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  1. Posted

    47 minutes ago, Fuzzar said:

    Has anyone seen enough of Thompson to suggest he has the ability to step up? This is a genuine question as I've never seen him play. 

    Before one of his injuries a few years ago which kept him out for nearly two seasons, if I recall correctly, I saw him play a few times and on some occasions he literally looked like the best player on the field. 

    Really like the player he could be but very, very unlucky with injuries, for us and particularly himself. If fit, he would probably have been in and around our first team I'm absolutely convinced. 

    Difficult question to answer now of course.

     

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  2. Posted

    6 minutes ago, pete said:

    Max A is a wonderful player and was attracting big team interest and will enhance his reputation in PL.  However still need cover should god forbid Max gets injured.  

    Indeed.

    And Gods help will be needed in safe guarding a good number of our main players from injury this season, if we are to survive.

  5. Posted

    He was part of that successful loan trio and I for one was bitterly disappointed we did not sign him up. 

    Usual moronic comments at the time from those who never went to games stating he was only good in a long ball team when he was superb with the ball at his feet in the penalty area.

    I believe he was another who was snapped up by Southampton for a low price when we could have made a bit more effort to have him back.

    One we missed in my opinion.

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  7. Posted

    I remember him well. After a rather unimpressive start he warmed to the crowd and in fact if I recall correctly he became a bit of a fans favourite. 

    A player who tried hard and put the effort in when others appeared to take the easy option.

    His piece reads that he felt he was underappreciated here a smidgeon, but I'm not sure that was actually the case?

  8. Posted

    15 hours ago, TIL 1010 said:

     

    My 12 year old son has just received the new brochure for the membership scheme. All he wants to do is attend every home match and go over to carrow park before going to the match to kick some balls. After looking at the brochure I have taken the following from it. In 2017-18 season carrow park was free before each home match. In 18-19 you had to pay £10 for the season to use it. In 19-20 it is now £25 to do this if you were a member last season (£35 if you are a new member). What a rip off. This facility should be free before each match to both home and away supporters.

    I remembering it being free and busy, as my younger son and friend use to love playing their before a game. It is very disappointing that the price is now so much considering the weather, less home games and it not being open during cup games (I may be mistaken there) makes that opportunity much more limited.

    Very disappointing indeed. 

     

  9. Posted · Edited by East Rider

    47 minutes ago, BroadstairsR said:

    The binners still seem able to convince themselves that relegation to L.1. is better than promotion to the Premier League:

    "Your Nodge mates won't be laughing that much when they lose every week in the premier league, starting with away at Liverpool, finishing away at Man City. They'll be envious of us winning matches every week." 

     

    If this is a true statement by one of the deluded that follow them, then they have a shock coming their way.

    Look at our brief stop in that division. Had the Colchester result not been dealt with swiftly we could have suffered a very uncomfortable ride that year. Despite us having several 'championship standard players.'

    I suspect their season will depend a lot on their pre season team gelling, or not! Upsets galore to follow for them...…..

    Anyway in spite of my comments, who really cares about them anymore, apart from a cursory glance now and then. Is anyone really going to look at their result against Fleetwood/Rochdale hoping they have lost when we have just struggled a draw against Arsenal?

    Envious is not a word I would associate with ipswich right now!

    There are other words that would be more appropriate for them I'm sure...…...

     

  11. Posted

    15 hours ago, TIL 1010 said:

    Why the mention of Wroxham and North Walsham railway stations and in another post fare dodging ? Totally lost on me even if you claim it was lighthearted. How am i connected in any way to any of that ?

    Has he rather cryptically uncovered you as a secret Train spotter Tilly. And you're just in denial, trying to throw him off the scent?🤔

    Does the Trans Siberian Express pass through either of those stations? 🚂

  12. Posted

    4 hours ago, SwindonCanary said:

    We have the highest proportion of season ticket holders to ground size than any other club. For members it's a free for all scramble, then the odd seat goes on general sale to anyone. It's clear we need a bigger ground. The reason I started supporting Norwich was whilst a school I found a friend who was going and tagged along with him one match, after that I was hooked. This could never happen today and the crowd are getting older and older.  

    Spot on.

    When I started going many, many years ago, we could all go as a group and rock up and in we went, apart from the big games when we had to go in the away part of the Barclay and ask to be allowed through :classic_biggrin:.

    Whilst I would not wish to see parts empty and do understand the supply and demand aspects here, our support is getting older (including me) and younger ones are needed. We should as a club look to do the modern equivalent of the kids of a quid with the expansion plans or target the extra season ticket holders whilst the going is good.

    I suspect in all honesty it will be a long wait.

     

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  15. Posted

    43 minutes ago, lake district canary said:

    I've written a letter which I am posting this morning (they are going to get a lakey lecture) -

    Dear Delia and Michael,

    I am writing to you to express my utmost dismay of the new membership scheme which has left me - and many others, it seems - in no doubt that we are not valued supporters of the club.  The scheme affects nearly everyone who follows the club and has upset so many people, basically ruining a lot of the goodwill that has built up towards the club in recent times.   I am bewildered as to how anyone at the club would think this scheme is in any way sensible, let alone justifiable.  

