littletinsoldier

Fair play, I thought it was a grammatical error. I certainly will, not just because of guilt though

Hootun dunt noe wot his dewun dewey

Who is Ray and how many funds does he have? Is he a Sheik?

David McNally is considering Chris Hughton''s request to change his name to Chris Houghton. It is believed that Hughton thinks that so many people already think his name is Houghton no one would notice, and it would avoid further confusion when googling himself. He also realised that he will sound more Irish, like his countryman Ray Houghton, so it''s a double-positive, cancelling out the earlier negative. McNally is said to be in agreement with regard to clearing up google.

Thanks Yankee City1st, I did not wish to imply that you or anyone else had said that my ex-Man Utd fan mate would not be made welcome. I replied to your post because I could not work out how to post without replying to someone else''s. No slander intended. I was trying to make a point that some of the comments (by lots of people through the whole discussion) regarding glory hunters could give the impression that we didn''t want any new fans who were not with us through the bad times. My personal feeling is that we could really do with the money, and that if they have a good experience at St Paul''s we are far more likely to retain that support. But anyway, as a new member of the pink un I don''t want to start any trouble with my fellow canaries! The points I was making could be summarised by my general feelings towards the club, which are: These are very special times. 1)We have a great, great manager who has an eye for a player the like of which I have never seen in a city manager before. 2) The players that he signs, and some of those he inherited (particularly Sir Holt) seem to realise that they are onto something special too. They love Lambert, want to play for him, want to fight for the club, and most importantly, want to play for each other. Even people like Henri Lansbury and Dani Pacheco knew that something special was going on - Pacheco wanted to come back. Barcelona-Liverpool-Norwich. Seems almost ridiculous!! 3) The manager, the board, the fans and the players are all together, in a way I have never seen before at the club (again). The great days I grew up with were special indeed, but this is so much better. We have a great stadium already which will get even better. We have a state of the art academy and training centre, we have an unrivalled position in the county and to some extent now the region. 4) We have a great board which (again) is the most professional and businesslike I have ever seen at Norwich. Bowkett, McNally, Fry - we are a well run club and we appear professional, comfortable at the top table. This is reflected on the pitch - we are not afraid of anyone. Whatever Lambert, Karsa, Culverhouse and McNally & Bowkett have it works and has so much momentum that I just can''t see us failing to be successful, even if we get relegated this season. I am going to repeat what I said last time. We need to forget the past now and concentrate on the future. Ok, I''ll step off the soap-box but add an aside. If building a new city stand for £20M would give us a chance of keeping hold of Lambert for a few years, in the David Moyes mould maybe, I would take it. Lambert is a steal at £20M if Any Carrol is worth £35M. I know that there is no indication that Lambert intends to stay only if we build a new stand but it is bound to send a good message to him about where we all want to go. These are the best times we''ve ever had given the context of modern football. Remember where we found ourselves just over two years ago, when St Paul was on the other side? OTBC

This is the first time I have posted on the Pink ''Un and I have decided to choose this debate around stadium capacity. Having read through all the posts in this forum I have a few points that I would like to make, so please bear with me. Firstly, with regard to ''glory hunters'' or new fans or whatever, we simply have to welcome this as a club. I''m 30 years old and have been a city fan all my life. Although my Dad took me to games as a very young kid, my first memory was the Newcastle game in 87. However, this is the first season that I have had a season ticket. This might make me a glory hunter because I have applied for a ticket now we are in the Prem. But the real reason is quite simple, this is the first time in my adult life that I have been able to afford one. I have a ticket with two mates, one a fellow lifelong fan and another who supported Man Utd until last year. He is openly a glory hunter, but would now claim to be a Norwich fan. Ok, we give him a fair amount of abuse about it, but at the end of the day his money is going into the club. He is also going to be a father and will no doubt raise his kid to support the canaries. So, should he be made unwelcome at the club? Norfolk is growing much faster than other areas of the UK. The A11 is finally going to be dulled which will further increase the population of the city, and the county. We have to capitalise on this - young kids will want to see football and we should be keen for them to come to Carrow Road. In the future they will be canaries. This is all evidence, in my opinion, to support the decision to increase capacity. There are other factors too - we need to shed this little old Norwich tag and show the world (and I mean the world now that we''re back where we belong) that we mean business. There is no point dragging up stats about past attendances because the city, and county has changed a lot in the last 15-20 years. And in the coming years it will change again. There is also no point comparing us to other clubs like Bolton because in that part of England there are so many clubs to choose from. I''m sure many people living in Bolton support Blackburn, Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool, Everton, Burnley, Stockport, Oldham, Preston etc. In Norfolk it''s city of the Linnets as Stephen Fry said. The population of Norfolk is over 800,000 and will increase. There is no Prem club in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire or Suffolk. Anyone who wants to see PL football in the eastern region will look to us, and we should capitalise on it. The final point I want to make is that our greatest assets are actually Lambert, McNally and Bowkett. To keep them all we have to ensure that the club''s ambition match theirs - Lambert is destined for great things and we need to keep him as long as possible. He can see that we have the potential to be a bigger club and we, as fans, should support him. We have got to forget the past now. Move forward with ambition, hunger and desire to become better. A better team, a bigger ground, a bigger and better club. OTBC