The way Norwich are run is the way clubs who don't have a mega wealthy owner should be run. They spend within their means rather than gambling on staying up and then ending up in administration.
If that sees them being permanently good enough for promotion but not good enough to stay up, then so be it.
Aren’t they just the new West Brom? West Brom did it for about a decade didn’t they?
On the one hand I applaud the financial prudence, but on the other it shines a lantern on how 'fair competitive play' died long before the Super League homed into view. That people not only still believe it exists, but we have something to protect, is a con trick the devil would be proud of.Originally Posted by randomlegend
There have quite literally always been teams that go up and down. It’s kind of how sport works. You’re better than most but not quite as good as the best.
This is quite an extreme form of it though. They know Farke will get them back up again and potentially even keep them there eventually. That's not the same model as the sack your man every 6 months and hope something sticks.
off the top of my head:
6th in championship
2nd in championship
20th in prem
2nd in championship
17th in prem (great escape, were bottom at xmas)
18th (?) in prem (we were relegated anyway)
4th (?) in champ (lost to THAT awful derby side in playoff final)
1st in champ
20th in prem
2nd in championship
i THINK we then had an unbroken run of about 7 years in the prem after that
as @Mellberg alluded to, it's absolutely no coincidence that I barely remember ANYTHING in the latter run of mid-table mediocrity except for the odd game here and there (and the pretty great steve clarke mulumbu/yacob double pivot 12/13 season where we beat a load of proper sides).
so, to answer your question, yes, we did. and it was glorious, and it was absolutely the right way to run the club as @randomlegend put it. i actually found it a lot more depressing when we got to the point of feeling like we had to throw £60k/week at an ancient gareth barry etc as part of the desperate rush to 40 points, than when we were signing people like robert koren for £500,000 from dinamo goattherdez and paying him twenty grand a week and just crossing our fingers we didn't get battered every week.
mounts missing this
Fair play to Chelsea, 7 English players on the pitch to end this game.
Win the Championship and you get a free season without relegation to establish yourself. Runner-up just gets the normal. Play-off winner has to meet a series of criteria - stadium, finances, subjective definition of 'Bigness' - before promotion is confirmed, and if they fail it nobody else comes up and the runner-up also gets a season free from relegation. If at any point the league should dip below eighteen teams, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday get promoted and given three years to establish themselves.
Looks like my prediction of Leeds being trash was just a year too early. Awful today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59024191
Wahey. Fill your sandals.
Jesus, they'll be letting Women think next.
Born to point. We're going to be well adrift by January.
Great effort from Everton today. 2-1 up at home to Watford in the 77th minute. Ended up losing 2-5.
Joint top.
Levitt is a little xavi.
Don't paint Norwich's persistent failures as some unavoidable limitation of their stature. Their disgraceful recruitment is the issue, you don't do shit trying to play expansive football with a squad of 25 gammons in the prem.
He's right. This is their 2nd go at it in 3 years and this looks like being even worse than last time.
They'd lost before they even kicked off today. There didn't seem to be any plan other than shoving an extra defender in. Their squad looks very poor too. Aarons and Cantwell will likely move on to better things by the end of the season, but the rest of it is grim.
They should just go with the youngsters to give them experience for next year in the championship
Scholes
That Everton result is fantastic. I’d imagine the seethe in the last ten minutes today was glorious.
Some of you give that bloke your money.
That has to be a joke, surely?
Is the Miles Jacobson thing worse than Scholars? Really hard to tell.
If it wasn't for that bloke none of us would be here.
“I… am your father.”
We were good in the second half today. Drew 1-1.
Lamptey being back is genuinely exciting. Both him and Cucurella on the pitch promises good things.
Also, Vieira's got some good out of Palace. Benteke's firing and we really should've lost that.
Why was Duffy dropped today? I was under the impression he’d been going fairly well since his return.
I guessed because City press high and he’s not the best (although not bad) playing out from the back / under pressure with the ball. Commentators reckoned it was because he’d have to defend Grealish and co. and lacks agility etc. But yeah he’s been good.
My Brighton insider tells me they've been faffing around at the back less this season, perhaps due to Duffy's involvement, which, if true, should probably see him picked most weeks.
I’ve actually been surprised how much his comfort on the ball and passing has grown in his time with us since Kenny took over, he had looked dire in the first game and is way further on now. But yeah, he probably wouldn’t be the best type defender for what City are bringing.
I was looking to see just how much state money goes into City.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...vestment-group
CITIC is a state-owned Chinese investment fund.A 13.79% stake purchase of the club's parent company, City Football Group (CFG), by the CITIC Group for £265 million valued it at $3 billion
It's not the majority stake PIF have on us but I suspect that's the kind of shit that ties the Premier League's hands. Or maybe the cunts just love money.
Someone's getting murdered tomorrow.
Probably best not announce that to the whole board, Mahow.
Supposedly a complaint has been made to the police about that being racist.
Duffy is a weird one. Ask any Celtic fan and they'll tell you his stint up here last season was one of the worst in memory, but he has looked pretty competent for Brighton recently.
From what a lot of people have reported here a lot of last season was down to his father dying. Not sure if he’s spoken about it himself though.
Livramento is so good. I really hope his mother does sway him to play for Scotland.
And re the Miles facemask, everyone knows IT people are a bit odd.
Potter can get a tune out of any old shite. Elite coach.
The nose on the Jew he's executing is a bit over the top.
I just clocked that video of Paul Scholes is of his daughter. Some proper weird replies to her photos from him too. What a weird bloke.
His punditry suggests he's some sort of low-level mong.
The Leeds goalkeeper looks about 8 years old. Im surprised an old man like Bielsa can balance on his knees for so long.
He is ridiculously good, I couldn't believe it when Walker-Petera was dropped for the first game of the season but it was the correct decision. He's comfortably our best player.
Just need to hope Reece James keeps cracking on so we hopefully get a couple of seasons out of him.
He has a 30 million buy back clause, he's probably already worth double that.
We just need to find a way to keep Walker-Peters happy as the last thing we want if both of them leaving and being short in a key position
£60m? He looks decent, but come on.
Although, I suppose, Wan-Bissaka went for £55m, so who knows.
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