great post to sum up by somebody on pink'un good read:
We should have seen this coming after Joe Ferrari's barbed message on the official message board earlier. It inferred that we plebs should be eternally grateful to Delia & Co for 'saving the Club from extinction' and that we cretins don't deserve an opinion on the way that the team's being managed. Funny how the Club is happy to take our season ticket money and our money from shares and merchandise to swell the coffers. But when fans - like the ones who paid up to three figures of their hard earned cash to watch some abysmal performances this season - really kick up a fuss after 11 wins in 53 games, we're treated with a contempt that is staggering. We have so much to be grateful to Delia and Co for, but I sense that the events of today will harm our Club substantially - not the decision to back Worthington, but the way in which it has been handled.
The Board is now treating us like cretins. There seems to me to be an arrogance towards the fans that is infuriating, although not entirely new. Delia's aggressive half time rant to the fans against Man City (it should have been Worthington you shouted at, not the fans). Worthington's "I don't care what the fans think" a couple of weeks ago. Ferrari's apparently condescending swipe at the fans today.
I sincerely believe that the decision today to back Worthington is an error on the Board's part. Delia's correct, a good manager doesn't become a bad manager overnight - Worthington's managing to stretch it out to a season and a half. We will now struggle in mid-table for the next few seasons, giving a lie to the Board's claim for ambition.
I think that the Board has substantially mis-judged the mood and feelings of the Norwich City fan base today; this isn't a whinge by a couple of hundred supporters, this is a deep-rooted dissatisfaction with the management team. The Board has severely misread the current situation and the relationship between the fans and the current Board has changed irrevocably today.
Posted By: loz on October 25th 2005 at 10:01:29
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- great post to sum up by somebody on pink'un good read: (NCFC) - loz, Oct 25, 10:01:29
- take a look at (NCFC) - giant_Ullaa, Oct 25, 10:27:27
- I don't give a f**k about them (NCFC) - ncfcdubai, Oct 25, 10:43:16
- Has Ferrari done a Ratner ? (n/m) (NCFC) - oh arr, Oct 25, 10:21:35
- You're insane (NCFC) - T 07, Oct 25, 10:12:03
- T07: individually we are small in terms of the clubs revenue BUT (NCFC) - oh arr, Oct 25, 10:20:28
- But the stadium will never be empty (NCFC) - T 07, Oct 25, 10:27:12
- not that long ago since crowds of 15000 (NCFC) - linda, Oct 25, 11:08:43
- But the stadium will never be empty (NCFC) - T 07, Oct 25, 10:27:12
- T07: individually we are small in terms of the clubs revenue BUT (NCFC) - oh arr, Oct 25, 10:20:28
- Well said (n/m) (NCFC) - oh arr, Oct 25, 10:11:21
- That ia a very good post and sums up the situation nicely! (n/m) (NCFC) - Kirrie, Oct 25, 10:09:35
- Fuck me you're a miserable bastard. (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 25, 10:07:01
- Pissing down here (NCFC) - T 07, Oct 25, 10:17:53
- It was in Long Stratton at 4.45am. Howling a gale too. Nice now though. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 25, 10:20:34
- agree that there's no reason to get too worked up about the statement (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 25, 10:11:56
- Not true just dont like being taken as an idiot.. (NCFC) - loz, Oct 25, 10:10:20
- "Don't like being taken as an idiot." (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Oct 25, 10:21:43
- Yes but going on and on and on about it doesn't help your cause. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 25, 10:16:31
- Pissing down here (NCFC) - T 07, Oct 25, 10:17:53
- SACK THE BOARD (NCFC) - Dave in France, Oct 25, 10:06:16
- very good post...i wonder how the agm will go!!!lol (n/m) (NCFC) - walksie, Oct 25, 10:05:49
- I disagree with a lot of that... (NCFC) - Fierce Panda, Oct 25, 10:05:10
- 11 wins from 53 really drives it home though .. (NCFC) - loz, Oct 25, 10:07:05
- We WERE lucky to get there (NCFC) - T 07, Oct 25, 10:20:08
- precisely my point and hence once we got there.. (NCFC) - loz, Oct 25, 10:27:06
- agree with all of that (NCFC) - mr carra, Oct 25, 10:26:05
- Yep, that's a fact and that's defo fair enough (not that I've checked it!).. (NCFC) - Fierce Panda, Oct 25, 10:12:21
- We WERE lucky to get there (NCFC) - T 07, Oct 25, 10:20:08
- 11 wins from 53 really drives it home though .. (NCFC) - loz, Oct 25, 10:07:05
- take a look at (NCFC) - giant_Ullaa, Oct 25, 10:27:27
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