Bobert

Maybe you are right but then I travelled for the third biggest company in the US and Canada and recovered over one million dollars so I was no fool. I also played my last game of rugby when I was 35yrs old and when it comes to bonding I know all the songs!

We need a good womens team at Carrow and if the FA will not allow the women to use the ground for first team matches the ruling needs to be reversed. I believe that in the 1930''s the women''s game was more popular than the mens and so the FA ran scared and banned the women. Need the women to speak out!

Well I don''t wish to be rude but the replies from you guys all sound like expensive pie in the sky to me for the club. The idea of a "bonding exercise" for grown men makes me want to puke......... this is something fathers are supposed to do with their sons and daughters. Sitting on Greyhound coaches, travelling between clubs along USA freeways, sitting in Holiday Inns during the evenings drinking Budwiser does seem a good way of getting fit for the coming season to me (I used to live in Chicago and travel the States as an auditor) and the boys need to be fit and hit the ground running for a top ten place this coming season. Any fool can spend money and this seems to be an exercise in doing just that. I wonder who sold the idea to the usual cautious McNally?

Could it just be an expensive junket for Directors, staff and players I wonder? When I was an export rep. I remember being told by foreign buyers how amazed they were by the number of British Company Directors turned up on their doorsteps especially in the Med, and the South of France. Of course it was a way to get their holiday bankrolled by their companies. I personally cannot see the point of Norwich being involved in a long and tiring trip to play three teams of Championship standard.

Well I have just torn my betting slip up which was £20 at 6/1 for Norwich to finish in the top ten. It was the same bet I had the prvious year except that bet was 7/1. You can guess that I am not much of a tipster but I see Sunderland, Cardiff going down as their Managers do not have the experiance to keep them up and maybe Watford. Nice crowd tho. I went to a game last year and was very well treated.

I was thinking about this last weekend when driving back to Norwich from Warrington (the town where I was brought up). I always use the Toll Road which is about 30 miles long, costs roughly £5, and is really fast, hassle free and as far as I am concerned safe. I the present economic climate it will be years and years before anything is done to the A47. There has to be greater priorities I am afraid however a Toll road fromSwaffham to Bury with a link to the Norwich Southern Bypass might interest the Government if it could be shown to make a profit. There are lots of reasons : Employment to the area Profit to the Treasury Road Safety Votes to sitting Tory MPs I would be happy to join a group to lobby the Government. From past experiance I would thing we need about a dozen good letter writers to let the idea off the ground

I well remember 3 or 4 years ago Delia complaining how TV money was spoiling Football and how it could be the end of the beautiful game for clubs like Norwich. I wonder how she sees it now. It would be interesting to have a reporter go down to Suffolk and have an hours chat with her and publish the result for us all to read. She has been a wonderful asset for the club and we all owe her a great deal together with her husband.

It''s got a pier?

Seems to me that McNally has kept a tight ship at Carra this season and that it is hardly his fault that the ship is floundering in a choppy sea so do you think that he should get his bonus like the Bankers did? I suppose it could be said that McNally should have got the Manager, and his crew, to "Step Down" as it is said these days but I can imagine that Delia and her husband (who have been through it all before) prefer to be nice guys and are getting a bit tired and stressed at being called in to do the dirty. For my part I think I prefer to support a winning side and have my football on Saturday afternoons so "Yes Mr McNally you can have your bonus as far as I am concerned" but for next season could we please have a manager who does not seem quite to relaxed about failure?

Well now who could score a goal for us?  Who has been missing for most of the season? My answer is Simeon Jackson! I have been told in another thread that he is a " Goal Poacher"....... well great! Lets have Simeon and Grant being fed by No.14 and Pilks and Snoddy on the wings and Go For it! A 3 - 2 win for us on that basis.

Depends who Hughton puts on the field of course but the fighting spirit shown against Everton would please us all I am sure.

Any one else think that Simeon Jackson might of done the job for us as sub this afternoon? If we were playing for a draw however why did we not pack the defence in the final minutes?

Well Morty I have done some Math and I hear that Villa have a striker worth £30 million and our whole team would not rate half that. I think in terms of Math Lambert wins!

Well Morty it seems the "chosen one" is coming back to Chelsea so you could be wrong in Lamberts case. Liked or not at the Club the fans loved Lambert. He did some wonderful things and the idea that 90% of the fans prefer Hughton to Lambert has got to be for the birds.

Small wonder we are "Little ol Norwich" all the fan''s are asking for is a Dyson hand dryer and a vegetarian pie at half time! Still I remember Colin Chapman coming back from Japan and asking for a 50 year budget and he did not last the year out. Perhaps it is just as well we are modest in our desires.

No noise from the Board is there. Nothing about what they expect of the Club next year so maybe we ought to tell them what they need tio detail when they come back from their hols! A) We need to be in the top 10 at the end of next season B) We need to have better facilities for the fans and that means bigger stands, more parking, escalators and lifts, better food in the ground. C0 We need a bigger shop with more staff on match days D) We need safer walk ways to and from the ground before and at the end of games E) We need our own TV station as the BBC and ITV do not seem to be able to provide F) We need bigger and better fan bases overseas especially in China, Africa and South America H) We need a City Council that is proud of the Club and appreciates the Clubs pomotion of the City I) We need to know what the succession plans are for the shares that Delia and her husband hold J) We need cleaner, bigger and better TOILETS too!

