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Thread | Chairman Tony
at 21:33 28 Apr 2013
Firstly, I genuinely am sorry to see you boys go down, and don't feel any of the schadenfreude that some other morons seem to delight in. Besides, the way my team are playing at the moment there is still a good chance of my making my annual visit to Loftus Rd next season.
I just wanted to share a few observations about your chairman. Having seen him on tv today, I thought he showed what a thoroughly decent bloke he seems to be. He looked utterly bereft at the final whistle, and I don't think that was to do with the financial disappointment of relegation, but it seemed to me he felt the pain of a fan. I noted he still had the decency to raise a smile and shake the hand that was offered to him.
I must admit when he joined you I was sceptical about his motives, yet I now believe I was totally wrong. I have read some threads on here that says he has made mistakes, and whilst that may or not be true, any mistakes have undoubtedly been honest ones. Some criticism has been levelled at him for engaging in twitter too much, yet surely that is a massive positive? To interact with fans shows he is trying to understand their views.
Also, I think the fact he has backed the judgment of his managers is laudable. Regardless of the merits of choosing the right manager, he has given them all his full backing. I know there is a general consensus that MH retained his position too long (at the time he was originally appointed there weren't many outstanding candidates available) yet it was evident TF wanted some sort of stability and gave him as long as he could. When Delia appointed Glenn Roeder who nearly destroyed Norwich a few years back, she and the board backed his judgment. It was staggeringly the wrong appointment, but they made the appointment in good faith, backed him, didn't interfere, and got shot of him when it was clear it wouldn't ever work out. Give me a chairman with that ethos any day over a Russian Oligarch.
Anyway, I wish you all the best for next season. I have read a lot of fans on here who don't like the Prem as much as the championship and I agree wholeheartedly. I hate scratching around hoping to get enough draws to stay up, and celebrating a home draw against a top six club as if we've won a trophy.
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Thread | Just a quick message...
at 11:37 13 May 2012
...of good luck to you boys today. I can imagine how hard it has been these past few weeks, ups and downs, hope and despair etc. It's what football is all about and why we love and hate it. You deserve to stay up and I will be standing at Carrow Road hoping that you (or Stoke) do the job today.
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Thread | PL chairman flying the flag...
at 10:25 15 Mar 2012
So, Dave Richards goes off to Qatar, then tells the world that FIFA and UEFA have nicked football from us.
After the PL and FA distancing themselves from the comments that will ensure we won't get a future bid accepted for another 50 years (yeah, as if we would anyway) he attempts to extol the virtue of English (and German) culture. Not Shakespeare, Dickens, Beethoven or Goethe. No, that basic need of "going for a pint".
Good on him, give them something to think about, let them integrate our culture into their World Cup.
However, just to exemplify what will happen on a mass scale, he then staggers and falls flat into an ornamental pool. Fortunately he was dragged away before he could piss in the water and dance about with his cross of St George draped over his sunburnt shoulders.
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Thread | Outside view of Four Year Plan
at 22:59 9 Mar 2012
As a Norwich fan, I watched with interest the Four Year Plan, and just thought I'd post an outsiders view.
I honestly could not believe what I was watching at times. Fascinating, painful, entertaining, yet ultimately disturbing. However many clowns like Briatore are in our game? The utter disrespect, self-aggrandising, and disgusting treatment of managers, fans and club was abhorrent. Yes, i support my team home and away, and appreciate the rivalries within the game, but at the end of the day we all understand what supporting a club is about. That's why I found it so disturbing, watching somebody rich and ruthless treat decent people like insects, and wondering just how many cretins like him are about.
A few years ago we had a chairman, Robert Chase, who nearly ruined Norwich. He was a local businessman, thick as shit, but rich, who had no regard for the fans. He thought we were vermin, despite the fact that we are the heart, soul, past and future of any club. I heard a Neanderthal chairman from Bournemouth swearing and blasting on 606 last week, with no regard for anyone due to the control he obviously enjoys down there. What use is the test for ownership these days? A Fit and Proper Person test that lets in a Fat and Proper Pillock.
I even found myself feeling sorry for Jim Magilton FFS (ex 1p5wich). Watching ultimately decent men like Dowie and Sousa being undermined yet having to toe the line because their clueless bosses were in charge was humiliating, and I think they handled it pretty well under the circumstances. I thought Warnock came out of it with tremendous credit, presumably because his wiser years had experienced clowns like FB elsewhere.
However, the most excruciating bit for me was watching FB's altercation with some fans after the booing incident. Watching him threaten to take his money away, and watching true supporters grovel and fawn, saying how much they loved him, in case he took it all away. The sheer desperation of fans who are willing to sacrifice all dignity to pander to a egotistical, power crazed bully. And I am not mocking them, in the same situation I expect most fans of most clubs would act exactly the same. It's like begging a wife not to leave you, or a boss not to sack you, except it MEANS MUCH MORE.
Anyway, the important thing that came out of the documentary for me, is the appreciation of having decent owners. 3 years ago when NCFC went into league 1 there were some people calling for Delia and her husband to resign and let a rich benefactor "save" the club. That lot from Suffolk got a sugar daddy in and we were jealous. Blackburn got their wish, Liverpool got Hicks and Gillette. Portsmouth may get much much less. The desperation for success and/or survival makes us sacrifice a lot of morals. However, what is evident, is that Amit has the club at heart. TF likewise seems to have fallen in love with his club and to be in it for the long haul. And whilst I genuinely hope Rangers stay up this year, as I always enjoy trips to Loftus Rd and have always seen you as a "proper" club, more important than the division any team plays in is having someone at the top who cares. |
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