Loving the Norwegians on here

Breath of fresh air, really good quality posts to date and better grammar than most on here. I live in Merseyside and Liverpool have a massive Norwegian following, I mean massive. I was in a pub full of them for the Cardiff game and they are as serious about the British game as we are. Also sat on a train to Hull last game of the season with a dozen or so of them who just came to watch the game. They pay a lot of euro's to travel and support their clubs and have for decades, good bunch. Long may the posts continue!

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100% agree.

Breath of fresh air, really good quality posts to date and better grammar than most on here. I live in Merseyside and Liverpool have a massive Norwegian following, I mean massive. I was in a pub full of them for the Cardiff game and they are as serious about the British game as we are. Also sat on a train to Hull last game of the season with a dozen or so of them who just came to watch the game. They pay a lot of euro's to travel and support their clubs and have for decades, good bunch. Long may the posts continue!

Nice to see some quality football conversation through the lonely trolls who are desperate for the last word, agenda riddled threads or kids arguing over their favourite colour

Nice to see some quality football conversation through the lonely trolls who are desperate for the last word, agenda riddled threads or kids arguing over their favourite colour

Hahaha quality

Breath of fresh air, really good quality posts to date and better grammar than most on here. I live in Merseyside and Liverpool have a massive Norwegian following, I mean massive. I was in a pub full of them for the Cardiff game and they are as serious about the British game as we are. Also sat on a train to Hull last game of the season with a dozen or so of them who just came to watch the game. They pay a lot of euro's to travel and support their clubs and have for decades, good bunch. Long may the posts continue!

Totally agree! Their passion for football in this country is huge! Like you say, they are also very informative and have better English than most of us. I know he's not Norwegian, but on CCMB a poster by the name of Serpico is absolute quality, he's Icelandic and I think is friendly with Gunnarsson. He's been spot on in every tip he's given on that mb!

Very insightful people. Gave some great advice on how Ole will set his sides up and what the likes of Magnus and Matts are capable of. Hopefully they post more often because it is better than the constant bickering on this board.

I have been a Norwegian football fan since I grew legs but have never had a real favourite club in England even if I've followed the EPL and Championship since forever. Some clubs have managed to 'charm' me, like Blackburn Rovers did when they won the league in the nineties against all odds, and of course, like all Norwegians I found Manchester United very memorable when Ronny Johnsen, Henning Berg, and Ole Gunnar Solskjær were playing together there. But I wasn't a die hard fan of the club, just the players.

And this I suspect, is because I like supporting the underdogs. I don't like latching on the biggest and most successful club, I like to cheer for those who have the odds against them. Unfortunately, most promoting teams from the Championship to the EPL end up playing horrible, destructive football, (like Stoke when they got up and still are) or try an amateurish attacking game (Wolverhampton) which leaves them too vulnerable.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær has got me rooting for Cardiff now, and bringing along some of my favourite players is a big deal too. The football he will try to play will be entertaining but not reckless, so I am really seeing Cardiff's future as bright, and hopefully I will be able to cross the North Sea soon and watch a hero in action, and maybe be able to call myself a supporter one day.

Agreed Add some fresh perspective to the forum!

Nice to see some quality football conversation through the lonely trolls who are desperate for the last word, agenda riddled threads or kids arguing over their favourite colour

Spot on and made me laugh out loud.

Totally agree, freshening up the football topics no end, welcome to each and every one of them

Spot on City Gent.

Will be interesting to see whether any new 'prospect' signings can cut it in the premier
League. It is an unforgiving league with little or no time to settle a player or a system.

Glad that CityGent can see through certain individuals blatant agenda......

Another Norwegian popping in here to say hello. I'll probably not be a diehard follower of Cardiff I'll admit, my main interest is to see how it'll go for OGS as a manager. He's got a strong self-belief to take over this club with the recent history in mind, and it was nice to see he got a good start. Winning is one thing, but Cardiff having possession superiority and as many shots on goal as the home team isn't something you folks have seen a lot of for the past few months from what I understand and can remember.

