Bite the Bullet and do it for HUCKS

[Myra Hawtree 140]

As Branston has already said on thois board, fans have been desperate to find a way to say "Farewell" to Hucks, suggesting a testimonial, etc, etc.  Now there is a chance to give Hucks the send off he deserves at the Greatest Ever event on Sunday, people are too cynical or too tight to take this opportunity!! 

Having the music and football combination always seemed a bit odd but the programme of events on the day look OK to me.  I can''t understand why so-called fans seem to want this event to fail?  Paying for a ticket is probably no more than it would be for a testimonial and kids can go free with an adult I believe.

So come on everyone, put aside your scepticism and cynicism and DO IT FOR HUCKS this one last time.

 

 

[Robert N. LiM 6,303]

Can I run a sweep on the first person to accuse you of being Neil Doncaster?

[AndyJR 0]

It''s the NCFC marketing department that are the cynical one''s.  Why don''t they just say ''£25 and you can say goodbye to Hucks'', backround music included''.  Sod that for a game of soldiers.  This has been a cock-up from start to finish.

[First Wizard 0]

[quote user="Myra Hawtree"]

As Branston has already said on thois board, fans have been desperate to find a way to say "Farewell" to Hucks, suggesting a testimonial, etc, etc.  Now there is a chance to give Hucks the send off he deserves at the Greatest Ever event on Sunday, people are too cynical or too tight to take this opportunity!! 

Having the music and football combination always seemed a bit odd but the programme of events on the day look OK to me.  I can''t understand why so-called fans seem to want this event to fail?  Paying for a ticket is probably no more than it would be for a testimonial and kids can go free with an adult I believe.

So come on everyone, put aside your scepticism and cynicism and DO IT FOR HUCKS this one last time.

 

 

[/quote]

On yer bike Delia, do you think we''re thick?

Naff off dear!.[:@]

[First Wizard 0]

[quote user="Myra Hawtree"]

As Branston has already said on thois board, fans have been desperate to find a way to say "Farewell" to Hucks, suggesting a testimonial, etc, etc.  Now there is a chance to give Hucks the send off he deserves at the Greatest Ever event on Sunday, people are too cynical or too tight to take this opportunity!! 

Having the music and football combination always seemed a bit odd but the programme of events on the day look OK to me.  I can''t understand why so-called fans seem to want this event to fail?  Paying for a ticket is probably no more than it would be for a testimonial and kids can go free with an adult I believe.

So come on everyone, put aside your scepticism and cynicism and DO IT FOR HUCKS this one last time.

 

 

[/quote]

On yer bike Delia, do you think we''re thick?

Naff off dear!.[:@]

[Robert N. LiM 6,303]

I claim my five pounds.

[Scottlarock 12]

[quote user="Myra Hawtree"]

 Now there is a chance to give Hucks the send off he DESERVES at the Greatest Ever event on Sunday 

 

 

[/quote]I''m confused. Didn''t you like him? He deserves better than this, surely? Are you aware that this isn''t a NCFC event?

[Scottlarock 12]

[quote user="Myra Hawtree"]

and kids can go free with an adult I believe.

 

 

[/quote]Hey, if you''re unsure just go downstairs to the ticket office - they''ll put you straight.

[Trent Canary 0]

The whole things a marketing clusterfcuk.

Your trying to appeal to long-term norwich fans by unveiling a greatest ever team, while at the same time trying to market to 12 year old girls by having some rejects from x factor appear. Madness in my opinion.

For me, the first part with the team and the legends id happily go to. But I wouldnt want £25 of my hard earned going towards some failed pop ''stars''

 

[BCanary 0]

[quote user="Myra Hawtree"]

As Branston has already said on thois board, fans have been desperate to find a way to say "Farewell" to Hucks, suggesting a testimonial, etc, etc.  Now there is a chance to give Hucks the send off he deserves at the Greatest Ever event on Sunday, people are too cynical or too tight to take this opportunity!! 

Having the music and football combination always seemed a bit odd but the programme of events on the day look OK to me.  I can''t understand why so-called fans seem to want this event to fail?  Paying for a ticket is probably no more than it would be for a testimonial and kids can go free with an adult I believe.

So come on everyone, put aside your scepticism and cynicism and DO IT FOR HUCKS this one last time[/quote]

Why should we have to pay £25 and endure some of the worst music ever performed in Norfolk to say thank you to Hucks for all he''s done. It''s disgraceful.

[blahblahblah 2]

[quote]Your trying to appeal to long-term norwich fans by unveiling a greatest ever team, while at the same time trying to market to 12 year old girls by having some rejects from x factor appear. Madness in my opinion.[/quote]

If I recall correctly, Aston Villa invited their former European Cup winning squad as guests of honour to a match, introducing them to the crowd before either before the game or at half-time.  That''s a proper way to honour former players in my opinion.  Maybe we could do that for the Uefa Cup qualifying team, or even the Milk Cup winning team (minus Bruce, he''d probably be busy) at some point in the future ?

