Your bestest, favourite City board.......ever!

[lappinitup 629]

I know the board run by Sir Geofrey had it''s moments as did Chase. Sir Arthur was a diamond, but it has to be Delia for me. It''s been a roller-coaster ride but boy, what a ride. They''ve all made us happy, they''ve all made us sad but Delia has made us what we are now and I''m loving it! [:D]

[Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar 0]

This one.

People have moaned about the present board on and off for years. My view is they genuinely care about this club, they''ve made some decisions which have been poor in the past, however these were down to inexperience and their hearts ruling the head.

 As their tenure has continued though I would say they have learned their lessons and employed a chief executive who is street wise and not afraid to get stuck in for the good of the club.

 We as a club are quite unique as having a board who are NCFC first, and self profit second (image or finacially). Which as you know is rare in this money driven Premier league.

    

[lappinitup 629]

Good post Sir Digby. The main thing that swings it for me is that while the others all left the club in turmoil, Delia and Michael faced up to that tumoil and steered the club through it...

[Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar 0]

[quote user="lappinitup"]Good post Sir Digby. The main thing that swings it for me is that while the others all left the club in turmoil, Delia and Michael faced up to that tumoil and steered the club through it...
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Definately,

Chase was a businessman who although he was local was in it for the cash and reputation. The man had a huge ego (remember the FA commitees he seemed to wangle places on?) He loved being on the TV and radio, but whenever he was on he came across as an unlikable patronising knob.This self publicity is all well and good but when it all started going wrong, this made him a bigger figure of loathing with the fans.

Admittedly his land investments got the club out of the cack. however, I dont believe for one second the purchases were for the ultimate benefit of the club.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

[Yellowbeagle 0]

Chase was a brilliant talent spotter when it came to selecting a manager but he was a greedy power hungry chairman as mentioned in the posts above, his main strategy was to develop players and sell them on at profit not win things. Delia and co couldnt be more contrasting under her spell i''ve never felt like we are a selling club but she has had a huge issue with recuiting hopeless managers up until McNally''s appearance on the scene. It''s a pity we couldnt have had some of Chase''s managerial recruitment skills allied to Delia''s good but often misguided intentions. Delia for me everytime though.

[BlyBlyBabes 0]

[quote user="lappinitup"]I know the board run by Sir Geofrey had it''s moments as did Chase. Sir Arthur was a diamond, but it has to be Delia for me. It''s been a roller-coaster ride but boy, what a ride.

They''ve all made us happy, they''ve all made us sad but Delia has made us what we are now and I''m loving it! [:D]
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Bored?

 

OTBC

[Zak Van Burger 0]

[quote user="Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar"]

This one.

People have moaned about the present board on and off for years.

    

[/quote]You are confusing the present board with the previous board surely. There hasn''t been much moaning since Bowkett, Mcnally, Phillips and Fry joined but there was plenty in the dark days of the Doomcaster, Turners etc.

[Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar 0]

[quote user="Zak Burger"][quote user="Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar"]

This one.

People have moaned about the present board on and off for years.

   

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You are confusing the present board with the previous board surely. There hasn''t been much moaning since Bowkett, Mcnally, Phillips and Fry joined but there was plenty in the dark days of the Doomcaster, Turners etc.
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Apologies,

Was mainly referring to chairman/persons. You are quite correct, the previous members of the board under the Delia/ MWJ reign where shocking. Doncaster was a strange and inept person.I suspect many an agent were laughing their heads off when Doncaster agreed some of the players deals.   

[Indy 3,477]

With Zak!

 

Bowkett, MacNally & Co have been superb!

 

Delia was so out of touch prior to 2010 that we narly ended up without a club, we had a questionable CEO and no focus on where the club was going.

 

This board as it is now with Delia allowing footballing people run that side and Delia doing what she does best has turned this club around.

 

Now Chase too was very good but as already stated had an ego, was focused on business and money and towards the end really lost the plot, wich tarnished the good he did. Let''s not forget under Chase we had some great seasons, managers and player too.

 

If you ask me MacNally saved this club, Bowkett has moved us on and Delia finally got it right! This current board and set up is fantastic.

[ellis206 0]

[quote user="Yellowbeagle"]Chase was a brilliant talent spotter when it came to selecting a manager but he was a greedy power hungry chairman as mentioned in the posts above, his main strategy was to develop players and sell them on at profit not win things. Delia and co couldnt be more contrasting under her spell i''ve never felt like we are a selling club but she has had a huge issue with recuiting hopeless managers up until McNally''s appearance on the scene. It''s a pity we couldnt have had some of Chase''s managerial recruitment skills allied to Delia''s good but often misguided intentions. Delia for me everytime though.[/quote]

 

We have had some decent managers to be fair, Worthington did a fantastic job at Norwich, yet people still remember him for the last 2 months of his tenure

[lappinitup 629]

[quote user="Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar"]You are quite correct, the previous members of the board under the Delia/ MWJ reign where shocking. [/quote]But were they? I seem to recall a play-off final at Wembley, champions two years later, a Premier League campaign and players like Hucks and Ashton. As I said earlier, it''s been a roller-coaster ride but it''s been a lot of fun.

