Lord Horn

[quote user="Branston Pickle"]I do wonder if any of the players are aware of this ''cup'', but we seem to have regained it :-) haven''t seen it mentioned anywhere but it is presumably still around.[/quote] I assume we have it back now after the two results this season???

[quote user="Ketts Rebel"] Lets not forget that tommorow is a contest for the Friendly Cup. Where two great clubs showed how it should be done in an era of football violence. Below is a good article on its origins........ http://www.rokerreport.com/2011/9/21/2438838/sunderland-norwich-friendly-cup [/quote] That''s a great article.  My one abiding memory of the day is walking past a pub full of Sunderland fans who spotting my colours spontaneously burst into ''On the Ball City''.  Great day, great memories!

[quote user="WehadMartinPetersaweekaheadofhistime"] Isn''t it time this forum''s season kicked off? I don''t know about Pride of the East, the bitching on here has been worse than on Eastenders. It''s great to celebrate the past, but not through yellow tinted spectacles. Surviving extinction was an extraordinary turnaround.....a couple of results and the next generation of fans will see successes that eclipse the past. Above all, let''s hope they return to the values when Norwich appreciated the brilliance of talent.....even if it took a while to get it to Carrow Road. WehadMartinPeersaweekaheadofhistime [/quote] I didn''t see you in the fat Cat and canary at lunchtime but you were obviously there or some other drinking establishment.  [:D] [B]

[quote user="NCFC for life 1993-"]Off the back of some folk on here saying that ''we were never going to get anything at united anyway last week, we have more important games against the teams around us'', is tomorrow a must win or should we be happy with a draw? It would be a shame if after the Everton match and that great win...we wouldn''t be able to build off our last home win? I''m going for 2-1 to us.[/quote] I too would go for a 2-1 win but I think it''s rather a case of ''must not lose'' rather than a ''must win''.

[quote user="nutty nigel"] [quote user="Lord Horn"]Well I''d like the Barclay to be 5/- for adults and 2/6d for under 18s.[/quote]   Ah.. but then it would be two bob in the riverend and sixpence left for a programme. But then your lordship didn''t have to worry about making 5 bob a fortnight last. Silver spoon and all that jazz....   [;)] [/quote] Decided to trade in the Silver Spoon for Krugerands! [:D]

Relegation - QPR, Villa, Wigan Promotion - Cardiff, Palarse, Hull

[quote user="NWC"].....the bit about the doc is qualityyyyy too! [/quote] Wonder if GP has seen it yet????? [:)]

Well I''d like the Barclay to be 5/- for adults and 2/6d for under 18s.

[quote user="crabbycanary"] Superb! Even better, my mate and I are in it! [/quote] Did you get your STs back after throwing them at Gunny??? [:D]

[quote user="Thirsty Lizard"]Absolutely brilliant!![/quote] Astoundingly good!

[quote user="Sly Dog"]I''d love to agree with you Character Forming and I was telling my girlfriend before the game that she was going to hear some great singing from the Norwich fans. However we were sat near the Stretford end (loud when they want to be) and heard hardly anything from the away fans. The prawn sandwich brigand were in evidence with lots of quiet moments but no one would claim to have been blown away by the noise of the away support. Maybe it''s just the acoustics of the ground....[/quote] Watched on the TV in the pub and all you could hear were Norwich fans - don''t think I heard Utd sing once!  Bit different to the 1970s/80s!

[quote user="Notts Canary"]Until Aston Villa win tomorrow [;)][/quote] Even if Villa win (on Monday), we will still be 8 points clearof the bottom 3 as Wigan are on 24.

