Oi there - you ordinary fans!

[BlyBlyBabes 0]

A message to all you ordinary fans from your joint majority shareholder

From The Guardian, 17/2/2007

Smith agrees that the idea of a billionaire investor saying he had grown up kicking a ball around the streets of Minsk and dreaming of Ted MacDougall would probably be quite intoxicating for ordinary Norwich fans, but stresses it would not be in the club''s long-term interest.

Mother knows best.[:-*]

Woyo yoh yoh!

OTBC

 

[Evil Monkey 52]

Another day, another 10 threads started by Bly... in terms of "Look At Me" factor, you''re beginning to take over from Wiz, Cluckaroo and Smudgems... Maybe you''re just upset that you were never considered part of their "triumverate" by us "ordinary fans" and are using Cluck''s absence to enforce your masculinity... [:P]Or maybe you''re just bored... [:)]

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,222]

I do not know why you care so pasionately about the future of Norwich City FC, you will only get criticised for it, now give us your season ticket money, trot off and be a good little boy[;)]

[Pinks 0]

[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"]

A message to all you ordinary fans from your joint majority shareholder

From The Guardian, 17/2/2007

Smith agrees that the idea of a billionaire investor saying he had grown up kicking a ball around the streets of Minsk and dreaming of Ted MacDougall would probably be quite intoxicating for ordinary Norwich fans, but stresses it would not be in the club''s long-term interest.

Mother knows best.[:-*]

Woyo yoh yoh!

OTBC

[/quote]

This sort of thread is purely nit picking and mischief making. Have you considered charity work to use some of your obvious spare time?

[:D][:)][:O][:P][:|]

 

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[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"]

Smith agrees that the idea of a billionaire investor saying he had grown up kicking a ball around the streets of Minsk and dreaming of Ted MacDougall would probably be quite intoxicating for ordinary Norwich fans, but stresses it would not be in the club''s long-term interest.

Mother knows best.

[/quote]We can all name 3 or 4 fans who''d swallow that story eagerly, but the investor doesn''t have to be a furriner to be bad news for the Club (Ken Bates is English, isn''t he?).

[7rew 0]

Smith agrees is press speak for the reporter said "a billionaire investor saying he had grown up kicking a ball around the streets of Minsk and dreaming of Ted MacDougall would probably be quite intoxicating for ordinary Norwich fans"

- which is a statement that it is bloody hard to disagree with. She

agreed, but qualifyed the agreement with the stuff about long term best

interest, in case it becomes neccesary for it to have become qualified.

Canny operation by both interviewer and interviewee in order to get the guardian a story - and you swallowed it beautifully.

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[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"]

A message to all you ordinary fans from your joint majority shareholder

From The Guardian, 17/2/2007

Smith agrees that the idea of a billionaire investor saying he had grown up kicking a ball around the streets of Minsk and dreaming of Ted MacDougall would probably be quite intoxicating for ordinary Norwich fans, but stresses it would not be in the club''s long-term interest.

Mother knows best.[:-*]

Woyo yoh yoh!

OTBC

 

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Here is a hint, BBB, try to have a point - it makes it so much more interesting for the reader!

And yes, SoB, of course he has every right to express his opinion, but I honestly can''t see what point he is trying to make with this post - perhaps we should all fill this message board up with random snippets from previous Delia interviews.

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[quote user="Evil Monkey"]Another day, another 10 threads started by Bly... in terms of "Look At Me" factor, you''re beginning to take over from Wiz, Cluckaroo and Smudgems... Maybe you''re just upset that you were never considered part of their "triumverate" by us "ordinary fans" and are using Cluck''s absence to enforce your masculinity... [:P]

Or maybe you''re just bored... [:)]
[/quote]

The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?.

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[quote user="1st Wizard"]

[quote user="Evil Monkey"]Another day, another 10 threads started by Bly... in terms of "Look At Me" factor, you''re beginning to take over from Wiz, Cluckaroo and Smudgems... Maybe you''re just upset that you were never considered part of their "triumverate" by us "ordinary fans" and are using Cluck''s absence to enforce your masculinity... [:P]Or maybe you''re just bored... [:)][/quote]

The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?.

[/quote]Be a man and admit what? Admit that he agrees with you when he doesn''t? That''s not very man like is it?And tell me Wiz, are you, of all people, not an ordinary fan? Are you an extra-ordinary fan?

