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  1. True, albeit Farage did get very close when he stood in Thanet, a few polls had gave him the seat prior to the vote as no one expected Tories to clear up as well as they did in 2015. That was nine years ago and he has a much bigger following since then, nevertheless the only realistic way for him to win a seat if he stood on a Tory ticket and Reform stood aside for him, otherwise he will always lose to a split vote. Agree regarding Johnson not wanting to be in opposition, plus he is supposedly coining it in heavier than ever now he isn't an MP.
  2. Very true. Sunak's best-case scenario is to stave off calling the GE for as long as possible. And then resign quietly when he inevitably loses. You're right it seems like a bit of a poisoned challice, especially if they do change leader after the GE, they'll have much fewer MPs and less pedigree to chose from. All the potential sucessors are on the right of the party too, apart from Mourdant. The "Boris act II" rumors, and the Farage rumours won't go away either, they may well be able to jockey for position easier in a leadship contest if the percentage of the right-leaning factions within the party keep their seats against the overall number of Tory MPs.
  3. How about something a little more punchy, such as Rule Britannia? Another good one would be There Will Always Be An England.
  4. Who thinks that Sunak may be out on his ear before Christmas? Wouldn't be suprised if louder calls for him to go will resurface again in May if (when) the Tory vote is decimated at the Local Elections. The 1922 may want to try and obtain a new leader before a GE to limit the damage.
  5. Agreed, he seemed to get run over in FPTP every time. I think he won't run again unless he is given a safe Tory seat (no longer such thing!), or a Tory nomination at a by-election in a Tory constituency where Reform would stand aside for him, which the Tories would never let happen. Credit to him that despite never being an MP, he has effectively had a stranglehold on aspects of British politics. He forced the 2016 EU Ref after 19 years of campaigning, got Cameron sacked, and gave Boris Johnson a golden ticket to a huge majoirty at the expense of Corbyn and Swinson by pulling his candidates at the 2019GE. He has also had a huge hand in Rishi's ongoing downfall by exposing the English Channel migration debacle, and now has a faction of sycophants within the Tories headed up by Liz Truss. Farage knows his place now, and that's to be his own mouthpiece from the sidelines on trash like GB news, and to sabotage the Tories by holding them to ransom until they have to listen to him.
  6. Unfortunately anyone who has played football at any level knows that 'conning the Referee' using hyperbole, exaggeration and angle shooting is very much part of the game, gainsmanship is ingrained in the culture of football, not ever a huge amount of respect like there is in Rugby. It's all about having the discipline to not react. If it had been a Norwich player conning The Referee to get one of the Boro players off, we would have been lauding them as a genius. Remember Bradley Johnson getting Joey Barton sent at Loftus Road for a 'headbutt'? It's just insult to injury that it was Howson involved, who had a good tenure at his time with Norwich, was the antagonist which has left a sour taste for many. As for VAR in the Championship, a big No Thanks, it is barely working in the top divisions, I think it would be the tipping point in for many fans of all clubs losing interest. One of the pros of this season is how good and free-flowing the matches and decisions are if both teams come to play football. Mistakes will happen in the EFL but as we are a big fish in a small pond, we will always have time in a match to get over poor decisions.
  7. The best point that I could suggest for this topic is that if we were not banned from Europe in the 80's after Heysel, our club would have probably would have had the extra quality in our squad to win those competitions in the 90's, as we would have attracted much better players and a bigger following. I recall hearing on Talksport a few years ago, Adrian Heath was on as a guest, he said that the three bigest losers by far as a result of the Heysel ruling to ban English Clubs were Everton, Norwich and Nottingham Forest, who could have had very different fortunes if they allowed into the European Competitions in the late 80's. All three clubs of course fell off in the mid 90's.
  8. It's funny for all the years that they were playing brilliant football under Robson, they only scooped two trophies. Since then they have achieved very little. Even in the late 80's and early 90's we were the better team, worth remembering that we were barred from Europe for (at least) three seasons due to the Heysel Disaster.
