Lord Horn Returns

[quote user="lake district canary"]So they invited people from twitter??   In my experience people who are on twitter are also on facebook, email loads, are prolific on message boards, spend vast amount of time on the internet and text uncontrollably - therefore, on top of that, twitter is a time consuming, addictive and unhealthy pastime and anyone who spends a lot of time on twitter is bound to be minus brain cells and ability to think for themselves because of that and all the other media they use.   Why not put an ad in the paper as well as on social media, inviting people to send in pieces by email as part of a competition, the reward being column space, opening it to everyone and ensuring a top quality end product?   If they had four slots they could have had four age groups as well, thus ensuring a balance across the age range. Whatever the qualities of different ages, any writer about football, be they 12 or 72 has an opinion worth hearing.  In the interest of balance, a 15, 35, 55 and 75 age range would have been a better spread of ages to get a wide range of  real fan input to the paper.    Four fans 20-36 selected from twitter on the face of it is a token gesture. [/quote] Assumptions, assumptions - I''m on Twitter but hardly use any other social media (and am certainly not on Facebook).  For what it''s worth I''m 59 and in my 50th season of watching Norwich.  Good luck to the ''young guns who are taking part in this.  We used Fanzines in our day to express our views but times move on.  Looking forward to seeing their views. 

If you do get tickets - come back on here for advice about accommodation, places to eat/drink - lots of helpful advice always available!

[quote user="jas the barclay king"]Wigan have lost their Talisman in Dave Whelan and the club and players face an uncertain future.. this could actually spur them on a bit!2-1 to us but I think we''ll go behind first[/quote]   Think we''ve almost mastered the art of not conceding at the moment so I''m going for another 2-0. Just wish I''d had a bet on my last 2-0 prediction with Grabban and BJ to score........... absolutely foomin!

[quote user="TCCANARY"]  It''s National Pie Week, could be a bad omen.         [/quote] Only if Holty was still playing for either us or them!

[quote user="Chip20"][quote user="Shyster"]Then pardon me all over the place for preferring to look where Southampton & Swansea are at.[/quote]But, Shyster; every team from lower half of the EPL down to the Conference and further are looking at where Southampton and Swansea are now. Why should we expect to achieve what they have above all the other competitors? And will you still be looking at what Southampton and Swansea are doing if the wheels were to fall off for them over the next five years, or will you just ''look'' at whichever team is on a good run at the time and base our aspirations on them instead? Or do you confidently expect that Southampton and Swansea will be comfortably top-half EPL teams for all eternity and every other team below them must be run by incompetent idiots for failing to emulate them?Our time will come again; as will others''. To expect to be in the EPL and performing well for the rest of our existence is unrealistic. To hiss and boo and stamp our feet when it isn''t going our way is, imoho, puerile.[/quote] And remember....it wasn''t that long ago that Charlton were being touted as the team to aspire to!

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That was for River End Canary BTW.

Nice to see you using a pic I took of Steve Coppell taking a corner at the River End in April 1979 as your AVI.  Did you get it off the Geograph website???  Always thought it was one of the best footie pics I have taken. No problems with your use of it BTW.  OTBC!!

[quote user="TIL 1010"]Something tells me we will be playing the Scum at Wembley on May 25th.[/quote] That game would probably be more worst possible nightmare made even worse by the fact I would miss it because I will be in Cork that weekend!

Yes, I''ve sat next to Bryan Gunn on a train going to Birmingham - very pleasant bloke and made the trip a lot quicker with all the football chat!  Met Kevin Keelan, Jim Bone, Graham Paddon, Clive Payne and David Cross at the old Trowse training ground.  Met the whole Milk Cup Winning Squad and the following year''s promotion squad at City Hall Civic Receptions.  Got a lift from Geoffrey Watling on my way to seeing Ken Foggo getting the Player of the Season Award in 1967/68? (and bumped into him again in the Galleria in Milan!) Chaperoned Malky for a whole afternoon at an NCFC Open Day and dealt with a planning application for Kevin Drinkell when I worked at City Hall! (Oh, and my daughter went to same primary school as Darren Eadie''s children).

Having had some great non-league experiences over the last few years in attending a few Ebbsfleet United games I wish you all the best and will have a look in. Do a piece on the Fleet and you''ll have me hooked!

Yes, HC, it was the same when I looked.  Wonder who got that pulled then????

Of course Jimmy is a celebrity....he used to play for the mighty Ebbsfleet United !!!! (nee Gravesend & Northfleet)

[quote user="daz"]he cant be TOO Bad as hes starting for Norway tonight....... :)[/quote] And got rave reviews for his performance!

[quote user="Molly Windley"]A colour photo from the 70`s would perhaps have given this one away, mainly due to the lack of any green on the playing surface.[/quote] Is it Derby (Baseball Ground) as that was one old ground I never went to???

