William Darby

[quote user="jas the barclay king"][quote user="percy varco"][quote user="St Georgey"]A great example of our fan base.....[/quote] But not a great example to set by a player. I"ve seen Snoddys Range Rover in the disabled bays at Sainsburys. For those on here who think this is trivual I hope you and yours never have a need to use such a space only to find it ocupied by an able bodied persons car. Shame on you Pilks[/quote]   if you speak to customer Services at sainsburys they will loudly announce over the tannoy "Could the able bodied diver of vehicle *blah blah* please remove your vehicle from the disabled spaces immediately" they can also clamp, sigs are up. my GF works at sainsburys... dob him in it. [/quote]That''s illegal, that can''t do that.

I''d have him back as a false No12 but just use him to chuck the water bottles onto the pitch.

HUZZAH

[quote user="St Georgey"]Been away and unable to post until now. But on Sunday evening I witnessed Pilkington park his 4x4 across a disabled bay near Tombland, leaving one wheel mounting the kerb. He then got out and joked about leaving it there with other members of the squad - who were all off to watch the World Cup final in Stadia. He found it hilarious he was using up a disabled bay. Sadly the standard mindset of so many footballers nowadays - who are seemingly above the rest of us (in their minds).[/quote]So you didn''t take a picture and send it to the SPG.

Sky make the rumours up. Skybet runs the book.  People who fall for it is getting ripped off.

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[quote user="chicken"]Is it me or have the government put something in the water round ''ere then?!!Go look at some images of Hooper in a google search - I think you''ll find he is quite stocky. Us humans, no two of us are the same (even identical twins).Now lay off the chap and stop worrying who is eating your pies . . . . . it''s probably just you not keeping count![/quote]What about Dolly the Sheep & City1st?

Bum or minge?

It pretty much a stock opinion of football supporters in general. Change the payers names, change the team names and you could apply the piece of writing to most football teams. As Morty pointed out, ''we need committed players who want to be here, and fight for promotion''. Name a league team who hasn''t at some point had fans say that.

Tweet Balotelli that your son-in-law thinks he''s a complete tw*t.

The golden age of bulletin boards have long gone. Way before mass social media took over and anyone with a differing opinion was an instant troll. In the olden days, you could call yourself the ''Caister Water Tower'' and say you saw Dale Gordon''s bare arse bobbing up and down in the Centurian car park and fellow posters used to believe every word. Kids don''t know what the internet was back then on dial up using canaries connect isp. Come to think of it, t''internet was that slow it took an hour to call someone a tw*t.

The Romans had it down to a fine art.

WIZ are you popping over to Gorleston Tuesday night for the Gorleston v Lowestoft friendly?

[quote user="GrantsMoustache"]The club should have published the report really, can''t see what harm it would have done. It was £30m to increase the capacity to 35000, was that for the City stand + the two infills? If we made a large city stand the snakepit and the other corner would then be able to be enlarged, or was some of that 8000 increase in other parts of the ground? I''m surprised really that we didn''t ever consider rebuilding the N&P because before those flats appeared there was probably the ability to build a much deeper stand. That would probably have been cheaper than rebuilding the city stand if the problem is the road access.[/quote]IIRC  The idea that was floating around was not exactly rebuilding the City Stand.  I believe it was more of a case of acquiring Carrow Road and building another tier sort of around and on top of what''s already there.I seem to remember Purple posting some pictures of something similar that was to be done at Fulham.

[quote user="PurpleCanary"][quote user="City1st"]several decades ! ! !dear menow why not check what the average take is for a seatcheck what the cost per seat rebuilding is then explainalso check how much of this revenue from catering is from the executive end which you cannpt simply expandas to the others there are circumstances that do not apply to us [/quote]Yes, of course several decades. And as to the very rough - and very realistic/pessimistic - calculations, they are fairly simple. Take a total £30m - the top end of the club''s own estimate of £20m-£30m - for around 6,000 extra seats. Assume that over the 50 seasons from the date of completion we  have average gates of only 30,000. Some seasons in the top flight, some in the second tier, some even in the third.So we sell only 3,000 more seats than currently. Taking, for simplicity''s sake all those extra 3,000 as season ticket sales, that is 150,000 extra season tickets. Factoring in a possible initial short-term need to hold prices steady or even reduce them, but also factoring in inflation over those 50 years then an average price of £500 for those extra season tickets is almost certainly on the low side. But even that produces an income of £75m. On those figures the break-even point would come after 20 years and it would be profit from then on. And that is without adding on income from catering and commercial.I am not advocating ground expansion, certainly not at the moment, but unless the club fell off a footballing cliff there is no doubt that in the long run it would more than pay for itself. I repeat, if that was not the case clubs simply wouldn''t want to do it. But they do. And I am sure we still do.[/quote]To be honest you can argue the odds over the long term view such as yours PC or City1st''s point that is based on the short term view. Of course the longer you leave it the more more it''ll cost. Certainly whatever the figure the club came up with a season or two ago it''s bound to be a little more now.  However one of the biggest headaches the board would have to work out which imo goes a long way whether we expand or not. Is what do we do during the build with the existing ST holders in the City Stand?

[quote user="City1st"]Swansea - partnership with councilQPR - very low capacityLiverpool/Everton - historic high attendances and time in top flight now lets have some of those figures that tell us how much each seat will generate and how much will it cost to build [/quote] What time frame are we talking here? You''ve ruled out Purple''s as his long term benefit was too long.

do you really think we''d pay 10m for a player whilst in this league?

[quote user="TIL 1010"]He is alive and well. Spoke to him on the phone Thursday. [/quote]Can''t he sit on a chair or stand up like a normal person?

That there young girl thought she heard New York City. Because most Americans pronounce Norwich as Gnaw-wich.

[quote user="YellowNets1901"]My source was also responsible for telling me that Paul Lambert had a girlfriend in Mulbarton during his time at Norwich. Naturally, I wasn''t sure whether to believe this, but apparently it was actually true. People in the area regularly saw his Maserati parked outside her house.[/quote]Did she have a driveway or was it on the road?

Hoots Atlantic Wall didn''t work. Adams is planning a blitzkrieg instead.

Been saying for ages. Return to the black shorts would be ace. Even if they mixed and matched with the away kit if we had black shorts. We could play a certain number of games of each different colour.

Norwich''s relegation a blessing in disguise? With or without 500+ words of waffle the answer is NO.

[quote user="Canary Willo"]Got nothing to do with Norfolk developing talent, as Academy 1 status the radius is very wide, and don''t think previous ''rules'' stopped any club, including ours, taking players from other areas of the country.   FYI, Luke Shaw was born in Kinston Upon Thames and Adam Lallana St Albans.... [/quote]The point I was making was.  Even if we had the best academy in the world and the hour and a half rule applied (don''t know if it still does).  We still don''t produce top talent.  

[quote user="morty"][quote user="Private Frazer"][quote user="morty"]What this does illustrate is the worth of having a good youth academy![/quote] Academy or the good fortune to get two or three diamonds? We have a good academy but Norfolk is complete and utter dog''s plop at breeding natural top level football talent[/quote]How do you breed top level football talent then? I''m sure its all not just good fortune, having a top level academy will attract the better prospects.[/quote]It''s a mystery innit. Your Scousers & Cockneys can.  Round these parts it doesn''t happen.