I am not really one to appreciate the cinematographic discipline in any great depth, the intricacies of a Carry On film or a Ben Stiller movie usually being more than enough for me to contend with.
However, I have made one glorious exception to my rebuttal of the finer points of movie-making over the years. My favourite film, Nosferatu***, was 100 years old earlier this year.
Released in early 1922 by German director FW Murnau, Nosferatu [the Romanian term for vampire] was launched with the subtitle A Symphony of Horror, and a couple of its silent, black and white sequences have become part of innovatory legend.
You might not remember Count Orlok and his skeletal frame descending the castle staircase in the shadows. You might not recall the glowing white carriage reversed out of negative to rattle across the rutted Carpathian cart tracks. But you will have seen them somewhere at some juncture in your life and that’s for sure.
Part of Orlok’s job description was to spread the plague in the mythical German town of Wijsberg.
You could be forgiven for thinking that somebody has taken on a similar role at Carrow Road after Tuesday’s plagued, pestilential, and downright pi$$-poor performance against Luton Town.
The malaise has infected seemingly every part of the club and the powers that be appear to do little to control the outbreak, let alone attempt to address it.
Our injury roster since Saturday has expanded to include Andrew Omobamidele [ankle], Sam Byram [unknown], Kieran Dowell [chest], and Josh Sargent [knee]. We will also lose Kenny McLean to a three-match suspension after receiving a straight off-the-ball red, about which it must be said that we’ve all seen them given.
We cannot string two or three passes together and what spirit there is seems as misguided as not. There are rumours abound of things not being right at Colney and what we get from the Club in terms of information and explanation has thus far been derisory.
Maybe we’ve borrowed this malaise from a 100-year-old silent vampire film. Perhaps it’s an import from modern party politics. But the one thing I can say for sure is that this is by far the biggest disconnect many of us have felt from the club in many moons.
Tuesday’s game arrived on the back of a few choice comments from both Dean Smith and Stuart Webber, with Smith saying:
“I am always self-critical. We come up with a game plan for each game we choose. I ask the coaches their opinions on teams, and then I make my decision on what I believe is the best team to win. That’s the only way you can improve.”
I’m not honestly sure exactly what improvement I’ve seen this season Dean, let alone the precise dates I witnessed it.
Naturally, Webber had to trot out one of his clichés, which I hope is not too kind a word for this type of thing:
“Ultimately though, [just] six wins in 50 Premier League games meant we needed to change our approach to Premier League football. We welcomed Dean Smith as our new Head Coach in November and although he had a good initial impact, ultimately injuries and a loss of form cost us our Premier League status.“
One quick mountain-moving change of tack later and we were told:
“We have started the next phase of our training ground development, with building work underway for the installation of a state-of-the-art recovery centre, which will include a swimming pool with a moveable floor, an underwater treadmill, hot and cold water plunge pools, and a steam room.
Now, where have I heard this kind of omniscient “who cares about first team squad integrity when you’ve got a steam room coming down the tracks” style of theorising before exactly?
I don’t know about fellow MFW readers but I’ve had enough of being patronised by certain people working in lofty positions at NCFC. I guess it’s what happens when they get to create and print their own job descriptions – nowhere but Norwich. (More below).
*** Read into this what you will but legend has it that the 1922 production of Nosferatu was roundly and soundly cursed.
The production company, Parna, were sued for copyright by Dracula author Bram Stoker’s widow. Murnau himself died in a suspicious road accident while being driven by his underage Filipino houseboy and it was more than casually suggested that Schreck was a real vampire, something as difficult to disprove as to prove in those days of course.
Schreck himself died suddenly immediately after a stage performance. He was 56 years old.
Just take them all on a jaunty sea cruise to Whitby on the Demeter. It might freshen them up.
Good idea Bernie.
The wolf and a couple of hundred rats enjoyed it anyway.
Cheers
Martin, in the recently published NCFC accounts mention was made of the key risks that are actively managed, one of which was “diminishing attendance “. It is becoming apparent that empty seats are on the rise. Granted some of that maybe effects of the high cost of living but I feel that supporters are starting to vote with their feet and it would be a good deal worse if season tickets had not been bought. It’s not only a results-based business but it is also an entertainment business and it’s not doing that very well. You only have to look down the road – Ipswich had a drastic reduction on attendances for 10 or 15 years as they were subjected to a turgid brand of football. That’s changed and the crowds are now back and enjoying their football.
