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BBC Sport 'City Fans Get Huckerby Farewell'

Destort 13/05/2008, 4:38 PM

If you buy a ticket to the event that is! I think a slightly fairer way of doing would to not cash in on the fact fans want to say goodbye..

BBC Sport Reads

The mercurial winger was released by Glenn Roeder last week, prompting furious reaction from fans who believe Huckerby deserved a proper farewell.

A special tribute will now take place during the 'Greatest Ever' event at Carrow Road, with Huckerby attending.

R&B singer Jamelia and X-Factor finalists Rhydian and Ray Quinn join club legends on stage for the event.

For Goodness Sake NCFC

AndyJR 13/05/2008, 4:39 PM
When the supporters asked for a chance to wish Hucks goodbye, they did'nt mean this:

SAY THANKS TO HUCKS

Posted on: Tue 13 May 2008

CITY fans are being offered the chance to send their messages of thanks to departing legend Darren Huckerby this week via canaries.co.uk.

Hundreds of fans sent their best wishes to retiring striker Dion Dublin through the Club's official site in a similar gesture and we have bound those messages together to present to Dion in the near future.

See a special photo gallery covering Dion's career and download a free wallpaper.

Huckerby has always enjoyed a special relationship with the City faithful - send your personal message for Darren to: thankyouhucks@ncfc-canaries.co.uk and we will pass them on to him. A wallpaper and a special photo gallery of Hucks in action for City will appear shortly.

I also notice they are imploring everyone to go to the 'greatest ever' event to say goodbye. Will their cynical attempts at marketing ever cease? Ah. Rant over, feel better now.

The Kid's are o.k, at the Horse & Dray.

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Robert N. LiM 13/05/2008, 4:46 PM
I'm presumably not the only one who got another desperate email today advertising this fiasco.

Jamelia and Ted MacDougall on the same bill. Didn't anyone realise that this might be a difficult event to market?...

budge up

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cityangel 13/05/2008, 4:54 PM

They can get stuffed if they think that many fans will pay £25 to say goodbye to Hucks. They treated him badly and they're still using him, grrrrrrrrrr

As for emailing them messages for them to pass on to Hucks think I'm quite capable of sending him my own message thanks.

Re: BBC Sport 'City Fans Get Huckerby Farewell'

Canary Nut 13/05/2008, 6:38 PM

Destort wrote:

If you buy a ticket to the event that is! I think a slightly fairer way of doing would to not cash in on the fact fans want to say goodbye..

A special tribute will now take place during the 'Greatest Ever' event at Carrow Road, with Huckerby attending.

I think NCISA. should complain.

Where are the good experienced strikers?
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Stagnation/decline with Delia's NCFC.

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cityangel 13/05/2008, 6:44 PM
P.S. Guess ticket sales are still not too good.

Local teletext sport pages

Heffers Canary 13/05/2008, 7:03 PM

Has anyone else noticed the BLATANT attempt to try increase ticket sales for Sundays "event" on teletext? The headline on page 390 is: City fans to get chance for Huckerby farewell. Fool that I am I read it and its basically just an advert for the event promising city fans the chance for a "special" farewell to Hucks. Take it the ticket sales aren't going well then....

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Jonny 5 13/05/2008, 7:07 PM
The "Greatest Ever" event is run by a private company who are responsible for all the advertsing etc. so it is them rather than the club whipping up all this say goodbye to Hucks rubbish.

As I understand it, Norwich can only win out of the deal. They take a percentage of the ticket sales, all the food and drink sales and only have to provide the stadium and endorse the event. If the club can make a few pounds out of it why complain so much? It's not like you have to go.

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AndyJR 13/05/2008, 7:08 PM
Word is ticket prices started off slowly and have'nt got much better. Not sure why they would be suprised.

The Kid's are o.k, at the Horse & Dray.

Re: Local teletext sport pages

Heffers Canary 13/05/2008, 7:10 PM
sorry didnt see the other thread on similar subject, please ignore me!!

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Scottlarock 13/05/2008, 7:16 PM
......you'll see on my Toronto thread why this is such an infuriating thing Heffers. Cynical marketing nonsense which blatantly takes the p**s, if they cared so much about farewells then they would have done it properly - not finding a space on stage next to Jamelia. I'm sure the fact of the matter is the board didn't give two hoots about farewells, reactions and strength of feeling, it didn't even cros thier minds. I'm not saying the action of not renewing his contract was wrong - I'm saying the club have treated the fans and Huckerby as silly peasants not worth a consideration.

Consider the strength of feeling on Huckerbys entrance to the club and compare it to his exit - Citys big event, my a**e

...not a binner, just a guerilla canary living in Ipswich town centre (village square) getting my pink un out in planet booo!

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Delia S. Tickers 13/05/2008, 7:17 PM
You mean ticket "sales", don't you?

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Scottlarock 13/05/2008, 7:19 PM
...this is winding me right up. Too little too late and very cynical stuff from Canary Marketing. They really treat us like fools. I'd never wish ill on an event however I wouldn't be that upset if it was a wash out.

...not a binner, just a guerilla canary living in Ipswich town centre (village square) getting my pink un out in planet booo!

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AndyJR 13/05/2008, 7:20 PM

bunny wrote:
You mean ticket "sales", don't you?

Yes sales, that's the one. Was thinking about which Toronto shirt to get, the home or away one whilst typing hence the mistake - Can't multi-task being a bloke. :)

The Kid's are o.k, at the Horse & Dray.

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West_London_Canary 13/05/2008, 7:25 PM

It's a bloody disgrace, I pay good money for a season ticket every season and now on top of that our board want us to pay an extra £25 so we fans can say goodbye to an NCFC Legend at some poxy event that no one is really interested in. Hucks deserves much better than this as we all know there is going to be a very small turnout and if this is the best the board can come up with then Huckerby should just tell them to get stuffed and not turn up himself.

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