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  1. Jim Smith
    I''m not sure whether he would be right for us (there are some managers you just can''t really imagine at your club) but its fair to say that Grayson has done a fantastic job there. Did a number on us tactically earlier in the season although to be fair Neil gets outmanaged and done tactically by pretty much any manager with a bit of experience.
  2. Jim Smith
    Whilst there are some obvious candidates who need moving on the prospect of Neil being allowed to rebuild the squad in order to try and cover up his own glaring shortcomings as a manager fills me with dread and I think is bound to fail because he is not good enough and he cannot coach or organise a team defensively regardless of who he has at his disposal.
  3. Jim Smith
    No. He is an awful, awful manager and needs to go before he ruins our club any further. Any manager who need a director of football to help them is not qualified in the first place.
  4. Jim Smith
    Has Morty been banned then? He is notable by his absence. What did he do? As much as we disagreed on things shame to see him banned.
  5. Jim Smith
    Long balls certainly wouldn''t be different. We reverted to long ball sh*te several weeks ago.
  6. Jim Smith
    @Dorset my own view is that as we have good individual players there are bound to be days like Forest, particularly against the weaker sides at home. We stuck two wonder goals in inside the first 20 minutes which obviously builds momentum. Where we are found lacking is any game where we need the team to be equal to or greater than the sum of its parts as relying on individual skill to win games is not enough, especially with our appalling defence who will give any team at least two clear chances. In a game. Teams with decent strikers punish us.
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    [quote user="Dorset Canary"]Do we really know the full problem, is it Alex or are some players being @r$e holes??? A new manager turns things around with little input of new players at Chelsea and the same so called cr@p manager starts a good turnaround at MUFC So is it the club the players or the manager???[/quote] Some of the players have let themselves down but ultimately that comes down to whether they truly respect and are playing for their manager. I think they saw through this bullying little clown a long time ago.
  8. Jim Smith
    I genuinely think they are deluded f**king idiots who think Neil is talented and can rebuild the squad and that the players are to blame.
  9. Jim Smith
    They clearly do not respect Neil and why should they? they have realised he''s massively out of his depth for quite some time now.
  10. Jim Smith
    [quote user="City 2nd"]PurpleCanary wrote the following post at 2017-03-04 8:50 PM: Crafty Canary wrote: Do you think Moxey got the elbow for stating the priority was promotion, promotion, promotion? Delia wouldn''t have liked that, going up would mean mixing with all those nasty big money clubs again. No. That was not the reason. So what was? You speak as if you know! Spill![/quote] I believe there were various reasons. A clue as to one is the "short form" season ticket renewal pack we all received!
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    [quote user="morty"]Is anyone actually saying " I''m gonna watch jack reeve instead of watching sky sports" though? It''s not like he is making any money out of it. The whole thing is a nonsense. I have a thing with my mates where when I get to an away ground I take a pic of the empty ground and post it on Facebook with the caption " $hit ground, no fans" are they going to stop me doing that?[/quote] Presumably he is making money out of it though morty, is that not the point? His YouTube tv channel is a commercial operation?
  12. Jim Smith
    I don''t think anyone is advocating "getting rid" of him at this juncture, merely commenting that if he was targeted for the job and interested in it then it might provide an escape route for all parties from what promises to be a pretty awkward situation if we do not make the playoffs whereby the majority of fans want him gone but the club either can''t or won''t pay the money it takes to sack him. He may also know that he will never regain the support of many fans and be looking for an escape route. There seems to be a substantial element of our support who think that if we can no longer make the playoffs then the club will act and remove him ahead of next season. I can''t really see any basis for that belief and think that they will let him carry on into next season.
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    Archant putting the wrong spin on this in my view by potraying this as an attempt to clamp down on "fans". Its actually the latest instalment of an ongoing spat between Reeve and the EFL authorities over videos (filmed in the ground) posted on his site. I doubt very much that the EFL give a t**s about the odd selfie or crowd shot video finding its way onto the net but he is using these videos for commercial purposes and so I would assume should have a licence.
