The Iron Lady

More than 2,000 but less than 3,000?

I thought that a chant which was perhaps a little dubious was aimed at Kyle Naughton yesterday when he put the ball out in front of the Chelsea fans during the first half too? Did anoyone else hear anything?

[quote user="The 12th Devine"]Problems with accessing the message board in particular are constant and getting worse. There seems to be a dwindling number of new posts on the forum, in part doubtless due to the ignorant and abusive responses many users face when posting new threads, but quite possibly also fuelled by the poor IT infrastructure.[/quote]Hear, hear!My advice to the weaker members of my cabinet was "if you want to cut your own throat, don''t come to me for a bandage."

That is 3 jokes I see on this thread then.

Hope it frees us up to bring in a midfielder on loan. I have always liked Howson but I am not sure that he offers too much different from what we already have at the club.  I can only see Howson fitting in to a 4-4-2 system or possibly a 5 man midfield. Would that be a significant improvement on any combination of Fox/Johnson/Crofts though? Debatable!

[quote user="Yellow Shirt"][quote user="The Iron Lady"]Indeed Graham, there is room at the top for all who work hard enough to be there, as long as they have a little talent too.Some have wanted us to sell both Morison and Jackson though, due to them performing and thus upsetting the consensus of popular opinion amongst NCFC fans.  Why would anyone want to sell any of our top 3 strikers until we have purchased better?[/quote]Very fair point- but I do want to see us get a better striker to replace Jackson.We have Holt and Moro in a similar role to each other and I''m quite sure that is why they are both doing well this year. Vaughan may have been bought to be the pacy striker to push Jackson but even if that is so, we need another! Then Wibraham can go in my book and Martin too unless he can learn to be useful in the advanced midfield role.[/quote]Tut tut, you will be upsetting a few of our consensus of opinion types on here with that one my dear.I like you though.  You seem like a charming young man to me; one who is not afraid to voice his concerns and any successful cabinet needs more of you, not less. Keep up the good work!

Indeed Graham, there is room at the top for all who work hard enough to be there, as long as they have a little talent too.Some have wanted us to sell both Morison and Jackson though, due to them performing and thus upsetting the consensus of popular opinion amongst NCFC fans.  Why would anyone want to sell any of our top 3 strikers until we have purchased better?

[quote user="nutty nigel"]I am enjoying this thread, especially the contributions from KIO, A1, Ron and Purple. So I do hope the tut-tutters and plastic mods don''t get it moved or removed. It''s so much easier to move on to another thread if you don''t like it.   I only show a passing interest in politics now. I''ve become cynical. I''m sure the majority of politicians start off with good intentions. But I think, as with so many other things, human nature gets in the way. Ideologies are spoilt by human nature. Communism could never work because of human nature. This is getting very close to accepting nora''s "law of the jungle". But I don''t. We are better than that and human nature has a selfless side as well as selfish.   Of course there are some politicians who remain true to their priciples and ideals. It''s difficult for the to remain MPs though because they can''t be true to themselves at the same time as telling the voters what they want to hear. And of course selfless people from all walks of life can make a difference. This is going to upset a few on here but I think we are lucky to have one such person own our football club. Delia owns are club for our fans. Not for selfish reasons although I''m sure she enjoys the saisfaction of making a difference. But I wonder why the boy marcus owns the scum. [/quote]It is because the boy Marcus is a blue who foolishly wears his heart on his sleeve perhaps?My advice has always been "That to wear ones heart on ones sleeve isn''t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best!"I believe that my dear sister Delia hides her heart and her colours well.

As silly as little Tottenham, who have half the finance (or less) than Man City and Man Utd and crowds half the size that pair trying to compete with them?  Silly Tottenham should just be happy with being the 3rd biggest team in London rather than trying to win trophies surely?

Porn for some?

