Bobzilla

I haven’t seen City win away since Huddersfield and the injury that screwed our away season. I’m expecting a 1-1 draw because we’re better than them, but have you seen our away form?

Thanks for that. That’s an awfully long whine for someone who has £25k to throw at the club. The ‘seat for life’ is a generous offer in itself - he mentions directors who don’t hold 1,000 shares, but doesn’t mention that their heirs won’t benefit from their association with the club, and for most directors they wouldn’t get a seat at all by their own right after they left the club - do you reckon McNally gets a seat whenever he wants it, or does he need an invite from an existing director who accompanies him? When Zoe resigns, does Stuart Webber get free entry? For someone who claims to love their club, that’s quite a lot of bitter in there.

The bigger issue is players exaggerating the extent of their injuries with the intent of the other player getting carded. We need an effective solution for that so that it gets stamped out of the game. I’d advocate a system like andyc24_UK’s where a 4th official is watching only for carded incidents where someone is rolling around on the ground to see whether there is play acting or not. The ‘injured’ player can tell the referee if contact was minimal but it still ****ing hurts if they don’t think it was a carding offence, or risk getting a red card and a 4 match ban if the video ref decides that there’s faking at play. THAT would get managers stamping it out VERY quickly. Currently there are no consequences for this type of cheating.

Just out of interest, what’s an AD? I’m guessing from his other really quite salty posts that he’s one of the guys who bought 1,000 shares who got a seat for life and is triggered that it means his life, not anyone else’s, and he has to keep his shares to keep the benefit, but not sure what an AD is in relation to that.

I figured that everyone on here would know which end I meant if I didn’t explicitly use the word ‘Barclay’, and not automatically assume that I was a binner. I forgot about ‘Normal for Norfolk’ though. I can tell you tales of being sat in the Barclay for my first match in April 94, watching us leading 4-3 against Southhampton, only for Ken ****ing Monkou, a defender described by the programme as ‘extremely effective in the air’, to pop up in extra time and score with a header from a corner right in the centre of the goal right in front of me, sending me home distraught after a nerve-wracking 5-4 loss (the 4th Southampton goal was around 72 ish minutes from the notes on programme). Or watching us beat Leeds 2-1 the week after John Newsome slipped and lobbed Tim Flowers from pretty much the right touchline - still got the newspaper cutting from that one, and was gutted to not be in the stands for it. But I very much doubt that will convince you. I haven’t been to a fantastic number of games - kind of comes from living in Surrey for most of my life with a dad that had no interest in football - but I am no binner.

In the nicest possible way, **** off. 😞

That was Brown more than Blair. It was Brown, rather hubristically, announced that he had eliminated boom and bust. Only for the biggest boom and bust in the best part of 80 years. Or at least the biggest bust. I’m not sure whether the preceding boom was anything for most people to write home about. I was 17 in 1997 and a Thatcherite Tory. I thought that Blair was the worst thing to ever happen to this country. I’m a little older and a little wiser than I was, and now appreciate that whilst Thatcher’s policies made economic sense at that point in time, it destroyed the social fabric of much of the UK. Yes, the pits needed closing because they cost more to keep open than it would do to buy the coal in from external markets AND pay the unemployment bill. BUT she replaced that structure with nothing of any consequence. That’s where she failed, the rebuilding, not the closing. Because of that, I put her at worse than Blair in the pecking order, from a domestic perspective. Whilst Blair might have been ‘troublesome’ internationally, and his target driven politics, where it doesn’t matter whether we’re making a difference so long as the chosen statistics show that we are, were demonstrated to be more successful than anyone actually felt, he did make a difference on schools and hospitals. Which is somewhere that we are really feeling it now. Every PM since has been a numpty - we keep on asking how it could get any worse, and the Tory party have been asking us to hold their beer for almost as long as Ipswich have failed to beat us. So, rather begrudgingly, the answer to ‘best PM in my lifetime’ is Blair, simply because he hasn’t totally destroyed the country out of blind hubris or idealogical zealotry.

****. Yes I do. When I typed it I thought that it couldn’t have been 16 years ago. It turns out that 1996 was 26 years ago. Thanks. You just made me feel really fũcking old. Now I’m Mr Angry.

~240 from a count up, a handful in the South, a smattering in the Regency, and a fair few restricted view seats in the corner infills.

True. Just checked my ticket for the last time I was in it, 16 years ago when Mike Walker was back in charge for his second stint.

Strange reading. Where are you getting the £25k from?

