| Very dramatic piece on Norwich on Look East tonight 19:10 - Nov 10 with 2125 views | bournemouthblue |
No other football in the region happened obviously
Their fans seem to be speaking like their club is about to go out of business next week and not in the very rectifiable situation it could be with a good managerial replacement
Surely we were in a far worse place in our relegation season and we got behind the team, crowds actually went up under Lambert
The Budgies have always been quick to panic and have a meltdown, the classic example being those fans lobbing season tickets at the dugouts etc |  |
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| Very dramatic piece on Norwich on Look East tonight on 23:07 - Nov 10 with 100 views | Churchman |
| Very dramatic piece on Norwich on Look East tonight on 21:10 - Nov 10 by ArnieM |
Don't you remember their demonstrations against Robert Chase? or fans running towards the dugout to have a go at at one of their managers (Gunn?).... I think just about every manager they've had in recent times, has ended up with drmonstrations or marching to their ground in protest ( with great local tv coverage naturally)..... they're very reactive after in the grand scale of things quite short term dentures in virtues.
Try 20 years of down turn like we had... and I still dont think we made anywhere near as much fuss as that lot do / are atm |
Oh Arnie, while I agree that a little deprivation (20 years) would do them good, I don’t think their fan base is in general much different to ours - bar the additional fingers, one family tree, terrible shirts and a suspicious resemblance to local farm animals.
They have their fair share of entitled muppets - and so do we. We also live in a world where there is no tolerance or patience any more. Big picture? Nobody is interested. Want it now now now or where do I place the blame?
A world where some think it’s ok to abuse people on social media and form conclusions with no evidence whatsoever beyond blind hate and a desire to cause a reaction. Just look at the response on here to last Tuesday’s ‘defeat’ (might as well have been reading the reaction).
I always thought it to be a London/SE thing. Even in the 70s London clubs fans would start on the players if they weren’t winning after ten mins. But it’s wider now.
Back to that lot, people waving flares and abusing the players families is very wrong but a minority to the silent majority - the latter were probably back in their hovels trying to make fire.
But back to your core point bar the one season in L1 they’ve had good times on the whole stretching back 30 or 40 years. Bigger clubs than them have gone through darker times, including the Sheffield clubs, Leeds, Sunderland, Derby and Crewe Alexandra, so they need for their souls a decade or two in L1, L2 or the Conference.
No doubt a new man will come in and they’ll recover if they have a good transfer window, but if they lose Sideshow Bob Sargent, they really will be in the brown stuff. |  | | |
| Very dramatic piece on Norwich on Look East tonight on 23:51 - Nov 10 with 54 views | ArnieM |
| Very dramatic piece on Norwich on Look East tonight on 23:07 - Nov 10 by Churchman |
Oh Arnie, while I agree that a little deprivation (20 years) would do them good, I don’t think their fan base is in general much different to ours - bar the additional fingers, one family tree, terrible shirts and a suspicious resemblance to local farm animals.
They have their fair share of entitled muppets - and so do we. We also live in a world where there is no tolerance or patience any more. Big picture? Nobody is interested. Want it now now now or where do I place the blame?
A world where some think it’s ok to abuse people on social media and form conclusions with no evidence whatsoever beyond blind hate and a desire to cause a reaction. Just look at the response on here to last Tuesday’s ‘defeat’ (might as well have been reading the reaction).
I always thought it to be a London/SE thing. Even in the 70s London clubs fans would start on the players if they weren’t winning after ten mins. But it’s wider now.
Back to that lot, people waving flares and abusing the players families is very wrong but a minority to the silent majority - the latter were probably back in their hovels trying to make fire.
But back to your core point bar the one season in L1 they’ve had good times on the whole stretching back 30 or 40 years. Bigger clubs than them have gone through darker times, including the Sheffield clubs, Leeds, Sunderland, Derby and Crewe Alexandra, so they need for their souls a decade or two in L1, L2 or the Conference.
No doubt a new man will come in and they’ll recover if they have a good transfer window, but if they lose Sideshow Bob Sargent, they really will be in the brown stuff. |
That's the thing though isn't it ( and quite scary really) theres a whole generation of their fans .....and ours, that have ONLY known them to be the stronger team in the region. Not sure its 30 yrs though ( perish the very thought).... but im a lot longer in the tooth and have seen that wheel turn through its revolutions and can remember like it was yesterday ( alzhiemers setting in maybe?) when they NEVER beat us, and we were undisputed top dogs. It wasnt whether we'd beat their scraggy arses, but more by how many we'd beat them by!
You're right of course , every club has its element of its fan base, it would rather it didn't. But do we have an area of our ground called " the snake pit" or anything like it? No, we dont. Do we ambush their fans with iron scaffold poles ( that was my last "experience" of visiting their sh it hole) when they visit PR, or rip the seats out at CR and throw them on the pitch, like they did at our ground 3 years on the trot?
I do honestly think they are as a fan base far more volatile than even the worst element of our lot.... I think theyre arrogant beyond belief ( given their lack of any meaningful football success), and they come across as totally entitled. Having 6 fingers, or a short family tree is the least of their problems,  ..... |  |
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| Very dramatic piece on Norwich on Look East tonight on 00:48 - Nov 11 with 32 views | bournemouthblue |
| Very dramatic piece on Norwich on Look East tonight on 23:51 - Nov 10 by ArnieM |
That's the thing though isn't it ( and quite scary really) theres a whole generation of their fans .....and ours, that have ONLY known them to be the stronger team in the region. Not sure its 30 yrs though ( perish the very thought).... but im a lot longer in the tooth and have seen that wheel turn through its revolutions and can remember like it was yesterday ( alzhiemers setting in maybe?) when they NEVER beat us, and we were undisputed top dogs. It wasnt whether we'd beat their scraggy arses, but more by how many we'd beat them by!
You're right of course , every club has its element of its fan base, it would rather it didn't. But do we have an area of our ground called " the snake pit" or anything like it? No, we dont. Do we ambush their fans with iron scaffold poles ( that was my last "experience" of visiting their sh it hole) when they visit PR, or rip the seats out at CR and throw them on the pitch, like they did at our ground 3 years on the trot?
I do honestly think they are as a fan base far more volatile than even the worst element of our lot.... I think theyre arrogant beyond belief ( given their lack of any meaningful football success), and they come across as totally entitled. Having 6 fingers, or a short family tree is the least of their problems, ..... |
They have always panicked far quicker than us historically, we're generally a pretty tolerent bunch
For me, they only really over took us when Lambert got them promoted, yes they went up under Worthington but that wasn't a particularly good side, Fabian Wilnis said as much and they were relegated under Worthington and could easily have been replaced with Royle's side if we'd had a bit more luck
The 16 years of 'dominance' they refer to is more a reflection of Evans death by a thousand cuts really | |
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