http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city/norwich_city_fans_call_on_alex_neil_to_go_1_4829871 - Only 93% want AN to go????? Delia must have persuaded an awful lot of people to vote to keep him!!!!!
And incidentally, if I owned the Club, I wouldn´t sack the manager just because fans were telling me to, nor would I sell the Club, just to appease them either, I would only do one or both or either, if I felt it was in the best interests of the Club. We can only assume at the moment, that Delia doesn´t.
Yes, I made the same point last evening. (I mentioned attendances vs Walsall, Yeovil etc in league 1 still circa 25,000). And while the lambs continue to march en masse to the inevitable slaughter every weekend, they (the owners) can be as careless, complacent and myopic as they like. [Dereliction of duty, OCF called it - hard to disagree] A couple of gates of Ip5w1ch-esque proportions would stir them into action, surely?
But surely owners (albeit wealthy ones) treating clubs as their personal play things, with total disregard to the fans is what Delia and co hate about modern day football.
SUPERB hard-hitting article from Gary Gowers after yesterday's humiliation -http://norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2016/12/27/same-old-same-old-as-the-canaries-lose-again-but-the-city-board-fiddle-as-carrow-road-burns/ Here are a few of the key points and some of the associated comments - "Football’s unlike a ‘normal’ profession, I get that, but for most managers it’s one that’s infinitely more precarious than those who tread the nine to five path. Right now for Alex it seems less precarious. For him to have under-delivered in such an obvious and glaring way and yet not feel any form of heat from above is a luxury enjoyed by very few. Paper boys who literally fail to deliver are on thin ice, so too chief executives of major PLC’s whose share prices are on a downward spiral, and almost everybody in between. Yet the manager of Norwich City FC who has overseen eight defeats in the last ten games when armed with a squad that originally had aspirations of top two is told “carry on”!!! “If the board have any doubts about the fans feelings, they should just check the ticket sales for the 3rd round cup game against Southampton. I’ve just done a quick check on the club web site, and the availability of seats in almost every block in the ground is “Good” or “Very Good”, with the latter rating applying to the whole of the Lower Barclay, which ought to bring it home to the board” “I for one was never a fan of AN. There is only a slight chance the cook will see the fans view if fans boycott matches and don’t renew their season tickets, I know for sure my family are not and that’s 50+’of commitment down the ……” “The much discussed Times interview was a declaration of war by smith and husband, the club will be taken down a path of their choosing, we won’t like it, but it’s her toy. The loss of McNally and Bowkett has set in motion a rapid decline as balls, Moxey and the nephew are poor replacements for men of that calibre. 9 defeats in 11 is quite simply put a total and utter disgrace and any supporter willing to countenance and defend such a statistic is unworthy of the name. It’s hard to understand what game Smith is playing with the club. Yes, we know she despises the premier league money, the foreign owners, the business of football, the fleecing of supporters (although not averse to a good fleece herself).” “Jim (11) is right about the Southampton game. I feel that is where (finally) the tipping point may come with large numbers of empty seats. Having been a supporter for 55 years and current season ticket holder, it’s the first home game for years which I will not be attending by choice. AN has spent spent and seemingly wasted millions of our monies, and for what?Expensive players either not in the squad/warming the bench/out on loan – delete as appropriate. A fixated 4-5-1 formation, which in this division gets you so far, but then your opponents get wise. Obviously you then have a plan B and/or plan C to compensate – unless you are a stubborn Scot whose plans B and C just happen to be the same as plan A….see substitutions in recent games. It is sad to see the demise of this great club in this way.” At least 2 of the contributors are either not renewing their season tickets and have been going to CR for around 50 years!!!!!
Perhaps finally those who doubted me will now see that witch and her cronies for what she is. Changing the manager will only help short term, she must be hounded out of our club and forced to sell up by fan power. The goodwill towards her has run out, it matters not a jot that her monies once saved our club back in the day, this is about the here and now. She, her husband and now the boy in short pants are destroying a great institution and she must be stopped before she can do anymore damage. The time has come for boycotts and protests, it's time to get nasty as nothing else it seems is going to make the mad woman see sense. OTBC
As someone on MFW said, it's akin to what the Venky takeover at Blackburn is doing and their fans are in total despair.
Conversation between Delia and AN on 26.12.15: DS: "I do hate the Premier League Alex, all those beastly big clubs with all their money thrashing us every weekend. I'd much rather be in the Championship" AN: "I'll see what I can do boss" Conversation between Delia and AN on 26.12 16 DS: "I do hate the Championship Alex, all those beastly big clubs with all their money thrashing us every weekend. I'd much rather be in League One" AN:"I'll see what I can do boss"
I'm watching Mr Bean right now. Really making me smile, and I have them all on DVD, and watched them many times. Makes me wonder...I think he'd be a better manager than AN.
canario - never having spoken to her, I wouldn´t know what Delia either loves or hates about football, but I´m just saying that I can easily understand her apparent stance on this. As well as doing what she thinks is best for the club, at the same time, she wants to do what is best for her and her family. If those two scenarios aren´t compatible, and if it ever came down to having to choose between the two, which is what things are beginning to head towards, she´d choose the second. I´d do exactly the same, as I´m sure would many others. ...and no doubt that would enrage loads of KIO lookalikes, but I don´t believe that many of you wouldn´t do exactly the same thing, if you were in her position.
What do you mean, it´s time to get nasty? Norwich City fans were nasty for much of the time Hughton was here, and have been pretty nasty ever since, whenever the standards they set, haven´t been met - just one more unwanted and despicable trait of modern football, in my opinion.
Swansea manager has been sacked after only 11 games in charge. It will be interesting to see who takes on that poison chalice. This sacking game is a great earner quick money for the outgoing Swansea manager.
I can understand it, and do respect it. When you look at: Cardiff, Swansea, Villa, Hull, Leeds, Portsmouth etc etc. I respect that they would be guarded against that, and I do love when you hear it talked about and when we were in the Prem, it was always "of course one of only "such and such" teams who still have English owners" I do love the feel of that. This is way to far the other way though. It's like they feel they cant sack a young British manager, or else they might as well surrender to luftwaffe.
