Tim Allman

Saw Forestieri a couple of times when I went to Watford (as they are local to me), decent player but an awful diver/cheat and always going to ground. Always said his best acceleration distance was around 5 to 6 feet as hit the deck at speed. Loved the Watford fans outrage as Wes’ dive to win a pen when we won 3-0 there a couple of years ago. Forestieri had been doing that for years and we didn’t hear a peep from them about that. Back on topic - can’t see how he’ll be sold to rival unless a ridiculous bid comes in.

Oops. Her of course, not him

Looking forward to him signing for City and Canary Call. "What do we do in Tan Ruyin Neeul?"

Jake Kean can’t be that bright can he? Making the same mistake twice in joining a club where there an established No1 who has played international football.

Couldn’t go Monday night or last year but before that I’ve managed to go to every one for quite a few years. Whoever has come down, (more often than not it was Doncaster or McNally leading the responses) they’ve been was very frank and answers given to questions as honestly as they possibly can in the knowledge that it won’t be lived tweeted or all answers appears that evening on an NCFC message board. It’s great they do that and as Bethnal Y+G says they wouldn’t come down if this wasn’t the case. Last time I attended it was members only and we (the committee when I was on it) made sure we knew who was there. And the line of questioning is polite + inquisitive. The only two times it has become, shall we say, less than that was the AGM immediately after the 1-7 in 2009 when McNally first met us and handled questions brilliantly and 06/07 pre-season when the board were defending their decision to retain Nigel Worthington’s services for the upcoming season. It’s only around £12 to join and membership for the discounted travel to/from Norwich and the annual forum is great value.

Mr McNally bought me a pint at the Capital Canaries AGM / Q+A on more than one occasion, having travelled down from Norwich to answer our questions. I think he missed just one of the meetings from 2009 to date and also attended a number of our functions in Norwich and London. “Every pound is a Prisoner” was his catchphrase in League1 and the Championship inn 09/10 + 10/11 seasons. This was upgraded to “Every pound is a Prisoner” in the Prem in season 11/12.

There’s a fair bit on James Morison in a book I’ve read called Family, Life Death and Football by Michael Calvin’s on Millwall’s 2009/10 season, when City were in League 1. It’s a great read, well written and has some interesting stuff about a struggling then successful football club, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Death-Football-Frontline-Proper/dp/1906850267 Below are quotes some paraphrased on Morison, some words from the “Chapter scapegoat to saviour”. The book is a dairy of the season this was from around Nov 2009 1 From the author: “Morison his pet project needed a reality check, was losing respect within the dressing room” 2 Kenny Jackett “He’s built like a brick shithouse, quick, strong fit but in too many games he doesn’t play his weight. He needs to use his physical attributes” 3 Kenny Jackett comparing him to Neil Harris, “It was an attitude of mind. If he throws his weight around fans will give him more of a chance” 4 Morison, “Even though I’m big, I don’t feel big but I’m starting to feel I’m a presence. On the pitch you have to be someone you’re not” 5 From the author: “He was growing into himself and was beginning to make those to judged him early change their minds” My impression of Morison from the chapter; he was maybe slow to adjust to higher club (he had joined Millwall from Stevenage, before that Bishop’s Stortford). He may well have had the same sort of issues at City about moving on up in standard. I think we’ve see all of 2-5 at Norwich in the year he was here. (Of course no idea about 1)

Feel privileged to have been present for more than two thirds of Rhoys Wiggins’ minutes in a City shirt. He did ok on debut at Gillingham in match that was memorable for a midweek JPT away City support numbering several hundred. For those with long memories it was the Theo “no-show” match and George Francombe also made his debut. Cody scored and did a huge knee slide right on front of us in celebration. Less memorable was Rhoys Wiggins other start for City - the 0-0 JPT match at Swindon where all I remember about the game was Jamie Cureton scoring the winning penalty in a shoot-out which was probably his last ever “goal” for City. Other highlights of the evening were getting a truly awful burger at half time served in a huge presentation box, having a chat with Mick Dennis and hearing a pal in the Capital Canaries calling Paul McVeigh a lazy little shit (deservedly so) as he jogged back to cover a Swindon attack when he should have been sprinting.

Fozzy was behind me in the queue for the ticket office on Christmas Eve at Liverpool Street asking about advance tickets and the cheapest fares available to Norwich from London up to the end of April. Expect a loan move not a permanent one. #itk

He''s a twitterer, think this is him here https://twitter.com/Si_Keabs And my congrats as well.

Grefstad = Gordon who was on Canary Call yesterday

When City played at Scunthorpe in 2007 it was the last Saturday match before Christmas, and an away game I would not normally attend. But, as the last time City had played at Scunny was before I had even been born it was an away trip I thought I should do. Of course there was a free Xmas bash on the Friday before but I wasn’t going to let the thought of an early departure spoil my Friday night out. My Saturday idea was to drive to a meet point near the M25/M40 junction to be picked up, but my free party turned out to be a very late affair and I was in no state to drive at 8.00am the next day. I had a back-up plan and caught the tube to Uxbridge and walked the two miles or so to the meet point. A couple of hours sleep in the car and a Lucozade later we were in the big pub next to the ground (The Farmhouse?) around 11.45am and I doubt even then that I was under the legal limit to drive. Despite my best intentions of ordering a pint of Orange Juice and lemonade I ended up with a Heineken Export and those pints topping me back up to last night’s levels tasted as good as ever. Three hours later full of hooligan juice I’m in the ground ready for the game and struck up a short conversation with the man next to me. Somehow the conversation turned to the PinkUn Message Board, he asked me if I posted on there. I can’t remember my exact words but they were less than complimentary about the place (yes I know I have well over 1000 posts most of which are complete rubbish) and the conversation was quite limited after that. I was only later that realised that I probably insulted him and he might well have been a regular poster on there. Or he could have caught a whiff of my breath. Who knows? So – sorry to the man at Scunthorpe who I might insulted who had the misfortune to be next to me that day. And the game? We saw an epic central defensive performance from the Doc, a good piece of play from Jimmy Smith that led to our winning goal, a goal our Jamie and an all too rare away win. It really was one of those days.

