mrbrutler

Hello all, Sorry for being slightly late with this! I'm putting £5 on the mighty Rangers to beat Hearts up in Scotland. And I like the sound of Pukki to score any time for our team from Diane....so will put £5 on that. Good luck all! Let's hope we raise lots of cash.

Thanks for asking me Eddie. Always happy to help such a great cause. Had a great morning with the CSF Extra Time group today....for any of you who are over 55, get along and join in the group as it's fantastic.

Should be a good listenAdd Paul McVeigh on Facebook if you want to ask Paul Lambert a question.cheers

Here is last night''s show if you missed it:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7wn

[quote user="nutty nigel"]Do you have an email address for those of us who don''t twitter? [/quote] Ask your question here and I will put it to him.

Quick plug....Adam will be live on The Scrimmage tonight at 6pm on BBC Radio Norfolk.You can put forward questions for him on Twitter using #AskAdam.Or call us on 01603 617321....we will endeavour to read out all questions.Add Paul McVeigh as a friend on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/pmcveigh77 if you''d rather just leave a question on his wall.Should be a good listen.

Blimey...a plug from the legendary Jim Smith!! We must be doing something right... Here is the iPlayer link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00kj0dq

Interview with BBC Radio Norfolk from tonight here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00kj0dq

Dion Dublin, Old Trafford preview and Man Utd ''Glory Hunter of the week''.......Tonight, 6pm, BBC Radio Norfolk.cheers

Here is this week''s effort...including a Sunderland preview. Hope you enjoy! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00k6fvj

[quote user="Daz"]Hi Rob, Listened to your show for the first time tonight, Really enjoyed it, good to have a show looking ahead into the weekend. It did seem to be over rather quickly though, any chance of extending to an hour? I will listen again next week, Keep up the good work.[/quote]Thanks for the feedback Daz....we are trying to edge in a few more minutes every week!Here is this week''s show:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00k2f3bIt includes an update on the whereabouts of a certain R. Rosario.

Tons to talk about tonight....Get your texts and tweets in while we are on air, 1800-1830.cheers

This week''s show here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jsprf

[quote user="First Wazzock"][quote user="mrbrutler"] Plenty to talk about this week..... [/quote] In ''The Scrimmage'' tonight! [/quote]Another fine Radio Norfolk show....

Plenty to talk about this week.....How has the 0-4 drubbing affected the troops before our first game against one of the Big 4?Can we really knock the League Cup bearing in mind it''s the source of our only trips to Wembley?We also have a new feature - ''GloryHunter of the week''.LIVE tomorrow night at 6.Get your questions into Macca - #mbncfc on Twitter or text in while we''re on air - 81333 (start your text with ''NORFOLK'')cheers

[quote user="norfolkchance1"]If I had had a crystal ball when I tried to buy the tickets then clearly I would have known there would have been plenty left and I would have waited 2 or 3 days. As it happens I aren''t clarevoyant and neither do I suppose are the many people on here who opened larger than expected phone bills. So for the people telling us what we should have done that isn''t really the point of the thread as hindsight is always better in any event.[/quote]Ok, well....The point of the thread is the OP knowingly called an 0844 number 114 times and is now moaning about the fact he/she got charged and want the club to reimburse.Good luck with that.

From memory, weren''t these tickets available for a few days before they sold out?As has been said, if you fall into the trap of ringing 114 times before you give up knowing it''s a charged call then it''s not really the club''s duty to reimburse you is it?Simply be patient and call later. NCFC isn''t a social service.

This weeks show here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00jhkk0 cheers

[quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="mrbrutler"][quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="mrbrutler"][quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="mrbrutler"]No live games on TV at 3pm on Saturday was introduced for a reason....to not harm attendances. People such as the OP ''boasting'' about how they can now watch all NCFC games without even bothring to go to a football ground is disgusting for the game in my book.Forget supporting your local boozer financially, how about supporting your local football club in the same way!The NFL has it spot on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television#Blackout_procedure[/quote]You are aware that Carrow Road isn''t large enough to accommodate everybody who wants a ticket this year? The same can be said for about 15 of the clubs in the Premier League. Maybe I would understand your concern if there were 2000 season tickets up for grabs, but there simply isn''t. Telling somebody without a season ticket to go and buy one is a little like telling somebody to walk on water. To the contrary, the club is probably 2000 season tickets short.I think that those without a ticket still being able to watch games this year is fab, and to be honest I suspect that it will help to create a new generation of fans in Norfolk. The club doesn''t currently have the ability to let kids in cheap, or have promotions to get people through the door to fill seats, so this is the second best thing.I am fortunate in that for me the cost of season ticket renewal is peanuts, but for many others - including many of my own friends - spending £500 for a season ticket and then another £500 on matchday expenses just isn''t viable right now. There are plenty of Norwich fans who simply cannot afford to buy a ST, are you saying that if you aren''t fortunate enough to fit within a certain earnings demographic you are "disgusting"?I know LOADS of old boys, in their seventies etc, who struggle to pay their gas bills each year but can recall countless tails of City games from their youth. Hardship can happen to anybody, no matter how much money you have now. Big difference between spending a fiver in the local on two pints of cheap lager and a packet of crisps and the expense associated with a footy game these days. [/quote]Further to that I can''t see anything wrong with supporting your local boozer. The pub industry is down on its knees, pubs are closing everywhere. You would be well served to remember just how close pubs and football were inter related before the working classes were priced out of games and replaced by a new breed of middle classes celebrating their faux-wealth based on over inflated property valuations and how up to date their iPod is. Pub, bookies, footy. That IS football culture, or at least it WAS. Now it seems to be pilates, quick spot of lunch, pop in Morrisons for a piss, pop and a paper, then down to the ground at 2.15 to make sure your in time for your fancy yellas burger and watered down lager. [/quote]We''re lucky at Norwich - we sell out. So yes, the NFL model of blackout unless you sell-out is perfectably viable for us. You''d be able to enjoy every Norwich home game in your local boozer.This is not the case for at least half of the Prem clubs, they DO NOT sell out every week. So why should people be able to just log on to a moody feed on the web, or pop down to the local pub to watch for free?If you can''t afford a holiday, you don''t go. If you can''t afford to go to the theatre, you don''t see the show. If you can''t afford a car, you get the bus. That is part of life.Approx. £500 is reasonable for a season of Premier League in my book. All this whinging about the "economic climate" is just boring now. People simply want something for nothing.[/quote]It''s a good job that the OP wasn''t talking about any other clubs then, he was talking about this one, and thus nothing that he said was the slightest bit disgusting. If you can''t afford a holiday, you go for a day trip. If you can''t afford to go to the theatre, you go to the cinema. If you can''t afford a car, you get a friend to give you a lift. If you can''t afford to go to the footy, you watch it down the pub. I take it you didn''t watch a single away game online last year then? I bloody did, I watched loads of them. [/quote]Football attendances could and probably will suffer if the 3pm blackout rule isn''t upheld. How can this not be a bad thing?Do you really want to watch NCFC away games online in half empty grounds like Wigan EVERY week?Sure, I feel sorry for people who have lost their jobs and now can''t afford to go etc. But we all know there will be a percantage who chose NOT to  travel to a game because it''s far easier for them to fire up their computer and watch. A massively sad state of affairs in my opinion.[/quote]I''m not saying that there are no negatives, although your Wigan example is a rubbish one, they are getting bigger attendances than ever and they are restricted by their proximity to numerous other clubs as well as their top class rugby team. You are not looking at the bigger picture, by blaming the poor bloke who started this thread. Why are pubs resorting to showing these games? It is because they can''t afford the Sky subcriptions, at least that is one reason, Sky put them up every year. It costs a pub £12k to show Sky games, £1k per month.I can tell you that there aren''t many local pubs who can afford to take £12k a year from their bottom line. But seeing as you don''t want economic excuses, it isn''t really worth me discussing that. The low cost of supermarket booze is more to blame than anything. Pubs need money, to make money they need to show footy, they can''t afford Sky, so they find another way. At current they aren''t breaking the law.If you have a problem with this then you need to write to your MP and insist that he lobby for minimum prices per unit of alcohol in supermarkets, or await the November outcome of the current court proceedings. Alternatively, you can write to the FA and complain that they haven''t contractually capped the amount that Sky charges small pubs to use their services. None of those issues can be fixed by scapegoating the OP, or indeed by typing on this forum. If you have a real problem with it, then do something about it. I''m not going to, because I couldn''t give a sh*t.[/quote]I''m no Sky apologist but it''s fairly obvious why a Pub Sky Subscription is so pricey. 200 people in 1 pub watching football for £1k a month. Or 200 people in 100 homes each paying £50 a month to watch the games...you do the math. Can''t really blame them in this cynical money-making world can you?As for your other points, I''m just giving my opinion. I will still ALWAYS go to games as apose to watching on a laptop screen or in some dodgy pub full of plastic fans. But as I say, that''s just my opinion.I guess we agree to disagree. No offence was intented to the OP. Hope he enjoys his Pork Scratchings and pint.

