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Can somebody confirm that the Scum are now a mid table team ? The bonus is that Norwood their joint top scorer is out injured for a month and the other one Jackson got sent off today and faces a 3 match ban. 😂😂😂😂😂

Calls someone a bully. Then labels someone he’s never met a ‘wan ker’. Self awareness not your strong point is it lad? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Would you mind posting this again tomorrow please? Then it would make me laugh 2 days running 😂

Firstly, sincere congratulations on finding a never-before used angle of attack on the club! Big Vince, Keith Scott, Highland Canary et al will be kicking themselves for not having had the idea. Secondly, all I know about women's professional football, and that is not much, although I have seen one match, comes from listening to the extensive coverage on the Guardian Football Weekly (actually bi-weekly) podcast. And one of the frequent points is that even some of the clubs that have a team in the top flight do not support them that generously and, for example, often force them to play their 'home' games at grotty grounds with lousy pitches. So I am not sure it is true that we have done a lot less than most. I don't know what it would cost to properly bankroll a Norwich City women's team but my suspicion, given that even much wealthier clubs are not doing all they could, is that we would find it too much of a financial stretch at the moment. But that is not to say we shouldn't do better than we are. The obvious first step for you is to raise this at a fans' forum or contact the club directly.

So by @TIL 1010’s logic, if Pukki scores 10 tomorrow but we lose 11-10, we can’t congratulate Teemu on the goals (don’t they count then?! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️)

Referencing a glorious past. A realisation that the present is becomming dodgier by the day' Losing faith in the PR merchant they wanted in charge and the cr@p team he's assembled. Obsession with the colour Blue Brexiteers are just like the Binners. 😀

Juve won 2-1 👍

This is a new one isn’t it ? If a players scores but you don’t win then it doesn’t count 😂

Not only would this scenario be superb, it would be funny as hell considering the amount of experts who have written us off. Bring it on. If there ever was a week to do something great, this is it.

Pretty big slide for Ipswich : 19 points from their last 18 games - I can't see them scraping 6th at this rate Rotherham : 36 points from their last 17 Coventry : 34 points from their last 15

To add to that, given that the life of a reserve striker is usually 10 to 15 mins here and there if they’re lucky, then returning a respectable goal scoring record is extremely difficult and people will go ‘Oh, but he’s only got 1 in 6 appearances’ - which in actual fact can equate to 1 goal every 60 to 90 mins, which is of course a good return. Taking Drmic’s injuries aside (not his fault), I think he’s done alright this far too, and I think if we can keep him fit then we’ve got a bit of a player there, something a little different to Pukki.

Agreed, he’s doing well mate. This is what puzzles me... If we have a striker playing second fiddle at a club like ours (respectfully), what exactly do people realistically expect? An almost guaranteed goal a game striker sat on the bench season in, season out? You might just about get away with that at a Man City or Real Madrid, but for everyone else that just isn’t going to happen! Its clear we didn’t want to lose Dennis in January, and would have preferred to keep him here, but he knows his worth and wanted to play regularly rather than come off the bench once every blue moon to score at Everton. I maintain, as a reserve striker, he didn’t let us down, and actually has provided a few memorable moments. Good luck to him, nicely taken goal against those amateurs Bayern Munich last night 👏

...the real 'elephant in rhe room' is that nobody really cares about womens football...

At what time does their manager make his substitutions? Could make all the difference.