Clearing the debt is foolishness. Companies do not operate without debt and debtfree companies are objects for takover. Nothing will change next year because Norwich is a small club run by local directors with small ideas and the majority of the shares. Where is Plan A for next year (or Plan B for that matter)? Is it talked about? The answer is NO. Does anyone at the club have big ideas? Really, really big ideas? Are we going to have a Manager with Big ideas. Are we going to have a Ground big enough to hold enough fans for a Manager with big ideas? Are we going to sign Internationals who play for World Cup Countries? Are we going to pay double for our tickets or have our own TV station. Are we going to have shirts that are worn by every kid thoughout the World.No, No, No to all these quections. We are an Old Club full of Old Age pensioners and Children who write to Message Board without experience of life.

When I was at school we played two, three, five and you could charge the goal keeper over the line. We could try it out on Saturday! After all that was how Blackpool came back to beat Bolton in the most emotional FA Cup final of all time. I remember my mother banging on the table and screaming at the 9 inch black and white tele "Give it to Matthews".

It really was as bad as the Wigan game. The most exciting part for me was going to the top of the barclay in the Service Life. It was so overcrowed with 11 people that it might not get off the ground. It was better coming back as there were only four in it and the steward, who operates the lift, had gone for the day. Must have been so bored with the game.What I find so strange is that Delia and her pals go to these games, both home and away, and don''t say anything in the Press. They must surely say some thing in the privacy of her lift. Oh yes Delia has her own lift that she does not have to share with the pots and pans but then why not? Bet David Cameron has his own lift in No.10 too! What am I talking about you may ask? Well we are all pretty sick people who use the Service Lift at Carrow. Sick physically so life is doubly bad when we have to watch the dross on the pitch. What awfully passing! You would have thought that after all that training the boys could pass the ball acurately. I do remember a former Chairman once saying " Some of the players are not very good". It would seem a few years on that nothing has changed very much.

I have to agree with Norfolk Dumpling. At my age I simply do not have time for the slow, solid build up of the Club. I need a quick fix; a bit of excitment; an escalator to the top of the Barclay. I want to wave a flag and give a cheer. There was no need for the dross at Wigan. We could all see there was a need to bring on Grant Holt much earlier in the game when there was all the hurly burly in the Wigan goal mouth so why could CH no see it too. A quick fix sure. A goal for Norwich and we would all have gone home happy. If we have to keep CH for the money lets find him an assistant with a bit of fire and flare that we can believe in. A guy who makes a difference.

Do you think CH is spending all the PL money now so that he can go on holiday at the end of the season. It does seem a bit odd when we do not know at this point what league we will be in. Maybe its a ploy of Mr Mac and nothing to do with CH to drum up business due to lack of season ticket sales as "fans" leave the Club in droves due the economic conditions and the dross the players are currently serving up. The game against Wigan on Saturday was truly awful as bad as the "meal" served before the game in Wigan Pier. Northern canaries had a bit of a do there before the match and gave the Directors, and themselves, pressed out pie, chips and peas. Wynn passed it up and went outside for his usual fag leaving the others to face the crush. There was not much going on in the Stands during the game. The stadium is a soul less place as bad as the one at Stoke stuck out on an Industrial wasteland. I have just realised there is yet another game at Carrow on Saturday. Do I really have to go. Maybe things could be be made more interesting if we had a "Manager of the Match" chosen by lot 15 minutes before the game as he would be more entertaining than CH''s choice. Imagine it.... "And the Manager for today''s game is row D seat 105 in the Upper Barclay". I guess it would be even better if that seat was empty!

I don''t care what your predictions are I just think that the game yesterday was not very exciting. Sure the weather was awful but I paid to see the Norwich Gladiators perform and by the time the second half came round they all seemed to have run out of puff. The crowd seemed to run out of puff too. I hope we stay up of course and I will say "thanks" to Mr Hughton but I don''t want to watch this stuff next year or the year after. I believe I have about 4 years left (most men seem to kick the bucket by the time they are 84 yrs) and I want to go out having had a bit of excitment at Carra so lets offer the £70 million to Harry and have a bit of fun like we had with PL.

Six Pack I wonder if you ever go to a game on a Saturday or mid week. If you sit on a cold seat trying to make out the players at the far end with nothing more to amuse you than the guy four rows down making disgusting gestures at the visiting fans. I am a happy man when we put up a decent show and come away with a win against reasonable opposition but to be beaten 5-0 is not on especially if it is the visitors second team and our best. You have to compete on a level playing field to stand a chance and the PL is not that these days. Lets face it all we seem to have been playing for this last eighteen months is the money. Because our majority shareholders do not have a deep enough pocket we have to watch our boys grind out a draw and its deadly stuff. Paul Lambert gave us the answer. He did not play for the money. He played for honour and glory. Played for a WIN!. We, the crowd, loved it. Cheered the boys, sang about Paul. Open top bus tours, civic dinners we lapped it up. I don''t care a monkey''s uncle about Man U, Man City and the rest. I care about Norwich City, about wining the game and about having fun. Stuff your "rights".

Certainly if I was in my native North/West and a Man U supporter I would not bother going to watch the teams in the bottom half of the Premier League. There needs to be a challenge to enjoy watching and the bottom half cannot provide it. There is a lot to be said for reducing the Premiership to a dozen teams. Rugby League have done it very successfully and have added a French/Spanish team for a bit of spice (now fourth in the standings). In England we have Swansea to supply that need of course. From the Norwich point of view we would have better weekends being first of second in Pemiership II than we do at the moment struggling to survive.

I am bored with our Manager. I am bored with us not scoring goals. I like rising to my feet in the Upper Barclay to congratulate our boys. I like worshipping our goal scorers, I missed the Fulham game and I am not going to the Everton game because I am bored with our style of play. I thought PL brought style and excitment to Norwich Carra Road. If we manage to stay up this season can we get a new manager to give us excitment do you think or do we have to continue like we are now? If being in the Premiership is the be all and end all do we have to bother going to watch?