Lambert is King

I have just watched Stoke train and I can tell you absoloutely that Delap is definitely out Woodgate is injured but the rest are all definitely fit. They are huge. 

I will donate but looking at some of the posts tis only going to cost £60. When do you want some cash ?

I did the club a slight injustice it is not on our website as although he has signed the confirmation paperwork has not yet been returned by the premier league

If it helps you boys arguing he has signed definitely just our website is behind the times as usual

Yes   http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11661_7093643,00.html  

[quote user="City1st"]so not actually any rumour, nor any evidence of one from the op merely more scaremongering and misinformation spreading ps while we are on misinformation, rumours and conjured up old tosh we will be signing another defender soon (before Aug 31st)[/quote] Why do you have to slag everyone off when most of the time you are the one that is wrong. Radio 5 and Mr Cameron both suggested that a solution maybe to kick off early in all games rather than postpone them. As it is sky have a breaking story that the premier league have agreed all 9 other games on saturday will go ahead as planned. Let me know if you still think the op was making it up and I will find a link somewhere and maybe we can have a £500 bet for charity about who is right ?

It will be Dale Gordon with some assistance from McVeigh

It seems to apply to most concessions ( sorry if already mentioned ). Our kids have under 12 tickets and we have to take their birth certificates in. Quite right IMO although a pain having to take things in as club are looking to confirm over 12''s not claiming lower prices and also as I understand it a number of people buy an under 12 ticket to garuntee themselves a ticket for the games they want to go to ie Man U Chelsea ect by upgrading.

I will be quite surprised if any of these players move before next season as promotion triggered big wage increases. IMO I think Lambert is trying to use the guilt /make the fans turn on them card. In reallity though if you had a contract and were told please move on and save us money by taking an enourmos wage cut would you say ok Mr Lambert no problem ? This might not apply to Cody as we can probably get a reasonable fee for him part of which can be paid to him to cover his loss of wages. Of course there is also a reverse to this in that wages will go down again for the squad should we be relegated meaning any of our top players who have prooved themselves in the prem will want to leave.

[quote user="City1st"]Facts, eh ? The announcement of a change was made after I posted the stuff about ''the game on Saturday in Germany '' (two days AFTER, in fact). The original post was taken directly from the club''s website and was correct at the time of posting. Maybe you might care to reflect on what is opinion and what is fact.[/quote] It was announced Tuesday night ???? did not even know it was on the club website. The time lapse must have meant your posts dont show for 24 hours. The reason for my post was that you were having yet another go at a supporter that had a different opinion to yourself.    

[quote user="Excited Canary"][quote user="Excited Canary"]TRANSFER NEWS: Spurs defender Kyle Naughton set to join City on loan for the season Official Twitter. [/quote] FFS I of course meant Kyle Naughton! [:$] [/quote] So if you meant Naughton why have you started a new thread ?

[quote user="City1st"]"Its an opinion not fact" Why not try and base your opinions on fact, that might help to avoid ridicule[/quote] Like your fact that the game on Saturday in Germany is behind closed doors when that was changed to a public game ? Stop having a go at anyone with a different opinion to yours