[quote user="JC"]I went to the match today and I was in the Man Utd end, I was away in China so couldn''t get tickets in the NCFC end and a friend of mine gave me their season tickets as they couldn''t go. The Man U fans around me were getting frustrated with their players all the way up to the first goal. the story of the game up to that point was the final ball (or lack of it) from both teams. We put in a good pressure approach on Man U that was working until a momentary lapse led to the first goal. Their second goal was a counter attack from a Kamara chance that wouldn''t settle for him (plus Bassong taking an age to turn). At the start of the second half we have a 5/10 minute spell where we were putting in dangerous balls into the box which were defended well by Man U. The scoreline of 4-0 DOES flatter Man U, forget they had 13 shots to our one (which is a lie, we had more shots [off target mind]). We had a few chances to put the ball into the box in the first half which unfortunately were over hit (main culprit was Bradley Johnson who otherwise had a very good game). Their last two goals came from us running out of steam which was because we had been pressing them for 75/80 minutes. Sometimes you have to just remember that we have taken 3 points of Man Utd this season, 3 more than we did last season and also 3 more than the majority of the premier league this season. We weren''t helped by some poor refereeing which led to us getting one foul in the first half (van Persie on Bunn) which led to a long bit of treatment and also curtailed his mobility and kicking for the rest of the game. My MOM for NCFC was Turner, he made some massive blocks and also headers particularly in the first half and at 4-0 down he made a massive slide to poke the ball away from Welbeck at the back post stopping a certain 5th The fair result would have been a more reserved 2-0 win for Man U[/quote] Having watched the game at the pub, I would agree with this assessment.  If Cafu''s skied shot had levelled it at 1-1 we might have had a more realistic 2-1 or 3-1 defeat on our hands.

[quote user="Wiz"][quote user="Indy"] Well as much as I like the look of Kei, he''s only scored 1 goal and already someone has written this song! Now had this been for Giggs after 1000 premiership games I could understand it!   To me it smacks of little club syndrome! Maybe it''s just me but I find it kind of embarrasing.   But hey ho, might just be me. [/quote]   Nothing ''kind of'' at all Indy.   Its a total, cringeworthy, country bumpkin, Norfolk in breeding embarrasment!   No wonder the national media doesn''t take us seriously. [/quote] You do realise that the Normal for Norfolk guy singing this is a comedian and I suggest you take it in the witty way it is meant - Christ some of you on here have no sense of humour and Wiz you are just a disgrace with your wittering on other fans messageboards!

[quote user="Indy"] http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21631550 Really? Now not daring to moan, but what the hell! [/quote] Why moan - that''s f*cking brilliant.  See him do it live at the Mischief Tavern on You Tube - search for normalfornorfolkheartshapedhands

Snodgrass, Bassong then Johnson or Turner

[quote user="ricky knight"]conference would be nice[/quote] Conference South not Blue Square Prem I assume! [:D]

[quote user="nutty nigel"] Good player as Rickyyyyy says. He was sub for the 1975 league cup final back in the days of a single sub. I remember after he finished playing he was landlord of the Ironmongers Arms. [/quote] Funnily enough I was pointing out the location of that very establishment to ''er indoors just a couple of weeks ago.  Didn''t it used to be well used by the market boys and have extended opening hours because of that???  Always remember it being very lively.

[quote user="York Canary"]Loves his headers. Shame he can''t get a few more on target from the deck! Been great for us and very happy with him. Looked like he would stay out of the team at times last season, but had a few decent games. This season he''s really thrived under CH[/quote] I totally agree and Snodgrass just goes from strength to strength too - at the moment toss up between Bradders, Snoddy and Seb for POTS for me.

[quote user="AJ"]Saturday reminded me a lot of our year in the Championship, and even parts of League one where despite being second best at times we managed to grind out a result right at the end. Just shows our fantastic team spirit is still there, and that our fitness levels are high![/quote] [Y]

[quote user="Bor Bor Bor"]Well, that''s not getting any better as far as old Bor can tell and I reckon if the fare at Carrow Road gets any worse then Bor will be giving his seat to a homeless person.  Today''s book is "Tropic of Capricorn" by Henry Miller so that should get the old blood pumping even if all around me are comatose.   [/quote]As long as it''s not ''Lolita'' - then I would start to worry about you! [:D]

