have you read what Stuart Webber actually said properly?

"I appreciate on the pitch we need to give them something to sing about, I get that, but the fans sometimes need to help pick the players up, especially if we end up having a slightly younger team, which we will have, because we probably need to."

and in full:

“It’s huge, I remember when we came to Carrow Road this year with Huddersfield and I was here for the Barnsley, Fulham and Reading games. With the exception of the Reading game, after about twenty minutes when we were 3 up and all four sides were enjoying themselves, I’ve actually found the atmosphere disappointing, at times non-existent. I think when there’s 27,000 in here I don’t see how that’s possible really. We shouldn’t hear 500 Huddersfield fans being louder than 26,500 Norwich fans.

I appreciate on the pitch we need to give them something to sing about, I get that, but the fans sometimes need to help pick the players up, especially if we end up having a slightly younger team, which we will have, because we probably need to. There was one game here where Jacob Murphy had a shot and it went almost out for a throw-in or something, and the whole crowd were almost taking the mick and laughing. That’s a young player, one of your own players by the way, not some overpaid mercenary that you might think exists, and I thought that’s a bit crap – get behind the kid.

I would ask, and the Head Coach hopefully when he’s here will be the one to bang the drum a lot more than me, that we need the support, we’re going to have younger players and they’re going to need help. We’re going to have a slightly different style of play, there’s will be times when clubs will come here and play 4-5-1 and say ‘Try and break us down’. We’re going to need patience and we’re going to need the supporters to stay with us because they can win us games. We can be in the 85th minute, 0-0, trying to push for a win and they can drag us over the line.

One thing I do think about Carrow Road and from the games I’ve seen, is that it’s so tight, you think ‘Bloody hell, if this place was a bit more atmospheric it could be intimidating, it could be horrible to play here for the opposition and great for Norwich’. We have to create that and I get it, the two work together and we’ve got to give the fans something. They’ve got to react to that, and they’ve got to patient with it. Certainly during the early stages when the style is changing they’ve got to stick with it and help these young players, help the Murphy’s, Maddison, Pritchard, Godfrey. Help them out – don’t take the mick if they make a mistake. They’re going to make mistakes and we want players who are going to be really brave, especially our attacking players, to have shots – we don’t want them to be scared the crowd might laugh at them if they put one in the top tier. We need that level of understanding from people.”

where the f**k is there any sort of blame being placed you, as a precious supporter, in any of that?

he's asking for your f**king help here not for you to accept responsibility for a s**t season

Posted By: Ralf Scrampton on April 25th 2017 at 10:58:13

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