CanaryChris

Didn't we tonk the gunners on their pumpkin patch in game 1 of that amazing 92.93 season? Bring em on!

Akin to Splendid here, given where I live (Adelaide, South Australia) I visited Martindale Hall about three or four years ago. This is an estate about 2 hours drive north of Adelaide, in practically the middle of nowhere. We parked up with about four or five other cars strewn across the car park I was wearing a Norwich top, and as I got out of the car someone yelled "On the Ball, City!" Couldn't believe it. Side note - I was holidaying in Hamilton Island (a chain of Islands off the coast of Queensland) in 2009. For our anniversary, my wife surprised me with the latest NCFC shirt, which I wore with pride (even though we were League 1 at the time). We stayed in one of several self contained villas. Turned out we were staying next to a couple of East Anglian lads, one a City supporter, the other Ip****e! So I guess I display the memorabilia in odd places?!

Can Bog Vince go one post without mentioning the Norwich City board?

Let Palace have Max Arrons for what ever that are prepared to pay. Never heard of him myself. Max Aarons on the other hand: they can bloody well sod off.

Does seem a bit of a catch-22. Likely that if we are relegated, but many of our "starlets" perform, City may be decimated in the change room, while the bank struggles to hold the piles of cash being brought in - ripe situation financially that allows for an expansion. But, of course, we will be relegated, meaning that we would need to plan for life in the championship. This would make such moves to expand the stadium seem imprudent. So we save it and make our next charge up to the premier league. If we can establish ourselves in the prem, at what point do we decide this? Three seasons, four, five? I think we need to be looking at expansion much earlier than that, otherwise it seems a case of you can expand the stadium tomorrow; a day that never arrives.

Worth twice that and more. It is a bit of a strange one though. Must have been heavy clauses related to our promotion. When you consider that Wednesday want 7 million for Jordan Rhodes (no disrespect JR) that puts into light the bargain nature of Emi. He will do very well in the Premier League, just the way he harries opponents and creates space. Just as long as he is told to keep out of our penalty area...

First it was Jordan Roades and now poor Dennis has fallen victim to his name being spelt wrong...

I think the comparison between Krul and Gunn in terms of mistakes is somewhat unfair. I know Krul made more mistakes than Gunn but we have played a far more attacking brand this season compared to last season's more defensive approach. I admit to not knowing the shot count each faced or number of saves but just thinking about the games we played, more instances of end to end matches come to mind this season than last. Take out the first five games where not only was Tim rusty but the whole team was shaky and unsettled then I can only think of a few major errors that led to goals. Yes there were others that gave us all heart palpitations but nothing came of them this year and he has only gotten better as the year has progressed. If he continues this along with the rest of the team then I am very excited to see where we end up because I do not think it will end in relegation.

Terrific player for the gunners. Very sad indeed.

Genuinely, I think Rhodes is worth about 3-4M for us. I know some don't think so, but I don't think you will find a striker willing to pretty much bench warm the entire season as perhaps a third choice, but also come on and do a job - which I think he will, as he did this year. But... 7M...tell 'em they're dreamin'

I'm gonna sit on the dock of a bay...

My Dad's a Villain, so Villa for me. They were great to us on the last day too, which showed a lot of class. I think both Derby and Villa have been flouting in the rules, and they are far from the only ones - so no separation between them there. Derby were also really lucky against us...twice, so wouldn't mind if FLDC stayed down another season or two, or three, or four...

I would not swap their past for our future. Bleak doesn't even begin to describe it. We were insanely lucky when we went down that our manager performed a minor miracle and got us back up straight away, then repeated the dose to get us in the Prem, because without that second promotion, we were still in the mire. And the irony is of course lost on noone that Ip****e could be insanely unlucky with that same man in charge...

Don't think it will be detrimental to larger clubs to be honest. It will cut out the glaring errors, but we have been both victim and perpetrator in reasonably equal measure. It is the "dark arts" stuff that canny, skilful players can engage in that create grey areas, where VAR will side with the refs initial decision. For example, the Grealish penalty against WBA - was it a pen? Most seem to think not, but there was no retrospective action taken against Grealish and I very much doubt VAR would have overturned it. I don't think VAR will be a detriment to anyone, but it should cut down the grievous errors (like the pen awarded against us when we played Wigan).

That aged well.

So happy Timm is staying. Class defender and should be starting in my opinion (pre-season pending).

I have corrected your post for you. You are welcome you closed-minded xenophobe.

Think that Moyes was directly recommended by Fergie (heard/read it somewhere?), but after his disaster Van Gaal was brought in more as an interim while the club rebuilt. I think Van Gaal did well in very difficult circumstances to be fair. Mourinho was the real disaster and again, to be fair to United's board, it wasn't expected to go as badly as it did. I certainly didn't think Jose would implode so spectacularly so quickly. He brought in the megabucks players he wanted and because it made commercial sense to so, Woodward franked the cheques. Appointing OGS is a sentimental move, but not a smart one. Woodward and co. have eroded any sceric of patience the Man U fans had and now need to do something about the sorry state of affairs. I don't think it will be a quick fix and yes, I do think a broom is needed, just like one was needed here, not because of financial issues, but because there is a toxic atmosphere and any new manager needs to bring in players that fit a system, not because they are commercially driven purchases.

Stats suggested we would go up as Champions at around the 38 game mark. For me it was when we beat Boro away that I felt we were going to be promoted. Results were just falling for us. FWIW, I agree OP - it is "fun" looking back and considering that Emi's goal against QPR was the one that "effectively" promoted us. While I was convinced that we would go up, I still had nerves - that culminated in the 2-2 draw with Stoke. I think it was the vision of our lads prostrate on the turf of the 365. I guess they had put in a lot into that game and it must have felt like they were inches yet still a million miles away.

So...about that defender moving from Bristol to Bournemouth?

I cannot take you seriously if genuinely you believe Oliviera is a better option than Pukki.

The faith and strength of Delia and Michael in Webber and Farke in the face of mounting pressure in August last year.

Less about who we would sign this but didnt want to start a new thread. LEEDS PUNS Poor atmos is at ellen road today. Fans couldn't raise the ROOFE. Perhaps they could use a KIKO the ****. Are Leeds AYLING? FORSHAW! Team just didn't KLICH today. Perhaps they need to reCOOPERate. Ok I'm done.

I want to give this more laughs. Absolutely golden.

So Webber and Farke's mission to make us one of the top 25 teams in the country is well...erm complete. That's rather underwhelming.