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Heard a Leeds fan on the radio this morning saying he'd never eat a 99 again. I suppose he should be thankful that Mina hadn't scored in the 69th minute.

Oh. Maybe not.😂

I am far from being Webbers biggest fan, but he makes a valid point about losing four experienced players, as ever for me it is not what he says but the way that he says it, if he really wants to be "the better man" as he said in his interview then he needs to rise above the need to have a dig/jibe at fans when making what is an otherwise valid point, there really is no need for it.........

Does anyone else feel that the Wolves versus Everton game was allowed to carry on until Everton scored - they'd still be playing now if necessary? The Premier League is a product - I find it hard to believe that results are not manipulated.

I work high up in a company and deal with the board ever day. This sort of tough talking bullsh#t went out years ago.. you encourage, build teams and deal with issues in a professional and fair manner. You most certainly don't antagonise your customer base... anyway enough time wasted! I guess you don't have to listen to him..

The guy is a classic narcissist – he thinks he’s God’s gift and that his record is amazing; when in reality, he’s a hit-and-hope charlatan and a toxic lead weight.

Another thread for the meltdowners. Sorry, but if anyone thinks this sort of hard-nose CEO or higher level management speak is "shocking" or "new" then I would have to say they have either only ever been self employed or they have been exceedingly lucky. I have had senior management tell me that they don't really do sympathy or hugging - when in relation to a long term colleague who had just been through a difficult divorce - no fault of theirs. None of this looks any different to me. The other thing which baffles me is that the same people commenting now, weren't moaning the first 3 seasons and I don't think he was particularly any different. Probably seen as "tough talking" then. Another day... same old BS.

Cards on the table, I run a ladies football team and have on and off for the last 20 years or so I know at least one of the ladies who plays for norwich city as I work with her webbers comments were misguided but in true style the team are laughing it off. those who try and compare the two need to stop, the ladies are proud of their game and the woman’s game has gone from strength to strength in recent years, its never them that compare themselves against the men. went to knebworth fc presentation today and there were more girls teams there than boys, it’s a growing sport long May it continue

The OP's post screams 'divorced and sits in the Snakepit'.

Mr untouchable strikes again but more fool Delia & Michael for allowing it to happen.

Haven’t had a chance to read through all of this just yet but surprised by those who think this is remotely okay? If I was anyone at the club remotely connected to the women’s side I would be pretty disgusted about it. As others have said, totally fair if you want to hold those views privately - and I know plenty of us do share it - but out loud in public when you’re in part responsible and working for the same entity - absolutely ridiculous! And blindly just praising his honesty is equally as ridiculous. Imagine he came out and started singling our individual players for their failings this season, or for having a bad attitude. We’ve seen how those kind of things have gone down with passive aggressive comments about players like Cantwell. But he’s never been this direct about something. We can all like the honestly, but he has to be able to draw a line at anything which may be damaging to the club - and these comments aren’t exactly building a healthy positive community are they? And it’s not like there weren’t positive comments in there. He could’ve literally just mentioned about Flo’s great work, it being great to see so many supporters there, and those players on the pitch experiencing something which will be super memorable for them - still honest clearly but not offering up any of the negativity. But no he had to throw in his own total lack of interest, the lack of quality, the fact he only does it for Flo? Not just a single comment but 3 or 4. Come on guys it’s so tone deaf! Imagine him coming out and saying that about the young kids teams? Or even the disabled teams? Or just any other branch of the club? ‘Yeah must admit I don’t really go for a pie before the game, the quality is so poor, but the catering staff are doing the best they can’ ????? It’s not hard to stay honest but also maybe keep some cards to your chest? We all do it in life to maintain healthy relationships with those around us. There’s nothing cathartic about this kind of negativity, it isn’t like it’s some ‘home truths’ for the women’s football team to take on board and work with. He’s just straight up insulting them. And to accuse MB and others of looking for a reason to be offended is just silly - not at all. I’d challenge any of those posters to find a senior member of any business who comes out and discredits an entire branch of their business like this! If his people skills are this **** poor behind the scenes then it’s no wonder there is so much negativity at the club right now. Yeah we’ve got great infrastructure and facilities, thanks to Webber, but if the guy at the top isn’t liked by the majority I can’t see how that ever fosters a club which will all pull the same way again?? Obviously I know we have been successful in the past, but there has been much water through the bridge since then…

If you squint at that photo he sort of looks like he’s slowly changing into Daniel Farke

Oh hide the f ing rope!! it’s a lovely day, get yourself out for a walk, buy yourself an ice cream go and feed the ducks, visit a nature reserve, go for a pint down your local. Is there no jobs to be done around the house? Mow the lawn, paint the window sills or clean the car. surely all better options than this tripe your posting?

