......and Smith must score.

Orient would''ve been nicer. Rotherham on a sunny day aint all that so lets hope it''s not a freezing Tue night in Feb when we play there.At least the Millers have moved out of Millmoor at last.........all those portakabins and that '' Mad Max '' backdrop of a huge scrapyard. Lovely.Their new place is called the New York Stadium. In Rotherham ??

[quote user="Jenkins"]Didnt look well to me, very drawn in the face![/quote]Married with kids I believe....[:D]

[quote user="Private Frazer"]Well. imo the story has been made out of the initial wind up from the binners is because. Shirley discussions about back room staff would have taken place during his interviews. And the board would have made their feeling known before Adams allegedy went off to head hunt Foley.[/quote]Surely we''re not getting a Shirley ?One woman''s enough...[;)]

Good post OP.I think we all feel a bit underwhelmed but if looking back on previous internal appointments of Messrs Stringer, Brown, Walker and Worthington is anything to go by it may well work out in the end.Regarding managing Celtic to a Championship I reckon the Carrow Road tea lady would have made a decent fist of it the last two seasons and probably next but it''ll be a different story when the '' Old Firm '' games return......[:D]

[quote user="City 2nd"]I simply do not see city writing off 8 million +. It s not our style, if we sell it''s always been at profit, and there isn''t any, currently, in the Wolf. He will stay IMO with a view to attempting to increase his worth early season, and then sell.[/quote]If he''s going to increase his worth if he stays then he''ll be doing the job we gambled on which is scoring goals. Why then sell him ?

[quote user="AJ"]We''re in a good positron really. Someone either has to come in with 8m for him to cover our costs last year. Or he has to play well next season to engineer a move away. Anybody who signs him on last season''s performance as a striker for anywhere near 8m would be delusional. I really hope he stays to prove a point.[/quote]Why?Sometimes you break even or make a profit on a player, sometimes you make a loss. Over the years Norwich have made a huge amount of profit on players. If we''ve been sold a lemon this time so what ?From his body language last season it''s clear he''s far from happy so we may as well cut our losses. If the Club feels he''s reached the end of his time at Carrow Rd then take the millions lost as one of those things and get him off the wage bill. I''ll be surprised if he''s not being paid at least a couple of million a season so that would be even more money down the drain if we kept him on more in hope than judgement.

[quote user="Icecream Snow"][quote user="Kingston Yellow"]JJ - what rumours?[/quote]Alleged bullying. In reality, Lambert was losing the dressing room, and Culverhouse was made the scapegoat. Says a lot about Villa that they do this to avoid compensation, tarring and feathering Culverhouse in the process. At any other club, he would have been quietly paid off.[/quote]Would Villa really have done that ? Sounds a bit far fetched to me.At the time Culverhouse was being suspended Lambert apparently agreed to it. I find it a bit strange that Lambert would''ve stabbed one of his best mates in the back if there hadn''t been a serious breach of club rules. We may now call him all the names under the sun since he left but I think Lambert wouldn''t have stood for a stitch-up.I doubt we''ll ever know what really happened but there''s a bit more to it than meets the eye.

[quote user="Chip20"]Last time we did this it was Gunny - that went well .....And if I recall correctly, the time we did this before Gunny that was Worthy - that went alright .... ....for a while.Chip[y][/quote]And if you''re old enough to remember Dave Stringer and Mike Walker they didn''t turn out too be too bad either.

Ipswich Crazy ''s the right name for this guy alrightNever mind him ranting on about Norwich all the time......... I''m more worried that he thinks England are gonna win the World Cup  [:$]

[quote user="im spartacus"]IMO the OP needs to grow a pair and if i wasn''t busy this weekend i''d tell him to his face the big wet lessie [:@][/quote][:D]

[quote user="the bristol nest"]I am really dissappointed as I wanted someone famous to guarantee succes even if they had been sacked by other teams for failing to find success. Otherwise I wanted someone who had managed a big team in a poor league who had something to prove to teams that don''t include usand who wants to be somewhere else. The last thing I wanted was a Norwich City man who has a good reputation for his attacking coaching side and total loyalty to our club. What makes it worse is that he knows the squad and youth set up. There is no way that someone that we are familiar with could be as good or heaven forbid better than a famous name that has been sacked.[/quote][:D]

Anyone get the feeling with lincoln would still be moaning had we appointed Jose Mourinho with Brendan Rodgers as his No.2Unfortunately Nigel Adkins must''ve missed the radar......

