining football on top of all that.

No. But you just assume that under different owners we'd have the same club but more money and do better. There is no basis whatsoever for that. Absolutely nothing but pie in the sky. As I said earlier, most of these investor owners haven't achieved for their clubs what our owners have achieved with ours. Let alone done better.

What the heck does that mean? What the heck it means is that last season we had to perform as a self financing club. And we won the league. Meanwhile clubs like QPR, Reading,Stoke, Bristol City all with super rich owners, finished well below us. Others are not as super rich but have very wealthy owners So with only three promoted from the Championship, some supporters were disappointed and may wonder why they have super rich owners if they don't do well. We don't have to. This year is a complete bonus and any criticism is so blindly stupid that it makes me wonder why some bother following the club at all.

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Now, reporting of the testimony from a direct witness to Ukraine "quid pro quo" requirement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/diplomat-who-raised-alarm-about-withholding-aid-to-ukraine-testifies-in-impeachment-probe/2019/10/22/086fb850-f436-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html " U.S. envoy says he was told release of Ukraine aid was contingent on public declaration to investigate Bidens, 2016 election" - Washington Post Tuesday Oct 22 2019 and https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/22/us-ambassador-bill-taylor-ukraine-trump-military-aid-biden?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1571770429 " The acting US ambassador to Kyiv has told congressional committees conducting impeachment hearings that military aid to Ukraine was made conditional on its government investigating the president’s political opponents "

I dislike both immensely, but anybody trolling Rees Mogg is fine in my book.

Maybe equally passionate people think we ought to try this self funded way first, we've cleared debts, overhauled colney , secured our players on long term contracts AND been promoted. This could work out just fine without a SRCI. Or even without an SRI of any nationality. Just imagine the pride we would feel if we did stabilise in the Premier League...off our own back, no one looking to asset strip or try to dictate transfer or team policy except people employed by the club to do just that. I'd rather be Ajax than Man United that's for sure.

Someone has just asked Rees Mogg if he would buy a house without getting a survey. Paper Hat won't answer as he doesn't ever intend buying anything so impoverished as a house.

They were all CC'd in the same emails.

Our recent history is littered with big teams having their worst game in years against us. We really are extremely fortunate in that respect.

This for me, and only this. One might even say: 'Nuff Said'

I don't think agents consider their client's preferences a great deal these days.

Yeah but where do facts and logic get you? Sajid “the economic benefits of Brexit are self-evident” Javid is clearly untroubled by them.

True Dartho but they're only 6 or 7 injuries away from being in the shoite.

Blades have been very good, wont be troubling the rele spots unfortunately

Never have I "liked" or " thankyou'd" so many posts on one page of a thread, to save anyone checking I firmly pro Delia. She may occasionally be ridiculed for the ' let's be havin you" tirade , but is also widely admired and respected for her love and unflinching support of and for the Club. She is a figurehead that most football people are aware of, "Norwich City" ....that's Delia isn't it. Despite a few beatings already this season our Club is a stable , progressive, self funded entity, with almost every bit bought and paid for. I wouldn't swap her for anyone other than a younger version of herself....just so she could carry on for longer. As for Tom, let's not knock him until he is in charge and messing up big time, which may never happen. People bandy around expressions like. ' Suffolk socialists' and Nepotism Tom' while at the same time offering no real alternative other than " someone with a shoiteload of money '. ... though who exactly that might be, given that our current books balanced status means that we would cost a fair few quid to buy. No one is getting their hands on our club for a quid and taking on our debt, cos we dont have one. Long may it continue. Once again .....you dont need rich owners if you have a rich Club. I don't really care if we never win the champions league, the premier league or the Europa league, I do care that we are a real Club, with a defined and well trodden pathway from academy to first team, Bolstered by smart recruitment and quality coaching , giving us a Club that can compete and entertain. If this leads, over time, to us being very successful on the pitch as well , then that is all I can ask. If it all fails and in five years time we are in league one or two and in debt to our eyeballs then I will apologise to all , including BV . Untill then, back under your bridge , Troll.

Well here’s a bit of good news - and now we know that Tettey can play in front of Godfrey and Amadou on Sunday 👍🏼 https://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/huge-godfrey-injury-boost-for-canaries-1-6335728

The same owners supported Alex Neil to the hilt in our previous brief visit to the Premier League and look where that got them. A squad full of over-priced over-paid dung players. Even Webber criticised it. They won't be making that mistake again.

