Jonncfc

Prudence with no ambition is a recipe for mediocrity.

Based on what we’ve witnessed this season, particularly since the restart, your claim is based on nothing but blind optimism. Further relegation is far more likely.

I also love the club and have done so for the last 50 years, following them home (season ticket for a good many seasons) and away (fortunately frequently enough to put me in the guaranteed ticket bracket). I also hate to see people belittling our club. Those I particularly don’t like to see belittling us are those on the inside who show it through their actions or inactions, including the squad that are no longer prepared to play as a team, the manager who quite clearly has had a disastrous season, and the Board who seem content to follow their “little old Norwich” strategy of self-sustainability whilst seemingly discouraging any possibility of external investment. That’s what I call belittling the club.

This is of course true. But on the other hand a lack of money pretty much guarantees failure.

Unless they've fitted motion sensor taps and removed the doors, I think I'd prefer to self-catheterise rather than use the unsanitory loos in the Lower Barclay!

At least if you’re going out for the rest of the day we can look forward to no more of your sanctimonious, attention-seeking lectures until tomorrow at the earliest.

Unless the manager or squad changes, it’s probably more realistic to say we’ll definitely be one of the teams most other clubs will beat next season.

So, just because Liverpool won the league by a country mile, in reality they’re no better than we are because they’re only as good as their next game. Thanks for explaining that one.

“They also have 'ignore the noise' written in the training ground.” Well, there’s been precious little noise over the last few weeks but the performances have been absolutely dreadful.

Even taking that into account, there’s no way in a month of Sundays that he can inject the necessary self-belief and confidence into this squad in the few weeks between now and the start of next season.

Well, unless either the squad changes or the Manager changes, it’ll be more of the same next season.

Does Mick Dennis have a holiday home in the Lake District?

Completely agree, but if the owners won’t let the club show ambition by investing sufficiently in the squad then I can’t see them being prepared to take the risk of building another tier on the main stand. It doesn’t fit with the long term plan of making sure we remain little old Norwich.

The lockdown excuse is a complete red herring. Our form had been dreadful for months, every other club has to contend with multiple matches each week, every other club has to play without crowds, and every other club has to cope with injuries. The facts are simple: we have a team which has consistently performed to considerably less than the sum of its parts; a manager who sadly seems to have run out of ideas; a pedestrian style of play that is totally predictable; absolutely no cutting edge in the final third; a defense that leaks like a sieve; and a lack of ambition at board level where additional external investment seems unwelcome. Some will say that we should be grateful we still have a football club at all. Television pundits and commentators patronisingly say how well-run we are, how we won’t panic just because of a little thing like relegation and that the self-sustaining Norwich way is one that other clubs should seek to emulate. But we are where we deserve to be: anchored at the bottom of the league and firmly on track for our lowest ever points total. However, in the eyes of some we are only little old Norwich and perhaps we shouldn’t have ideas above our station. But others remember us having higher standards and expectations than this. I’m sure many who saw us finishing 5th, 4th and 3rd in the First Div/Prem, playing at Wembley in League Cup finals, and qualifying for Europe (4 times if it wasn’t for Liverpool getting us banned) feel the opportunities offered by multiple promotions to the Prem have been squandered and that the apparent complacency and lack of ambition at Board level has been holding us back.

Ha ha ha 👍

"Had a decent go today but not quite good enough." If tht's a decent go that wasn't quite good enough then perhaps you need to raise your standards and expectations.

No problem, pleased to help. Sometimes no analysis is necessary. The performances on the pitch speak for themselves.

Well that was the usual, predictable rubbish.

It's not just the fact that we haven't scored, it's that we never look remotely like doing so.

The City Stand has always been a bit of an embarrassment - a League 2 stand in an otherwise Premier League ground, and because of Covid it's exactly the right time to do something about it. Players will want to leave following relegation so money in the coffers, and it's unlikely that crowds will be allowed back for quite some time so supporters wouldn't have to be evicted from their seats during the work. Yes, with the uncertain future in a Covid world it would be a financial risk, but all of football is a financial risk anyway and it's something we've been putting off for too long. That said, if the owners aren't prepared to take a risk on the playing side, they almost certainly won't want to "speculate to accumulate" on the ground. After all, we are little old Norwich, aren't we, and we mustn't have ideas above our station.

Wasn’t the whole of Carrow Road built in 3 months? OK, there was no such thing as H&S back then but even so, these things can be done quickly if appropriate penalty clauses are built in to contracts.

No merit at all in getting rid of the manager at this stage, even if we could afford to, which we probably can’t. But if after 10 or so games next season we’re not producing the goods with a league position to match, then I fear the writing will very much be on the wall for him, and rightly so.

The sentiment of the statement black lives matter is clearly laudable and there should be equality of opportunity in all respects, regardless of race or ethnicity, so in that respect all lives matter. However, black lives matter and Black Lives Matter (BLM) are two very different things. BLM is an extreme far-left group with links to the SWP. As with many similar organisations, it deliberately gives itself a warm fluffy name that portrays reasonableness (e.g. Unite Against Fascism, Stand up to Racism, Stop the War Coalition etc) but in reality seeks to undermine the Government and sow discord with the aim of overthrowing capitalism and the state. Football should avoid any involvement with politics and it certainly should never align itself with an extremist organisation like BLM.

The Guardian (formerly The Manchester Guardian) was founded by John Edward Taylor who made his fortune in the cotton trade which, of course, relied on the import of cotton picked by slaves. In addition his newspaper supported the Confederates during the American Civil War, so surely The Guardian should be forced to close down immediately. I know, perhaps BLM could have a demo outside The Guardian offices and mount a sustained online campaign to shame anyone who buys the paper or who works for it. After all, we wouldn’t want any accusations of hypocrisy would we?

20,000 out of a 90,000 capacity, so one supporter for every 4.5 seats. Taking into account the rows behind and in front, that might allow 1m distancing but not so sure about 2m.