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Non-Football section please Pete.

I totally blame Johnson for this. For his own ends, he did not put India on the red list, and up until 2 weeks ago, red list travellers were crushed in the arrivals hall at Heathrow along other passengers. We are 15 months into this pandemic and he is still behaving like an idiot. For all his nationalistic flag waving, shouting about how we are ahead of Europe, and all of this could not have happened without Brexit, just look at what’s happening in Germany. It didn’t even need to go to penalties, and yet people still defend him. It feels as if I am in a parallel universe.

Yes, indeed. You may have seen those pictures on the news? He had a long swim built into the schedule and big choices in the BBQ segment... hamburger, bit of salad, a bottle lager (direct and not decanted) as well as a selection of dips. I noticed no sausages on the menu however but maybe they had rather overdone those? Then there were the countless photo ops. Seriously, overall, I believe he cut a rather isolated figure. Plenty of time to talk about Global Britain but then insisting we were an island and that the EU needed the UK more than the other way round! Unbelievable. The truth is that other leaders made more sense in their second language than he did speaking in his first.

To this day I don't think I've seen a better goal than the van Basten volley. How the hell did it go in? Cross was too deep, Soviet keeper was in top form, Marco had some ankle issues (didn't he always?), ridiculous goal on a huge stage. Took people, including the Dutch boss Michels, a few seconds to realise he'd cracked it in. Still unbelievable, 33 years later

Looking for his next contract........ ☺

Afraid I have to agree with Jim and Kenny on this one, Hoggy. It is typically parochial of our owners to limit their ambitions to this planet. There is a whole footballing galaxy out there just waiting to be conquered, but you would never know it from the way the Stowmarket Two speak...

True, but case increases should not be ignored. I agree the vaccine appears to be holding deaths and hospitalisations down, but at some point the increasing case graph will drag the other 2 up. Also large case numbers increase the likelihood of mutations which could reduce the vaccine efficacy. A few weeks to see which way it's going is little sacrifice to be on the safe side.

Has any signing anywhere ever not gushed about a combination of the new club’s ambition, squad, fans, stadium, facilities, glorious history? Suspect it means as little (or as much) when they do it here as when they do it at their next club. Other than that it makes us feel good for a bit, and that it might actually be a bit odd if they didn’t have something positive prepared for when they’re inevitably asked.

Not necessarily -- individual scouts will not know all the targets that a club is pursuing. Clubs do tend to build some 'Chinese Walls' around scouts so that all of a club's strategy cannot be leaked should one member leave. Windows are planned 6 months to a year in advance - a scout switching clubs in one window isn't likely to mean a massive change in direction in a recruitment plan. Chris Jones, although highly regarded is a scout - he is not a Head of Recruitment or Sporting Director - these are the people who build the strategies and make the deals.

Copied 3 tweets from this bloke who I follow for updates on Covid in case folk wish to do the same. In summary, he is very cautious on the Delta variant, supports sensible precautions once we 'open up' (citing wide public support) and he has a very sensible plan for going ahead. His other posts also indicate an inquiring mind on other topics (G7, tax and international cooperation etc).

He may not have had a shockable rhythm until you saw the defibrillation. I wouldnt criticise the medical assistance I would hail it. He is alive because of it. 100% successful outcome

Sorry I know this is an English club forum, but everyone is excited up here at bonnie Scotland once again loose in tournament football. We are pretty confident of getting out the group stage for the first time ever and of beating The Czech Republic. But I suspect it's more of the same as they are no mugs and we beat them last time while they had most of their team out due to covid. Reckon they will have something to prove.

Why? It's June. The Euros are on. Go out, get some fresh air. Enjoy the sunshine. If you find yourself nervous about NCFC in the close season, then try and find some perspective and realise -

That Duda chap looks decent for Slovakia, we should look to sign him...... 😏

Nigel Clough ? Give your head a wobble Lakey.

Nope. https://youtu.be/Ly3mSsHg9T0

Repost from the other thread; Individual scouts will not know all the targets that a club is pursuing. Clubs do tend to build some 'Chinese Walls' around scouts so that all of a club's strategy cannot be leaked should one member leave. Windows are planned 6 months to a year in advance - a scout switching clubs in one window isn't likely to mean a massive change in direction in a recruitment plan. Chris Jones, although highly regarded is a scout - he is not a Head of Recruitment or Sporting Director - these are the people who build the strategies and make the deals. Worth noting also, Norwich have multiple 'lead' scouts covering the same areas. He is not 'the' lead scout, but one of many scouts the club employ.

To be fair, alternatively, he could have praised their generous pay and rewards structure, which would be truthful but not go down too well. Or their recent footballing successes and trophies... which would be both unpopular and untrue. ‘Ambition’ feels about right for the situation.

