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    15 hours ago, PurpleCanary said:

    Thanks to Mr Bunce and Shef. Just to refer to shef’s last paragraph, I can’t resist making the debating point that getting into debt was in reality what many fans advocated, and now we’ve done that there is an outbreak of horrified pearl-clutching…

    To be more serious, leaving aside the fact that many Championship clubs have large debts, one difference with some of them is that this seems mainly to be internal/friendly debt. So there is also a significant difference from the last time we had potentially restrictive debts (although compared to these numbers they now seem small beer), back 12 or 13 years or so.

    Then it was mainly to external lenders - AXA and Bank of Scotland - and although as it happens they were happy enough to agree to a needed refinancing with a long repayment schedule they might not have been.

    Love the thought of that, we are one tough crowd. Look on and tremble, Millwall.  🤣🤣

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    On 27/10/2023 at 20:41, Canaries north said:

    Are you saying that companies not advocating relationships in management positions is based on no facts or the talented people leaving? 

     

    I can only speak from my own experience. I was a manager, in a much lower position than the Webber's but for a national company. We never had a written rule as such about dating other staff members but, in no uncertain terms we knew it was more than just frowned upon.

     

    I became close to my boss and we decided it was better for me to leave for another company as if it came out it would make her career progression very difficult.

     

    Despite what a pain this was I could already hear whispers about us and it was not a healthy position. 

     

    I can only imagine at the levels the Webbers are at it must have caused problems at times. 

     

    If it was the talented people leaving you was disagreeing with then I really don't know but that was not the only company I have worked for that looked down on management relationships. 

    Same for me, but the other way round when I managed Nicole Scherzinger, it was all too much for her so I went back to calling Bingo in Yarmouth................ I'm a very giving sort of guy  😉

  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, hogesar said:

    I think you're going to be hideously disappointed if we do sign a CDM as he wouldn't have made a jot of difference if our LB let's a free inside run into the penalty area and our CB loses the ball on the edge of his area. We still lose the game.

    I guess the question for me there is should that CB be in the team. We have an experienced CB on the bench who was POTS for a pretty good Championship side last year but never seems to get on the pitch for us and we also have a youngster who looked good in the, admittedly, very little time we saw him in the first team. 

  9. Posted

    On 25/10/2023 at 08:22, Feedthewolf said:

    In theory, yes, but I doubt Webber will want to swing the axe on his old mate Wagner. As someone else mentioned, though, might be a good idea to put Pelach in charge in the meantime.

    Our three matches before the next international break are all against teams above us in the table, so if our current poor form continues then we could be in a right old mess. I don't expect us to get anything at Sunderland, and if we start badly at home to Blackburn then things could get really toxic.

    But if he puts Pelach in charge, then he will have had to sack Wagner so I would still say that if Knapper has a name in mind, then Webber's leaving gift should be to go out and get him.

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    9 hours ago, Feedthewolf said:

    We're in a bit of a Catch-22 here. Knapper doesn't start his job with us until November 27. If we were to lose both Webber and Wagner, who appoints the new manager? Or do we just drift along with Neil Adams and Steve Weaver doing both jobs between them until Knapper gets his feet under the table?

    Get rid of just Wagner, and we're entrusting Webber with another managerial appointment, which is probably more fallacious than sticking with Wagner. Get rid of just Webber (although that's not going to happen anyway unless he walks and we stick him on gardening leave or whatever), and we'll still be watching the same directionless dross on the pitch.

    Christ knows we need a refresh, but I think we need to ride this one out until December. I just hope that we can scrape together enough points between now and then to keep us mid-table. Whatever happens from here, Webber has royally screwed any legacy he might have; we're in a worse league position than when he arrived, with a squad that's light on talent and high on 'experience', accumulating debt and about to have the strings snipped on our parachute payments.

    It doesn't look as if the 'takeover', if we can call it that, is likely to generate the club a great deal of capital any time soon; our best bet is to appoint a progressive young manager, put our faith back in the youth academy, and ask ourselves why the hell we signed five players aged 31 or over this summer.

    As our dear friend @ricardo always says, football is cyclical. Sadly it looks as if we're very much on a downward trajectory, while that lot up the road have found their 2010-era Lambert to drag them up the divisions kicking and screaming. It's a thoroughly depressing time to be a Norwich fan.

    I don't see why Webber could not have a conversation with Knapper about a potential new manager. 

    If Knapper has somebody in mind, there is no reason why Webber couldn't go out and get him. Equally, if he doesn't have anybody specific in mind - Webber could share his list of potential managers and see who Knapper thinks he would like to employ ??

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    49 minutes ago, nutty nigel said:

    Ffs this again and the usual suspects make things up.

    Chase wasn’t majority shareholder or owner. He was chairman. And was enabled by the weakest board in our clubs history. Everything that happened the board were aware of and signed off. Even when he appointed himself CE and paid himself a salary. He tried buying more shares when it was rumoured we would be floated on the stock market. He even wrote to me to find if I was still alive in his attempt to hoover up a lot of the minority shareholdings.
     

    Were you ?  🙂

     

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    Just wanted to say thanks to all those who have provided these old photos - I love 'em.