[quote user="whoareyou"]The youngsters will not get the club promoted next season and we wont have a better chance of getting back than next season before the parachute money starts dwindling.I''d love to be proved wrong but i guarantee there will be a mass exodus of the club''s better players now.[/quote]The parachute money only drops to £18m the second year so it''s not quite a one season shot.

[quote user="Newton"]Adams clearly not first choice, but lets get behind him We have one shot at promotion and if we are not near the top come Christmas he needs to be replaced WHY OH WHY A 3 YEAR CONTRACT. 1 year rolling, 2 years yes but 3 to a rookie, someone gone mad Probably Delia''s last throw of the dice, if this goes wrong even the fools on this board who support her now will change there mind[/quote]Agree.A one year rolling contract would have been cheaper to cancel in the event things go pear-shaped early on.

[quote user="AndyCanary"]I''m yet to see a negative post on here where it''s lead me to believe that the person behind it is capable of the cohesion of using a telephone and stringing a sentence together, let alone talking to the CEO of a football club on live radio.[/quote][:D]

[quote user="Dubai Mark"]Well done Paul Moy for posting something positive amongst a sea of total over reaction and almost embarrassing posts. Sure, I like many, am disappointed and under whelmed (under statement) and really feel this is a high risk appointment, certainly not a safe one. BUT, I really see no need for some of the comments on this board right now, some of our so called supporters should be ashamed of themselves. We should now all wait to see what other management appointments are made, which players leave, which players we sign and how the new season is set up before jumping on the negative band wagon...........................oh, and I am still wondering where all the pro Neil Adams have gone? There were many of them on here when he was appointed initially.........   [/quote]Agree with this and a pleasant change from all the foaming at the mouth on other threads.Yes, many of us wanted a '' name '' manager over Adams but every appointment is a risk and he may do better than many are predicting ( or in many cases hoping ). It does seem odd that it took so long to make the announcement but there''s probably a lot more going on behind the scenes than we realise.I''m pretty certain Adams wasn''t the Board''s first choice but sometimes things don''t go the way you hoped. I''m also pretty certain that the Board won''t sit on their hands like they did with previous managers if he doesn''t make a solid start to his tenure.

The team''s not the only thing that needs strengthening.Tablets maybe..... ?

[quote user="ricardo"]It''s obvious we couldn''t get the prime candidates and had to go for the fall back position.Such is life but we are where we are.A Premier League return suddenly seems to be vanishing over the horizon.[:(][/quote]Agree with most of this Ricardo but why the gloom and doom over a swift return ?Yes, a '' name '' is what we all wanted but if Adams was next on the list then so be it. Football''s always a gamble - even Ferguson didn''t get it right every time - and the new man might surprise us.

[quote user="Wiz"]If it is Adams thats me finished on here.........they can shove it![/quote]Promise ? [;)]

[quote user="ricardo"][quote user="The Young One"]Well well, it would seem some people don''t really know what they are talking about.Money down the drain, I was toldnow where''s the travel agent [/quote]Well done son, now make sure you don''t give it all back.Enjoy your winnings, that was a brave bet.[Y][/quote]Stand by for a full scale troll attack.........we don''t like lucky rich b*astards. [;)]

[quote user="Its Character Forming"]Yeah, to apply a season-long average per game to those last 5 games is crazy, given that they were 5 of the more difficult fixtures.  Why would Hughton have started picking up points against Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal etc - or even Fulham - when his team was losing at home to West Brom and getting rolled over in away games at Swansea, Soton and Villa ?   It beggars belief really.   Obviously he''s going to say he would have kept us up.  He would, wouldn''t he ?  Under him I wouldn''t be surprised if we had lost the last 5 frankly, that''s how we were playing. [/quote]Spot on.All ex-managers spout the same old drivel. They''re more deluded than us lot on here.....

