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  1. Posted

    Jacking my 3 tickets in this year. Kids are at the age where they are now starting to work weekends and it will go some way to meet the extra costs of everything else that has gone up in price. I know how hard up my parents were when I was young, but they have very much forgotten the struggle now they are in their 60s- 70s.

    I think today's generation of pensioners have had a relatively decent ride, born post-war, reasonable house prices, reasonable pension arrangements, free university tuition, were at career peak earnings before the 2008 crash and retired before COVID. There's a lot of wealth in that generation and I'm not sure that the discount is justified but that is my unevidenced opinion. There clearly will be those who are less wealthy in any demographic. 

    If the club chucked me a discount because I was taking two kids to games (who are likely to be dependents) it would seem to make more sense. But there you go. Everyone will have their own biases.

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    In top sides young players new to the league are often used sparingly for a year or so. Although nowhere near the ability of Saka, or Foden as examples, this sink or swim attitude isn't one good managers and coaches tend to employ, neither of the aforementioned spent any time on loan as far as I'm aware. Forget the fanfare of his arrival, I think he needs to be in and around the team until the end of this season now, really feel at home at NCFC and with his team mates. I think we are at a good time to reset to day one and give the lad a chance.

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    Playing in a band, in pubs, every gig without fail punters will come up and start asking for songs, while you're playing. Can't hear a word of what they are saying (A: because we wear ear defenders, B: because we're stood in-front of a drum kit and numerous speakers), it's not karaoke (why do people think you know every song ever written? And no I'm not playing Wonderwall) and I'm trying to concentrate. Basically, if you see anyone doing this (or if you are a perpetrator) the band member is ignoring every word and is looking through you secretly hoping you go away and don't come back.

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    He was very poor Saturday and actually could have been taken off after 25mins without much of an argument. It's a shame because generally I do rate him but he looked incredibly lightweight, wasteful in possession and looked well off the pace. 

    Seem to remember Dabo doing similar in the home fixture againse Byram though, he's a decent player.

     

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    An old school business owner once said to me, when you're £1/10/100K in debt 'you' worry, when you're £1m in debt 'your bank' worries for you. I think there are grains of truth in that, when it gets to stratospheric proportions with no conceivable way of ever repaying, attitudes toward the debt are possibly not what people might think conventional.

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    If I were you I'd get myself on Britannia road near the old prison, great view over the city with Cathedral for orientation and somewhere nearby to let the dog stretch its legs on mousehold heath. Bit of a boy racer thing going on there after dark but never given me any problems.

    If you wanted to park actually in the city, St. Helen's wharf pay and display has the Adam and Eve pub and a nice walk along the river for the dog.

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  8. Posted · Edited by Thumbbass

    14 minutes ago, GodlyOtsemobor said:

    I choose to cycle, not a cycling enthusiast by any means but makes more sense to cycle when it takes so little time on my bike to get to work. 

    If more people, who were able to cycle, took this attitude the roads would be safer, congestion would be massively reduced and the air would be cleaner for the next generation. 

    It's the us vs them attitude that irritates me. If you weren't sat on a bike, you'd probably be in a car, causing another 4 metre's worth of tailback at the next junction or set of lights. Pumping X amount of carbon into the atmostphere directly or by-proxy if driving an electric vehicle. Your car would be taking up another parking space in the places other's want to park.

    If any road user is being selfish it's not the person on a bike.

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  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, Foxy2600 said:

    So you'd like cycle tracks along the edge of the road - this will take at least 8 foot each side of the carriageway of what was once pristine grassy verge and is now basically thick crude oil to replace it. Same with the Smart Motorway mob, have another 25 foot of concrete on the side of the 'road' which is used about 0.005% of the time. All because the 'agenda' is a populist safety issue which gets plenty of air time on the Beeb. 

    I've stated two instances in my last post where car drivers (of which I'm one, and for one I was in a car) have only avoided an accident with me because I was paying attention, and you've gone on some tangent where a cycle lane (which in your scenario would be next to a road) is somehow not sustainable and would damage the earth. BTW, most of the issues I have on my bike are at roundabouts and junctions - stick a cycle lane on a roundabout?! 

