CambridgeCanary 0 Posted October 23, 2005 A number of posters have referred to Worthy as Norwich''s most successful manager both as a fact and as a reason not to sack him. But is he?.......Worthy won the Championship and saw us relegated in the first seasonRon Saunders took us up as Champions and kept us there for the first seasonJohn Bond led us to promotion (not as Champions so one up to Worthy there) and kept us in the top division for four seasons leaving us there when he joined Man CityKen Brown was in charge when we were relegated twice and in both cases we bounced back straight away once as Champions. In between, he kept us in the top division for three seasons.Dave Stringer led us in the top flight for five seasons as well as two FA Cup semifinals.Mike Walker also kept us in the top division and gave us our best ever placing as well as European qualificationAnd Archie Macauley took us to the FA Cup semifinal as a third division club in 1959.Now all this is history of course and what really matters is our next match but whatever arguments you want to use to support the retention of Nigel, don''t say his is our most successful manager. He is fifth or sixth on the list depending on how you assess it. Not only can Norwich do better, they have done better several times in the pastThe other lesson that we learn from history is that all these managers had a finite life and sooner or later their star faded. The last glimmers of Nigel''s star can be glimpsed on the edge of the horizonUnited in our love for City Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ark 0 Posted October 23, 2005 Nice post. I think what you also touch on at the end there is that even if it is time for Worthy to step down, it doesn''t take away from the things that he HAS achieved. For instance, the unhappy ending to Walker''s second spell in charge doesn''t take away from the fans'' appreciation of what he did for the club.So, let''s not make this personal against Worthy. He''s been a good manager, but he''s fallen into an untennable position (if the in-fighting is indeed as bad as Trent Canary has been told). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CambridgeCanary 0 Posted October 23, 2005 Agreed Ark. It is entirely consistent to say that Nigel has done a great job for Norwich and will be one of our all time greats; he is in the Hall of Fame after all and rightly so but his time has past and now it is for someone fresh to pick up the baton and take City forward. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
