Oz Canary

Fantastic look forward to the announcement. Would be a great addition.

Any further word on VOO!!!

I''m happy with the draw particularly when the majority of EPL sides have drawn each other. If were are lucky we could get on a little bit of a Cup run, which would be great. Who would have thought that last year. OTBC

I agree Tottie. I am pretty sure he would be unemployable at the moment and probably for quite a while.     

I agree with you G&Y. I think Pulis has impressed everybody with what he has done at Palace. He certainly had a reputation at Stoke but has almost reinvented himself. If we cop another loss this weekend and I was in McNally''s position I would be making two calls - one to Lennon and one to Pulis and the best man wins from there as I truly believe that both would do an outstanding job here. 

[quote user="hertfordyellow"][quote user="Oz Canary"] [quote user="Buh"]Op is just another knobhead ex-pat that watches a stream and think that entitles him to an opinion. Yawn![/quote] Buh, obviously the verbal and written word isn''t a strength of yours. My point was not that Koeman would take us on now after being relegated but more if Hughton was sacked when he should have been, November or December, I find it almost impossible to believe that some quality manager would not have wanted to take the job on. And with regards to your statement about being an ex-pat. What''s that got to do with anything. Please don''t be so ignorant it makes you look ridiculous and small minded. [/quote] But who OZ canary? Who? Most decent managers want to access all possibilities, pick a club and have a pre-season to mold things together. What a lot of people in this thread are arguing is that there wasn''t this pool of talented coaches available and willing to take on the role. Ronald Koeman would not take on that job in January I''m confident of that. Who do you think we missed out on?[/quote]   Hertford, I''m not entirely sure but Di Matteo was available, Steve Clarke, Laudrup, Zola and that doesn''t bring into account any overseas based manager. I''m not saying that they would have saved us from relegation but to say that no-one was available I think is rubbish and I think all of those would have been an immediate improvement from Hughton. Why is it that other teams can make changes, shake things up and some twice in a season and we can''t seem to make a definitive decision until the last 5 weeks of the season. For the board, Delia or McNally to sit there and watch results and our league position slip slowly away without doing anything proactive to stop the decline is the height of naivity and stupidity. You would have to had to have been blind Freddy to not realise that it was not working by late November /early December last year. Supporters where grumbling, NCFC blogs & podcasts were full of discontent with not only the poor results but Hughton''s lack of strategy, team choices being poor etc. I also think it''s interesting that when McNally first arrived at Carrow Road he obviously surveyed the situation at the club, let Gunny take control of the first team. However, as soon as that first game against Colchester was done, McNally took control, replaced Gunn with Lambert. It all happened at lightening speed, which is what someone in his position is supposed to do. Fast forward to last year, he did nothing, let Hughton roll-on game after game, poor result after poor result. It seems to me that that was out of character for him. It then raises the question for me that maybe it wasn''t McNally so much but maybe Delia, Bowkett & the board were slow to react to the obviousness of the situation which again raises one of my original points that not having any "football people" at board level is stifling us. Maybe it''s because I''m an expat (as pointed out by one of our less literate fellow so-called supporters) and as such, am not on the ground in Norfolk, but to me there seems to be a massive disconnect between the fans and the club and particulary the board at the moment. Am I wrong?? Obviously, we will support Neil Adam''s and the boys but if the results are not positive immediately the board are going to have some big problems.

[quote user="Buh"]Op is just another knobhead ex-pat that watches a stream and think that entitles him to an opinion. Yawn![/quote] Buh, obviously the verbal and written word isn''t a strength of yours. My point was not that Koeman would take us on now after being relegated but more if Hughton was sacked when he should have been, November or December, I find it almost impossible to believe that some quality manager would not have wanted to take the job on. And with regards to your statement about being an ex-pat. What''s that got to do with anything. Please don''t be so ignorant it makes you look ridiculous and small minded.

We were so unlucky.Very proud of the boys in yellow last night. Took it to Holland. Timmy Cahill''s goal was a cracker.  Hopefully we will all be saying that at the end of next season with promotion back to premier

Apologies if there has been a thread on this, couldn''t see it. It''s a good thing that no quality managers were available for us to approach earlier otherwise we might have ended up with Neil Adam''s (or Gunny Version 2). Maybe I am being unkind to Neil Adams, but really, who would know as apart from junior football he''s no record to call upon. Where as Ronald Koeman has been espoused for a few jobs in England since the turn of the year most recently the Spurs job before it was given to Potechinno. With Koeman signing a three year deal with the Saints, you can''t tell me there a bigger club than us. It''s just a club that has bigger ambitions and better footballing heads making decisions. After listening to an interview with Matt Le Tiss, he was excited about the overseas players that Koeman could potentially bring in. Would love to have seen something like that happen with us but then again Koeman being Dutch probably wouldn''t have passed Delia''s fit & proper test.  

Excuse my ignorance but why would you say that Lennon is a psychopath. Seems a bit over the top for me

Just finished listening to a podcast of this mornings BBC Scotland''s Sportsound and they were talking about Neil Lennon leaving Celtic. They stated that they thought he would end up at Brighton & not Norwich. Apparently DM wanted Lennon but the board wanted Malky. Maybe because not one could agree in the boardroom, they plumped for the easy option with Adams. Don''t know but I just feel underwhelmed by the appointment and can''t help but think this is another bottled decision by the board, coming so fast after the Hughton fiasco.

