Rock The Boat

[quote user="City1st"]You haven''t quite grasped this have you ? Though cynics might suggest you have but are choosing to pretend otherwise for your own reasons.Paul Lambert is not beholden to the stupidity of the cretinous type that have attached themselves to our club.We have been through this before and will continue to do so as long as that sh it stirring element have an outlet for their attacks.When you pay his wages then you can demand answers, until them I can only share the words Paul Lambert must feel towards you and your kind. [/quote] Are you this pleasant in real life?

[quote user="Sussexyellow"]Decided my years of lurking are over and time to join in the debate. My take is as follows. Stuart Jarrold is a particulatly annoying reporter. If you watch the weekly press conferences you will see he is enough to make anybody tetchy. Paul L is entitely right in saying this is Adam''s night and that''s what he is here to talk about. Paul L made it clear that he has done absolutely nothing to court the speculation. It''s not his fault if there are those that buy it. Paul L is right in not responding to the speculation. Think about it, if every time he was not interested in a job he said so we would totally freak when he went tight lipped. But even that is not important it would send out a clear signal to another club that he is really interested and would severely weaken his bargaining position. We should be glad that we have a manager who is street wise in this respect. It is clear from the interview that Paul and his team are getting on with their jobs at Colney. What more can we ask. Time to get off Paul''s back and let him get on with his job. COYY [/quote] excellent first post, just what I was thinking, your lurking days should be gone

[quote user="The Pink Role Model"]I could see it in the lower leagues in the near future. By sheer coincidence Female command first for Navy ship (UKPA) – 3 hours ago A woman from Middlesex who is the first female commander of a major Royal Navy warship is taking up her post. Commander Sarah West, 40, joins Type 23 frigate HMS Portland in Rosyth, Fife. The warship is undergoing a refit and, on completion, it will undergo a series of trials before returning to its base port in Devonport before the end of the year. It will then be prepared for its next operational tasking. Cmdr West said: "Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the RN (Royal Navy) so far. "It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake. "I am very proud to be taking command of a Type 23 frigate, which is an extremely flexible warship, and I''m looking forward to taking HMS Portland on operations with a professional and focused team." In another milestone for the Royal Navy, Commander Sue Moore, 43, recently became the first woman to command a squadron of minor war vessels, the First Patrol Boat Squadron (1PBS), based in Portsmouth. Cmdr Moore, from Bath, and Cmdr West have a combined 36 years of experience in the Navy. Their achievements include deployments ranging from the Gulf to the Balkans to counter-narcotics patrols in the Caribbean. The pair have been described as being part of a "cohort of talented female officers" who joined the Royal Navy to serve at sea and are now undertaking or approaching key appointments in their naval careers. [/quote] I suppose these warships are undergoing a refit so that the ladies have a place to stow their handbags on the bridge.

[quote user="TIL 1010"][quote user="Tangible Fixed Assets anyone"] Anybody know roughly how many season tickets the Binners sold last season? [/quote] I remember an answer to a simple straightforward question on another thread along the lines " those that know do know that those that don''t do not " [;)] [/quote] Come on you two, admit it''s a love thing.

Your niece needs to grow a pair.

It''s China. You heard it here first

[quote user="PurpleCanary"][quote user="Rock The Boat"] What we are now seeing at Norwich is the result of our owners letting those who know how to run a club, do so. Just imagine if Doncaster had never been appointed and someone as good as Bowkett and McNally had been appointed a decade ago. We may well have been an established Premier team for the last ten years with the occasional minor European campaign or cup-run thrown in as well. Delia is not our saviour. She''s been a millstone around our neck for far too long.[/quote] I''m with you on this, Rock the Boat. If we hadn''t had those clowns Smith and Jones and Doncaster in charge we might actually have survived the collapse of ITV Digital in 2002 through something clever like a share offer (backed by the clownish owners) and avoided going into administration and relegation as a result. And if we hadn''t gone into administration plus relegation then we might, strange as it seems now, have - I don''t know - reached a Championship play-off final that year and only lost on penalties? On the face of it quite absurd. But the dreamer in me thinks it possible. Heck, we could even have built on that play-off appearance and won the Championship by eight clear points a couple of years after that! We could have had some kind of affordable family football policy coupled with a sensible increase in stadum capacity that meant we had full houses every game with a 1,700 waiting list, instead of the ludicrous situation we have now of a three-quarters empty 50,000-seat stadium/a 21,000-seat stadium with a waiting list of 15,000 (pick one option according to taste but you are not allowed to pick the option we have, because that is the legacy of those clowns Smith and Jones and Doncaster). We could have actually paid the Revenue what we owed, instead of - as we are - facing a ruinous Glasgow Rangers-style court case that will send the club, if there is anything left, down to the Blue Square League South. We could also have found that the financial difficulties into which those clowns Smith and Jones and Doncaster got us (partly through doing the decent thing and paying the Revenue on time) - though not to be downplayed - were actually quite manageable (especially compared with some other clubs), with our banks quite willing to do a deal to keep us in business. Sadly, of course, as we know that was not the case. Our financial position was totally hopeless, and Axa and BoS called in our debts and we went into administration for the second time in a decade. With the Premier League now not so much a distant dream as an impossible one. [/quote] Oh dear,Purple, starting off with the ITV Digital deal kind of blows your irony into touch. Wasn''t our two owners in the vanguard of those clubs who were marching on the courts and making TV appearances on how they were going to show those TV guys a thing or two; only for the judge to throw the case out of court before the coffee break of the first day? If I remember he sent our plaintiffs away with a flea in their ear telling them, in so many words, that perhaps they ought to read the contract before coming to court. Never mind,we won''t have to return to those embarrassing days for a long time to come, we hope. The days of embarrassing managerial appointments (and executive one''s too if we include the solicitor), hopefully are over. The days of appearing before the AGM and embarrasingly asking the audience what they should be doing (the board,that is) are over, we hope. In fact the old girl seems to have been denied access to microphones as of late, and I can remember her bursting into onscreen song on just the one occasion this season, and I bet Mr. Ferrari got an ear-bashing from that nice Mr. McNasty because of it. I suppose it was worth the ten-year wait, to be fair.