  9. What a couple of weeks, first Galloway winning in Rochdale, now this! The whole Lee Anderson fiasco has massively blown up in Rishi's and the Tories faces. Their poll numbers are now going to be damaged even further with Reform likely picking up more support as mouthpiece Anderson in Parliament will inevitably get more air time now. A pie-in-the-face decision that they let this bloke hold the position of Vice Chair of the Conversatives considering he was under a Labour ticket not long ago, with a patchy record of evicting travellers with a privately hired digger 😂 It gives the feeling of a very similar situation to ~10 years ago look at when Carswell and Reckless left The Tories for UKIP, skewing the poll numbers as Tories were scared of haemoraging votes over the EU issue and Cameron's failed negotiations with Brussels. That was one of the catalysts in Cameron calling the EU referendum shortly after winning the 2015 GE, his arrogance in winning the 2014 Scottish IndyRef and the 2015GE thought he could squash the Brexit issue and mute the UKIP/Farage threat for at least a generation. Totally agree with that. The only winner out of this debacle at this year's GE will be Labour, as they will scoop up some easy extra seats as Reform will siphon votes from the already very weak Tories. Barring any own goals, Labour should easily win a hundred plus majority with what's going on.
  10. This is a pertinent point, our Goal Difference and Goals Scored is superior currently. PNE's goal different already looks miles behind. If we can pull even further ahead on GD in comforable matches, then its "worth an extra half a point" as the cliche goes. Something for Wagner to consider maybe...(!)
  11. The Shock Of Gilbraltar, when Celtic lost to Lincoln Red Imps. 😂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Red_Imps_F.C._1–0_Celtic_F.C.
  12. The results are quite astounding When was the last time that a small party and an Independent finished 1st and 2nd in a FPTP election? Answers on a postcard
  13. TheRock

    Six Nations

    In case you missed it - Italy drew with The French! They had a pen in the final phase of the game to win, but hit the post.
  14. its on ITV4 tonight. But yes that seems a little bit of a cop out putting a 5th round tie on their sports channel and the main terrestrial ITV channel, ahead of Emmerdale and Corrie.
  15. John Ruddy was one for putting people on their backside too! First Drogba at The Bridge, and then a gobsh1ite one Saturday Night on Prince Of Wales Road. 😂
  16. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68244352 Most who are voting for Biden at this stage are surely doing it as a veto against Trump, not as a vote for Joe being the best candidate.
  17. Losing to Man Utd in 2020 was pretty awful, Maguire scored in the last minute of AET and they won. If it had gone to penalties i'm adamant that we would have won as we had Krul in goal who had a blinder, also he already dragged us through at Spurs by winning the penalty shootout over there. Moreso if the Man Utd match hadn't been delayed due to coronavirus and was played on the original date at Carrow Road with a full house, that was our chance, Ole was already on thin ice by that point and his team was weak. 2011/12 an honourable mention, losing to a bang average championship Leicester in the 5th round at home was embarrasing. We were 8th in the PL and relatively safe at that point, really could have given the cup a good go. But by far losing to 5th tier Luton whilst we were mid table in the PL was pretty horific, awful 4-5-1 Hughton set-up at home. Mind, nothing went for us that day, I'm pretty sure Leon Barnett actually had the ball in the goal at one point but it wasn't awarded, I think that was just before goal-line tech was introduced.
  18. Likewise, acknowledged that we never got a fair crack at the European competitions because of Liverpool supporters at Heysel, but nevertheless its still rather cringeworthy everytime someone tries and wheels out the "we beat Bayern Munich once trophy". Also like how our honours board at Carrow Road and our Matchday Programmes state "FA Cup semi finalists" like it's some sort of huge feat.
  19. That's because the FA confiscated all of our transfer budget a couple of weeks ago! 😉 https://www.thefa.com/news/2024/jan/10/norwich-city-sanctioned-100124
  20. Elokobi had two spells at Colchester United, lets hope he gees up his lads for this one. Sutton says we are going to get run over at Anfield again: he's probably not wrong.
  21. Following last night's result, interestingly the bookies now have Trump odds-on to win in November. He was even money last week. https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2024/winner?selectionName=donald-trump
  22. New Hampshire Primaries tonight. Trump fifteen points ahead in the polls. Interestingly the independent NH electorate can vote in this, if they applied to do so in October 2023.
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