As a matter of interest, how much are the tickets for the X-Factor tour ?  I''d imagine Jamelia would probably be about a tenner to watch if she played the UEA or Waterfront.

 

[ricky knight 0]

I would not go if they paid me, 25 quid.

[can u sit down please 0]

If you call the box office and say you work for Aviva its £10 in the stands. I thnk you have to quote "Aviva Staff member", do it! If they ask for a staff number just for for example K13678 (in this format) it should be ok.

[gazzathegreat 0]

Alas, I have also found out it''s only £10 for me and other N&N hospital staff. I of course went and told all city fans in my department - none of us are budging on this. The club have reallly messed up over this event and Hucks'' departure so I guess putting the two together is a stroke of genius as far as the marketing team go. How many tickets have they sold I wonder if they have to reduce them to £10.

We will have an opportunity in the future to say goodbye to Hucks, hopefully the one Conker is trying to organise. The club can wring its hands over trying to persuade us to go to see X factor popstars. Hucks and the other players for that matter deserve a better event than this to celebrate our club.

[Mello Yello 2,573]

[quote user="Myra Hawtree"]

As Branston has already said on thois board, fans have been desperate to find a way to say "Farewell" to Hucks, suggesting a testimonial, etc, etc.  Now there is a chance to give Hucks the send off he deserves at the Greatest Ever event on Sunday, people are too cynical or too tight to take this opportunity!! 

Having the music and football combination always seemed a bit odd but the programme of events on the day look OK to me.  I can''t understand why so-called fans seem to want this event to fail?  Paying for a ticket is probably no more than it would be for a testimonial and kids can go free with an adult I believe.

So come on everyone, put aside your scepticism and cynicism and DO IT FOR HUCKS this one last time.

 

 

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Are you one of Andrew Cullen''s immediate relatives?.......

[Syteanric 1]

does anyone know how many tickets have been sold??? the event is soon isnt it? I bet they fail to sell 5000 tickets...

jas :)

[scott 0]

[quote user="Myra Hawtree"]

As Branston has already said on thois board, fans have been desperate to find a way to say "Farewell" to Hucks, suggesting a testimonial, etc, etc.  Now there is a chance to give Hucks the send off he deserves at the Greatest Ever event on Sunday, people are too cynical or too tight to take this opportunity!! 

Having the music and football combination always seemed a bit odd but the programme of events on the day look OK to me.  I can''t understand why so-called fans seem to want this event to fail?  Paying for a ticket is probably no more than it would be for a testimonial and kids can go free with an adult I believe.

So come on everyone, put aside your scepticism and cynicism and DO IT FOR HUCKS this one last time.

 

 

[/quote]

 

Ya having a laugh!

 

I''m absolutely disgusted that Darren Huckerby has been released cause he was obviously more than good enough to of done a good job for us next season, a sh**e decision from Glen!

 

The fact Hucks didn''t get the farewell that a lot of fans would of wanted doesn''t bother me either as I''m not into big farewells, just p***ed of that Roeder is t**t enough to get rid of one of our better pleyrs!

 

That ''greatest ever'' event is exactly that - The greatest ever farcical, comercialised, irrelevent rubbish the club has come up with!

 

WHY? - Its a joke having to pay £25 to watch some bulls**t reality TV nobodys while waiting 4-5 hours for someone even a half decent act in Jamellia! 

 

Its irrelevent cause most real fans who would apreciate the great players from our past being paraded around will have my same atitude and will not even be there. Only youngsters and families some of whoom won''t have any afinity of the club and won''t even know who most of the players present will be there!

 

Parading great players from our past should be done when its most relevent which would be at a 1st team home game.

 

The very fact that Hucks is indeed one of the ''greatest ever'' yet the current manager feels the club is better of without him even though hes still capable of producing the goods fully emphasises what a poor decision it was. Therefore I don''t want to make things more painfull by being at this badly thought out event!

[ca 1]

Sorry I''m not budging on this, £25 to say goodbye to Hucks, can''t believe you''ve fell for this marketing tactic Myra after the way they''ve treated him and us fans

If he has any sense Hucks won''t attend either [:)]

[Branston Pickle 4,151]

Hmmm.  I hadn''t quite intended my post as it has been interpreted, but what the hell.  It was really just a question (which has not been answered) and a comment that it is a shame people are so cynical about all things to do with the club at the moment.

It does, however, rather seem that some people are bigger supporters of Huckerby than they are of the club. 

[Trent Canary 0]

[quote user="Branston Pickle"]

Hmmm.  I hadn''t quite intended my post as it has been interpreted, but what the hell.  It was really just a question (which has not been answered) and a comment that it is a shame people are so cynical about all things to do with the club at the moment.

It does, however, rather seem that some people are bigger supporters of Huckerby than they are of the club. 

[/quote]

Well only speaking for myself here, but the idea of the day is good, how they went about it is wrong - and im completely ignoring the huckerby issue.

As I said earlier, combining a greatest ever norwich team (Attracting the loyal, long-term norwich supporters) with x factor singers (Attracting teenage girls) is just stupid.