I'm slightly curious as to the manner in which the club is run though. Have Cardiff any deals with other Welsh teams in the divisions beneath? Like dibs for buying their best players, while the same clubs have dibs on Cardiff players that needs to be loaned out for a period while getting back from injury or to get experience? On a similar level, to invite coaches and players from other Welsh teams to Cardiff (for instance in international breaks) so that they can train and learn by your folks - and at the same time build an attachment and support for Cardiff? And in that context, community building in general - excursion offers to nearby schools, rebates to pensioners and other minor but important endeavors that secures a fix and firm local community support on just about all grounds? And of course building a strong Welsh philosophy in all team matters probably wouldn't be amiss either, somehow I think that most of the guys on this board as well as the greater majority of fans would just love it of Cardiff managed to field eleven high quality Welsh players in a Premier League game.

Cardiff is a nice city incidentally. I visited Cardiff back in 2012, as my daughter has a friend who lives there. A couple of years before I visited nearby Lydney (spelling?), as that small town hosts UKs longest running progressive rock festival - they've been doing that for 12 years or something. As I came across people with an interest in that type of music in Cardiff that had never heard about that one I'd thought I'd might as well drop that little piece of information in here too, in case it might be of interest to someone.

Cheers

Nice to see some quality football conversation through the lonely trolls who are desperate for the last word, agenda riddled threads or kids arguing over their favourite colour

Totally agree, so fed up with these Loony Tunes defending this shit red colour!

Great to read the Norwegian views. How about we adopt Molde as our Norwegian club and we organise a trip to watch them one weekend?

Only problem might be the cost. A pint of lager might be around £17.75 now!

Another Norwegian popping in here to say hello. I'll probably not be a diehard follower of Cardiff I'll admit, my main interest is to see how it'll go for OGS as a manager. He's got a strong self-belief to take over this club with the recent history in mind, and it was nice to see he got a good start. Winning is one thing, but Cardiff having possession superiority and as many shots on goal as the home team isn't something you folks have seen a lot of for the past few months from what I understand and can remember.

I'm slightly curious as to the manner in which the club is run though. Have Cardiff any deals with other Welsh teams in the divisions beneath? Like dibs for buying their best players, while the same clubs have dibs on Cardiff players that needs to be loaned out for a period while getting back from injury or to get experience? On a similar level, to invite coaches and players from other Welsh teams to Cardiff (for instance in international breaks) so that they can train and learn by your folks - and at the same time build an attachment and support for Cardiff? And in that context, community building in general - excursion offers to nearby schools, rebates to pensioners and other minor but important endeavors that secures a fix and firm local community support on just about all grounds? And of course building a strong Welsh philosophy in all team matters probably wouldn't be amiss either, somehow I think that most of the guys on this board as well as the greater majority of fans would just love it of Cardiff managed to field eleven high quality Welsh players in a Premier League game.

Cardiff is a nice city incidentally. I visited Cardiff back in 2012, as my daughter has a friend who lives there. A couple of years before I visited nearby Lydney (spelling?), as that small town hosts UKs longest running progressive rock festival - they've been doing that for 12 years or something. As I came across people with an interest in that type of music in Cardiff that had never heard about that one I'd thought I'd might as well drop that little piece of information in here too, in case it might be of interest to someone.

Cheers

This post has got the freak show roathie written all over it.

Another Norwegian popping in here to say hello. I'll probably not be a diehard follower of Cardiff I'll admit, my main interest is to see how it'll go for OGS as a manager. He's got a strong self-belief to take over this club with the recent history in mind, and it was nice to see he got a good start. Winning is one thing, but Cardiff having possession superiority and as many shots on goal as the home team isn't something you folks have seen a lot of for the past few months from what I understand and can remember.

I'm slightly curious as to the manner in which the club is run though. Have Cardiff any deals with other Welsh teams in the divisions beneath? Like dibs for buying their best players, while the same clubs have dibs on Cardiff players that needs to be loaned out for a period while getting back from injury or to get experience? On a similar level, to invite coaches and players from other Welsh teams to Cardiff (for instance in international breaks) so that they can train and learn by your folks - and at the same time build an attachment and support for Cardiff? And in that context, community building in general - excursion offers to nearby schools, rebates to pensioners and other minor but important endeavors that secures a fix and firm local community support on just about all grounds? And of course building a strong Welsh philosophy in all team matters probably wouldn't be amiss either, somehow I think that most of the guys on this board as well as the greater majority of fans would just love it of Cardiff managed to field eleven high quality Welsh players in a Premier League game.