[quote user="Toronto canary"]As the team starts to implode where are all the inners now. He is being exposed as he was exposed last season. It is time for him to go and go now. We should have stuck with Hughton but some people will never learn[/quote] Maybe you could go and relieve some of that anger by going to watch a game of ice hockey????

[quote user="TIL 1010"]Add my vote for Roker Park.[/quote] Me too - The Valley had at least one enormous side terrace from memory, hence the ground''s name.

[quote user="TIL 1010"][quote user="Lord Horn Returns"] Yes, it was proposed that the away fans be located in the Upper Barclay and I think it was tried for two matches (including the infamous Spurs match referred to above).  Was never going to work.  [/quote] I seem to recall M''Lud that the other game was a mid week cup replay against Coventry. RTC had been warned about putting away fans in the upper tier but he was having none of it and it took Plod putting a report on the problems being experienced in front of Norfolk County Council ground licensing authority before things changed. As for the odd poster who suggests putting the visitors in the N&P infill not such a bright idea with exit and entry virtually outside the club shop and Yellows. [/quote] Definitely right with Coventry there Officer Tilly!

[quote user="Gipsy Lane"]This is also a bar that sells drink and they didn''t have a toilet. Actually, that''s a lie. They do have a toilet (one) but that was closed on Saturday. I had one drink needed the loo so went to the Holiday Inn and drank there instead![/quote] That really sounds p*ss poor!

Yes, it was proposed that the away fans be located in the Upper Barclay and I think it was tried for two matches (including the infamous Spurs match referred to above).  Was never going to work.  Where they are now is the best option without causing disruption.  As for the level of away support, where I sit/stand in Block B of the Lower Barclay all you can hear is the Lower Barclay or the Snakepit - hardly ever hear much from the away fans unless its a big contingent or a noisy bunch like Man City. (On an aside note, I remember attending matches at Old Trafford in the 70''s when the away fans were located on the Lower Tier of the Scoreboard End with United fans in the Upper Tier.  My what fun was had by all when Leeds were the visitors!!!!)

[quote user="Boss Drum"]St Etienne are never going to pay £7.5m for him, no matter what''s negotiated. They''d agree to anything as long as they''re only committed to paying for £1.5 for the season. McNally isn''t the miracle working genius some have made out, this deal is nothing more than a loan so that someone can buy him at the end of the season for significantly less than the £6m mentioned.The truth is that RVW got the hell out after seeing first hand the mess that ensues when a celebrity chef and her fawning friends run a football club.[/quote] Just realised your avi is an anagram of Bum Dross..... rather apt I thought!

[quote user="lake district canary"]When I first started going in the late sixties as a child, the only thing I can remember being chanted apart from OTBC was  "In the net, In the net" at corners and free kicks.   It seemed we were known for not chanting anything much before 1972 when we got to the top flight. Is that true?    Were these songs/chants sung in the fifties and sixties, or was the seventies the start of it?  [/quote] The ones I have been quoting were all from about the mid-60s onwards e.g. Come on without, come on within, you ain''t seen nothing like John Manning! and Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye Keelan is better than Yashin, Bryceland is better than Euseibio and Ipswich are in for a thrashing.

[quote user="City1st"][quote user="TCCANARY"]  I am the music man I come from down your way What can you play? I can play the piano, piano, piano, pia, pia, piano, pia, piano, I am the music man I come from down your way What can you play? I can play the saxophone, saxophone, saxophone, saxa, saxa, saxophone, saxa, saxophone.   [/quote] that was greatusually started when play was a bit slowgoing through the noises of all the instruments at a fast pace - brilliant "hal ooo wetter ""oooooooooooooooooooh .............................. hal ooo wetter " great days to be at Carrow Road oh yes, the Barclay growling through ''Wanderin'' star''................if you come into the Barclay stand we''ll all stuck in the boot !" [/quote] Haha - the bit from Music Man I can remember is...... I can play the organ,  w**k , w**k, w**k, w**k, w**k, w**k  

[quote user="City1st"]you had to hire the cushionsand any ''wrong''  decision (it was not a call as the ref blew a whistle and didn''t shout anything out)brought out the cry from the Barclay of " bring on the cushions"when they did come on they did so spasmodically over a few minutes rather than one huge rushI believe it was seen as an accepted part of the game that the ''posh'' folk could show their disapproval as to chanting in the 60''s it was mostly singing, which just carried on from the pubI do remember being in the River end in the 70''s, sunny day and some Huddersfield fans were chanting"Top of the leagueTop of the leagueHuddersfieldHuddersfield" [/quote]   I remember the tune for that but can''t remember what it was called or who it was by!!!

To the tune of McNamara''s Band   We''re greater than United And we''re louder than the Kop Keelan is the King and we''ll soon be at the top. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah