Crafty Canary

Thanks for clearing that one up for me.

I find it outrageous that people are having a go at GR. They were nailing down our coffin lid when he took over and he''s achieved the best resurrection job since Jesus raised Lazarus and God raised Jesus. In my mind that gives him the right to do what he believes to be best for our club. I''m really quite bored with all the rumours about whom we ight ot might not be after. Let''s face it every player that becomes available will as likely be linked to us simply becausewe need so many. I''m going to wait until definite signings are announced AND until I''ve seen them play for us. Too often in the past we''ve signed players that are supposed to be very useful signings and turn out to be crap. qually a plyer to whom the reaction is ''Who?'' can turn out to be a gem just like Walters has been for the scum. GR is the manager, we have to back hisjudgement as supporters given what he has achieved. People go on about him not being nice and not tolerating dissent etc. Perhaps that''s just what this club has needed for the last 3 seasons! The only protesting should be about the Board if they do not back him in the market as much as they can.     

Who is the Mr McCarthy that Maddad refers to regarding the ROI. Surely not Mick McCarthy as he''s not been ROI manager for some time. Is there another McCarthy in charge of the Republic''s youth system or is Maddad another wind up merchant?

Surely as the majority shareholder all he has to do is call an EGM and change the terms from 5 years to whatever he wants it to be? If  he was to own all the shares and take the club back into private ownership he wouldn''t even need to do that. I can''t believe (being cynical old me) that ''Good''Evans acquired majority ownership of Town for football or altruistic reasons. Greed seems more likely.

but not by someone who never witnesses the performances your ''experts'' are holding the board to account for. After all the decision makers are the board as they appoint the manager and make the funds available or not. No-one else. Shareholders have every right to hold the directors of the business to account for their actions.

Don''t you ever listen to Doooooooooooooomcaster? We''re on our uppers, we have to be prudent, we musn''t splosh the dosh. Look at clubs with financial frailties such as Hull City, Watford, Cardiff City, Plymouth, Burnley, Preston North End, Blackpool - do you really want us to finish as low as they have this season?

and this board to get off their collective arses and show some competence for a change in terms of  the squad. If we go into next season with anything like what we have now it will be ''League One here We Come!!'' 

[quote user="YankeeCanary"][quote user="Canary Nut"][quote user="YankeeCanary"]  I obviously have no right to comment on that because I do not see the games. [/quote] [/quote] Canary Nut, it obviously bothers you that I feel free to comment on the club ( not the matches ) while I am not attending games at Carrow Road, while you obviously do. Why don''t you try another angle of approach. Given that you attend matches why don''t you try to make it your objective to articulate that advantage you enjoy into more intelligent comments on this forum. Study the way I write, for example. I''ll be happy to be your mentor.  [/quote] Perhaps if you didn''t feel fit to make comments such as people being elitist because they dare to criticise the board (having personally witnessed the standard of football being played over a long period of time) they wouldn''t seek opportunities to have a go at you. Your posts exude an arrogance that your non-atendance at games doesn''t merit, albeit you have every right to comment in more generalised ways on the progress of our club.

Judge you have summed up my intended sentiments precisely. I''m not saying there should be no off-field investment (the jarrold Stand was essential for example) but the board cannot escape from the fact that they have not invested in the team suficiently NOR have they addressed the debt instead. They appear to have failed on both scores whilst spending a huge sum of money. They are culpable AND responsible.

The only opposition players I''ve seen him pass are those sitting on their bench.

Another product of that bar steward in Austria?

This board with their brilliant business acumen. When "let''s be havin'' you" said on promtion that club would adopt an ambition with prudence approach none of us complained as we understood that the board was trying to achieve success without bankrupting the club. However they have not matched ambition with prudence because not only didn''t they invest anywhere near enough in the team but THEY ALSO FAILED TO ADDRESS THE DEBT!!. Consequently all the premiership money and parachute payments were wasted and outr better players asset stripped to fund restaurants etc. This bunch are incompetent on a serious scale and must go if they once again fail to realise this is a football club and not a mega-catering outlet.

if there isn''t sensibloe investment this close-season then the protests against the board should start with the first home game of next season and continue until they are driven out. I''m fed up with my club being used as a vehicle for Delia''s marketing of her cookery programmes on the BBC. We are fast becoming a joke under this administration.

The first post sums him up to a T. He''s struggle in League One let alone the Championship. In League two he''d be fine and given Doomcaster''s words of encouragement that''s where we may well be at the end of the season after next.

At the risk of being accused of being elitist for daring to post a view Yankee doesn''t agree with, I would say that the board of NCFC alone are wholly culpable of the ridiculous situation our club finds itself in. They alone are the ones to make the decisions about our club. As fans we can express our views and opinions on various aspects of the club but only they have the power to act. They alone are responsible for appointments such as Hamilton, Walker (second reign) and Grant. They alone decide whether and what money will be available to managers such as Rioch who resigned because of lack of investment and possibly Roeder this summer. They alone prevaricated over sacking Worthington until a third of the season nearly had passed rather then the previous close-season so giving a new man a chance of getting us off on the right foot. They alone have decided that spending money on non-urgent fixed assets such as the community stand was a better idea than buying Ashton at the start of the Premiership season when his goals would have kept us up rather than waiting until January when it wasn''t quite enough.   They alone make excuses about ambition with prudence and then fritter away £30M Premiership money + £14M parachute payments without showing either ambition or prudence in addressing the club''s debt.   Instead they treat us like fools with their incessant spin about our finances. Quite how clubs like Burnley, Plymouth, Cardiff and Ipswich (until the Evans arrival) can CONSISTENTLY out performance us with much more financial problems than ourselves gives the lie to their duplicitous PR. Remember how players would be replaced one-for-one when we returned to the Championship? Didn''t happen! Remember how we were going to have the big push the second season down and only Croft was brought in at the eleventh hour? Didn''t happen! Remember how the Earnshaw, Etuhu and Safri money was going to the manager for replacements? Didn''t happen! Remember how the players were on status related contracts so that on relegation they would retirn to Championship wages? Didn''t happen! Instead the parachute payments were fritted away on maintaining the Premiership incomes of League One quality and performance players. Unfortunately there''s nothing we as fans can do about it except to make our feelings known and ultimately to stay away. However the club is the Wynne-Jonses'' plaything and as long as it can keep going the fans can go take a running jump. If we are to be relegated (i believe we will survive on GD from Southampton) then the Board must be convinced to go.  

Do you mean you have only just realised this? Where have you been?

Looking at all the remaining fixtures for the clubs at the bottom excluding Colchester and scunthorpe who I think are going down then I came to the conclusion that we would saty up by 1 point on 52 points. Below us would be barnsley and southampton both on 51 points with saints going down on goal difference. Mind you, i will be putting a bet on us going down next season unless GR can produce a minor miracle in transfer dealings over the summer.   l

Matty Pattison - Dean Martin

How about Gordon Bolland who struck up a pretty good partnership with Ron Davies? Then there was Laurie Sheffield who seemed to score in virtually every game he played but didn''t stay too long with us. I remeber seeing him score a hat-trick against Derby County on his home debut.

Figures in my all time worst eleven players to have worn the yellow and green. He was awful and just about summed up Lol Morgan who is one of the worst managers City have ever had along with ''Horror'' Hamilton and ''Good God'' Grant. Jimmy ''offside'' Blair was another of the all time worst eleven and I think Ron Saunders bought him as a two-fingered salute to Arthur South on his way out of the door.

Brum are now in the bottom 3. If they get relegated I don''t see them allowing Tiny to leave as they will lose players who don''t want to play in the Championship.

Poor old Doooooooooooooooooooomcaster would get repetitive strain injury of the wrist having to deal with all the paper work.

Is there really an issue here? The Huckster is a City legend and his contribution to the club since his arrival is unquestioned. However he is also getting older and cannot defy nature with respect to his speed and it is this attribute that hs game is built on. His hip has been a recurring problem over the last year and has undoubtedly affected his performances. Should Darren decide to call it a day at the end of this season and to take advantage of a last good payday in the US I say good luck to him and thank him for all he has done for our club. He could go with his head held high and the support of the fans ringing in his ears.

Why Bertrand? a) we have no cover for Camara except Lappin whilst drury is injured. b) expect to see Lappin depart in next week or so. c) don''t be surprised to see Drury depart in the summer if we get a good offer. He''s become a sick note and has shown he''s not Premiership quality. d) Bertrand is a cheap alternative so leaving the transfer budget, whatever it might be, in tact.   Now we just need Tiny, another decdent CB and a goal scoring front man and we''re away.  

Don''t be silly,Delia needs a new set of pots and pans for the kitchens. You would have to be naive to think it might be spent on something as wasteful as footballers. Anyone would think we''re a football club.