Rayvin

Sorry to hear about the job - have you considered travelling? You might not get a better opportunity and it's a very rewarding thing to do, even if you have done some of it in the past. For instance - go to South America and perhaps be in Brazil for the WC? Alternatively I'd heartily suggest Japan. 6 month entry VISAs.

Yeah I think we can now assume that Lee Sales Team is now fired. Or dead in a gutter.

Ok so that basically cements 8th place for us. Weird, I thought he was the one with all the influence there but apparently not.

I reckon this will be tough but we'll get away with a 2-1 win.

Can't argue with that.

I always had GoW pegged as a sort of Space Marine game likely selling itself on its multiplayer (which I'm never too interested in). Not the case?

Agreed. Depressing though.

Yeah ok, embarassed myself there. I'll just shut up now.

Really? When did they say that? If that's actually true then I'm prepared to pipe down a bit. Although it would surely mean we'd expect to see at least one decent signing this year, with no one going out.

Yeah ok - say that plan worked then. What's the new plan? And what was the point of the old plan if we don't have a new plan to continue planning with?? Won't anyone think of the plans?

That was more about indulging the part of human nature that likes to be right. As in, we all get to pat ourselves on the back at the end of January and say we were right all along. More than human nature, it's just basic forum etiquette.

Do you not worry though that there's just no plan for the future? Even with the natural order of the league in turmoil (and thus a good opportunity to capitalise).

If people were getting seriously worked up then maybe. All I've seen is people poking fun and having a moan. If we do sign someone, we can all be pleased about it. If we don't, we were right all along. It's win win.

CT - please, please don't think that Kinnear wrote those himself. It'll have been a release from the PR department that they put his name on so that it sounds like he is a) doing something and b ) knows some stuff. He isn't and he doesn't. And we know first hand that he can't form coherent sentences.

Norwich losing 2-0 in an FA Cup replay against Fulham in front of, roughly, 7 Norwich fans. Fulham did slightly better on the attendance front by the looks, managing at least double figures. More or less 12.

Debenhams is at least as poor an investment as we are

How much do you think it would take for us to be challenging for top 4? I reckon £40mil would be more than half.

It's more amusing to direct ire at the club though...

April 7th apparently. Or April 6th in the US if you fancy watching through the net.

So the general consensus then is that the club can fuck off until it actually signs someone.

Is it not just that they're all part of such a socially restrictive society where most people can't live up to the expectations placed upon them - so they wig out as per the above. I read that Japanese men are increasingly despondent with Japanese women, and prefer isolation - as they can't resolve the conflict between a society that expects them to be the patriarch, and an increasingly liberated female populace. (The irony being that much of the pressure to conform to the former comes from the latter). I find the latter point especially bizarre because their women look like this: NSFW Which I include merely to emphasize the point...

I'm sceptical about this because he plays in a position that no one has identified as one we really need to strengthen. Unless our policy is to buy any and all good players if we can get them cheaply, regardless of whether or not they're needed...

"Closer than ever"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/13/north-sea-oil-money-uk-norwegians-fund Don't know if anyone saw this - basically it's about the North Sea Oil. Norway has saved their share of it and now has the equivalent of £100,000/person in their country which they're putting towards the future. Ours would have been worth £7.5k per person, or roughly £450 billion (conservative estimate - upper estimates are £850 billion). Enough to wipe out the deficit multiple times, and rebuild the entire industrial base of this country. Our sovereign debt is £1.3 trillion - so most of that. What happened to ours? Thatcher dropped the top rate of tax from 60% to 40%, thus writing it off entirely. £180 billion in her tenure alone. £180 fucking billion. To those who support the Tories - they are laughing at you. They are laughing in your face while you scramble around trying to improve your lot in life. All the way to the fucking bank.

I thought the scenario was that the linesman didn't do anything until Jones asked him if Gouffran was offside. I think basically Jones decided that Gouffran was interfering with play, but wasn't sure if he was offside. The linesman confirmed he was offside at the time, but the interfering decision was Jones. That would tally with what Pardew said more or less anyway.