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[quote user="......and Smith must score."][quote user="evertoniancolufan"][quote user="ncfc4life"]Complete and utter joke. You would think they would at least sell out for their derby match but to only get 6000 or whatever it was is a complete joke. Dont understand why they think of themselves as such a big club as they really are a mickeymouse clun[/quote]??? I think thats just Norwich who think of themselves as a big club, Col U are a small club and we know that, the attendance was small yesterday because the game was on live TV and was on a monday night. A lot of our fanbase are casual fans who would have rather saved the money last night and watch it on TV, since it is very rare that we appear live on tele. If that game was on Saturday at 3pm then the attendance would have been around 9,000. The stadium looked half empty because the camera faces the East Stand, tickets for the first half of the East Stand do not go on sale unless it needs to be so the stand was half empty. The West Stand would have been nearly full and the South Stand was full, Southend didn''t even sell their allocation out which they normally do. Why is our attendance and fanbase of significant importance to you? Who cares? You clearly enjoy bragging about yours but you only get 25,000 because you''re in the middle of nowhere with no other Football League clubs anywhere near. Your main rivals are 40 miles away ffs![/quote]It is true that you are on TV very rarely but wouldn''t more fans have wanted to be there live and watch the recording later ? Whoever heard of wanting to save money when it''s a derby match ? There''s plenty of other less appealing fixtures to avoid and the age-old argument of '' can''t afford two matches a week '' doesn''t cut much ice when you hadn''t played since the previous Tuesday and Southend hadn''t been in action since 30th January. We can only take your educated guess that around 9000 fans would''ve bothered had it been a Saturday game with reasonable weather but I somehow doubt it.Your point regarding our location is an interesting one. As far as I''m aware - and I may be corrected on this - you have two Football League teams, Ipswich and Southend in close proximity. The alternate attractions of either is questionable. Colchester have enjoyed a relatively successful season so far, with every chance of a play-off place at the end of it. Not so Southend. Ipswich have endured a miserable time of it since dear old Roy arrived. The football is played at a higher level, true, but I''d hazard a guess that the '' Keane factor '' would''ve well and truly worn off by now on any floating fans who might have been tempted away from Cuckoo Farm this season.Whatever slant is put on it I''m confident that any Third Division clubs playing a local derby in a stadium with a capacity of 10,000 or so would be very disappointed if they drew a crowd of under 7000, with or without live TV.[/quote]Its not just Ipswich and Southend we have to compete with, its Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham as well. Colchester is only a very small town and the rest of Essex seem oblivious to Col U''s existance with almost everyone supporting a top 4 club, Spurs or WHU. I was one of those fans who decided not to go last nite and watch it on the TV, its not a huge derby match, Ipswich is far bigger and our recent game against you was of far greater importance. My educated guess is based on last year''s attendance for a game where we were midtable, whereas this year we are competing for promotion and have larger gates than last year. We got 8651 at the same time of year so I''d imagine it would have been slightly higher for this season.

[quote user="c_m_c_"]What brings me here , isnt like all the other colchester fans who have come here and just give abuse because you nicked are manager , that is getting sorted anyway. Im just here to say yes were a small club who really are pushing above there weight and if it wernt for Cowling i dont know were we would be.. we have a loyal fans base of around 6,000 ( yes go ahead and ;laugh because you have over 25,000) when your population is 3X the size of ours .. Im not coming on here sucking up or anything but i actually like norwich and was pretty gutted when you got beat 5-0 against fulham and even got relegated to league 1 but it dosent suit ya club giving '''' the big i am''''[/quote]so was I, I really liked Norwich as a fellow East Anglia team who were doing well, but then that all change after Lambert left and I my fondness for Norwich quickly turned to dislike, then your fans act incredibly arrogant about being a "big club" and calling us "tinpot" so now its not just Norwich''s boardroom I have a problem with. You''re not a big club anymore, for League 1 you''re big but that''s all. Your claims for being big rests solely on your fanbase which is purely because you''re from a big city with no other football clubs anywhere near it

