Blainsey

Anyone know if he is actually any good? My knowledge of league one football is poor due to my MA having taken over valuable FM playing time over the last few years :(

[quote user="jas the barclay king"][quote user="jas the barclay king"] says on the front page he is under contract to Treviso until 2012 which suggests he is co owned. Half Owned by fiorentina, half owned by Treviso. this works out as a complicated eal if it is the case.. we need to discuss a transfer fee with BOTH clubs.. if Fiorentina accept and Treviso reject we cant sign him.... also, as Treviso are joint owners they would get 1st refusal for Lupoli.. they only need to pay their half of the transfer fee to Fiorentina as well... to buy the rest of his contract.. I''d like us to sign him but im not so sure it will be as straight forward as we hope! Im not sure what the deal is regarding loans... as he is technically already on "loan" to Treviso that means we wouldnt be able to loan him ourselves... jas :) [/quote]   lol, i thought that Viola was the nickname for Fiorentina?   my mistake.. swap Viola for Treviso. jas :) [/quote]

Daily Telegraph. A nice staunch right-wing paper. Plus I like Henry Winter''s column.

cos I am scratching my head at who is still here or arrived!!

[quote user="PhatCanary"] I’ve tried to stay positive but I’ve had a gut full now, this club is skint and we are heading downhill fast, we all keep having a feeling that today could be the day, but the days keep passing and the players keep signing for everyone else! The club has no idea how to treat the fans any more, it’s just take, take, take on their behalf,we have been told to expect new heroes and that there is money for new players, Well that’s  just BOLL***S!!! Sorry, but today i have hit the wall. Along with numerous others on this forum i have spent thousands of pounds over the years on Tickets and shirts and the usual fans stuff and I’ve had enough of it, i love this club with a passion but the people who are dragging it down I’m starting to really hate, the smug smiles and everything is rosy attitude has worn so thin and frankly I’m turning to the dark side, we will never get the truth about the Cullum deal and that just stinks of a cover up, lets face it folks unless a miracle happens we are in for another season of struggle and we are in for a relegation fight from day one, the squad is worse than last season and i’ll give it a month before the 25,000 plus at Carrow road are calling for change. I hate feeling like this but as i said enough is enough and sometimes the truth hurts. [/quote]   well put Phat - and you are an optomistic fella so for you to be this gloomy tis not a good sign!! :(

[quote user="Shifty Sid"]People on this message board, you disgust me with your anti-Delia posts.  We''re all entitled to our views, but lets not forget what she has done for the club.  And ask yourselves these two questions: 1)  If YOU had £1.7Bn would you ''give'' some to the Canaries?  I certainly would.  Mr Cullum wanted to give £20Mn for the player budget but wanted the Club in return.  He wasn''t prepared to offer more than £20Mn so that would mean Delia having to give him the Club for nothing.  Why should she do this.  She spent 10 years and £12Mn of her own money keeping us going - why should she walk away for nothing? 2)  Cullum offered £5Mn to get us out of trouble last October - what people don''t mention is that the £5Mn was re-payable if we went down!  Ask yourself... what kind of fan would abandon the club when it got relegated and demand money back which would have put it into Administration?  I''m sure Delia would not abandon us if we went down.  She''d be there till the bitter end. You criticise her for spending money on infrastructure.  Well, the £60,000 spent on a new kitchen increased catering turnover from £600,000 to nearly £6Mn a year - almost as much as we bring in from season ticket sales.  That money goes back into the playing budget (wages/transfers/loan fees/agent fees/contract terminations etc).  Also, if the Jarrold Stand had not been built the old South Stand would have been closed by the council and attendances would have maxed out at 19,000. In my opinion all the current board have done wrong in the past 12 years is: 1)  Bought Dean Ashton 6 months too late. 2)  Not sacked Worthington soon enough. 3)  Should never have appointed Grant. But to level personal abuse at Delia in this manner is childish and unacceptable. Peter Cullum went public for one reason alone.  He knew the backlash this would cause and the pressure it would put on Delia.  He''s trying to force her to sell for a cut-price fee.  Well frankly someone with his wealth should not resort to such tactics, particularly when he claims to love the club.  He''s undermined our forthcoming season by creating a split in public opinion and made Roeder''s job all the more difficult. Instead of rallying together, we''ll now face ''Delia out'' chants and it will ultimately end in relegation. Anyone with an ounce of business acumen and a handful of the facts of the Cullum saga would see the Board have acted in the best long term interests of the Club.  If Mr Cullum want''s to come back to the table, offer Delia a fair price for her shares, renegotiate the debts with the banks (which are repayable in the event of a take-over by corporate law) and still offer £20Mn for players then there is a deal to be had.  But he can''t expect to be given the club just by offering a big transfer kitty. Please... if you must criticise Delia keep it on a professional level.  We don''t want personal insults on here.  Frankly, she doesn''t deserve it.  In 2004 you were all no doubt basking in glory outside City Hall chanting her name.  She''s the same woman now as she was then.  She''s proven to be Norwich City through and through.  If you run her out of this Club there is no guarantee Cullum will be there to pick up the pieces. I''ve said my bit.  I now await your immature, un-informed replies. [/quote]   This thread disgusts me. this is a message board where people are entitlted to their opinion. what gives you the right to prevent that, or the right to have a go at people for expressing their opinions? Your point is bordering on Facism. Whats next? Will you send the ''brown shirts'' round to get all the anti-delia brigade?

