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I joined to spread optimism and cheer with my upbeat posts

Bottom - Series 2

They disbanded when their leader, Rick suddenly discovered sea food.

I started actively reading and then joined to feel a greater connection to the team! Being 6,298.86 km away ... I don't have anybody to talk to about Norwich City. I can't just walk down to the pub and argue with the geezer at the bar about Giannoulis v. Williams, or the merits of the 4-3-3 with Normann in the middle, or whether Snodgrass was a total waste. This board, dare I say community, makes that possible for me! It's worth putting up with Fred and Cambridgeshire to engage in the banter. Now ... I do hope that one day we will successful and popular enough that I can start my own Central North Carolina Canaries fan club so I won't have to mess around with you lot anymore! 🤣 😀

It looks like I mis-stepped, so have reported my post with the request that all posts quoting it are also all deleted as obviously, I can't delete quoted cases. Apologies for that one, I thought the humour would have gone down well (compared to some of the stuff my five-a-side team throw in on our WhatsApp, it doesn't stand out), but clearly misread the room.

I confess to winding dear old Houston up on occasion. One time I quoted lengthy comments on Israel that were very critical of some of its policies and deliberately left out the provenance of the report. Houston claimed it was bound to be some piece of ultra left-wing, ultra-biased propaganda, at which point I revealed it was the official annual assessment of the CIA...🤓

https://streamja.com/N3GZ7 World class goal, give him the Ballon d'Or already

Hello, my darlings. My employer, Mister Chops, has asked me to let you know that he is quite well and the wounds are healing nicely. His finest hour and magnum opus, the Pink Un Panto, is now 12 years old and, frankly, it was downhill all the way after that. He became something of a bully, and, thusly and justly, down came the fabled "Banhammer of Pete". I'm sure if he were here in person then he would be glad to see some of the old crowd still here, in all their various shades of hope and despair. Love, Penny

And now he's left the building.

Better than 442 or 451.

The NHS Thugs doesn't quite have that menacing title though, does it? 🙂

I believe you are overthinking this. Just give Timmy a pair of Kenny Everett's big hands. Keep it simple

I see 4231, 433, and a 451 as fundamentally the same formation. 3 central midfielders whether that be (2 DM's and a AM or 1 DM and 2 CM's) and the difference being where the wide player is positioned. But relatively, if your not controlling the game and defending for large periods those wide players have to track back and they all default to same position and all 3 become 451s. The 4231, when your the better side or controlling the possession (i.e us in the championship) works really well. Having lots of possession full backs getting forward into midfield positions, centre backs on the half way line, all 3 AM's in and the around the box. It overruns sides. Having the 4 attackers when on paper your the worst side, leaves 6 to defend and opportunities to exploit. for the 'weaker side' a classic 442 formation, where your solid and competitive in all positions can work really well (i.e Stoke's, Burnley's, Bolton) but isn't necessarily the prettiest. Although it can be great football, if you have 'Eadie' style wide midfielders and they are hard working. I prefer 352 formation. Pukki has been very isolated with the 433 and is often the only player in the box when we attack. At least gives 2 central forward positions and when under heavy pressure reverts to a back5, and 3 man midfield and 2 players in and around the box. But can be very narrow. Nevertheless, at this level pick your poison, any formation will have it's strengths and weaknesses ruthlessly exploited by likes of Man City and Pool.

I can offhand think of three plausible reasons, so it could be one by itself, or a combination of two, or all three together. I will leave posters to join up the invisible dots.🤓

Nothing wrong with that. (not as funny as it used to be mind you).

Pointless.

Indeed i did Crabby.

Well, he was the only one who stepped up so naturally yes. Thank god he did, or we wouldn't have won a game all season.

Man City at home looks a good option to me For Norwich I'm thinking over 2:5 goals Good Luck pups Nutty I'm ok for my Oct date, thanks

Lazio vs Cagliari home win Pukki to score first and last Good luck everyone OTBC 💛💚💛💚 Nutty, 23/10 all good 💛

I miss Morty. I liked his matter of fact style, even though it was his way or the highway. And I've deliberately never met or tried to identify any other poster - too concerned I'd be disappointed.....or they would be.

