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Thank you and good luck, Adam. As already said, you have never let the club down and have never let yourself down because you have been thoroughly professional and have always given 100%. It has been a huge added bonus that you are a really decent person. You deserve every success at your new club. but I hope you come back here when you decide to hang up your boots! Norfolk will miss you. (My abiding memory of you will be your last gasp headed equaliser against Middlesbrough. That comeback was amazing and it couldn''t have fallen to anyone more appropriate than you. Brilliant! )

On my way to Norwich the morning of the Scunny game I saw 1 magpie to my left and 2 to my right in the same village. My football brain cell said sorrow to the left (us) and joy to the right (away team - them). You can''t get the birds these days I''m afraid!!!

If we make it to the league with the unmentionable name - I won''t utter it until all is done and dusted - do any of you think that PL will take the attitude that this excellent City team has earned the right to have a go and therefore there will be very few additions to what we already have? Sorry if this has been discussed in recent days/weeks but I don''t have too much time to read and/or post on here - I have my body armour on in case!

Oops - sorry about all the s! They weren''t in my preview and so assumed they wouldn''t be in the message. Oh well ! Live and learn!

Dear Messrs Jones, Clough and anyone else (including players) who didn''t like the scheduling of Norwich''s game with the Binners last Thursday, Please try calling 01473 613500 - (Suffolk Constabulary). Someone on the helpdesk will try to explain to you the cause of your distress. If you are becoming ill because of your obsessive thoughts and musings then you may try 999 instead, however, there is no guarantee that any of the emergency vehicles attending you will have staff with sufficient patience, or tranquilisers, to calm you to a level at which your focus can be turned to what it should be on at the moment! Norwich City Football Club is in no way responsible for the scheduling of fixtures...so damn well stop moaning at us! Lots of love, McNasty P.S. Do you recall NCFC moaning publicly when, in recent weeks, we had to play 3 games in 7 days and you didn''t. Thought not. It''s called keeping your head down and getting on with it!

Drury''s header to equalise right at the death v Boro was amazing (for those still there!) From 1-4 to 4-4 in 10 minutes was very special. Ashton and McKenzie scoring v Man Utd the same season. Those were great celebrations. Rooney on the pitch for a couple of minutes before being booked by Howard Webb! (One of the best non-scoring celebrations I can remember). Hucks'' goal v Cardiff the season we won the league. Collected the ball in our own half, left the defenders in front of him in his wake, one by one, and finished so clinically. Cue the roof being blown off. Boxing Day 2003 - most emotional celebration as Hucks was introduced as our very own player for the first time. Grown men (and women, of course!) with tears in their eyes. Won''t ever forget that in a hurry! (THE best non-scoring memory for me). Any goals against the Binmen. They''re are all mental celebrations. Malky''s double was very sweet!

Please could you ask Dean what, in his opinion, made the Crewe academy such a successful one and whether he thinks there might be a role for him within football somewhere in the future? Many thanks.

I shall never forget his voice. He was and will remain the voice of all things NCFC and Norfolk. I had the privilege of meeting him and his enthusiasm was infectious. I hope the club does something fitting in his memory. RIP Roy and my condolences to his family and close friends.

Thing is you can only beat what''s out there in front of you and some of it is not that pretty, or skillful, to be honest - but we''re definitely playing better than the dross of last season. If most of the squad stays together into next season AND we manage to get promoted (notice no chicken counting - yet!) AND we make a few decent signings then things could really start to blossom nicely. For now, I''m just glad for the momentum and togetherness the team has as that counts for more than we can probably imagine.

I too would pay a small amount to watch a stream of those games I cannot get to. It''s infuriating seeing him indoors streaming the game every week he cannot get to Slumford Bridge while I am stuck with the text stream to find out how the boys are doing - (glad though I am to have it!)

Marc Tierney - in his dreams?!

I shall never forget Boxing Day 2003. I literally ran full pelt down the hill to get to the ground so I didn''t miss anything. The atmosphere was electric and spirits so high. And when the man himself walked onto the pitch as a City player for the first time, through my own tears, I could see so many grown men crying. What truly amazing days, and, in the words of some adman somewhere, completely and utterly priceless! Thanks Darren for everything. You will never be forgotten in the fine city.

Has anyone else noticed that the trend during the tenure of the last 3 (chronologically speaking) is ''down down deeper and down''? Small wonder the anger and despair hey?! If I got one student out of four, or even one out of three, through their exams I wouldn''t expect to have a job for very long.