Made me laugh. Sorry not allowed any more reactions so 😁

I don't know why you feel the need to demonstrate I was right about yesterday's vote as well I would reciprocate and post up the times you were wrong but I do need to get an early night, before midnight if possible 🤣

This is my favourite tweet of the night... Polyester McVey‏ @grabcocque 11m11 minutes ago More Replying to @adamparsons @jason_manc @SkyNews Tusk should just fax Boris Johnson a ditch pic.

Corbyn **** scared of a GE then.

Happy Halloween Swindo .... Tick tock?

Government loses. Thank **** for that.

Lucky you. I will have the addded bonus of watching it with a die hard Manc. Oh God i hope we win. He'll be paying for grub down the Pub if we do.

Cheers Alex, what a relief 👍

Marvellous, thanks.👍

There’s absolutely no proof that simply having an owner with a bigger wallet than Delia would improve our chances. There are so many other factors that come into play when it comes to retaining a place in the Premier League, or any league for that matter, so with respect Jim, your statement is not correct.

Johnson's not that bad you mean?

Don't you just know a general Election is on the horizon when politicians start making noises concerning football in an attempt to win votes.

Don't thank me, you need to let Peter Barnes know how enlightened you are. Personally I found it interesting as my view is that this motion will be more difficult to pass than the WA so it gives an idea of voting intentions for the 2nd reading. Wednesday and London.

Timetabling vote set to be very close Peter Barnes BBC political analyst Voting on the programme motion - setting the Commons timetable for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - looks very close. If the DUP vote against and all 639 voting MPs turn up then Boris Johnson needs 33 backers from the opposition benches. There are 23 former Conservatives who now sit as independents. If all of them voted for the motion the PM would need 10 Labour or ex-Labour independent MPs. But for each one of the ex-Tories who go against the motion – and there will be some – he needs to find another Labour rebel. The vote is due to take place in the Commons around 7pm.

I had you as going down at the start of the season, I thought you were a bit too championship with all due respect, but I now think I called that totally wrong. I still think you could definitely do with maybe 1 or 2 improvements up top (January?), as goalscoring has arguably been your biggest weakness I think it’s fair to say, but in all other areas you look very strong indeed, resolute in defence, and quick on the break from your midfielders - you played excellently. Us City supporters can testify that there’s nothing more frustrating than a ridiculously high number of injuries as it cripples what you could possibly really achieve, but am starting to feel more upbeat now the players are slowly but surely returning. Good luck for the rest of the season 👍🏼

I'm just thankful we don't have to support (or play for) the Jets... 🤣 Sam Darnold's face last night was a picture - it all but screamed " can I just go back to USC?" " Darnold finished an abysmal 11 of 32 passing for 86 yards, with four interceptions and a passer rating of 3.6."

The idea that simply more wealthy owners would result in us retaining our Premier League Status is a tad naive..

Poor old Ipswich, things could've have been so different..

Well said Lisa Nandy: Why we should vote for the Brexit bill at second reading Lisa Nandy 22nd October, 2019, 8:20 am Three years after the referendum, parliament is as divided as before and the country is more so. My inbox, like that of every MP, is full of people who live just a few streets from each other demanding we either respect or overturn the result of the referendum. We have gone round in circles for three years. If there was ever a moment for political leadership, it is now. It is time to start making some decisions, and if we cannot, to go back to the country and ask them to choose between what are very different paths on offer for Britain. For three years, most of us have clung to our principled positions on Brexit. The ERG want to cut all ties; the Lib Dems want to overturn the result; Labour is divided into people who believe a soft Brexit does less democratic harm, and those who believe a second referendum can be won and that it will do less economic harm. It has taken us through cross-party talks that achieved nothing, and indicative votes in which those on both extremes knocked out every compromise option in the centre. We have failed at every opportunity to take the offer of a soft Brexit, and now we are faced with a country that is divided and furious – and a Tory Party that has united to likely push through a hard Brexit or no deal at all. For so many reasons, not least the real and immediate consequences for the country, we should be forced to look at the facts as they currently are and not what we’d like them to be. That means engaging with the deal in front of us. Not accepting it wholesale, or nodding it through, but scrutinising and debating something real – the legislation that will enact our exit from the EU, which we pledged to uphold in 2016, and 2017 when this parliament was elected, and to work across parliament to see if there is any prospect of agreeing a way forward. I want to ensure our future relationship is on the basis of a customs union because most of our businesses trade with the EU and the current direction of travel will put many out of business altogether. No country has ever done a trade deal with the EU in just 14 months as the government proposes, so we have a responsibility to make sure there is a bridge to our new trading relationship or risk all the consequences of a no deal Brexit later on. I recognise that for some of my colleagues, the only right answer is a second referendum in which Remain wins. But all of this means putting amendments to legislation. If we are to put a deal to the people, we need a deal to put. If a referendum can be won in parliament, there has to be an amendment to allow it. If we can’t, we have to stop clinging to an unobtainable principle on what our perfect outcome might be, sought from a place none of us want to be in. Politics is nothing if not the hard graft of negotiating through difficult choices in the interests of the many. The rest is protest. It’s time all MPs from every party stopped holding out for our perfect outcome and found the route to compromise. We could, as one Labour colleague put it to me, “keep our hands clean”, and stand on the sidelines watching this go through to the detriment of the people we represent. Or we could allow this to be debated at second reading to fight for the vision of the future we want. If we can’t get the numbers, if we can’t win support, if we can’t win our argument in parliament, then we have to take this argument to the country in a general election and put a real alternative to the people. This is the reality of where we are. It’s time we faced it. Lisa Nandy

