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"People are saying we lost last nights match. Well that's Fake News, we won bigly" "I've been helping out in training as a motivational speaker in set piece training. Especially defending free-kicks... 'Build that wall! Build that wall!' "My transfer policy? I wanna buy that little guy Messi and make Mexico pay for it" "After we beat Ipswich in the play-off semi-finals, I called up their chairman and told him 'Shut up loser!'" "I have a great relationship with the players, so great, though they're not that keen on my locker room talk"

Who are you and what have you done with Pete?

"Mark Robins is doing a great job at covfefe"

Finally

If this group of players gets us promoted the 6 points which we gained from Idah's crucial late winners against Hull, Bristol City and Cardiff will have been a vital component in us doing so....................................... but yeah, let's have another thread having a go at one of our Academy players..............

He also has some unusual arrangement with individual investor player ownership. The Sara purchase was financed by him and some investors into his group. It’s a complex arrangement but essential to simplify it, a few people own Sara’s commercials. Any money made on a sale to another club provides them in dividends. MA’s plan is to create several of these deals going forward, he/his investors will finance future prospects to provide a return in a certain timeframe. It’s a new way for investors to make money in a quicker timeframe than stocks/shares/funds in which they are tied in for significant periods before being able to redraw any increase in value. My understanding is we are the first club of our kind to create this innovative model. It should fund significant signings but we won’t see them for long before they are shipped off for a profit to please the investors. Furthermore, the plan I believe is after proving the concept is to then create a fund/group several players into an investment. They plan to buy another club in Europe to do something similar but also to allow them to move players around that aren’t quite working out in the UK. Overall I think it brings us benefits but changes the playground sufficiently for us and European football. I can’t remember which football association/group he’s applying to become president for but he’s trying to move the goal post diffidently at the top. its also interesting in how he’s trying to reshape golf with the PGA. As well as what he’s done in Baseball. He’s a big character with huge ambition in sport but there is no doubt about it, this is about making money out of money for MA. I think it’ll be good for us for where we are as a club and allows us to step up as a significant player in shaping finances in football.

The only way Hull or Coventry make top 6 is if we bottle it. If City can’t get over the line from this position they’d be no excuses.

Yes, on votes that result in a major change in the corporate structure (shares & loans etc.) of the club. Attanasio can vote against Smith & Jones on business as usual stuff at Board meetings however, although to win any vote if he doesn't take advantage of the right to appoint his own additional director, in theory he would not win a vote on anything he alone wanted to effect. As others have said earlier on this thread and as Paddy has said many times, with his money now bankrolling the club, would Smith & Jones now risk antagonising him and thus risk withdrawal of his loans? So as of today Attanasio is now formally effectively running things. You could argue now that Smith & Jones are merely marking his territory / protecting their own investment / providing checks and balances on behalf of the supporters of the club?

Yes HF. There were any number of the usual St. Georges days processions / celebrations (I alluded to my own experiences in years gone-by) but a few links illustrates the point - bands and all. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68869701 https://www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/548036/Network_Norwich_and_Norfolk/Regional_News/North_Norfolk/North_Norfolk_Archive/North_Norfolk_St_Georges_day_parade_and.aspx As to the Robinson march - Trying to persuade normal people that that this was not a far right march but just normal 'patriotic' citizens is rather disingenuous to say the least. Even then - they were allowed a stage, Yaxley-Lennon and Laurence Fox speaking and only ran into trouble when they decided to march in areas not previously agreed with the police (i.e where other sane St Georges day parades where or people gathered). If it was such an innocent 'march' one has only to wonder why the likes of Farage or Tice, Braverman even weren't part of it - quite likely they had far more sense and didn't wish to be tarred by the same brush as Robinson, Fox and the rabble. You can be judged by the friends you keep!

He was not desperate to leave he was desperate to be a starter. Bit of a difference.

Not sure, the model I have mentioned highlights a long term approach. Brining in lots of investment opportunities over time to make quick returns. Football careers are short and good Norwich players are even shorter in terms of a Norwich career. This is great for investors because no good player wants to stay at Norwich longer than 2 years. That means they get sold/moved on and the investors get their returns quicker. This model wouldn’t work at a bigger club. Would MA build the concept get it working, bringing in serious returns for him and the investors and then sell the whole concept? Perhaps but I think that’ll take some time - 10 years or so and we’ll be in a better place for it.