The very minimum a competent coach should be able to do is instill into a team a basic pattern of play that is difficult to break down. The shiny bits can be brought in once that basic principle is in place. This group of players did not become as bad as they are currently performing overnight, there is a lack of a coherent style of play, a lack of leaders on the pitch, and a lack of confidence. That’s down to Smith and Shakespeare and they should be replaced as soon as is possible.
Who that would be I don’t know but it should be a progressive coach, not one of the current dinosaurs who are waiting their next turn on the pay-off merry-go-round.
Webber did well to turn the club and we have enjoyed some of the football and seen the club infrastructure move into the modern era, but I don’t think there is much more he can do. It’s time to move on.
Delia and Michael – if Attanasio wants to take control then step aside and enjoy your retirement but for god’s sake let our club breathe. Right now you are suffocating us.
Hi Andy
You make a very good point about Ipswich that is extremely relevant right now.
Again, football should be as you describe it, without your repeated but necessary use of the phrase *lack of*.
I fear Webber has left it a little late to leave us with his stock on the high side, but that’s surely not what it’s all about for him. We’ve outgrown our usefulness to him and it’s been that way for some time now.
I wish anybody who might care to attempt to get through to Delia’s common sense stratum the very best of Norfolk luck as they’ll certainly need it.
Thanks – good comment.
Brilliant comment, Delfie. Hear hear.
I’ve always been quite agnostic in the Delia out/in debate, but now that Attanasio is on board, I think it’s probably time for her and Michael to move on with our thanks (mostly) for their service. Andrew Delf’s last sentence sums things up perfectly.
There’s so little to like about this team’s performances and the demeanour of DS and SS, who look as though they’re waiting for their turn in a pub darts match, doesn’t give the fans much hope and clearly does nothing to inspire the players. As you know, I decided against 7 hours and 350 miles driving to see what I thought would be pretty horrible-obviously, I don’t regret my decision.
Last night’s results for Sheffield Utd, Watford and Burnley went well for us. We have a chance to pull things back, but I fear that the next 2 games will increase the losing run to 5.
I must make sure I have some garlic with me at all times!
Hi Don
*There’s so little to like* just about sums it up right now.
Wild horses wouldn’t have stopped me even during the Roeder era – even if I sometimes only went to see if we could be as bad as I’d remembered from the week before!
As you know ill health has precluded me from going this season and I have long past the point whereby i couldn’t care less about missing the matches.
Turns out, predictably, that you made a wise decision the other night.
Cheers
🤣 “waiting their turn in a darts match” bravo!
Yes Don hit the bullseye with that one.
The ship is sinking but the captain is still on the bridge so that’s okay, fools only the idiots that believe they are in control. The shadow on the wall stuff, knowing what’s coming, like the panto ‘he’s behind you,’ is what the rest of us see. I was taking to a 85 year old Canary fan last night, she still has her season ticket and has brought up her kids and grandchildren all with a love of the game. She hates the new glaring overbright lights, the too loud sound system, the wooden Manager and the indecisive football. What’s left? Nothing she continues to go out of habit, cut her and she’d bleed yellow and green, the one saving grace is she loves the women’s team, they play with passion and belief. When she finally gives up her season ticket I think the rest of her family will do the same. Just like my son and I.
Hi Cutty
Yes as I said to Don [above] I too have found the ST very easy to give up. In the unlikely event that I return to the rudeness of health I won’t return under Smith.
Loud sound and bright lights will never bother me but the lady you spoke with is by no means alone – they are proving unpopular from the get-go.
As Bernie will know, the Captain of the Demeter died alone, lashed to the wheel in the middle of a localised offshore fog with a look of madness on his face.
There’s a lesson to be learned in there somewhere.
Cheers
Going to have awesome facilities, state of the art training ground and a pi** poor team and results, seem to remember saying something along those lines when Chase was buying land. Plus one other time but grey matter fails me, just like the current efforts of my team do.
That’s now two games (probably More) that I have not bothered getting a stream or even turning on the wireless.
Did catch the end in their summing up also a tiny bit of CanaryCall. But cannot stand Bob Rutler, cutting and interrupting callers if they don’t want to talk about what he does.
It is getting worse instead of better, terrible if you consider the opposition is now lower class. At times I feel we could be looking at League One, people cannot say that won’t happen, history proves that wrong.
As you say Mr P it doesn’t start or end with Smith, well not Dean anyways. We suffered the restraints of a self-funded model, (in today’s age of football barmy) yet still there is a large debt. (I do not claim to understand any of the accounting.) I am simple when looking at that sort of thing, but looking at what has been transferred in .. I can only say we have surely we have been had for that amount of money.
