"the opportunity to make themselves East Anglia's main club and make us irrelevant"

Err, hello?

Piswich: stuck in the Chumps since 2002 and haven't even won a derby for 10 years.

City: since 2002 have spent five seasons in the Prem and enjoyed a decade of derby dominance.

Pretty obvious who the main club is in East Anglia these days and who is the irrelevance.

Piswich have got a genuinely distinguished past: league title, FA Cup, UEFA Cup, two great England managers. The chances are that we will never match that, because barring the Leicester miracle (which came from a billionaire owner as well as an unbelievable set of planets aligning). It's very, very hard for any team outside the Big Six to win the League, the FA Cup or even the League Cup these days. The inequality of arms is just too great and so the chances are that Piswich will always be able to brag about their greater history.

But that history is getting ever older and ever less relevant. They did win the league, but it was in 1962, before JFK was shot. They did win the FA Cup, but it was in 1978, before Thatcher was in power. It's all a long time ago. They are miles behind us now on everything that matters in the present day - promotions, crowds, quality of players, finances, community outreach ... everything. If you haven't made it to the Prem in nearly two decades, and your last real success was 2001 (counting their 5th place finish in the Prem as a success) or 1978 (if you're going to insist on a "real" win) then you are genuinely irrelevant.

I hope they go down for the lols but I really don't care that much because they are simply an irrelevant smallish club now.

Posted By: Old Git on February 13th 2019 at 11:04:22

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This is an enjoyable read (warning TW*T link) (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 10:27:57
- thanks for this most interesting link (NCFC) - fond, Feb 13, 14:41:45
  - I would think that most scummer children are more likely to want to follow the mighty (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Feb 13, 15:04:06
- i can't believe they've only just woken up to this (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 13, 12:52:03
  - Agree, you snooze....you loose (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Feb 13, 13:27:15
    - St Edmundsbury has always been a bit 50/50 though, hasn’t it? (NCFC) - APB, Feb 13, 13:46:01
      - It's around 30 miles but yes quite a few yellas in BSE (n/m) (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Feb 13, 14:03:16
        
        yep, even in their heyday there were a lot of norwich fans there (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 13, 15:34:29
        
        me for a start .. (NCFC) - paulg, Feb 13, 16:26:25
        
        Yes about the same time the Digital Phone company were in town selling City stuff (n/m) (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Feb 13, 15:41:08
        
        Yeah, it's definitely disputed territory. (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 13, 15:55:09
- Unearthing gems... (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Feb 13, 12:49:49
  - Yes. North Suffolk has been pretty yellow throughout my lifetime but (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 13:16:47
    - I’d be a bit narked if it was the other way round though. (NCFC) - APB, Feb 13, 13:47:41
      - Yep. Completely. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 14:10:59
      - absolutely (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 13:56:23
    - The video shown at the AGM highlighted what great work is done community wise (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Feb 13, 13:29:45
- My youngest son used to play in the Suffolk Norwich PDC (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Feb 13, 12:26:32
  - Did you manage to get there on time? (n/m) (NCFC) - Liv, Feb 13, 14:04:09
  - whats a pdc pal (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Feb 13, 12:33:31
    - Whatever you want it to be, (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Feb 13, 12:39:23
      - this is the Suffolk based Norwich PDC (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Feb 13, 12:42:53
        
        That's really quite impressive. I love the fact that Ipswich supporting parents have to (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 13:14:24
        
        I've heard it's a somewhat cynical means to making money. (NCFC) - lurd, Feb 13, 14:04:40
        
        There is an element of that, (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Feb 13, 17:16:04
        
        No different to any other kids club (NCFC) - CWC, Feb 13, 14:26:44
- We're turning their younglings against them, and making the TownParents (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Feb 13, 11:43:20
  - They should have to pay a surcharge, really (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 13, 11:57:17
- "the opportunity to make themselves East Anglia's main club and make us irrelevant" (NCFC) - Old Git, Feb 13, 11:04:22
  - Tsk, you and your facts. "Reality" is the main problem they seem to have. (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 13, 11:55:59
    - To be fair (NCFC) - Clairvoyant Creosote, Feb 13, 12:44:41
      - Oh yes (NCFC) - Old Git, Feb 13, 15:17:31
  - All of that (NCFC) - paulg, Feb 13, 11:08:39
- "Ipswich Town are not really a community football club." - again, a scummer with clue (NCFC) - Yurik Hunt, Feb 13, 10:42:38
  - TWTD is (unfortunately) quite compelling reading at the moment (NCFC) - paulg, Feb 13, 11:04:20
    - Yes, I read that, they now want to be a "nasty team" with a "nasty manager" (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Feb 13, 13:33:01
- Parachute payments (NCFC) - Duck, Feb 13, 10:41:52
  - Nothing to do with Category 1 Academy, then (n/m) (NCFC) - watfordcanary, Feb 13, 12:37:53

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