A chance to get it spot on

[Fluff 0]

If the board at Carrow Road really want to send out a message to their long suffering fans, then now is the perfect time to do it.

 

They are in a position now where if they really wanted to, they could actually be the leaders in the football league, rather than the followers of clubs like Charlton and their ‘model’

 

With football looking into its darkest void like never before, the time is bang on to look at the bigger picture.  Too many egos, the wages at stupid levels and an inability to know your level as a club are killing the beautiful game.  It seems as if everyone believes that you have to put the club into silly debt to get success.

 

I personally would only appoint someone till the end of the season with the carrot hanging there of ‘keep us up and keep your job’!

 

From next season, implement a wage cap.  Dont wait for a League ruling, do it anyway!  At the end of the day success is built on getting the blend correct.  Great players don’t necessarily mean that you will have a great team.  Look at Man City!

 

Norwich’s successes in the 80’s were down to a blend of self produced lads, old wise heads and a sprinkling of lower league players.  Everyone determined to do their best every week for their team mates and the fans.  Players like Linaghan, Townsend, Phelen, Drinkell and Bruce were all from the lower leagues.

 

I know that its different nowadays, but in reality it isn’t that different in the Championship.  Clubs like Hull, Reading and Bristol have proved that getting the blend right within your means can reap benefits.  I am pretty sure Reading were not paying players £12k per week before they got promoted.

 

Norwich with their facilities and fan base should theoretically be laughing all the way to the bank, but this isn’t happening as most of the income goes out on paying average players stupid wages, and for what!  Ultimately the survival of a club is far more important than anything.  Lets start from scratch.

[WeAreYellows49 0]

Great post, and I am suprised it''s had no comments so far.

The survival of the club, and in this league is the ultimate goal.

Also agree with wage capping,  would be ideal to go back to the win bonus to give the players that little incentive.

[Yella Fella 0]

I love the idea but lets face it, if a player had the choice to go to a club only willing to pay so much and an offer comes from another club for considerably more then the player is not going to come to norwich,.

Its not a game anymore its a business full of cash hungry players with no loyalty, im afraid those days have gone. Money talks as we all know.

Give the youth a chance thats how we will save on wages the same as before develop them pay them a standard but fair wage and sell them when they get noticed that has always been the norwich way.....

[WeAreYellows49 0]

[quote user="Yella Fella"]

I love the idea but lets face it, if a player had the choice to go to a club only willing to pay so much and an offer comes from another club for considerably more then the player is not going to come to norwich,.

Its not a game anymore its a business full of cash hungry players with no loyalty, im afraid those days have gone. Money talks as we all know.

Give the youth a chance thats how we will save on wages the same as before develop them pay them a standard but fair wage and sell them when they get noticed that has always been the norwich way.....

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I think youth players need the chance, maybe and hopefully the new manager will give them a few runs out, let them find their feet and get used to playing first team football.  You have to blood them at some point, and a good manager will know when they are ready to try.

It''s a shame that football has gone the way it is, the days have gone you are right, but hopefully in the not too distant future, football will get back to grass roots again.

[Fluff 0]

Wage capping is a start but that doesnt necessarily mean less pay!  I remember Sutton''s mega deal of so much per week but £1k per goal if we won, £500 if we drew and £250 if we lost!  Thats the key to everything.  Incentives.  Get a squad of hungry players and dangle a carrot of potential earnings rather than dead cert money and see the difference!

[Yella Fella 0]

Yes goal/assist and clean sheet bonuses are a very good point lower the wage offer incentives, but that would be like someone earning a  wage of say 18k a year in an office moving into a sales job earning basic wage of 13k and having to make the rest up in commision. Yes the incentive is there to earn more than you were on before but there is no guarantee of that, but i can see where your coming from.I think it would be very hard to attract new talent into the club with that put in place or more to the point keep hold of the talent we have.

[Fluff 0]

Do we have any talent?

I am talking long term tho.  At some point football is going to implode and wages will have to come down anyway.  Any team below the Premier league cant compete now anyway, and what will it take to make people sit up and take notice.  Would you really want to see a league club go completely out of business?  I wouldnt no matter what I think about any clubs.  A football club is like a pub, the hub of the community. 

Football league clubs need to know their place, and unfortunately that is not a place where we can compete with the big boys.  Yes.  Some will get promoted and if they are lucky manage to stay up.  Only then with the increased revenues should they even consider paying large, but until you have at least two seasons up there you cant do that unless you have a very rich benefactor behind you. 

[blahblahblah 2]

There is a club that didn''t get carried away with wages, promote players through the youth squad, and tried to live within its means.  It nearly troubled the play-off spots, and worried its local neighbours who thought of it as a "little brother" club.  And then this club sold Dean Ashton.  It has been downhill for Crewe ever since then, and now they''re at the bottom of division 3.

[Binky 0]

Fluff''s original points may come to pass in any event: our financial constraints may require it. Certainly we need a manager who can manage without resorting only to buying his way out of trouble. That may be a nice option to have but finding someone who can make a team really work together - for themselves and for the manager so that the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts - that''s the real management skill we need now.