I don't think we could have asked for a much better game to try and blood some youngsters. They're also my dad's side, so might well have to go to this one.
Happy with that - chance for some of the fringe players to show us what they can do and maybe blood a youngster or two. As long as we don't do a Luton .....
David Mcnally's twitter timeline is full of people reminding him Scunthorpe last year was £10 for adults and kids for a squid. I was there when the King of Spain rifled one in Price announcement to follow
i personally cannot see us getting through this tie. bury are a whole league higher than luton. we've got no chance
Good news is that we're already further in the competition than Ipswich. Better news is that it's a home time against a relatively weak team and so we should be able to use some youngsters and squad players without too much risk of doing a Luton, particularly as our squad players are better this year and our youngsters (by definition) a year older and more experienced.
I don't know what the under 21s / youth schedule is like, but what a game for perhaps Carlton Morris and / or one of the Murphy boys to make a 'proper' debut
Details of ticket prices for the game against Bury 7.45 on 27th Aug - "Entry to Carrow Road will cost £10 for adults, over-65s and under-21s, while under-17s will be able to attend for just £1. All areas of the stadium will be open." Read more at http://www.canaries.co.uk/news/article/bury-capital-one-cup-r2-979535.aspx#YRp1e3H5qD3cJofj.99 Not sure if I'll be going.
A nice way to ease ourselves into the cup. Don't want to be too over confident though. It'd be nice to see some of the youth players but we don't want to get too experimental and lose to "easy" opposition again!
Yeh definitely, I'm all for giving the younger players a start but I think it would be a real confidence booster if we got some silverware this season so I'd put a few young'uns in there but I'd hate to see a repeat of Luton, that was just plain embarrassing!
I'm pretty sure the first Norwich game I ever went to was against Bury in a 2-2 draw. Hopefully we can better that scoreline this time round though...
Banana skin here, just hope that we hold our nerve and do ourselves justice. I always feel happier when we have higher league opposition as we seem to fall to lower league levels standards whenever possible. Dag & Redbridge in the F.A.Cup is another example recently.
I'd prefer to see a fairly strong team from those who don't start against Everton or Hull, to build player's confidence and fitness.
The cups are completely infuriating for a club of our size. Not small enough to be the plucky "bulldog spirit" giant killers, not big enough to be a club that should be winning it every year. It just leads to massive disappointment every year. I learnt a long time ago to just take the cups as they come. I go to the games but if we lose I'm not going to freak out. The very nature of the cups are their unpredictability. Maybe it will be our year, but I'm not going to be demanding cups this year or anything.
The League Cup wasn't particularly infuriating for Swansea last season though eh? Surely clubs of our size should look at them as an outside chance of a route into Europe (a la Swansea)?
But you forget, Swansea are the greatest football team on the planet. The Harlem globetrotters of association football. Sky told me. But seriously, fair play to them, we should aim to do well in the cups but it's not something you can guarantee or plan for. Just take it a game at a time, fans get so carried away and then do my favourite thing, saying "if we'd have got through we'd have got x team and then we'd be in the final" completely forgetting that this is not the universe works.
