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yeah i heard they were close to going into administration, they went down the same year as Norwich did and we have spent more money than them, just goes to show how well run Norwich is, credit to Delia and the board!! i''m just glad we dont have fools like Arthur whittle and Smudger running the club, we''d be bankrupt within the year because they''d be spending all our money because their "ambitious"

[quote user="Branston Pickle"] [quote user="Northern Canary"][quote user="scotty is here LOL"]yeah i can''t believe it has been nearly 7 years since we bought a centre half according to eatern daily press this morning thats bad[/quote] What about Doherty?[/quote] Apparently, according to the pinkun, Doc was bought ''primarily as a centre forward''.   That is certainly not how I remember it - he was actually bought to replace Malky but did start a few matches up front as an ''emergency measure''.  But, hey, let''s not let the truth get in the way of a good story!!! [/quote] No Simon Charlton and Helveg (who could play centre) were brought in to replace Malky, Doherty was brought in as a striker, because we basically had nobody! Was his debut away to Newcastle where he scored the equaliser? i know we didn''t sign the Doc till a few games in.

[quote user="jas the barclay king"]                             Tracey Des Hamilton           Jackson       Kevin Scott (remember him?)        Derveld  Anselin                Carey                Robinson                       De Waard                            Ottosson          Coote Subs: Watt (gk) Doherty Bradey Paul Hughes Wilson Almost added a few more.. if Drury doesnt improve this season he''d make my team, its no good being a top player 3 seasons ago.. he needs to be one now!  reckon id win the league with that lot! jas :)   [/quote]Drury? your having a laugh arent you? he''s one of our most consistent performers!

[quote user="Baron Bludgeon 1"] Good to have him back, we should never have let him go in the first place. I remember seeing him run Portsmouth ragged when we beat them at Fratton Park the season  they were promoted. Can anybody recall what we sold him to Stoke for ? [/quote]   I thought we lost to them 3-2 the season they went up? cracking game though i remember it being on sky!

Arthur your right, the board did say that Earnshaw wouldn''t go unless we were offered silly money...... would you rather the board came out and told everyone that he had a release clause in his contract? it was inevitable that we were going to get offers for Earnshaw, and the board were obviously trying to get a lot more money than 3.5m. We don''t need fans like you and Smudger, your the most negative people i''ve ever heard! and you are all that is wrong with this club at the moment, do us all a favour and go and support our Suffolk neighbours! How can anybody say the board has no ambition? Every penny we have spare they have given to Peter Grants transfer kitty, its now up to him to build a team with that money and get us to the Premiership again, how many teams do you know have broken there transfer record twice in the last 2 years? but apparently " they have no ambition" go support the binners

Dicky your forgetting the board support the club just as much as we do, and i''m pretty sure there not just worried about having bums on the seats. Hence why Delia has pumped loads of her own money into the club.

Yeah and he also signed such flops such as, Huckerby, Earnshaw, Ashton, Drury, Crouch, Holt, Francis etc etc, oh and then saved a club from relegation to division 2 and within 3 seasons had us in the Premiership, terrible terrible manager!!

 How can the board make it clearer that there was nothing we could do about losing Earnie, if it wasn''t for that minimum fee release clause we wouldn''t of had him in the first place, and you can''t blame the board for setting it as low as 3.5m because earnie wouldn''t of accepted the offer, the board were obviously taking a gamble on getting promoted to the premiership again, we failed, so we lose a top striker, thats the way football goes. You can''t say the board has no ambition because we''ve had a lot more money to spend in recent years than most of the clubs in our league, and I think there doing a great job, especially allowing Peter Grant to spend all the money we got from the Earnshaw sale. Try being real fans and be a bit more positive, your expectations are to high, most of you aren''t real fans because you whinge to much and constantly want the board, or the manager, or certain players out of the club. Just let the professionals get on with it.

yeah Alex i have the same problem mate! it was driving me crazy, i spent about 30 minutes doing it, and i didn''t even have one blank filled in, just tryed typing in Keelan and it has come up, so mines still the old one as well!  

Considering selling one of our better players? Sorry if i remember rightly Worthy and the board have told clubs it will take a considerable offer to buy Ashton of us. You Worthy haters do seem to have short memories, this time 5 years ago, we would have dreamt of this league position, as opposed to hovering in and around the relegation zone. He took us to a div 2 threatened side to a premiership side, and with the amount of injurys we had last season, its no wonder we got relegated. I know you all think Worthys signings are rubbish, so im thinking that you won''t care if we sold Ashton then? or Huckerby? or Safri? or Doherty? or Drury? If Norwich were to get promotion this season then you moaners would soon shut up again and pretend you never wanted Worthy out, I bet you are all the old men in the Norwich and Peterborough who sit there and constantly moan the whole game, even if we are 4-0 they''d still moan! Why don''t you actually try supporting the team you supposed to support?

Oh is that the same Rivers, Nielsen, Libbra, Easton, Abbey etc that got Norwich to the play off finals after us scrapping against relegation for the last few years?? yeah must have been terrible signings.

And yes, Dario Gradi would still be at Crewe if he had that record lol

He couldnt play his strongest team until April because the strongest team wasn''t available to him, i don''t know if you remember (as most Norwich fans seem to have short term memorys at the moment) but we had the worst injury crisis in the league (along with Liverpool) hence why we even had to play Danny Crow and Jarvis up front against Liverpool, And we were still unlucky to get relegated at the end of the season, and yet you all still moan, ok we''re not having a great season so far, but nor did Wolves last year, Hoddle isnt exactly doing wonders after they changed managers, look at Leicster as well, changing managers didn''t do them any good. Only team who came down that year and is now doing well is Leeds, and oh wait they are doing better than the other 2!

Ummm 38 of those games were in the premiership, and you seem to forget the huge injury crisis we had as well, how about the season before that? weren''t moaning about his record then were you.

I want him to stay