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  1. Olsson should not have been allowed to go until we have one secured. It would not surprise me if we sell both Brady and Olsson before getting a new left back in.
  2. @Morty - its the fact that much of it appears self inflicted (or more accurately inflicted by our owners delusion) that is getting people coupled with the realisation that football and football finances have changed and that their proposed model could see sleep walking towards struggling for a long time and being overtaken by many others. We''ve certainly been a lot sh*tter in the not too distant past but we had no money, very few good players and needed a complete rebuild. It was in many ways easier to accept poor quality on the pitch in such circumstances. At this point in time there is not really an excuse. In years to come we may well all reconcile ourselves with being sh*t again and actually perversely be a lot happier with our lot but that does not mean people do not have a right to be frustrated with what is going on now.
  3. I like Lansbury but far from convinced he is what we need. he had moments of excellence but went missing in a quite a few games but more than anything he''s another central midfielder who is more attacking than defensive. We already have four central, attacking midfielders and Neil has made a pigs ear of handling them already.
  4. I think Bosley very much stepped up to the plate during difficult times when he initially came into office and didn''t take £90k for it either. £90k not far off Balls annual salary as an MP of course so not bad for three months work holding a few interviews I would expect the chairman to be involved with anyway.
  5. [quote user="morty"][quote user="Jim Smith"]NB for anyone on direct debit who wants to opt out of the academy donation (I may actually not renew my season ticket but make a separate donation to the academy) the small print says you have to do it by Friday 4th Feb - i.e. 8 days before the deadline.[/quote]Cheers Jim, I missed this last year.I''m not against donating to the academy, but wasn''t overly happy in the stealthy way it was concealed, and the fact you opt out, rather than opt in. [/quote] Yes stealthy is the word! Reckon a lot of people will miss it.
  6. We shouldn''t mock them too much. We are a little way off yet but we are headed in the same direction.
  7. NB for anyone on direct debit who wants to opt out of the academy donation (I may actually not renew my season ticket but make a separate donation to the academy) the small print says you have to do it by Friday 4th Feb - i.e. 8 days before the deadline.
  8. Aside from the odd occasion Wes always puts in a good shift regardless of his relationship with the manager. The other aspect to this is that Neil is unlikely to ever be able to recover a large number of the fans, even if he rebuilds the squad and there is a bit of an improvement. The resentment built up in this period will always be there under the surface.
  9. If I was a betting man I would say they were going to put them up but have rightly gauged the mood and decided against it. I have said above credit for at least not putting them up but its not like its some kind of fantastic gesture to the fans to keep the ticket prices the same as we were paying in the prem a while back. The other thing that''s a bit naughty is that in the last two years they have really brought forward the first renewal deadline which used to be in April. That said this season its a bit more obvious which division we are likely to be in!
  10. Just seen the season tickets frozen announcement. that is at least something although it will no doubt be spun as some sort of grand gesture when the reality is the tickets were at prem prices when they were previously frozen. Should really come down.
  11. That''s what they rely on Hairy. We renew because its just what we do. I am genuinely torn on the matter to be honest. On the one hand I like my seat, have always been proud to be a season ticket holder and I take pride in the strength and loyalty of our support base, particularly in comparison with the sc*m. I have resisted at all costs any suggestions from my wife over the years to relinquish my season ticket even though at present I can''t really justify the expense in terms of the number of home games I can get to but I''ve had my season ticket for 28 years (and had an away season ticket for quite a few years out of that) and its "my" thing that I have and do with mates rather than gold membership etc. On the other hand I am currently veering towards not renewing because I cannot stand the thought that the board just take our renewals year on year as a mandate to carrying on with their deluded, misguided actions which are currently wrecking the club I love and I think are totally out of touch with the views of their fans and eroding a lot of the enjoyment I get out of watching football. The Times interview was really a further wake up call for me. I feel I need to make a stand and I feel I maybe need a break for a bit for my own peace of mind because I get so angry about things at Carrow Road. I will always love and support this club and go to games when I can but I cannot currently support the current regime (and the prospect of the Nephew is not something I enthuse over) and I think they see the sold out season tickets as being support for them as much as the club. I will make a late decision and much may depend on what happens between now and the renewal deadlines plus whether they have the sheer nerve to try and put the price up.
  12. @Morty - the poor defending has been undermining us all season and it is that which started to erode the belief once we started dropping points because of it. In my view its to do with how we are coached and set up. Midfielders consistently fail to track their man back, full backs consistently fail to stop crosses coming in and when crosses do come in our defenders are too often the wrong side of the man or marking space. Even when we were getting good results these flaws were costing us goals and making the latter stages of games uncomfortable. ALL of our defenders are capable of doing these basic things (except maybe Martin winning headers as a CB) so the fact they are all seemingly unable to do it in this set up suggests to me that there is a deeper problem then belief.
  13. @king - don''t disagree a couple of proper leaders would not go amiss but I also thing that mental toughness comes from belief and belief comes from knowing you can do the basics (i.e. defend) properly and thus always give your self a chance in games.
