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  1. Posted

    Very sad news.

    Like Jez I only met Ben a few times (I also got to know him through posting on the official Club messageboard) but I''d echo the sentiment about him being very passionate about everything to do with music and football. He was a genuinely nice bloke.

    RIP Ben. Best wishes to all his family and friends.

  2. Posted

    Yep, that''s why I said it might be down to "incorrect contact details, or emails not getting through due to spam filters"

    The 400 members figure came from Mr Tilson or Face on another thread when the questionnaire was being discussed so I assumed that was how many were being sent out.

    Whatever, it''s still a tiny percentage of the overall fanbase.

  3. Posted

    NCISA has about 400 members - so about 100 people responded.

    That''s a very low ''turn out'' and surely makes it tricky to extrapolate any kind of statistics for what the majority/minority of fans think. (It might be down to apathy or incorrect contact details, or emails not getting through due to spam filters...who knows?)

    Personally I''d say it also demonstrates how ineffective NCISA has become as a voice for fans if these are the kind of numbers we''re talking about out of a potential 30-40,000 people (STs, members and just casual fans).

  4. Posted

    >Cam a ColU/Lincoln fan is on here virtually daily which in itself is odd bearing in mind its a Norwich City fan''s site.

    CA, it''s not ''odd'', it''s ''work'' - he''s on here fishing for stories to sell to the sports pages of the tabloids (or if he''s lucky the main pages - ''NCFC fans invade Delia''s cookery forum'' or the like).

    Don''t you see the connection between "inside info"/rumours that get posted on here and stories that crop up in the tabloid sports gossip pages the next day?

    (That then get repeated on here and become internet "fact")

    I think Cam has said in the past that he and his daughter spend their day monitoring various football websites for snippets of information (as well as pursuing other sources I guess).

  10. Posted

    Interesting posts Andy (and your other long essay about responses to decent arguments).

    I like the idea of a Niall Quinn style figure to lead a consortium of business people. Perhaps if it were someone of that ''folk hero'' ilk then potential investors (like your client) may not be so scared of the flak since the figurehead could deflect it.

    Not sure Hucks is the right person. Lovely bloke and all that but I don''t think it would be his thing.

    Trouble is, someone has to find the figurehead, convince him/her that it could work and also find 3 or 4 millionaires willing to participate by investing £2-3m of their money next year, and every year after that.

    Now, I haven''t checked my numbers from Saturday...where''s my lottery ticket again?

    (p.s. this week''s Euromillions has an estimated £85m jackpot in case any of you fancy a go)

  14. Posted

    Well, I didn''t vote for George Bush and the way I read it the global recession is as much as result of the US "sub-prime" fiasco as anything else but hey-ho.

    So to summarise Rudolph''s post, he is somehow more of a fan than me because he DOESN''T go to the games and is not contributing to the Club''s coffers.

    I understand all the arguments but it seems a rather crazy way of expressing ''support''.

  17. Posted

    Some interesting points there, a lot of which I''d agree with.

    I''d add that the other part of the problem is the sheer volume of players we''ve seen on yellow shirts in the last four/five seasons - not just the 40 loans but players like Louis-Jean, Thorne, up to Lappin. Players signed for actual, real, money and paid a decent wage who rarely feature in a first team (either through recurrent injury or the discovery that they are not all they are meant to be).

    The money we''ve wasted on ''squad'' players who are not genuinely pushing for a first-team place is scandalous in itself.

  19. Posted

    >when it was all standing we were singing 20 to 30 mins before the match even started ,we didn''t need some idiot to start an ON THE BALL CITY song to get the crowd going

    That''s a fair point but surely the seating isn''t the reason that the lower Barclay don''t appear in their seats until 5 minutes or less before KO - it''s that comfy bar they built you lot, sofas and widescreen TVs.

    Close that 15 minutes before KO and the atmosphere might improve!

    ;o)

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