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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"

Finally

"Mark Robins is doing a great job at covfefe"

Who are you and what have you done with Pete?

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!

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

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?

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?

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.

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"

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.

"with Delia - that was consensual, it was, it was" "Michael, you have a beautiful wife, a wonderful wife" "together we will make America whoops Norwich great again, we will, we will" "we will build a wall, a great big wall around our penalty area" "as big as the hotel next door" CNN reporter: Mr President - have you got proof ? [pause] "yes I heard her, she clearly said lets be having you"

Where would this forum be without dear ol’ Cambridge ? 😂

Keep up.

No points needed sixth place guaranteed. Hull too inconsistent to win next three. Cov will win this we were lucky they got in cup semi, otherwise would have been real contender for play offs.

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

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. They could go and watch the ladies play ?

That's what you call it, and you call it that because Tommy Robinson and a few others who are considered far right were there, not even because they're actually guilty of anything. There were also plenty of ordinary people in there supporting it like the guy recording it for 45 minutes uncut with no trouble at all. So by your logic, isn't it disingenuous to describe the massive protests around the UK where we've seen fireworks fired at police, police spat at, police injured, placards and chants calling for the annihilation of Israel, demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy calling for it to go to war with Israel, on what grounds isn't it disingenuous to call them 'peaceful pro-Palestinian protests' rather than hate marches, which also represent a much more tangible threat to a minority than yesterday's rally? Why aren't all the other marchers not actively spreading messages of hate in the so-called Pro-Palestinian crowds being judged by the friends they keep? 'Far right' is coming to just mean 'stuff the left doesn't like'.

Should Adam Idah be allowed to waltz back into the Premier League squad after being "desperate to leave", which led Wagner to making comments about only wanting committed players? Farke will provide absolutely no way back for Sinisterra, Harrison, Wober, Koch and Kristensen in the summer if they seal promotion after the bailed on the club. Its a no for me, he should be sold or loaned out again for the season and would show weak leadership to let him eat the fruits that he didn't fancy labouring for.

VAR has already brought the game into disrepute and any club who tries to challenge it gets my support (even if they're going about it in a wonky way).

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.

It's interesting how few are the people who actually know anything about the Glorious Revolution. Yet it seems to me it is probably of the first importance in understanding the constitutional arrangement between the power of the head of state and parliament. Arguably, it is precisely because of the GR that the monarchy has survived to this very day. By accepting the authority of parliament over their own "sovereignty" William and Mary gave the monarchy a degree of legitimacy that remains to this day the only real argument for preserving with a monarch as head of state.

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.

How many actually care much about St George's day, let alone care about yhe history? My guess would be not many. The only place I have had any discussion about it, is on here. As for the protesters, from what I've read, they defied police requests to stay away from a particular route and a few got uppity about it, other than that, not much to see there.

Whilst I cannot possibly get nervous about the outcome of a football match, I too am wary about facing them in the play-offs and have said before that I would prefer them to be eliminated by any of the other contenders. Reason? I love our superiority over them, our hold over them and dislike their current success and cling to any straw to undermine it (their house of cards backing, the thought of McKenna being lured away etc.) and whilst I don't feel that they have been particularly lucky this season I do consider that, at times they have had a fair wind. I could easily see them crumbling at the hands of Leeds, Saints and West Brom in the play-offs and wish them to now falter sufficiently from now on to miss out on the automatics. This rivalry was bred in me from an early age, although I refuse to ever use the word scum when referring to them as I am sure that their fan-base, as deluded as it, probably is as a whole, any different in its makeup than any other, including City's. Only the nasty minority element of their fans want to actually resort to violence, same as with us. Another consolation is that they seem to be equally wary of meeting us in any crucial game that may be in the immediate pipeline. We have the Indian sign over them. Let's preserve it. https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/581646/its-all-wildest-dreams-or-worst-nightmares-at-the-moment-isnt-it.../#0

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.

Cambridge says no.

Football 90 by Panini exploded in my school. I got every Norwich player except Disco Dale Gordon! Still hurts.

What's the point. He's not good enough for the level and he clearly doesn't wanna be back up. Cash in, let him go to Celtic permanently, find a suitable replacement. Move on. Best for both parties.

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

One of our regular posters lives on a different planet. There is plenty of evidence in multiple threads to prove it!

Our longest reigning (and incredibly popular) monarch is a slightly different ball game to a football manager or divisive politician though. If you wait until 50 years after somebody’s death before unveiling a statue its lost all meaning by that point

Birmingham could be relegated even before they play us if they lose against Huddersfield and Sheff Wed beat WBA.

Every club that isn't a fancied club should all have had enough, it's the same bollox every year. Time for the ESL to come into play again and they can all fùçk off to their circle jerk.

Do you really support Galloway’s views ? He supports Putin and says Russia have committed no war crimes He supports the Chinese in their Urghur genocide He thinks having sex with a sleeping woman is bad manners not rape He gives a platform to many sex offenders He is antisemetic After seeing the Israel Gaza thread taken down, in view of what Galloway stands for, I can’t believe this is not being removed.