We can start building when we get relegated Fulham were great last season spent over £100m in the summer and have won 6 of their 35 games. For some of us without billionaire sugar daddies that could bankrupt the club. Nearly all of our high earning expensive signings have been on loan or on the bench , big money signings never seem to work out for us .
One thing that I have really liked this season Is the mood on our board , no petty squabbles, no political crap , no name calling , no pant wetting, no accusations of pant wetting, no posters flouncing off , not much moaning. After years of posting on this and the old BBC 606 board this has been one of the most harmonious I can remember.
Might be tin hat time but I'm surprised at the number of people who have called RvW a flop, it's quite obvious to me that he was played in the wrong format and had to deal with a selfish and jealous Snodgrass. One instance I recall is RvW on the corner of the opponent's box passing behind and left to nobody and Snodgrass stood on the touchline laughing! Methinks that was a training ground move that Snodgrass deliberately destroyed to make RvW look stupid.
He scored in his first game against Everton and that was pretty much it . Yes Hooton played a negative system but good players adapt over the season , Ricky just didn't have a strong enough conviction in himself to become premier league quality. It's a ruthless league as we well know
I really can see both sides of the Winkel debate, guess we'll never know how he'd have fared with a different manager.
Comments from the club in Feb: From whenever it was discussed previously, I think in theory the City stand could take another tier, in practice it doesn't make sense. It's an old stand and the facilities within it aren't particularly modern/impressive. If the City stand is going to be improved, it makes the most sense to tear the whole stand down, at a cost of £20m+ ...but then that comes with further issues. If that stand is torn down, we need to figure out where those functions are housed (changing rooms, media, boxes, etc) whilst we rebuild, as well as finding seats for all the season ticket holders. Perhaps we arrange to play a load of away games either side of a summer break, but that needs agreeing. And then if we do rebuild - what do we build? The road behind the stand is an issue, chances are the council won't let it be removed, so to make the stand bigger does it have to be put in a tunnel? Or do we have to build a really steep stand so as to increase capacity but not the footprint of the stand? It sounds like the club are thinking about it, but that money won't be committed for several years. When they do, it looks like the aim is about another 7000 seats. ____________ I'm curious if there's any smaller scale improvements they might consider in the shorter term, which fits with the aim of making Carrow Road a more multi-purpose stadium to extract extra revenue from it.
The upheavals of "doing our home up " are enormous but as a fan that can't commit to a season ticket and attends about 10 games max a year I'm slightly concerned that I won't be able to get many tickets next season. We could possibly ground share Portman road for a season they could do with the extra revenue.
I seem to recall that there is a possibility of adding seating in the corner in front of the hotel. Surely that could be done in the summer with a minimum of disruption and be easier to fit into the budget.
I'm sure I've read somewhere that having a pitch fully enclosed on all sides is seriously detrimental to the grass, and the need for emergency service access limits what we could build there? I'm not sure. Vaguely related: Did anyone know anything about a smoke bomb in the Barclay concourse vs Wednesday, and that the game being abandoned was being considered in order to best treat those effected?
I only saw about the smoke bomb earlier today, apparently set off by Mr. Carrow - which means nothing to me
Mr Carrow is the code used on the tannoy at Carrow Road to make staff aware of an incident, I'm not sure whether it's limited to fires or medical emergencies or what. But it's announced as "Mr Carrow is in the Barclay stand", followed by "Mr Carrow has left the stadium" (or similar) as an all-clear. It's been used for decades I think.
Woolpit Town Reserves are sharing Binland next season - the average attendance at the Portaloo is expected to increase by 50% as a result......