For being a progressive football club, some even like to revel in our club being a bit left wing. We're very 'The Guardian' should we say, we're proud to be inclusive, we like our status as a nice community club, we've got The Nest coming, we even fly a Justin Fashanu banner with gay pride colours. We congratulate ourselves on not participating in the grotesque uber-capitalist system of football throwing money at greedy agents and overpaying journeymen, instead we celebrate our commitment to bringing through our own. But is there an elephant in the room here? Why are Norwich City Ladies FC, who are the officially affiliated ladies team, languishing in the fourth step of the pyramid in a minor regional league? 4 or possibly 5 promotions away from the top tier. And why don't we hear any stories of our players going to support them at their games, like Vincent Kompany used to do frequently at Man City? When we do a kit launch, why don't we have a member of the ladies team modelling the kit alongside the men's players? They wear the same kit after all. Clubs with officially affiliated ladies teams in the third level (above us) include MK Dons, Oxford United, Gillingham, and Yeovil Town. Norwich City ladies compete in a lowly regional league, their league fixtures this season include games against Billericay Town, Enfield Town, AFC Basildon, and Cambridge City. Can we really pat ourselves on the back and congratulate ourselves on being a groundbreaking and progressive club when in all honesty I think female footballers or just females in general could claim that we've done a lot less than most professional clubs when it comes to trying and promote the growth and development of the women's game. With us set to receive £100m in TV revenue this season, and looking set to make a huge profit, is this the missing piece of the puzzle? Norwich having a competitive women's team with a genuine and meaningful affiliation with the men's side past us giving them some kits each year? It's great seeing the men's team do well in recent years, but with the women's game growing in this country is it time we invested? Wouldn't we need a thriving ladies team to truly consider ourselves an inclusive community club?

Including a goal against Munich. These "sloughbottom park" players dont half do well for themselves..

Win tomorrow and we are within 3 points of 2 teams and within 4 points of another Win again next week while they all lose again and boom, we're right in there. At this stage of the season it's all about momentum and if we can get that then anything is possible.

Source? I want more details, the juicier and more forensic the better. More than 19,000 there to watch them lose... how long before 'kids for a quid' becomes 'season tickets for a tenner'?

By the way Happy Birthday for today Alex. 🎂

Jas the Barclay King is a regular on Facebook and by the chap from Colchester you mean Cameldonum.

Yes trouble is we need to win three more than those above us, so it’s really a must win tomorrow. Still any result and points tomorrow will be a massive result as Wolves are a very good side.

Ronaldo's turn Juve lead 1-0 HT

Eleven games left and twenty points clear of trouble. Hmmm, with luck they will survive😀😉

Maybe you can clarify exactly how that's even relevant to the discussion? It's a strikers job to score goals, he's been doing that well for them, it's not his fault if the defence concede more than he scores ffs! By that logic you should be kicking off about Pukki as his goals haven't guaranteed wins either!

That's the spirit!

Brexit: the opportunity to impose misery on as many people as possible - sounds about right.

Didn’t really follow the Brexit thread, ironically the salvation of football was a nice escape from it, so didn’t see what Bill was up to on that thread. I didn’t get the impression he was a bad bloke or anything, was friendly enough to me, just like all of us I guess in that we all have our disagreements on here at times, I’d like to think that people can disagree and ‘banter’ without it really becoming anything more than that, it’s a place to debate what we all love after all! Except that squadie bloke that wanted to scrap everyone down Riverside because NCFC weren’t giving him free tickets or something haha 🤦🏻‍♂️. Anyway, I hope the blokes ok - we’ve lost a few of our more senior posters on here over the years, and if he wasn’t someone that interacted with other posters at the games/pub then I guess we’ll never know. At least with Wiz, one of his relatives came on here to let us know. He’s not the only one of course, Houston, Cluck, Jas the Barclay King, the chap from Colchester, all disappeared into oblivion too amongst others, hope they’re ok too.

His virulent anti-Bin & -Brexit bile are two of his several redeeming features. Hope he is well.

Didn’t Oxford win their last game 5-0 or something 🙂 still there is still time for the mighty blues to bounce back and crush them. Meanwhile I see Coventry have gone top and Fleetwood have also leapfrogged Ipswich and Portsmouth to push the Tractor Boys to 8th.

Will they get a stadium if they get promoted? It's amazing what you can celebrate about clubs who don't deserve to exist. If they go up I'll be pleased for you. If the binners join them doubly pleased....

I was wondering the same thing. We normally know why most frequent posters who disappear have gone, but not with Bill. (And I’m not him just in case Indy suggests it again!)

Steiperman

Rupp for one.

I have to say I wouldn’t want resources that could go to the first team spent on it but I do agree it’s a bit strange that the women’s team seems to get no support from the club at all. As far as I’m aware it’s almost completely separate. mind you the CSF is “self funding” as well.

Of course but I'm just saying the club is privy to Klose' condition where as we aren't. Hence that being part of the decision to let Amadou go.

