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Just think of all the highs and lows over that time. Now we are duking it out with two massive financially doped up clubs, looking at a return to the Prem.
Nice long old interview with McKenna if you've got the time. Probably doesn't tell us much we haven't seen ourselves, but a good overview of the mechanics of what makes us the best side we've had in just under a decade.
Hopefully this link works. I unrolled the thread to make it easier to read and follow. Always thought Clapton was a prick, didn't realise Cloughie was even more cool than I gave him credit or.
Leeds United are charging Southampton £47 a ticket for the final game of the Championship season. 😨
An absolute disgrace, Southampton charged Leeds fans £30 earlier in the season. I wouldn’t blame any Southampton fan for boycotting the fixture. 😡 pic.twitter.com/Ja7UKeUcQk
Nothing new here, but it seems to get traction because it's Soton. With the Prem clubs and recent Prem clubs knee-deep in financial murkiness, it's nice to know we are funding it.
I had no chance of going yesterday, but think the club have massively dented all the goodwill we had going. The high of Southampton to yesterday no longer just hinges on the result or the football does it?
Everyone will want a system which suits them, and I lost out due to all my membership points being assigned to the supporters club not my name personally. As I couldn't have GC last season under the old system, all my tickets just went through the branch. Had done for years, paid my membership that way. That could no longer happen under the new system, and fair enough I guess. The potential I was going to pass them on along with 50 or so other people is an easy loophole the club wanted to close.
Wasn't chuffed at starting at 5, but took it and carried on. Then I lost out getting Brum tickets (fair enough it's localish and their ground is falling down - been there millions of times) it was the Rotherham thing that annoyed me personally. Awarding a point for the postponed game people had no intention of going to when rearranged seemed wrong to me. Then when I saw WBA sell out at 10pts when I was the next bracket down (on 9 if I remember right)
Not being able to try and buy a ticket really annoyed me when I saw loads of people making WBA their first away of the season etc. If 'd have missed out online, so be it but not being able to buy at all, made me wonder how many people were tipped into 10 pts by Rotherham for example.
I get rewarding everyone who went in the promotion season, but with hindsight adding on points from the GC was a mistake as they weren't policed at all. This meant when touting became an issue the club were in a bit of a bind. People were gaming the system, this was acknowledged but nothing really happened.
The fact it's continuing now fairly openly is neither here nor there after yesterday. Had there been bans immediately from all the twitter fallout and narcissism form a few, you'd have probably disincentivised enough to people to make touting or whatever you call it less appealing.
Had they just given 5pts at the start of this season and another 5 for renewing I dunno if people would have been that upset. New system, new slate, people who genuinely go to away games accumulate as the season progresses etc.
The ticket office have been brilliant whenever I've dealt with them since GC came in, and they've said publicly they are learning as they go with the points system. But charging £40 and how things have panned out is going to cause massive issues if people miss out on playoff tickets isn't it? We've had some genuinely brilliant away ends this season again, and people making the effort etc like Plymouth and Cardiff reflects that.
Whatever allocation we get if we drop from the top 2, whatever bracket they sell out at it's really cheapened it all I'd say, and made me wonder how they appease those fans who are doing serious mileage, hotels, time away etc to still come up short. With the potential of a two tier fanbase as Prem games are still in sight next season; the club are going to have invest some serious money into monitoring where tickets end up too. Approved providers charging thousands to American tourists is already in place at the biggest clubs, imagine that here one day.
They're also gonna look rather weak if they do go after fans abusing the system now, who will rightly say "but Norwich" won't they?
Just got back from a lovely old week in West Suffolk. Luckily I was far enough from Ixworth to avoid having my tyres slashed. Bury St Edmunds is a lovely place to visit when the sun is out and Abbey Gardens is buzzing.
I sat in the Cobbold for the first time since that England game, seems they'll let anyone in there if you have a valid ticket. Saints oddly seemed like the best team and have some dizzyingly good individuals too but not at the level Leeds and Leicester have. Given how things have shaken out since it seems they'll be part of an incredibly competitive playoff lineup.
When I got back to Norwich Rd I could still hear the North stand clear as a bell. Whether it was the daze of the win, or just not being local I walked to the wrong car park twice before realising I was opposite the Brewer's Arms.
The playoff game against Bolton remains the bar for me, but that was in the conversation. Being able to hear BA properly and having such excitement really made a difference to the players I'd say.
This is reported in Scotland and aimed at a Scottish audience, but it comes from this weekend's national conference.
It is something that seems to really polarise people in education, breaking up fights is a horrible thing to do and always leaves staff upset in one way or another. However, there's a general sense of aggression and entitlement people are putting down to "since COVID" that has been debated and discussed for a long time.
