Canary Wundaboy

No issue with it being restricted to organised event and banned from public sale, personally. However in my local Facebook groups the very fact that fireworks go off at all is enough to send some sensitive bleeding hearts into a maddened frenzy, apparently a few days of discomfort to their autistic child or overly-sensitive pet is enough reason to ban fireworks entirely for the vast majority who enjoy them once or twice a year at organised displays which help fund charities and small businesses.

You don’t know his situation, what his old job was like, what commitments he made to his family etc that have resulted in this break between jobs. He knows what a tough position he’s going to be in when he gets here so I can’t fault the guy for making sure he’s well rested and mentally prepared for this absolute horror show he’s taken on. I’ve moved from job to job multiple times and not taken a break and I’ve always ended up having to take holiday due to mental fatigue down the line, he won’t be able to do that so I can’t hold him to fault for that. It doesn’t excuse the ownership not getting Webber out the door and putting someone in charge in an interim basis to plug the gap though.

You’re either defending him or being deliberately obtuse and contrary just to rile people up on here, it’s an odd look. Sure he was majorly responsible for some things over the past few years that I’ve really enjoyed. I’m glad Colney’s been overhauled, it looks great. I’m glad he hired Farke, he gave us some wonderful memories. But there’s a lot that happened that we thought he was responsible for (like recruitment of Emi and Pukki) that he doesn’t seem to have been able to replicate since other key personnel left, which begs the question as to just how much credit he was getting for other people’s hard work. And he’s very much responsible for sacking Farke, hiring Dean Smith, hiring Wagner, recruiting an ageing squad, and generally (and unfortunately) bringing the club right back to the point we started when Webber joined, where he offered a pretty scathing view of the club’s position and how much money we’d “p*ssed up the wall”, unfortunately he’s managed to do exactly the same with even MORE money. You don’t need to “get” the anger Nutty. Perhaps you don’t get riled up about our football club in the same way that other posters do. But you should appreciate that there’s a large number of fans who are angry at the position that the club finds itself in, and are looking for someone to be held somewhat responsible. Not only is Webber in that all-powerful position that means he is ultimately responsible and culpable, he doesn’t seem to be being held accountable whatsoever. In fact it’s almost the opposite, he’s being given free free rein to continue the damage for as long as he deems proper which is absolutely baffling to me and others on this forum.

Good lord he looks young. Not that that's a bad thing, he's obviously ambitious and successful at Arsenal which is exactly the sort of quality we need.

It's a big deal Nutty, because in no other job, at no other club, would a person in a position of seniority be able to say "Im only going to give you 90%" (what message does that send to both the customers and the other employees) and then, upon resigning, choose how much notice period to work, make company-impacting decisions with little-to-no oversight (as the owners are well on record that they leave as much of the decision-making up to him as possible) even as he's on his way out of the door. It just wouldn't happen, anywhere else. It smacks of poor leadership from the owners. Do we want a pound of flesh? I'm not asking for the guy to be strung up outside the Director's lounge and flogged for heaven's sake, I'm just asking for the ownership of the club to recognise how bad it looks when the person who's already shown nothing but contempt for the fans and the club is hanging around like a bad smell with his hand still on the controls because no-one else wants to make a a decision. What has he done to me, personally? Nothing. But right now he is majorly responsible for the dire situation my beloved football club is in. Webber doesn't love the club, he doesn't support Norwich, it's just a job to him, and he isn't even doing it well. Can I ask, why are you so eager to defend him? Do you not see the dire situation we find ourselves in? As for your comment @hogesar I do believe MA will be as responsible for this situation dragging on as soon as he actually has the same voting power and position as the majority owners. He wasn't anywhere close to that when Webber gave his 90% remarks (I doubt they would have gone down as well with a successful American businessman) and he wasn't when Webber resigned in March and decided to hang around. If Webber said "I'll go as soon as the new guy arrives" then fair enough, but that's now what's been announced or communicated to fans, instead as far as we know he's hanging around until MARCH. That cannot be deemed anything other than unacceptable.