[quote user="cityangel"]Mr Butler, Maybe thats something we could debate on your new radio show that you are advertising futher down the page, although  I have the feeling you wont let anyone voice their opinions [:D] CA [/quote]You have a feeling I won''t let anyone voice their opinions?Not in the slightest....I want your opinions! Hence why I decided to post on this thread on a subject that is close to my heart.

[quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="mrbrutler"][quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="mrbrutler"]No live games on TV at 3pm on Saturday was introduced for a reason....to not harm attendances. People such as the OP ''boasting'' about how they can now watch all NCFC games without even bothring to go to a football ground is disgusting for the game in my book.Forget supporting your local boozer financially, how about supporting your local football club in the same way!The NFL has it spot on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television#Blackout_procedure[/quote]You are aware that Carrow Road isn''t large enough to accommodate everybody who wants a ticket this year? The same can be said for about 15 of the clubs in the Premier League. Maybe I would understand your concern if there were 2000 season tickets up for grabs, but there simply isn''t. Telling somebody without a season ticket to go and buy one is a little like telling somebody to walk on water. To the contrary, the club is probably 2000 season tickets short.I think that those without a ticket still being able to watch games this year is fab, and to be honest I suspect that it will help to create a new generation of fans in Norfolk. The club doesn''t currently have the ability to let kids in cheap, or have promotions to get people through the door to fill seats, so this is the second best thing.I am fortunate in that for me the cost of season ticket renewal is peanuts, but for many others - including many of my own friends - spending £500 for a season ticket and then another £500 on matchday expenses just isn''t viable right now. There are plenty of Norwich fans who simply cannot afford to buy a ST, are you saying that if you aren''t fortunate enough to fit within a certain earnings demographic you are "disgusting"?I know LOADS of old boys, in their seventies etc, who struggle to pay their gas bills each year but can recall countless tails of City games from their youth. Hardship can happen to anybody, no matter how much money you have now. Big difference between spending a fiver in the local on two pints of cheap lager and a packet of crisps and the expense associated with a footy game these days. [/quote]Further to that I can''t see anything wrong with supporting your local boozer. The pub industry is down on its knees, pubs are closing everywhere. You would be well served to remember just how close pubs and football were inter related before the working classes were priced out of games and replaced by a new breed of middle classes celebrating their faux-wealth based on over inflated property valuations and how up to date their iPod is. Pub, bookies, footy. That IS football culture, or at least it WAS. Now it seems to be pilates, quick spot of lunch, pop in Morrisons for a piss, pop and a paper, then down to the ground at 2.15 to make sure your in time for your fancy yellas burger and watered down lager. [/quote]We''re lucky at Norwich - we sell out. So yes, the NFL model of blackout unless you sell-out is perfectably viable for us. You''d be able to enjoy every Norwich home game in your local boozer.This is not the case for at least half of the Prem clubs, they DO NOT sell out every week. So why should people be able to just log on to a moody feed on the web, or pop down to the local pub to watch for free?If you can''t afford a holiday, you don''t go. If you can''t afford to go to the theatre, you don''t see the show. If you can''t afford a car, you get the bus. That is part of life.Approx. £500 is reasonable for a season of Premier League in my book. All this whinging about the "economic climate" is just boring now. People simply want something for nothing.[/quote]It''s a good job that the OP wasn''t talking about any other clubs then, he was talking about this one, and thus nothing that he said was the slightest bit disgusting. If you can''t afford a holiday, you go for a day trip. If you can''t afford to go to the theatre, you go to the cinema. If you can''t afford a car, you get a friend to give you a lift. If you can''t afford to go to the footy, you watch it down the pub. I take it you didn''t watch a single away game online last year then? I bloody did, I watched loads of them. [/quote]Football attendances could and probably will suffer if the 3pm blackout rule isn''t upheld. How can this not be a bad thing?Do you really want to watch NCFC away games online in half empty grounds like Wigan EVERY week?Sure, I feel sorry for people who have lost their jobs and now can''t afford to go etc. But we all know there will be a percantage who chose NOT to  travel to a game because it''s far easier for them to fire up their computer and watch. A massively sad state of affairs in my opinion.

[quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="LeJuge"][quote user="mrbrutler"]No live games on TV at 3pm on Saturday was introduced for a reason....to not harm attendances. People such as the OP ''boasting'' about how they can now watch all NCFC games without even bothring to go to a football ground is disgusting for the game in my book.Forget supporting your local boozer financially, how about supporting your local football club in the same way!The NFL has it spot on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television#Blackout_procedure[/quote]You are aware that Carrow Road isn''t large enough to accommodate everybody who wants a ticket this year? The same can be said for about 15 of the clubs in the Premier League. Maybe I would understand your concern if there were 2000 season tickets up for grabs, but there simply isn''t. Telling somebody without a season ticket to go and buy one is a little like telling somebody to walk on water. To the contrary, the club is probably 2000 season tickets short.I think that those without a ticket still being able to watch games this year is fab, and to be honest I suspect that it will help to create a new generation of fans in Norfolk. The club doesn''t currently have the ability to let kids in cheap, or have promotions to get people through the door to fill seats, so this is the second best thing.I am fortunate in that for me the cost of season ticket renewal is peanuts, but for many others - including many of my own friends - spending £500 for a season ticket and then another £500 on matchday expenses just isn''t viable right now. There are plenty of Norwich fans who simply cannot afford to buy a ST, are you saying that if you aren''t fortunate enough to fit within a certain earnings demographic you are "disgusting"?I know LOADS of old boys, in their seventies etc, who struggle to pay their gas bills each year but can recall countless tails of City games from their youth. Hardship can happen to anybody, no matter how much money you have now. Big difference between spending a fiver in the local on two pints of cheap lager and a packet of crisps and the expense associated with a footy game these days. [/quote]Further to that I can''t see anything wrong with supporting your local boozer. The pub industry is down on its knees, pubs are closing everywhere. You would be well served to remember just how close pubs and football were inter related before the working classes were priced out of games and replaced by a new breed of middle classes celebrating their faux-wealth based on over inflated property valuations and how up to date their iPod is. Pub, bookies, footy. That IS football culture, or at least it WAS. Now it seems to be pilates, quick spot of lunch, pop in Morrisons for a piss, pop and a paper, then down to the ground at 2.15 to make sure your in time for your fancy yellas burger and watered down lager. [/quote]We''re lucky at Norwich - we sell out. So yes, the NFL model of blackout unless you sell-out is perfectably viable for us. You''d be able to enjoy every Norwich home game in your local boozer.This is not the case for at least half of the Prem clubs, they DO NOT sell out every week. So why should people be able to just log on to a moody feed on the web, or pop down to the local pub to watch for free?If you can''t afford a holiday, you don''t go. If you can''t afford to go to the theatre, you don''t see the show. If you can''t afford a car, you get the bus. That is part of life.Approx. £500 is reasonable for a season of Premier League in my book. All this whinging about the "economic climate" is just boring now. People simply want something for nothing.

No live games on TV at 3pm on Saturday was introduced for a reason....to not harm attendances. People such as the OP ''boasting'' about how they can now watch all NCFC games without even bothring to go to a football ground is disgusting for the game in my book.Forget supporting your local boozer financially, how about supporting your local football club in the same way!The NFL has it spot on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television#Blackout_procedure

In case you missed it:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00jc9xd/Friday_Sport_McVeigh_and_Butler/Looking for your thoughts on how the media perceived our big return this week.Too many cook jokes spoiling the broth?

Final plug for this.....starts at 6pm.Enjoy!