[quote user="Green Jack"]Are people from Suffolk welcome?[/quote] As in Michael and Delia?

[quote user="London Canary"]A lot of people say Lambert will leave soon, tbh it''s all about whether he is here when we expand the stadium I think, if he is, I can see him being here for many years to come because then that will be the next level where having that 35,00 seater stadium will mean we can attract bigger and better players surely? Or will it mean that we would be in debt and still have that problem of attracting bigger players? Maybe I''m wrong but having that stadium and being in the premier league in two years is vital if we really wan''t to kick on and become a real force in this league, not expanding will mean the club is not moving forwards. What do people think?[/quote] I think you didn''t need to start a completely new thread on the same subject.

Carroll is all you need to know why England will never win an international competition. I will not be watching the Euros because England will be far too embarrassing.

He had one good game against...wait for it... Scunthorpe. Didn''t shine much in the other games. We''ve moved on since then.

[quote user="nutty nigel"]It''s not very long ago that the usual suspects on here were wailing about Blackburn''s new owners and Delia not letting them get their hands on her dolls house. Would they really have wanted that foir us? You betcha!![/quote] What have the Venkey''s done, apart from investing a heap of their own money, that so upsets you Nutty? I''ve read comments that they''re wanting to relegate Blackburn so that they can get their hands on the relegation money. Do you believe that comment? Wouldn''t it make more sense for them to keep Blackburn in the Premiership where they can can their hands on an even bigger pile of money if their intentions were to bleed Blackburn dry? And how about Bill Kenwright at Everton? Is he a bad owner, too? Should we be hollering because he hasn''t put money into his club for a couple of seasons now? What an evil owner he must be? I can''t see what the Venkeys and Tony Fernandes have done wrong apart from being foreign and having lots of money. Is it envy that foreigners can have more money than locals and therefore can come in and buy up ''heritage''? Did the Venkeys relegate Blackburn? Did they take to the pitch and put in some miserable performances. Did they pick the team, devise tactics to defeat the opposition and motivate the players before kickoff. Were the Venkeys out coaching the players and taking charge of training? Somehow I very much doubt it. And yet Nutty Nigel heaps all the blame at the foot of these foreigners, while dear Delia is whiter than white in his eyes. Owners are not bad just because they are foreign and have lots of money. Owners are bad when they make poor decisions and when they make poor appointments. And over the past fifteen years and more our very own Delai has been there somewhere near the top of poor decision-making when it comes to owning a football club. We fans have had to put up with a string of poor managerial appointments that culminated in us dropping into the third tier - and bottom of the table after that first game - and taking us too the brink of administration. So you see Nutty it isn''t about Delia good and foreigner bad. It''s about the right people doing the right jobs. After nearly two decades our owners seem to have realised that there are people around better than them at running a football club. And they should stick to the ambassadorial side of things. Delia has had several years to learn but you want to crow about owners who have just had a few months of club ownership and are still finding their way in an alien culture. Yet you ignore all the Chesters and Aldershots and Darlingtons and these clbs who fail and go into administration under British ownership on a regular basis. I reckon more league clubs fail under British owners than under foreign owners, so maybe we should ban British people from owning football clubs huh? (that was not meant to be taking literally by those who don''t get irony by the way). What we are now seeing at Norwich is the result of our owners letting those who know how to run a club, do so. Just imagine if Doncaster had never been appointed and someone as good as Bowkett and McNally had been appointed a decade ago. We may well have been an established Premier team for the last ten years with the occasional minor European campaign or cup-run thrown in as well. Delia is not our saviour. She''s been a millstone around our neck for far too long.

