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Evertons new stadium
chicken replied to cambridgeshire canary's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
King Power, Stadium MK... many look fairly similar due to the requirements of things like health and safety so access to escape routes for seats and ratios of things like routes, and toilets, per person in the capacity of the stadium etc. If you want more characterful, it probably requires a bit more money to an architect to be creative with designs. Something that comes with a fee and will likely slow the build. -
Unfortunately, there are a lot of things that we have now that were introduced for past generations and remain because we are a nation with a lot of folks 65+ (not a bad thing) who tend to vote in larger numbers and tend to vote one way more than not. Historically, even back 20-30yrs ago, pensioners were a very different make-up to those retiring now, or who have retired in the last, say 10-15yrs. If you take folks of my grandparents generation, born in 1919 for example, it wasn't at all uncommon for only one of them to have earned an income for the majority of their working lives. My grandparents did, but that wasn't all that common. The discounts and freebies handed out to that generation was because pensions had not always been a fantastic thing, or even been a thing to some born earlier, and they needed a bit of assistance to do things that everyone else could. Now, I'm not saying that there are still pensioners that struggle, and there most certainly are, but generally, the reality is that the landscape has changed and yet many of these things like discounts and freebies still exist. I suspect that by the time I get there, many will be gone. Actual retirement age has gone up... even though the average age is actually falling.
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Forest docked four points
chicken replied to Robert N. LiM's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Football as a current model is broken. Is there really any confidence in FIFA after all of the shenanigans over the last decade? Is it transparent enough? Honest enough? Does it have much integrity left? After all, we now know that several clubs owned by Russian oligarchs were simply play-things for laundering money. We now have several oil rich states, entire states, investing in football clubs no doubt up to similar types of things. We know that the secret services were warning of this quite some time ago, and yet it continues to be allowed to happen. I'm not sure it's even fair to call it cynical anymore when there is so much evidence to suggest that football is far from the smart, glistening article it is promoted to be, away from the pitch at least. -
Forest docked four points
chicken replied to Robert N. LiM's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
100%, if the FA and the Premier League truly cared about this and any sense of FFP then the owners would be punished too and clubs given far bigger consequences. I've felt the same since Bournemouth were promoted and broke FFP to get there. The assessment should be a much faster process, if you break FFP in getting promoted you should be relegated no matter where you finish in the Prem. You simply wouldn't be there and shouldn't be there. Four points, a couple of million in fines that can be appealed and reduced... it's peanuts when you have laid out hundreds of millions in breaking the FFP. I know they don't like punishing the clubs at the heart of it as such, and leave fans without a club - though they are happy enough to see it happen at lower league levels. If that's the case, owners should be suspended, even black listed. Fit and proper - should that not include gambling with a clubs future to such a degree that it's "boom or bust" with less of the boom and more of the bust? It's reckless, careless and puts livelihoods on the line too. -
Which was exactly my point. Flippant remarks are not a balanced debate are they? They don't tend to have the desired effect of making one look considered and engaging in a thought process. Such remarks are common place and tend to ignore that actual death toll around wars for resources like oil as well. But yes, never binary. But then why make it so if you know it isn't? If you return something to a company without all of the components they would not give you a refund or compensate. This is because you could, buy said item for the freebie, then return said item without the freebie and end up with something that can sometimes end up more valuable than the item it came with. I can think of a few things like this with magazines and collectables that come with it. If you were to sell it on yourself - different matter. But to ask for compensation for a free ticket impacted by covid when there was a method of people getting a seat who had season tickets... is taking the p!zz. There's no other way of looking at it - and the ombudsmen agree. Everyone on this forum agrees with that finding, and yet here you are, pointlessly trying to justify your continued stance. No one here can change the outcome for you, no one wants to, no one even agrees with you. It's also a pretty shoddy reason to pour so much hate and conspiracy onto the club you supposedly love. And as I have point out, the level of spin you are willing to go to, to try and buy favour... to quote Chris Kamara "It's unbelievable Jeff!". Attacks on the club being community orientated because you didn't get your way, for example.