[Phillip J Fry 0]

[quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar"]You are quite correct, the previous members of the board under the Delia/ MWJ reign where shocking. [/quote]But were they? I seem to recall a play-off final at Wembley, champions two years later, a Premier League campaign and players like Hucks and Ashton. As I said earlier, it''s been a roller-coaster ride but it''s been a lot of fun. [/quote]

Wembley is in Cardiff ?!?!?!? 

[PurpleCanary 6,391]

[quote user="lappinitup"][quote user="Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar"]You are quite correct, the previous members of the board under the Delia/ MWJ reign where shocking. [/quote]
But were they? I seem to recall a play-off final at Wembley, champions two years later, a Premier League campaign and players like Hucks and Ashton. As I said earlier, it''s been a roller-coaster ride but it''s been a lot of fun.

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Quite, lapps. Leaving the Cardiff/Wembley thing aside! To dismiss all the Smith and Jones era pre-Bowkett and McNally is extremely simplistic. In 15 years of owning the club they have only had one period of bad-decision-making, from 2006 to 2009, and they learned from that.

There is a lot to be said for this board of directors. Not perfect. Sometimes too ostentatiously ruthless at the expense (literally in the Colchester compensation case) of quietly sensible decision-making. But that is the downside of having two ambitious go-getters in Bowkett and McNally. The vastly-experienced Smith, Jones and Foulger should provide a calming influence, and probably do now.

But there is cetainly a strong a case for the board of the early 2000s, once Smith and Jones had got to grips with the barking mad world of football. Them, plus Skipper and Foulger, Bob Cooper as chairman and later Doncaster as chief executive and director. Those years saw the post-Chase consolidation, a play-off final, winning the Championship by eight points and only a narrow relegation thereafter.

[lappinitup 629]

[quote user="Gareth"]Wembley is in Cardiff ?!?!?!? [/quote]I had the other half machine-gunning my lug-hole when I was typing that![:$]

[lappinitup 629]

[quote user="PurpleCanary"]To dismiss all the Smith and Jones era pre-Bowkett and McNally is extremely simplistic. In 15 years of owning the club they have only had one period of bad-decision-making, from 2006 to 2009, and they learned from that.[/quote]Exactly Purple, but that is the one period their critics hang on to, like a drowning man clinging to a floating cow pat, when trying to discredit them....

[Yellowbeagle 0]

[quote user="ellis206"]

[quote user="Yellowbeagle"]Chase was a brilliant talent spotter when it came to selecting a manager but he was a greedy power hungry chairman as mentioned in the posts above, his main strategy was to develop players and sell them on at profit not win things. Delia and co couldnt be more contrasting under her spell i''ve never felt like we are a selling club but she has had a huge issue with recuiting hopeless managers up until McNally''s appearance on the scene. It''s a pity we couldnt have had some of Chase''s managerial recruitment skills allied to Delia''s good but often misguided intentions. Delia for me everytime though.[/quote]

 

We have had some decent managers to be fair, Worthington did a fantastic job at Norwich, yet people still remember him for the last 2 months of his tenure

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I agree Worthington was a good manager and did a great job but he was a rare exception rather than the rule. He also was put in charge initially as caretaker, possibly forgoing the dreaded Norwich city interview process. But when you look at the rest people like Hamilton, Grant, Roeder, Gunn, Rioch there was some uninspiring to really bad appointments.

[nutty nigel 7,902]

So much confusion over what this is about. I wonder if Lapp was referring to figureheads of which I''ve only known four.  Watling, Sir Arthur, Chase and Delia. That''s an easy one for me to sort.

1. Sir Arthur

2. Delia

3. Watling

4. Chase.

 

Sir Arthur is my favourite. He was a man who could unite people and make things happen. Right back to the 50''s when he was Lord Mayor and helped save the club. It was Sir Arthur who got together local businessmen and sat the round the table to save the club. His selfless leadership abilities were always a big part of his contribution. When Sir Arthur replaced Watling as Chairman he managed to keep him on board. When the fans wanted "Watling out" Sir Arthur said "No we want Watling in". And the pair of them, although politically chalk and cheese, worked together and Norwich became an established top tier club. If you look around the City you will see plenty of examples of what Sir Arthur achieved on behalf of the people of Norwich. Sir Arthur didn''t have a fortune to leave to the club, his investment was his skills and contribution whilst he was alive. One of the greatest ever citizens of our fine City and the best Chairman our football club ever had.

 

[TIL 1010 5,246]

Spot on Nutty and i agree with everything you said. [Y]