cornish sam

And Kyle Lafferty looked like Zlatan for Northern Ireland, didn't mean he should have been playing week in week out for us...

He's just on the plane back from Dubai

They also take the moral high ground with their advertising I hear.

You type quicker than me dan

It's almost like one of the major bookies is also a major sports news network.... On a serious note though, how is it not a conflict of interests for a company to own both a major rumour mongering site claiming to be news, whilst also running books on the same subjects?

Wait, some of this is serious? Or is that a joke as well? Now I'm confused

Or, we had a conversation neither were interested but this information is only coming out now because of the fact it was a useful smokescreen for whoever we are actually interested in...

Pretty much sums up my feelings. Am hoping this hits a late snag if it's as advanced as reported...

Board

Only on a Saturday night big boy

£4.5m villa have paid. Kinda shows why they've got it done so quickly...

Similarly it's amazing how many bigots and misogynists there still are these days......not that I'm accusing you of such things, obviously............

You've not been paying attention that well then, at one point they had employed Deloitte (I think it was) to look for investment, though this was probably 8 or 9 years ago now. More recently there was the bond for Colney (I know not what you meant but was an active search for investment) and then in 2019 there was this https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city/norwich-city-s-majority-shareholders-talk-investment-succession-and-feeling-1343700 Where once again they said they were open to investment. And this is just off the top of my head and a 1 minute search taking the too result. I think the difference is that our current owners are only interested in investment if it is by people with the club's best interests at heart (rightly so in my opinion), which unfortunately does rule out most of the people we are seeing investing in football clubs at the moment.

It looks like SDP has been tidying up this thread a bit... John Terry is able to get on with his career as well, he has had a decent amount of employment for an ex player despite the allegations and unlike those others mentioned has actually tried to get in front of the issues and own it (he is still a philanderer though). I wasn't saying that John Terry shouldn't be involved with our club, merely pointing out the apparent hypocrisy of you calling out one of our owners as racist based on a single comment (which you have not attributed yet) yet giving John Terry a free pass... For the record, I would put Jonathan woodgate and Lee bowyer on only a marginally lower tier of people I wouldn't want involved with the club than Joey Barton. However, as Peter the deleter is obviously paying attention to this thread, let us leave it here...

That's not the whole truth though is it. He admitted to having used language considered racist, however, the criminal court acquitted him on the basis that there was insufficient evidence to proscribe the intent behind those words as being racist. So they didn't decide he wasn't racist, they only decided they couldn't prove he was, much like you with your accusations.

I've deliberately left that context out as there is much debate as to what the WSL is equivalent to, but based on the league one level then Austria could be a fair analogy, so let's pretend it's the Austrian league instead and see if that changes the opinion. Also, I was only applying the se logic as Alex moss was to people's opinions on lampard (though in that case it was dragging peoples opinion up, not down)... All through this thread Ive repeatedly said that I'm not for or against this, merely trying to get people to approach it in a fair and considered manner. Your final point though is pretty silly though.

Why is it nonsense that it is being discussed? As @Alex Moss said in one of the lampard threads, take the name away and look at the record and would you be happy for us to get someone who for the last 9 years managing in their top league has: A win %ge of over 67%; Won the league 4 times; Won the cup(s) 4 times Got to the semi final twice and the final once of the top continental competition. Now I'm not saying she is the correct person for the job, she might be, but, I don't know enough about her to judge, however it is far from nonsense that it should be discussed.

If you have a look at the 3 page thread further down the page you'll see that it has...

The physicality and skill levels are a point, but not necessarily a big one when it comes to judging her ability, however, the physicality is a massive one when it comes to contextualising the mens team Vs womens team matches. For proof look at how many youth team players excel in large part because they develop at an earlier age, then when the rest of the cohort catch up they turn out to be average. A good manager can manage within the limitations they are presented and will adjust their management and tactics accordingly, but they are not defined by those limitations. Put Tuchel in charge of a women's team and you would expect his approach and tactics to differ from those he uses at Chelsea. With our setup there is potentially the pertinent point that she wouldn't be coming in as a manager, but rather a head coach, but, surround her with people used to coaching men's teams and that should lessen that impact considerably. As I said earlier, I am playing devils advocate here, I'm not saying she would be a great appointment, but I'm also not dismissing it out of hand like many seem to be on this thread. She obviously does have tactical insight and an appreciation of men's football and I believe that the skills she has already got should be transferable from the women's game, but we are a difficult proposition for any manager coming in, no matter what background they come from and would frame any failure in that context rather than because she is coming from WSL.

I'm not going to pretend that I know her tactical style currently, but am going to continue to play devils advocate on this one. Just because the WSL may require a different level of tactical nouse doesn't mean that she isn't operating at a higher level than required, hence she is so successful. She obviously knows the level of tactics required from her punditry, the only challenge may be in getting a men's changing room to respect her knowledge. And to continue the analogies, so would you say someone bossing league one shouldn't be offered a PL job, or someone bossing Scottish football (not old firm)? Or even someone bossing the Norwegian league as the majority of that is probably lower quality than league one? Just because someone has a job in a lower level organisation doesn't mean they can't be performing at a higher level or able to step up to said level easily. You normally come across as one of the more open minded and even handed posters on here yet seem to be dismissing her because she is coming from a level that you and others have equated to league one...

Why would she? You can only manage what you have got, she has done very well managing women's football, but it's still football. By your token a youth team manager should have to prove themselves at a lower level or an ex-player should have to. One could argue that coaching at the top of the woman's game actually offers better experience than either of those.

That's not what is being reported though. The timelines all have Webber presenting his decision to the board on Thursday and the final decision not being rubber stamped by said board until Saturday, though your point is why I caveated it with "if you believe the reports"...

No but he has them saved in his phone as "Mum new number" and "Chinese takeaway"

Yes, but, the final decision to sack him wasn't taken by the board until Saturday morning (if you believe the reports). He will have probably had informal discussions with his preferred candidates but can't formally offer or talk contract specifics until after then.

But it's also sacking someone just before everyone goes off for best part of a week (or more for the internationals) away from Colney. Would it not have been harsher knowing that you were going to sack him either over the phone or have him come back just to be sacked and have to go straight back on a plane without being able to say goodbye to the people you'd been working with so closely for the last 4.5 years? Any sacking is cruel, but once the decision had been made this was probably one of the best ways it could have been handled. The negotiations with the targets are expected to be concluded during the international break, having farke as dead man walking during that period would have been crueller...