Cardiff is a nice city incidentally. I visited Cardiff back in 2012, as my daughter has a friend who lives there. A couple of years before I visited nearby Lydney (spelling?), as that small town hosts UKs longest running progressive rock festival - they've been doing that for 12 years or something. As I came across people with an interest in that type of music in Cardiff that had never heard about that one I'd thought I'd might as well drop that little piece of information in here too, in case it might be of interest to someone.

Cheers

This post has got the freak show roathie written all over it.

Heh. Didn't understand that sentence until I googled it. Nice to be taken for a forum troll on first visit *laughs*

Feel free to verify that I'm both a Norwegian and a newbie in here on, for instance, Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/olavmartin

As it appears that I've broken some forum rule or other by that post my apologies for that. Not intentional, just didn't want to create a new thread for a brief visit to say hello and a few curious questions

Another Norwegian popping in here to say hello. I'll probably not be a diehard follower of Cardiff I'll admit, my main interest is to see how it'll go for OGS as a manager. He's got a strong self-belief to take over this club with the recent history in mind, and it was nice to see he got a good start. Winning is one thing, but Cardiff having possession superiority and as many shots on goal as the home team isn't something you folks have seen a lot of for the past few months from what I understand and can remember.

I'm slightly curious as to the manner in which the club is run though. Have Cardiff any deals with other Welsh teams in the divisions beneath? Like dibs for buying their best players, while the same clubs have dibs on Cardiff players that needs to be loaned out for a period while getting back from injury or to get experience? On a similar level, to invite coaches and players from other Welsh teams to Cardiff (for instance in international breaks) so that they can train and learn by your folks - and at the same time build an attachment and support for Cardiff? And in that context, community building in general - excursion offers to nearby schools, rebates to pensioners and other minor but important endeavors that secures a fix and firm local community support on just about all grounds? And of course building a strong Welsh philosophy in all team matters probably wouldn't be amiss either, somehow I think that most of the guys on this board as well as the greater majority of fans would just love it of Cardiff managed to field eleven high quality Welsh players in a Premier League game.

Cardiff is a nice city incidentally. I visited Cardiff back in 2012, as my daughter has a friend who lives there. A couple of years before I visited nearby Lydney (spelling?), as that small town hosts UKs longest running progressive rock festival - they've been doing that for 12 years or something. As I came across people with an interest in that type of music in Cardiff that had never heard about that one I'd thought I'd might as well drop that little piece of information in here too, in case it might be of interest to someone.

Cheers

This post has got the freak show roathie written all over it.

Heh. Didn't understand that sentence until I googled it. Nice to be taken for a forum troll on first visit *laughs*

Feel free to verify that I'm both a Norwegian and a newbie in here on, for instance, Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/olavmartin

As it appears that I've broken some forum rule or other by that post my apologies for that. Not intentional, just didn't want to create a new thread for a brief visit to say hello and a few curious questions

If you are who you say you are, (which it looks true) then you have my apology and you have broken no forum rules, in fact this forum welcomes all football fans who bring interesting debate and opinions with open arms, unfortunately we do have a few weirdos who come on here pretending to be city fans and end up de-railing many threads, one in particular has numerous accounts under many different names who really could do with medical help, as for yourself, you are more than wecome on here at any time you please.

Another Norwegian popping in here to say hello. I'll probably not be a diehard follower of Cardiff I'll admit, my main interest is to see how it'll go for OGS as a manager. He's got a strong self-belief to take over this club with the recent history in mind, and it was nice to see he got a good start. Winning is one thing, but Cardiff having possession superiority and as many shots on goal as the home team isn't something you folks have seen a lot of for the past few months from what I understand and can remember.

I'm slightly curious as to the manner in which the club is run though. Have Cardiff any deals with other Welsh teams in the divisions beneath? Like dibs for buying their best players, while the same clubs have dibs on Cardiff players that needs to be loaned out for a period while getting back from injury or to get experience? On a similar level, to invite coaches and players from other Welsh teams to Cardiff (for instance in international breaks) so that they can train and learn by your folks - and at the same time build an attachment and support for Cardiff? And in that context, community building in general - excursion offers to nearby schools, rebates to pensioners and other minor but important endeavors that secures a fix and firm local community support on just about all grounds? And of course building a strong Welsh philosophy in all team matters probably wouldn't be amiss either, somehow I think that most of the guys on this board as well as the greater majority of fans would just love it of Cardiff managed to field eleven high quality Welsh players in a Premier League game.

