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, Aug 18, 23:27:26