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We are lucky that we have posters on this board who had access to all the contractual arrangements the club made with other clubs rather than total billshutters who don't have a clue what they are talking about!

A bit like his influence on games.

No, it's not.

In the heatwave of 1976, we built igloos out of white dog s.hit for shelter from the sun and we fanned each other with our bell bottoms and big collars.

Allow me to be the first in irritating a lot of people by saying I don't really care about this. Maybe it's a generational thing but most advertising just blurs into the background for me. I didn't even know the Woodfordes sign had been done in a different colour for us.

If City show any interest I'm joining the Binmen.

It all depends on what Pukki wants to do, and given what he has done for us I don't think we'd stand in his way if he wanted to do one last thing at the end of his career. He might want to head back home, he might want to try getting into a team in the CL or might want to go to a team that can win trophies, or, of course, he might want to end his career here with us. I certainly think we'll be in talks with him about an extension given he is far and away our first choice striker

I'm concerned for society as a whole that you're still getting people biting onto this.

That was so awful and predictable that it came full circle to being funny again. A hunter goes into the forest with his shotgun, looking for a kill. He stumbles into a clearing where he sees a beautiful naked woman sitting under a tree looking at him alluringly. His jaw dropped and he said in wonder, 'Cor. Are you game, luv?' She smiled and replied: 'Yes'. So he shot her.

How's this?

Anyone wear jeans to Carrow Road?

You were obviously watching a different player to the one I saw. He lost every 50-50 and his work out of possession was awful.

Exactly, it’s like watching a theatre performance at home on your TV or in the theatre. Essentially it’s the same thing you are viewing but it isn’t, being there in person is a completely different experience. You can already watch any PL game for free with minimal effort and crowds haven’t faded away. I don’t see why Championship clubs would be any different personally, can only see this being a net benefit to those clubs and supporters.

I'm sure the majority of ITFC's £750k was us Canaries paying a tenner for a giggle.

I mean, he would look better, but I still don't think he's anything special. What does he have that David Fox didn't have? There is no shame in being a decent Championship centre midfielder, earning half a million a year at Blackburn or QPR and racking up a decent number of Scotland caps, then having your couple of years at Rangers at the end to keep your grandad happy. That's a respectable career. But that's all I expect him to achieve. He's not got enough strings to his bow.

Scotland and Chelsea rising star, ruined his career due to his season long loan at dreadful Norwich City. I think this is probably what will circulate, or at least on TalkSport!!

Look at me! Look at me! W*nkers.

Why are people out jogging?? Loons!!

Sunak and Truss are now comfortably 1 and 2 in the betting to win the leadership contest. The most likely way they'll lose that stranglehold is by Truss making a right horlicks of the third debate as she did the first one. The danger if she did so would be to let Mordaunt back in. Simple answer, cancel the debate which takes the bullet out of the gun. You can read these Tories like the back of your hand.

Are you suggesting that the police are fighting a war whilst they are on drugs? Surely that is bad practice?

I take your point but it certainly wasn't a privilege last season! ST holders commit to the season regardless of form, prospects, weather, covid risk, ****ty kick off times etc etc. Don't get me wrong I'm extremely unlikely to swap my matchday experience for a soulless TV stream and Pinkun matchday thread, but I don't think this will encourage people into stadiums.

https://theathletic.com/2904643/2021/10/21/gilmours-yet-to-make-an-impact-at-norwich-so-will-chelsea-be-worried/ "It is also worth noting the loan fee Norwich have agreed to pay Chelsea for Gilmour actually goes down with each game he plays, although that detail is unlikely to sway Farke’s team selections."

Absolutely agree. there are a huge amount of people who can’t get to games, either they are too far away or just plain can’t get a ticket. I would go to games if I could, but I live in Los Angeles now. Even when I was in the UK the nature of my work meant I wouldn’t know if I had match day off until it was way too late to get a ticket for CR, and it was far far too rare to try to get a season ticket. I just don’t buy it that people who attend games now would not bother because they can get a stream.

He was carp from the very first competitive game. The PL is just as much about physicality and athleticism as it is skill unless you're exceptionally talented which Gilmour is not and as a result he looked hopelessly out of his depth, like a talented under 18 playing mens football before he's ready. He will probably go on to be a quality Championship level player who will maybe be good enough for the PL in his late 20's like an Ollie Norwood but right now he's nowhere near good enough for that level let alone for a team like Chelsea.

It’s time we said **** to this 3pm blackout nonsense and put all games on the TV.

I can't imagine Chelsea would consider letting him come to us again anyway... although to be fair, I think he'd look a totally different player on the front foot in a top Championship team (which we undoubtedly are). It's not gonna happen, though, so all hypothetical!