[quote user="Andy Larkin"][quote user="kellybrook"]NCFC are in one of the best leagues in the world now, the one we all wanted them to be in.  They announce ticket prices comparable, and lower in many cases than other teams in the division, and we get moaning.  We want great players but we don''t want to contribute, bearing in mind we go up with 20 million of debt still in the background.  That''s the reality, and dressing it up in "it was not like this in the old days" is not dealing in reality, its day dreaming. It really is very, very simple for anyone to grasp.  It''s SUPPLY AND DEMAND.  If the ground was half full the prices would not go up.  The club know they can fill the place every week, so they put the prices up as much as they dare.  It''s a business, not a charity, and that is a fact that nobody can pretend does not exist. As for this "poorest in society" being priced out nonsense.  Of course they are!  People are clamouring to watch Norwich next season, and are willing to PAY.  The poor are priced out of most things for similar reasons. How many "poor" people have new cars?  Holidays?  Football is a luxury, not a life-giving essential and it owes nobody nothing.  Why should it be any different to any other consumer-driven item or activity? The people spouting the "working class hero" rubbish need to look at themselves rather than blame the club, and trying to make out that the hard working people who are paying to watch their team next season are "happy clappies".  That''s just trying to blame others for your own problem. It''s about PRIORITIES.  I see one guy here says he will stay in his garage with his motorbike on a Saturday rather than go.  Sell your flipping bike!  Which is more important to you?  You can''t afford both, so you make a choice as with other things in life as to your personal PRIORITIES.  Everyone has to do it at some stage over something. Moaning and blaming others is victim mentality, its the "society owes me" mindset.  It owes you jack.  If you want to go next season, but can''t afford it, look for a better job, or change your spending habits or personal priorities.  If after all that you genuinely cannot to go due to finances, then sorry but that''s the way of the world. If you love football, you could go and watch your local boys for a couple of quid, or even free, same as if you love driving you can buy a car for £200 and drive.  but if you want the best car, you have to save up, make sacrifices or change your job. And to the guy saying "I have three kids and cannot afford to go".  You answered your own flipping question!  You have THREE kids.  If everyone had three kids the planet would have collapsed by now.  You selfishly whad three kids, and now you selfishly expect to go to to flight football as some sort of god given right because you cannot afford everything. Sorry to be so harsh but some of you seem to expect to be bloody spoon fed. [/quote] Are you for real? Its not rather… its CAN AFFORD! What part of that don''t you understand? Seriously, you go. I''ll give it a miss. With wankers like you, you''re welcome to it! It''s a game. A game FFS!!! Its not more important than feeding your children or heating your house. You think a footballer merits £25 k a week? Really? Do you really think they are worth that much more than you? This is why the game is up shit creek without a paddle. [/quote] I dont mean this to sound disrespectful but I think it is you struggling with reallity. Wether you go or not there will be more than enough that do want to go. Players demand those sort of wages to play for us. Gone are the days when players played for the love of the club. Should we not pay those wages we will be relegated. Your complaint should be to SKY and the players but do you think Holt will give money back to subsidise your ticket ? I think not its us interested in watching him not him wanting to play on the cheap so you can watch him. I did not see people telling Doncaster he was destroying our club with cheap football ?

For info, should answer all your questions / debates - Drury, Whitbread, Pilkington and Wilbraham sat the game out. A1 post about Saturdays game is no longer correct as this is now open to the public 

[quote user="hogesar"]Supply and demand - if people don''t pay, they''ll adjust prices. But people will. And people saying "I''m not paying £50 for a home match" are clearly being simple. Not EVERY match is £50, just a select few. If you''re going to be selective with money then you''ll also have to be selective with what matches you go to. I think it''s fair enough - charge what people are willing to pay. And trust me, they will be willing to pay! It''d be nice to take a stand as fans on prices - but other clubs won''t join in. It''ll just be us. And we''ll be a disadvantaged club as we''ll be getting much less money from ticket revenue than other similar clubs. Whilst we''re in the Premiership we have to make the most of it and this is one of those measures. People will slate McNally for it, but he''s doing what any business-brained individual would do. If however, you''d like to re-hire Neil Doncaster, feel free to try and get hold of him... [/quote] Spot on we forget we are £20 + million in the red. If it was not for McNally we would have stayed in league 1 after our points deduction for administration. People want a team to compete but think the likes of Delia should pay from her own pocket and allow people to watch at a discounted rate.   

