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I think some of the language he used was surprising and unnecessary. Whilst it is true that certain sections of the fanbase were very, very negative at an early stage, he should really have known better than to bite. Appealing to their better senses at an earlier stage of the season could perhaps have been more productive. It's obviously an industry where you will always get a minority of idiots with their own narrative, or unrealistic expectations of where their club should sit in the Football League. Some of the behaviour directed toward him after games, was as cowardly as it was despicable and there are right and wrong ways to go about protesting. Difficult not to react to the aggressive nature of what you are experiencing I imagine, when your wife is there to witness it too. All in all an ugly series of events, and perhaps some clarification is required to correct the generalist way in which his criticisms appear to have been interpreted. 21,500 season tickets sold demonstrates the desire to support a campaign which would see Webber et al putting right some of what has gone wrong in the past 12 months. The other way of looking at it, is to remind yourself that it is just football...and nobody died.

Not sure whether you have your own rules or laws in Cornwall Sam, but you really are creeping into the realms of sub judice here as far as UK law is concerned and that cannot be advisable.

Let me know which ones you are struggling with and will try to help. I stopped short of saying endeavour.

This should be good. Which particular 'big' words are you referring to?

'Shut your trap'... playground language and yet, so typical of the nonsense that we are having to put up with from a dullard minority who have completely changed the vibe and atmosphere surrounding the club. Hopefully you are not an attendee, because quite frankly you are an embarrassment.

Brilliant...hung, drawn and quartered by our resident NCFC legal experts without a shred of evidence being seen or offered. The internet really is a magnet for the bottom-feeders isn't it!

and ...and pathetic, childish responses like this are prime examples of why it is impossible for the club to communicate effectively with true fans. Webber's error was to communicate with those who don't deserve a response, because of the energy that they sap from the club. Target communication at the 21,500 who renewed with a vow of continued support and leave the others to their fruit-based cider and nonsensical tik-tok-destined protests.

Maybe I am being generous, but I do sincerely believe that absolutely no-one would have wanted or expected the outcome we all had to endure. Positivity beats negativity hands down in my book and in the knowledge that Webber isn't going to be replaced any time soon, we should at least respect that decision and try to start the new season with a clean slate as regards our collective attitude to the board etc. A continuation of the malaise which has set in between the club and its fanbase would create a huge obstacle for the manager and playing staff going into a challenging campaign and it is unfamiliar and unwelcome at a club like our own. I suspect everyone at the club will be working hard to correct what has happened on and off the field of play.

It's a bigger world than the average fan tends to consider...relegation doesn't really cut it alongside a war or famine or human trafficking. I'm not suggesting the climb is without it's cost, but what he does with the knowledge and perspective gained could outweigh the 'footprint' as you call it. If he's got any sense, he will leave the sport and do something more meaningful. It can't be any fun reading some of the crap the knuckle-draggers are currently spouting in their tiny lives.

He has explained the timing of key decisions and the thinking behind them. You have the wonderful benefit of hindsight, but I suspect that with the same set of circumstances he would make the same decisions for the same reasons. He is paid to make decisions for a club which doesn't afford him the luxury of being able to keep the best players or to spend £70 million on a striker after xmas. He is either hamstrung by the owners not wanting to compromise the log-term future of the club, or being put in a position where yo-yoing is part of the plan. I suspect his frustration is with the fans that don't really think about or have any inkling of what hoops a club of our size has to jump through just to survive in the PL.

"When will we get our guns back?"

Are you seriously suggesting the Webber should have prevented any of those going in? The informed are entitled to be perceived as arrogant or egotistical in my opinion. They earn that right opposite the bedsheet-sporting buffoons whose business plan's would start with a crayon. The alternative would be to agree with those naysayers and entitled fans, who have zero meaningful suggestions or solutions, but a limitless supply of uniformed criticism.

Oh no...a man wanting a climb a mountain to gain some perspective of the world we live in and our miniscule place and role in it. Does not compute...does not compute.

Brilliant!!!! LOL

He's merely using language that idiots can understand. Agree with him totally about the bedsheet brigade and it's about time people started to think about the complexities of running a football club at the highest level. Absolutely sick and tired of wading through threads from those demanding the right to be at the top table season after season. For any fan who feels they need more the situation can be easily remedied by providing the £300 million required to consolidate a Premier League spot (possibly...)

Nope. Why would anybody?

You really have twisted what he said haven't you!??? Having to deal with 26,000 experts like yourself week in week out must be an absolute nightmare. Webber didn't want what happened to happen, but he ultimately takes the rap because that is his job and what he is paid for. He's probably working with one of the most vague strategic briefs in the league because of the owners and their investment limitations and their desire to keep the club almost as a family heirloom, yet expecting or wanting to maintain Premier League status.

Kabak can control a ball further than he can kick it and looks like a bit of a liability at PL level and the fact that Hanley has presided over gaining just two points thus far means he is due a break. I'd make Normann captain at Brentford.

It’s a bit like Lambert this virus...it continues to mutate and is impossible to get rid of

Just reading through the unbelievable post-match interview between Lambert and the local press following their game at Oxford and wondering how such a situation has been allowed to develop. It is inconceivable to imagine Farke so at odds with supporters and for that behaviour to be supported by the owners of the club. Fans are of course, always entitled to share opinions, based on their historical expectations, but the degree to which the tail is wagging the dog at Portman Road, certainly makes me feel very lucky to enjoy the security, professionalism and common-sense provided by Webber and his team. If Marcus Evans does bow to the supporter pressure, brought about by the journalistic equivalent of the school magazine, it would surely set a precedent, the like of which, has never been seen at such a high profile club. Either way, I rejoice at the stability, enthusiasm and commitment brought to our club, by a very special German and a highly perceptive Englishman.

It may well be (worth) investing £10 to watch, given the Lambert situation and the potential for a sixth loss in nine games. The firework is lit and it’s surely just a matter of time before he blows, leaving a pile of fine-knit Merino wool and his glasses welded to the dug-out.

I suspect you might be right about swinging in Wickham Market

'FIVE MORE YEARS' 'FIVE MORE YEARS' 'FIVE MORE YEARS"...📢

Well written... but by another of their fans- albeit a proper journalist on this occasion. It occurs to me, that the piece says more about the state of the club, than the efforts of the current manager. The reality, is that the club may well have folded, had it not been for Evan's intervention, BUT that they were effectively consigned to this type of eventuality at the point they allowed his takeover to happen. For 'Ipswich' read Sunderland, Coventry, Blackpool, Notts County...the list goes on and on and on. They failed to make it into football's financial castle, before the drawbridge was pulled well and truly up. We may never play them again.

Is it fair to say that there has been a loss of context here? Petitions to re-instate a hobbyist journalist who happens to be a fan of your club, alongside campaigns for feeding hungry schoolchildren, the right to access clean drinking water and mandatory life sentences for those who recklessly take a life? There is of course, always the possibility that the manager isn't the problem? Lambert maintained full support and a full stadium whilst at CR, only running out of credit, when personal ambition overtook what was safe for the club to pursue at that particular moment in time. When your football club, sells out to a man, who effectively uses it as a financial tool, within a wider business strategy, it is quite likely you will get your fingers burned. You therefore have my sympathy, but not my vote. Stay well in this global pandemic