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    I hate to say it... but I''ve said all along that this joy ride to the Premiership is simply an over inflating ''bubble'' based on little more than a once in a lifetime manager and a team of bargain basement footballers believing the dream.Any new manager will find it impossible to fill the huge boots left by PL... the crowd will be on his back from the off and the discord will see McNally and Bowkett leave for new pastures.Who that leaves in control should worry us deeply.

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    [quote user="Surfbird"]

    You''re quite right PURM It is futile to dwell on the past as some posters are.  If you did you could argue that Derby, Portsmouth, Bolton, Notts Forest, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolves and many more are bigger than ''little old Norwich''.  If however you use attendances as a measure then we are already the twelfth biggest club in England and would be higher if we had the capacity.

    It is the future we should focus on.

    So much is now happening in the East of England -grwoth and trade is now focused here.

    Felixtowe - the biggest container port by far in the UK handling no less than 40% of the UK''s trade.

    The growth of Norwich Airport.

    The dualling of the A11 at last

    36,000 new homes planned for Greater Norwich

    A similar number for Norfolk

    The expansion of the University and Science Park and much else.

    With these demographics we should be upping our ideas and aiming to be one of the ''big clubs'' of the future.

    The decline of the industrial north has seen a relative decline in the status of many of their teams.

    With Premier League games shown world wide every week and the growth of internet communications and no competition for fifty miles Norwich City have a golden opportunity to become a big club.   ''Little Norwich'' must be made a misnomer - a thing of the past not of the future.

    I think David McNally sees this potential (10,000 more seats) and I belive Paul Lambert does too.

    [/quote]Lordy Lordy.... so all of these ''incomers'' are going to be Norwich City fans are they? If anything this will just mean more Man U and Man C shirts blighting the streets of the city centre. Aston Villa are a big club... Norwich City aren''t whichever way you want to spin it.

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    [quote user="star_manic"]there is one thing it seems that everyone is overlooking. Martin O''Neill. i''m sure PL would contact him before makinga decision on going to villa and the response would likely be "don''t touch it with a barge pole". MO''N was well set there but it all went wrong between him and the board, and PL respects him immensely so anything he has to say would be significant.[/quote]Wouldn''t he have offered the same advice about joining City then? After all.... O''Neill didn''t have a very happy time here before stomping off in a hissy fit.PL is his own man and will make his own life choices. AV is the perfect stage for him to take an ''unfashionable'' club and make it successful... rather like he has at Carrow Road.It would be the challenge rather than the money which would make him take the job.

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    I think we''ve got to remember that football clubs to football people are like butchers shops to butchers.While we all have a deep seated passion for NCFC.... it''s just another club to Paul Lambert. He will have loved his time here for sure, but moving on won''t be the major issue that it would be for us.

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    [quote user="Harry"]Went in there a few times, used to usually ended up in Studio 80 on a Saturday night.

    Not heard anyone talk about the Floral Hall for a long while, everyone refers to it as the Ocean Rooms or "Rooms" now.

    I miss the swimming pool that was beside it, you can''t beat oudoor swimming pools, have some very happy memories of summers spent down there although I will never forget a friend of mine drowning in there after a late night swim when he was stoned.[/quote]Yes you''re right it was the Ocean Rooms. The Oak Rooms in Oak Street was my main venue going further back to the 60s. They had some pretty good ''groups'' play there... since becoming known as ''bands'' of course!Happy days. [:)]

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    [quote user="Harry"]Is that the one that used to be behind the tower?[/quote]That''s the one Harry.  A bit rough and ready but it was a pit stop on the way to the Tower. The Floral Hall in Gorleston was another regular venue.... the Country and Western nights were a sight to be seen!

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    [quote user="Harry"]It''s not the first time they''ve kicked off in Gt Yarmouth, they did after a match back in the early 80''s, they were smashing up a club on the seafront and the word went round the pubs in the town centre and everyone legged it down there and taught them a lesson, the old bill were bricking it a wouldn''t step foot in the place.[/quote]I was in a bar called The Wheel (?) in Yarmouth last time that happened.....A night to remember.

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    [quote user="Lammy"]Yes it has been devalued. How many great FA Cup Final games do you remember in recent years? With the rare exception to the rule they just don''t happen anymore.[/quote]It''s not the same anymore and it''s pretty much passed unnoticed again this year. The fact that it isn''t played after the end of the league season now says it all.It''s a real shame.... and well done again the Football Association.

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    I can''t see anything else in the wider piece to cause concern.My thoughts are ....what kind of club would suit him? I don''t think he''s a natural big club manager and why would he want to go back down the scale to another club in a poorer position? Is it Villa or another struggling Premiership club?I can''t see Scotland as a pull... so maybe a sunny spot in Europe might be a new challenge. Having said that.... we can only just understand what he''s saying so what chance Europe?Whatever the outcome... thank God for his 3 years at City.
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