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Pre game announcement - it's not the family end!!

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I sit in the River end/N&P ( I know it''s quiet before you start!), has anyone else noticed that when the announcer goes round the ground before ''on the ball city'' song he calls the whole stand the family end?! I know there is a family section but have I missed something and its been renamed?!?

Surely he must realise with the giant N&P across the top if the stand. It will always be the river end to me though!

I know it''s a silly thing but bugs me!

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It doesn''t have the same ''beat'' to it if it''s like this.

"The Barclay, the Jarrold, the City stand, THE NORWICH AND PETERBOROUGH STAND...aaaaaand the snakepit"

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The younger generations of fans should respect the traditions held in affection by the older fans.    It will always be the River End, whatever the corporates/announcers want to call it.     Someone ought to brief the announcer on what to call the stand - or maybe they have...........

 

 

 

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Barclay End, River End, South Stand and I''ll stretch to the Geoffrey Watling rather than the City Stand as he was a bit of a ledge.

And obviously the Snakepit rather than the Thorpe

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And while we are moaning.... It drives me nuts that the clock on the score board does not go above 90 mins during added on time..grrrrrrrr

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[quote user="Chunky Norwich"]

Barclay End, River End, South Stand and I''ll stretch to the Geoffrey Watling rather than the City Stand as he was a bit of a ledge.

And obviously the Snakepit rather than the Thorpe

[/quote]It was always the MAIN stand, Chunky and as for the Snakepit, its just a newcomer.. It was just an open space and steps leading up to the Barclay for 90% of Carrow Rds existence.No tears then for the "Enclosure"?

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the jarrold, my ar se

 

for all thos e who constantly squeak about the money in football,commercialisation etc it is rather disturbing to see how many are all too happy to refer to part of our ground by the sponsors name

 

Can see them happily refering to us as Aviva City

 

 

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For me it''s the River End. I wouldn''t say this is ''exclusive'' to the older generation, I know many U21''s who also refer to it as the River End. To be honest I would say the vast majority refer to it as such.

Whilst on the topic I think the whole build up to kick off should be changed.. the 3, 2, 1 bollock$ ruins OTBC before kick off.

If that cant happen the ''A''nnnd the Snakepit'' bit should definitely be dropped. Whilst calling it the Snakepit sounds perfectly normal amongst us City fans, it''s a constant source of humor amongst opposition supporters. The SnackPit might be a more suitable name.. Oooosh.

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More nauseating is the way a very emotive song has been debased into this hysterical cuckoo clock type shriek

 

Could you imagine Liverpool fans having ''Walk on'' squawked out at twice the speed, the Blayden Races, forever blowin bubbles, Keep right on to the end of the road and many other stirring songs reduced to this grotesque rant ?

 

Something that we should be proud of is now nothing more than an embarrasing bark

 

 

 

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It''s definately ''The River End'' for me; I grew up hearing "You''re going in the river!" being chanted to the opposition fans! Not sure anyone ever did get thrown in, but it sounded fairly scary at the time...

 

Oh, and it''s The South Stand.

 

And whatever happened to all those sweet sellers who used to bring the Wrigley''s Juicy Fruit around the touchline before the game and again at half-time? And Tonics, Loafers, Crombies and Budgie Jackets? Nostalgia eh? - it ain''t what it used to be!

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...and the two chaps carrying the board with golden goal numbers on (I think it was the golden goal?). For me the stands will always be their traditional names and I have never liked the corner of the Main Stand and Barclay End being called the Snakepit........can anyone nail exactly when the Snakepit was created, and by whom?.....and why?  

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The ''spaz wagons'' (!) that used to park in the corner of the River End and the South Stand, the cushions (''bring on the cushions), half time scoreboards, the two men who walked around with the ''draw ticket'' numbers

 

Think is what will be nostalgia in a few years ? The men who poke the pitch at halftime with forks, the coded message broadcast as some security test, cheap food out of Morrisons

 

ps prior to mobile phones there would often be a message asking someone in the crowd to contact home etc - my favourite was " Could Mr ''Smith'' contact the police his house is on fire

 

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[quote user="Dubai Mark"]...and the two chaps carrying the board with golden goal numbers on (I think it was the golden goal?). For me the stands will always be their traditional names and I have never liked the corner of the Main Stand and Barclay End being called the Snakepit........can anyone nail exactly when the Snakepit was created, and by whom?.....and why?  [/quote]

Did see this but not sure it''s right, not very interesting reason if it is!..........Tell us something we don’t know about your club? We have a corner infill stand called the ‘Snakepit’ after a duffer in the City stand complained to the local paper about the disruption and noise that the new stand now represented to his Saturday snooze. Even the club now refers to it as the Snakepit which always makes me laugh when they do the birthday announcements. “Happy birthday Tom, who sits in the Snakepit.” Sounds like something you’d hear before the Christians got fed to the cats.