I`m coming up to see this one on Saturday. I`m bring my little ones up with me. I`m 45 and they are both under 10, I will school them before the weekend on how to sing OTBC and how to support like your lungs are about to pop! My eldest supports Spurs, and my youngest is a fan of Palace. But both of them will be there to sing on the Canaries to the play offs! My eldest only supports Spurs due to Kane in the Euro`s and was very impressed that he used to play for us. I told him he wasn`t good enough for us and we let him go back to Spurs to get better :) Ive followed Norwich since 1988 and I believe that a Norwich v Ips**** at Wembley is a real and achievable finish to a great second half of a season. I`ll be in the lower Regency (River End) this Saturday cheering them on with my little ones. Here`s to a glorius final home game of 2024!

I see Long being sold, Reyes as No.2, Barden loaned/ No. 3 (if Gunn stays). Unless we get promoted, when can see a more experienced No.2 being brought in.

That £33m debt package (or letter of credit) also included the £5m for the share allotment, so now it has been reduced in theory to £28m, although until we see the next financial statements whether the full letter of credit is still being utilised I don't know. We have discussed earlier in this thread that the existing majority shareholders were keen that this transaction was based on the same figure as the majority of other shares were originally paid for, which was £25 (from the public issue of shares in early 2000's that lead to the current corporate structure of the club), rather than a true market value (the Canaries Trust are advertising asking prices of £70-80 per share as evidence of this). And yes, given Smith & Jones public statement that they are not seen to benefit from their disposal of their shares (i.e. sold at or above £25 per share), the most likely way to effect the transfer of their shareholding to Attanasio is for him to buy their shares at that £25 per share (total c. £11m) and by some legal means / slight of hand, write-off (rather than converting) Norfolk's loans in part but non-monetary consideration, for those shares. However that is very complicated to achieve, will involve tax implications for all parties and may yet require further reviews by EPL if Norwich are in it at that stage. I'm sceptical it could ever achieve the complete write-off of the loans however so if it happens there will be a fudge as always.

Surely we want hull to win so that they have something still to play for when they face the binners on Saturday?

I heard they'd introduced a new tier of Premium Associate Directors, a key benefit of which is that your 'seat for life' passes to your descendents on your demise. The delay in announcing this is down to NCFC getting confirmation from the Ombudsman that this new tier does not affect the status of existing ADs.

Sometimes you can get two singles, set apart, but in the same row. You then just ask the fans in-between if they can budge-up one place, so you can be together. While I'm here, did your family ever pay back the Christmas club money that Arthur stole?

They lock them in Europe as in Germany (for example) they allow for 1.5 people per 'seat' when they are locked in place, they only get unlocked for European games where regulations state it must be 1 for 1. In the UK it's 1 for 1.

Bearing in mind the mess that Angela Rayner is in, you wouldn't have thought she would survive PMQ'S. This thread is entitled 'Next Tory Leader'. It's probably fair to say after this lunchtime it won't be Oliver Dowden. An astonishgly shocking performance.

Ipswich? Total losers. Lock them up! I love birds. I love big yellow birds. I have the best yellow birds. Vlad tells me what wonderful yellow birdies I have.

Well Connor , we are going to build a wall (on the A140 , near Eye) and Ipswich are going to pay. It’s going to be a powerful wall. A beautiful wall. It’s going to cost $10 billion.

Half and half scarves are back. Very fine clubs on both sides

"Huge club, huge club. They said "Donald you're the best football club owner in the world". The best football club owner in the world, that's what they said. It's true, it's true."

I want us to go up without playing them at all. Southampton in the semis and West Brom at Wembley please. Firstly, no first day at Wembley for them. Second we go up and they stay down. Third our 15 years becomes 16 for certain (baring cup draw). I don’t buy this West Brom have an easy last two games. Sheffield away is a tough game for them. Wednesday are out of the bottom 3 for first time in months and a last home game win will see them safe. I wouldn’t fancy it.

