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    In his farewell press release , which read mostly as a “look at how good I am” C.V , I thought it was magnanimous of Webber to acknowledge his failings and to accept responsibility for two disastrous relegations from the Premiership, appalling recent recruitment of players and Head Coaches and the financial crisis he leaves behind. We now have a squad where 11 players are over the age of 30, most of whom have constant injury issues, a Head Coach who cannot get that squad to play for him with awful team selections and bizarre substitutions, a normally loyal Supporter base which has been deliberately alienated, and a league position which reflects 6 years of Webbers “improvements”. I really do not care if the overpaid , failing players now have a nice swimming pool at Colney or a comfortable suite to relax in as they get their “hurty knees” rubbed. Give me entertaining football not the dross spewed up for us in the last two and a half seasons under Webber’s watch. Goodbye.

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    Everyone , including Chris Sutton, seems to agree that the first order of play for Knapper when he arrives on Monday will be to sack Wagner. However, I would rather see him sweep out all the overpaid dross from the dressing room. By which I mean all the players who I have witnessed in the last five home games that I have attended who have not applied themselves to the Head Coach’s game plan. That includes all the players who did not track back, all the players who did not even attempt to challenge for the ball, all the players who with nine Norwich players in front of them would turn round and pass back to the keeper, all the players who walked around the pitch and hardly broke sweat. Basically all the players who did not show the basic requirements of a professional football player with the correct attitude. Having done that , which will leave only a few left, perhaps the Club may have more ambition, more drive and less apathy.

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    It seems that everyone considers the sacking of Wagner by the new Sporting Director is a forgone conclusion. I am not so sure,  especially as the Club in programme notes and in a press statement underline their commitment to supporting their existing staff and players in order to pull through this crisis together. Is that really going to happen, without Knapper giving him support (or a chance to demonstrate his plan and work together ) ?  I don’t know.

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    1 minute ago, hogesar said:

    I suspect it totally depends on how Knapper performs.

    If he performs worse than the end of Webber's time, then you can almost guarantee posters will point back to successes of Webber reign and be questioning why we can't achieve that again 🙂 

    Very possibly true, but Webber has had his time and ultimately we are worse now than when he joined.  If there was a cohesive plan of how he would turn this crisis around and bring back those achievements, then I would be all for keeping him. But , then, he doesn’t want to stay and so should leave  with our thanks for the good times and our scorn for the bad times and the current mess he leaves behind.

  6. Posted · Edited by kenfoggo

    His legacy will be one of positives and negatives, yes. However as the negatives are all the most recent I suspect that is for which he will be remembered. Two excellent promotions to the Premiership, but two disastrous relegations back to the Championship. His glaring inability to make good on his aim to make Norwich a Premiership long term feature. The last two seasons of abject dross he has spawned with no clue as to how to improve. The squandering of resources and failure to give the Head Coach an effective squad. The  complete alienation of the fans and treating them with contempt by calling them names involving derogatory terms such as “divorcees”. His declaration that he was only prepared to devote 90% of his massive talent to the highly paid position with which he was entrusted . His refusal to leave having announced he did not want to be here and having resigned and so generating a rudderless Club for the last 8 months .His not even attending the last home game while the Club is in crisis, preferring to attend the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix. The fact that under his tenure Norwich City does not now have a squad capable of even beating Rotherham or being competitive in the top half of the Championship . The fact that financially the Club is in a deep debt crisis with no coherent plan for the future. After all his best efforts he leaves the Club in a worse state than when he joined, which is ultimately how he will be viewed and how he should be viewed. In my eyes he is an arrogant, uninspiring, failure and I personally will not be sorry to see him gone. And I did not even need to mention the lunacy of appointing Dean Smith nor the madness of appointing his old chum , Wagner, as Head Coach.

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    The atmosphere in the ground after going two nil down after 15 minutes at home was as if 20,000 plus people had all collectively suddenly realised that they were being treated with contempt, they were being mugged, having their trousers pulled down. What a sad shambles this Club has become.

