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Good evening folks. I hope you're doing well. A few people on various threads have asked me to update on the conversations we've been having about fixing technological problems some users have been experiencing on the forum. After lengthy conversations internally, I can confirm that our tests have concluded that the forum is working as it should after a few fixes behind the scenes. Hopefully, this is something you guys have experienced using the forum in recent days. Also, I can tell you that, hopefully, within the next few months there will be upgrades made to future proof and improve the forum from a technological and interface perspective. This should make it a better experience for all. I will update on this as and when I can. I don't know a huge amount more than that at this stage - but I did want to provide an update. Thanks again for using the forum in the right way. This does seem to have been, by and large, a better place in the last few weeks and months. All the best, Connor

It was a pretty chilly February night, so I went into the concourse at half time. It was on the TVs, but there was no sound, and I only found out about it when I got home. I've never found it embarrassing though. I'd rather a pissed up Delia than some faceless American, Chinese or a Middle Eastern consortium.

What a start to professional football for the lad. Won every game. Playing 90 minutes and scoring in basically every game bar 1. This guy is the future.

This is excellent! 'As renowned Observer journalist Hugh McIlvanney wrote afterwards: “At times, it appeared that Mr Jennings [the original ref] would give a free-kick only on production of a death certificate."'

Embarrassing my ar$e. It was brilliant. A great advert for passion from an owner of a football club, prepared to stand up and speak out. Never understood why it upset some of our fans - I guess those who think they are above criticism might not like it......

Passionate fan-owner trying to rally the club's supporters. The reaction said much more about her critics than it did about Delia. She's been in charge of this club for 20-odd years, and has done a lot of things that could be criticised. That wasn't one of them. In my far-from-humble opinion of course.

It was the Newcastle that played most of the 2nd half without a recognised striker and missed 3 or 4 great chances. To be fair to Blackburn they played considerably better against them than they did us. It remains 2 pts dropped.

While there are people who treat her like a visit from the Pope when she makes an appearance in The Lion and Castle after a game i am not surprised she is still around to soak up the adoration.

I'm not actually sure why the hell gender or sex is relevant here at all. Is a woman who murders cats and a person any more or less evil than a man that does it, or a trans man or woman? What's the relevance? Genuinely. If they were gay, would that be relevant? There is a really unhealthy obsession with this from some quarters.

Oh dear, how sexist.

Wouldn’t usually jump in - but the use of the term ‘sacked’, is deliberate. I can assure you.

I've got to be honest, until I read this thread I didn't actually know that this scumbag was male. I tend not to read news like this, so just take in the headlines and just assumed that when people Sky News and The Guardian were putting headlines like "Woman jailed for...." they actually meant woman. This is a trans woman. A male. And it should be reported thus.

Jack Clarke out for the weekend, a decent miss as hes their best player. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/24147718.sunderland-jack-clarke-injury-latest-ahead-norwich/

Considering that Celtic is the "Catholic" club, you'd think they would know a thing or two about crosses.

Yeah, I can add this to the list. Like I said above, I'm not sure they are going to be making big changes in the next few months whilst they work on other stuff. But I'll see if I can get that included as part of that particular update.

I would like this but I didn't have enough reactions.

Great @SouthwellC, now if you can remove or increase the reactions limit, that would be awesome.

That's great to hear, thanks Connor. It definitely feels a bit snappier. Hopefully the infamous "bad request" issue is also fixed - I posted a thread a while ago (link) with a diagnosis of that and a workaround, but I struggled to get hold of anyone on the site to take a look at the time.

Gender Blender?....

The match has since been 're-refereed'..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52416192 Six reds for David Elleray, eleven (!!) for Michael Oliver.

With all due respect that's a very low bar of achievement for any other owner to attain!

We've had a small minority push new fads on gender and sex in the last decade or so to the point fire stations around Newcastle have to have gender neutral toilets at public expense, in spite of nobody in the fire service being non binary or trans, because the head of the fire service has suddenly got interested because his child has decided they're trans. We're having conversations where what's being pushed as normal was literally Monty Python material within my lifetime.

Blackcap in the garden this morning. A fairly rare visitor, but the masses of berries on the long stretch of ivy extended along the fence is proving a real pull for many birds.

Caring what the fans of other clubs think has never struck me as a very Norfolk thing to do. In our second Farke PL season I absorbed a little bit of the ridicule that was coming our way ("they're wasting a place in the PL", etc), and as a result, I was pretty relaxed about Farke's sacking. That taught me a lesson and I've resolved to militantly not care what TalkShïte gobshïtes or other clubs' fans think about us. As someone said, can't remember their name, 'ignore the noise'. Or to put it in a more timeless way, 'do diff'rent'.

I have inadvertently discovered that I am now old. A new phone arrives and rather than be pleased with it I am actually dreading setting it up.

You are missing Jon McCracken, currently on loan at Dundee. Archie Mair, Daniel Barden and Jon McCracken are all 23 and all out of contract in the summer. Will be interesting to see if we retain any of them. Mair and McCracken are both Scottish, but Mair is getting football in League Two and has Scotland U18, U19 and U21 caps. While McCracken has only been capped for U17's, and never seems to have gained a sustained spell of competitive football like Mair. Barden obviously been unfortunate, but it certainly looks on the face of it that Archie Mair is the closest to being good enough to become our number 2 or something, Wouldn't rule out the possibility that none of them are quite good enough and we'll bin them all off to help cut the wage bill?