[quote user="RUDOLPH HUCKER"]Am I alone in thinking PL is still learning his craft at this level? I cannot imagine a bigger EPL side than us taking a chance on him yet. PL has huge autonomy here and knows he has been backed as best NCFC can so why make a sideways move to a similar sized club? We owe PL a great deal but the reverse is also true and he knows it. He was simply answering a question.[/quote] Rudolph, you must keep a pretty good hammer beside your computer because once again you nailed the essential truth in your post. PL can either go sideways or up. Moving to a club competing at the same level as us (WBA, Stoke,Fulham etc.) makes no sense as he will be expected to perform from day one, whereas at Norwich he has earned the right to experiment and fail from time to time. I can''t see other clubs giving him the same freedom, and it must be great to work for an employer who lets him do things his way. Remember the QPR documentary and the interference from the owners? Who would chance their arm, working in such an environment? Next season we expect Norwich City to push on and PL knows that we are a work in progress and I feel he wants to take it further and not have to start afresh with an unknown squad of players. The only other possibility is moving to a bigger club. But he is a big risk for the big clubs who can recruit proven managers from abroad. The top six don''t need to take the risk. And with WBA providing the new England coach, the resulting managerial reshuffle will take place at a lower level than we are at. Don''t panic, PL is going nowhere except on his holidays.

Next season we will have to raise our targets. While most were happy with a 17th place finish at the beginning of the season, next year we need to be looking for a top-half finish plus two good cup runs. The moment we become complacent, as we now seem to be, we lose momentum,and start losing games.

My bad. Think we''ll need at least two home wins to finish above Liverpool

Good to see Mr. Chops is getting back to his quality best. The brighton hippy post is a classic.You gotta check it out.

He won''t be picked. A few games back he stood an outside chance but as our season fizzles out without Holt getting on the score sheet,he will be all but forgotten by those who matter.

A few games back, I wondered whether we could still reach some targets by the end of the season. After getting tonked by Man City, I very much doubt we can pull back a 13 goal difference with just 3 games to go. However I''d still like us to finish higher than Liverpool and with them being our next opponents a win at Anfield will put us level on points. The other target was to finish the highest of the 3 promoted sides; we''re currently neck and neck with Swansea as we come up the final straight. I reckon there is still plenty to play for in the remaining games.

[quote user="Duncan Edwards"]This is, these are.... I''m still a better fan than you.....[/quote] Yes you are, now go to bed, Duncan

It''s not really a laughing matter when you''re still being called ''little old Norwich'' by these southern media types. It''s time for McNally to grow a pair and get out there and really burn this Brown guy at a stake in Chapelfield gardens. Do that and you won''t hear anymore little old Norwich''s any more. It might cause opposition fans to think twice about travelling to our fine city and keep those foreign northern hordes beyond Norfolk''s borders. A double-whammy serendipty do-dah. So come on Daily Mash, print this Chris Brown fellas address so that we can get a mob around there, haul him away from his laptop, and put him in stocks on Tombland before McNally does his torching. Good if we can do this before a home game too so that we can get a better turnout, we haven''t had a good witch burning in years and I blame Tony Blair/Gordon Brown for that.  

A female streaker for me - slim size

[quote user="Duncan Edwards"] Some fans are definitely better than others. It''s obvious. I can think of loads of people who go to games that I''m a better fan than and as for the Armchair Arthurs.....well....   It''s easy really.   Fans that go are better than those that don''t. Away fans are better than home fans. Standing fans are better than seated fans. Singing fans are better than quiet fans. This seasons shirt is better than last years. Casuals are better than wig-wearers. You can also get extra points for the age you were when you first went, the distance from the ground that you live (the closer the better), the amount of away grounds you''ve been to and bonus points for the amount of season tickets you''ve thrown in as a protest.   This is the criteria.     [/quote] These are the criteria

I''m voting for Chris Brown

The key to avoiding sss is to get relegated in the first season.Obviously we''ve screwed up big time

[quote user="nutty nigel"] Agreed Rudolph. But what looks a good idea now may not always be. How long would it be before clubs found a way to use the replay system to their advantage.     [/quote] Precisely Nutty. If replays are introduced players will be hassling the ref over every single incident demanding that he takes a look at the video. Play will be continually broken up, free-flowing open football will cease to exist. The game will change for the worse.