Calling Pollyanna

The manager of this club, and the board who continue to support him, seem to have no concept of ?opportunity cost?. So here are a few examples:
1. ?You can never have too many forwards?. Of course you can, you idiots. Money is limited, so money spent on yet another aging forward cannot be spent on, for example, a right sided midfielder. So one of the main sources of supply for the 2 or 3 forwards on the pitch, and the half a dozen sat on the bench and in the stands is cut off. So we actually score LESS.
2. Getting rid of promising young players has no effect beyond the players concerned. Well yes it does. Apart from the fact that we have lost, for example, Hayes and Crow and replaced them with the likes of old Mr Thorne and the truly ludicrous Lisbie, their treatment impacts on our other young players. When Rossi Jarvis ponders his future at Norwich City what does he see? Himself gradually being integrated into the first team? Or never getting a chance because the manager keeps signing a series of overpaid, under-talented and under-motivated t**ts from some northern team?s reserves? If he gets a chance to leave I bet he will take it.
3. There is no cost to the club in keeping the current management team, so let?s be cautious. FACT: no-one at the club has a contract that caters for relegation to Division 3. Does anyone think that attendances will stay at anywhere near their current level when we go down? Or that Proton will renew their sponsorship? How about joining the real world?

But then what the club?s increasingly hysterical spin machine puts out, and what the club actually does are becoming ever more divergent. Here are some examples:
1. We apply ?good old-fashioned common sense? to things. Can anyone, for instance, who was at Pride Park see the sense in replacing Edworthy with Colin? That wasn?t common sense it was good old-fashioned pig ignorance.
2. ?Stability and continuity?. This is a strange one given the vast number of transfer deals it has taken to turn us from Division 2 champions to Division 2 relegation fodder. But I?m sure this wasn?t the club lying to the supporters ? so there must be something more important than ?stability and continuity? driving the huge number of transfer deals. I wonder what it could be? Cui bono?
3. ?Back to basics?. Sounds fine. But perhaps Mr Ferrari could tell us what ?the basics? are? From our own observations we know they don?t include tackling, passing to team mates, executing and defending set-pieces. I wonder what they could be? Still, as I have said before, if we ever play against a team of tailor?s dummies we?ll win most of the headers. And traffic cones FC will be s**tting themselves if we draw them in the cup.
4. After Derby we were told that the player?s heads were still in the Premiership. Possibly not, since hardly any of them were Premiership regulars for Norwich City.

Bizarrely there are some fans who favour retaining Worthington. A few questions for them:
1. We have 14 wins from the last 61 league games, which you presumably find acceptable. At what level would it be unacceptable? 0 wins? 5 wins? Do tell.
2. You tell us we might get someone worse. Do you really think that there is not even one person available who, for example, sees the merit of playing a right winger on the right wing?
3. Saunders, Bond, Brown, Stringer. All great managers. All reached there sell-by date. In every case the club advanced when they went. What is it about Mr Worthington that differentiates him from those men?
4. Best one is the idea that the only manager we could employ is one who has already been successful at this level. A truly wonderful policy that would have excluded the likes of MaCauley, Saunders, Bond, Brown, Stringer and Walker. And Mr Worthington. But would allow us to bring back Megson. Would you be happy with that, Pollyanna?

Posted By: Winged Eel Creosote, Dec 14, 10:12:21