Paraphrase Worthy

[Bundy 0]

Where we want to be is where we we want to be at. You have to pass side to side, left to right, front to back, up and down, and at the end of the day you find yourself at the place where you are. You have to earn the right to compete against the teams that are up there where you want to be, to play on a level playing field where you can play at the same level as the team that you''re playing, and who are at a level that you want to be at. Then we can go forward and get back working hard at the training ground where the players are first class. I''m not interested in the why, when, or what, but more the here and now, and how we get to where we want to be, which is as at the stage of knowing where you are and where you''re at. Then we can all look forward, and strive together in an onward momentum so that we can achieve the combined ambition of achieving the achievement of attaining the level of the aforementioned achievement. Then we can go forward again to be at a level that is at the level where we want to be, and if we work hard...

It really isn''t that disimilar to what he comes out with.
Thanks to you KTFs, Delia, board and anybody else who doesn''t see the damage (unfortunately now long term) that this useless and now deliberately divisive * is doing I am now beyond caring for the good of my mental health. We''re screwed and I will never get excited about my club until he''s gone. I''m unable to, that''s just the way it is. I really do hate the man. A question for you KTFs, if the argument is that you should support the club whatever, will you do so if we lose the first ten games of next season, despite the mayhem that may be going on?  OK if you say that he''s worth keeping for a footballing sense (although of course you''re wrong), but dont give me this support the club whatever the situation is, even if you know that they making a complete cock-up of it. I cannot do that. 

[chicken 0]

[quote user="Bundy"]

Where we want to be is where we we want to be at. You have to pass side to side, left to right, front to back, up and down, and at the end of the day you find yourself at the place where you are. You have to earn the right to compete against the teams that are up there where you want to be, to play on a level playing field where you can play at the same level as the team that you''re playing, and who are at a level that you want to be at. Then we can go forward and get back working hard at the training ground where the players are first class. I''m not interested in the why, when, or what, but more the here and now, and how we get to where we want to be, which is as at the stage of knowing where you are and where you''re at. Then we can all look forward, and strive together in an onward momentum so that we can achieve the combined ambition of achieving the achievement of attaining the level of the aforementioned achievement. Then we can go forward again to be at a level that is at the level where we want to be, and if we work hard...

It really isn''t that disimilar to what he comes out with.Thanks to you KTFs, Delia, board and anybody else who doesn''t see the damage (unfortunately now long term) that this useless and now deliberately divisive * is doing I am now beyond caring for the good of my mental health. We''re screwed and I will never get excited about my club until he''s gone. I''m unable to, that''s just the way it is. I really do hate the man. A question for you KTFs, if the argument is that you should support the club whatever, will you do so if we lose the first ten games of next season, despite the mayhem that may be going on?  OK if you say that he''s worth keeping for a footballing sense (although of course you''re wrong), but dont give me this support the club whatever the situation is, even if you know that they making a complete cock-up of it. I cannot do that. 

[/quote]Thats right - long term damage. Yes years and years of squallor not to mention the plague will return to Norwich. The club will actually re-establish the old Colmans Mustard site and set it up as a workhouse where the poor fans will got to work on handcrafting the merchandise for the club shop . . . . .The reality of it is this - play-off campaign boosted out coffers. We were still £20million ish in debt and although the board were confident in paying it off they took out a £15million pound loan to pay off in 15 years or similar. When the figures were released for the promotion year we had actually made a loss if the premiership money was not included. In otherwords had we not won promotion we may have been back into the sticky stuff (and I am not talking about freshly spat gum!).We are now financially safe for a lot more years than I would have cared to imagine before promotion. To suggest that we are being damaged long term is slanderous and to be quite frank based upon airy theories and conspiracy lies. There is no evidence to support your theory that there is long term damage being done. And I would argue the opposite - since Worthington has taken over we have never finnished outside of the top 10 in the Championship/Div 1. Prior to that we had endured years of tosh, watching players who now play for Kings Lynn try and look half decent. Essentially it is because of the success that Worthington has given us that we are now more stable and that we have money to ensure the future of this club is not perilous - not to mention how it has been reinvested back into the club such as the new stand, the accademy fascilities and the like.So long term damage which would suggested a spiral downwards? I would suggest that we as far away from that as we have been for the last ten years. Which suggests that the long term damage you suggest is infact nothing more than cosmetic and short term at best. If the football doesnt improve next season then I would back having Worthington be asked to move on his way. But after one pretty average season I am not going to jump up and down like this and make suggestions he is destroying our club when in fact all of the respect it has now throughout the footballing community is down to him and the board over the last 5/6 years.

[mystic megson 0]

I endorse nearly all of what you say, Chicken.

BUT . . . the F in NCFC stands for football, not finance.  Financial stability is a means to an end, not an end in itself. 

IMO this season the parachute money and a year''s experience in the Prem should have given us a golden opportunity to progress.  We didn''t take it. We thought we could use the tried and tested "what worked in 2003/4 will work again" formula.  Football is changing incredibly quickly, and that approach was never going to work. 

We have one last chance.  Has the board finally woken up?  Will they provide funding for a squad big enough and good enough to mount a realistic promotion push?  If I were Worthy and the board did not cough up, I would be strongly tempted to cut and run.   

Are we still trying to emulate Charlton, or aren''t we?  We need to know, otherwise frustrated expectations can only lead to move division.