    Unfortunately, the majority of cycle lanes are poorly conceived - for example - add a cycle lane to a path and the rider has to stop every 30 metres for each junction, avoid pedestrians and dog walkers, piles of leaves/branches, bins etc etc, in which case they will use the road. Add a cycle lane to the side of a road, then you are faced with surface drain covers sunk into the road 2/3", cars parked across the lane etc etc. 

    If cycling was safer and easier with better connections, not just cobbled onto existing road networks, it would be accessible for more people. It's cheaper, keeps you fit and doesn't damage the planet. The anti-cyclist rhetoric is just such nonsense , we should be encouraging people to cycle, not whine because the only way they can do it safely is to use a path. I tell my kids to use the path, people in cars just cannot be trusted, I'm happy to have the conversation should the police wish to do so.

    I have also ridden a motorcycle on an everyday commute, I have seen almost the full gamut of selfish driving from those in 4 wheel metal boxes, and I have a car and do drive it when necessary. Maybe those who have rarely headed out since COVID are now back in full circulation and the lack of practice has meant they have seriously deskilled in their hazard awareness.

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    So yesterday's dice with death on the roads of Norwich, yet another vehicle not looking and pulling onto the roundabout at the bottom of Kett's Hill. This time it was a guy in his 50s-60s, I always look for eye contact and if it doesn't happen I approach with extreme caution, had I not he would have ploughed straight through the side of me, he didn't even look. As I approached him he noticed me at the last moment (I was at his driver side window and he was in the spotlight of my front light), anchored on his brakes blocking the exit to the roundabout and causing even more problems than if he'd just continued. Cyclists don't have brake lights, if we stop, people in control 2 ton metal boxes are often unaware. The only advantage of being that close was that I could make my feelings on his driving abundantly clear.

    Saturday's drive, driving past the Red Lion in Coltishall, another guy in his 50s-60s in a Focus estate completely on the wrong side of the road, his head was down not looking at the road at all, and speeding. Had I not stopped, or at least been paying full attention it would have been a head on collision.

    I am genuinely becoming anxious in every trip I take now, the % of oxygen thieves on the roads is definitely increasing.

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    We have very little money to spend, ever. To drag out an early 90s marketing phrase, our USP is that we give managers time. We will never pay the highest salary, or offer the biggest transfer pot, but we are patient. If we want good coaches to come to our club they will need to be confident that they can be successful either through buying the right players to fit, or time to implement their own strategy and style.

    Smith made the decision easier with his comments, but otherwise it felt the timing was right given the performances and the time he'd had.

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    A player who didn't get the first team opportunities he deserved. I think him Madison and Godfrey all played in an u-23 game I went to and absolutely bossed it, I think we won 8-1 or something. At the time it seemed incredible he wasn't starting for the first team. I should imagine he probably felt hard done by in his time with us, don't think he'd want to come back even if we were interested.

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    8 minutes ago, Ward 3 said:

     

    Mccullum in my opinion is woeful 

    You're wrong. Although he was poor against Reading. Another player who's come back from injury and not looked the same.

    20 minutes ago, TheGunnShow said:

    Here's a phrase I bet many of us weren't expecting anyone to say, so I will.

    We're missing Lukas Rupp.

    It's true. I would have liked to see what PLM would have done in this league, there were flashes of great ability but we spent so many games getting overrun in the Premier League it was difficult to judge who was worse! Shame he was just following the money.

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    Rather just rely on my perhaps biased opinion and what I've seen this season, this pretty crude bit of analysis using stats from https://footystats.org/ tends to agree with the who our better performing CBs are. It doesn't draw on the difficulty of opposition but there are some fairly interesting numbers. 

    Gibsons numbers in tackles (no. of and ground duels) are worse than GH and AO by a margin. He is also far less likely to be involved in a  game with a clean sheet.

    BG is far more likely to clear the ball than the other two players. Could be a positive or a negative - if you're clearing the ball you are generally losing posession.

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    59 minutes ago, shefcanary said:

    BG is left footed, it has to provide a better balance to the defence to play him. 

    I don't like running down our own players, but...  he cannot deal with pressure on the ball and often is the direct cause of goals we have conceded through poor decisions and positioning. Technically he is poor with the ball at his feet and he hasn't got any pace. Watching him take the ball from the keeper to play out is sphincter twinge inducing. There's no point in having the marginal gain of a left-foot when there are many other negatives.