dear god. thanks for this link. and yes delia, your right there would be a massive protest if you turned down someone with £20 mil!!!  

[quote user="nu_matik"][quote user="Blainsey"] [quote user="frettenhammer"]Now I may be completely off beam here,but I swear I saw Gunny standing behind Sir Alex at the Man U friendly yesterday.Check out SSN.Man Utd loanees anyone?[/quote] yep just seen him on Sky Sports News. didnt he come from Aberdeen too? be nice if there was something in it. if not then why isnt he working and watching football instead?? [/quote] because he''s allowed a day off perhaps OR shock horror, he might be scouting. but a football match would be a crazy place to do that... my bad.[:$] [/quote]   what? a day off? surely not!!

[quote user="frettenhammer"]Now I may be completely off beam here,but I swear I saw Gunny standing behind Sir Alex at the Man U friendly yesterday.Check out SSN.Man Utd loanees anyone?[/quote] yep just seen him on Sky Sports News. didnt he come from Aberdeen too? be nice if there was something in it. if not then why isnt he working and watching football instead??

why would Cullum offer to invest in something, own it and then watch it fail? he wants his new business venture to succeed so will do whatever it takes financially or otherwise to make it so. Delia et al are clinging on with their fingernails....let go!!! let us live the dream!!

I cant read the font in white. Sorry but i cant help but feel we have been given a raw deal here. Therefore I must be from moron central. Didnt realise my BA (hons), PGCE (exon) and MA qualified me as a moron though.

I am reading Fowler''s autobiography at the moment, i love the guy always have, and if i wasnt norwich i would have been liverpool for fowler!! sheer class.

a protest to get Delia out just like the old Chase days!!

I understand your point completely and did indeed read your thread. I appreciate that I have little to no idea of what went on behind the scenes and therefore my post is written in ignorance. However, what I do know is..... Cullum is a fan, he is rich, he wants to run the club, he wants to invest in players.   That fits every criteria Delia et al want. So there had better be some huge underlying problem with Cullum or there will be serious reprecuissions. Perhaps even scenes reoccuring that we saw at the end of the Chase era.

[:@] Having just read that the Cullum deal has collapsed I am absolutely disgusted/appalled at this decision! It is time for Delia et al to move aside, they have had their time, they have had their cotributions written into the clubs echelons of history....move on!! Let a new investor take the club forward as it certainly wont/cant move forward under the current regime. There is a storm brewing and this WILL divide the club. Not good times.  

[quote user="SAFU2007"][quote user="Blainsey"] nice one!! i only got a 2:2 from UEA in 2001 - why....becuase i spent too much time playing Champs and going to the LCR :) am now doing a Masters and got a PGCE so guess its not all bad. [/quote] Thats roughly 8/9 yrs on holiday................bring back Conscription! [^o)] [/quote] I wish!!!! been spending the years from then attempting to educate children!! Masters is part-time :(  also spent a year hiring cars out at EnterpriseRentACar on Airport Road. Leased a Van to Eadie whilst there so he could drive his stuff to Leicester.

nice one!! i only got a 2:2 from UEA in 2001 - why....becuase i spent too much time playing Champs and going to the LCR :) am now doing a Masters and got a PGCE so guess its not all bad.

It is time for change within the upper echelons at Carrow Road. Move over Delia et al and let someone else take the club foward. Bring on the Cullum dynasty.

Chris Martin?

[quote user="PhatCanary"]It''s a fake!!![/quote]   do you know i wondered the same thing as I am sure Hitler is dead??!!

its ok, we still have Wes Brown!! Rooney is a granny-shagger!!

ive just got on betfair - 36 to win the league and 4.2 for promotion. why not hey.

a slightly different one and just as funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0RHPDoUYc&feature=related

For those who havent seen it...its Hitlers reaction to Ronaldo leaving Man Utd. If the link doesnt work then go onto Youtube and search by Hitler and Ronaldo. Pure class. For those who are interested the film is ''Downfall'' and well worth viewing. As a history teacher I would highly recommend it!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MCmUKZJYTY

Ferguson has had some good books about him too. Pretty insightful.