My daughter played for Ipswich Town Ladies . There , I’ve said it . Miss Beard went through the ITFC player development centre until the FA withdrew their “academy” licence. NCFC kept theirs. Whilst she had an offer to join NCFC she spent a year with Arsenal under 17’s . But I digress. The amount of money required to place a ladies team into a competitive position was negligible . A whole season could cost as little as £10k - to pay travelling and kit costs. When Miss Beard played for ITFC they bought their own kit. Neither ITFC of NCFC Put any money into the ladies team. I’m talking up to 5 years ago. iTFC now have an FA affiliation system again and a tie into a further education set up. I still doubt that ITFC put much money in but this is miles better than NCFC. ITFC area about to be promoted to the third tier and got to the fifth round of the FA cup. I suspect the extra money that this has taken is very small indeed . Their players will not be professional by any means but I wouldn’t be surprised to see them getting some benefits The theme of the OP is worth debate (aside from the Neanderthals) and Norwich’s league position would be greatly improved by a relatively minor cash injection. Whilst Geography doesn’t help of course, the Binners attracted a few reasonable players from Lowestoft when they folded which tells you something .

Why can't you be more positive like Winky?

I believe he's too busy with his Instagram girlfriend and Honda CEO best mate to bother responding.

Could not the Honda plant at Swindon have been retooled to produce them?

They are reacting to the choice of topic title I think. While minimal, the majority of woman’s football teams lose money and I wouldn’t want to see Norwich, with far more limited resources (especially when you factor in we will surely be back in the championship next season) commit money to this at this time. The solution would be to run the team break even but would this not be what they are doing now? I’m also not sure how the set up works, when the championship was formed last season there was an application process, did we apply? the suggestions of trying to raise the profile by including the female players on kit launches etc, are quite agreeable and something I’d like to see.

We don’t bankroll the men’s team so the women would have no chance here.

Ignoring the obvious sarcasm from some posters that would rather play the poster than have a sensible conversation on the subject then to be fair to the OP, if we pride ourselves on being a community club, which we do, then yes there should be more attention given to supporting the growth of our Women’s team. The Women’s game has taken off and although it clearly will never get anywhere near the level of the men’s game, that doesn’t mean it still can’t become a popular and meaningful sport in its own right.

Up sh!t creek without a paddle. 😀

He's scored 3 goals in 6 games in the Bundesliga now, hope we don't live to regret this one!

I don't think anyone should be surprised about this. Despite all the wailing on here about us being short of money these clubs can see our club growing. While their assets are owned by all kinds of different people they see us investing in our assets. So Villa probably look at us and weep. All that money that goes through their club to players and agents who upon relegation will either leave or bleed the club dry. Would they be us if they could? Well probably but it's not so easy once you've been through a couple of ownerships. It's difficult to do anything long term because there's no security for them outside the premier league. And all the time they see clubs eyeing up their PL spot. They only crept back in through the playoffs last year after three years parachute money. If they go down this time they'll get two. So why should Norwich get the same money as them. Norwich don't have debts to service or multi million pound contracts to pay up. It's not fair....

Brave man.

Villaar waste vast sums and make their own financial rules so stfu and donate the difference to Leeds. The TV deal is the deal. In truth he is sewing the seed for their probable relegation.

Norwich to Great Yarmouth in 90...

No, because after promotion there were then two transfer windows in which Huddersfield signed 11 players on permanant deals and four on loan. That is in effect a whole new squad. And the 11 permanent signings included Mooy at a reported £8m, Mounie at a reported £11.5m and Jorgenson at a reported £3.5m, plus Kachunga etc etc. Plus Pritchard from us for a few million... So no, it wasn't Webber's players. But by all means carry on ignoring facts and saying silly things. To blame Webber for Huddersfield getting relegated after he'd been long gone is on a par with crediting Gunn rather than Lambert for getting us out of League One.

Webber joined us from Huddersfield in April 2017, with Huddersfield on the verge of getting promotion out of the Championship. Taking therm to the Premier League for the first time in their history and back to the top flight for the first time since 1971-72. Given that Webber joined Huddersfield in 2015 and is regarded as the driving force behind hiring Wagner as coach and bringing in some of the players that secured promotion you seem to have an odd definition of failure.