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    Strange, weird, surreal afternoon. I cannot remember 20,000 people being so disinterested in the game in front of them. It was as if it was all expected . Giving away cheap goals, the game over after 15 minutes 2 nil down at home and players simply walking about the pitch with no commitment or competence. It was all expected. Even when they had a man sent off, against 10 men, Norwich had no intent , no challenge . I’m not bothering to turn up again until a lot changes with the Club and the squad.

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    Perhaps Carrow Road in 2033 will look considerably different. With a £27.2 million Loss last year and Debts of £76 million (having borrowed against future earnings) and without promotion this year back to the Premiership (and the lucrative T.V revenue) the financial situation may prompt the Club to sell assets, and not just talented players. The  major asset of the Club is the ground and surrounding real estate which may need to be sold to appease creditors. The current accounts indicate an unsustainable position with interest payments alone to furnish that level of debt may be enough to push the Club into insolvency.  Carrow Road May look attractive as a housing estate or another shopping area.

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    “We should not put too much pressure on the senior pros”  - Wagner’s prematch press. What!?!!!!!?  No , let us not put any pressure on the senior pros, poor loves.  The senior pros are exactly the players we all expect to step up and perform. They should feel pressure to perform like senior pros. Or should we all expect them to continue making schoolboy errors and scoring own goals and not putting in  hard graft on match day? The man management of our Head Coach is beyond ludicrous. 

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  15. Posted · Edited by kenfoggo

    One wonders what is the common denominator behind all the support staff leaving and all of the players who have left and cannot muster a good word to be said about the management regime? Could it be the Sporting Director who has amassed the reputation of being arrogant and autocratic? And yet, he is still here having resigned in March 2023, dragging us further down the league and into financial crisis. Deep joy.

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    Wagner quote today “ I will not change my behaviour whether we won 6 games in a row or we lost 6 games in a row, that would make no sense…”. Oh dear, we can expect more questionable team selection, more dubious tactics and more insane substitutions. What really does not make any sense is why we still allow Wagner to lead a squad if he is not prepared to adopt some form of change in order to try and halt the losing streak he is currently on. “ The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again but expecting different results” - Albert Einstein.

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    The Sporting Director resigned in March. He does not want to be here and he certainly wants nothing more to do with the Club. Why is he still here?  Even before his resignation he declared that he was only willing to give 90% effort to the job. How much of his immense talent is he prepared to give during his prolonged notice period? I suggest that , having witnessed a pathetic summer transfer window and the continuing cozy little love-in with his chum Wagner, that Webber could not care a jot about Norwich City F.C. and holds the Supporters , the Squad and the Owners in complete contempt. So why the inertia from the Owners in doing something about the crisis at their Club?  Surely they cannot contemplate Webber staying in place to infect the new Sporting Director with his negativity during an extended handover period? Staggeringly inept governance!

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    The Sporting Director resigned in March. What is he still doing here? He does not want to be here or be part of the Club. Before resigning he declared he would only ever give 90 percent to the Club, how much do you think he can be bothered to give while acting out his notice period? Judging by the disastrous summer recruitment and the cozy laugh in he enjoys with his failing chum Wagner I suggest that he does not care at all. This has infected the whole Club . I have never experienced an atmosphere of such negativity and feeling of hopelessness at Carrow Road. Does anyone relish the plan of a protracted handover period with the new Sporting Director so that Webber can infect him with his ethos of failure? He should have been asked to leave the building the day he resigned. What a disaster his retention has proved to be!

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    If Stuart Webber had not already resigned and was serving his notice, would any Club consider that his current performance was satisfactory? I suggest that with the toxic relationship he has engendered with the Supporters , the state of the squad that he has engineered, the performance of his appointed Head Coach, our performances on the pitch and the current league position- at any other Club he would be shown the door regardless of any previous success. He is now not fit for purpose and I contend that he has not been for a considerable length of time.

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    My apologies ! Should not have given the impression that I was critical of Zoe Webber just because she is linked by marriage to Stuart Webber. Rather I am wondering if she is competent in her own right as being Executive Director she is in charge of the strategy of the Club. If that strategy is to be in the lower half of the Championship with a failing squad led by a failing Head Coach and a disinterested Sporting Director, then she is a raging success. My apologies.

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