When a teacher was stabbed to death in Leeds a while back it rightly caused outrage, but having police or security staff in schools also raises tensions in my experience. I'm not a fan of the Michaela school - walk on the line in silence approach or it's willingness to exclude and push out students who don't fit their mould.
On the other hand there seems to be a need for a societal conversation about where the lines are drawn. Often parents will defend their child being violent, abusive and whatnot rather than accept responsibility or ensure their child does either.
I wonder if the nationals are going to pick this up and run with it next week and what the response will be.
2 pints deep, I look up from across the heaving bar and stood right in my gaze was a stalwart of my first ever ITFC team: David Linighan. It was too packed to do more than try to nod at him as he left a few minutes later, but it was definitely him.
Inflatables at football are sh1te. Please stop it lads. I don't want a rubbery lump to the mush when I'm trying to enjoy myself.
As for the game. I can't believe we won that. The second half was spent mostly shaking like a dog doing its business. How Blackburn didn't punish us I'm not sure. Morsy will dominate most games but I thought Luongo did some really good things today, had Leif not got an early booking for a robust challenge we might have been a little more fluid.
He breaks records not legs that boy. Lovely little footballer.
Felt massive that we got a goal from poor defending and early on. The crowd was turned pretty easily in the home end. The away end, different KFC gravy. Even when it was feeling a bit dodgy in the final moments, the drum was banging, the voices loud.
Omari really worked for my money, on and off the ball he seems to have his tail up right now and I think over the run in it'll really come to the fore. Al Hamadi by contrast did not have a good game. Doesn't matter but in a day of highs and lows it's important to note not everything went our way today.
Yet we're top when we walk out. Adrenaline and limbs all over the shop as Harry punches the air. What a feeling. Dribbling down the concourse out in front of the locals and travelling horde as we go home.
Went into Manchester this weekend, thought I'd pop into Moss Bros and it was no longer there.
Guess it's a sign of the times, retail units change hands all the time and I rarely buy stuff that's not online; but I do wonder how shops will change over time. Suits are one of the few things I'd not buy without trying on, but I reckon I'll have to order online in a few years unless my budget goes up significantly!
Was driving along the M60 and noticed two people on bikes on the hard shoulder. Was probably kids (although hard to tell as I was driving normally) no lights, in the dark.
Hopefully they got off safely, or I was hallucinating but I've never seen anything like that before.
Has Sky put paid to a bigger allocation? Thought there might be appetite for a big allocation given how we've sold away days recently but it seems people aren't as enthused by another long trip with a funny kick off time.
Anyone else think it likely we will want/take more if we can? Away support has been phenomenal this season (which isn't hard when we win so much) so are people keeping their powder dry for Nodge tickets or just not bothered by this one?
He looked very relaxed. Made me wonder what McKenna said and how the players were feeling.
Having driven home, sunk a beer or so and listened to Talksport the whole way back, I feel a bit different now. A couple of young lads tried to banter with us as they drove past after the game. Fell a bit flat when I suggested we do that to teams all the time, it was just our turn for once. And that's probably the reason so many posts on here smell a bit of p1ss and panic.
We had such a dizzying high on Tuesday, a great game and turn on Saturday before and then today was the implosion of all of that. When Moore scored I thought it was massive as we'd ridden out an early charge from them and seemed to get the squeeze on.
The way we failed to manage out the game and see them off was so unlike us, just like losing really it's easy to panic for some I guess. But I thought whilst there were obvious deficiencies with Sarmiento starting and his poor decision making, when he did get a run on he showed even our poorer performers could get at Cardiff.
Our pausing and interplay didn't always work because they don't press. So it was a bit like trying to punch a bedsheet flapping about and getting ourselves twisted up needlessly. I'm sure the defenders have been dragged, the fact we didn't hold up the ball or push it high and wide late on to try and stifle them, but it's all hindsight isn't it?
Lots went wrong. Only Hull really did us any favours when Saints sounded like they might throw it away they rallied. How many weeks have fans of them, Lids and Leicester felt like that about us? We must be the equivalent of form table genital warts for the £100m clubs and today they got to scratch the itch a bit, that's all.
Still fancy us to be one of the two to go up automatically. Mainly because I think McKenna will learn from that. Seeing him as not quite infallible, as some of players not always willing and able to run through walls for us etc might just give us the perspective to run at promotion again. Whereas had we drew or even won in poor fashion those small margins and gaps might not be so apparent. Let alone scrutinised by a manager who is so microscopic in his attention to detail.
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