So it's official. We're f**ked.

So apparently it?s 2009 all over again. Well if you haven?t been paying attention, and you never really understood what was going wrong in the first place then maybe it is. And if you live in the world where being a successful football club is actually like, really easy, then the solution is also really easy. Get in a Chief Executive who can do this, that and the other brilliantly. And a manager who can also do this, that and the other even more brilliantly. Luckily, in the world of the ill-informed ranter there are so many of these paragons seeking employment that to name even one of them would clearly be redumnant.

Back in the real world of 2014 things are slightly different. The club is solvent. In 2009 it teetered on the brink of administration. No-one can stress how huge a difference this is. For many years the club was weighed down and held back by the need to service the external debt ? like most clubs have to. Then there is the attitude of those running the football club. In 2009 we now know that the immediate objective of the old board was consolidation in the third division. The current board have been saying SINCE WE WERE IN THE THIRD DIVISION that the aim for this season was to return to the top flight. In 2009 we were still run by a board wedded to the idea of property development as the road to success and financial security. In 2014 we are run by a board who divested themselves of property as fast as they could. And who have achieved financial security. If there is a ?Norwich Way? to run a football club then what we have now is a new (and immeasurably superior) ?Norwich Way? to the one we had in the period 1994 ? 2009. Anyone who can?t see that this transforms the prospects of the club on the field in the medium- and long-term is an idiot.

Now it could be said that financial security has been achieved through promotion to the Premier League and so actually that?s no great achievement. But we also achieved promotion in 2004 and retained no financial benefit. The lower leagues are littered with clubs for whom Premier League football was a financial catastrophe. So huge credit to the board for that.

In my view they made a mistake in appointing Adams. But as far as I can see there are virtually no good managers available. And any that would take a second division job? Of course Adams has to go, and if somehow we can find one of the paragons that the ranters think are hanging about on every street corner then we are still easily close enough to go straight back. But if we don?t, then because this isn?t like 2009 then we will be competitive next year. And the year after that. And the year after that too at the very least. The future is STILL yellow boys & girls.

Posted By: Winged Eel Creosote on November 29th 2014 at 22:06:37

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