Devils Advocate.

You can''t really blame them, we just nicked their Boss. I remember when Mike Walker left to go to Everton, I had the silly idea that things would never be the same again and that the good times were over.  I have never been so right in my life.....

As supporters we always seem to be demanding change, yet when the change is made it never seems to be for the best. Many fans wanted to see the back of Sir Arthur South, he went and we got Robert Chase. After a few years, for obvious reasons we wanted Chase out and after a short period of Geoffrey Watlings ownership we entered the Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones era with first Bob Cooper and then Roger Munby as Chairman. We in turn wanted Munby out and thus entered the present regime. The same has happened with the Managers, you can trace the line of succession from Gary Megson , apart from Mike Walker and possibly Bruce Rioch, we have wanted the blood of each succeeding manager and things never seem to get better. I have seen some posts on this forum who look back at previous Managers and Chairmen and wish that they would return. Some say that Chase would not have made such a mess of running the club as those that have come after him have done, Many feel that Roeder would have saved the club from relegation. You have only to read the messages left on this forum after we lost to Colchester, demanding the head of Bryan Gunn and then see all those whinging when he was sacked last week  to realise how difficult it must be to satisfy the fans of Norwich City. We tend to get over excited when we win, if you can remember that far back, and maybe suffer from terminal depression when we lose, which seems to be every game at the moment. We can only hope that Paul Lambert can steer us to calmer waters for a time, so that decisions can be made with a clearer head.

If Paul Lambert is so bad, how dare you expect compensation for him, you should be paying us.

I do not remember an 8 page tribute to anyone connected with the club before. When, the only man entitled to be called "Mr Norwich City", Geoffrey Watling died, there was press coverage but certainly no 8 page spread, was there.  Dave Stringer and Duncan Forbes have left the Club after long years of service but they did not get much if anything in the way of press tributes. Given the awful position the club finds itself in now, this is not the time to publish a tribute to Gunn.

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I could not have said it better myself, despite making Victor Meldrew look optimistic,  I really believe that Norwich City have come into the real world. Let us hope that we can keep Lambert and McNally and not lose them to a bigger Club.

Peter Grant felt that he would get another job in Football, Bryan Gunn probably realises that he won''t.

About this appointment is that I won''t have to listen to Radio Norfolk anymore, apart from the dubious pleasure of Live commentaries and the legend that is "Canary Call". I never realised how bad Radio Norfolk had become until being forced to wait for the latest news from Carrow Road only to be delayed by more important things like flower shows etc.

Good appointment, I am pleased  that Paul Lambert decided to join us. Given the way he turned Colchester around from relegation candidates in October last year I would have not been surprised to see him join a Championship side. I know we have a vast fan base and wonderful facilities etc etc but look at what we are now, a struggling Div One team with an untried squad of journeymen players, a vast debt and shattered confidence. It was never really on to have attracted Gordon Strachan or most of the names that have been mentioned over the last few days. The bizarre events of the last few days could only be completed by Bryan Gunn and Jamie Cureton forming the new management team at Colchester and making Michael Theoklotis (query spelling) their first signing, maybe we would make a gift of him as compensation for Lamberts loss.

Delia picked Peter Grant in the lucky dip, this explains how he got the job.

In reply to Forces2Canary and his preference for Jimmy Jewell, Strangely Jimmy Jewell took over in January 1939 but was too late to save us from relegation. He had been the referee at the previous seasons FA Cup. I doubt that any other referee has had such a change in career.

Oh come on ! he is not going to leave a big club like Scunthorpe to come here.

Apart from Iwan Roberts, you are the only ex Canary to have written /published your life story. Now that you have National media attention, please.please, please could you update it  to say last Friday. I would be first in the queue to buy it and we are not going to know the truth until someone breaks ranks. Never mind the gagging clause, the book sales will cover any losses.

With all of the criticism of the timing of Bryan Gunns sacking, is it possible that the board wer forced into making it public when they did, by the fact that the Mirror leaked the story on Friday afternoon. Maybe the story was going to be released after the Exeter game. Gunns absence from the game could have been explained away by a scouting mission or some other story. How did the Mirror get the story?

Well that has ruled out Delia or Michael as your source, they seem to get everything wrong.....

And to think we mock the Ipswich fans, what do they make of us?

According to wikipedia and that is always accurate as we know, JFH "Probably isn''t about to take over as Norwich  City''s new manager". Well we live in hopes, don''t we?  

Well it has to asked, who would be your choice between Joe Kinnear or Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink ?

If this is true, does he come with investment for the club ?  Not that it matters one little bit to the club, if it is true that is the end for me as a Norwich City follower, Goodbye.

Wouldn''t want him , even if it was true, he had no effect at Newcastle even though he is a legend. Not unlike Bryan Gunn really.

I wonder if it has been planted by the club, so that the new manager doesn''t look so bad ?

Just when we thought that Norwich had entered the real world as a professional football club, this comes up, I was then about to nominate David McNally for a Knighthood as well. That nomination has now been scrapped.

I was delighted when Bryan Gunn was fired, but given the choice between Gunn and JFH, I would rather have Gunn back, surely it can''t be true, can it??????????

Any big name ex-player without managerial experience. or Glen Hoddle.

Obviously. But I now have this strange premonition that Lawrie Sanchez is the chosen one. Does anyone know whether David McNally and Sanchez worked together at Fulham? Or did McNally fire him ?