While I have read Michael Bailey's interview, I haven't listened to any of recorded interviews as there is nothing Webber has to say I wish to hear. As someone once said - 'ignore the noise'. IMO, there is little to be gained from listening to any of his interviews; you know what you are going to get before he even opens his mouth. He has no issue with antagonising the fan base as that is simply the nature of the beast - attack is his best, and probably only, form of defense. He's a PR department's nightmare - he has no awareness of how to get his points over in a reasoned manner. It's a massive character flaw that doesn't fit well with a person who is often the one conveying difficult messages to fans. He also no doubt feels quite in-powered in this position, knowing his job role is 100% safe whatever he says; he's not going anywhere until he decides to. Lastly, he'll also do it as a way of taking the heat off Wagner and the players after a season that was well below everyone's expectations - this is fine, and an honorable thing to do but he does it in such a ham-fisted way that it actually makes you focus even more on the issues at the club, defeating the object of the exercise! He is the very epitome of a bull in a china shop. OTBC

You are copying Webber. Go off piste and blame the posters. This has nothing to do with an office or factory environment whasoever. It is totally different. In the main, Companies rely on customers and no matter how they react to their own staff, they try avoiding upsetting their customers. Webber just tries to tell us we are stupid, don't understand and he did a brilliant job in recruting Rashica, PLM, Normann, Tzolis, Sargent, Hayden, Dowell, Byram, Gibson, Gilmour, Kabak, Sinani and now Nunez. I respect you do not like too much criticism of the club because you believe its unwarranted. But for goodness sake, look at that list and tell me the successes.

It might have done for your business... I have dealt with, and continue to deal with, a great many where it hasn't. And it is no surprise either, when you look into politics itself, how many cabinet ministers and high ranking MP's run businesses, hedge funds etc. I don't think Webber alone has antagonised the "customer base". Much is being heaped upon him but I don't think many are actually being that objective. I do think it could be likely time for him to move on, if only because we have now got to the stage where, in Star Trek terms, the best way to deal with this toxicity is to eject the warp core and limp back to port on impulse engines. As Nutty has said. We are not in unfamiliar territory, this is just another dip in the rollercoaster of Norwich City FC. In many ways it has some similarities with Worthington in that we had a solid squad of experienced pros that ultimately were nearing the latter stages of their career under promotion. One of the best organised sides and defensively meanest. The issue was transitioning that team, which had been together, mostly, for several seasons, upon relegation. We have seen the side from that original promotion gently diminish, replacements have actually shown promise but just not delivered - Dowell being a real case in point. I don't think anyone can question that at times he has the quality. But he just didn't have the 'mettle', the consistency or enough time injury free. Sometimes people can oversee transition well. Sometimes not. As a manager, I think Farke struggled with getting his team to be "tougher" to crack by the point he left. Smith was jaded, almost hungover from splitting with his love of AVFC. I will stand by my view that it was the right appointment but at the wrong time. Should have gone with a short term end of the season deal with someone and then given ourselves the option to shake it up in the summer. That signings don't work out is something that happens. The sides relegated from any league will look at things like that the same. I am sure there are teams that will be as gutted if not more so than us - Huddersfield? It's football. I got beyond the need to have a particular person to blame a long time ago.

Fans who want this potential takeover to happen as a way of getting to the Premier League and staying up will need to get working on their ATTANASIO OUT! bedsheets, because there is zilch in his record at the Milwaukee Brewers to suggest he would want to or even be able to bankroll anything like Forest’s ludicrous spending.

It's like when you shop online at Tesco and, for convenience, the app recommends everything you bought last time. * You previously bought Borussia Dortmund II Head Coach. * Would you like to buy this item again?

Now if Leicester unexpectedly win tomorrow we can still get the Everton-Leeds relegation….

Leeds are absolutely awful and deserve to go down Leicester have employed Smith. I have no axe to grind with them apart from Smith but he's gone so why should we care? I dislike Everton intensely like all City fans of my age. If I could choose it would be Leicester to survive.