    What price loyalty to those that have been going to matches over the difficult years?  We are now being asked to pay a significant amount of money to be in a lottery with those who will just try and jump on the bandwagon because we are in the Premier League! 

    Also, how can charging £100 for a home and an away membership be fair, when total priority membership was only £25 last year?   And why on earth are there two memberships?  I could have understood a single membership at £50, or even a combined one at a reduced fee, but to have to get two £50 memberships to join some kind of ticket lottery is just horrendous - especially for families who have to buy multiple memberships. 

    Where is the benefit in being a member now anyway?  Because of reduced ticket prices? That is no use when you cannot get a ticket in the first place!  The scheme could easily have recognised ALL those who have gone to matches in recent seasons and given a priority for having been ticket buying supporters, but it looks as if this scheme is only going to encourage those who are interested in seeing the big clubs....in other words those PLASTIC, GLORY HUNTING (I REALLY SUPPORT NORWICH BUT TO SAVE ANY UNFORSEEN EMBARRASMENT, I'LL PRETEND I REALLY SUPPORT THE BIG TEAMS) GITS that are more interested in seeing Liverpool or Man Utd than seeing Norwich.  Those of us that are real die hard supporters - whether we are season ticket holders or just go to matches when we can - look like we are being treated very badly.

    I am at a loss to understand the reasoning behind this new scheme - or should I say 'schemes' - and to many of us, it looks like a money grabbing exercise and does not offer any loyalty to everyday fans who have followed the club through thick and thin.  It wouldn't matter to me if we were in League 2 - I would still try to get to matches.....but priority is now available to anyone at all, whether they have been to matches recently or not.  

     Also, there is a clear callousness in the way this scheme was introduced, just hours before the fixtures were announced. 

    I am shocked that the club can so easily risk throwing away the goodwill it has engendered in recent years - and for the first time since membership was introduced I will not be buying one.  I may still get to a game or two if there are any tickets left on general sale, but there has been damage done to the club's relationship with it's fans today and it is upsetting that after such a fantastic season, that the anticipation of the new season has been spoiled by such a badly thought out scheme.

    Yours sincerely

     

     

    Good letter Lakey. I too have made a slight adjustment (in red), for balance purposes only, to your letter.

    My advice would be to print it out, shred it and send as it mentioned by Fuzzar. That way, they will not only have to pay postage, but will be spending all day gluing the strips together to make head or tail of it. 

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  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, Felixfan said:

    We will now be the first Premier fixture to feature V.A.R.. One for the pub quiz fans.

    Would not be surprised if we are the first Premier team to be given an advantage / positive decision because of it.

    I'd rather go to Anfield with it than without it.

  19. Posted

    4 hours ago, TIL 1010 said:

    With the Premier fixtures out this seems a good time to remind ourselves of those less fortunate.

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    Ha, ha, ha...…...

    This remains one of the most amusing, smug inducing, self afflicting pictures they have ever made public. It is like a rotten bad smell to them and more the funnier because of the timing of when it was first shown and the subsequent continued fall of them since.

    The loudest laugh will be if heavens above, they manage to finish a league or several places above us one year (I know very unlikely) and they repost this photo. They have history for that type of behaviour after all.

  20. Posted

    2 minutes ago, FenwayFrank said:

    There is a cap on away memberships. If you look at the availability the premier is showing as good with standard as very good. I’m not going for either as I think that other than the top six, most away matches will have ample tickets for season ticket holders

    Quite possibly.

    More likely is that if we manage survive in 16/17th position this season, they will be paying us the £50 incentive to attend away matches next season as it probably means we have lost most of those this campaign.

     

     

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Felixfan said:

    Why do we need entertaining at half time. By the time I have queued for the gents and returned it is probably over anyway.

    Are you saying that entertainment in the gents at half time, is more satisfying than watching the marching band ruin the half time run out for the subs? 

    It is certainly an option I hadn't considered, but we can add it as a possible if you wish? :classic_biggrin:

     

  22. Posted

    Actually that is not a bad spread of games over the season. Good first home game, and with Chelsea coming early as well may give us a chance against them.

    The first game away to Liverpool is what promotion was all about, as is the last game. All our games are going to be unbelievably tough.

    The only fly in the fixture ointment during the early stages is Man city at home. By then they will truly be in their swashbuckling, team crushing stride...…..brace yourselves

  24. Posted

    I did wonder if each section of the ground could have a game each where during HT they had to come up with a skit or song related to their area of the stand or ground.

    For example:-   the River End upper tier, middle section, first few rows could do a rendition of On the Ball City by tuttering,  with the occasional 'Stiepermann, you're fuc&in$ sh1t ' shouted out very loudly as a chorus?

     

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