He makes some valid points but the last sentence sums up my problem. He is "tired" of having his religion used against him. I don't care which particular religion he is but I'm tired of being preached to by people who have an imaginary friend in the sky. I was told on a Facebook group yesterday that my views are "offensive" to religious people. They are murdering each other on an enormous scale in the Middle East but get offended if I point out that there is no God. You couldn't make it up.

To be to fair to Krul there was abysmal defending in front of him. He must have had flashbacks of being back here.

The whole playing squad and the support and coaching staff were post game taken to a local sheep dip and immediately immersed.....

Your friends in the house should have been shouting "c'mon, where arrreee yooouuu!?"

@sonycI can't remember the last time I saw or heard a song thrush

Always thought Nigel Martyn gets missed a little bit in these discussions simply as a peak Seaman was so good. And Tim Flowers suffered a lot due to him too. To be fair to Pickford, he's had moments of weakness in an Everton shirt and he's not really let England down - unlike Hart who did have a couple of high-profile schnitzers in him.

This please, it’s really low and frustrating.

All hail C.S!!

Thanks Connor it’s certainly been a lot quicker in recent weeks

You can use whatever criteria you like, but who are your personal worst three managers in the club's history. Mine FWIW: 1. Glen Roeder - I have never hated a Norwich manager like I hated him. I was furious when he got the job and it got no better. Loathed him with every part of my being and was overjoyed when he got sacked. Horrible little man. Other than when we played Ipswich this is the only time I actively wanted the team to lose. 2. Chris Hughton - clearly we've had worse managers in terms of results, and there is an argument he 'did well' with what he had, but I've never had a time when football felt as joyless as when he was in charge. Just an utterly horrible two years to watch the team. The style he implemented is undoubtedly the worst in the club's history. Horrific football. 3. Bryan Hamilton - terrible appointment, terrible results, terrible all round. One positive was I think he brought Worthy in as a coach and he went on to be one of our best managers.

I’m all ready for some selections… For our game, I think a tight 1-0 is in the offing, I’ll go for Sainz with the winner.

From the thread title I thought someone had dug up Maggie for a second there.

I just had a similar conversation with a manager here at work who supports Reading. He’d take an owner like Delia in a heartbeat.

Nope, it was a diesel. It had been subject to a recall to fix a spontaneous fire issue, but hadn't had the fix applied. It is only EV car haters that keep stating it was an EV/Hybrid.

I thought you heroically travelled 160 miles to attend home games when in fact you listen on the inter web

Tim krul is a goalkeeper that needs games to find his rhythm. He was always shakey in the beginning or for the first few after returning from being out. As a bit part keeper they’re never gonna see the best of him unfortunately. Great keeper for us though but so pleased we have Gunn.

This is what a loan lower down can bring to a young players career. Pushes them on, something Adam Idah really missed out on!

Wasn’t really that embarrassing given we’d only spent 1,5m that season and Covid disrupted the season so badly, let’s not forget they changed the goal posts regarding subs halfway through that season as well meaning those teams with a bigger budget could change half their outfield squad. we also made the quarters of the fa cup taking Man Utd to extra time… some people have short memories and are too quick to criticise the club without looking at the true facts

Something must have gone on there surely, he's certainly not been sacked for on field performances. Very odd.

Woods inspired so many local lads to take up goalkeeping, as I was one of them. In fact, there were so many keepers across the youth and school teams that I ended up playing outfield, basically the oldest were being picked as they were tallest. That milk cup final save was better than Banks vs Brazil, too. *ahem* Jossy's Giants on tv just popped into my head thinking back to school teams. Anyone remember that from around mid 80s-ish? haha.

The thing that surprised me was that Woods had over 40 England caps. I would put him in my top 5 City keepers but he is some way behind Keelan, in my view.

I'd argue you can say similar about any very good Norwich team in my time supporting- one or two exceptional players who elevate and create space for others with the rest almost acting as a platform for them. 03/04 Champions- a relatively average team elevated by an exceptional talent in Huckerby. The two promotions under Lambert- the diamond formation created specifically to give Hoolahan the platform to do the creative work and to give Holt a strike partner. The last successful 'collective' team I can think of was probably the first season under Hughton where the closest we had to a weapon would have been Snodgrass.

Is it that, or is it that that he needs the responsibility of being the main striker and not picked up and dropped depending on who's fit and available ahead of him? I think it's easy to look at him an come to the conclusion that he has some kind of self confidence issue, or not enough bite. But it could just come down to that's how his character comes out externally. Pukki never looked like he was over bothered, even when he missed sitters, and many times would look like he's just woken up when the players came out of the tunnel. I think in many respects it can be a blessing to have that character trait, provided you get enough game time for it to all average out.

You'd have a point, except in the games that led to Farke's sacking, he had abandoned his Plan A to play a system and formation he had never done throughout his Norwich career. When he reverted back to Plan A (4-2-3-1) against Brentford away, he got a win. And then got sacked.