Hi sonyc, I'm still here! I remember the old board, the moderation had its pros and cons, but the board was probably too succesful to allow that to be sustainable, plus also I suspect there is less legal liability if archant just provide a platform. What annoyed me was the personal stuff between posters which was tiresome, and some really good thought provoking threads often just degenerated into two or three people determined ever more hysterically, and sometimes abusively, to be right. Which of course is impossible where so much is simply opinion. It put me off posting much. But there are some really good posters with great views, not all of which I share but respect if their point is well made. For someone like me who left Norwich many years back it is a great source of opinion and "mood" rather than the uninformed national media. Long may this place stay vibrant and active.

Injuries didn’t help though, we did have some terrible misfortune throughout the season and too many couldn’t step up! certainly hope this group can.

Not really sure, for us there was no recruitment, it was more a case of being reeled in and being primed without you even knowing. You were promised perks and more trust the more good you done. i.e. A common joke was to **** in the drinks of people who they didn't like, and you wasn't aware of this until they trusted you enough - and then you're in on the joke. But it's a double ended sword as you're wondering if they done that to you the first away trip. Whoever was bottom would be the butt of the joke, and then they'd use that as a carrot to encourage you to do more and more to not become bottom. It sounds almost caveman now, but when you're a room with mental cases who talk about bending you over a table for fun. it works, trust me. This sounds terrible and part of why I deleted what i was writing previously, but as the younger lads we'd be used to antagonize people, mainly mixed race - if they were with a white girl at a bar/street/wherever. And then the other guys would step in as neutrals "OI! He's smaller than you, what you playing at?" and give them a beating, THEN try and crack on to the girl saying he didn't deserve her and you can trust a ***** etc. This sounds mental, I know, but that's how you'd gain trust by doing stunts like that. And again, Racism and politics was by far the biggest agenda way over football. We never sat and discussed tactics, for example. I guess the fear was part of that excitement, It's a little un-nerving when i think about it as I've never understood how someone could fall into an abusive relationship and wouldn't just say 'no' at the start - but thinking about it, we were teenagers and doing just that. In fact the more i think back, they were openly touching us up 'for fun' to make other lads laugh. It was like an acceptable level of gayness - not sexual as such, but a lot of touching and nudity jokes and 'proving' how big you were. And even then some of these guys were probably 30,40 years plus. See?! This is why i have to keep deleting messages, once you start to talk about it there's too much and it sounds so bizarre on a forum. There wasn't any abuse going on, it was just their idea of banter at the time.

Absolutely no other club in this league will fear Watford and most of them will beat them home. Defeat would be crushing for the fans and the players. It will not happen, it cannot happen. These are the matches I love to watch though, we had precious few like it last season so really looking forward to this.

Herman! surely you're aware of what the Tory Party thinks of metropolitan intellectual elites, there's no way they're going to upgrade to a dog doo bin (especially a full one).

Glad to see can admit when you're in the wrong. I think there is a big difference between what you say to a group of mates in private and what you post to a large group of strangers on a public forum.

Do we fear Watford? I doubt that Williams, Gilmour, Normann, Kabak, Rashica, Tzolis, Lees-Melou or Sargent do. They are used to beating teams like Watford where they've come from. They will all be expecting to win quite comfortably. Hopefully they will all start. We just need 3 others to join them - Krul, Aarons and Hanley preferably.

'Neighbours' is always good for a laugh.

Is this the Viz top tips section?

This has made my day! Great to see you posting. I really miss all the people around my old seat since I was put out to grass in 'the blankets'. The boys share that seat now and it won't be long before Liam's able see in the upper tier!🙃💛⚽💚

Do vaguely remember a song about the ‘mental stein army’ and think it was often sung in the small corner terrace between the new River End and old south stand.

I had to leave a few years back as this place was too toxic and a new forum had been created which lead to really childish spats and 'secret' conversations about posters here, and vice versa. Really pathetic. Also, twitter was doing my head in so I quit that too. It's like you can't generate your own thoughts when there's so much external influence and opinion being forced in. I think it was during Hughton days perhaps, So there was a lot of anger and frustration around supporters anyway. Gotta say, i came back few months ago and it's such a nicer place to visit and discuss the club, I really love the community here now. Even the 'bad' guys are just caricatures of themselves, and it seems more tongue in cheek/panto villains than any real toxicity or vitriol. But hey, as the OP, perhaps the average age has just lead to a bit more maturity? I think the stability of the club brings a calmness to the fanbase too.