You’re all wrong. We all know it will be: Krul McLean McLean McLean McLean McLean McLean McLean McLean McLean Pukki

*one unhappy TGS thinks "I shouldda stayed on Svalbard, the Faroes, or the Aland Islands a bit longer...*

British tastes are weird. Solid well built, dining table. Nobody wants. Antique, hand crafted and inlaid salon chair. Nobody wants. Cheap, self assembled Argos chest of drawers. Gone in a few hours.

Joggers versus Loons! (Have to admit here I bought a pair of black loons in about 1976 (time of the hot summer). Loved them. Even though they had no pockets. But for a couple of quid... brilliant). Anyone else care to admit they had some?

Should we? Absolutely Will we? Probably not Does he want us to? Who knows.

I’m with @littleyellowbirdie on this one. If you want to protest about people who are paid too much, Gary Lineker is a one-off whose inflated salary has little practical impact on society. Focus instead on boardrooms where not only do execs earn ridiculous sums, often completely unrelated to whether or not the organisations they lead are actually successful, they are incentivised on short-term results which actively harms the sustainability of their business and our economy.

The threat to the BBC is not just political, it's ideologically political. Private sector ideologues want to see the back of state-funded broadcasting; the private news and private media would like to see the back of it because a state presence in broadcasting is the only obstacle to simply going for the cheapest trashiest content possible without any fear of any innovation upsetting the apple cart. The BBC needs to compete with the commercial sector on salaries if it's to keep the talent it wants to use. Lineker, Shearer, and others are high profile footballing figures that add prestige to the programme. It's a moot point as to how much value that adds to the programme, but again, in programming cost terms, against the more than 200 million quid the BBC has to shell out to broadcast the Premier League at all, these salaries are trivial. Equally, if you start afresh with an unknown at Match of the Day, they will inevitably gain prestige and gain demand simply from being there; if the presenter has any talent, their salary will quickly fly up if the BBC is not to lose their services to the private sector, as was the case with Des Lynam being lost to ITV for 5 million quid a year, and he wasn't doing badly at the BBC on 500k a year either back in 1999. Extending that further, you can take the Great British Bake Off as both an example of the value of the BBC, and also an example of the economic challenges the BBC has to face. Bake Off was a format that nobody in the commercial sector wanted to touch, because it was considered too risky, but the BBC has it in its mandate to experiment and it ran with it, only for the show to become a massive hit. In the end, Bake Off became such a hit that Channel 4 outbid the BBC, which underlines the fact that the BBC doesn't just throw money at things for the sake of it, and occasionally suffers as a result. Ultimately, if the view is taken on everything that the BBC must only pay peanuts then it will be the BBC paying for training talent, the commercial sector taking the talent that actually has talent, and the BBC will only be left with those it has trained who aren't any good. Lineker is the highest paid presenter at the BBC on about £1.3 million. Ant and Dec get 30 million quid a year between them, but that's the private sector, so nobody makes an issue of it.

Hayden and Sara will both need time and patience from us. What an exciting line up for a second tier club though. Geez!

Is it the heat?

Nuff said

Especially if you live near van wink, just in case he over sleeps! 😊

Because their best days are behind them.😁

I’m not saying it’s a perfect plan, but I do think it’s the best in the circumstances. You could argue that we should take a different, more safety-first approach when/if we go up again, but now is the time IMHO to invest in a couple of players capable of being a key part of the team in the PL, rather than spreading our risk. Then we buy a couple more (quality not quantity) upon promotion and with a few of our better longer-term players we have the core of a squad who can potential stay up, rather than needing to replace more players than we can afford all at once.

They seem to cater for one or the other, but a combi one would be a great idea.

The in-person experience is completely different to the on-screen one, I personally can’t see people swapping one for the other unless other factors come into play, like Covid risk, cost of living, scheduling or increasing infirmity.

The usually well informed Athletic reported that his loan fee came down the more he played.

He's ****. Can we move on now please?

But how could this be? Doesn't Tuchel know that he has a world beater on his hands? A player which such a fantastic range of passing that he could hit a 5p coin from the ISS? He has a player who single handedly kept england at bay and who should have be placed in anyone's midfield all star line up with Zidane and who was so so humble to lend his god like talents to lowly little ol Norwich as a kind of help the poor scheme, god bless Wee Billy!! Such shocking treatment of a great great treasure!

Blame Emu, Rod didn't want to risk it.

Ricardo posted that he got his today.

Question......what's the difference between a bison and a buffalo ? Answer........you can't wash your hands in a buffalo. Thank you.

Last year we bought a massive paddling pool, apparently for the kids but it's been worth it's weight in gold for us lately.

Pleased for Hugill, who has had a huge amount of unnecessary stick from a select group of posters on here. He's never really let us down when he has played, when we needed him in our promotion season he delivered and he's always worked hard. Also, whilst not prolific he's a proven goalscorer at the level we are at. All whilst being a completely different option to our other strikers.

There will be a post mortem like you have never seen or heard right now. It is akin to religion in NZ and this, losing a series at home with a WC next year will eclipse anything we witnessed with Boris.