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I also thought it might be Dean Ashton, as I have often seen him and his missus shopping in Norwich.

AJ. By the way, I think you are exaggerating

Thanks.

Delighted that the club is to sue NOTW over administration nonsense. Another example of our new toughness.

Special congrats to the Jarrold Ultras Jarrold Massive and new today the Jarrold Yoof. Look out Barclay /snakepit. Brill.

IBA. Holt has been with us all this season, I have seen no evidence of him being dirty. Hard working, fulll blooded , committed and honest yes, but dirty?

Grant Holt has been magnificent for us this season. I dont know if he deserved a red card or not today, but as far as I am concerned he did deserve ALL the applause he received. Anyone who thinks otherwise is nitpicking in the extreme.

Interestingly on the BFC official site , they say that as at 10am today, BFC have 140 unsold tickets and NCFC still have 370 unsold for away fans. Obviously not a hot ticket then.

Many of their fans seem to think that if a club can accomodate 2,000 away fans, then the home club have no right to sell them to home fans even if the away club dont want them.

Yes , some of them do seem to think that there is an "away end" and that they should have all the seats in it even if they cant sell them.

This from Brentwood site. Brentford Supporters Stitched-Up Over Tickets by Norwich FC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brentford supporters are embroiled in a ticket stitch-up ahead of the match at Carrow Road this coming Saturday. It seems that, like other ex-Premiership clubs in the past, Norwich believes that it is their right to ride roughshod over supporters of other lower-league clubs. GPG Towers understands that Norwich has unilaterally slashed Brentford supporters'' ticket allocation from 2000 to 1400 to 900 in order to accommodate their own supporters in seats that rightfully belong to those backing the away team. We further understand that Football League rules dictate that Brentford supporters are fully-entitled to 2,000 places in the away end. Norwich''s version of events was placed on their website last night and reads: Quote: The Canaries agreed an away allocation of 900 for the game with the London club. Although Brentford made an eleventh hour request yesterday (Wednesday) to increase their allocation to 1,400, unfortunately due to the amount of tickets already sold in home areas we were unable to increase their agreed number of tickets and, therefore, the allocation for Bees supporters will remain at the agreed figure of 900. If Brentford agreed to 900 tickets and only asked for an increased allocation to 1400 on Wednesday morning that was refused then why did BFC say that 1400 tickets would be available on their website? (the statement was that 1000 tickets would be available to Bees fans on the day plus whatever was left over from the 400 sent to Griffin Park). This information remained on the BFC website until it was removed yesterday morning (Thursday). We at GPG Towers would like Norwich City FC to clarify when and with whom the figure of 900 was agreed with BFC. We would also like Norwich City FC to clarify just where these "home areas" are considering that that the away area accommodates 2,000 fans. Norwich City should also come clean about when they started selling tickets in the away end to their own supporters. Further Norwich City''s own Customer Charter states: Quote: ACCOMODATING (sic) AWAY SUPPORTERS The Club recognises that it is appropriate for away supporters to be able to attend any match at Carrow Road and will use its best endeavours to prevent a complete restriction being imposed upon visiting supporters. The Club will allocate a minimum of 2000 seats for Football League matches for away supporters unless it receives contrary instructions from the Police or Norfolk County Council Safety Advisory Group. For F.A. Premier League matches, the Club will allocate 10% of its ground capacity to visiting clubs, with a minimum of 10% of the Club''s disabled capacity for disabled visiting supporters. Away supporters will pay the same prices as casual home supporters occupying equivalent seats in that stand. (our emphasis) From our reading here at GPG Towers, any communication from BFC has no bearing on the allocation - Norwich City promise to keep 2,000 tickets for away supporters. If Norwich has received instructions from the police or the Norfolk County Council Safety Advisory Group then it must be published for all to see. In the absence of such instructions, Norwich City are in clear breach of their own Customer Charter and the Football League rules both in relation to following their Customer Charter and the rules governing away ticketing. BIAS, the independent Brentford supporters'' association has already emailed the Norwich City CEO which you can read about another Norwich ticket stitch-up regarding kids'' tickets. Finally, GPG Towers strongly recommends that everyone that has firm travel plans to purchase tickets before travelling. Either from the Brentford FC (0845 3456 442 (option 4)), or Norwich FC (0844 826 1902) Norwich City are "urging Bees supporters not to travel without a ticket on the day and to book in advance to avoid disappointment". Which, again, is rather strange considering that they believe 900 tickets to be perfectly adequate to accommodate Brentford supporters.

Most of the stuff on here is just posturing, I doubt that there will be any more trouble than usual, which is to say, very little apart from verbals.

