Best Ever Norwich City Manager

[The Great Mass Debater]

Who gets your vote?

 

[Din]

I'm too young to remember most of those. I was born in 1996, and didn't go to my first Norwich game until in 2006, when Worthington was in charge. So in the time I've been going to Norwich games, Lambert is easily the best manager I've seen. Although a few more successful seasons and Adams might well overtake him.

And is there really any point in having the likes of Grant, Gunn and Roeder on that list? I'm pretty sure that none of them will get any votes 

 

[The Great Mass Debater]

Just trying to be comprehensive    I think personal experience counts. You cant say Pele is the best player in the World if you've never seen him play. Vote should be based on personal experience in my opinion, so if Lambo is the best you've seen give him your vote  

 

[Matt Gascoine]

I went for Walker as he was in charge during when i was about 12/13 ish, (that period in time when you are most fanatical and everything is about football). A lot of people say that he inherited the team, that may well be true but i was to young to know that.

 

[neveradullmoment]

I voted for Ken Brown. A close thing between several candidates. Ron Saunders got a very ordinary team into the top division, for the first time in our history, Dave Stringer gave us good football and a high league position, Mike Walker brought us a European adventure and Paul Lambert produced exciting football and two consecutive promotions. Ken brought us excellent football, terrific signings, the League Cup and didn't walk out on the club. In addition, I have been fortunate enough to meet him a few times in the last few years and a is a thoroughly decent and likeable man.

 

[Dubai Mark]

Difficult decision, but I have to go for the manager who took us in to Europe with a team playing truly great football, sure he did inherit things in a decent state, but he could have failed and didnt. As for Paul Lambert, sure he is right up there, did a fantastic job, but for me he walked away when he could have stayed to prove himself as a truly exceptional manager at the highest level.....its fine doing well when you are the biggest or one of the biggest in the league you are playing, another story doing it consistently in the EPL as a smaller club.

 

[Yellow Fever]

Sad to say that I'm old enough to remember them all!  :lol:

I voted for Dave Stringer because he was the first manager to take City as high as 4th in the top division as well as two FA Cup semi-finals by carefully building a solid squad with very little money. Taking over a good squad when Ken Brown retired, he built it into a highly effective squad that Mike Walker was then able to take into Europe. Norwich City through and through, he stayed for five years and then retired. My sort of manager.

 

[Wiz]

Mike Walker by a mile imo.

 

[Canaryboy]

Ken Brown won a domestic cup competition at the end of the day, a lot to be said for that. Next year will be the 30th anniversary of the Milk Cup win.

Mike Walker's 3rd placed finish and giant killing exploits, and Lambert's double promotion close behind in terms of achievements. 

Stringer probably doesn't get the credit he deserves for building the team that Walker had some success with, and I think we finished 4th under Stringer a couple of years before Walker finished 3rd. 

Whilst Worthington's reign soured towards the end, he deserves a lot of credit for getting out of this division on a shoestring. He spent peanuts on people like Drury and McKenzie. 

 

[splutcho]

I'm only really old enough to remember from the end of Walkers 2nd reign so I'm going Lambert.

 

[ncfcvet]

Yup, Mike Walker for me.

 

[Boyerboy]

I'm going to speak out for John Bond. He is the most important manager In our history.

Everything we associate with City, playing good passing attacking football, being an established top tier team, finding gems at bigger clubs and making them stars and punching above our weight was introduced by Bond. He took over a First Division team but Saunder's team made Pulis's Stoke look like Barcalona. It was a gritty team but hard to watch.

John Bond got us promoted, introduced exciting attacking football and kept us at the top level for the next five tears. He brought many fine players and of course, our greatest ever player Martin Peters.

Bond had his faults. He was petulant and capricious. But, he was the founder of all that we expect and enjoy

Great managers followed John Bond especially Mike Walker. John Bond was the giant on whose shoulders all his successors stood.

 

[Din]

I think personal experience counts. You cant say Pele is the best player in the World if you've never seen him play. Vote should be based on personal experience in my opinion, so if Lambo is the best you've seen give him your vote  

Yeah voted for him for that exact reason. Obviously I know what a great job the likes of Walker and Bond have done, despite them being long gone before I started going to games, but I don't think it would be right to vote for them having not being able to witness what they have done myself. And whilst Lambert turned out to be a bit of a nasty bit of work, you can't argue with what a good job he did when he was here.

 

[Keckers]

Dave Stringer for me. Built the squad that had our highest ever finish before MW then took what he'd built to an even higher finish. Won the youth cup and managed the reserve side so was building even under Ken Brown. Norwich through and through. Love the guy.

Got to be said that MW, John Bond and Ken Brown are all good shouts as well. JB began the new culture and brought some fabulous players here, Ken B won the Milk Cup and we played bloody good football under him and I don't need to say what MW did for us. And then there's Lambert, and Worthy who for most of his time here did a fantastic job.

I know he's not a manager but I think our most important ever appointment has to be McNally. Turned us around and can't begin to say how much love I have for the man.

 

[Zachariah Lovespoon]

Ken Brown in a photo over Walker for me. Not old enough to remember Bond

 

[Watling the Gnome]

Photo finish, Stringer over Lambert

 

[Andy]

I've gone for Lambert. He was appointed at a time when the club was on its knees both on and off the field. I think many City fans were contemplating several seasons in the third tier & behind the scenes the board were fighting off administration. Back to back promotions is rare in the modern game and to achieve that with very little money was absolutely miraculous. It's a shame that it all ended badly, I think in the end his ambition and impatience was too much for the board who were looking to consolidate rather than push on.

 

[Beauseant]

Close run thing. Ron Saunders was the first manager to take City to the big time, but his style was turgid and based on hard work rather than skill. My vote goes to Bondy, the man who gave City the reputation for flair and passing football that still persists today. I loved watching his teams. He also signed Kevin Reeves my favourite City player of all time!

 

[BroadstairsR]

John Bond for me too.

NCFC came of age under Bondy, both on the field and in the media in general (wasn't he even on Desert Island Discs selecting Blondie records?)

For the very first time we were a high profile club with high profile players, including Peters, McDougall, Boyer, Reeves and a few others of note.

His champagne style was infectious and there was always a Trevor Hockey to bring out of the hat when times got tough.

Psssst. Don't mention Drazan Muzinic though.

 

[Monty13]

Have to vote on what I've seen and I was either too young or wasn't born for the eras of Brown, Bond and Stringer.

I was only a kid but I remember Walkers time in charge and the European campaign and so he gets my vote, if not since then it would have had to have been Lambert or maybe Worthington, who did incredibly well considering his budget.

Unfortunately I was only just old enough to remember the great times in Europe and Div1/PL and its been a mixture of steady decline with the occasional triumphant rise since.