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    7 minutes ago, Creative Midfielder said:

    I'm afraid my preference would be to sack Smith, Shakey and Webber and most importantly Webber - he is singlehandledly responsible for the absolute mess that the club is now in, both financially and on the pitch, and there is no way I would like to see him appoint our next manager.

    You say he's not daft, which of course he isn't, and I'm pretty sure that virtually all NCFC fans recognise the good he did for the club in the early years of his tenure here. But for the last 18 months he has made a series of really terrible judgements/decisions. Don't think he has got a single significant decision right in that time, he has spent (at least by our standards) a huge sum of money across 2 summer transfer windows and yet the team we're seeing this season is an absolute shadow of the team of two seasons ago. In fact the team we have now would get absolutely murdered by the first Webber\Farke team which was put together on an real shoestring budget.

    Webber wasn't exactly shy on his arrival about criticising the previous regime at Carrow Road and having to rebuild the squad on that shoestring budget because of the 'sins of the past' - by which I assume he meant the amount of money spent on player signings/contracts for the Prem who he didn't believe had/were delivering the goods - ironic really because that he what he now stands accused of in spades. In addition of course to stupidly sacking the best signing he ever made and replacing him with a dud - actually that's unfair on Smith whose track record says he isn't a dud but he was clearly never going to be the right coach for us and how Webber thought he was is a total mystery (to me anyway).

     

    Very well put.

  5. Posted · Edited by Kingston Yellow

    9 hours ago, canarybubbles said:

    Let me start with the usual concession that he has done some great things for this club. No one can or should deny that. But ...

    1) He is the architect of the current antipathy between the club and a) its fans b) the local media. The way the football has gone would obviously mean that fans aren't happy, but that added element of either total apathy/disconnect or simmering anger is completely down to Webber. I don't buy into the argument that Archant and Bailey et al are partly to blame for the stand-off between journalists and the club - they managed to get on well enough with almost every previous administration, so why not this one? Webber's prickly arrogance is like poison in the system.

    2) On the footballing side of things, it is difficult to think of a single decision he has made in the last eighteen months which was a correct one. Yes, we can thank him for Farke/Pukki/Buendia, but that's a long time ago now and he can't keep dining out on it. According to Bailey (and why would Bailey lie?), Webber didn't give Farke the players he wanted. With his typical arrogance, it appears he thought he knew better. He then sacked Farke having lumbered him with a truly horrendous recruitment in which all of the new players failed abysmally (including Sargent at the time, although he is now proving his worth). He then hired Smith in a panic because he had sacked Farke without any plan (except perhaps hire Lampard!) and now had no idea what else to do. He then failed to sack Smith either at the end of last season or before the World Cup break. Whatever the opposite of the Midas touch is, Webber has shown it for the last eighteen months.

    3) He clearly seems more interested in other challenges in his life. Fair enough, but I don't see why the club should fund them.

    There's no point sacking the monkey if you don't also sack the organ grinder.

     

    Totally agree with everything in this post. Particularly the first point. This is all Webber’s doing / undoing.  He built a brilliant exec and management team in the first instance, but then started to believe his own hype and has been a shambles since the experts he recruited upped and left. And is now completely out of his depth. Unfortunately for us, Delia and Michael haven’t got a clue and suspect they’re scared of losing him so we’re fu(ked. 

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  9. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Captain Holt said:

    Can hear canary call now.

    "Yeah they've not played well today and they'll be aware of that, but they're 5th in the league"

    Can't blame him for not slagging off his employer but you can blame BBC Norfolk for using him.

    He’s literally just said “We’re 5th in the league.”  Ffs

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  10. Posted

    1 minute ago, chicken said:

    As was Farke.

    He's appointed two managers. If he appoints another, it'll determine whether he has a talent for putting things together and lining up all of those pieces almost perfectly, or whether he has just had a one off.

    Only question left now is if Smith remains, it's how long for. Absolutely no new impetus from the break, only one player away at the world cup and we couldn't be less galvanised. 

    I’m not sure if you slept through the last EPL season? How you can begin to construct any sort of defence of Webber after last season and now this, I can’t begin to imagine. 

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    49 minutes ago, KeiranShikari said:

    I don't think the 'breach of trust' is really the problem with Webber and the press. It's the previous criticism and he's using the investor stuff to hide.

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    Agree with you.  Plus Webber’s arrogance and belief that he’s beyond reproach.  Which he absolutely is not.  

