komakino
-
Content Count
1,575 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by komakino
-
-
Whilst I'd question The Daily Mail's 'once well run club' - when exactly was that? - I really don't understand why Knapper is getting grief in certain quarters.
It is clear to me that Wagner is purely in a holding role until the end of the season. Knapper will have somebody lined up to replace him with a vision, so it makes little sense to buy players now. Ben has plans but obviously cannot publicly speak about what they are, so until then we are in an odd treading water period. Not ideal, but that's how it is.
-
I have no problem with Idah going, but this creates a problem. Ideally he would need to be replaced, but with serious transfer dealing likely to be done in the summer under a new manager and philosophy from Knapper, it may be better for all parties to wait.
-
I think little to nothing will happen this month.
I would like to think that Knapper has somebody lined up in the summer who is not currently available and will start to address things once he is in place. Therefore Wagner is just keeping the seat warm, for better or worse.
-
On 08/01/2024 at 18:24, How I Wrote Elastic Man said:I don't recall the coin throwing at this game. However, it was not uncommon at the time, sadly
Jimmy Rimmer collected a fortune at one match 😧
After that incident, Sir Arthur South called the Barclay 'Scum' and subsequently got booed every time he walked on the pitch.
-
49 minutes ago, vos said:It must go down as one of the most disastrous decisions in the Club's history to allow Webber to continue to make major transfers coupled with financial issues whilst working a very long notice period. It makes the situation look worse when at the same time his wife is the CEO. Zoe may have occupied several posts in the past associated with football but it was a huge leap to be thrust in to leading a major company with a turnover on occasions well in excess of £100 million. Apart from requiring to be well versed in many company business procedures you also need plenty of experience. No doubt they may be individually capable people, but retaining such an influencing combination in the Boardroom is surely not good business practice, particularly when you are accountable to two very aged controlling directors.
Webber's purchases for our last EPL campaign was the worst in our history and one that permanantly damaged his reputation in my opinion.
You buy players for the league you are in and Webber bought none. Instead of purchasing 2 or 3 players on higher wages to fill the gaps of Skipp and Emi, none of the players he bought we then EPL standard and none were Farke's targets. That was never going to end well and didn't.
Webber's misguided view of having a larger squad due to the number of injuries under Farke doesn't wash and a club with limited resources needs quality not quantity.
If we were in a similar position in the future with similar funds, I hope we don't make the same mistake again.
-
The can has been kicked down the road so many times by the club regarding an extension/rebuild of the City Stand it is very much of a case of I'll believe it when I see it.
The insurance on the Main Stand must have been pitiful and the 'New' City Stand belonged more to Abbey Stadium than to Carrow Road, with more than a whiff of 'Subbuteo' for those over a certain age.
I remember on Corporate events going back nearly 25 years where the club would wheel out an ex player and they always used to come out with the line of 'Next time we get promoted, we're going to extend the City Stand'. Whether they actually believed that or not who knows, but I doubted that it would ever come to fruition.
However, given the financial state the club is in, I'm not sure now is the right time.
If we ever get back to the EPL, it may be worth looking at again, as I believe we could easily fill 35,000 if things are better on the pitch and higher if away fans are given are higher proportion of tickets, but it would be a bit of a gamble with much depending on the finance and ambition of the board at the time.
-
1 hour ago, nutty nigel said:So is a sugar daddy that what Attanasio is? That's news to me. That's a start I guess. If we start with that, then what's the next move. Is it Delia and Michael walking away? Will that mean there's a vision that enables you to support the team? Is that even an option? I have a hunch that Attanasio doesn't want to buy them out. Just a hunch because I don't know. Somebody else probably has a different hunch.
I agree we should be informed what the plan is. It's just vague. What is obvious is that Attanasio is calling the shots and has been for some time. He's already said that Webber was reporting to him during the summer window. It seems Knapper is his man and they are working together from now on.
But if you think any of this will mean the flags are back out and everyone will suddenly support the team and stop whingeing you're in cloud cuckoo land. The plan was set out when Webber appointed Farke. For the first 15 months of that there was constant whingeing. After the first season big numbers of season ticket holders didn't renew. The plan was there but they didn't like it. Apparently the football was boring and the plan was rubbish. The whingers were bored with the plan and the football. We needed to win games and needed someone else's money to make that happen. But then we started to win games and by late autumn everyone was happy and the season ticket boycotters were buying half season tickets for Christmas.
If your hunch is correct - which it could be - then what's the point of the Attanasio's?