Take Nunez, a proclaimed at future Premiership quality, then by all accounts and listening to Coote (Radio Summeriser) he failed to keep the ball once with nearly every pass going astray. I have read many comments on the game, with many saying only Hernandez showed any passion and willingness to fight for the badge. Sure there were others, but nobody highlighted them because of their frustrations of the evenings sh*t show.
Again I go back to the old semi-comedy western, which I did enjoy tucked away on BBC2, but I use with a small change to the title:
Alas Smith & Jones
Hi Lad
Rob Butler is like Marmite. with the caveat that personally I like Marmite.
I can pick up on a broad line of the accounting but the devil is in the detail for me as I always fail to understand it correctly.
Maybe the huge debt is something Webber *thought was a good idea at the time* as we didn’t sell a single player for profit in the summer. Instead of the cash we’re left with some two-legged assets of varying quality and potential who will probably still be here long after Webber is gone.
There was an Alas Smith and Jones as well, with Mel and Gryff.
And one was enough.
Cheers
I missed a meaning changing half a line off the end of the first paragraph: *but I don’t much care for Rob Butler on the Radio*.
Hi Martin time to retire from carrow Rd well might as well its seems everyone there is in retirement mode sterile boring lack of motivation call it what you like it’s just not working only a complete makeover top to bottom will do think I give nick Knowles a call can’t do any worse can he ?
Hi Kev
Ha – Nick Knowles!
Bleedin’ Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen might be worth a call as well.
Maybe we could get them as a pair to replace Smith & Shakespeare 🙂
Cheers
You leave LLB alone he’s designing horrible thinks to brighten up Blackpool illuminations
OK we’ll leave him there 🙂
Anagrams etc:
Nosferatu = To fear sun.
– (Apt for a vampire.)
Nosferatu = Fears nout.
– (Apt for a Premier League squad dropping to the Championship.)
Sadly one of these is fictional…
Shh! What’s that noise behind you…?
Whatever you do…
Don’t turn around…!
– (Aswad might be there.)
– ( = Aw, sad…)
Hi Chris
Yes your anagrams are quite appropriate.
This season has certainly joined 21-22 in being a load of carp.
Cheers
A Dogs Breakfast is what it has become., your Count Orlok association is brilliant.
It’s an ill wind that blows, it arrived in Brentford just after 5pm on 6th November last year but there is always hope of course,
Other than the apparent state of the art training facilities the club and non footballing side is in an unhappy shambles from top to bottom. I’ve heard accounts a plenty that sadden me greatly.
I don’t care what happens this season I just want the beating heart of my club back and feel proud to support once again.
I wanted Paul Warne, is it too early for Russell Martin?
The World Cup pause is looming, what a perfect opportunity to press the re-set button.
Hi Colin
Thanks for your approval of Count Orlok – I thought he was a little obscure!
An *unhappy shambles* is a good turn of descriptive phrase. An independent customer satisfaction survey carried out right now would make for interesting reading.
I feel the timing was always a bit out of kilter for Warney, and something tells me he’ll do a fine job at Derby. He would have been a very popular appointment I am sure.
I’m a little unsure about RM, with the caveat that he could hardly do any worse.
Cheers
Dean Smith isn’t really a coach, he’s an old fashioned manager a la Mike Bassett ” the lads done good” after a defeat “AJ, Nacho and Gibbo”. Occasionally he’ll mention the Xg but that is probably because he’s thinking of having a bet.
He’s the only management difference to the last two promotion campaign so he has achieved nothing here and there have been some awful performances. Farke brought a more sophisticated approach to the game.Smith has bought a set piece coach which has been a disaster and caused the sending off. The senior management is in transition, but has had some success. Smith has inherited a better team but, as soon as we saw his team selection on Tuesday, many of us knew the outcome.
Hi Gil
Yes there’s a lot of the Mike Bassett about Dean Smith and that’s for sure.
A few of his team selections have been wrong and as you say Tuesday’s was downright terrible and there he was immediately before that particular team choice, blustering away about *the only way to improve*.
I sometimes seriously wonder if he believes some of his own pontifications.
Cheers
Writes his team selection on a packet of “Dowell and Ramsey” cigarettes
It really is a horror show at the moment Martin💀 Halloween has come early for us City supporters.
Last year after reading Michael Bailey’s excellent article on our riotous efforts to sign players for the EPL I described it as Carry on Recruitment. SW being a bit too refined for Sid James perhaps, Kenneth Williams? 😂
The empty seats at Carrow Road are a big worry as well. The fans were derided by SW last season so who can blame them voting at the “entertainment” on offer with their feet.