    AO at his worst lacks a bit of awareness but other than that is a far superior footballer with much more potential and if either should get a run in the team it should be him.

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    1 hour ago, Terminally Yellow said:

    Andrew Omobamidele. 

    I thought this would be his breakout year, with he and Hanley offering a particularly effective back two. But it just hasn't happened for him.

    I appreciate that's in part down to injury, both of his own and others forcing him out right, but I do think like many under Smith, he has regressed. 

    🤔 how can this only be 'part' down to the injury? He was in the team for the unbeaten run, which ended pretty much as soon as he got injured. He almost definitely isn't 100% fit now although he has made the bench for the last few games and one outing at Luton.

    One thing is for certain, the choice between a fit AO and BG is an obvious one for me.

  20. Posted

    That is a shame, many of the brighter moments we have had this season have involved him. He's done his career no harm in his brief stint. Good luck to him. Would another manager have got the performances that DS got out of him? who knows, for a young lad that little bit of familiarity at a new club probably helped.

    When you look at our other alternatives in Dowell/Cantwell there is a real deficit in athleticism and energy in that area now.

    As has been mentioned it does free up a loan space for the new coach and that's likely going to be the model given what we've seen recently - loan / or loan with option to buy.

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    4 hours ago, The Raptor said:

    My pet hate at the moment is cyclists who ride on the road slowing everything up until the lights are red then they just go on the path to avoid stopping.

    Also cyclists/scooter wearing headphones. If they're doing this surely they're not paying enough attention to the road. it should be the same offense as driving while using a phone. And also a free hit. Sames as joggers if they just cross the road in front of you

    Problem is that as a cyclist you're so much more vulnerable at junctions and lights than other road users. People changing their minds or attempting to overtake on blind corners, happens a lot. 

    During the cold snap  I took my bike to pick up my car from the garage. In the middle of the road ready to turn right, hi vizzed up, some pillock overtook me as I was about to turn. Honestly until you experience it on a daily basis reserve judgement on cyclists using paths. I've changed my mind and happy to have the conversation with anyone who fancies it. 

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    I don't know if I've just been an unlucky idiot magnet over the last couple of weeks but some of the driving I've witnessed recently and the safety on the roads is about as bad as I've ever known. I've been driving since the mid 90s and never known it as bad.

    Over the last couple of weeks:

    - Run off road in my car in peak-time traffic doing around 40mph by a builders/van who was in the middle of the road, in evading the collision I hit a curb and lost a tyre. Could have been a lot worse.

    - Heading into city on Wroxham road in broad-daylight car in front of me stopped dead, no signals, then reversed towards me, then u-turned and headed the other way. Didn't turn into a junction, just stopped dead in the flow of traffic. The driver was, I'm assuming, a mother, and her young child was sat in the front seat.

    - Following a car driving erratically at around 1am through Beccles, they stopped at a roundabout, then stayed there blocking the entrance to the roundabout for around 3-4 minutes with no other traffic on the road. Most likely drunk as a skunk.

    - On my bike crossing a roundabout, a car with a driver who did not even look,  pulled out and saw me at the last moment as I braced to be hit. She stopped around a foot away from me, she was on the phone (handsfree). The guy on the other end I could hear was saying 'what's the matter, have you hit someone?' in the most matter of fact way possible, like she'd done it yesterday too.

    There have been other minor things but these stick out, just wondered if anyone else was experiencing a similar deterioration in road safety or whether I just need to buy full body armour and suck it up!

  23. Posted · Edited by Thumbbass

    Slightly off on a tangent, but my other half had her card details stolen, a number of fraudulent purchases were made before the card was stopped.

    The bank send a list of transactions so you can highlight the ones which were fraudulent (or at least they did then, prob 10 years ago). Using this information and the purchase amounts I was able to find around 4-5 of 10 items this person had bought on they websites used. One was a surf board, another a double buggy and some golf equipment. All unique item values. Each one was available from the same person on Ebay and all listed at similar time. I offered to collect one and got an address in London. I wasn't stupid enough to go myself, however gave all of the information to the police and heard nothing back.

    The banks cover the financial loss and these people continue to commit what they see as a victimless crime with virtual impunity. I'm not surprised banks are much stricter now as a result.

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