[quote user="Andy Larkin"][quote user="Lambert is King"] Blimey there are plenty of you agreeing with City 1st. Let us sum up what he is advocating 12 - 15000 in FCR, Supporters kicking the s^^t out of each other, bannanas being thrown at black players and thousands of deaths in stadiums. There was so little money in football that stadiums were falling apart, not a place you would bring your family. You also seem to tar these families as supporters that do not support the club as passionately as you. I assume you would class my son as a happy clapper as I would not have allowed to go to a game in the 70''s until he was at least 12. Yet as a happy clapper at 4 years old he would insist that we traveled down to the ground to arrive at 9am so he could do mini kickers, only problem with that is we used to live in the Midlands so we had to leave at 5:30 am. If football had not changed it could possibly have collapsed  Do you really beleive we would have the likes of Holt, Morrison, Johnson ect playing for us if we went back to 15000 supporters paying £5 each with the players training in a field at Trowse ? If you want to go back to those dark days thats fine, but you cannot expect football of a very high standard. Yes games were exciting in those days because anyone could have beaten anyone but come on that was mainly because a high proportion of the players were s^^t.  Football has gone where it has because of money from Sky ect. If you have / watch sky you have to consider yourself part of what has been created, personally I feel if football would have carried on as it was in the UK it would have fallen apart. You must also realise that without tv money only real fans like Delia would have bought into clubs. The likes of Mansoor / Obrhamavic ect would not have been interested. Like it or not FCR will be one of the cheapest places to watch Prem football. If we stay up to compete I beleive most accept their season ticket will go up at least £100. In reality though that will still be far to cheap if our ambitions are more than just to stay up    [/quote] Are you saying that Holt, Morrison, Johnson are better than Sutton, Robins, Bowen, Goss, Crook, Culverhouse, Townsend etc? I take it you didn''t go back then? They may go on to be as good, maybe even better… but at the moment your point has no foundation If you are happy for football to price out the poorest in society, then you go ahead and lap it up. See you on the other side, when it''s gone tits up!! [/quote] Cant remember them playing in the 70 ''s ? After saying that after you have seen Bradley Johnson play you may think he was better than those names you mention. The top players go where the money is and the money in this country comes from SKY, as soon as SKY leaves our game then so do the top players. Even the players you mention were prepared to play for small wages. Over 1/2 of those you mentioned went to bigger clubs who could pay more so I dont really get your point. I have missed very few home games since my first game 47 years ago. My attendance away is not bad either so I have seen both sides. Maybe I am getting old but would people really turn up in the numbers they do now in a stadium that was not modernised with a garuntee of seeing at least one person getting a good kicking every game. If you invest money in watching SKY you must take the credit as well for how football has changed, their money simply goes to players. If you want cheap football ask the likes of Holt to forgo their wage increases and bonuses from last year I suggest he will laugh. When we are at the other side all our top players in the UK will leave to play where they will get paid most. No different to before SKY our top players went to Italy. I say one last time FCR is the cheapest football overall in the premiership 

[quote user="norfolkbroadslim"][quote user="Barclay hero"] [quote user="Paul"]  HA HA HA HA I too have 2 kids, a mortgage, loans etc etc and probably have more debts than you, and I travel up from Essex to every game i think I spent well over £2500 on football last season, it is a luxury for me but i choose to do it. Fair enough.  I couldnt afford to do it.  If you can good for you.  But dont assume everyone else is in the same position as you - not everyone can afford ''Luxuries'', especially to 4 figure amounts Me and my two kids have season tickets. I am in the same boat as you and just beacause I have a different opinion you have a go. That my friend is pathetic. Isnt that what you were doing - having a go just because others cant afford the same luxuries.  If Im pathetic so are you.  Pot.  kettle.  black  If I couldn''t afford to go I wouldn''t and I wouldn''t bitch about. Im not.  Its all about supply and demand and tbh just because I cant afford to go very often isnt the clubs problem.  Its sad to see so many people being priced out of the game but I guess thats the price for being in the ''best league in the world''.  Appreciate you (and many others) bought season tickets in League 1 which is great - and the club have rewarded you in the short term by giving you the option of renewing early and not increasing prices (a lot of clubs wouldnt have given that option so early especially as we were flying high) - however expect to see ST prices rise sharply too As an earlier poster said, I would rather we charge the same prices as other clubs and play in the premiership and not be able to go, than playing in league one and go.[/quote] Controversial, but respect your opinion.  However would you want us to become another Wigan or Blackburn?  Because mid table Prem obscurity mixed with high (or relatively high) prices can lead to a lot of empty seats in the long run.  My own view is that I want to see Norwich play irrespective of the division we''re in - I''d have followed us to the conference if thats where we''d have ended up.  However I would rather see us play Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea than Yeovil, Brighton and Southend - no disrespect to those clubs, but I want to see us playing in as higher league as possible.  If that means paying more so be it - but I''ll only be able to go 6 or 7 times per season rather than 10 or 12 - the rest of it I''ll catch on the net, in the pub, or at home [/quote] If you go 6 or 7 times, how far off a season ticket price are you? [/quote] For an under 21 going to 4 games would be more expensive that a season ticket