According to SW recruitment for last summer was “all right” and relegation came when the fans “deserted us” That is Trump speak, alternative facts !!! just be honest Stuart you and the recruitment team got it horribly wrong not on purpose just own it. SW as said yesterday by Chris Sutton has done a hell of a lot for this club. All we ask for is a bit of honesty.
We were relegated because the self-funding model will not work in today’s football. So, no wonder some fans have had enough.
I have heard from a very good source that the players want Smith out and from an even better source that Smith isn’t the problem, it comes from above and also that the players need to ask questions of themselves in some cases.
Suffice to say both may be true.
I have to concede I thought Dean Smith would be a good fit, a history of good football at Walsall, Brentford and Villa but I now have to admit that my opinions are all over the place.
But I have to agree that by now we should have seen some improvement. But I cannot help but think recruitment is still the main problem. We have 3-4 No 10’s and not one fit out and out holding midfield player (though it is good to see Hayden is getting there) or no pace in the wide areas.
One thing is true we have gambled red on the roulette wheel of Premier League football, and it has come up black.
Basically, with all the incoming parachute payments going to service this £60 million + debt we could end up back where we started pre-Webber and Farke, and with no James Maddison type👹 A horror story if ever there was one.
We are basically skint….again. Do not expect too many of the 9 players out of contract to be here next season and sadly that includes Teemu Pukki. And that in itself can cause problems, other than Onel can we really say the other 8 are going to bust a gut?
However, if and it’s a big if, we do reach the land of milk and honey (or in our case of very big fangs and Werewolves) of the EPL then at least we will have options. And there is the hope that our new investor can help matters.
And let us not forget the possible reason Pul Lambert/ Ian Culverhouse left. Lambert wanted money to strengthen the first team which went instead to the youth team. Was it an excuse for the very ambitious Lambert to leave? Perhaps but Soccerbots rather than a fit holding midfielder ready to start the season, it is an interesting debate.
When we need a Van Helsing have we got a Jonathan Harker ? A nice man when you need a bit of a Roy Keane.
Now he is scary even if it isn’t Halloween👺
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Hi Tim
There’s a lot in there for sure. I doubt a comparison with Kenneth Williams would go down too well anywhere in football circles 🙂
Self funding is a curse and cannot work without a guaranteed £30 million profit sale every season. There were none such this year and none next.
Once that rot you’ve heard about sets in it is nigh-on impossible to eradicate. Is it Smith, is it above him, is it maybe a combination of the two?
It doesn’t matter if nothing is done to cut it out.
Yes we are very likely to return to where we were pre Maddison, pre Webber.
But God knows we’ve had enough chances to be in a better position than this.
Cheers
There is a person in West Norfolk looking for a job at the moment Martin, don’t be surprised if she is announced as the new Norwich City F C Communications Officer😂
Winter really is coming.
Hi Martin
A recent article was in one of the Red Tops from Sir Les Ferdinand saving that the FA Diversity plan wasn’t working as no extra minority group’s have been given a chance well how come he employed a non minority member as QPR manager last summer or doesn’t that count the merry go round continues and he helps.
Tim yesterday said about City’s £60m loan that it means we have spent the rest of the parachute payments to possibly achieve promotion, I know it’s still early in the season and not one club has put their foot on a promotion peddal yet so city could still make it happen but with these owners the Premiership will give a big gasp of relief if we don’t.
The Heart and Soul has gone and so many people are so blind they can’t see that it’s been gone since the day the Smith’s convinced Geoffrey Watling to sell them the club.
Many will say what about the good times the promotion’s and my reply is they were never built on all those chances to make city an established Premiership team has been wasted time and again.
Smith says that out of the last few games the only one we should and did lose was the Watford game, PNE and Luton both wanted it more that city, both got the goals that gets you 3 points having 20 shots on goal as he says shows the stats we were the better team but we weren’t they had the stats that counted they scored more goals it’s that simple.
Goals count not how many missed chances you have or that you have the team that covered the most ground, made the most tackles, many moons ago a boxer lost a fight to one punch and when told he out scored his opposition his reply was he landed the killer blow and KO’d me the rest doesn’t count.
The last promotion was done in style we still have the nucleus of that them, I honesty don’t believe they are as bad as the sum of the parts, is it the coaching, is the training stale or don’t the players believe in the managers style (lack of) or more damming his methods.