  14. Combination of 1 and 2. I suspect Moxey can see that he''s not up to it but I think the deluded duo on the board probably still think he''s talented and its all down to the players. I think they want to allow him to break up the squad and rebuild it.
  15. Option B clearly must be the fallback option. You have to have a strategy for different scenarios and clearly the strategy should we not be able to get back up within this brief parachute payment must be Option B. the recruitment of more players in the 16-12 bracket from non/lower-league, other academies and abroad with this Icelandic kid is something I presume that we all support, as is hopefully ensuring our academy is more productive. That strategy should continue to be pursued whatever level we find ourselves at. However, don''t try and make out that "Option B" has been the boards strategy all along and it certainly should not have been. We should be doing all we can to get back up this season or next because really the best chance of long term financial sustainability is to be in the top flight with the TV monies. indeed under our ownership model its probably the only chance we have of being truly competitive such has the shift been in finances in the game. Option B and staying in the championship whilst owned by the Smiths is a huge risk because our income will drop by £42 million in 18 months time and we will thereafter have to sell any half decent youngster we produce in order to survive.
  16. It should be utterly irrelevant. "Must win" games for the manager are inappropriate because as we have seen before one home win means nothing. He is not good enough period. That said the combination of Lambert''s presence and a home defeat would I suspect be a perfect storm that would see the home fans finally rise up.
  17. I don''t know how to sort the quotes thing. I will just reply without the quotes!
  18. [quote user="morty"][quote user="king canary"]@Cantiaci I agree there would have been a meltdown if they''d all gone. This summer though we did spend £15m on 4 players and could have used some of that to address the leadership/mental issues in the team. Instead of £8m on an attacking midfielder we didn''t really need (and Alex Neil doesn''t seem to want to use) we could have bought an experienced leader to play next to Klose. Instead of Canos could we not have put that money towards an experienced defensive midfielder? The whole spine of this team needed work and we wasted a bunch of money n luxury players we didn''t really need.[/quote]Point being though is that we didn''t know the mental toughness issue, until the wheels fell off. I am pretty sure the players all made the right noises in how much they were up for the fight, in the summer.[/quote] The mental toughness thing is being overplayed in my book. Its a bit of arrogance amongst both squad and management (leading to them thinkin they can cruise through games like Saturday) but far more than anything else its basic defending that lets us down time and time again. the mental frailty of late comes from the fact that we can''t stop conceding goals because we can''t/don''t defend properly. Once that gets into the players heads then the mental frailty follows.
  19. [quote user="morty"][quote user="Cantiaci Canary"]There would have been a MELT DOWN if we had sold Klose, Brady, Olsson AND Redmond in the summer! It was a valid strategy to keep the Premier League squad together (as Burnley did) but it hasn''t worked because AN hasn''t learned how to reverse a severe poor turn in form yet and he hasn''t put a fire in their bellies to step up when the chips are down. Sadly, a more experienced manager would have this squad sitting pretty in 1st or 2nd now in my opinion.[/quote]I still think it says as much, if not more about the players, than it does the manager.[/quote] Its about both but we''ve all been around long enough to have seen numerous examples where the same players perform markedly better immediately under a new manager. We saw exactly that with many of this lot two years ago when Neil came in. The fact that some of the players are culpable for how we have performed this season does not necessarily equate with the solution being ditching all the players in order to allow a manager who has show zero talent, ability or sound judgment now for 18 months to rebuild the squad. A large number of our players are good, international quality players (although the numbers are diminishing if Olsson is allowed to leave) who perform well for their countries yet appear unable to do even the most basic defensive tasks when playing for us in the league. I think to remove too much quality from the squad now and "start again" would be a huge mistake.
  20. [quote user="morty"]Alex Neil really isn''t the worst manager we have ever had.[/quote] In terms of his managerial ability and what he has managed to do with the resources he has had at his disposal at this moment in time he is right up there with some of the worst of them in my book.
  21. Really can''t risk Tettey in my view. If he got a yellow in this game would miss two games in the league where we probably have no other fit midfielders. Play the kids.
  22. [quote user="nutty nigel"][quote user="Indy"][quote user="nutty nigel"]Sorry Beardo. I meant to add that Neil''s contract was given in 2015. I expect the deal you refer to is the severence pay reported in the sun. The question that I''d like answered is how long was the contract McNally gave to Neil. The answer to that would give a bit more perspective to the reported 2m quid pay out.[/quote] I think it''ll only be a years rolling contract as that would be the standard years severance pay, I bet AN is on 40k a week. That would be the 2 million.[/quote]That''s what he was on originally Indy. The contract he was awarded in 2015 was described as an improved long term contract with a vastly enhanced salary.I''ve made this same point over and over but without knowing the details of that contract the reported 2m severance deal a year later doesn''t have any context. It could be more than he would have got or it could be less. [/quote] The key point about the media reports was not that it was £2m severance but that it was two YEARS pay. I suspect the £2m figure was a media guess at what two years pay might be but the point was his contract was changed so that the severance package was worse from the clubs perspective.
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