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CanaryCuddles

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  1. Yes we should have got rid of him after the bizarre interviews and slagging off the fans started. I guess the point where he himself wanted to leave but Delia begged him to stay is where it really should have ended.

    Unfortunately the owners should have sold the club years ago they are too or of touch and became too dependant on others to run the thing.

    Too stubborn to sell it to someone who might take a shot at making a success of it i.e. sell out to the evil Premier league , they seem to be rather reluctantly ceding power now they have found someone of equally modest ambition and shallow pockets to buy in to the club

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  2. 25 minutes ago, BroadstairsR said:

    But never actually played for them in the PL.

    Experienced PL strikers available to loan probably in limited supply though. I think the real issue is not already having a second striker who could step up to cover Sarge in the squad already (Barnes filling a different role and Idah not being ready).


  3. 6 hours ago, Indy said:

    So as we stand, this exciting news we were told by Webber is that we need to sell before we can buy!

    The initial excitement of the US link in reality, is no new money or chance of a takeover, Foulger not selling his shares and the additional shares available won’t be sold as it will devalue the holding and strength of the current majority share holders?

     

    I think the exciting news was never anything to do with this. It was the Partnership with the Brazilian club and something else possibly even the signing of Hayden if that was sufficiently advanced it looked like a done deal.

    I doubt Webber would have been hinting about the investment being imminent if it was still being negotiated, isn't going to be a real investment in the club anyway and likely might come to nothing. I suspect that the pinkun did think that was what he was referring to which is why they rushed ahead to get the story out while it was still an exclusive.

    If the pinkun hadn't got wind of it and in the end the investment comes to nothing we would probably have never known about it and the club still telling us there is no interest from anyone tu buy Norwich.... Who knows


  4. 49 minutes ago, Nora's Ghost said:

    Only a fool would invest in the club while Smith still had a say.

     

    Watch another chance to improve our fortunes slip away because the old cook won't let go.

    Not necessarily. I would however say that only a fool would invest in the club without proper corporate governance being put in place as a prerequisite. Also I assume they would require the right to appoint a representative to the board.


  5. I can't say exactly what fans were hoping for from this interview, but I would guess a lot were expecting Webber to take a major share of responsibility for the poor season instead of making a series of excuses and finger pointing. It's not about the 'fans' comment in isolation, it was yet more disasterous PR from him.

    We keep hearing that most sporting directors don't give this level of transparency, week maybe Webber should take note and stay out of the limelight. Not really sure what he thought was gained by this interview, certainly not appeasing the fan base

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  6. 25 minutes ago, canarybubbles said:

    He's done great things for the club and we're in a much better position than when he arrived, especially off the pitch. But being the Sporting Director of a football club that is trying to establish itself in the top league isn't a part-time job that you fit in with your other commitments. If he can't devote 100% of his energy to his role with the club, he should do the decent thing and resign and let someone who can give that devotion take over. We'd all say thank you very much for how you've improved our club and everyone could move on.

    He says he tried to leave  but Delia and Michael begged him to stay. The owners seem happy for him to give 90%  and pursue his other interests instead of replacing him.

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  7. On 08/03/2022 at 09:46, Worthy Nigelton said:

    My problem with Smith is not so much that he's a bad manager because I don't think he is. My problem is that the style he is currently playing is not far off long-ball, Stoke, Wimbledon, Bolton etc.

    Hanley to Gibson and whack 50 yards up the pitch or Gibson to Hanley and whack 50 yards up the pitch. Even the athlete-obsessed on here will get tired of that very quickly. The games just aren't fun anymore and I don't feel proud of the way my team are approaching things like I did under Farke - we are just like anyone else in our position. Boring, direct and still crap.

    I suspect that may be born out of necessity though. The players we have aren't capable of playing the attractive possession game at this lev. If they were I reckon Farke would have managed to get them performing.

    He is being pragmatic to get results; something Farke was unwilling or incapable of doing

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  8. 10 hours ago, Fiery Zac said:

    It’s all irrelevant, we were relegated bloody ages ago apparently. We should’ve given up back then and saved everyone time, effort and money.

    We already saved time effort and money by not bothering in the January window


  9. 2 hours ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

    Given he was on a 5 winless run with one of the most expensve teams in world football that also contained Bunedia.. Rather concerning

    Farke wasn't going to keep us up. We needed a change. We will probably still go down but at least we have tried something.

    Not sure who you were expecting was going to want the job that would be "better".


  10. 6 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:

    Thing is, Knutsen was my original choice - but would have been a massive gamble, and as it went in I decided/realised that was the ‘romantic’ rather than ‘sensible’ choice.  

    Imo far better to get a guy with shed loads of experience, who knows the game inside out in this country, has managed at all levels and is soneone we’d have never managed to get up until last weekend. He’s not a glamorous name to our fans, but I’m sure will win them round. The ridiculous media circus around FL meant that to me he’d have been a bad appointment.

    The thing is it's easy to point to Dean Smiths failings in the Premier league because he actually has some experience in it.

    Knutsen is the hipster choice but as you say massive gamble.


  11. 5 hours ago, rock bus said:

    We are clearly much stronger in depth BUT will we see the basis of the first 11 change? Will he drop the likes of Hanley or Gibson,  Krul, Cantwell, McLean, Rupp, Pukki etc to allow the new players to start?

    I think it's too early to answer that question but clearly we will know by the end of the season when the starting 11 could be very different. I think the point is all the players we signed have potential to become starters in the Prem that doesn't mean they will walk into the team

     

     

     

     


  12. 2 hours ago, Uncle Fred said:

    Einstein’s definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

    this model has been tested to destruction in the premier league and can’t possibly work

    why some are still trying to flog this dead horse I really can’t understand 

    Lol. How has the model been tested to destruction in the Premier league? We have had one season in the Premier league under Farke.


  13. 8 minutes ago, Indy said:

    I’m certainly critical of the clubs focus on more young players in areas we already have cover in before strengthening the weak areas.

    Im not sure they have necessarily prioritised those transfers, it's more a case that those are the ones they managed to get over the line first. Pretty sure if they could have signed a CB and CDM at the beginning of the window they would have. It's just the way it's panned out. The club has been open that we still have business to do.

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