[Evil Monkey 52]

"The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that

Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t

happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?."

Hmm? What? Sorry, I thought for a minute there that a point to this thread had emerged, but it turns out that it''s still just as meaningless and one-sided a post as it was this morning...I''m confused about this "ordinary" fans malarkey, though?  What is an ordinary fan? Someone who wanted Worthy to stay? I wanted Worthy to go, so I guess that make''s me extraordinary... nice compliment, cheers... [:D]

[nutty nigel 7,902]

[quote user="1st Wizard"]

The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?.

[/quote]

Opinion isn''t truth, belief isn''t truth, if you want it to be truth then you are going to have to back it up with facts.

Where is your evidence that all over Norfolk and beyond City fans are wakeing up and realise they are being taken for mugs?

I believe your continual reference to fans who wanted worthy to stay or go show that you love to have divisions between the fans. In fact in my opinion your posts are meant to be provocative in an attempt to cause more divisions.

Something else you may wish to consider is that if your recent anti-board rants are in fact the truth then those ''ordinary fans'' were quite possibly right in wanting Worthy to stay.

 

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[quote user="Evil Monkey"]Another day, another 10 threads started by Bly... in terms of "Look At Me" factor, you''re beginning to take over from Wiz, Cluckaroo and Smudgems... Maybe you''re just upset that you were never considered part of their "triumverate" by us "ordinary fans" and are using Cluck''s absence to enforce your masculinity... [:P]

Or maybe you''re just bored... [:)]
[/quote]

EM

According to the published Archant records you have posted 1609 times since 11/5/05, whereas I have posted 841 times since 31/10/03.[:-*]

So. Seems that you''re about four times more ''bored'' than me.[;)]

Nuff said, methinks.

One love.

OTBC

[BlyBlyBabes 0]

[quote user="Evil Monkey"]"The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?."

Hmm? What? Sorry, I thought for a minute there that a point to this thread had emerged, but it turns out that it''s still just as meaningless and one-sided a post as it was this morning...

I''m confused about this "ordinary" fans malarkey, though?  What is an ordinary fan? Someone who wanted Worthy to stay? I wanted Worthy to go, so I guess that make''s me extraordinary... nice compliment, cheers... [:D]
[/quote]

Simple. Ask Ms. Smith. She coined the term.[:)]

QED?

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[7rew 0]

As I pointed out earlier, the guardian jounalist coined the term, Ms Smith mearly agreed with a statement (that is quite reasonable) when it was put to her.

[Evil Monkey 52]

[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="Evil Monkey"]"The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?."

Hmm? What? Sorry, I thought for a minute there that a point to this thread had emerged, but it turns out that it''s still just as meaningless and one-sided a post as it was this morning...I''m confused about this "ordinary" fans malarkey, though?  What is an ordinary fan? Someone who wanted Worthy to stay? I wanted Worthy to go, so I guess that make''s me extraordinary... nice compliment, cheers... [:D][/quote]

Simple. Ask Ms. Smith. She coined the term.[:)]

QED?

OTBC

[/quote]More QE2 than QED, but fair enough... [;)]

[megson 0]

[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="Evil Monkey"]"The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?."

Hmm? What? Sorry, I thought for a minute there that a point to this thread had emerged, but it turns out that it''s still just as meaningless and one-sided a post as it was this morning...

I''m confused about this "ordinary" fans malarkey, though?  What is an ordinary fan? Someone who wanted Worthy to stay? I wanted Worthy to go, so I guess that make''s me extraordinary... nice compliment, cheers... [:D]
[/quote]

Simple. Ask Ms. Smith. She coined the term.[:)]

QED?

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[/quote]

We''ll as pointed out above, she didn''t the Journalist did.

However its pretty obvious that an ''ordinary fan'' in this instance is anyone who is NOT on the clubs board of directors.

Nothing more sinister than that.

[BlyBlyBabes 0]

[quote user="megson"][quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="Evil Monkey"]"The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?."

Hmm? What? Sorry, I thought for a minute there that a point to this thread had emerged, but it turns out that it''s still just as meaningless and one-sided a post as it was this morning...

I''m confused about this "ordinary" fans malarkey, though?  What is an ordinary fan? Someone who wanted Worthy to stay? I wanted Worthy to go, so I guess that make''s me extraordinary... nice compliment, cheers... [:D]
[/quote]

Simple. Ask Ms. Smith. She coined the term.[:)]

QED?

