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No mate i never got to wear the No.7 shirt when i had a spell at Utd.

Looking at the number of random stars on that I'm amazed a certain club down the road hasn't got over-excited and asked if they do one in blue ...

The one with the river behind it. Edit: Not meant to be as smartarse as it sounds. The railway line is behind the Barclay which is opposite.

Know the feeling.......

IMO, this is not the point. If he made his decision that he was going to leave known in March, that gave us three months to get a new person in, who would then be part of the larger future vision of where the club should head, not be stuck with a strategy laid down by his predecessor. Webber in theory could have been part of this process, explaining the direction in which he believed the club should go, but any final decision on overall strategy and recruitment should have lain with his successor. Let me say again that this is not about someone keeping things ticking over while a successor is agreed; it is about someone making key, radical decisions about the future which will affect the club for years to come. It's amateur, it's confusing, and it will probably mean that anyone with genuine vision will not take the post.

Colony of white tailed bumble bees have taken up residence in one of my bird boxes. Delightful!

It’s an opinion, but… seriously? If you look at what those players have achieved since, they were all overpriced. Even Emi hasn’t been a regular starter. Webber is a master salesman.

The question now is will Wagner still leave Christos Tzolis out of the matchday squad?

Yes, some of us might have thought it may have been on the inside - you provide a valuable service

I kind of think that in some ways, the Government don't mind. At the next GE, the only area they may be able to debate is immigration. They will throw everything at it to keep the matter toxic and alive.

I think you look at what those players have done since and the value of them now, we sold them at the perfect time for the highest fee they'll likely ever move for (Emi and Madders apart, who are special talents). But Godfrey was an absolutely outstanding fee for a Championship CB, Pritchard for £11 million was an absolute robbery from us, when you look at what performances followed and that we replaced him with 1.5m Emi The Murphys and Lewis we got fantastic prices for, with Jacob being the only one close to having a decent Prem career.

It's a stupid part of their culture war nonsense and it is very likely they don't want it resolved. After all, it is probably the easiest thing for them to fix.

Perhaps we should deport Braverman, Patel and the rest to Rwanda incognito without passports (we don't need to worry about their human rights it seems). Let them live there in the hostels whilst applying for Rwandan asylum for couple of years and if it's all good and nothing untoward has happened after that to any of them then look again. Frankly it's an absurd and costly policy mainly for show not practical reality.

Thats not true, I'm sure I've seen the pope out & about! 😉

What's Ed done now?

I think you both seem to think Webber picks names out of a hat and thats who we sign. In reality Wagner will have had regular meetings with Webber and with the entire recruiting department. The scouting network and scouts themselves will have been involved and we'll have been tracking some of the players we're looking to sign or have signed for over 6 months. What we do know is the club wants a continuity of the culture already in place. You might not agree with it but Zoe was very clear about that. I would suggest that the majority of our first team signings are for instant first-team success at this point. They're not going to make us money by flogging them in a year. For me none of this is as amateur or confusing as is being made out. This happens in football all the time. The only difference is the fans are all aware that Webber is leaving, whereas when this has happened multiple times in the past just without fans knowing. The biggest example recently is with the most sought after Sporting Director in recent times, Dan Ashworth at Brighton. Everyone and his dog knew in October he was going to be going to Newcastle, but he didn't actually leave until February ,after the January window had finished. Now, Brighton are currently regarded as the go to club for clubs our size trying to achieve Premier League stability. If it's good enough for them it's probably ok for us.

Heard one last Saturday while walking the wonderful footpath between Heacham and Snettisham. Other highlights included a spoonbill and marsh harrier.

And when all the offices are empty in Docklands because people are working from home or Frankfurt, they will become effigies of greed and excess. Then people can wonder why we left it to China to manufacture everything.

No, I think he did reasonably well for us in context. There was a big turnover of players after we finished 5th under Warburton (who apart from not buying into the new recruitment strategy also had his group of favoured players who made the owner feel unwelcome at the club). While he got us to three midtable finishes that was while both selling our better players each season and him helping to develop the new ones so each season the squad was better and playing a more consistent style. We were top 6 when he was poached and finished 11th after Thomas Frank got W1 D1 L8 in his starting run. We had a big investment in the squad in summer 19 (paid for by the sale of Maupay), most of whom are still regular starters. Smith would probably have taken us to the play offs in 18-19 had he stayed. Though it’s also worth noting that the team improvement under Smith stepped up after Frank became his assistant in December 16.

Which is especially weird as he has generally been very good at getting strong fees for our players. I can't think of a single player we've sold where I've thought 'that's cheap' at the time.

£40million for Maddison seems like an absolute bargain to me. Can’t believe that other clubs were not interested at that price. Man Utd failed with a £55m bid for Mount. Maddison is just as good if not better in my opinion.

Are you paying!?!

Yeah crazy situation mason mount is so overated , Madison is a bargain at 40 million just think how many chances he'll create for kane providing he stays, 😜

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He's lucky that he's actually allowed to leave the UK. Many are not, primarily due to Farage himself. Try running a UK bank account from abroad, it's not easy. To quote John Cooper Clarke "They can't find a good word for you. But I can. Twât"

Sorry , Volume 17 suggestion 873.

A good local sponsor will win every time over some rubbish betting site

If you're sat in the River End it has the South stand to it's right, and the smaller City stand to it's left. Dugouts are on the City stand side (left) too. Called Regency/Norwich & Peterborough stand nowadays. I still call it River though

My real world commercial experience of 'not for profit' companies is that they are typically much more expensive for commercial services than normal 'for profit' ones! It's especially true of large government aided billion dollar/pound/euro enterprises.

The railways and supportive services are owned by over 1000 companies. To only nationalise those who are unable to provide services and let the likes of Branson and Co carry on creaming us off, does not make sense, we need one entity in charge again and have a long term plan to restructure and modernize. As for who owns our utilities, you only have to look at rising bills for lesser services to realise that we need to be in charge of what keeps us alive, not for profit companies should be the new normal, and if they need funds to develop new services or assets then we all will pay for that, so we own it.

Mention it three times and @cambridgeshire canaryis duty bound to start a thread on the subject!

Why would it be easier to get here if you could apply say in Calais? It would be rather like the situation between Mexico and USA where migrants are stuck at the border waiting for a US interview. At present they have no other option but to risk a crossing. I note the majority are then successful in their claims anyway! I personally would then have fewer qualms about removing people who 'queue' jump or try to evade the asylum/immigration process by similar (or lorry) crossings from France/Belgium. What we need is a grown up discussion not this right wing ineffective nonsense.

We play Barnet on Tuesday I imagine a kit clash if we wore our home kit so this has spurrsed them on for an away kit launch first

Well deflected Boris!

There would be far less concern about this (whatever the legality which is ALL the judges are looking at) if there was a workable available route for irregular migrants to claim asylum and have their case judged on its merits or otherwise. It can not be illegal for anybody to wash up or land on our shores and simply claim asylum. Of course, that's not what the 'culture wars' demands though. I see elsewhere even if allowed it will cost £169,000 per migrant to send them to Rwanda. I suggest Tory party members only pay.

Exactly so, although I don't see why the banks shouldn't take a bit of a haircut as well - that's normal when a company goes into administration, why should Thames be an exception? But this is a perfect example of why the idea that taking our utitility companies would be hideously expensive to the public purse is total b*ll*cks. The water companies, for example, have used financial engineering during a sustained period period of very low interest rates combined with not properly delivering the services that they are contracted for to make them seem profitable companies but in reality and when the regulator starts to do the job properly those companies are worth next to nothing. As for the railways, all that is required is to let the franchises expire or be cancelled in the cases of those performing particularly badly.

That is lovely! Better than cookie cutter template kits - get some character back into football shirts. Reminds me of a Japanese kit and most of them are collectors pieces.

Reckon the new kit will drop this weekend was 30th last year

As if by magic, LYB pops up and blames it on a 2 party system. Please change the record. As for the share price, it just needs handling very carefully. It's perfectly possible to legally drive prices down. Investors like certainty. Make it uncertain and they'll be like rats up a drainpipe.

This is what happens when ideology overrides commonsense. Water is a natural monopoly. It has to be owned and run by the state, not carpet bagging spivs.

I have worked with her - so quite well placed to have that view, I reckon.

Once we discount for hyperbole, we should garner about £2m after Coventry’s cut. Useful but about half we hoped for. Shame Madders only wanted to go to London…. Strikes me as funny that I first saw what a player he was in a video on YouTube entitled Welcome to Spurs…….put online just before McNally grabbed him on deadline day! Better late than never…..

I think you should look at her history in football. She's far from "out of her depth" with or without Husband. Most of her career has been without and she's worked at bigger clubs than ours.

Maybe I didn't articulate it clearly enough, but you are not disagreeing with me here. This is the point I was trying to make @ricardo my friend. Maybe not clearly enough. It plays into @Don J Demorr's point about what fans need, what fans want and the difference between the two.

It's like most of you know how to run a company or something 😂

Stop making excuses and just get it done!

https://images.app.goo.gl/UbTpVRsFjqtWjxDDA Saw a Hummingbird Hawk moth in my daughters garden last night.