-
1
-
-
13 hours ago, Sufyellow said:Nothing to do with that , she was upset the fans drove Stuart out. He would of been sacked anywhere else.
Absolutely. His behaviour was facilitated by the board, instead of being sacked.
-
1
-
-
2 hours ago, BroadstairsR said:Farke had his style of play, his systems and his methods and he schooled his players in these. He was rigid, and perhaps a bit too much so when confronted with the best the Premier League had to throw at him.
Have these not the things we've been craving for under Smith and now Wagner?
However, later Webber was to later admit he sent him into 'battle without a gun' (or similar) so keeping that side up was a difficult task to begin with.
The second time around? Well! How much input did DF have in that disastrous Summer's dealings (the Sarge has come good though) or do we blame Webber again? These are questions that cannot be answered considering our perpetual financial restrictions which meant we had to sell our best,that big signings were out, and even then we needed to stretch our wages bill beyond our capabilities, something we are still burdened with.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. We managed just that with ease (x4 times.) Perhaps things are about to change, it seems they might well be.
I have no particular beef against Leeds or their fans as unsavoury as they have been in the past*, so I am hoping Farke gets them up, especially if it is at the expense of the BInners.
I think in Michael Bailey's piece in The Athletic after his sacking suggested that none of Farke's targets were met for the last EPL campaign and he told Webber the players he had bought were not good enough. That was never going to end well in retrospect.
-
1
-
-
Given the situation at the time, NO.
If he had been backed financially and had his player targets met, YES.
-
16 hours ago, Monty13 said:I’ve unsubscribed from the Athletic as Bailey seems unfortunately preoccupied elsewhere, and his was by far the best content.
I do understand the predicament that these outlets face, traditional media is mostly dead. A 30 second video will beat a well written article in almost any metric and probably inform the majority to the level they wanted.
Facts can easily be digested by a tweet as people want them fast not in a well written piece. That mainly leaves articles to opinion on them.
I think the Pinkun boys do a decent job of holding the club to account all things considered personally, I don’t read most articles but I do enjoy their podcasts.
I agree the the local press do a decent job, without over stepping it. Given the relationship between them and CR, they could have easily come out full guns blazing in the last couple of years.
At least we haven't gone back to the Rick Waghorn days, as that would be even less acceptable now as it was then.
-
I like Connor's pieces and he is not afraid to highlight areas of concern, regardless of whether that upsets his employers or the club.
-
1
-
-
On 07/12/2023 at 10:19, hogesar said:To be fair you claim to have been told Delia tried to invest in Ipswich so if there's anything you should take from all this, it's that you should stop listening to people who are quite clearly bulls*itting you on the basis they know you'll fall for it
I stumbled across this quote from Tales of The Top Flight regarding the Ipswich/Norwich derby. Although the site is a little tongue in cheek, the quote below would seem an odd thing to state in there was absolutely nothing in it. My source claimed it was when Sheepshanks was at the club, whereas others state it was when John Cobbold was there. As I believe she is an opportunist, I'm certainly keeping an open mind on it, especially as I've heard this from various Ipswich fans over the years. It could all be nothing of course, but...
" Smith even tried to invest and become a shareholder at Ipswich Town in the 1980s but was given a short shrift by the club’s board."
-
11 hours ago, PurpleCanary said:Unfortunately you saying something is not the same as you telling me something. And much as I admire that made-up nonsense about why Bowkett quit when he did my understanding is that the real reason was rather different, and unconnected to Smith and Jones.
Not least because Bowkett resigned in 2015, and the search for investment which he carried out and in his own words - ‘’Every time I asked ‘Could you please verify you have the funding?’ No-one passed the test.’’ - drew a blank was in 2011. A four-year gap doesn’t quite fit your explanation of an immediate reaction to being supposedly fooled by S&J.
You do add to the gaiety of nations, I will give you that, but all court jesters end up growing too old for the job.
I remember being told by somebody who knew Bowkett well that he left because 'He got fed up of being outvoted' and McNally 'always sided in with Smith and Jones', so became a marginalised figure.
As an aside, I remember when some fans were disappointed when Bowkett wanted to make Norwich City a 'Top Ten' fixture in the EPL as a lack of ambition!
-
5 hours ago, FenwayFrank said:What was the old away fans pub just by the bridge ?
Clarence Harbour? That was away friendly and the look on more Northern fans faces at the price of beer was always a hoot!