Firstly let me say I haven''t read all this thread but obviously know that the issue of standing attracts very diverse opinions.  As I am one of the older contributors on here (not as old as Tilly or Ricardo of course [:D]) I feel it may be interesting to a few of our younger viewers to have my ''historical'' perspective.  My Uncle started taking me to Carrow Road when I was 9 in 1964.  Although we stood in the South Stand, it was very obvious that the Barclay was the place to be.  For the two previous years I had attended and enjoyed watching speedway and stock car racing at the Firs Stadium and soon realised that the atmosphere that could be generated at a football ground (particularly by a noisy standing area behind the goal) bore no comparison to any other sport at the time.  I was, therefore, hooked to football but also to the atmosphere.  I particularly remember some large crowds at Cup games early on (Blackburn & Sheffield Wednesday come to mind) where the noise was incredible.  So I grew up in an era when the atmosphere at a game was as important (if not more important given some of the dire stuff we had to endure in the mid-late 60''s) as what was happening on the pitch.  For this reason, I still (to this day) have a season ticket towards the rear of the middle of the lower Barclay (almost equivalent to the view I had of the ground when I was a kid) because I enjoy the singing and atmosphere that can be generated.Moving on, we obviously had (football in general that is) some dreadful dark times off the pitch which led to the situation we have today.  Not long after all seaters were first introduced we were having to put with some dire times on the pitch (1995-2001 in particular).  So naturally the level of standing at games was limited to those times during a dreadful 0-0 draw with Bury or Stockport when we actually got within sight of the penalty area!  However, during the last 10 years or so (from the play-off season onwards) we have had a fair degree of excitement one way or another so many of the youngsters who have started coming in that time have got used to standing for long periods of the games in the Barclay and the Snakepit in particular).  I for one can only remember sitting in my seat for the briefest of moments during our current spell in the Prem (probably not amounting to any more than one hour over the last two seasons).  The stewards near us are relaxed about this, all the season ticket holders around us know what the situation is (and most of them have their season tickets in that area because they want to be there for that very reason).  I would also add that the majority of those with season tickets near me are of a similar age so I''m not surrounded by youngsters - most near me are in the 40+ age group.  This does not cause any problems apart from at Cup games where a high number of casuals turn up and are not used to the situation.  However, this has never led to any friction with those casuals or with the stewards.I agree that the best way forward is to campaign for safer standing areas to be created giving the fans back the choice they once had but the way the issue has been managed in our part of the lower Barclay has been conflict free and a credit to the stewards who we all recognise and respect.  If this is about to change then this will be a sad day.  During the period of the repercussions of Hillsborough and the Taylor Report I was the Safety Officer for the East Anglian Branch of the Football Supporters Association and we campaigned for safe standing areas then but it obviously fell upon the deaf ears of the Thatcher Government.  European teams have proven that this can be achieved but the money this would cost to implement in the Premier League is probably one of the main reasons why teams would be loathe to adopt this approach.  There is logistically no reason why this can''t be done but when did the fans ever really have a say in events???

[quote user="ricardo"][quote user="nutty nigel"] They weren''t the nice sort of cushions as in soft furnishings. They were quite solid square bits of plastic. Obviously softer than the wooden seats but there wasn''t that much in it. When launched they resembled square frisbies as they sailed through the air. Referees were the usual target but the directors box and particularly Geoffrey Watling have also had to bear the wrath of the Mainstanders. I don''t ever remember seeing anyone injured by one of these missiles but I can tell you they had sharp corners that could potentially do a lot of damage. Of course later in the 70s and 80s the Barclay had their own version as coins rained down on targeted players and officials. One goalkeeper in particular could have filled ten piggy banks from thetips he got. Thereafter we heard the chant "You''re gonna get what Jimmy Rimmer got". If one of those sharp cornered frisbies had hit the target I wonder if the old boys in the Main Stand would have been stamping their feet to the rhythm of "You''re gonna get what Geoffrey Watling got.....   It''s a funny ol'' game Saint....     [/quote] I always loved the "Jimmy Rimmer Song" Nigel, I can see him now trawling round the penalty area picking up all those coins. I never sat in the main stand (couldn''t afford it) so never had the pleasure of cushion chucking. A strange incident that always sticks in my mind is Kevin Keelan placing the ball for a goal kick and before he could turn round to take it a guy jumped out of the crowd and wopped the ball upfield. How we laughed, funny old days indeed. [/quote] RE: the Jimmy Rimmer incident - was that the time that good old John Bond (R.I.P.) had to come out and try to calm us all down????

I''ve obviously annexed Paris as part of England [:$]

Can we include Beckham as a reject??? [:)]