The Judge

All, thanks for your kind words on my first post. I can assure you as one reply stated i''m am not part of the club - if I was i can assure you I would make my views know to the powers that be. As Oso suggested I will be making my feelings known in a letter to Mr Munby and Co when I renew my season ticket. Yes i will be renewing as I have for the last 22 years, as I could not imagine not going to watch Norwich - however I do not want the board to feel that by silently renewing I am in support of the current management & coaching team.  

Worthington knows his job is on the line. Therefore we can''t really expect him to come out and say we were total rubbish - although I (being a Judge and all) would prefer him to say it as it is. This is the type of rubbish he always comes out with - and the vast majority of us are getting tired of it. Sometimes he must actually face the stands rather than the pitch (which may account for some of his substitutions !) because he obviously doesn''t watch the same game as 25,000 other people each home game do. The thing is the board watch the same games as we do, yet they stick with him (at least publicly) - amazing ! I really do believe the board are seriously out of tune with the vast majority of supporters - ignore us at your peril. I for one will renew my season ticket before the start of March - however I will be inserting a letter for the attention of Mr Munby stating that although I''m renewing it is because I love Norwich City football and not because I''m happy with the situation at the club at the moment and want a change.    Alternatively if Worthington does actually believe in what he is saying then he should be sectioned under the mental health act. 

I have been a regular reader of this message board for a number of years now but never been that inclined to post my own thoughts. However with the state of the club as it is now I feel I can ''t keep quiet anymore. I can admit to never really taking to Worthington as manager of our football club; his style of play, his use of players (or not as the case may be!), his lack of tactical ability, his obession with "work rate" over ability, his favouritism for certain players, his ability to fall out with certain players because they dare to disagree with him, and his inept post match comments week in week out to name but a few of the reasons why I feel this way. However despite all of the weaknesses above, until the beginning of this season I couldn''t fault his record, playoff finals, promotion, a season in the Premiership and even though we got relegated most of us in our heart of hearts thought that was going to happen anyway. But where we find ourselves as a club now with the resources at our disposal at the start of the season is nothing short of a total and utter disgrace. How the man (and his so called coaching staff) are still in a job i don''t know - only the board can answer that question for us when they remove their heads from the pile of sand they currently seem have got them very firmly inserted into. I agree that stability and consistency are very important, but i feel the board are putting far to much emphasis on this and ignoring the cold hard facts. Stability and sticking with a management team is the right thing to do if the fundamentals are in place. Too me this isn''t the case - no one can say we have been unlucky this year. Despite the injuries we still should have enough quality to roll over the majority of teams in this league with good management. We just haven''t been good enough - plain and simple. On paper we have a good group of players they just aren''t playing as a team, they aren''t playing to any system, with any tactics, with any morale or motivation - this lies squarely at the feet of the management and coaching team. Worthington and his staff have never during his 5 years at the club got Norwich playing organised, solid, attractive football - so they sure as hell are going to be able to do it now. People may say well we got promoted - yes we did I can''t deny that - but that was down to lumping the ball up to Huckerby, Crouch, Svenson who then scored and we then held on for the other 80 minutes of the game. It wasn''t down to organised. passing football. It annoys me when people say we play good passing football at Norwich - it certainly hasn''t been whilst worthington has been in charge ! The man must go. If not now - the end of the season. The club is still a very attractive proposition to other managers out there, good players here already, money available to strenghten, good attendances etc. The club is still in a strong position to be able to make ourselves a top championship / bottom premiership club in the next few seasons - however this opportunity may be lost if the board don''t act now.