At least we haven''t been hit with the Leeds pie tax....

@shannock_bob – interesting post and it jogged some old memories. Thanks. Perhaps a bit harsh on Neale Fenn though. I did see all of his appearances bar the one where City lost at Stoke and he wasn’t that bad. There were some interesting games in there, the two end of season 5-0’s and the shocker away at Oxford. I understood that we did make an offer for Neale Fenn but Spurs wanted far too much and that was that. Next and last time I (think) I saw him play was in November 1998 at St Albans FC as Spurs reserves were playing City reserves and he was a sub in that match. As regards Drewe Broughton I last saw him play for Rotherham in an FA Cup match at my local club Wealdstone around five years ago. He spent most of the time falling over and certainly looked as if his best years were behind him. He is now a fitness coach and I saw a while ago he had done some with the golfer Charley Hull,

I’d have OJ Koroma in the side for (a) being one of the worst players to play for City and (b) one of the most dubious (and that’s being kind….) selections I’ve ever seen for us. I was at the MK Dons match where Koroma started and he looked pacey but that was it. Didn’t expect him to feature much at all for City based on what I saw. A couple of sub appearances and then he disappeared for quite some time. And then, as if by magic he appeared in the starting XI at Southampton, which purely by coincidence was the closest away game to his parent club - Portsmouth. Will leave others draw their own conclusions from that one.

We used to travel up to Norwich to see my grandparents in the 1970’s and I remember going to quite a few reserve matches; this was when the first team were playing away so we got to see a first team or reserve match most times we visited from London. I have two vivid memories of these matches, firstly my younger brother running round the River End terrace whilst Dad and I sat in the Main Stand and him banging his head on one of the railings. The other was a match in which City beat Swansea reserves; Steve Grapes scored a hattrick and City won by 5-2 or 6-3. No idea exactly when this was, maybe mid/early 70’s.

And does anyone remember the Carling Cup (as it might have been then) trip to Man City away? This was maybe in 2007, think Peter the Pointer was the City manager still. I went as the Empty-Had as it was a new ground to go to and I wasn’t sure when I would be able to see City play there next. Dickson Etuhu had a younger brother, Kelvin who was at Man City and he was brought on as a substitute towards the end of the game. He was loudly booed by more than a few of the City fans, presumably for the heinous crime of being Dickson Etuhu’s younger brother

Interesting different views on Etuhu – and I recall Hucks not being very happy that he was sold. As regards Jason Jarrett also mentioned here - a pal of mine from the hockey club bumped into him last year in a minicab office in Harlesden in the middle of a Saturday night. He had no idea who he was but started chatting to Jason Jarrett as he was wearing an old official NCFC club tracksuit and he wondered who he was. Next morning when our kids were doing Sunday morning hockey training he told me about meeting Jason Jarrett but had forgotten his name, so I spent the next few minutes trying to work out who he had met. It took me quite a few guesses before I worked it out.

Some words I wrote about Dickson Etuhu after he had left City. And finally, a word on Dickson Etuhu. Or maybe a word on each of the three different Dicksons that I saw playing for Norwich over the last couple of years. The first Dickson I saw was Quality Dickson. He had pace and power. He scored goals and tackled. He got up and down the pitch. He turned up for one game in five though, but when he did, he bullied the Chelsea midfield or he scored a Berkampesque goal, curling one in from miles out against Cardiff, and really looked the part. The second Dickson I saw was Dreadful Dickson. He ambled around. He was never there, and he always seemed distracted. He turned up for the games that Quality Dickson did not fancy. Dreadful Dickson stood five yards off David Jones as he equalised for Derby at Carrow Road last season. Dreadful Dickson walked off to sarcastic applause at Luton, and clapped back thinking we were pleased with his work that evening. The last Dickson I saw was End of Season Dickson. We first caught a glimpse of End of Season Dickson in a Preston shirt as he stormed through Iwan’s last match at Carrow Road, and as if by magic, he appeared towards the end of last years campaign. A scout in the stand, a buy out clause, clubs sniffing around, agents talking to him and the new mega Sky deal just around the corner are just a few of the reasons for the appearance of End of Season Dickson at Norwich. Did Peter Grant get him playing, or was it that huge "Prem Sale" poster? With all due respect to our manager’s motivational abilities, my vote goes to that sign in the shop window. Look on the bright side. We got £1.5 million for a player who turned up when he felt like it. End of Season Dickson would have soon turned back into Dreadful Dickson, seeing his mates raking in fifteen grand a week and sulking that he had not got his dream move to the Prem. We are much better off without him

It was Adam Nowland and he never recovered from the leg break

Just to reiterate Ren''s point about Oyster cards, it is much cheaper now to use Oyster; otherwise regsiter contactless card for pay as you go. Paper tickets are much dearer.

Usual cut and paste rent-a-quote rubbish churned out before a big game regardless of who is playing against who. Best ignored or read with a large pinch of salt (if that makes sense)

Yes, lived there for years.

The event day parking zone is ends around 30 minutes walk from Wembley. Expect it to be enforced on a match day

It''s normally well used for football matches, will get crowded as it''s the obvious placed to park if coming down the M1 or A1. I''d get there early(ish). It''s a few minutes on the tube to Wembley Park. There are a quite a few pubs in Stanmore only five minutes walk away.