[ca 1]

[quote user="Trent Canary"][quote user="Branston Pickle"]

Hmmm.  I hadn''t quite intended my post as it has been interpreted, but what the hell.  It was really just a question (which has not been answered) and a comment that it is a shame people are so cynical about all things to do with the club at the moment.

It does, however, rather seem that some people are bigger supporters of Huckerby than they are of the club. 

[/quote]

Well only speaking for myself here, but the idea of the day is good, how they went about it is wrong - and im completely ignoring the huckerby issue.

As I said earlier, combining a greatest ever norwich team (Attracting the loyal, long-term norwich supporters) with x factor singers (Attracting teenage girls) is just stupid.

[/quote]

 

Quite agree, the 2 events should be seperate, the majority of the teenagers who''ve bought tickets to see the x factor stars wont even know who the greatest ever footballers are.

[Trent Canary 0]

Indeed. The fans who want to go and see the greatest team and/or huckerby have zero interest in x factor rubbish.

Young girls who want to see x factor rubbish have no interest in Kevin Keelan, Barry Butler and so on and so forth.

As Canary angel suggests, if the greatest team was combined with maybe an open day, people would go. And throw in Huckerbys final goodbye and you would have an event that would be popular.

And if they want to hold an X factor event then good for them, money into the club is never a bad thing.

Just the two combined is a godawful idea.

[SuperWesIrishWizard 0]

"Having the music and football combination always seemed a bit odd"

What football? there isnt going to be any football mate, the exact reason im not going, since Carrow Road is a football stadium and Norwich City are a football team, i wont be going there for any other reason than to watch football of some description, whether thats first team, reserves or some sunday league team paying a grand. Football comes first.

[Sephiroth Owa 0]

The whole thing is a waste of time IMO.You get 5 acts was it? Jamelia (arrogant and nothing special), Ray & Rhydian (Runners-up... Typical Norwich fare then...) and 2 unknown bands. What a way to sell tickets.Get someone like George Michael or E-John etc who has a large fanbase and performs at football grounds and that alone will sell your tickets.

[ca 1]

According to someone on WOTB we need to sell 7000 tickets to break even and have sold under 2000 at the moment.

[Trent Canary 0]

[quote user="cityangel"]

According to someone on WOTB we need to sell 7000 tickets to break even and have sold under 2000 at the moment.

[/quote]

Cant say ive heard anything, which would suggest to me its going badly. (Standard marketing technique is to say we have already sold xxxx number of tickets, when the sales are going well. And to start offering discounts, free child tickets etc if things are going badly)

[Scottlarock 12]

[quote user="Branston Pickle"]

Hmmm.  I hadn''t quite intended my post as it has been interpreted, but what the hell.  It was really just a question (which has not been answered) and a comment that it is a shame people are so cynical about all things to do with the club at the moment.

It does, however, rather seem that some people are bigger supporters of Huckerby than they are of the club. 

[/quote]I think your post was always going to get a hiding even though I''m sure it was done with a good heart.However, I''m a supporter of Norwich City Football Club AND I liked Darren and everything he''s done for us. Compare the sheer romance of his entrance to the club to his exit - there is no comparison. Due to this and the fact that just because I support NCFC it doesn''t mean I agree with everything they do. I don''t want the ''Greates Event'' to be a disaster - but the way the club have spun it to us as an opprotunity to say goodbye (and that we should be greatful) is just wrong. So if it is a rubbish event then the Club deserve everything they get - hopefully they will learn a lesson from it.The Club have been to aloof for too long, at the start of the decade they were pleading for more support with gates of 13-15K - we supported them. Do they listen to us now? I mean it''s almost as badly thought as the abolition of the 10p tax rate.The club should pull  their finger out and sort this situation with some straight talking and a good idea or two ( a proper farewell, not a pretend one) then we can get on with what we want to do - SUPPORTING THE CLUB AND THE PLAYERS.For every action there is a reaction - this is our reaction to some pish actions.

[Desi Rascall 0]

[quote user="Trent Canary"]

Indeed. The fans who want to go and see the greatest team and/or huckerby have zero interest in x factor rubbish.

Young girls who want to see x factor rubbish have no interest in Kevin Keelan, Barry Butler and so on and so forth.

As Canary angel suggests, if the greatest team was combined with maybe an open day, people would go. And throw in Huckerbys final goodbye and you would have an event that would be popular.

And if they want to hold an X factor event then good for them, money into the club is never a bad thing.

Just the two combined is a godawful idea.

[/quote]

perfectly said trent,The phrase that keeps springinging to mind is "design by committee" .

 

[BCanary 0]

The Club should save face and cancel this Greatest Ever event (say that Jameliah woman has stubbed her toe or something and can''t make it) - then arrange an end of season boxing match between Lee Croft and Darren Huckerby with Dion Dublin special guest referee. Sure-fire sell-out!

[Syteanric 1]

[quote user="cityangel"]

According to someone on WOTB we need to sell 7000 tickets to break even and have sold under 2000 at the moment.

[/quote]

bet the club were expecting a sell out

jas :)