Bobzilla

Good job I got in early. I'm an away member but without a great purchase history, but I was in there at 9.30 on Wednesday renewing memberships at the same time. Glad to have got in, and hopefully payback for Coventry and West Brom earlier in the season.

Sydney!!!!

I can't for a minute believe that the children would be any worse...

Great video. If only for this guy calling the riverside the river end, which I got told off for here a few weeks ago. And then got labelled a binner and a plastic... But like the Murphy's...

I googled it...

I was thinking that. Perhaps a choice, play a replay or forfeit.

The timing is more of an issue for me, tbh. In a car I can leave when I like and, barring any accidents on the M6, A14 or A11, I'm golden. Sure I've got to be concentrating for those 10 hours, but that's OK.

Done it once this year, for the Ipswich game. Think it cost me about £400 all in for travel and accommodation. Well worth it, but not something I could do every other week...

Yep, quicker to go via London. And less stress too.

I live in Wigan. It is quicker to go into London and back out again for me, even with the (non) coinciding train times. For Saturday for a 3pm, it's a 7.14 train getting in at 11.43, at a cost of £615 for the pair of us. The later one, 9.01, gets us in to Norwich at 15.10, but is only £129. For Swansea, I can at least get an 8.01 and make the game with 45 minutes to spare. However, it's 11.30pm when we get home... And that with friends and family railcard. At least I get to leave when I want for the 5 hour drive over, and it's nice in my car. Leaving at 8 should get me there in time for the match. But it's a hell of a late night unless we stop somewhere on the way back.

I'm not quite saying that. I'm saying the guy has put a truck load in to give us stability. I think he's in for about £40m so far, which is huge for someone who isn't actually a billionaire (although if he's the front end for an investment consortium there probably is as much again at least behind the vehicle). However, promotion is expensive - look at how much even a half hearted attempt has cost us over the last 3 years. It's only a £100m pay day if it costs you no more to run than the championship team that got there. And we all know that's not happening. In order for promotion to be worth it for him (and his backers), he needs control, not promises. So there is no point in him putting more good money in to push for it before we're, and he's, ready for it. If we get it based on our existing financial position, great. It means he's buying into a brand that CAN do it on their own, and his money is cementing that position. If we can't, great, because it gives him an even better bargaining position with D&M. In short, at this point, his interests are in ensuring our stability rather than pushing for us to get to the prem at a stretch this season. He won't sabotage, but I'd be surprised to see him bankroll. This year.

1 - He doesn't have £560m. At best he has an interest in investments which is worth £560m on a notional basis. I'm not saying he's brassic, but he does not have £560m under his matress. 2 - He is in the middle of negotiating a deal with two rather recalcitrant sellers. At the minute he's put money in to avoid banks disclosing on us. Until he's agreed a price and a timeline, he didn't want to be giving us a lifetime to promotion as that will push the price up for his ordinary share purchase. To illustrate, to get control as it stands, it might cost him £10m. To get control as a premier league club it might cost him £30-50m. I don't know whether that ever finds its way out of the club and into D&M's hands (I gather that MA`s takeover will be achieved by new subscription rather than share sale), but MA won't want to be giving £40m away for nothing. You don't make £560m by any measure by doing that.

I live 250 miles from carrow road. That's basically 5 hours each way. I bought a home membership because the only match i could watch that coincided with holidays was the Ipswich match, which I fully expected us to draw at best. And it meant at least one overnight in a hotel. I have an away membership and have been with my son to 6 league away games (would have been 7 if we didn't get Ipswich tickets), Liverpool, and will hopefully be getting tickets to Birmingham as well. So two tickets to the most expensive game in the calendar PLUS home membership to get them... What do I win?

Other clubs are available. I'm fairly sure you won't be missed by their letter answering department...

Would you bet your last £2 knowing you hadn't eaten in a week?

Having kicked the **** out of him early on in the first half without so much as a protest from the ref. Holmes was a dirty cheating **** yesterday.

What exactly are you going to do about it? What could any fanbase do? He realistically owns us anyway. His investment in us very significantly exceeds the net assets of the club (disregarding the difference between cost and market value of our squad).

Fair point and one I hope is true for him. Confidence is massive for a striker, but the problem with Idah is that he never seemed to grow in that confidence. He hit two in one of our earlier games (can’t remember which, Plymouth?) and I was hoping that would give him the confidence, but it fizzled pretty quickly. Which is a real shame.

I will concede you have a point here. They need to change the articles to make sure that they say ‘home membership’ now that they have split the membership.

Same here mate. I can’t get to home games because I live the other side of the country - 5 hour drive just to get here, so it was a stay overnight on Friday, back today for me (although I could have got back yesterday given the game time change). My son had no idea I had tickets until yesterday morning. Absolutely fantastic boys’ weekend for us.

He bottled the big calls. Ipswich had at least one red card that they narrowly avoided.

Perhaps sir can explain how you challenge for automatic when our strike force doesn’t get on the pitch? For everything anyone says about Idah, his goals were always opportunistic. Ian Rush without the luck, support and talent. I can’t remember a single goal opportunity he has MADE. I’ve seen him chase down a ball precisely once. I’ve seen him get into good crossing positions with his speed, but then not been able to deliver. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but he has never been the player that we have needed in our team. I suspect that he needs lots and lots and lots of low fast crosses in the box, and we don’t get into enough wide positions to give him that. So without Barnes and Sargeant we were never going to be there. Even Alex Ferguson wouldn’t have got us there.

We don’t have the money. Seriously. This isn’t lack of ambition. This is being very far down a financial hole. We possibly can’t afford to get promoted, depending on what promotion salary increases look like.

Yes. Things are incredibly tight. We have 3 away games in the next 5 and we know our away form is not great. Sure, mathematically we should beat Wednesday and Birmingham, but those are two teams fighting for their Championship survival, so those will be TOUGH games, especially if Birmingham aren’t safe for the last game. It is in our hands - we just need to get better results than those below us (but isn’t that always the way) - but a top 6 should not be taken as a given. And not making the top 6 is not a reason to sack Wagner. We lost our goal scorer for 4 months, and we lost the big support man for a chunk of that period as well. Every team will struggle in those circumstances. And replacing a striker isn’t as simple as getting another good one in. You can spend big money and get in one who is good in his current team, but unless you support them in the same way there are no guarantees. And we currently can’t afford to get a finished product in.

I’m not sure I agree here. Absolutely, our natural subconscious mindset is one of prejudice. You look different so I don’t trust you. It’s a natural inbuilt reaction, and part of our survival as a species. We are still just caveman in suits. The difference between someone who has a prejudiced subconscious mindset and someone who is prejudiced, of whatever flavour, is the link between subconscious and conscious. If you can’t control those urges and engage your conscious brain to rethink your natural judgments and control what comes out of your mouth, you’re prejudiced. If you say racist stuff, you’re racist. Now that doesn’t mean he can’t become non-racist. He stops saying this sort of ****, and stops acting based on it. That’s the difference between a normal everyday person and someone who is racist.