Last season the mantra was they weren’t his players he now had 12 months to sort out problems and make them his players or move them on, he says we are unbalanced with no natural left players prior to the season he loaned out Tzolis Early and Mumba all players used mainly on the left at their loan clubs.
He brings in Ramsey from Villa to fill a position we are well covered and loan out Josh Martin who again plays in that position, agrees to sign a long term injured player from Newcastle who will cost £15m he we get promotion after add ons and bonuses.
Delia and Co on the board have got this club in a muck and fuddle and letting an egotistical I know what’s best run it for them with his wife on the board so he will never be sacked Zoe wouldn’t allow it.
We have a minority share holder over the pond who isn’t able to change things simply because the majority will owners will out vote him even getting all other share holders to back him he is still to many short to force change if he wanted too.
Over to someone with a smiling comment 🤔🤔🤔
Hi Alex
We didn’t get any smiling comments yesterday and I doubt there’ll be any today.
Zoe Ward’s appointment to the Board is a strange one, a foolish one. You don’t see Paul Peschisolodo on the board at West Ham, now do you?
You’re right the heart and soul has gone.
And over quite a brief period of time as well.
Cheers
The mention of Brentford got me thinking, and that’s usually a disaster, so I took at look at Brentford as a comparator to us from our promotion tws seasons ago. The season went we went up as winners with Brentford making it via the playoffs. We spent more money that Brentford it appears, but they did outbid us on Ajer. Quality rather than quantity perhaps.
Now as we drop 3 points at home to Luton ,it takes a man of the match performance from the Chelsea keeper to stop Brentford taking all three points.
One well run club, one run down club.
Quality over quantity was indeed the difference. Ivan Toney is another good example of this at Brentford of course.
Meanwhile many of Webber’s recruits have left a great deal to be desired.
Pestilential indeed Mr P…..what a fantastic word which I never dreamed could be used in a football context!
As you know, I (like you) no longer visit the Carra, having decided not to renew tickets for this Championship season. To me, even back in January, there seemed to be rather too much which for some reason just didn’t seem right.
My aged brain which watched and assimilated matches in the 1960’s, and witnessed success under Ron Saunders, John Bond and many since finds it difficult to understand how it’s all unravelled so spectacularly since last November, when he who must not be named was shown the door.
The current players are well rewarded, but did they honestly put themselves about in the way Watford and Luton did?
Luton have supposedly one of the smallest budgets in this division; Watford probably not so. However, what both clubs displayed against us was heart; desire, and a need to succeed. In those particular disciplines NCFC surely sit at the bottom of that table…(although given their result last night, maybe Bilic was right when he deemed Saturday as Watford’s cup final).
From the (admittedly brief) highlights I’ve seen this season, barely any of our players seem to know what they are supposed to be doing on the pitch. The coaches have been here for a year now, and with the possible exception of Sargent (playing against poorer quality defenders), and Ramsey (not our player anyway) not one City player has improved. In fact, it looks as if the vast majority are stuck in reverse, just waiting for their contract to run down.
We have multi-million pound players out on loan; a lop-sided squad; and still a lack of a decent, fit central defender, and defensive mid-field.
I can see us having Premier League facilities at Colney, but catering for a team which (at best) will be mid-table championship.
Worst of all is that the club itself doesn’t seem to care any longer about their supporters. Pay your season ticket money; buy your replica kit(s); and come to Carrow Road for the loudest and most awful pre-match music along with floodlights which blind you. See if we care!!
They are my team; I will always support them, but something needs to change and quickly. At the moment they appear rotten to the core.
O T B C
Hi John
You can’t beat a bit of pestilence on a wet Thursday morning!
You won’t be surprised to discover that I agree with you at just about ever turn so I’ll just serve to underline that Delia has alwas traded on the fact that we’re not likely to run off and support somebod else.
Lift the overtures of lip service and pretence for a while and I would seriously question whether the club has ever truly cared for its supporters.
It’s never come across as a priority to me, although I am super cynical by nature which I freely admit.
Cheers
Having premiership facilities is good but if we’re stuck in the championship or lower how are the club going to maintain them, wasn’t it Chase that built the training facand said they were the most modern in the early days of the Premiership.
We then had relegation and like Carrow Road the facilities became a side issue no upgrades no ground expansion, yet all the surrounding land that Chase purchased was used to support a self funding club with owner that have had no ambition other than to keep hold of the club
That’s true of Chase. What he didn’t know at the time is his buying but not being able to sell Read’s flour mill before departing went a long way towards securing the club in the short to medium term.
