Surely neither the amount of time spent above a team in the season nor picking an arbitrary political bt in the season to say one team has more points than another is is good indicator of how good one team Is than the other. The table only become that definitive after all the games have been played and so the comparative quality of opposition is no longer a factor. The other way of comparing just looking at the games played against each other. But as in football anything can happen on the day this isn't a great indication either. Really this is a question for May not February.
Tell that to the Binners. They have been waiting nigh on 10 years for this little bit of 'bragging rights', and are trying to take full advantage (while they still can).
So if the unthinkable happened and we met at Wembley in the play-off final, how many of you lot would actually be there? (Obviously the ex-pats on both sides like Thai and San Diego would have a reasonable excuse for not being there on the day).
How could one not go. It would be the Derby but on steroids. The absolute worst way to loose but the best way to win. I'd hate every second of it but wouldn't/couldn't be anywhere else.
It would be a cracking day out for all concerned, that's for sure, Wembley's a magnificent stadium, and there's plenty of great pubs all around the area, I'd probably aim to get into London around 10am (for a 3pm KO), the atmosphere would be immense.
Not sure that the OB could do that, the Championship play-off final is something of a 'show-piece' match on the football calender and would KO at it's usual time... Guaranteed bloodbath afterwards though...
Though I'm sure that for the Old Farm Derby to end all Old Farm Derbies you and Thai and San Diego and Spanish could easily fly over and be there on the day... It's what real supporters would do.
6 Years actually since we all but sealed your relegation to League One. All those crying Canaries trudging off to the train station afterwards... It was priceless!
I'm not sure about the easily part, but it would be extremely difficult to miss out on - particularly if you're offering a pre-match pint
China, if the god of football threw up the unthinkable and this match was to actually happen I'd buy you a pint or two in some pub near Wembley, that's a promise.
I imagine nearly every single one of us that could. Most on here go to home games as far as I can tell and follow the team away. Those who've moved abroad, as I recall (e.g. RBF), all used to have season tickets before moving or at least went regularly so I don't doubt for a minute would make the effort if possible. Some of us are in London, etc, like me, and go to the away games we can get tickets to. Wembley would mean the majority of us London Canaries would get a ticket. Not many "plastic" Canary fans. It's not the sort of club we are, let's face it. And I've no doubt the same goes for Ipswich. If you support teams like ours, chances are you care enough about the team to go to live games at the slightest opportunity. Otherwise you'd just support Man City.
I was asked recently why I support Norwich City by a random Aussie. I explained i'm simply a glory hunter.
Nice one HMQC! I think we should enjoy the 3 wins in a row, but not get too carried away. If we won every game left we'd reach 98 points, but that isn't going to happen and each loss or draw will knock 2 or 3 points off that total. My target now is Watford who we could overtake with a win on Saturday, but that isn't going to be easy. Overtaking Watford and Ipswich is a reasonable target and would then keep us in with a chance of automatic promotion, but it'd still be a very long chance, IMO. That doesn't mean we shouldn't hope though!
When you look at the 10 consecutive run of results we had from the 30th of September (see below) until the 29th of November, when we just could not put teams away, it's amazing we're even in this position. A bit galling really that we're not higher, but looking at it the other way it shows that anything is possible between now and the end of the season. 29/9 - Norwich 0 - 1 Charlton 4/10 - Norwich 1 - 1 Rotherham 18/10 - Fulham 1 - 0 Norwich 21/10 - Norwich 1 - 1 Leeds 25/10 - Sheff Wed 0 - 0 Norwich 31/10 - Norwich 2 - 1 Bolton (hooray!) 4/11 - M'boro 4 - 0 Norwich 8/11 - Nott'm Forest 2 - 1 Norwich 22/11 - Norwich 3 - 3 Brighton 29/11 - Norwich 1 - 2 Reading