[quote user="ncfc4life"]Complete and utter joke. You would think they would at least sell out for their derby match but to only get 6000 or whatever it was is a complete joke. Dont understand why they think of themselves as such a big club as they really are a mickeymouse clun[/quote]??? I think thats just Norwich who think of themselves as a big club, Col U are a small club and we know that, the attendance was small yesterday because the game was on live TV and was on a monday night. A lot of our fanbase are casual fans who would have rather saved the money last night and watch it on TV, since it is very rare that we appear live on tele. If that game was on Saturday at 3pm then the attendance would have been around 9,000. The stadium looked half empty because the camera faces the East Stand, tickets for the first half of the East Stand do not go on sale unless it needs to be so the stand was half empty. The West Stand would have been nearly full and the South Stand was full, Southend didn''t even sell their allocation out which they normally do. Why is our attendance and fanbase of significant importance to you? Who cares? You clearly enjoy bragging about yours but you only get 25,000 because you''re in the middle of nowhere with no other Football League clubs anywhere near. Your main rivals are 40 miles away ffs!

[quote user="First Wizard"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"][quote user="LinkNR9"] [quote user="evertoniancolufan"]I''ll second what colchesterfan said, well played, you deserved it though we simply handed it to you with pathetic and uncharacteristic defending. I did think you lot were very quiet in the opening 20 minutes when we were actually playing well, couldn''t hear a thing, you got better 2nd half though![/quote] Your centre backs looked a bit nervous today - was it just an off-day for them, or did the conditions have anything to do with their performance? [/quote]Reid and Magnus have been rocks for us this season, exceptional, today Reid was out so young Danny Baath came in despite having not played in a while, he''s cost us the game basically. Those two mistakes to see you go 2-0 up defined the game, the 1st half was relatively even with us certainly on top in the opening stages. The conditions did affect the result obviously as our defenders seemed to completely forget that it was soaking and holding the ball up so passed it straight to your players.At least we won on aggregate! [/quote] Same conditions for us you arrogant sod..............jeez.[:S] [/quote]what I meant was the goals were because of the pitch. The sloppy passes were held up in it and worked in your favour. Your defenders made sure they adjusted to the conditions, ours seemed to completely forget about them as they were suicidal mistakes to make, what they were thinking god only knows

[quote user="Norfolk Lutonian "][quote user="evertoniancolufan"][quote user="LinkNR9"] [quote user="evertoniancolufan"]I''ll second what colchesterfan said, well played, you deserved it though we simply handed it to you with pathetic and uncharacteristic defending. I did think you lot were very quiet in the opening 20 minutes when we were actually playing well, couldn''t hear a thing, you got better 2nd half though![/quote] Your centre backs looked a bit nervous today - was it just an off-day for them, or did the conditions have anything to do with their performance? [/quote]Reid and Magnus have been rocks for us this season, exceptional, today Reid was out so young Danny Baath came in despite having not played in a while, he''s cost us the game basically. Those two mistakes to see you go 2-0 up defined the game, the 1st half was relatively even with us certainly on top in the opening stages. The conditions did affect the result obviously as our defenders seemed to completely forget that it was soaking and holding the ball up so passed it straight to your players.At least we won on aggregate! [/quote] I know that''s tongue in cheek there evertonian but I don''t think aggregate comes into it when we''re 9 points ahead and in 2nd place (mind you, you still have them 2 games in hand) Its still not an impossibility that both Colchester and Norwich come 2nd and 1st respectively! on the subject of Everton I went to watch them last season with a mate who supports them, good game looks like you boys are doing well today as well. [/quote]no it doesn''t, it means f*** all, its just a minor consolation that our embaressment wasn''t as much as yours. You may be 9 points ahead but we have 2 games in hand which I fully expect us to win. The problem is that I just don''t see you dropping points very often at all, so its very unlikely we''ll catch you. We''d have been delighted with play offs at the start of the season though. Ye was a great result for Everton, which all the more annoying cos I should bouncing off the walls with glee but I''m f***ing depressed!

