Just back from the game

(My gran died, so I made my first trip back to the UK in years. Flying back to Uruguay in a few hours).

Verdict? Pathetic. That wasn't a "bad day at the office". From all accounts, we've been unconvincing even when we've won; and yesterday, we were pathetic.

We're in what I call 'default Norwich mode'. Default Norwich mode gains patronising plaudits for being a "well run club who try to do things the right way". Default Norwich mode = appointing from within even when that appointment is a huge gamble. Default Norwich mode means flattering to deceive in the late summer before sliding down the table on heavier pitches thanks to complete lack of backbone and attitude. And default Norwich mode means, as usual, huge numbers of fans failing to demand more and shrugging off disgraceful performances like yesterday's.

It's often because we don't demand more that we don't achieve more. Norwich under Adams is just standard Norwich for huge chunks of the past 20 years; and despite a squad which, properly managed, would be top 2, no question, we're going nowhere. There is no way we're going up unless we change manager - which we very obviously won't do.

Winning games at this level with this squad is, I'm sorry, no achievement at all. What matters is HOW we win them. If we can't win them by dominating allcomers a la 85/6, then we'd better bloody win them through the over my dead body attitude and colossal mental strength only ever seen at Norwich under Lambert or Saunders in the past half a century. But we're not dominating allcomers - and our attitude stinks.

And incidentally: before someone whines about me "only posting when we lose", two things. First, I post critically when we WIN too. See Arsenal (h) two years ago. Second: scrambling past the flotsam and jetsam of this league with a squad built to go up - in fact, built to piss promotion - means nothing. It isn't my problem if folk get carried away over nothing.

I post what I do because, rightly or wrongly, I expect better than this bollocks. I expect the club not to gamble our next five to ten years (which the reality of parachute payments means we have done: we have to go up, or else) on a novice. I expect the club to be embarrassed. and furious at its joke record at Craven Cottage, to roll up its sleeves and f**king do something about it. And above all, I expect this club not to just lamely sink straight back into mid-table Championship nothingness after working so hard to make something of itself.

But it is sinking straight back there. It is. And by gum, Neil Adams is not the man to stop that decline either.

Posted By: thebigfeller, Oct 19, 02:17:12