GenerationA47

What we know about how this match could unfold: Farke brings potentially game-changing subs at 85’ far too late to make any difference the game Nevertheless Leeds prevail, final score 6-7 with a last minute winner at 103’ Er. That’s it.

RIP Bobby Charlton Apt that it’s announced during the classic Saturday game slot Edit: Tributes already on this thread:

Did I say king canary? Apologies, meant @CANARYKING

Nice to see yer own fans booin’ ye

Got to be four back2 back sessions of LOTR extended editions, no? (He’d miss the final 104 mins of return of the king canary but hey, what’s an executive car for if you can’t catch up on some streaming)

Oh, sir... it's only waiver sin.

Reason for edit: change ‘your’ to ‘our’

Prime rhyming slang, Nutty. What a pair etc

What a team they seem to be, England future’s bright. Elliot & Madueke both class and of course our J Rowe fully deserving to be lauded with the rest

Nope Gaz Coombes & Rod Stewart partaking in a spot of handbags in their gladrags, on a super grass pitch, during an Oxford v Celtic sleb charity match

Well, that in itself is an interesting trivium from this thread - after @TheGunnShow’s crass chest-beating display spoiled everything ;- ) Quiz question for Sassenachs only: Without checking… How many names can you get for the FCs representing these towns? Post your honest answers after 9pm today! 1) Albion Rovers 2) Banks o’Dee 3) Broomhill 4) Caledonian Braves 5) Civil Service Strollers (…!) 6) Clachnacuddin 7) Clyde 8.) Deveronvale 9) Partick Thistle (clue: not Partick) 10) Queen of the South 11) Raith Rovers 12) Spartans 13) St Johnstone 14) Strathspey Thistle Quiz question for our Albanian (as they definitely call themselves in Gaelic) brethren.. who can clear up why such a peculiarly high fraction of their clubs seem to be named after anything other than the towns, or even areas, districts or counties, they’re in/from? (the Irish clubs aside) Answers accepted any time this century!

Utterly moronic, isn’t it. Such is the effect of stars in their eyes for these supposedly hard-nosed money people

It’s common to all clubs, the scale of wages in 1996 vs 2023 and is roughly proportional to clubs’ massively increased income

And also a minuscule wage budget vs now…

Got to disagree with this

Sutton tells me you’re right…

That pun deserves to rest for aeons in a grimey grave

4 then

My eyes have been opened over the years to just how many season ticket holders are there for being around football in general, regardless of any support for the club that they pay & go along to. It may be their main club by default, which they just don’t feel particularly attached to or care for. Or they may support nobody, or some other club. Either way, it’s just the nearest professional club to them and is a convenient venue. I’ve seen it with strangers, friends and acquaintances, up and down the country. I absolutely don’t get it . But then they wouldn’t get my interest and passion for Norwich, or my general indifference to the rest of football in terms of elite clubs, elite players, betting, and so on.

@Commonsense Changed that, thanks for pointing it out (and with such good grace). So now given your hostile tone, I presume you’ll launch into the speech you’ve holding back on , as to why we are in fact on course for automatic promotion.

That’s right, I have an agenda. It’s… to question the banana skin premise. And.. er. That’s it (Ed: see if you can ‘find’ some skeletons in the cupboard, maybe evidence of a gunpowder plot) Happy to make the correction in the original post which doesn’t change anything else

True! Although the phrase normally suggests the unexpected interruption of a clear forward route to some specified success point. For me, September’s events put paid to residual notions that we’re going to be an automatic promotion candidate. If the squad is so paper-thin that losing a couple of first-teamers plunges our form from 2nd in the first four games down to 20th over the next four (15th if you add in Saturday.. whoop), we’re not exactly a durable proposition for the season. If anyone disagrees, the floor is yours for exposition of the secret great qualities and talents of this squad and coaching team. Ideally one that doesn’t revolve around “When Josh comes back we’ll smash the league” simplicity. Or that “we’ve won slightly more than we’ve lost”. Or “You’re a collection executive “. Mid-table to play-offs is where the club seems once again to be heading. That doesn’t feel alas like the kind of destination where a defeat can register as a banana-skin slip-up! Edit: Just to be clear, my thesis is not ‘things can never get better’ or ‘there’s a mathematically insurmountable gulf to 2nd place’. It’s ‘As things stand we can’t say we’re on course for the automatics’. Edit 2: ‘a first-teamer’ to ‘a couple of first teamers’

That’s about the size of it. I’d add, of all the signs M&D have shown over the decades - both good and less good choices- effectively in the run-up to this moment - these have never included self-interest over the club’s interests. You’d have to be a card-carrying Truther/Pizzagater type to claim that (of which there are some). So, for me although most of us fans have no say nor prescience, at least it comes down to the new version of HMS Canary being launched over 3+ years by the most well-meaning available pairs of hands.

Just hope you observe queues as well

If anything I’d have thought we’d all agree that CC is an overperformer!