[quote user="LinkNR9"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"]I''ll second what colchesterfan said, well played, you deserved it though we simply handed it to you with pathetic and uncharacteristic defending. I did think you lot were very quiet in the opening 20 minutes when we were actually playing well, couldn''t hear a thing, you got better 2nd half though![/quote] Your centre backs looked a bit nervous today - was it just an off-day for them, or did the conditions have anything to do with their performance? [/quote]Reid and Magnus have been rocks for us this season, exceptional, today Reid was out so young Danny Baath came in despite having not played in a while, he''s cost us the game basically. Those two mistakes to see you go 2-0 up defined the game, the 1st half was relatively even with us certainly on top in the opening stages. The conditions did affect the result obviously as our defenders seemed to completely forget that it was soaking and holding the ball up so passed it straight to your players.At least we won on aggregate!

I''ll second what colchesterfan said, well played, you deserved it though we simply handed it to you with pathetic and uncharacteristic defending. I did think you lot were very quiet in the opening 20 minutes when we were actually playing well, couldn''t hear a thing, you got better 2nd half though!

[quote user="morty"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"]Norwich fans seem to blissfully unware that we have a waiting list of 100 Col U fans waiting for tickets should we discover anymore Norwich fans in our end[/quote]Wow, a whole 100? [/quote]you lot seem to think that we''ve sold our usual 5,000 and the rest have gone to Norwich fans in disguise, far from it. Because of some of your fans buying tickets that they are not allowed to purchase some of our fans are going to miss out on this game, the waiting list is proof of this. You lot are far too arrogant with your "big club" claims. Yes you are a lot bigger than us and no-one is ever going to dispute that, but you''re only really a big club for League 1, we''ve given you more tickets than you gave us yet you still think its your divine right as the big club to buy tickets in our end and stop some of our fans from coming.

Norwich fans seem to blissfully unware that we have a waiting list of 100 Col U fans waiting for tickets should we discover anymore Norwich fans in our end

[quote user="WeAreYellows49"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"]the odds just keep on tumbling!Looks like you''re learning the hard way that the man has no loyalty and will jump ship the moment a better offer comes along. At least Burnley won''t appoint him until he has been interviewed and compensation has been agreed.Why is Owen Coyle not Bolton manager yet? Because they haven''t sorted the compensation, you lot decided to ignore that when appointing Lambert. You''ve got a great team, Lambert leaving won''t damage your promotion chances, you''ll get a new manager and will realise what a twat he is like we have, as well as getting some money. Oh and btw you won''t be getting Aidy, he;s loyal unlike Lambert, I expect a better offer to come along one day that he will take, but there''s no way he''ll walk out on our promotion charge, he''ll finish the job he started[/quote] I''m sorry that you are still so bitter, those lemons must be dead sour that you are sucking on [:|] Has he resigned yet?  Did I miss the press release to say he was leaving us for Burnley? And if he does I would wish him good luck and move on. [/quote]Would you SERIOUSLY wish him luck and move on if he walks out on you in the middle of a promotion charge after just 4 and a half months in charge? Somehow I doubt it

the odds just keep on tumbling!Looks like you''re learning the hard way that the man has no loyalty and will jump ship the moment a better offer comes along. At least Burnley won''t appoint him until he has been interviewed and compensation has been agreed.Why is Owen Coyle not Bolton manager yet? Because they haven''t sorted the compensation, you lot decided to ignore that when appointing Lambert. You''ve got a great team, Lambert leaving won''t damage your promotion chances, you''ll get a new manager and will realise what a twat he is like we have, as well as getting some money. Oh and btw you won''t be getting Aidy, he;s loyal unlike Lambert, I expect a better offer to come along one day that he will take, but there''s no way he''ll walk out on our promotion charge, he''ll finish the job he started

he''s not THAT good, you have far better players than the rest of League 1, thats why you''re flying

[quote user="Lambert is King"]Everton col - why dont you get it your ground is not sold out if you are returning hundreds of tickets and if you are not it is full of Norwich fans -[/quote]when I last looked 15 minutes ago there were 9 tickets left, our ticket office staff have told us that all cancelled Norwich fan tickets are made available again on our ticketing website almost immediately. Yes there will be plenty of your lot in our end, but there still would have been if we''d given you extra tickets