[quote user="Buh"]My favourite is the guys who want Eddie Howe desperately even though his one foray out of Bournemouth lead to disaster due to being homesick Yeah, he''d get on great in Norfolk.[/quote]Yeah, the similarity ( not ) between genteel sunny Bournemouth and chips-with-everything rainswept Burnley is uncanny. They both begin with the letter '' B '' though.Bournemouth and Norfolk have much more in common. Lots of retired folk tootling about coupled with a re-assuringly high death rate, just like Burnley''s to be fair, should make him feel right at home.......[:D]

[quote user="morty"][quote user="......and Smith must score."][quote user="morty"][quote user="......and Smith must score."]Overall I thought fair play to the three of them for sticking their heads above the parapet. As David McNally said most clubs aren''t so involved with the supporters.I was disappointed that they didn''t acknowledge that they did nothing when it was obvious to many that Hughton was past his sell-by date well before January.It was a bit dis-ingenious of the Chief Exec to say that despite relegation season tickets had all but sold out but failed to mention that almost all had been renewed before relegation was confirmed. [/quote]I think some people are just hearing what they want to hear on that though.They have explained their reasons for making the decisions they did, at the time, and I guess people either accept them or they don''t.You know, as well as I do, that this isn''t an exact science. I think they knew full well that Chris Hughton was coming to the end of his time, but thought it was a better gamble for him to do just enough to keep us up, and deal with it in the summer.They could just as easily sacked him and still gone down.[/quote]Can''t disagree that they could have sacked Hughton earlier and still gone down. That we''ll never know but I think we''d have stood a better chance of staying up if they had.The point I was making is that while there''s lots of hand-wringing and apologies from the Board it does seem as though their heads were in the sand until that dismal home performance against Fulham. Not too late but they should have taken action earlier. On the back of an 11th placed finish it would hardly have been fair to have sacked the manager right at the end of last season but our form had been very poor since the previous Christmas. Unfortunately that form carried straight on into this term with no improvement.I find it hard to believe the Board just sat on their hands in that period leading up to Boxing Day but from all the evidence that''s exactly what they did do. [/quote]The fact remains (as McNally told me in the pub) that Hughton was on target to keep us up, right up until the unexpected home defeat against West Brom, and it was this that underpinned their decision making.Of course, with hindsight, they got it wrong, but I think they made the best decisions they could make, given all the factors, and despite it not panning out how they expected, I don''t consider them negligent.[/quote]Well we''ll have to disagree as to whether or not they were negligent Morty.Hindsight is a wonderful thing but perhaps it would''ve been better for NCFC if Chris Hughton hadn''t managed to conjure up a win out of the first half shambles that was West Ham at home way back in November.That was the first of his '' last chance saloon '' games this term and sadly only delayed the inevitable.....

[quote user="morty"][quote user="......and Smith must score."]Overall I thought fair play to the three of them for sticking their heads above the parapet. As David McNally said most clubs aren''t so involved with the supporters.I was disappointed that they didn''t acknowledge that they did nothing when it was obvious to many that Hughton was past his sell-by date well before January.It was a bit dis-ingenious of the Chief Exec to say that despite relegation season tickets had all but sold out but failed to mention that almost all had been renewed before relegation was confirmed. [/quote]I think some people are just hearing what they want to hear on that though.They have explained their reasons for making the decisions they did, at the time, and I guess people either accept them or they don''t.You know, as well as I do, that this isn''t an exact science. I think they knew full well that Chris Hughton was coming to the end of his time, but thought it was a better gamble for him to do just enough to keep us up, and deal with it in the summer.They could just as easily sacked him and still gone down.[/quote]Can''t disagree that they could have sacked Hughton earlier and still gone down. That we''ll never know but I think we''d have stood a better chance of staying up if they had.The point I was making is that while there''s lots of hand-wringing and apologies from the Board it does seem as though their heads were in the sand until that dismal home performance against Fulham. Not too late but they should have taken action earlier. On the back of an 11th placed finish it would hardly have been fair to have sacked the manager right at the end of last season but our form had been very poor since the previous Christmas. Unfortunately that form carried straight on into this term with no improvement.I find it hard to believe the Board just sat on their hands in that period leading up to Boxing Day but from all the evidence that''s exactly what they did do.

Overall I thought fair play to the three of them for sticking their heads above the parapet. As David McNally said most clubs aren''t so involved with the supporters.I was disappointed that they didn''t acknowledge that they did nothing when it was obvious to many that Hughton was past his sell-by date well before January.It was a bit dis-ingenious of the Chief Exec to say that despite relegation season tickets had all but sold out but failed to mention that almost all had been renewed before relegation was confirmed.