[quote user="Jules"]I think this is almost  but hopefully not as good as it gets for NCFC. If you take away the top six or seven teams, who are in a league of their own, and we are effectively second in the league right now IMO. There''s only Stoke ahead of us. So you might actually usefully pose the same question about Tony Pulis. Now there''s a club around the same size as NCFC with a manager who got them promoted. Pulis has not only kept them in the Premier League but they''ve finished in good positions and he''s has got them into Europe and had good cup runs. I hope Lambert sees things like Pulis and will stay here for a bit longer yet. Can NCFC do a Stoke if Lambert stays? [/quote]Not yet they aren''t.  Last time I looked they were in the FA Premier League and so were Norwich City.I am so glad that McNally and Lambert reached for the stars last season, instead of going with the concensus of opinion on here upon promotion and aiming for consolidating in mid table.I wonder if Southampton''s view this summer, was how could they possibly compete with West Ham, Birmingham and others with considerably more money than them? How have Tottenham outperformed Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool recently?It has always been tough at the top and will continue to be so.

The rich may get richer, but did my friend Norman not tell us that we shouldn''t complain but we should get on our bikes?It has always been difficult at the top, but there is plenty of room for all of us to compete no matter how difficult.

I predict a damn good stuffing. Blue is the colour!

[quote user="City1st"]Agree with the qua;ity of the post and the acceptance by all that Lambert will want to go as far as he can in football.What is often overlooked is that Lambert is part of a bigger picture at Carrow Road. Not only on the pitch but everywhere else there is a harder more professional fell about the club. Everything that could be tweaked (improved) has been. those who have dealt with the club businesswise admit that it is a different outfit now.The demands and expectations are far higher. Lambert has spoken about this on a number of times - clearly outlining where the balance of ''power'' rests. And I sure Paul Lambert knows that were he to leave Carrow Road in the very near future it would not be to one of the big clubs, not at this stage.Put the correct procedures in and Paul Lambert can be replaced when he does finall want to try his luck elsewhere. Don''t dismiss what is happening with our club or the myth about finances. I was rather set back by the high level of bonuses paid out in relation to promotion to the Premier League. As well as explaining some of the last minutes '' all or nothing charges'' it demonstatres how committed the club are. These bonuses would not been tacked on as an afterthought with a few games to go last March. They would have been drawn up and costed not long after we had won promotion from the Championship.Finish just outside the top six and we are another £11m to the good. A massive sum, that is paid out not subject to appearances sell on fees agents commission etc. A figure that dwarfs what is earned through winning the FA Cup. But even there a measure of the determination and realisation of what we are capable of is that we set out to win the game against Burnley, as I''m sure we will against WBA. Something taht i don''t think we were too concerned about the last two seasons.Unfortunately some of the happy clappies and johnny come latelys still believe that achieving Premier League status is the final goal. As long as we can hang on in there, ''we''ll be grateful wiv 17th and no mistake mister" then all is fine. That is not the case. This is just the beginning. Maybe not the absolute beginning but the club has bigger aspirations that just standing in the corner, doffing it''s cap and being happy to ''come in for a warm'' occasionally.How long Paul Lambert stays with us on that journey we shall have to wait to see, personally I hope is for the foreseeable future but no one is bigger than the club, be that manager, director or owner(s). At the moment we have the almost perfect combination in all three areas so lets see where they take us and sit back and enjoy.[/quote]It is not just the Johnny come lately''s who believe this my dear, although worry not, as I am sure that will change when the concensus of popular opinion does. Keep up the good work!

[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="The Iron Lady"][quote user="canarydan23"]More to the point, why are there Tory voters posting here? This is a Football forum for Football fans. Isn''t there some Rugby you can follow? Leave Football to the underpaid, overworked, exploited classes. We have to put up with you swanning round our offices and factories in your expensive suits, paid for by our labour, we don''t want to have to see you at our football stadiums as well.[/quote]Did you not realise that football is no longer for the working classes? Many of our well known posters on here vote Conservative.[/quote]   Not forgetting Maggie that most of us on this forum even tolerate converted Manchester United supporters. Didn''t Ronnie have a term that covered that?   OTBC [/quote]Well Bly, I do not know which of my dear friend Ronnie''s charming quotes you are referring to?  But let us not forget that I said my Ronnie was "a poor dear, as there was nothing between his ears."