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Simply goes to poor recruitment or, perhaps more accurately, recruitment of players of insufficient quality to make an impact at PL level. That goes to our inability to pay the wages for better players. Until our business model changes we will continue to be nothing other than a PL embarrassment.

Dispose of our best player, fail to secure a replacement for Skipp in a timely manner and have insufficient resources to pay the salaries of PL quality players necessarily implies a 20th place finish (again). Only new equity will break our cycle of failure.

The disposal of our best playing assets is a key part of our financial strategy. Only with new equity might our apparent ambition be lifted beyond that of a 20th place PL finish.

Kane hatrick, but less than 7-0

The commentary is irrelevant. It was an exceptionally poor performance from Norwich even measured by our low standards of this year. We deserve to finish 20th if a scraped 1-1 draw is all we could achieve.

Massively relieved it’s not Lampard. Backwards step cf Farke but disaster avoided.

Farke

We’re finishing 20th regardless of coach. A downgrade on Farke but at least Smith has experience of escaping the chumps.

Downgrade on Farke, upgrade on Lampard. You couldn’t make it up

Can’t rule that out - what if we scour Europe, or even take a post-Brexit so-called ‘global approach’ and discover Adams (again) and possibly talent in Wales.

Absolutely

Not an upgrade but less of a downgrade than Lampard.

I admire your optimism Jim. Beyond Normann I can’t think of any Norwich players that would find another PL team (maybe, possibly, Aarons, Cantwell, Gilmour but none are shoe ins?). Can’t see any other team that has fewer options upfront, lacks creativity post-Emi, and concedes goals for fun. So imo we will undoubtedly finish 20th. That being the case means we need not be in any rush to appoint and the sole criterion should be about championship track record.

This is good news. If we can’t have Farke let’s hope for Smith - at least he has had some success in the chumps even if he’s not at Farke’s level.

Maybe Martin, Adams and Gunn as GK coach? Is that progress cf a twice championship winning coach?

This season is done. We’ll finish 20th whoever is coach. The choice should simply be about credentials towards championship promotion. In this regard Smith clearly trumps Lampard and Farke trumps all comers - perhaps they should offer him the job?

Shambles of a club. Maybe Farke will take it - should never have been let go. He has the championship credentials we need.

Although I would have stuck with Farke, Smith at least has a championship promotion to his name which is key for our context. Can’t see Lampard ticks many boxes at all.

The key attribute of the new coach needed to be a track record of championship promotion. I would have stayed with Farke - he certainly won’t be out of work for long. Sadly, Lampard singularly fails to fit this bill. A backwards step.

Farke is undoubtedly the stand out candidate. Championship promotion credentials are presumably the most important criterion for appointment.

What a sad end to a fabulous, if somewhat stressful afternoon, at Brentford’s new ground. I didn’t want Farke gone and always felt he was best placed to bring us back up. Aren’t that many mangers with two championship promotions on their CVs.

Sacking Farke will not solve the fundamental issue which is the business model. RM would effectively return us to the football ‘strategy’ which led to the appointment of BG. That didn’t end well except of course the calamity of relegation to tier three that followed heralded the arrival of Lambert. I suspect our ambition should be higher than tier three football.

Only with significant investment might the club flourish in the PL. Obviously, if the owners are not interested in a disposal then the current business strategy will continue. It follows that there’s no point in seeking to replace the manager and/or sporting director. The supporters must be prepared to accept decline through the football pyramid as those with much richer paymasters will increasingly out perform us.

If we are to compete in the modern PL we need owners with sufficient wealth to: retain our best players (there can be few examples of newly promoted teams selling their talisman and player without whom they have hardly won a match over the previous two seasons on promotion); pay the necessary salaries to retain and attract PL quality players; manage the transitions between tier one and tier two comfortably without the club being a ‘Maddison’ away from relegation every couple of years. So, Webber, Farke, the players, the system none of these are to blame for our predicament. Sadly, it is the business model, and consequent lack of ambition it demonstrates which is at the root of our failure. With the PL, Championship and even league one clubs increasing owned by multi millionaire/billionaires we look set to fall further and further down the football pyramid if we continue with our failed model. Of course, Farke remains our chief mitigation against successive relegations given his Championship record. It is to be hoped that the Farke naysayers do not hound him out.

Neither Webber nor Farke are the fundamental issue here.