Well, I could reply with my experiences about enjoying both women's and men's tennis equally. But it would be boring to do it yet again. As for Webber's opinion, he was answering a question. I'd now be interested to know whether he'd enjoy the women's game more if they were all married or if a few divorcees is what spoils it for him...

Agree with some points of the original post, certainly a change of personnel and mindset is required! Norwich City have for eternity been tagged with the "little ole Norwich" label which fans have been brainwashed into believing. I still maintain the club will never reach its full potential until Carrow Road holds 35-40,000 which would enable the club to get regular 30,000+ crowds somthing they'd do if in the top flight. This is why David Mcnally was good for the club cause he ignored this mindset. As it stands at present Delia Smith and Wynn Jones are too old for their ownership of the club, they haven't got the energy or funds to move the club on. They have been good servants but a major blackmark against them has been their closed door, not a chance in hell policy of batting away anyone interested in invested then making out no one will invest in Norwich City. Suffice to say they should should pass the batton over to more capable owners and be made Life presidents and keep their seats in the front of the Directors box. Stuart Webber has done good things for the club but has failed badly in the last two seasons with poor signings and managerial appointments so now has gone stale and needs a fresh challenge elsewhere. He came to the club as an ambitious career enhancer who openly admitted he saw his time at Norwich as a stepping stone to bigger and better clubs. Now after two poor seasons the stepping stone no longer exists so he is happy pick up his wage, readjust his ambitions while treading water in an organisation where his wife is a Board member and seemingly hes not challenged by any hierarchy and the supporters distain towards him is ignored. Likewise the club has for a long time had a thing about signing half hearted powderpuff players who aren't physical enough. Without pace, ability to tackle and a desire to "force the issue" suceeding will be hard at Premier and Championship level. And finally it has to be made clear that chucking money at something isn't always the answer as we've seen with Brentford, Brighton, Luton and Coventry this season and Norwich City have historically done better when they have signed cheap players who have produced - The likes of Pukki, Grant Holt, Russell Marton and Hoolahan spring to mind in modern times. Things have to alter cause at present the club are sleepwalking into a turgid relegation battle next season.

Oh god, are we going to get a new angle about how crap everything is every single day from now on?

The guy is just an aggressive ar£3hole, he has no time for anybody other than himself. A stain on Delia and Michael’s legacy for allowing it to continue with no end in sight.

Oh the unintentional irony of Big Vince yet again referencing back decades to an era that bears no relation to present-day football as he rails against being stuck in the past and demands a new mindset...🤩

I wish we were a club that spent 20 years in the lower leagues and then in one season spent the GDP of a small Caribbean nation to stay in the top league. Just. It's a bloody fairytale I tell you.

We truly could be very, very big. Small team mindset ingrained on City fans and very prevalent on here.

Norwich will mostly stay the same for next season with perhaps a few frees coming in .we have no money for transfers unless we sell big time.We are not a spending club,rightly or wrongly.Who knows what will happen in the coming seasons ,top six can be achieved with average players playing as a unit.Otbc.

I mean the fact that Leeds are even considering Webber is a joke. They just fired their sporting director because of the poor signings he's made and they are considering Webber the king of poor signings. I hope he goes, I imagine the Leeds fans won't be horrible to the poor little man if he gets it wrong there.

Mean age: 24 and 9 Median age 23 66% of the squad 25 or under 25% of the squad 30 or over But perhaps most significantly of all. The squad has a younger average age than this season. Let’s assume that your definition of ‘average age’ is accepted. Clearly being in the top 5 youthful squads this season, with likely a similar position next, your ‘average’ assumes a maximum of 4 teams can be classed as ‘young’. Unless no championship is really young? Maybe, as we have premier league aspirations we should judge our youthfulness based on premier league sides. See below. Oops, we seem to be in the top of that measure as well. Good effort though

I still wish we were Brentford

Hahahahahahah. I thought Leeds would inevitably push forwards season after season because their fans and owners are full of ambition unlike little norwich..

Point is they don’t compare the stats from the two genders, or at least I’ve never seen it Eg serena Williams has 490 aces v Djokovic’s 5662

Correct Nutty . No one in their right mind would compare them? Would you rather watch Serena or Federer? As a tennis fan the answer is both. Comparison doesn’t come into it . The guy hits harder. So what? Bolt or Fraser-Pryce? I’d pay decent money to watch them both.