[quote user="Bethnal Yellow and Green"][quote user="Colchester fan"]Hello FolksNewbie to the board I come in peace!There are very few tickets left for this game now, around 300 in total which are going very quickly, obviously if we are cancelling your tickets in the home areas there could be a few hundred more up for grabs. I would not advise anyone to sit in the home ends if you are found the stewards will almost certainly chuck you out, and if things get nasty as they did with the Leeds fans you could get a hiding as well!Robbie Cowling has no dispute with you the fans it is just your board nicking our manager and backroom staff and then not being prepared to pay reasonable amounts of compensation for it, I expect it will go to the wire now and possibly cost you a lot of money and maybe points as well. The only club to get a bigger allocation than normal has been Leeds, I see some of you guys thought Southampton got extra places, this was not the case as they could not fill the stand they had, Southend United wanted more tickets last season and were turned down as well. Looks like it could be a lively day if both teams turn up on the day ready for a battle, if we have another Preston performance it will be grim![/quote]Brave lad :)I understand the dispute with our board, they were all naughty boys and sure the tribunal will think that also (doubt the point reduction though as we weren''t that naughty)The main problem I have with it is that the fans are being punished, and by Colchester saying "you can''t have tickets and don''t even think about sitting in the home areas" is basically laying down the gauntlet and can only lead to tension. Usually if you find yourself near an away fan in the home section, there might be some friendly banter but rarely anything nasty. The difference with this game is all the fans already have their backs up and tensions will boil over.Hope for a good game and a lovely Norwich win.[/quote]You''re NOT being punished though, its OUR home game why should we give you 30% of the ground just because you have a large fanbase? 19% is more than any other club will give you so be grateful for that. Giving you those extra tickets would have denied our own fans the chance to see the match which is wrong, Cowling could have given you the extra and made money, but he''d rather remain loyal to our fans and make sure every Col U fan who wants to go to the game can

[quote user="Nexus_Canary"]Issue is with your chairman discriminating against our club !I think we should take this to the FA and demand a points reduction !See if we got the correct amount of tickets that shows our status properly we wouldnt be moaning.We cant get even 1% of our support down to your garden shed while you have the whole village attending and still have acres of space ![/quote]Discriminating? YOU''RE GETTING 20% OF OUR GROUND YOU UNGRATEFUL SODS! I think we only have to give you 5% or something equally as small

[quote user="Nexus_Canary"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"][quote user="Nexus_Canary"]Sell it yourselves ??I heard all 12 Colchester Village fans already had tickets as did Vicar Braithwaite and Ethel the tea lady...how you gonna sell 2k ?[/quote]because we''ve been looking forward to this one for a long long time, its our biggest league game since Yeovil when we got promoted we''ve already sold 6,500 or something like that, there''s still a whole month til the game[/quote]How ironic ?Your our smallest game since Yeovil !![/quote]so why are you so fussed about not getting extra tickets? I bet we''ve given you a lot most other League 1 Clubs have, if you don''t care about us what''s your issue?

[quote user="canaryjock"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"]ye what a great article, someone''s been collecting facts. I''ll address one of your many mistakes, we haven''t given you an extra allocation because we will sell it out ourselves. There around 2000 tickets left with a month untill the game which we fully expect to sell, there''s nothing we want more than to beat you AGAIN[/quote] Well that''s ironic because there''s nothing we care less about than your lot. We have considerably bigger fish to fry. Isn''t it interesting that you evidently have no real footballing rivalry, such is your irrelevance and lack of any history, that you have to try and manufacture a rivalry with a considerably bigger team up the road. I pity you really.[/quote]I liked Norwich, I was disappointed when you got relegated, but then you illegaly stole our manger just one week into the stadium, acting in a completely unproffesional manner, so now we don''t like you. This game is Lambert''s return and also we beat you 7-1 last time, hence its a huge game for a small club like us. This won''t be a permanent rivalry, once Lambert walks out on you because he recieves a better offer the hatred will probably die out

