What will Stuart Webbers legacy at NCFC be?

[Mullet 293]

Most of us hopefully want to leave some kind of legacy when we move on. He has invested in a PL training facility wow big deal. Player pampering clearly doesn't work.

[alex_ncfc 686]

Being worse off than when he started.

[Monty13 2,688]

Soccerbot?

He’s fell victim to his own hype.

He was quite happy to point out the mistakes of the preceding regime. Arguably right this minute we are in a far worse position than what he inherited.

His legacy is trashed and he’s only got himself to blame IMO.

Those two amazing promotions don’t mean much for the long term if we’ve ended up worse than where we started.

Edited October 28, 2023 by Monty13

[Robert N. LiM 5,767]

Putting together the team that played our best football since the 90s.

[Newports Canary 9]

Certainly an embarrassing end to his reign whether he admits it or not. 

[Capt. Pants 4,797]

Well we're lower in the league and a worse balance sheet than when he arrived.

Some good times though that I wouldn't swap but it's ended in tears and humiliation as it often does when you overstay your welcome.

 

Edited October 28, 2023 by Capt. Pants

[Pyro Pete 2,270]

Vegetable patch at Colney.

Edited October 28, 2023 by Pyro Pete

[S_81 1,024]

Riding off the back of the success of his support staff - until he lost them - and then got totally exposed  

Edited October 28, 2023 by S_81

[KeiranShikari 1,524]

The Farke promotions and playing a big part in the change of ownership. 

[FCC 94]

Did well choosing Farke. Didn’t ignore the noise and sacked him rather than admitting to more horrendous recruitment.

Pi££ed two lots of Premier money up the wall.

Wasted money on a training centre that produces spineless bottlers, and precious little young talent - that has to be sold after 6 months anyway.

Ironically Farke is in demand, I don’t think Stu will be.

 

[baldy09 181]

Laughable 

[Monty13 2,688]

10 minutes ago, Robert N. LiM said:

Putting together the team that played our best football since the 90s.

And dismantling it

[TheBaldOne66 768]

Staying far too long and making things worse than before he arrived! 

[canarybubbles 2,149]

Taking us forwards off the pitch and backwards on the pitch.

[Dr Greenthumb 782]

29 minutes ago, Robert N. LiM said:

Putting together the team that played our best football since the 90s.

And the worst since relegation to league 1

[cambridgeshire canary 7,595]

Was decent once, made some good signings which caused his ego to inflate, got us relegated twice by refusing to back us, has ruined our squad by signing players with injury records as long as my arm and a lot of old duffers, should have ****ed off up a mountain the second he started making it obvious he wanted to be anywhere but here and was flirting with leeds

Edited October 28, 2023 by cambridgeshire canary

[Unthink road 138]

Think what decision he and the board make in the next few hours or days could define his legacy. 

[Midlands Yellow 4,592]

Saying the word ‘Super’ 100 times in a single interview. 

 

[Feedthewolf 5,693]

Four great years. Taking a shoestring budget and weaving it into a great football team better than the sum of its parts, with a flourishing academy setup producing homegrown talent to cherish, led by a charismatic and principled manager who must rank among the greatest in this club's history.

Then two years overseeing terminal decline by blowing an increased budget on wholly unsuitable players, selling our most irreplaceable asset in Buendia, losing his bottle and sacking his 'X-factor' manager and appointing two awful managers to succeed him, then hiding away when we're failing only to re-emerge with a bizarre passion for mountaineering and divisive rhetoric.

In summary: started brilliantly, disappeared up his own backside taking the prosperity of the club with him.

[Samwam27 590]

Whats the point of having PL training facilities if we're no where near the PL?

[Robert N. LiM 5,767]

1 minute ago, Feedthewolf said:

Four great years. Taking a shoestring budget and weaving it into a great football team better than the sum of its parts, with a flourishing academy setup producing homegrown talent to cherish, led by a charismatic and principled manager who must rank among the greatest in this club's history.

Then two years overseeing terminal decline by blowing an increased budget on wholly unsuitable players, selling our most irreplaceable asset in Buendia, losing his bottle and sacking his 'X-factor' manager and appointing two awful managers to succeed him, then hiding away when we're failing only to re-emerge with a bizarre passion for mountaineering and divisive rhetoric.

In summary: started brilliantly, disappeared up his own backside taking the prosperity of the club with him.

Great summary.

Or, to put it in a nutshell:

"He ignored the noise. Then he didn't"

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 4,491]

He developed the training ground massively and constructed that phenomenal team with the likes of Farke, Buendia and Pukki.

But he was always a very arrogant, egotistical character who ended up leaving us in a worse state on the pitch than we were when he arrived.

In five or ten years, once the dust settles and we look back on the whole six years with hindsight, it will be mixed.

I said in the summer of 2022 that it was the right time for him to go whilst his tenure was still more positive than negative, and I stand by that. His era at the club would have still been seen as a good one had he left then, but he has stayed on too long and he has basically thrown away his legacy.

[Feedthewolf 5,693]

Just now, Robert N. LiM said:

Great summary.

Or, to put it in a nutshell:

"He ignored the noise. Then he didn't"

Or: "He trusted the process. Then he wiped his a*se on it."

[Coneys Knee 1,036]

Webbers tenure is a real mixed bag. The highs were amazing, the lows have been dreadful. But, we have a lovely training ground and cat 1 academy status so for that I thank him, but he needs to go NOW. 

[Virtual reality 819]

Soccerbot. We’re just waiting for the defending patch update 

[Fuzzar 1,825]

He doesn't have a legacy to stand on. 

[GodlyOtsemobor 2,787]

THIS... This is his legacy. 

 

He came in and blasted the previous regime for p!ssing money up the wall. That we had a squad of aging "stars" on high wages. Etc etc. 

Well after finding 2 players (Teemu and Emi) that dragged this club up twice, we are back to, if not worse off than when he arrived. 

Sleep walking to relegation much like in 09, aging players on fairly long and I'm sure lucrative contracts and p!ssed even more money up that very same wall .... And part of me (the synical part of me) thinks he's done it purpose so he can have the last say with knapper coming in to take over essentially what he took over, so if it doesn't change for the better like last time he can sit there in his old age and say to Zoe....

"see I did a good job, I WAS the best thing that happened to them, because that new guy couldn't do what I did in the same circumstances, those Darn locals never knew they had it so good" 

[PurpleCanary 6,217]

Mixed, but on balance still in credit for me, especially if Knapper turns out to be a talented replacement. Almost by definition most reigns in football end badly, and that can obscure the previous good that was done.

[TheBaldOne66 768]

22 minutes ago, Feedthewolf said:

Four great years. Taking a shoestring budget and weaving it into a great football team better than the sum of its parts, with a flourishing academy setup producing homegrown talent to cherish, led by a charismatic and principled manager who must rank among the greatest in this club's history.

Then two years overseeing terminal decline by blowing an increased budget on wholly unsuitable players, selling our most irreplaceable asset in Buendia, losing his bottle and sacking his 'X-factor' manager and appointing two awful managers to succeed him, then hiding away when we're failing only to re-emerge with a bizarre passion for mountaineering and divisive rhetoric.

In summary: started brilliantly, disappeared up his own backside taking the prosperity of the club with him.

Four great years? When two of those were our worst ever top flight seasons? Really? 

[Yellow Green Army 248]

52 minutes ago, S_81 said:

Riding off the back of the success of his support staff - until he lost them - and then got totally exposed  

Absolutely spot on.!