Agree with this, doesn’t happen in other sports

Bestiality?....Ewww!....

The same way the same people weren't able to take their gaze off Cantwell's social media so they could criticise every image or post... Some folks just take this all waaaaay to seriously IMHO. One of the reasons I hate the silly money aspect of football is it breeds this sort of entitlement. Newcastle fans ignoring the fact their owners are part of a murderous, anti-free speech regime because they feel they "deserve" to be contesting the Premier League title etc. I would much rather be an "honest" club. One that works as hard as it can within the rules and within the boundaries of decency and decent ethics and morals. I know that'll upset Essex but I see he and Big V have now found each other and we may yet hear the chime of glasses touching over a romantic meal for two...

Good post. Delia's stance is swimming against the tide, for not months, years but decades. And the club has and is suffering as a result. Though many others would disagree, she has put herself before the club. But she is an opportunist and has played a blinder. My very few sympathies with Webber is that he has so little money to play with. The pressure is on him to somehow find enough raw talent to nurture and sell on to keep the utterly ridiculous and delusional self-funding model alive is huge. But he makes the point that the Season Tickets keep selling out, so in statistical terms, the natives are happy. For now. Norwich City can be stubborn, perverse, contradictory. A 'family club' that insults (some) of its fans, a club that claims it wants EPL football, but have majority shareholders that have previously gone on the record on several occasions to criticise it. You never bite the had that feeds you. When we have got there, we show little desire to stay there and back to the comfort zone of the Championship. The club will never play the game, let alone the modern game, so make the most of what we do because it is unlikely to get much better.

He's certainly an astute fellow....create outrage, play the victim, cause division and so much more.... ....and all with a face only his mother could love.... Bloke should go into politics....

Could I just say B0ll0cks to Forest or is that poor form?

Yes, you've hit the nail on the head. There is no problem with me stating a negative view of womens football on this forum but Webber is in a different position to me. There is a sizeable group of supporters that don't like him and he's just handed them a stick to beat him with. There was a very easy diplomatic way of answering the question about the ladies team and it shows a worrying lack of judgement that he didn't take it. I suspect though that he feels safe saying what he did because he knows his view is shared by the Board. That isn't an excuse for saying it though and the club could really do without this at the moment.

Who knows - Manning ticks various boxes and is out of contract from choice, rather than being released; 26 is a good age

One of the many things Webber said- which wasn't about divorcees or women's football, unbelieveably- is that we are targeting a couple of Barnes-ish age, several players in the 26-28 prime bracket and a continuing effort to recruit young, buildable players. It makes sense that the first ones we're hearing about are the older guys who are out of contract.

My granddaughter is 9 & I love her. He's talking about grown women to whom he has no emotional connection who are doing something they clearly enjoy but are no good at; are we supposed to indulge adult's fantasies or admit the truth? Should we laud pub football because otherwise we'd offend all those weekend Messis & Ronaldos? If women want to play it & there's an audience for it, that's fine. But don't try & make it out to be something it isn't. The infantilisation of the population continues apace.

I must admit I’ve spent the entire season moaning about Webber and wanting him out. But whenever he ends up doing these interviews I come away being glad to hear from him. yes, every time says some very stupid things (pd against a wall, 90%, divorcees in the snake pit) but at least he is just saying what he thinks. He’s bullish and annoying but he does at least seem to care, even if it is just as much about his reputation and future career as the club (which are intrinsically linked). I accept I will be in the minority who enjoyed the interview and took heart from what he had to say. I just hope the majority of fans will listen to his request to meet him, the club and the players half way (presuming they meet their share of the bargain too!). In all my years supporting city we have only had success when the players, fans and club had a sense of togetherness. The only way our club of our size can have success is if we pull together. I just hope we can get a couple of inspirational signings and enter next season with hope.

Like Ashley Barnes, he’s 34 🤣

If that happens she will get the civil service to skip Rwanda and pass go straight to the Normandy coastline with a private boat person charter back in time for high tea at Moogies.

So was the championship and look how we did

The trouble I can see, it doesn’t matter what process is going on behind the scenes, if this investment or takeover isn’t in place by the start of next season and we don’t have a great summer with players any poor start to next season could have a major impact on the atmosphere at CR. The reality is we’re thinking of selling Omobamadele, Aaron’s, and other value assets to finance a change, to me I read this as saying we aren’t going to get much change at top level this summer! I believe this entire process might well drag on.