  14. Jim Smith
    Re the Snakepit - someone threw a flare onto the pitch after our disallowed goal. A few minutes later the stewards started wading in to try and remove a fan right in the middle of the block. I assume this was the fan they thought was responsible although I have no idea if he was. They did it in their usually stupid heavy handed manner which inflamed everyone in the vicinity and resulted in a lot of pushing and shoving. One very agitated bloke was going mental at the stewards for something or other. Basically they handled it very badly and it nearly kicked off quite badly but in the end it was mainly just pushing and shoving. Could have just waited for the bloke at the end of the game and intercepted him if they knew who he was.
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    problem is they are broke and we are reportedly paying him very well. I doubt that Rangers can pay him on the same level we currently are.
  16. Jim Smith
    Please let this happen. Don''t get greedy and ask for compensation just take any opportunity to get rid without a payoff.
  17. Jim Smith
    He should have changed it before the scum goal was my point. It was coming but he just reacts rather than pre-empty. I just feel that he adds nothing to the sum of the parts with his tactics whereas if you take Lamberts time with us I think his game management and the late goals that often resulted were probably worth 10 points a season to us. The other playoff contenders score late goals, we don''t. Also he had two subs stripped off ready to come on as Murphy scored who he then sent back to the dugout. I don''t think he held his nerve he was just having his usual conference with his coaches over what he should do.
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    We were clearly a class above but once again we''re not able to find a way to win a game we needed to and really should have done. Several Norwich sides in recent years I think would have gone on to win that game having equalised but we just don''t seem to have the character/belief amongst this group to lay siege to a team and force late winners. I was disappointed again with the managers reading of the game and inability to influence it with his subs. I still struggle to think of a single example of him making a change to the system or personnel during the match that has gained us points. I thought it was crying out for Naismith to some off for about 10 minutes before their goal as we started to struggle a bit and needed to retain possession better but he never makes the change until we concede.
  19. Jim Smith
    Could we play Naismith, Wes and Pritchard as the three behind Jerome. I would like to see that, think the three of them interchanging would be a right handful.
  20. Jim Smith
    [quote user="westcoastcanary"]@Essjayess[Y] Fact is, AN ticks the majority of boxes implicit in any such job specification, which I guess is why he enjoys continued support from the board. The main problem IMO is his refusal (in ron obvious''s words) to "pay more than lip service to defence". As I''ve said on other threads, believing that handing the opposition scoring opportunities is the acceptable cost of "expansive" football is hardly a recipe for taking the club forward. [/quote] What boxes does AN tick aside from the non specific claim that he''s a "talented young manager." Can someone please tell me what those talents actually are because they are certainly not tactical awareness, game management, man management or having an eye for a good value signing? Some of the above posts smack of the infernal "but who else is there" line which is defeatist and not a reason not to sack a failing manager.
  21. Jim Smith
    We have a better team than Reading, Leeds or Shef Wednesday and its a bit of a joke that we are playing catch up. I certainly wouldn''t fear any of them if we do manage to sneak into the playoffs. But they have all been better than us at grinding out results, particularly away from home so whilst we have a glimmer of hope that''s all it is. I would prefer to keep both Leeds and Wednesday within touching distance so perhaps a draw would be the best result for us. I think they both have to play Reading and perhaps also Newcastle in the not to distant future so there will be plenty of weekends where teams take points off each other. we simply cannot afford any more Burton type slip ups though.
  22. Jim Smith
    Depends on what the notice period/termination provisions were really Nutty. Either way its galling that someone can be monumentally cr*p at their job and get a multi million payout for failure. Not exclusive to Neil/Norwich by any means but a sad indictment of modern football. As also is someone like Mark Clattenburg becoming some sort of celebrity and being snapped up by Saudi Arabia on a megabucks deal. Very sad.
  23. Jim Smith
    True Nutty although the clear inference from the story was that we lengthened his notice period to compensate for the fact that his wages had been reduced on relegation. I would be interested to know from someone with more knowledge of company law matters than myself whether shareholders can in any way compel disclosure of new contracts given to key employees such as the manager. I guess not unless you have enough votes!
  24. Jim Smith
    @Nutty No i''m not maoning about those goals v Forest Nutty. I enjoyed those goals very much. I was merely making the point that they were moments of individual excellence rather than indicative of great team play or cohesion. They set up a deserved victory but then we will win most weeks if we stick two in the top corner from 30 yards in the first 20 minutes. The game was effectively over after Wes scored.
  25. Jim Smith
    Its the one quality he has that I admire Morty, the way he has managed to hang on in there and keep his job. That''s it though.
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