It’s the sort of deal I had hoped for, presumably the FT has good sources but it will be very close

Maybe they are passionate about the club and only want the best for the club and believe we need to step on with more wealthy owners to sustain premier league status. After nine games, I think there is no reason for the same old criticism. We are not entitled to be in the EPL. So what would be next after new owners? New ground?

You are very, very misguided as to what owning a football club is supposed to be all about. And you seem very misguided about what SUPPORTING a football club is about. Ask Bury and Bolton and even Ipswich whether they liked the way their club was or is run or would like to be us.

Thanks Herman. Just seen that there will be a vote later today. Still seems a little unclear as to whether the timescales can be amended or just that the proposed ones are rejected.

Looks like the reporting was incorrect, he was scouting players for Blackburn Rovers and AFC Barking.

Pete's got a lot to answer for...

Well, well, look who it is. Surprised you're prepared to show your face around here. Or maybe it's not your face...

Cantwell has confounded the critics this year to really push on and has earned international honours for his good work, credit where due. The issue I'm seeing is he does not play well against any intense physical press, which is what teams know to do against us until we get better at dealing with it. Against City, for example, he looked excellent as that game was all about the football; since then he hasn't really impacted games (admittedly neither has most of the team). I think in an ideal world I would be bringing Todd on when we're ahead in games, when the opposition isn't so entrenched. Hernandez to start for me so defences have more to think about than babysitting Pukki.

So underrated and quite bizarrely so as its quite a significant proportion of the fanbase rather than a vocal minority- so quite unusual. Just when you think his age or his knees have caught up with him he comes back and delivers. Not as mobile or technical as a Trybull but for pure defensive reading of the game and interceptions he has been our best option for god knows how many years now.

Lambert did a good job at Aston Villa considering he had to cut the budget each season in a league where everybody else was spending, and his win percentage of 42.4% at Wolves puts him about equal to Daniel Farke's win percentage at Norwich (and better than both Alex Neil's and Nigel Worthington's at Norwich). He's a good manager, under rated in fact. Ipswich are lucky to have him and I wish they didn't because he'll take them back up That win percentage at Wolves and the fact that Ipswich are unbeaten in 11 league games this season suggests to me that he doesn't need Ian Culverhouse at all.

He can be proud of the career that's he had considering he was in the Conference for 5 years and didn't get a move back to the league until he was 26. To go on to score 10 in the Premier League, achieve a couple of promotions from League One to the Championship, and presumably become a bit of a Millwall legend with 80+ goals for them, not bad going at all. I'm surprised that Simeon Jackson didn't go on to have a better career than he did have though. He has scored 21 goals since leaving us in 2013, despite playing in League One, League Two and the SPL for most of that 6 years. I'd have expected him to be a 15+ a year striker in League One or a decent Championship rotation player / bench player, and I think that shows how good Paul Lambert was at getting absolutely everything he could out of mediocre players (That's why he's well suited to Ipswich and their penny pinching chairman!).

But we simply didn't have the players to change things! That's the point! I don't think we've decided we aren't going to defend well. We're just defending the best we can with the players available. Once we lost Tettey, then Krul, the cupboard was completely bare. Such a shame Zimbo got crocked. I reckon we would've picked up another point or two at least. Apart from anything else it would've freed up Amadou to play in his best position.