In your article you quote Webber. I was shocked, had the ban on local media been lifted? Alas, it was an old quote. The fact that the leadership of this club remain too afraid of Paddy Davitt and Chris Gorham to communicate with the fans, speaks volumes.
As the saying goes, a fish rots from the head down.
Stuart Webber has shown he doesn’t want to be here, through his interviews, job interviews, and now lack of interviews. His Wife, Zoe Webber, has allowed this charade to continue, when she should be seen to be leading. At a time when the club has attracted a billion dollar investor and released accounts with quite shocking numbers, we’ve heard almost nothing. The EDP have been forced to write lines such as “Zoe Ward (sic), speaking in the annual reports…”. Come on EDP, that’s not speaking.
As for our owners, they continue to cling onto the club, despite a rich investor ready to purchase. One who is abundantly qualified and already runs a successful sporting franchise and is well respected by their fans.
We are nearly six years into the Webber tenure and if someone can point me to how the squad, or finances, are better now than when he took over, I’ll be shocked.
Sure, we have better training grounds, but they don’t pay the bills or play the games. Great facilities never stopped teams dropping into League One and staying there.
Time to hand the reigns over to Mark and let him bring in his own people.
Hi Dave
Yes it was an old quote, although Dean Smith’s offering was very much current.
As for the local media it’s a two way street. Paddy Davitt and his colleagues are remarkably gentle on NCFC not out of fear but from a percieved sense of reality.
You will only get anything critical or analytical from The Athletic.
Webber’s flaw is that he is a gambler. With self funding he has to be and the last couple of seasons his investment in *bloodstock* has been poor..
Let’s see what Mark Attanasio does over the coming months. Delia will make it anything but easy for him I am sure.
Cheers
Some fantastic comments and a good long read. Excellent.
Barring a miraculous turn around in form the writing is on the wall for Smith, a proper “Ron Manager” type who will probably bounce around a number of football clubs achieving nothing of note when he leaves.
On the subject of the massive loan debt taken on by the club, thus surely has to be the final death knell of “self funding” . The fact that in spite of several years of premier league money and para hute payments, consistently sold out ground, not to mention the plethora of multi million pounds player sales we still have to borrow a large amount to get by says it all. Disgraceful.
Hi Chris
Yes we’ve had some great comments on MFW since the Luton debacle.
Your word disgraceful is one I didn’t use but I really should have done. I can see no valid excuse for us being in this parlous position.
Cheers
Our recruitment for the Premier League has been abject. Identifying your top candidates and then being priced out of them for a few thousand a week is the stuff of amateurs. Webber failed badly and then compounded it by saying, “I don’t have to be here, I was begged to stay; I could be up a mountain”.
He should have been relieved of his position at that point but unfortuately Delia has never run a proper business so doesn’t understand about the tail wagging the dog, so what she did instead was put his wife on the Board.
Webber did well until the Buendia/Cantwell saga. Farke got him out of trouble and then paid the price for simply dreadful recruitment. Appointing Smith was nothing other than getting a safer pair of hands, but the system Webber himself put in place doesn’t favour the Smith/Shakespeare combo. No one seems to know what is happening, other than that the team can’t perform for this regime.
Change is overdue. A proper Board would act. One that had proper Corporate Governance and Responsibility would act. Is our new “investor” listening?
Hi sgncfc
I make you right on all counts, particularly identifying but failing to land targets like Ajer for the cost of plugging in the SoccerBot for the season.
Proper Corporate Governance and Responsibility is but a pipedream for us while Delia is knocking around so I for one hope our new investor is observing matters with great interest at the moment.
Cheers
I totally agree. A dynamic and proactive board of experienced energetic business types with a proven track record of success in the field would be a boon to us now.
Now where will we find such people?
Interesting piece Martin although the film references were way too highbrow for me.
As always some well thought out responses from your readers and I entirely concur with most of the points they raised. We’re clearly all feeling this and the worst thing as always is that we can’t do a damn thing about it.
I’d add my two penneth but after witnessing that garbage on Tuesday and then writing a lengthy diatribe in response to Gary’s piece I’m sick to the teeth with all of it quite frankly.
I know you like a musical reference so to lighten my mood and with my last sentence in mind, how about a bit of Green Day to numb the pain ‘Give me Novacaine’.
Hi Bob
*We can’t do a damn thing about it*. How true that is.
You made a cogent and popular comment on Wednesday and it l0oks like you are by no means the only one who is sick of the entire dismal situation.
I know the Green Day track you refer to 😉
Cheers