canary dreamer

My two suggestions are based around my two passions in life, energy engineering and beer, using these to firstly reduce the overheads and secondly increasing the match day profit margins.   The energy consumption at carrow road must be very high, how about looking at ways over reducing these overheads. Could the under pitch heating be run off a geothermal system located under the carpark? There is a very large roof space at a football ground which is not utilised; could this be used for either photovoltaic solar panels or solar water heating? Could wind turbines be incorporated into the flood lights? Or would a biomass combined heat and power plant be built at the ground? Would using government incentives help the club to offset the start-up costs against potential long term savings.   Secondly beer, currently the club has got a contract with a brewery to supply the beer; this is at a set cost which normally brewery’s set with a very large profit margin. Talking to a landlord recently he told me that he only makes 10p on every pint he sells due to being locked into this kind of contract. If the club marketed its own beer, out souring production, this would cost in the region of £1.90 a bottle, 500ml of beer costs 12p to produce, bottling, storage and delivery cost would take this up to the region of £1.90. Then 44.4p alcohol duty, this would mean that the club could have each 500ml bottle of beer delivered for a cost of £2.34.4p per unit. The retail cost of a 500ml bottle at carrow road is £3.50, giving a potential profit to the club of £1.15.6p per bottle of beer sold. Beer has a long shelf life, so wastage should be minimised, the club should have detailed records of sales, so they should be able to predict how many units they will require at different points of the season. Using batch manufacture methods they should probably only need to produce three batches a year, thus reducing overheads. Organising this should take very little resources, one member of staff could be given the role and it would require only the smallest of time and energy outlay. So if this was done, then theoretically the profits from beer sales on match days could be increase substantially, but most importantly to me personally, the quality of the bottled beers hopefully will improve.

Jimmy Bone, Selhurst Park, September 30th 1972, 2-0 win for city, Graham Paddon got the other.

[quote user="canary dreamer"] The UK moved to short scale in 1974, to get into line with other english speaking countries, so 1 Billion has since then had nine zeros, one thousend zeros. Most of the rest of the wrold still use long scale, so for them one Billion has got twelve zeros, one million million. Didn''t Abramovich have to give £5.5 Billion half his worth to his ex-wife in the divorce? [/quote]   Edit, i meant to say one billion is one thousend million, not as written, one thousend zeros!

The UK moved to short scale in 1974, to get into line with other english speaking countries, so 1 Billion has since then had nine zeros, one thousend zeros. Most of the rest of the wrold still use long scale, so for them one Billion has got twelve zeros, one million million. Didn''t Abramovich have to give £5.5 Billion half his worth to his ex-wife in the divorce?

18 games, the 92-93 season, when we lead the premiership for most of the season.

We''re also only 5 points from the drop zone, lets get to above 50 points then look at how high we can finish, above ipswich is always a bonus, which i would love to see this season.

There was me looking forward to wearing this tee-shirt on saturday http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Norwich-City-Chris-Wood-Goals-4-Gays-tshirt-gift-box_W0QQitemZ310002668714QQihZ021QQcategoryZ106512QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem   Ok, who evers selling it can''t tell the difference between Chris Woods and Chris Brown, and £15.99 is a bit much for one joke, but it still tickles me that you can buy it. 

Just checked again, i only looked up till the 98-99 season, as Eadie left in 99, but as he left during the 99-00 season, which i think but i''m not sure, was the first season which squad numbers where used in the old first division, he had the squad number 11 up till his move to Leicester city in december of that year. So Squad numbers 20 and 11, but for most of his time at city when squad numbers didn''t get used, he had 4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,16 and 20

First time posster, long time reader. Eadies numbers changed depending on a few factors. In the Premiership 93-94 season he had the number 20, as squad numbers where for the premiership only back then. In the UEFA cup he had the numbers 16 and 7, number 5 in the League cup. The Premiership 94-95 season, he had 20 again, for all League and cup games. The next season, 95-96 back down in the old 1st division, no squad numbers where given, it just depended on which order your name was written on the team sheet, he had 11, 7, 12, 10 and 13 in the league, 14 in the FA cup and 11, 14, 8 and 10 in the League cup. 96-97 he had 4, 11, 10 and 9 in the league, 4 and 11 in the cups. 97-98 he had, 10, 11, 9, 14 and 4, 11 in the League cup. 98-99 he had 10, 14 and 8, in the league, 11 and 13 in the league cup. All this infomation i have got from the Canary Citizens centenary edition. I hope this helps.