I think that upon promotion, in this hypothetical example, we should show some ambition and try and sign Maupay from bankrupt Everton, Brentford fans largely saying that they don't need him because Brentford have already signed their Toney replacement for the summer. Ben Brereton-Diaz on loan also. It would be pathetically unambitious of us to give substantial minutes to Adam Idah in the top tier of English football when Celtic are only giving him 10-20 minutes a game in the SPL which is largely made up of League Two standard clubs. Idah is not the answer to any question, unless it is a quiz question for "what player scored a hat-trick in the FA Cup as an 18 year old before only scoring 3 competitive goals in the next two years"

And what do they cost? We own Idah (or his contract at least). As an option he is worth way more than we could afford to spend to replace him.

It would help if referees consistently booked players for it. Not just sometimes, but every time.

> Attack tree with rusty old lever I do not understand 'with rusty old lever' > Attack Robert with Mace of Pinkunian Robert isn't here to hit with the Mace of Pinkunian, Tinker your helpful companion is by your side. > Ask Tinker where Robert is She says that Robert is sitting under his tree of enlightenment > Go to Tree You cannot see a Tree, there are exits to the North and East > Go East You walk off a cliff. GAME OVER

Please make this a regular weekly feature.

Lovely sunny morning in Bowthorpe so I though I'd have a coffee out in the backyard. Glad was there pegging out her smalls. I say 'smalls' but in truth they were gret ol' white bloomers! I thought thank goodness the sun is a bit higher now spring has sprung. But I thought too soon and up went the linen prop causing a blackout over half the street. Kathy could have come round for a coffee rather than go all the way to America to see an eclipse. Glad spotted me "hev yew heard anymore from that Steff?" "It's Sheff" I said "and I think he's a bloke." It's useless really because although she wears her hearing aid she won't put the batteries in for fear of frying her brain... Anyway, I had to shout but managed to tell her about your governance issues. She put her full wisdom face on and said " Tell har what a lood of ol' squit!" "With Daylia and that Zooey woman calling the shots the governance will be the best in football" Then she said "blookes think thay knowetorl but would yew want that Sooonak over Thatcha?" "Who woont hev the queen back over Charles?" "His old woman has already had to step in and he's oonly bin on.the throone about five minuts!" Harsh I thought... Then she came right over to the fence and with morning breath whispered "Afterorl, it weren't Mister Beeton's book of Househoold Management....

TBH, I think this is where I am. The potential upside doesn’t justify the soul crushing despair of both losing and seeing them promoted. I’m sure there are many binners who feel similarly although at least they’ve had years of practice at it.

Ooh, playoffs sir. You'd like that wouldn't you sir.

Just imagine a future with nephew Tom at the helm! That was the only option not so long ago and would be a fcuking disaster.

Yeah I’m not sure of the exact technical aspects but the club remain as owners of players it’s nearer to speculation than anything and MA investment vehicle as the poster above mentioned is the mechanism to enable this.

Seems a slightly strange one with 2 senior keepers and presumably Reyes ahead of him. Would imagine that means McCracken and Mair will be seeking pastures new this summer to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/royals-william-kate-camilla-honours-monarchy-archaic "The honours in themselves are absurd, and make the mythical Ruritania look like a beacon of modernity" Couldn't agree more. Hilarious stuff. Order of the Potty.

I think the OP was channelling knowledge that Attanasio's clearance from the EFL was being announced today, in that dream! Pre-Cog! I'm not alluding to Attanasio being Trump-lite BTW!

We shouldn't be in playoffs if we can't beat the likes of Birmingham.

Theres pros and cons for both sides winning As we have a better goal diff over hull than coventry, theres an argument for them winning

Why would you choose to sit in a designated standing area?

Depending how tonight’s game goes, we might only need a point to as-good-as confirm 6th, but we definitely don’t want to be counting our chickens…remember what happened last time we were relying on Cov not winning ‘x’ number of games to see us out!?

Club would sell already available casual tickets first at premium, though. The only way this would work is if they discounted all available seats in the final 24 hours prior to kickoff - at which point people will just sit and wait for those reductions and it would undermine the entire pricing and availability which as demonstrated is working better than vast majority of clubs. The logistics of managing opt-outs and linking those to specific promotional prices are vast, on top of that, what do the club do when you walk to your ST seat and there's someone sat there with a valid ticket and you're adamant you haven't opted out? Not everyone is good with technology and this would have to be an online system. What many casuals want is a bunch of seats together that doesn't cost £100, so they can make a night of it with their partner and kids and perhaps grab some food out. But usually you get 1 and 2's left over that go unsold. This is why terracing was so much better as it was just done on numbers. I wish there was an easy solution, such as free seated areas where you pay to sit in that section but there's no pre-defined seat number, and in this area season tickets are reduced and do have the 'opt out' compensation, as logistically it's much easier to manage. If there's a group of you, you just make sure to get up there early.