    He’s clearly no longer allowed to speak directly in a Q&A format with journalists given he has zero tact, diplomacy, or emotional intelligence.  He’s a complete liability in front of the camera, which is contributing to the division with the fans that the board are in denial about.
     

  17. Posted

    11 minutes ago, hertfordyellow said:

    He doesn’t negotiate the sponsorship deal. The person responsible left soon after.

    He doesn’t paint the changing room walls either.  I was reflecting and commenting on the debacle over the last 2 years.  Most of which Webber does land squarely at Webber’s door. 

  19. Posted

    As amusing as the last few posts are, you forget some of the absolute f@&£ ups of recent years.

    I’ve been so fixated on the appalling recruitment that Webber’s led, that I’d almost forgotten the pink dressing room, soccerbot and BK8 controversy, a sponsorship deal which lasted even less than Liz Truss’s cabinet.

  20. Posted · Edited by Kingston Yellow

    1 hour ago, Capt. Pants said:

    BBC Radio Norfolk are in partnership to deliver rhe Canaries TV offering. Any criticism will be measured to say the least.

    Have to say, Mark Rivers has provided co-commentary the last 2 games and he's pulled no punches at all in his assessment of how bad we are currently.  

    In particular, he's criticised Smith's tactics, called out why Kenny McClean gets so much game time and seems undroppable, has openly commented that Hanley's a decent Champs defender, but not more than that.  And other such similar comments.  

    Refreshing to hear someone offering a genuine 'fan' opinion, rather than the likes of Simon Lappin who's opinion is completely blighted by his need to keep his head firming up Webber's @rse.

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  21. Posted

    34 minutes ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

    You are missing a few players from there though?

    Gunn, Giannoulis and Gibson included in that summers spend (latter two were loans to perm).

    Although I do agree with your overall point, that Farke was the fall guy for Webber's terrible recruitment.

    When Dean Smith showed that it really was the standard of the players it should have been Webber next to walk the plank.

    I still think Dean Smith is a clueless plonker with no ideas though. Just that it shouldn't be Webber picking his replacement this time, let Neil Adams have a go.

    Agree with you re Gunn. The rest were previous season’s signings, under Kieran Scott’s tenure, regardless of how the deal was structured. 

  22. Posted

    It takes some believing this is what Webber blew £60/£70m on last summer....

    Gilmour, 

    Kabak,  

    Sargent,

    Tzolis,

    Rashica, 

    Normann,

    Lees-Melou,

     

    Yet not one word of acknowledgment that he screwed up massively.  Instead, Farke gets the bullet and look at us now.  It's scandalous.

     

    Personally, I find it laughable that people are calling for Dean Smith to walk.  The issue is much bigger than the coach.

  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, Dean Coneys boots said:

    Has been woeful in recent years. Webber should never have been involved in this side of the things. I think we must have lost the person who was half decent because over last three seasons we have spent huge amounts for a champs team and got utter dross in return. Has anyone ever paid so much for such mediocrity? 

    Yes, Kieran Scott was Head of Recruitment and he left at the end of the last promotion season (can you spot the pattern?) to take over as Director of Football at Middlesbrough.

    Kieran Scott isn’t the only member of the senior team to have left over the last couple of seasons either.  Can’t be a coincidence and (massive assumption on my part), but perhaps Webber’s arrogance and tactless public persona make him as likeable to colleagues as he is to fans / Archant or anyone who has the temerity to question any of his decision.  

  24. Posted

    18 minutes ago, Creedence Clearwater Couto said:

     

    The summer recruitment was last chance saloon for Webber, and he failed miserably, again. 
     

    Sara, Sargent, Tzolis and Rashica. £40 million. Let that sink in. Depressing. 

    Let’s not forget Gilmour, Kabak, Normann and Lees-Melou. It was a complete shambles.

    And this summers recruitment doesn’t look very clever either.  We have an unbalanced side with no wingers and couldn’t invest after last summers massive errors.

     

  25. Posted

    8 hours ago, nutty nigel said:

    If the problem is recruitment how will changing the manager change that. Replacing Farke didn't work.

    The only two positive changes I saw after Smith joined was Idah looking the part up front and us defending our box better.  That defending seems to have stopped now. And Idah's injured.

    Despite Idah's injury Pukki/Sargent are on for 40 goals this season. But we're not defending our box well enough to be top six let alone top two. Centrebacks seem to be the problem here. Let's hope that can be addressed in January.

     

     

     

    Why do the majority seem to overlook who’s single handedly overseen recruitment over this time period.  Not to mention the panic appointment of Smith.

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