I re-registered just to reply. I thought you'd moved seats because of my Halitosis and poor footballing insights! Duncan gets them now! I'm only 6' 5" and I no longer smoke!!

At Southampton away a good few years back now, a weird little guy in - I'd estimate - his mid fifties was in the seat next door. He was dressed in full "Football Factory" regalia and donned a pair of leather gloves just before kick off. He was agitated and aggy for the whole first half and during that period he handed me an "NHS" calling card. He went to the bar at half time and never returned. Weird. Funny little thing, if he was part of Norwich's firm he must have used to carry a milk crate round with him so he could reach to punch people, but he was living the role well enough in Hampshire that day.

At the start of the season they were relegated Burnley won at Bill Shankly's Liverpool and the Burnley boss said they were in a different league. At the end of the season Shankly pointed out that they were just that😂

We were 4-2 down at Burnley but scored 2 in injury time to rescue a point. I got back on the coach to find 4 people who had left early to avoid the crush 😂

Louis van Gaal would say 'You have no vision for football'. We played 4231 under Hughton a lot.

Just looked again now...I think you should take it as a compliment paddy. I reckon the list of games did stick in this old mind and it started me off thinking what we need to do. You were the catalyst I'm sure. The thing is, I have always tended to think of the end of November / start of December as a telling marker point for any team....whether aiming for promotion or at the other end. You get outliers every now and then but often a season is mapped out. Incredibly, having checked this out (in many leagues picking different teams) over the years, it bears out. So...a third way through the season (for the PL) is crucial as you've alluded to. People speak of Christmas but I reckon the die is cast a good while before. If we haven't got say a minimum of 11 points by then I fear for us. Watford is so vital. Win and we should get some belief. 🤞🤞

What about getting ten out of the eleven players to stand in the goal, with a couple on the shoulders of the others to shut off the high areas? Then leave Pukki up top in case he gets a lucky ricochet from the endless punts at goal the opposition take. Should get a few nil nils from that plus a couple of flukey 1-0 wins.🤔

I actually joined when this forum still moderated every single post before going live, it was awful. I'm still only 33 though. I blame Houston Canary for my high post count though- I honestly was more of a lurker until I started arguing politics with him. I do wonder what happened to him. It also taught me the valuable lesson that arguing politics with strangers on the internet is the most pointless thing you can do.

You’re more convincing than a lot of other regulars to be fair 🤣

Yeah, right on, also, the Premier League paid those Chinese to unleash COVID as they knew that without crowds it'd diminish our chances of staying up that season. You keep flying the flag. I also think the Premier League faked the moon landing, arranged 911, killed both Princess Dianna and JFK and Jimmy Saville isn't actually dead but the secret leader of them but nobody else thinks like you and me...

Its the dog that didn't bark.

Wow, what an unexpected start to the season for the Eagles. Hurts looked at home, Devonta Smith looking every bit the superstar receiver we're hoping for and dominant performances in both trenches. Obviously have to caveat with the fact the Falcons are awful but still, hugely encouraging start. Add in that the rest of the division lost and suddenly we're looking rosy.

Whichever team loses on Saturday will be fearing that it'll be a long and hard season ahead! My heart says that we'll pull a magic performance out of the bag and blitz them with quick passing and ambition but my head says we'll get bullied and sucker punched by a team that has our number.

Wish you'd Farke Off

I’m not sure why everyone is so anti Hanley. id be very worried if we played Kabak and Omonbamidele together along with two young full backs. We’d be exactly where we were two years ago with a young and experienced back line. Hanley isn’t perfect but he is a good strong defender with pace. he also brings a level head and experience to the team He can leave the ball playing to others. It’s only since he’s been back in the team that I haven’t felt we are going to concede every time the opposition make a cross or take a corner.

Unfortunately as much as I love Krul, his distribution has been poor in all 4 games.

Paul McCartney promoting an energy company.