More than one line but here goes. Two men were sitting next to each other at a bar. After awhile, one guy looks at the other and says, ''I can''t help but think, from listening to you, that you''re from Ireland .'' The other guy responds proudly, ''Yes, that I am!'' The first guy says, ''So am I! And where about from Ireland might you be''? The other guy answers, ''I''m from Dublin , I am.'' The first guy responds, ''So am I!'' ''Sure and begorra. And what street did you live on in Dublin ? The other guy says, ''A lovely little area it was. I lived on McCleary Street in the old central part of town.'' The first guy says, ''Faith and it''s a small world. So did I! So did I! And to what school would you have been going''? The other guy answers, ''Well now, I went to St. Mary''s, of course.'' The first guy gets really excited and says, ''And so did I. Tell me, what year did you graduate''? The other guy answers, ''Well, now, let''s see. I graduated in 1964.'' The first guy exclaims, ''The Good Lord must be smiling down upon us! I can hardly believe our good luck at winding up in the same bar tonight. Can you believe it? I graduated from St. Mary''s in 1964 my own self!'' About this time, Vicky walks into the bar, sits down and orders a beer. Brian, the bartender, walks over to Vicky, shaking his head and mutters, ''It''s going to be a long night tonight.'' Vicky asks, ''Why do you say that, Brian''? ''The Murphy twins are pissed again.''

Massage from Mr Cowling. Cowling warns rogue Canary fans STUART WATSON Last updated: 11/01/2010 09:20:00 ROGUE Norwich City fans found in the home section for Saturday''s emotionally-charged East Anglian derby at Colchester will be immediately ejected by stewards. That is the promise of U''s chairman and owner Robbie Cowling after fears were raised that Canaries supporters were beating the system to purchase home tickets. Cowling enraged Norwich fans and staff alike with his decision not to extend the basic allocation of 1,900 seats - the whole of the North Stand - for the visiting Norfolk supporters. And with more than 1,100 Norwich fans who applied for an away ticket to the game being left disappointed, many have subsequently attempted to find a seat elsewhere in the ground. Colchester box office staff have been monitoring the sales history and postcodes of buyers in a desperate attempt to prevent this happening, however, a number of Norwich fans have been gloating on internet message boards that they have still managed to get their hands on a ticket. “We have discovered that a number of tickets in home areas were sold to Norwich fans,” confirmed Cowling. “We have since got in touch with them, cancelled those tickets, given them their money back and then resold the tickets to genuine home supporters. “If any Norwich fans are still to be found in the home sections on the day then they will have to be removed from the stadium because we can''t have that.” Norwich City Independent Supporters'' Association secretary Kathy Blake slammed Cowling''s decision, saying: “It is a classic own goal as far as their chairman goes and if City fans get into the Colchester end and there''s trouble, he has only got himself to blame.” However, Cowling - whose decision not to extend away allocation has been vindicated following the news that the 10,000 capacity Weston Homes Community Stadium is now sold-out for the game - has hit back at such claims. He said: “Why should we have given them extra seats? We have given them a whole stand and we will fill the rest with our own fans.” Cowling''s ill-feeling towards the Canaries stems from manager Paul Lambert''s defection from the U''s to Norwich last August - just weeks after masterminding a 7-1 victory at Carrow Road on the opening day of the season. The Colchester owner spent three months trying to privately settle a compensation package with Norwich but in the end lost patience and reported them to the Football League. Cowling has since called upon the authorities to deduct Norwich points, said he ''would rather see an empty seat than an away supporter'' at Saturday''s game and has said he ''has never wanted to win a game of football so badly''. Norwich are currently second-place in the League One table, but fourth-place Colchester are just six points behind with two games in hand

Agree with the point re executive boxes/corpoprate spectators. I have been invited to watch from one of the new boxes a few times by business contacts. Its a surreal experience. Many of those present plainly had no interest in NCFC or even any football team, its just a jolly with meal and drinks included. On one occassion , one Guy spent most of his time on the phone in the box, and hardly ventured to watch the game at all.

Black grass? Is that some kind of illegal substance?

None of these things are gonna happen

Get real

I told you its the future, first we had the Jarrold Ultras, now there is the Jarrold Massive, what next the Jarrold Youth?

Very dangerous to disrespect the Jarrold Ultras. You should know better.

Jarrold Ultras, its the future.

Modern players eh???

Now look, I am expecting the game to go ahead, and whats more I expect all the players to wear short sleeved shirts and NO gloves.

Matt. the main roads in Norwich are clear, no problem. The pavements around The Carra are as elsewhere, but I drove past earlier and people are going about their business as usual. Just wear appropriate clothing and footwear.

The game MUST go ahead, its the only way I can avoid going shopping with Mrs Dreamteam.