If Forest take legal action I'd hope they get nailed. They pretty much brought the game into disrepute without providing a shred of evidence. It would set a dreadful precedent not just across football, but indeed sport in general if it were to go to court where clubs with even a justified grievance would kick off over any egregious refereeing error.

Great point. There was no good reason to even characterise it as a protest in the first place. There was 45 minutes of footage of them uncut with no trouble whatsoever. What were the police expecting? Did they think they were going to start vandalising statues? The alleged expectation of the presence of 'far right groups' and 'football fans' was the grounds for treating it like intentional troublemakers. If they'd simply been left alone there would have been no trouble whatsoever. As it was, even with the police wading in mob-handed the 6 arrests were 4 people outside a pub and a drunk guy. Was anyone shouting 'death to Palestinians', 'death to Jews', 'death to whoever', 'carrying placards demanding 'foreigners should get sent home'? No; there was absolutely nothing whatsoever that could reasonably be construed as causing trouble, other than defying police preventing them going where they wanted to go for defying orders that there were no proper grounds for being there in the first place. How come police don't tweet about the Palestinian protests the way they did these ones? Where are the pre-emptive tweets from the police re pro-Palestine protests saying 'we believe there will be antisemites, people who support the idea of genocide against a recognised state, and people inciting other countries to go to war in the middle East among the crowd'? They could do; we all know they're in there! We've seen them for ourselves.

I was a bit worried when I first heard about this parade. But then I saw a few people had the word 'England' written on the cross of St George and some others were shouting 'In-ger-land' in thick Cockley accents. These two things were sufficient to create a safe space in which I could express my snobbery and class prejudice, which of course I delighted in.

My God, is that your immediate tactic to everything that doesn't suit you? Deflect from video footage of trouble by pointing at who posted it? Just pretend it didn't happen? 'Fake news'? Here you go: Sky news reporting fireworks fired at people during pro-Palestinian protests. https://news.sky.com/story/four-police-officers-injured-after-pro-palestinian-protesters-fire-fireworks-into-crowd-13000924 It's notable though that the Guardian didn't mention it at all, underlining its shortcomings as a news outlet. Again and again, you dismiss stuff by discrediting the source, and again and again you're shown to be wrong. Stop embarrassing yourself with a cheap tactic.

Maupay is essentially a 1 goal in 4 striker in the Premier League, but he is good in the press and has a good work rate, not immobile like Barnes. I think Cameron Jerome is the fairer comparison. Didn't work out at Everton but decent at Brighton and now Brentford. His goals per 90 minutes metric is actually superior to Toney at Brentford this season. Obviously I'd love Ellis Simms but young, English, he'll end up going for £15m plus. I wonder if Maupay would be available on a season long loan to get him off the Everton wage bill with a fee of a couple of million or something, with an obligation to buy if we stay up. That's the type of shrewd business we'll need to be doing I feel.

Given how expensive strikers are, and the fact we'd essentially need a brand-new defence (and DM...) if we went up, I'd be happy to have Idah back, rather than spending some of our limited cash to replace him. Think he'd be an ok PL back-up. Got some attributes

Agreed, he seemed to get run over in FPTP every time. I think he won't run again unless he is given a safe Tory seat (no longer such thing!), or a Tory nomination at a by-election in a Tory constituency where Reform would stand aside for him, which the Tories would never let happen. Credit to him that despite never being an MP, he has effectively had a stranglehold on aspects of British politics. He forced the 2016 EU Ref after 19 years of campaigning, got Cameron sacked, and gave Boris Johnson a golden ticket to a huge majoirty at the expense of Corbyn and Swinson by pulling his candidates at the 2019GE. He has also had a huge hand in Rishi's ongoing downfall by exposing the English Channel migration debacle, and now has a faction of sycophants within the Tories headed up by Liz Truss. Farage knows his place now, and that's to be his own mouthpiece from the sidelines on trash like GB news, and to sabotage the Tories by holding them to ransom until they have to listen to him.