    Such a different world, I'm 62 and lived in Yarmouth but went to the Carra regularly as a kid and carried on until I left Norfolk to join the RN. I love seeing the way everything was, certainly can't imagine a ground with no barriers having been at the infamous Man U game, but hey, so nice to see everybody indulging in this nostalgia 🙂

     

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  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, ricardo said:

    Yet another very warm Saturday and with no chance of sneaking a lift to the ground we had no option but to resort to the bikes. I was well puffed just pumping the tyres up but somehow I made it to CR without a heart attack.

    Games against wee Alex are usually very tight affairs but judging by the opening quarter of the game it looked as though it might turn out very one sided. City looked fresh and dangerous from the get go with some sweeping attacks down both wings and before five minutes was on the clock Sara had swerved a twenty-five yarder a foot wide of Travers right post and Fassnacht had brought a save from the keeper with a shot from the edge of the area. On fifteen minutes City swept down the right and Sara's ball found Gianoullis who managed to stab the ball across the face of goal and somehow niether Barnes nor the Stoke Keeper could get a touch.

    You could see that Rowe was brimming with confidence as he took defenders on and it wasn't very long before he was on the end of a bit of rough house stuff from the Stoke full back. It was good to see that he could dish out a bit of physicality himself as there was a bit of argy bargy on the goal line whenever City took a corner.

    We saw little of the visitors as an attacking force until the mid point of the half when a speculative long range effort ended up flying yards over Gunn's bar. It signalled a flurry of action in the Home defence as the central defenders were called upon to fend off a couple of sharp balls in from the Stoke right and there were appeals for a penalty when Gibson appeared to fall over the back of a big Stoke striker. Some Ref's might have given it and it did look rather clumsy even from a hundred yards away. Back down our end there was a burst of goal mouth action as the Home side retained possession and got numbers in the box. A cut back found Idah free on the edge of the box but his precise side foot never had the power or placement to beat Travers.

    Sara and McLean combined beatifully at times and in the space of a few minutes we were treated to the full range of the Brazillians passing skills. A lovely crossfield pass almost got Fassnacht in but he delayed too long, then a slide rule pass from quick free kick got Rowe into a shooting position only for Travers to get right behind it. It had been a good half but it seemed we were to be denied the reward we deserved until on the stroke of forty five minutes Rowe challenged for a cross and got enough on it to deflect the ball into Stacey's path at the angle of the six-yard box and the City full back did enough to get the ball over the despairing grasp of the Stoke keeper to give the home side the lead. Stoke almost got one themselves with the last kick of the half but the ball flew wide and we all breathed again

    It was certainly no less than we deserved and the talk at halftime was more about extending the advantage in the next forty-five.

    Unfortunately football has a way of changing direction for no accountable reason and from the restart City were never able to reassert their first half dominance. It didn't help that a couple of dithering moments while trying to play out from the back, set the nerves jangling. The visitors penned us back for long minutes and there were a couple of scrambles as corners were cleared.

    I thought Idah had done reasonably well and got involved in some nice passing moves but had never really looked like scoring so I wasn't shocked that he was pulled on sixty minutes, along with Gianouliss who I imagine Wagner was playing safe with, due to a yellow card. Placheta looked immediately lively, showing a turn of speed down the left but Hwang did little to impress during his brief cameo. Admittedly the home side were mostly on the back foot so I wouldn't be over critical.

    I don't recall many heart in the mouth moments as Stoke perssured the home defence, it was more a case of being unable to relieve that pressure for any concerted period of time. Rowe was replaced by Onel with twenty minutes left and Gibbs and Sprigett came on for the visibly tiring Barnes and Fassnacht for the last ten plus added time. I think most of us were just wishing the clock to go round a bit faster, take the three points and go home. Eventually thats the way it did turn out and although it was never a spectacle it was certainly a deserved win on the balance of chances created and a clean sheet is never to be sneezed at.

    Sara my MOM, best player on the pitch by a country mile. honourable mentions for Kenny , Stacey and Rowe. Not a classic by any means but It will need to be better on Wednesday if we are to pick anything up.

     

     

     

    Funny how we all see things differently, thought Kenny was way ahead of Sara today

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  20. Posted · Edited by Mark .Y.

    21 minutes ago, BroadstairsR said:

    Another drop in intensity in the second half. Stoke were able to be too dominant. Rowe, in particular tires, as do others. Wagner perhaps needs to sort out his substitutes a bit better to take this into account. I'm thinking that Foreshaw might well play a part in this and perhaps a fit Sorensen also. 

    I thought today's match situation was exactly why we brought Foreshaw in. Was fully expecting him to come on and sit in front of the back four for the last 20 minutes, very surprised he didn't.

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  22. Posted

    22 minutes ago, TheBaldOne66 said:

    Joyland, good restaurants, and the new Marina.

    But it does have a lot of skanks and Eastern Europeans too, I avoid it as much as possible when I’m home from the desert but then we do live in Gorleston which is far better! 

    I was born in Cobholm, Yarmouth, but moved to, and grew up, in Gorleston.

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