-
4 minutes ago, Ness Point Runner said:They should do away with parachute payments. Enforce regulations that require players wages to reduce when relegated.
Clubs being helped just because they have spent a year in the PL should be scrapped as not fair.
It's called "Incentive". Play well and you dont go down.
I've been an advocate of banning parachute payments for years as it gave the clubs that failed to survive an advantage the following season.
-
1
-
-
5 hours ago, Ken Hairy said:Mick Dennis is too biased to be a decent journalist.
Agreed.
Dennis has never been objective with regards to NCFC because of his association with the joint majority shareholders.
It was a messy and very selective piece from somebody who cannot divorce his personal feelings towards them and business. I've heard many people tell me how nice Delia is, but that is not relevant here.
Even the most dyed in the wool Delia fan must accept that the AGM didn't go well, either for her or as a whole. Quite what MA thought, I wonder. Maybe one day we will find out.
Being 'nice' is not what business is about. It is about making the right decisions and structures in place, keeping as many people onside. Being 'a fan' is not relevant either, in fact, it could be argued that it is counter productive as when cold, even ruthless decisions have to be made, they feel reluctant to do them, if at all.
If Dennis is upset, then maybe he should look beyond his rose tinted spectacles and wonder why?
-
2
-
-
On 04/12/2023 at 14:13, nutty nigel said:That's interesting. How would you like them to exit?
I doubt you were at the AGM but a shareholder wasted a question by quoting a social media post supposedly from TNC. Both Delia and Michael immediately called it as "a lie". That got me thinking about you...
I would like them to exit by selling completely, not dragging it out for years. The current situation is unusual and unnecessary, that's my personal opinion.
-
15 hours ago, nutty nigel said:Because they get so much stick on here a small part of me wishes that they'd sell the 40% tomorrow for it's true value but most of me realises that it's not something they're likely to do because their exit will happen with the best interests of our club at heart.
The piece I've highlighted is a moot point as any exit will be on their terms.
My view is that for the best interest of the club would have been for them to sell all their shares as they cannot take the club any further. The protracted and somewhat bizarre takeover process damages the club in my view, but for reasons only known to Delia and MWJ, it is happening the way it is. I suspect once you have power, it is difficult to let go.
It's messy and I don't like it.
-
It was a good video and hard to argue against.
-
17 minutes ago, Pugin said:No Norwich City fan throughout its existence will ever do anything more classless than hounding Delia in word and deed.
It's deplorable and crass. She deserves to be allowed to make her own exit in her own time which, in her 83rd year, she knows is upon her. It's not like leaving a building, she's stepping away in a process that needs to be right and meticulous, and cannot be rushed. Show some respect and decency.
Sentimental rubbish.
She doesn't give respect, so doesn't deserve any. She's lead a very charmed life at NCFC, but due the AGM debacle has shown once and for all that her and MWJ are not fit for purpose.
-
12
-
-
As you know, I've never been a fan of Delia in a professional capacity as I've always felt she was never right for us and used the club as a vehicle rather than financial. I do know people that know her personally and says she very nice and generous, though a familiar line I hear is that business wise, 'she hasn't got a clue' though I think they mean in relation to the club, not outside of it.
She had a led a very charmed life at NCFC and even going back to her drunken rant, she not only got away with it, but turned it to her advantage. Sir Arthur South called the Barclay 'Scum' and was booed for the rest of his days.
I do wonder whether she feels so aggrieved of Webber leaving, she is taking a leaf from his playbook and criticising the people that matter most - the fans. Hypothetically, if say 50% of the fans stopped going, the takeover process would be a lot quicker than 3 years!
-
The 'Guard of Honour' (sic) given to Webber shows you in one action what is wrong with Norwich City.
The club is condoning passive aggressive behaviour as acceptable. It isn't.
If he is ever to work in football again - and that's no given - he will have to change the way he behaves, otherwise it will not be tolerated.
Some people are successful, some are failures. Webber was arguably both at Norwich City. But the way he treated fans must never, ever happen again at this club.
-
2
-
-
Webber is a man who met his limitations, yet couldn't accept them. Would have been sacked at any other club in the Football League due to his passive aggressive/narcissistic behaviour and that clearly overshadowed any of the good things he achieved in his earlier years. Not a good example of how a Sporting Director should be.
-
3
-
Where is the statement from the club?
in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Posted
A somewhat limited statement and something they could have well done without for a man that is a complete liability and a complete PR disaster.
This is what happens when you fail to act, so the club have reaped what they sowed with Webber.