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[/quote]

We''ll as pointed out above, she didn''t the Journalist did.

However its pretty obvious that an ''ordinary fan'' in this instance is anyone who is NOT on the clubs board of directors.

Nothing more sinister than that.

[/quote]

So, what kind of fans are those on the board of directors? Superior, for example, or what.......?

Curious. Just asking.

OTBC

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[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="megson"][quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="Evil Monkey"]"The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?."

Hmm? What? Sorry, I thought for a minute there that a point to this thread had emerged, but it turns out that it''s still just as meaningless and one-sided a post as it was this morning...

I''m confused about this "ordinary" fans malarkey, though?  What is an ordinary fan? Someone who wanted Worthy to stay? I wanted Worthy to go, so I guess that make''s me extraordinary... nice compliment, cheers... [:D]
[/quote]

Simple. Ask Ms. Smith. She coined the term.[:)]

QED?

OTBC

[/quote]

We''ll as pointed out above, she didn''t the Journalist did.

However its pretty obvious that an ''ordinary fan'' in this instance is anyone who is NOT on the clubs board of directors.

Nothing more sinister than that.

[/quote]

So, what kind of fans are those on the board of directors? Superior, for example, or what.......?

Curious. Just asking.

OTBC

[/quote]

They are fans who have a significant input into the club and its day-to-day running, as well as having invested millions of pounds into it.

ie. not ordinary.

Let''s not let insecurities cloud our judgements people. We are all important, but Delia and Michael are not ''usual''.

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,222]

7rew - Is that a fact or just your opinion?, just asking, I quite like this back up your opinion with evidence thing that we have going on [:D]

[megson 0]

[quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="megson"][quote user="BlyBlyBabes"][quote user="Evil Monkey"]"The trouble is you can''t take the truth!, it hurts you that Delia cares not what the City fans think..........under her it won''t happen.

All over Norfolk and beyond, City fans are waking up to her new rantings and realise they''ve been taken for mugs.

Triple B is spot on, be a man and admit it.

May I remind you EM, that the ''ordinary fans'' still wanted Worthy to stay.

Hmm?."

Hmm? What? Sorry, I thought for a minute there that a point to this thread had emerged, but it turns out that it''s still just as meaningless and one-sided a post as it was this morning...

I''m confused about this "ordinary" fans malarkey, though?  What is an ordinary fan? Someone who wanted Worthy to stay? I wanted Worthy to go, so I guess that make''s me extraordinary... nice compliment, cheers... [:D]
[/quote]

Simple. Ask Ms. Smith. She coined the term.[:)]

QED?

OTBC

[/quote]

We''ll as pointed out above, she didn''t the Journalist did.

However its pretty obvious that an ''ordinary fan'' in this instance is anyone who is NOT on the clubs board of directors.

Nothing more sinister than that.

[/quote]

So, what kind of fans are those on the board of directors? Superior, for example, or what.......?

Curious. Just asking.

OTBC

[/quote]

Good try but I don''t think you''ll get many bites.

They are not ''ordinary'' as they have to run the club. We just have to turn up and slate them

[7rew 0]

SoB - unfortunately I cannot persent more that a close arguement on the luinguistics. I spotted this due to too many years reading both the Guardian (know their style) and Private Eye (not just the cartoons or funny bit either - all of it - causes cynicism about journalists).Here is the arguement:"Smith said" gives a stronger emphasis to the quote than "Smith agrees" which means it is more of a story in the first form than the latter.  This is something that an editor is likely to notice, with their preference being for as many direct quotes as possible.  However editors are also consious of libel laws*, so will not state something as a direct quote when it wasn''t. Since journalists take notes/record interviews any quote during an interview will be provable in court, so not potentially libelous. This leads me to conclude that the exchange in the interview was very, very likely to be:Journo: Ms. Smith would you agree that "The prospect of a billionaire investor saying he had grown up kicking a ball around the streets of Minsk and dreaming of Ted MacDougall would probably be quite intoxicating for ordinary Norwich fans"?DS: Well.... yes, I would, .... But it wouldn''t be in the clubs long term interest.This is my detailed arguement - but I feel that the language suggests the probability of it being a direct quote from Delia is extremely remote.Short of requesting the notes of the interview it is impossible to be any more certain than that.(*even in a case like this where being sued is unlikely - letting it

through could lead to bad habits, and their bosses know this!)