Response to Ms Smith and Mr Wynn-Jones statement ...

So Ms Smith and Mr Wynn Jones have this week published a statement, to share their thoughts with us, in relation to the current unrest at Carrow Road.

Much has been made of the Boards actions, or lack of actions, in the call for the removal of Nigel Worthington. With many supporters interests being demeaned or belittled, regards the current managerial regime, it is only right and proper that our two majority shareholders are able to put forward their views.

How refreshing it is that they have, unlike other board members, seen fit to condone the recent actions of supporters in the call for the removal of Mr Worthington.

However, I still think that their statement falls short of actually addressing the problems at Carrow Road. We, as supporters, are only too well aware that you cannot experience success all the time, many of us have followed Norwich in excess of 10 years, and are fully up to speed with the ups and downs and the rollercoaster ride that is football.

However fickle you may believe us to be, Norwich Supporters are by reputation and fact, some of the most ardent, vocal and loyal supporters in the Country. We have a home support that even with our ?smaller? capacity ground cannot be replicated in the Championship and we have a travelling support that many of the Premiership clubs would give their right arm to have. We also allow the executives and management at our football club the time to achieve. Only last night, after Liverpool?s demise from European football, were scousers already calling for the head of Benitez.

At this moment in time, we sit tenth in the Championship, and that in regard to what has been achieved in the past five years is a step backwards. Not only that, and the point that many of the KTF brigade seem to have alluded to, is that so far this season we have played with a complete lack of flair and creativity; attributes that the current management have failed to nurture.

Our passion and commitment is in abundance from all corners of Carrow Road, but very much lacking from the management team.

As supporters we want to see our team play football with panache, elegance, confidence and style, and if we are able to produce a win then that is a bonus. The current tactic employed at Carrow Road is to ?hoof? the ball forward, and play the ball in the air. Norwich City FC has never played ?hoofball? and has never been an aerial side.

We play passing football, keeping the ball on the ground - that way the likes of our recent ?3 million acquisition from WBA, will have the opportunity to run at defences and get his name on the score sheet, as opposed to trying to win balls in the air ? something that he is never going to do in a month of Sundays.

Darren Huckerby has been at the club on a permanent contract for just over two years, he was brought here for his defence splitting runs, his skills with the ball and his ability to leave the opposition dead in their tracks. Yet, the very man on whose recommendation he was brought here is now ridiculing the player for his ?Roy of the Rovers? style of play. Well, I want ?Roy of the Rovers?, I want to see Mr Huckerby skin players alive, showing his ball skill and making the opposition look like second rate amateurs. I would very much appreciate it if Mr Earnshaw was allowed to do the same ? that?s what we the fans hoped that he was brought here for.

There have been, in my opinion, only two teams that have visited Carrow Road this season that have been better than us. In seasons gone by we would have relished their presence on the park and gone out and played football, not rolled over and given them the opportunity to walk all over us. Of the other 19 teams that have visited Carrow Road, none have been a threat to us, and had we had the ardour and self-belief that we had in our Championship winning season, we wouldn?t have looked back after the first goal had gone in.

In retrospect, even games against Derby and Plymouth at home, who where absolutely diabolical, they were played with such apathy that it was only by the fact that we played in yellow and green that the fans were able to identify the home team.

So Ms Smith and Mr Wynn Jones, thank you for your statement, but where has the passion, the flair, the confidence and the moral of our team gone? Yes, I want wins, success and more than tenth place in this division, but I want also want to watch a team with guts, who don?t defend so deep that any chance of a counter attack is mission impossible. I want ?heads up?, and most of all I want players to go out and win the ball and play football like they mean it!

That?s all I want back, and like so many other supporters I don?t think that the man you continue to retain to achieve this is able to do so anymore.

For the fans that are happy to keep Mr Worthington in employment for the foreseeable future at Carrow Road and continue to watching lacklustre performances each week, that is your opinion to which you are entitled. I will quite happily ?discuss? with you at any time the differences of our opinions. I do not take kindly to me, my friends or our children being branded as ?Scum? just because our opinion differs to yours.

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Posted By: For2Can, Mar 9, 11:37:20