I would consider both to be expected costs of running a football club.

Webber resigned over 6 months ago, and is supposedly sticking around for months after the new guy joins. His influence remains and will remain for far longer than it should. He should have been shown the door after his little "90% speech" to the owners but they were too weak and desperate to take the appropriate action and have instead allowed this situation to linger and fester as the club rots from the inside.

People have short memories, it wasn’t that long ago that the club were pleading poverty and asking the fans to pony up money for core facilities and overdue infrastructure improvements.

I mean, you might if you were potentially investing anywhere between 10-50% of your personal wealth into the club.

Great post.

I’d argue that with Buendia gone, Skipp gone and no proper CDM being brought in there was absolutely no way the remaining squad had anywhere near enough to survive. Maybe Farke told Webber privately that was the case, maybe Farke didn’t believe, but to be fair, neither did a lot of the fans. It’s the lack of accountability for Webber that’s the core issue. His recruitment has failed, his managerial appointments have failed, financially he’s failed (see all the debt) but the ownership have abdicated responsibility and his wife’s on the BoD. It’s a horror show all round.

He shouldn’t be in charge for Blackburn, if he is then it’s only because Webber and the board want the ire and anger directed at Wagner rather than Webber, Delia and MWJ. They’re just focused on saving their own skin rather than what’s good for this football club.

Fan opinion on Farke was still mixed. I remember Webber saying that it was the loss against Chelsea that sealed Daniel’s fate, “losing 7-0 as Norwich City is unacceptable”. But apparently winning 6 in 24, or getting beaten 6-2 in the Championship is absolutely fine.

He cannot be allowed to stay once Knapper has started. He simply can’t. We need a fresh start, even if it’s just optics it looks awful for him to still be here now let alone once the new guy with fresh ideas and methods is here.

Webber needs to go as Wagner is escorted out of the building. Delia and MWJ shouldn’t be far behind.

Seems crazy since we’ve spent sweet sod all for years. Don’t we still have a net positive transfer difference?

It all comes back to one moment of weakness: Webber didn’t want to admit he’d screwed up again with the summer recruitment in our 2nd Premier League season. He had to pin the failings on Farke rather than admit that he’d failed to equip him with a squad that was capable of competing. Had he been less bullish before the season started he could have backed away from the situation but he’d given himself no room so a fall guy had to be found and it was easier for him to sack Daniel Farke than admit he’d failed again. So Farke got the boot, Webber pressed the panic button with the appointment of Dean Smith and out went everything the model had been working towards. All the magic, the cohesion, the model, all of it out the window because Webber had said we could accomplish the impossible (build a premier league survival squad on zero investment and after losing Emi and Skipp) and when it became clear that we couldn’t, he pinned it on Farke. What a mess.

How? It’s been on TV for 30 years on various channels.

I invested a fair amount of time and money this year into lessons and practice and managed to get my handicap index down from 28.9 to 17.6, but it’s been hard work and there’s been a few “false dawns”! My highlight was winning the weekly stableford comp in September when I was off 19, shot 43 points and the guy in 2nd place was off 6 and shot even par.

He had a rough childhood, a rough adulthood and struggled with addiction throughout his life while fearing commitment and love. Poor guy.

It is a pain, I agree. But clubs have all the power to set handicap limits on competition play, so the fault lies with the organisers for not checking/enforcing that people’s handicaps are accurate or not for setting upper handicap limits that discourage bandits from entering.

Anyone on page 1 fancy a chance to rethink?!

Do you think he should be gone already Lakey?

This. The excuses at the end of last season were exactly that, excuses. His coaching and tactics were found out at the end of last season and teams well and truly have our number now and he can’t stem the flow of goals we concede. He makes changes all over the pitch but nothing to stop us being so wide open you could drive a bus through the defence. It’s compounded by terrible recruitment and a lack of investment but Wagner’s tactics are so far from the players he had to pull it off we’re sliding into oblivion.

He will. We don’t sack managers when we should, and this one is Webber's mate.