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You didn't though did you. You paid for shares, not for your ticket, unless you are saying your shares are actually worth less? Clearly if it's the season ticket you paid for, you're shares are actually worth a lot less than you keep banging on about? If MA does offer to buy your shares, does he also get your season ticket? Do you get to keep it? Or neither of those things? How much did you pay for your season ticket for the last 22years? Re electric cars, probably best you do a bit more research than scraping the bottom of the barrel press that is backed by oligarchs and oil companies. Funny how lithium mining is environmentally horrible but drilling for oil and then refining it is somehow all flowers and green grass.
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I've said for a while that I think Sorensen lacks leadership. He's not a bad player, he's just not an amazing one either. The end of last season was his moment to shine. A run in the side in a position he has previously said he is comfortable in. If there was ever a chance to nail down a starting position on the regular that was it. He was paired with Omobamidele for most of those games if I recall it correctly. A central defender of quality, perhaps some rawness, and a lack of experience. He'd looked good when paired with Hanley or Gibson who appeared able to steer him with their experience. Sorensen is 26, he's no youngster in footballing terms. He should have stood out if for no other reason that he had the experience and knowledge to have an edge. No one particularly covered themselves in glory in that period, don't get me wrong, but I do feel if he was to have a moment that was it. Right now he should be in his prime. One of the names a manager either can't leave off the team sheet or is giving headaches about how to include him on it. He's not really either. And not only that, he's come into a team in form and he's playing alongside an experience CB in Gibson - highlighting perhaps that Sorensen needs an older head alongside him.
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Or... OR, ooorrrr - you are arguing with yourself?!!!
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"In effect". If that means "I want it to mean" then yes, but otherwise no. You bought shares. Shares that came with the incentive of a free season ticket for life (of the investor clearly) as a thank you to those that invested in over 1000 shares. If I were them, I would have offered you a refund on the price you paid for the shares. Then hoped you'd grabbed it. Then they'd not only have you off the books but also could claim they were a greener club for saving you the round trips from Essex for all of those years and the many trees felled for you to write your complaints onto the paper of... your carbon footprint alone in that regard probably accounts for at least five other people... Good grief.
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Our best strikers are our best strikers. It's not like we have a vast array to choose from and it's not like we could afford better. The fact that they are so good probably has more to do with it than being something to do with any "preferred" style of play. Not having a go, I just feel that this is the wrong way around. They'd be first choice under any manager that had come in, in January. I also think Sargent is more tactically versatile than that.
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Ooooohh Matron....................
chicken replied to Thirsty Lizard's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Mick Hucknell-esque! -
I would argue though, that McLean has never had the personel to compliment him in the prem. 1st season up he was supposed to have Tettey/Amadou/Vrancic. The first two were pulled into centre back cover, the latter then left. Vrancic never quite had the legs for the prem and wasn't as tactically flexible as Kenny. He did well alongside Skipp, but again, we then went up and his midfield team mates were Normann and Gilmour. Both needed time to settle, one had a lack of any real experience, the other had mainly played abroad. Yes, Lees-Melou too. Throw in some rotation as well... When you look back, CM has been one of our most unsettled departments on the pitch. The only real constant has been Kenny. Is it possible, that now he has played two seasons with the same midfielders around him, that he has become less relied upon to be the one to call all of the shots in there and as a result is playing with more freedom and a bit less responsibility?
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Point to the bit on the thread where I talk about that? Oh you mean the bit where I have agreed with Shef and the actual accounts which say all external debt will be gone by the summer? Not the same as saying we'll be in profit is it? Not really sure why you keep tagging me when I've simply agreed with others. Not to mention you've retracted your 'it doesn't make sense to me' comment and also agreed with Shef then tried to change the goalposts and refused to apologise to Shef for basically saying his original explination was too complicated despite everyone else getting it, just so you could ignore it for 'Trumpism'. All of this just further spin to get away from the truths people keep unearthing about you. At some point I really hope something clicks with you, you realise the majority view of the room is in support of the club in the cases you are obsessed with and that the issue really only lies with you.
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Money money money..
chicken replied to cambridgeshire canary's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
That's an actual picture of him running to catch the next flight to Paris isn't it?