Sean Dyche I could do. Sam Allardyce can do one. You’ll be suggesting Neil Warnock next…

But as I point out above, It’s not £800. At most it would be about £100. So you’re crying over £5 per year interest payments. I’m sure we could have a Pinkun whip round to cover it…

If you think that a free match ticket to Norwich is a big score, wait until you find out about the guy who gave £10m to the Tories, won £400m of IT contracts from a Tory government and then got caught saying that Dianne Abbott made him hate black women and that she should be shot… Once you’ve seen that, come back and tell us how there’s no difference between the Tories and Labour again…. Or stop being a stupid ****. Your choice.

Well, this particular plastic just managed to score two tickets in the old Riverside (Regency Security now, but will always be Riverside to me). First time I’ve been in a lower tier at Carrow Road. I’ve always been upper tier. And yes, I know that the other end is the fun end, and the Riverside has a bit of a boring reputation, but you know what? I don’t much care. I’ve got tickets.

I’ve got shares in W H Smith. I’ll still get nicked and charged if I walk out of their shop with a magazine I haven’t paid for. Your point?

Tell me you know nothing about man management without… NO manager can motivate players, or even staff in general, that want away. Trust me, I know - I’ve been that person. The chief concern for a number of our key players that day was to not get injured. Worthy could have been God almighty that day, and his key players still wouldn’t have given their all because they knew that their careers lay elsewhere. Francis got out, Ashton forced his way out the following January. How many clubs have managed to climb out of the relegation zone on the final day? It just doesn’t happen because the bigger players know the odds are against them and just don’t want to get injured.

Except that’s the cost that he could have expected to pay had he paid for his tickets. I note that Ed Balls is next to him. That’s our former Chairman Ed Balls. Who probably has free access to the Director’s box as and when he wants, especially since he has an ongoing relationship with the club. He would have been dining in the Director’s hospitality area. Which isn’t a regular access, so they can’t sell entrance to it. The £820 is probably the value of 4 tickets plus hospitality tickets at their highest rate, but the actual cost to the club will basically have been the cost of the wine he would have drank at lunch and the cost of the meat in his meal. His seats could not be bought, the meal would have been cooked anyway and the veg would likely have been cooked anyway. In short, nice headline, no substance.

‘He’ didn’t. Our team did. Our team didn’t believe that we could stay up, so half the team went missing in that match. There were some very influential players who were looking for moves and so didn’t want to get injured. And played like it. And we got hammered 6-0. That’s not on Worthy. That’s on the likes of Francis and Bentley (who admittedly was a loan player so wasn’t paid to care).

That wasn’t a particularly difficult call. I don’t understand how so many crap premier league managers are managers that have been crap at other premier league teams. It’s almost like the ‘I was there’ factor is more important than what you actually achieved there. I swear that Mourinho has made more money being sacked by Premier League teams than he ever did actually managing them…

That’s a hill I’d die on. More specifically, the £1m that Wednesday were offering Chris Woods to us for was peanuts compared to what we would have got as a result of it. Marshall was a quality keeper, but too young and inexperienced to be an every week keeper for the Prem. And Simon Tracey was not only not the answer, but also wasn’t used for anything other than backup for Marshall. And if Marshall wasn’t good enough at that point, Tracey was nowhere near.

We’re all raving about how fabulous Sargent has been this season, and rightly so. But for 3 seasons he’s looked average at best. And that’s the thing with strikers. They need time to bed in to a team. You can’t judge them properly on maybe half a season’s play, unless you are buying someone of PVH’s quality and experience. Or Dennis Bergkamp.

Jonstone’s Paint?

1 - there was a whole policy document published on it in 2011. 2 - I presume that you know because you've done empirical studies on the size and strength of women in prison based on category of offence rather than just guessing? I'm bigger than the average man, and stronger, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere near category 1 female prisoners. You know why? Because they're dangerous. There's no point discussing this. You think I'm naive, I think you're transphobic, sexist and delusional. You think exclusionary policies and prodecures are fine, I think that you don't need exclusionary policies when you're doing effective individual risk assessments to work out where the problems actually are rather than presuming. You think that these are all your own ideas. I think you've been trained to think them through clever use of media and obscuring of the facts by purple who have a vested interest in having the little people engaged in fringe issues whilst they burn the country down. Neither of us are going to move the views of the other. Just know this. Your view is dying out.

The loan isn't there for the ****s and giggles. The loan is there because it is refinancing existing commercial debt where money would be going out the door anyway, to people who don't care at all about the future of the club.