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  1. 3 hours ago, kenfoggo said:

    Did anyone observe a single Norwich player who looked as if he was playing for his position, his career or his personal pride? This kind of characterless display can only originate from lack of  leadership at the Club. What was Webber thinking when he employed Dean Smith ? I wouldn’t follow him to the corner shop! No ideas, no motivation, no character. How can a Club with such a good vibe at the end of last season in twelve months be turned into such a disaster?  Stuart Webber may have been instrumental in achieving two promotions from the Championship, but in one year he has demolished the Club as a supportable entity. Who in their right minds will pay their hard earned to be insulted by the dross on display this season? 

    Must admit I'm no fan of Smith and honestly don't think he is the right man for the club - certainly not at this time when we are in crisis and need some bold and brave management.

    However, it's interesting how he is loved at Villa and perhaps more importantly there is a whole host of players who speak very highly of him. I expect, however, this is mainly due to him being a decent chap... but we don't need a decent chap we need someone to revitalise the squad.


  2. Obviously if we come back in the second half and win 4-3 I’ll retract this but..

    I really can’t comprehend how badly things have gone wrong for us this season.

    Weve gone from a club with a supportive fan base who are engaged in the managements project for the club, having a great manager who got us playing some of the best football I’ve seen us play and some top players like Pukki, Buendia and Krul.

    Now the management team appears a complete shambles with a sporting director who doesn’t care and argues with fans, a manager who appears completely lost at the club, being humiliated week in week out on the pitch, a bunch of useless players who we’ve spent a relative fortune on.

    a complete mess and we could be in for some tough years to follow unless changes are made


  3. 13 minutes ago, canarybubbles said:

    IMO, if he genuinely cares about the club, he should resign.

    This is the key point... he doesn't care about the club.

    Although to be fair I don't think he has ever said he does. We were originally a stepping stone for him where he clearly believed he would go on to bigger and better things (probably at a foreign club). That was all fine and good whilst he was being successful here and until this season I would have thanked him for all he had achieved and wished him well.

    The problem now is that he has again demonstrated he doesn't have the ability to succeed at the highest level. When he believed that about Farke he sacked him and that's exactly what the board should be doing to him now. This is not about him not caring about the club, why should he? he's not a fan, but now he is actually a liability and his arrogance is making him incapable of doing the job.


  4. Lets be honest, like nearly everyone of our players he wont be relishing the idea of a huge drop in wages and playing in a lower division.

    However, also like nearly everyone of our players he may need to realise that actually he isn't good enough to  be playing in the premier league (or equivalent) and should be grateful that we gave him the chance to do so and paid him handsomely for what has actually been a poor season from him (relative to the fee we paid and his wages). He has been one of our 'better' players but the reality is that he hasn't done enough to keep us up. The thing that Rashica has got (unlike say McLean or Gibson) is the potential to be a decent player in a top class league. Another club may like us give him the opportunity but that will be dependent on them paying us a big fee and inevitably it will be another club that could see him having a third relegation on his CV.

    If we get an offer at the value we want and he gets an increases in his wages he will be off. Longer term though his career could indeed be better and more successful with a high performing season resulting in a glorious promotion. Maybe then he might attract interest from one of the more established top teams.

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  5. Living in the Midlands, I was hoping that there might still be some hope of premier league survival for the upcoming Leicester and Wolves games (how ridiculously optimistic!).

    I was still contemplating going as at least it wont be a struggle to get a ticket but the idea of paying £50 for me and my son to go and watch a team full of players who didn't seem to care even when there was something to play for .. makes me think I may just save my money


  6. 32 minutes ago, Petriix said:

    Let's go back to the end of last season. We'd won the league with a record points haul. Farke signed a new 4 year contract. We had an identity and a clear vision running through the club. We had the biggest transfer budget in our history. 

    Fast forward to today. Farke is gone. The identity is gone. The money is gone. Unlike our previous relegation the assets are gone too. It's hard to be positive about the future at this point.

    Regardless of where you lay the blame, things don't look great. I'll reserve judgement until we see what the squad looks like after the summer. After 10 games next season we'll have an idea where we are. I fear we're facing a significant decline. 

    This is bang on and why I am really worried about this relegation and our future.

    The other thing we have lost which is vital is the sense of unity within the club. One of the most impressive things of the webber/Farke renaissance (although I'd give Farke most of the credit) was that it had the whole club pulling along as one..the owners, board, manager, players and fans. We all bought into the vision and even with the knockback of the previous relegation there was a sense of togetherness and belief we could get back again.

    That's totally gone and we've sunk to the level where our Sporting Director has admitted he is no longer fully engaged and is getting involved in verbal scraps with fans.

    Things have really unfolded this season and I cant see who at the club is going to get us united and bring the belief we will need to fight for promotion next year (I cant see it being Delia, Webber or Smith). Big changes are needed.


  7. It may not be his fault but for me McLean just represents everything that has been wrong about our team this year.

    A fairly decent footballer who can do an ok job in the championship but is nowhere good enough for the premier league. Depressingly getting picked every week despite not being good enough and/or making mistakes just because he is either the best of a bad bunch or shows the right attitude/runs around a lot.

