Jez

I''d take safe by the end of May

From what it looked like in the article he just wasn''t looking right now, which is fair enough.  If our scouting network doesn''t really cover much outside the UK then we shouldn''t be buying out of the UK, I don''t want us to buy some player because of a youtube video.  But if we get established in the Prem that''s the time to start widening our search and bringing in foreign talent.

[quote user="Ncfc26"]Away st holders mate[/quote]I completely misread that, looking back over it it definitely says away on the post, don''t know why but my eye was just drawn to ''season ticket''.  I should probably go to bed.

[quote user="Ncfc26"]@i''m Spartacus But that takes up 1 day a week there are 6 other days to enjoy a life. So think twice before you insult 700 or so city supporters *shakes his head and cries inside a little*[/quote]700?  Am I missing something, aren''t there a hell of a lot more season ticket holders than that?Also just like to remind everyone that our opening game to our last premiership season was against Palace, a fellow promoted club, so this could happen.  But if we are drawn against QPR in the opening game you''d have to think someone at the Telegraph''s gonna be in a lot of trouble for leaking it.P.S.Just realised you might mean 700 heading up to Man U if it''s away, I''m assuming the away allocation is something stupidly small like that.

[quote user="merson_dim"][quote user="Jez"]Bigger question is, is the Grant Holt (GHolt9) account real?  I''m new to twitter so don''t know how to judge.[/quote]no. only norwich player on twitter is @vaughany14[/quote]Oh that''s a shame, please tell me that Dion Dublin (DionDublinsDube) is real!

Bigger question is, is the Grant Holt (GHolt9) account real?  I''m new to twitter so don''t know how to judge.

[quote user="mtv"]This is a long thread about nothing, hmmm![/quote]It''s the summer, what do you expect?

So far it consists of checking pinkun message board and newsnow every half an hour to see if there''s a new rumour.  Can''t wait for the fixture list to come out, the start of the new season is too far away and I can''t quite get excited by the u21 championship and the women''s world cup.

East London

[quote user="peter2704"]Just reading his comments about joining. Doesn''t seem to take anything for granted. Sounds like he fits the Lambert mould perfectly! Very down to earth and hopefully will be a credit to the club. http://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/bennett_eager_to_fight_for_norwich_city_place_1_921774[/quote]Just listened to his interview on the BBC site, I especially liked his response to the question "how do you feel about going up against Lampard et al" to which he responded "at the moment I''m just thinking about going up against the other players".  He also corrected himself when he said "playing premier league football...I mean hopefully getting the chance to" or something along those lines.I like his attitude, he clearly accepts that he''s going to have to fight for a place in the team and is prepared for it.  Can''t wait to see how he does!

[quote user="ROBFLECK"]He''s got a star potential and I like his attitude too! Those are the guys you need when your extending a squad like ours, they fit into the mould. Never mind the guys whingeing about more quality...he''s got quality...! Now let''s get some defenders and a GK...[/quote]Oh the irony!

Not really, I''d be more worried if we were spending big bucks on players whose wages we wouldn''t be able to afford if we went back down.  We seem to be building a young(ish) team of players who have a point to prove and hopefully that''ll keep us up.  but we also have a team who if we went back down (god forbid) would be strong enough to make an immediate attempt at promotion and we wouldn''t be forced to sell on.

I agree with Sierra and the others who think we should keep him.  Sure he may not be starting 11, but if the system''s changing to a flat 4-4-2 then he''ll get more chances and we always need cover, we don''t want to find ourselves in the situation where injuries mean we have to put out a massively weakend team.  We have to have a decent squad, not just a starting 11.

You have to admit a1 that you did backtrack quite quickly from your argument, you can''t say that something definitely happened but not provide examples.That said, surely the real question is no has he done it in the past but is he doing it now?  Maybe he was using it as a bargaining chip for Bennett, as in "look, if you don''t sell him at a reasonable price we''re just gonna pick up this proven champiohsip midfielder on a free".As for the whole "his contract isn''t up until 30th June" or whatever the date was, surely that wouldn''t stop us from being able to say "When his contract runs out we will sign him on a new contract".  I think we''ve probably gone off him for whatever reason, or the rumours that he was having a medical with us were just false, otherwise we''d have heard something more concrete by now.  Although I may have to eat some humble pie, I admit I''m no expert on the inner workings of football transfers and contract negotiations.

[quote user="I am a Banana"]ITS ALL RUBBISH. BLACKPOOL AREN''T IN THE PREM NEXT SEASON! [/quote]I concur

[quote user="Harry the Green Wizard"]There''s nothing wrong with Malaysia, it''s a beautiful Country and the food and beer are great.[/quote]I''ve got nothing against the country Harry.  I''d just rather play Parma at home than some teams I''ve never heard of on the other side of the world.

[quote user="Alex "][quote user="kick it off"]Alex, pretty sure that Ronaldinho one is just cleverly edited, Great ad though.[/quote] Really?! Must admit, totally had me fooled if this is a fake. The thing about it is, when you have/had talent like him then I wouldn''t put that demonstration past the realms of possibility!.[/quote]Personally I don''t trust anything I see on the internet anymore, video editting has gotten far too good.

[quote user="The Young One"][quote user="Indy"]I like the look of the bottom three, might be the same after 38 games........[/quote] woooooooo this is scarey, we had exactly ther same thread started a couple of days ago, was I dreaming and it didn''t actually happen. [/quote]I think I said something like, but we seem to have the championship table on here http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/default.stmThought I''d post it again incase it was a mass hallucination.

Well it''s a darn sight better than our ''tour'' of South East Asia when Proton were our sponsors.

[quote user="DAN-OTBC"]NCFC top scorer in Prem: Holt NCFC exit round in FA Cup: winner NCFC exit in League Cup: winner NCFC finishing position: 1st Teams finishing below NCFC in order: all of ''emPremier League Winners: norwich[/quote]Season 12-13 Champions League Winners: Norwich

Running absolutely fine with me, must be your connection or something.

And this one http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/ has the new Championship table in it for some reason

And yet I still clicked on it thinking it''d be something different...

You sure do!

I don''t mind it, but would love it if we had Wings of a Wizard''s suggestion of Zombie Nation. As for the count down to OTBC, I love that, mainly because it actually gets the library stands singing for once!