[quote user="Nexus_Canary"]Sell it yourselves ??I heard all 12 Colchester Village fans already had tickets as did Vicar Braithwaite and Ethel the tea lady...how you gonna sell 2k ?[/quote]because we''ve been looking forward to this one for a long long time, its our biggest league game since Yeovil when we got promoted we''ve already sold 6,500 or something like that, there''s still a whole month til the game

ye what a great article, someone''s been collecting facts. I''ll address one of your many mistakes, we haven''t given you an extra allocation because we will sell it out ourselves. There around 2000 tickets left with a month untill the game which we fully expect to sell, there''s nothing we want more than to beat you AGAIN

[quote user="Lord Flashheart"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"][quote user="JTG"]If you were so determined to keep him then why did you idiotic chairman give us permission to speak to Lambert?[/quote]*Idiot Alert* HE DIDN''T! Thats the whole f***ing point. You appointed him ILLEGALLY, his resignation wasn''t accepted, the approach wasnt accepted yet you went ahead and appointed someone who was under contract with another club[/quote]Again, why bleat on at us about it? It seems that your gripe is with those who appointed him, not with us. [:S][/quote]never said I had a gripe with your fans, just stating some facts. That is why Cowling says your lot acted appallingly and that is why you shall only get 19% of our ground (far more than you''ll get from any other club)

[quote user="Buckethead"][quote user="Colu_Tristan"]Like being unveiled as Norwich''s manager the next morning despite his ''resignation'' being acknowledged as received, but not accepted. [/quote]You''ve been watching too much TV if you believe a resignation can be accepted or refused. You should be looking at Lamberts contract with yourselves to see what restitution you are entitled to, not chasing his next employers.(Unless of course you have proof we induced him to resign but the behaviour of your club suggests you don''t).[/quote]erm, so your chaiman phones us and asks if they can appointed Lambert without interview, our chairman says no, tells Lambert about it, Lambert then resigns and is Norwich manager the next morning. I think that evidence will suffice!

[quote user="JTG"]If you were so determined to keep him then why did you idiotic chairman give us permission to speak to Lambert?[/quote]*Idiot Alert* HE DIDN''T! Thats the whole f***ing point. You appointed him ILLEGALLY, his resignation wasn''t accepted, the approach wasnt accepted yet you went ahead and appointed someone who was under contract with another club

[quote user="Mark Rivers..."]Obviously Lambert was "hated" by the players among other things, as I presume he would have been sacked anyway if he was that bad? Ironically, we had a much poorer start than them to the season, including the 7-1 hammering, but we are now above Col U on goal difference![/quote]you''re above us cos you have much better players!

[quote user="......and Smith must score."][quote user="evertoniancolufan"]Norwich fans I come in piece ....... you''re getting one fifth of our ground so shut up and stop whining. [/quote] Glad you said you come in piece.....You obviously don''t come in peace.[/quote]lol ye, your stupid forum doesnt seem to allowe editing for typos! Unless I''m from and someone could tell me how, not that I intend to stick around

[quote user="Lambo"][quote user="evertoniancolufan"][quote user="Lambo"]EvertonianColUfan... If your club wanted to appoint a manager and you were quotes cash plus players, would you have agreed?? If your chairman hadn''t been so ridiculous with the compensation requests this issue would have been resolved a long long time ago.[/quote]the fact is he should never have been appointed, he was OUR manager and was under contract with us and you had absolutely no right to just steal him like that. As it turns out its ended up being a good thing cos Aidy is a far better manager and it turns out half the players hated Lambert and he destroyed all team spirit, but thats not the point[/quote] Really?? You''ve slipped down the league since Lambert left while we''ve climbed 18 places since he''s arrived and haven''t had team spirit this good for about 6 years and are actually now above you in the table and are one of the 2 most in-form teams along with Leeds. And as mentioned, Lambert resigned from his post, he was a free agent when we appointed him. [/quote]We;''ve slipped down the table? Yes because we were top after winning 2 games, under Lambert last year we were average to say the least, under Aidy we''ve been unbeatable at home and have getting some decent away results, he''s also got us some fantastic loan signings in Baath, O''Toole and Odejayi