Default Norwich

- Flatter to deceive, claim to be "absolutely baffled" when a team which can't create for toffee wins games on the counter away from home, but fails incessantly when asked to make the play at home, and kid ourselves that it's just a bout of bad luck. Default Norwich.

- Appoint a youth team coach as manager, claim to be absolutely baffled when said youth team coach can't inspire professional footballers, can't rotate his squad and can't make effective tactical changes when what he does continually doesn't work. Default Norwich.

- Attack other fans for saying it as it is, trot out the disgraceful lie that they would "rather we fail, so they're proved right", and make excuse after excuse for shoddy performance after shoddy performance. Default Norwich - and, for that matter, default Wrath.

None of what's happening is rocket science. Paul Lambert recognised that we couldn't play "the Norwich way" (a mythical 'way' which has achieved the square root of f**k all for almost our entire existence), so went physical, direct, and relied on bucketloads of confidence, momentum and attitude to do the rest.

Chris Hughton looked at the squad, realised it had next to no real footballing ability, so adopted a careful, cautious approach. For this, he got absolute pelters from most fans - and even the board, who deluded themselves that said squad was capable of more. It wasn't.

Neil Adams then inherited a squad which had played crab ball for 2 years and thought he could turn it into a passing, creative side overnight. He couldn't. No-one could; least of all a complete novice in professional management. We're just as easy to set up against under Adams as we were under Hughton; and like under Mike Walker in 1996/7, now that we've been found out, the only way is down. Adams has no answers; no manager with his level of total inexperience could be expected to have any.

But there's something else - something a whole lot worse - that's all part of default Norwich. Chronic acceptance of second best; or a lot worse than second best. I've lost count of how many Norwich sides over the years I've seen who drew piss easy game after piss easy game at home, then collapsed on their travels in mid-winter. I've lost count of how many Norwich sides I've seen who had no Plan B, no ability to grind out results, no ATTITUDE to compensate for poor performances.

It's only October, and this side is already going through the motions, while excuses are already being trotted out for both it and the manager. Second best or worse than second best is good enough for most Norwich fans; and it's very plainly good enough for this board too. Which fell out with our best manager in living memory, whose Chairman complained about how "impatient" that manager was, and which hailed a 0-0 draw when that draw as good as relegated us as the evidence needed to give the youth team manager the job.

Mid-table beckons. Years of absolute nothingness beckon. And that's more than good enough for Norwich City. By and large, it almost always has been.

Posted By: thebigfeller on October 22nd 2014 at 02:52:16

Message Thread

Default Norwich (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 22, 02:52:16
- default bookmarked for later this season (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 22, 23:09:39
- Too many words, #supportsomeoneelsethen (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Oct 22, 09:13:40
- Then stop following us, and take your relentlessly turgid bollocks to someone... (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 22, 09:07:40
- Youe (n/m) (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, Oct 22, 08:31:14
  - You're just a troll. (n/m) (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, Oct 22, 08:34:16
- Your Chris Hughton section is baffling to me. You're giving the fans and the board stick (NCFC) - Adster, Oct 22, 08:27:46
  - No. He did a massive flip-flop over Hughton. (NCFC) - Huge Small, Oct 22, 08:59:55
    - I agree (NCFC) - lurd, Oct 22, 09:10:28
      - VMT (n/m) (NCFC) - avenging canary, Oct 22, 10:41:04
    - It wasn't a few games after (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 22, 09:04:37
  - Plus, why the obsession with Adams being a FORMER youth team manager? Maybe, just maybe, (NCFC) - Adster, Oct 22, 08:32:24
- the more you read this the more you realise you have nothing worthewhile whatsoever to say (NCFC) - mr carra, Oct 22, 08:08:56
  - vmt (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 22, 23:14:31
  - The hughton stuff I didn't agree with (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 22, 08:41:50
  - This. (NCFC) - lurd, Oct 22, 08:20:53
- "Years of absolute nothingness" (NCFC) - APB, Oct 22, 07:36:15
  - Everlasting nothingness (NCFC) - lurd, Oct 22, 07:43:06
    - "Post after post of epic hyperbole" (NCFC) - APB, Oct 22, 07:56:45
      - Don't forget to include something that happened in 1973 mate. (NCFC) - lurd, Oct 22, 08:18:42
        
        "Next to no footballing ability" (NCFC) - APB, Oct 22, 08:42:00
- Fair tackle. (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Oct 22, 07:29:22
- Fair comment. (NCFC) - Pink un exile, Oct 22, 07:29:00
- Default Thebigfeller. (n/m) (NCFC) - avenging canary, Oct 22, 06:45:13
- Hard to disagree with any of that (n/m) (NCFC) - loz, Oct 22, 06:42:34
- You sir are a class one idiot (n/m) (NCFC) - trianglepatch, Oct 22, 06:13:55
  - Which of those points would you disagree with then? (n/m) (NCFC) - Darren Eadie, Oct 22, 07:28:22
- Appoint a youth team coach but the youth team coach (NCFC) - XXL16, Oct 22, 05:28:53
- Default Medium Sized FC TBF (NCFC) - Brandonio, Oct 22, 05:19:21
- You love your own words, whether spoken or written. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Oct 22, 05:00:48
  - Wouldn't be great if you hated what you say (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 22, 05:13:21
    - You've only started posting again since we stopped winning, why is that? (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Oct 22, 05:57:40
      - Wtf are you on about? (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 22, 06:55:12
      - Tbf much like others he pointed out... (NCFC) - loz, Oct 22, 06:44:42
        
        Which I said when we were winning! (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 22, 06:56:11
        
        Yeah but you're an area so no one takes any notice (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Oct 22, 07:03:33
        
        YOU'RE an area. (n/m) (NCFC) - APB, Oct 22, 08:49:32
        
        . (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Oct 22, 09:00:21
- Agree with much of that (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 22, 04:48:10
- Spot on (n/m) (NCFC) - colincanary, Oct 22, 03:28:24

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