We're not going down, and calls for Farke's head are a bit silly after 3 games

A club our size has to be mismanaged horrendously to go down from this league. This season, see QPR. But we're not gonna do anything except drift. There's several key problems.

1. The board. We have no money. We're therefore automatically up against it and likely to be no better than mid-table under most managers.

2. The manager. He doesn't know his own mind, so there's no consistency in our play or performances.

3. The whole ethos of the club. We have no bollocks whatever. That's standard Norwich. We've always been the sort of team which can't defend for toffee and will lose games late on that we've dominated. We're soft as f**k, right throughout the club. That's why other clubs compliment us so often. Because we lose to them.

The fans expect too little. The board thought finishing 19th in 2005 was a "success" and slagged off our only truly successful manager since Walker (but I don't want Lambert back for a moment. He's finished). The club consoles itself with "trying to play the right way" when at NCFC, it hasn't worked since football was a completely different planet. And the only time in my Norwich-supporting life when we've ever had any balls was under McNally/Bowkett/Lambert. I still regard the day Bowkett quit as the real portent of impending decline.

A bit more than half a decade ago, we were an ambitious, progressive club: prepared to poach managers from other clubs, stand up for ourselves, and with plans to greatly expand the capacity of Carrow Road (the only way we could ever be a self-sustaining Premier club). Now? We've got bigger gates than in the late 90s (but so has almost everyone), but we might as well be back there. Drifting on from one season to the next, without the money to do anything more, and with a pretty lazy, complacent attitude too.

Posted By: thebigfeller on August 18th 2018 at 23:27:26

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We're not going down, and calls for Farke's head are a bit silly after 3 games (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Aug 18, 23:27:26
- Great. Why don't you go and (NCFC) - Yarf, Aug 19, 07:02:58
- 3 wins in 19. Only decent signings by Webber are journeyman champ players (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Aug 19, 00:01:09
  - Onel is shit? (n/m) (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Aug 19, 13:01:50
- Can we not look at the managers performance in isolation? His tactics etc (n/m) (NCFC) - thirsty work, Aug 18, 23:55:56
  - I did last weekend. :) His tactics are wrong. Doesn't know his own mind (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Aug 19, 00:00:30
- I wouldn’t care if he left tomorrow... (NCFC) - Pukki Pies, Aug 18, 23:48:49
- 1 is the problem above all others. It causes 3. Nice Mr & Mrs Chef. (n/m) (NCFC) - bobble, Aug 18, 23:48:16
  - We were nice under Chase too. I take your point though, you're mostly right (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Aug 18, 23:49:13
    - A story from Chase's time (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Aug 18, 23:54:19
      - Another story from Chase's time (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Aug 18, 23:58:06
- Point 3 is the club’s biggest problem. Has been for a long time. (NCFC) - WalksietheReturn, Aug 18, 23:31:45
  - And that's why Lambert did so well - (NCFC) - Men without hats, Aug 18, 23:40:03
    - Correct. He's not the answer now though. I think Villa destroyed him (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Aug 18, 23:42:44
- Its not 3 games - its 1 season and 3 games bit different. (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, Aug 18, 23:30:33

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