I''d be chuffed with either Hyppia or Lennon. And maybe Zola

Win or draw........ we won there last year. We need points.

That''s the difference between an EPL team vs buying into a lesser team in a lower division. My original point was though, I don''t care whose being bought and for how much. I still firmly believe that NCFC board would be reguarly fielding enquiries. You can''t tell me that if someone has $25m to spend, they would look at a team in a lower division before and EPL team with little or no debt. I would enquire if I was in that position, but what response you get once you enquire would be the interesting bit of information.

Yes I know Purple however common sense would tell me that an EPL club, no or little debt, would have to be of interest to potential investors, I may be wrong but we would have to bf just about the only club that is debt free right. One team city. Marketing possibilities are endless plus the attractiveness of living in Norfolk. If I had billions I would be more interested in a NC rather than Leicester, Watford, Notts Forest, Notts County or QPR .

[quote user="Alex "]Oz, have you watched Swansea of late? Because if anyones going down with a whimper rather than a fight, it looks more like Swansea than us - we just can''t get the damn thing in the net. Sure, we''ve had some poor games but watching Swansea passing it around turgidly in midfield before invariably giving it away is not exciting football either. They look a shadow of the team that had the pundits heaping superlatives on them a season or 2 ago.[/quote] Alex, I haven''t seen a lot of them I admit but the two or three games I''ve seen, whilst they haven''t got the result, they certainly played more attacking football than we are. That is evidenced by their goal difference compared to ours.

[quote user="Paul101"]not for me not prima donna manager who apparently would call of training if it rained[/quote] We had a manager who was extremely ambitious and a bit of a prima donna(because we weren''t big enough for him) but we did alright with him. Unfortunately, we then went downmarket and hired a good PR guy with no game plan. I also wouldn''t believe everything you read in the papers. The real story I think is that Jenkins was annoyed that Laudrup wouldn''t commit long term.

[quote user="Kangaroo Court"]Laudrup got lucky with one signing (Michu). The rest was just continuing the momentum built up by Rogers, and if you believe the press it''s a legacy he was at risk of throwing away. Everything else our fans are fantasising about him is just ''grass is always greener'' syndrome.[/quote] Unbelievable. The guy delivers European football via success at Wembley in a Cup competition and he got lucky because he signed one player. On that basis he had the same team as Rodgers. Why didn''t Rodgers deliver a trophy then.

As opposed to playing boring, can''t score goals type of game. Attacking football and scoring goals seemed to work for us under Lambert. Wonder what happened....... That''s right clueless took over. If your going to get relegated your better off going down with a fight rather than a whimper. Which is the current situation.

[quote user="Kangaroo Court"]The alternatives to Hughton that have been put forward - Laudrup, Mackay, Holloway - have turned out to be flops. Who knows what state we''d be in now if one of them was managing us.[/quote] As oppossed too........................

If Laudrup had done for us what he has done for Swansea and only delivered a Cup and Europe he would be treated and viewed the same way Lambert is by the majority of the fans of our club. Beloved!!! I don''t understand some people''s thinking that he''s done nothing for Swansea.

[quote user="norfolkchance1"]Oz Canary, the vast proportion of takeovers have not delivered what they have promised. The Championship , Leagues 1 and 2 contain many examples. There are far too many Portsmouth''s and Coventry''s for my liking. I would need an enormous amount of convincing to welcome a new investor for a takeover with open arms without having serious questions about motives. We should be very thankful that we have had Delia and the board who have had the clubs best interests at heart. I accept your point that there have been good examples, and Fulham under Al Fayed and Wigan under Whelan are two examples you could add but I believe they are a minority. I think football as a whole should regulate things far more closely and make the rules far far tougher than they have been.[/quote] Norfolk, your point is well made however as we progress through the years the promoted clubs (like last years and certainly this years) have all been bought and well funded and look to be gaining promotion(Leicester & QPR). Yes, we have a board and majority ownership who seem to have the clubs best interests at heart. But I would submit that if they have been receiving offers (and I find it heard to believe they wouldn''t be receiving them regularly) why wouldn''t Delia & the board(if they have the best interests of the club in mind) accept a partner who could provide some bigger funding opportunities and agree that after a two or three year period the new partner who have the first right of refusal to purchase at whatever is the righful value of the club at that time. That way the "partner" has been at our club for a period of time, they would have passed our own due diligence or "respectable person" test and ownership and fans would feel more comfortable with that transition than just selling to a bunch of wealthy blokes who have time and money to waste without the real passion for football and NCFC more importantly.  My view is if we do not continue to move with the "times" we will be left behind and I mean in terms of relegation and if the trend continues that well funded clubs are the only ones with the financial muscle to crack the EPL, we may never get back if the current stance is continued.

Laudrup, Lennon, McDermott, Mackay, Di Matteo would all do a better job than clueless!!

And you can''t tell me that a premier league club with no debt is not receiving approaches from potential investors? I would bet money that we are approached regularly. I think the real story is the fact that we are in a positive financial position allows our majority owners the luxury to sit back and not worry about any new owners or partnership offers. Not all purchases end up in tears. Chelsea, Man Utd, and Man City seem to be doing OK to me.

Why is it that when ever the investment threads appear it''s always a - negative about any new owners would plunge us into financial trouble. How do you know that?