    Another poster made the comment at the beginning of the season that if McLean was a regular fixture in our first team in the premier league then we would be relegated and he has been proven 100% right.

    To keep him in the team and repeat it all again would be madness... next year we must establish a midfield where McLean is either gone or is at best a last 10 mins sub to waste time.

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  8. 37 minutes ago, shefcanary said:

    You have to sign it once to make it enforceable in law.  Thereafter you just check the calendar every morning.

     

    Of course Webber may have a case in saying although he hasn't signed it, the intention of both sides was that the contract was in force, irrespective of ink on paper.  However that may be risky if there is no other proof of this - the other party could deny it, there may be no board or meeting minute of the agreement, there is no other witness to the two parties agreeing verbally to it etc.  Then it becomes a case of he says, they say, which is down to the judge to decide who they believe. 

    Without getting too technical it doesnt need to be signed at all under contract law to be binding,

    Just needs to be the mens rea (intention) and actus reus (a physical change in position/act as a result of the contract)


  9. 6 minutes ago, king canary said:

    Yeah I largely agree with this. 

    I'm not saying a proper holding midfielder keeps us up but the strategy in the middle of the park was all over the place. A proper DM maybe brings out some of the talent Gilmour clearly has, it helps Aarons and Giannoulis attack with more freedom, it leaves Gibson less exposed etc etc. 

    All 20/20 hindsight but you take the money spend on Gunn, Normann and Tzolis and invest it into that position then things could have looked very different

    This is the big point for me.... this isnt 20/20 hindsight! There cant be a fan who didnt realise that the number one priority was to purchase a proper, decent DCM. The biggest failure of Webber/Farke/Recruitment team was not to prioritse this.

    Maybe they were waiting for Skipp to make a decision but that was extremely foolish. We should have made the purchase of a cDM the number one prioriry and spent whatever was required to do it. We could then use the remainder of the budget to buy appropriate 'luxury' players.

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  10. I love the idea of Farke coming back and I know at one point it was mooted that Farke could move up stairs when Webber left and then bring in a manager.

    Certainly an intriguing idea but I have no idea if Farke actually has the skills to take on this kind of role?

     Ironically, given the current situation with Webber, my main concern would that Farke is just too nice and not ruthless enough for the role.


  11. It's interesting what's happened at Villa recently.

    Few weeks ago  some on here were using the fact that Gerrard had turned them around to support arguments that Smith isn't a good manager and it was a mistake for us to appoint him.

    However, Villa's current run is horrendous and this is despite having 'the legend Gerrard' and the brilliance of Coutinho. I'm sure they will be safe this season but longer term they might struggle rather than becoming the top 6 team that they were talking about a few weeks ago.


  12. 12 minutes ago, A Load of Squit said:

    "He needs to be consistent in his habits, consistent in his behaviours. I know he wants to play every week, but I've also got another 24,25 players who are very good and deserve to play as well.

     

    The full quote shows that he is just desperate to play as much as he can, nothing wrong with that.

    https://www.dorset.live/sport/football/football-news/signing-mid-season-consistent-habits-6982323

     

    I’m not so sure habits and behaviours suggests to me that perhaps he isn’t showing the necessary character, attitude  and fight in training to get into the team and hints he might be just moaning about it ie same issue we seemed to have with him this season.

    all does not seem well again 


  13. 1 hour ago, Jim Smith said:

    We were always going to exercise the option. Doesn’t mean he won’t leave and his quotes in that article don’t say he’s expecting to be with us either. 

    I agree with this and article has actually made me more worried he will go. The quotes from Pukki are very much about seeing out this season and then see what happens.

    Us exercising the extension just means he can’t just leave for nothing but he is entitled to go if we don’t make him a decent, longer term offer to stay.

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  14. It may well be an honest answer and he may be a good man.... but it's a ridiculous thing to actually say!

    At a time when we are in a complete slump and playing some of the worse football we have seen for years its a stupid comment which  will inevitably just wind a section of the fan base up.

    He doesnt need to look at social media or phone people up - if he looked at our league position, recent results and the performance on Saturday then he should know exactly how us fans feel.

    I've a feeling he'd be feeling the same as us if he's beloved Villa were in the same position.

    I want to give him a chance with his own team but he is not exactly endearing himself to the fans.

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  15. 18 hours ago, Hank shoots Skyler said:

    Sorry but the prospect of finishing 18th or 19th rather than 20th during the last leg of the season does not enthral me whatsoever.

    Nor can I imagine it getting the players' blood pumping, I mean nothing has so far this season for any length of time so why would it change now? 

    I do tend to agree with this but one point worth considering is that I think each place comes with a greater reward. Let's face it for a club like ours even an extra £1m or so isnt worth sniffing at.

    But agreed will do nothing for fan morale or player motivation.


  16. 17 hours ago, Duncan Edwards said:

    0-1 at Northampton with Hendo and Jarv up top…

    I was also at that game - I was born in Northampton and my parents are Cobblers season ticket holders. 

    An absolutely inept display that left me so embarrassed.

    Ironically Hendo ended up playing for them and I bought sponsorship of him for my Dad as a birthday present! (At the time I thought for the cost of sponsorship for the season I should have bought him as a player...although he's gone on to have a decent low level career so fair play to him!)

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