Mr Carrow in the City Stand

Yeah but it seems my pseudonym pre-dates yours eh ? .... Oh and i''d stand by last August''s post. The lack of action over the summer was a koke. Only when the 3 on-loan players arrived did we begin to move on as a club and see what was possible. So Worthington shaped up like I said he needed to but last August he and our progress was at a crossroads. Since then his performance has been excellent as a manager and he deserves to take us up. Just one mistake in my book...........we needed Harper to stay as wide right is a glaring weakness now affecting service to the strikers raising the danger we increasingly look to Hucks or to attack down the left.

Ok I agree that there is another side. But as much as I would like Worthy to get us challenging again this striker business is becoming a long running saga and is beginning to frustrate fans and make the club look inept. We cant get anybody in......we let Neilsen go.......high hopes are placed on young lads who have never scored a senior goal (Jarvis, Hammond)... Is this the best way to go about team building or is the manager out of his depth ? Like many others I am seriously beginning to wonder whether he can do it. I''d love to be proved wrong.

Worthington is fast becoming a total nightmare. We already know his tactical limitations - disastrously shown to the fullest effect when Sutch replaced McVeigh at Cardiff. What has become obvious this summer is that the man also has very little clue about the transfer market or how to relate to supporters. Since May he has announced week by week the names of so called ''20 goal'' strikers who he wanted at Carrow Road. Goater ? Taylor ? Hulse? Lee? Connolly? Shipperly ? Beckett ? All of this built up supporters expectations. Most of these players are now knocking in goals for their new clubs. Hardly any ever got to visit Norwich for talks, still less sign for us. We are now into the season, disgracefully out of the first cup competition and as yet no striker has been signed and no current striker has scored or looked remotely likely to. Most of Worthington''s announced ''targets'' were a total joke. There was almost no chance they would sign for us and Crewe and Rotherham laughed at our so called ''bids'' for Hulse and Lee. All this has served to do is build up supporter frustration week by week. Amazingly to cap it all this week he then allowed one of our first choice strikers, Neilsen, to leave on a free at 24 hours notice. Predictably another, Abbey, is then immediately injured 2 days later at Sheffield. All this is novice management at its worst and the performances of the team are now totally unacceptable away from home and completely undeserving of the levels of support who regularly travel. Worthington''s after match interviews are embarrassing and suggest a lack of reality. Lets face it he hasn''t got a clue really and watching us play away is like watching paint dry. He needs to shape up fast or ship out.

Hang on a minute! Whats the hurry here. We take months trying to get a striker in without success. Suddenly one of our current first choice strikers phones in ''out of the blue'' yesterday to say he wants to go back to Denmark and he''s off today ?? Doesn''t make sense. I assume Neilsen would have played Saturday so OK he suddenly wants away but what about the club''s and fans interests ? Whats to stop us hanging on a week or two untill somebody comes in ? No sorry this doesn''t add up. Oh and another thing.......has Worthy conveniently forgotten that Neilsen cost us around £250k as I remember so how come he''s suddenly OK to walk for free ? Wife got a new job ? Tough. Plenty of people have to work around that and why should Neilsen''s contract be a one way street ? If the club had suddenly said today ''Sorry David we don''t want you clear off back to Denmark'' he would have been the first to moan about a broken contract. Contracts cut both ways so how come he''s got himself out within 24 hours ? Anyway he joins the growing list of players Worthy signs and lets go for nothing..,Emblen, Neilsen, Libbra, Heckingbottom. Another great bit of business. Still cash is easy come easy go at the club eh? Or was Doncaster talking about another massive loss in the annual accounts ??? Wonder why ??