I did see this though re why the barclay got it''s name:The stand is named after Captain Evelyn Barclay, a former vice-president of the club

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[quote user="ricardo"][quote user="Chunky Norwich"]

Barclay End, River End, South Stand and I''ll stretch to the Geoffrey Watling rather than the City Stand as he was a bit of a ledge.

And obviously the Snakepit rather than the Thorpe

[/quote]

It was always the MAIN stand, Chunky and as for the Snakepit, its just a newcomer.. It was just an open space and steps leading up to the Barclay for 90% of Carrow Rds existence.

No tears then for the "Enclosure"?
[/quote]

Sorry, Ricky. I don''t think I have been going for as long as you! I can however remember pre-Jarrold and the Aviva Stand (I won''t give its unofficial title!) and that monstrous hotel in the corner.

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"The stand is named after Captain Evelyn Barclay"

 

It was due to him donating the money to put a roof on it - originally it was all open terracing with just a roof over the main stand

 

 

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I am an oldie but remain nostalgia free. The survival of our Club is about money not reminiscing. They can call objects like stands, or even the ground as a whole, what they like as long as it is financially beneficial to NCFC.

Sorry folks, but I used to get wet at the River End too and loved the original Barclay sitting behind Keelan''s goal. So what? Times change .. thank goodness. We didn''t have the Internet in those days for a starters.

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Oops "Standing behind Keelan''s goal."

Makes my point really as I could not stand for two hours anymore without discomfort. Times change and for the better.

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"They can call objects ..."

 

I don''t see anyone making any objection to that anywhere

 

the suggestion is that we are not obliged to follow

 

 

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I remember when they used to open the exit gates shortly after half time so you could get in for nothing. That was when I saw my first match against Cardiff in 1959 and was lucky enough to see Terry Bly''s winner from the main stand.

Happy days.

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I bet the anti Jarrold Southstanders use to love the massive white flag that was passed around the Jarrold every single game.

''the JARROLD stand''

I remember half way through it''s second season it acquired a massive brown, poo like stain in the top left corner and yet they still continued to use it.

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I''m not sure if anyone really gave a toss, anymore than having the Premier League called the Barclays Premier League

 

you just continue to refer to it as what it is irrespective of what ''they'' label it as

 

 

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Too bluddy right you old timers! Don''t move with the times. We don''t have to get with it. Nothing has really changed. The team still trot out from the main stand in yellow jerseys, green knickers and yellow stockings. The team still comprises of a goalkeeper, two full backs, three half backs and five forwards. The riverenders still need to sing up. The referee is still a b*stard and the linesmen can still stick their flags up their a*se!! Sideways!!!

 

 

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Not a case of ''moving with the times'' young master nutty

 

it is a case of not having your language changed by the corporate world

 

fans still buy a tea, coffee, pie etc they don''t ask for a Kenco, a PG Tips or a Ginsters (away games) so why should they be expected to call the River End something different just because a building society has paid a load of money to have it''s name plastered all over it

 

 

 

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I agree City1st. I still refer to things by the name I''m used to. Wes is as good a inside forward as Tommy Bryceland was.

 

As a boy I used to wander up tho Carrow Road and get in the river end for two bob. Now it would probably cost 43 guineas payable in advance with a booking fee!

 

[8]The times they are a changin''[8]

 

 

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and as a boy I used to hitch up to the city and have occasionally climbed over the wall into the River End - after the game had started

 

I don''t do either now

 

desn''t mean I have to call buns muffins, or problems ishooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos

 

 

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On a serious note I think the stadium should have a name. Carrow Road is only an address. The Nest was never referred to as Rosary Road. I''ve never understood why our present ground wasn''t called "The New Nest" and I wouldn''t be against a company sponsoring a "New Nest" now.

 

 

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There was talk at the time of construction of it being called ''The Mustard Pot'' with Colemans being the sponsor/paying for it, but it was declined.

 

Most other clubs moving into new grounds around that time did not call there grounds the new ''something'' so there would have been no cause to call Carrow Road anything similar.

 

ps I went a bit posh against Ajax and had a nice padded seat in the Cathedral lounge, with free biscuits at half time. Times have certainly changed from a tray of chips at Valori''s before the game

 

 

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