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You're definitely onto something

Back in the 1970s, Hull City home games sometimes used to be covered by Anglia TV's Match Of The Week highlights programme (Sunday afternoon, after Farming Diary). Never understood this, why not Yorkshire TV? Anyway, back in the day, they had a couple of memorable centre forwards, Ken Wagstaff and a young Stuart Pearson. Ken Wagstaff was great, doesn't look like healthy diets played as big a part back then.

If only Sydney van Hooijdonk was a free agent

German Bight, Humber, Thames Yes, he's been brilliant. Sometimes scares me with the off-the-feet tackling. If my son's reading this - I told you so last season.

Good call, he was the definition of "underrated". Bit of a scapegoat too when things went wrong. Always thought he was a classy player. Only downside was a lack of pace. Also unlucky with injuries.

Yes, and one of the main reasons Brest qualified for the Champions League. But he's unlikely to go anywhere like Man City because He's not that good, and, He's had a bad leg break and hasn't yet recovered from it. In any case, they may not be able to sign anyone in January if the investigation into the suspected 100+ violations goes badly.

Has he got a pet dog?

That's a very small hedge then

Or he may have given Aboh more time, who knows?

So he has 2 years left - that's about £3 million. Whatever it takes, I really don't want to see him next season.

Unless De Zerbi is Carrow Road bound

You mean Shirley Potter?

Mick McCarthy

I assume it's just me who didn't understand any of that, so I Googled the bits of it. I still don't.

And Barnes is the best exponent in our squad of the ancient art of football sh!t-housery. That could come in handy for Thursday.

Possibly, but more likely that Sunday morning is regular car wash time, and they're not going to mess up their schedule for this. Also, although I'm not certain about this, but Highway Nurseries may have price reductions on bedding plants. Not to be missed for just another game that has to be paid for as it's not even included in the season ticket price.

There's supporters from plenty of the other clubs in the Championship who'd love to have the opportunity we're about to get - to see their team contest the play-off with a chance of promotion. Feels like there's quite a few of ours who'd like us to contact the Football League and forfeit our place in the play-off - just in case we win them.

If we don't beat them but still finish in a play-off place, of course we will deserve to be there. It's not just about this game.

I thought that as a season ticket holder of 1 season's standing, it would all magically happen with little or no effort on my part. Maybe not then. But I don't think I will bother stressing about this properly until about 1430h on Saturday (hopefully).

Be funny if it did though.

If so, could swing this year's election in Joe's favour

Has he commented on the NCFC Player of the Season vote?

Yes, as presumably more people voted for him than for any other player (unless there was electoral fraud). Anyway, at least it peed off the people who are a couple of rows behind us, as they're real haters.

In an ideal world, that would be true. Trouble is, quite a largish proportion of people around us can't be arsed to don't get to their seats until the last possible moment pre-match. And a few seem happier in the bar until about 10 minutes into both halves. Exception being the Ipswich game. I don't get it really. First time I have had a season ticket since 1985, more of a casual supporter between then and the start of this season. I know football's changed etc, and that back in the dark days of mid-winter, things looked a bit bleak and it was difficult to be very enthusiastic. But this is meant to be exciting. Forget about how crap we might be if promoted - that debate's for another day. I realise the atmosphere today is unlikely to be like it was for Ipswich, I get that, but if it is the same as it was for Bristol City - even if we're struggling in the game - then there's a problem. There was a couple near us who, on about 85 minutes into a crucial game, were discussing the various cash-flow issues in their respective businesses. So many times, the manager and players say how the atmosphere helps. If you're cynical about this, you'll probably say, "Well you get paid enough, just play well and entertain me". But when they're out on the pitch, I doubt they're considering their finances. NB - I don't consider myself to be either a happy clapper, nor rigidly in one of the percentages a lot of posters like to quote. NB2 - Agree about the drum - wouldn't want to be next to it, but it does at least get people going.