[quote user="ryan1992"]On the Pink''un it didn''t mention his goal vs Gorleston and tonight on Canaries it says that he got his first goals for the club tonight, but he scored in front of me at Emmerald park the other day! I know it doesn''t matter at all, but I get annoyed when papers and websites get simple facts wrong![/quote] Why would they want to say that when he did not score at Gorleston ?Jackson clearly headed the ball in from a header that was going wide. Silly post if you are having a go at people getting facts right

Blimey there are plenty of you agreeing with City 1st. Let us sum up what he is advocating 12 - 15000 in FCR, Supporters kicking the s^^t out of each other, bannanas being thrown at black players and thousands of deaths in stadiums. There was so little money in football that stadiums were falling apart, not a place you would bring your family. You also seem to tar these families as supporters that do not support the club as passionately as you. I assume you would class my son as a happy clapper as I would not have allowed to go to a game in the 70''s until he was at least 12. Yet as a happy clapper at 4 years old he would insist that we traveled down to the ground to arrive at 9am so he could do mini kickers, only problem with that is we used to live in the Midlands so we had to leave at 5:30 am. If football had not changed it could possibly have collapsed  Do you really beleive we would have the likes of Holt, Morrison, Johnson ect playing for us if we went back to 15000 supporters paying £5 each with the players training in a field at Trowse ? If you want to go back to those dark days thats fine, but you cannot expect football of a very high standard. Yes games were exciting in those days because anyone could have beaten anyone but come on that was mainly because a high proportion of the players were s^^t.  Football has gone where it has because of money from Sky ect. If you have / watch sky you have to consider yourself part of what has been created, personally I feel if football would have carried on as it was in the UK it would have fallen apart. You must also realise that without tv money only real fans like Delia would have bought into clubs. The likes of Mansoor / Obrhamavic ect would not have been interested. Like it or not FCR will be one of the cheapest places to watch Prem football. If we stay up to compete I beleive most accept their season ticket will go up at least £100. In reality though that will still be far to cheap if our ambitions are more than just to stay up   

Looks like watching premiership football at FCR is the cheapest in the land. Maybe you would all be happy paying £85 to watch your team play Man Utd. The squad and Lamberts budget could always be reduced so we can watch much cheaper

Hope you werent planning many games then this is the cost of premiership football for any team that fills their ground every week. In fact I hope you have a season ticket as I reckon that includes us as I reckon we will certainly be that price for chelsea / man u / arsenel / liverpool and maybe a few more.

[quote user="Lambo"]Lambert is the most important asset this clubs has, more valuable than any player on our books IMHO. This season will be a learning curve and if we do go back down I won''t be too worried as I have faith he''d get us back up and we''ll then be even stronger financially. I''ll be disgusted with any fan that calls for his head during the course of the season.[/quote] My beleif is that should we go on a bad run Lambert will walk after his team is booed. Unfortunately there will be far to many people that will have short memories. In the modern premiership any manager that can keep a side up first time round without huge outside investment has acheived more than the manager that wins the premiership. My beleif is we will under Lambert manage to stay up, but should we go down I can think of no better manager to get us back up. So answer op is if the board were to get rid or the fans forced him out we would be back to where we were a few seasons ago. People will need to be careful what they wish for look at Villa now  

All players that can be considered for the 1st team will be there and Lambert will be managing ( usually Ricky Martin for the local friendlies ). It will be the Germany tour squad

I am led to beleive that all players will be present on Saturday against Gorleston and the team will be managed by Paul Lambert, quite unusual for a local friendly

Dear oh dear even if Barnsley wanted Martin he has just had a huge wage increase. Unless he was receiving more money why on earth would he move. Barnsley dont have two pennies to rub together get real op