Cardiff is a nice city incidentally. I visited Cardiff back in 2012, as my daughter has a friend who lives there. A couple of years before I visited nearby Lydney (spelling?), as that small town hosts UKs longest running progressive rock festival - they've been doing that for 12 years or something. As I came across people with an interest in that type of music in Cardiff that had never heard about that one I'd thought I'd might as well drop that little piece of information in here too, in case it might be of interest to someone.

Cheers

We have got some sort of link with some random bosnian club

Haha "shut up you are roathie"

....No im not

"Okay good post" ....

theres a compliment there

His posts are too constructive to be Roathie. Haha. You have to laugh, every new poster on here has to go through the lie dedector test just to be accepted as a non Roathie poster.

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

The Scandinavians education system is excellent and their command of the english language is second to none! It's the same with the Dutch!

His posts are too constructive to be Roathie. Haha. You have to laugh, every new poster on here has to go through the lie dedector test just to be accepted as a non Roathie poster.

My posts are the epitome of constructive - thats what winds people up.

If I just posted biased opinion people would just ignore it, it annoys them because i prove it to be true or at least provide a solid reasoning for my thoughts

Ive been assured there will be no more silly agenda based bannings - now that is the case nobody need be "accused" of being me. Im Castro and Castro only.

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

I'll take that as a compliment. I've been reading books in English for the past 30 years or so, which has given me a fairly good grasp of the English language. Which is some of the reason for why I'm writing a couple of hundred CD reviews each year in my spare time, as well as part of the reason why I'm writing the press releases for a niche music festival in the US. Those who bothered to visit my Facebook page should be able to so links to some of that stuff there if they are curious

In general Norwegians tend to be fairly fluent in English. I may be a bit above average in that department, but there are many Norwegians with a much firmer grasp of English than I have.

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

I'll take that as a compliment. I've been reading books in English for the past 30 years or so, which has given me a fairly good grasp of the English language. Which is some of the reason for why I'm writing a couple of hundred CD reviews each year in my spare time, as well as part of the reason why I'm writing the press releases for a niche music festival in the US. Those who bothered to visit my Facebook page should be able to so links to some of that stuff there if they are curious

In general Norwegians tend to be fairly fluent in English. I may be a bit above average in that department, but there are many Norwegians with a much firmer grasp of English than I have.

I have watched the "Lillyhammer" series.

Your English is far better than most on here.

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

I'll take that as a compliment. I've been reading books in English for the past 30 years or so, which has given me a fairly good grasp of the English language. Which is some of the reason for why I'm writing a couple of hundred CD reviews each year in my spare time, as well as part of the reason why I'm writing the press releases for a niche music festival in the US. Those who bothered to visit my Facebook page should be able to so links to some of that stuff there if they are curious

In general Norwegians tend to be fairly fluent in English. I may be a bit above average in that department, but there are many Norwegians with a much firmer grasp of English than I have.

How can I say anything about good English when I said 'Has any Mods'.

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

The Scandinavians education system is excellent and their command of the english language is second to none! It's the same with the Dutch!

True. They speak better English than most of us and they're also far more advanced when it comes to technology. Our curriculums here is changing to be more like theirs.

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

The Scandinavians education system is excellent and their command of the english language is second to none! It's the same with the Dutch!

True. They speak better English than most of us and they're also far more advanced when it comes to technology. Our curriculums here is changing to be more like theirs.

Curriculums ? Is that the plural?
Is Changing?

Has any Mods checked their IPs as I haven't seen many Norwegians with such perfect English.

The Scandinavians education system is excellent and their command of the english language is second to none! It's the same with the Dutch!

True. They speak better English than most of us and they're also far more advanced when it comes to technology. Our curriculums here is changing to be more like theirs.

Curriculums ? Is that the plural?
Is Changing?

Thats me fast typing and not paying attention. Its meant to be singular, not plural.