Rap/grime legend Kano http://www.ex-canaries.co.uk/players/robinson-kane.htm I believe he was in the same U13's team as Ian Henderson.

Watched 20 mins just now to give it a chance. Desperately poor! Crappy jumble-sale set, crappy presenters, crappy guests. Summed up for me by interviewing a guy from the Falkland Islands to mark 39 year aniversary since the war; he moved there 35 years ago.

Imagine a striker force of Hartson and Sibierski with Elmander just off them. The lack of pace would be something else.

Wynton rufur anyone

A lot more outgoings at the minute. Would be good to see even a first team squad player come in.

i think Emi said " i have Supported Villa since i was growing up in Argentina , in fact i have a Great Grandma who was born a few streets away from the Ground and that is why i had to sign ,it is in my Blood "

Queue the multiple explanations of why looking for additional investment will result in financial ruin and the club playing Kings Lynn in 4 seasons time from the hoards of posters whose dreams have been slowly eroded away year after year until such time they welcome the pain and suffering caused by their captors like a warm security blanket

I see what you're saying, but we're not privy to the conversations behind the scenes. It has been rumoured that Emi's contract on promotion took him from 15k p/w to 35k p/w. The obvious and immediate thought is that this is way too low, even for our wage budget, and given Drmic was rumoured to be on £50k p/w in 19/20, you'd be wondering why Buendia hasn't been offered something similar or maybe even in excess of this - with a good slathering of achievable bonuses to really take his pay up. So did we offer him a better deal? Could we have made a better stab at keeping him? The nature in how we sold him suggests we absolutely could've taken a harder line, but I also trust Webber and find it hard to believe that he saw the sale as anything other than a necessity after discussions with Emi were not productive. £33mil or whatever for him is not going to come close to replacing him in the team, and it will require some more rabbit-and-hat actioning from Webber in order to make it so. So given all of that, it really is bonkers for anyone on here to suggest trying to keep him as if Webber hadn't already thought, discussed and stricken it off with Buendia personally. I am still a bit disappointed in the nature of how we sold him, so don't disagree entirely, but we will never know the true intricacies of it so its probably best to just trust the man in charge on this one.

Guy who scored in his interview said he noticed the keeper standing further up during the first half and was looking out for it 2nd.

Still everything to play for.

Was is the key word there @Van wink, it has been years since he had any credibility. His unprofessionalism dealing with Owen Jones effectively ended his career as a front line journalist.

Seriously-I think if he does, he could be in trouble.

Idiot.

Grant has started well.

No, I'm quite serious.....

Fitba I think 😄

...yep, a work permit fail. #earlybrexit In recent years Domagoj Vida

ITV.

Kenny had to be withdrawn from the squad due to injury. But he's on media duties for the BBC for Scotland games so that should be quite a laugh!

Dean Windass, as already mentioned. Cost us a whole lot more than just a missed signing.

Sibierski

I like the culture he has created, the better relations with the mdeia and fans and generally there is nothing to dislike about Southgate - he's a decent guy. I think he's doing a reasonable job. Having said that i think tactically he is a little lacking, is slow to react in games and still does not quite know his best side. I think he got the formation right finally in the game yesterday and that formation really suits us so thats a good start. I do, however, think our two best full backs were on the bench so the team selection was a little bit strange.

'No Norwich players get near the squad' How dare you, Ruddy and Redmond had like, at least a cameo 😏

KIng's Lynn is a must for a pre-season friendly .....Home and away if possible?......

Just to check, I stuck 'Ameobi' into the search bar at the top (just topic titles) and got 4 pages worth of threads from 2008 mainly 😂

If we had got Toivonen we would have stayed up. Dean Windass - the probable cause of O'Neill leaving.

That’s a name from the past I’d forgotten about, remember thinking his name sounded like a startrek character.

What about Linvoy Primus?

His past record is dodgy/ got Middlesbrough relegated and not much else, he ticks box of being a safe pair of hands for FA but plays timid football imho- so much talent but sets up in negative way

He was, at Southampton until that infamous 9-0 defeat, Pink Un stating he had started 21 of 22 Premier games. Also yes lets get this Topic correct, the title of which says Leeds agree a deal...nowhere is there any evidence of this, reports just saying Leeds are highly interested etc etc...there is a big difference between being interested and a Pink Un report laying out a deal and structure of the deal. I agree with Lakey in that this IS an important position within a squad and if we can get Angus in for even a sum that may eventually reach perhaps 6 mill then i think its a super deal and i personally rate Angus highly. Get it done.

Gunn isn't good enough to be a regular starter in the PL.