Very good Chris Lakey. However - just a few words for Bryan Gunn - arrogant to the nth degree! Pride comes before a fall and, with one of the size I see coming, I suspect Mr Gunn is going to need shares in something a bit more heavy duty than Elastoplast!

The last time I saw Eddy was at the Elton John gig at CR. (He sat on the row behind me next to Darren Huckerby + familty). I asked him if he was going to stay at City and he replied that he very much wanted to but it didn''t look like he was going to kept on. I remember that I wished him luck and he shook my hand while saying thanks. Nice guy so no hesitation in wishing him good luck at Burton!

I got my rebate cheque today but can''t do anything with it as they got my name wrong - even though I told them (nicely!) who to make it payable to. I guess waiting a few more weeks won''t make much difference! :( (Or should I send it back torn up?!!!) ;)

Then I now have extra reason to give myself no voice by about 4.55 p.m. on Saturday! May City bring you some much-needed cheer this season, OTWTY. (I had my own scare four years ago but I''m not going to pretend I know what you''re going through - everyone is different. Take care and stay strong). OTBC

Very saddened too to hear this news when I got home. Genuinely nice people who are able to command the respect of all, from across different divides, are hard to find these days, but Sir Bobby was undoubtedly one of those. Condolences to his family, close friends and those whose clubs he had particular attachment with. RIP.

My message to the board reiterates many of the points made by others and would be: Never in my lifetime have we been consigned to such a low level in the football league but, if things carry on the way they have been going for some time under your collective stewardship, we may not have yet reached our lowest level...and that is a prospect that deeply angers and distresses most fans, I believe. If you search your hearts can you honestly say that this is not of your doing and that people with proper footballing credentials could not have done any better? What we need now is a manager who can manage in true footballing terms, with a CV to back that up, and a board with the footballing nous to make the correct decisions in order for this great club - our great club - to go forward. There is a lot of good sense in the maxim: ''if you love someone (something) set them (it) free''.  It;s time to show some tough love now so that we can turn this canary into a phoenix!

I feel I have to now bearing in mind our current situation. I was at the pre-season friendly we played at Dereham Town after our humiliating exit from the Premiership and I went on to the pitch afterwards to speak to a high-ranking official in the club, who I happen to know through a different sport.  We were naturally talking about the then forthcoming season and I said I thought it would be tricky getting out of the Championship quickly.  He look incredulously at me and said, "do you honestly think so?  I think we''ll walk this division and be firmly established in the Prem within three years". I am not ignoring all the good stuff on here now about our financial plight over recent years and the (misguided) decisions made by board directors, managers etc. that have compounded the situation - I just thought I would now share that with everyone so you can see how even the attidude within our club was skewed and unrealistic at the point when such a brilliant opportunity existed to build and move forwards.  With that chance now gone and seemingly more distant than ever I can only see us needing to take a very long while to recover and try to build again.  An opportunity?  Yes...but for goodness sake all of you that work at CR...no more complacency hey?! [:@]  

Hello all!  Lovely to be back!  Yes, it is my column you''re missing from the Pink''Un.  I loved writing it as well!  Never mind - it''s a long story maybe for another day! Kathy and CA - how nice to be remembered by you. [:)]  I have had such an amazing couple of years really and find myself too many miles from my beloved city now - but hopefully back in touch with civilisation, though so very very sad about what is happening to our club right now.  I really think that nothing short of pulling a massive rabbit out of the top hat will do and any sort of pseudo rabbit instead will be ultimately deemed as failure in the good old ''ambition stakes'' anyway, as prudence will have had her way once again.  I know it can''t be easy for all the powers that be at the club but it''s simply got to the stage where they have to do it for the club''s sake, for their sake and, most importantly, for our sakes.   Over to the board to make us all smile again!

The way I see it is that we are in such a state now we DEFINITELY need a high profile manager, not just with a successful track record but one who can, by reputation, status, personality, contacts etc. give us all, but especially the players, a real lift and some impetus that is so desperately needed. Problem is that we are in such a state now we are pretty UNLIKELY to get the sort of person we HAVE to get to stand a chance of getting out of this mess. If the board appoint someone who is not high profile and does not possess the ''charisma'' required then we may as well start planning trips to the likes of Swindon, Walsall and Hartlepool now for I honestly think we have got to the point where nothing other than such a person will have the desired effect, and, even then, it''s not guaranteed. Time for the board to at least give us that chance I think.  Four years ago I remember what I was wishing for for Christmas and that came true then against the odds.  Here''s wishing for an early Christmas present this year in the form of a diamond choice!!![;)]