The Norwich City 'beautiful football' myth

Re: Yorkie's post below. OK, is it true, or isn't it? It strikes me that fans are much more inclined to be patient if the manager seems to 'understand' the club and especially, if he tries to play football in 'the right way'. Ipswich fans now often slag off Royle despite the very good job he did there; Megson was on a hiding to nothing at Forest; many Newcastle fans I know are already on Allardyce's back despite their good start; and I regularly see posts on here criticising O'Neill's time at Norwich too.

Put it this way: Magilton fits Ipswich's ethos perfectly, which helps get the fans and team all pulling in the same direction. (Whisper it, but they remind me a heck of a lot of Norwich 01/2: I can see them making the top 6, I'm afraid). And based both on my own (post-88) experience, as well as reading through the history books, I'd argue Macauley, Ashman, Bond, Brown, Stringer and Walker were seen as "Norwich managers" - but Morgan, Saunders, Deehan, Megson, Rioch, Hamilton and Worthington weren't. Which led to pathetic crowds even when Saunders took us up, and Megson being seen as Robert Chase's yes man, which was completely ridiculous (Gary Megson will never ever be ANYONE's puppet).

What do people think? Is there a "Norwich way", or not?

Posted By: thebigfeller on October 24th 2007 at 16:21:53

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The Norwich City 'beautiful football' myth (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 24, 16:21:53
- Pathetic crowds when saunders took us up - you are joking (NCFC) - fond, Oct 24, 18:03:05
  - quite often we got 30,000 the first season up under Saunders (NCFC) - Commisar_Canary, Oct 25, 00:43:13
- My point really was that it's been a long, long time (NCFC) - duke of york, Oct 24, 16:44:57
  - Agreed but if for argument sake Pulis came in (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Oct 24, 16:48:58
    - I'd prefer a footballing coach obviously (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Oct 24, 17:02:54
      - better than a Volvo coach, Boom! Boom! (n/m) (NCFC) - Commisar_Canary, Oct 25, 00:46:14
- Great Post (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Oct 24, 16:30:13
  - Would you be so sanguine about attractive footy if playing it meant we dropped... (NCFC) - Fierce Panda, Oct 24, 16:34:01
    - Yes without a doubt a long as we could (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Oct 24, 16:39:19
      - And you have to admit, finishing 3rd despite getting humped (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 24, 16:42:32
      - Agreed. *sigh* those were the days (n/m) (NCFC) - Fierce Panda, Oct 24, 16:40:04
  - Yes but when "the press/opposition supporters say we play good attractive football" (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Oct 24, 16:31:50
    - exactly, good football was played by the arse last night, (NCFC) - NCFC4life, Oct 24, 16:39:12
      - Made me want to cry after listening to us on the radio frankly, well done arse tho. (n/m) (NCFC) - Andyjzr, Oct 24, 16:40:00
    - They do it to patronise us too (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 24, 16:34:50
      - Well, yes. The Fiver a long while back questioned someone calling Rio Ferdinand (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Oct 24, 16:38:02
- well we used to play good football many moons ago (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 24, 16:24:44
  - yes, but it isn't HOOF by design (NCFC) - mr carra, Oct 24, 16:31:01

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