McNally resigns - official.

[morty]

Terrible news.

Just when we need strong leaders, we get rid of our strongest.

 

[RhythmicTheory]

Absolutely terrible news, saying that (not apportioning blame here), behind the scenes this last 18 months has been an absolute shambles and has certainly contributed to this impending relegation.

 

[morty]

Absolutely terrible news, saying that (not apportioning blame here), behind the scenes this last 18 months has been an absolute shambles and has certainly contributed to this impending relegation.

He has left this club in a far far better state than when he found it. No denying mistakes have been made, but not every single decision is made by him.

Stupid decision, in my opinion.

 

[GJP]

Hmm. He has done a lot of good for this club but he may have started to become a negative influence in some areas.

 

[RhythmicTheory]

who knows, i just thought he really helped us punch above our weight for a long time.

 

[Wiz]

Oh ffs........help! :unsure:

 

[Fenway Frank]

Be interesting to hear what A N has to say. I have to say I'm not too worried yet, be interesting to see who comes in though, big decision to be made as could see us go back to the prudence with ambition route rather than loosening the purse strings slightly.

 

[splutcho]

Like I said on Twitter, I don't know if this move will be positive or negative going forward, but he should have all of our immense thanks. He's been great for the club.

 

[GJP]

Possibly he has a reputation of being difficult to deal with. Possibly agents think this. And possibly players say this to their mates in the game. Possibly.

 

[Fenway Frank]

The only issue I had was that he was still getting a bonus when we were relegated. I know it may have based on the finanancial side but still wrong for me.

 

[splutcho]

My general philosophy on club decisions is to wait and see how they pan out before getting too heated either way, but if Delia's nephew gets the gig I will be outside Carrow Road protesting 

 

[Boyerboy]

I think that this was a poor a move for the club but inevitable in the modern world.  Time and again I have read criticisms of McNally and indeed of the Board by people who have no idea what the job involves.  Social media gives everyone a voice even a kid who has never run anything in his life and has nothing to say beyond wild abuse.  Then there was the window licking delusional on Canary Call who blamed it all on the appointment of Ed Balls. Unbelievable!!!!  The mob rules as it did in the 18th century and as a society, I am not sure that we are better for it.

I do not blame McNally for having had enough and wanting to move on. I would not put up with the incessant and personal abuse however much I loved my job.

I do not think that we can overstate the importance of McNally's role in getting the club to where it is today except in blaming him totally for the player recruitment issues and for the performance on the field.   Financially and administratively, the club was a shambles when he came in and we've moved a long way since then.

Perhaps it is time for a fresh look and new blood. It is going to be much harder to appoint a better CEO than it will be to appoint a worse one.

 

[the jarrold]

He achieved so much in a financial sense, pulling us out of the mire and putting us on a sound financial footing. In purely footballing terms in which the club is ultimately judged, two relegations  in three years ( barring a miracle) is disastrous for the club. In any field of business such a catastrophic failure would see the CEO come under pressure, I guess he just did what he saw was the honourable thing. Timing a bit premature though.

 

[Boyerboy]

Without the financial stuff, you don't get to the footballing stuff so you can't just dismiss a well run solvent club that happened to get relegated.

 

[Gaffer]

Grant Holt said that some people built their reputations on the backs of the players and team spirit at Norwich that got us back-to-back promotions. He was of course referring to McNally and possibly Lambert too. I think he's right. Nobody knows what would have happened if McNally hadn't arrived. But we do know that he made some really poor decisions. Here's just the most obvious:

• appointing Hughton 
• keeping him for too long
• panicking and sacking him at the worst possible time and appointing someone unsuitable which just guaranteed our relegation
• giving Adams the job full-time in spite of his lack of experience 
• failing to improve our scouting team
• making a number of dud, overpriced signings
• failing to strengthen the squad even though he had identified that as the cause of our relegation

So he's done the right thing in resigning.

 

[Gaffer]

Without the financial stuff, you don't get to the footballing stuff so you can't just dismiss a well run solvent club that happened to get relegated.

Well we didn't 'happen to get relegated', awful decisions have been made at the top that resulted in our relegation. And as that's going to cost us £100,000,000 it looks like a massive f-up from both a financial and footballing perspective. 

 

[Boyerboy]

You talk as if McNally was solely responsible for all those things.  Big multi million pound corporations don't work like that.  Of course he has overarching responsibility but if others don't do their jobs, the direct responsibility diffuses.  Also, you are using hindsight. It is popular now to see how things go in order to assess whether a decision was "right" or not. Deal or No Deal is predicated on that but it is illusory.  You have to look at the circumstances at the time of the decision.  Adams didn't work out for example but there was every reason to suppose that he might at the time so I don't accept that appointing him was wrong.

There is no point arguing history though.  A sacrifice must be made to reflect what turned out to be a poor season and here it is.  That doesn't alter the fact that we started the season as favourites to go down and that we have huge structural disadvantages from even other apparently similar clubs.  Again, there was the caller on Canary Call arguing that we should compete with Southampton though he was wholly unaware of how fabulously wealthy their owner is.  Or the billionaires who own Bournemouth or Leicester.   This is not "Little Norwich" as I genuinely hope and expect to win every game to the amusement of family and friends who regard me as delusional.  There is little doubt though that even at our best, we have handicaps that hold us back.

There is little wrong with this season that signing a £10m striker worth 10 goals would not have cured.  It is fine margins.  There are plenty of £10m strikers who've not scored and we don't have £10m to waste if we have it all.

That we could afford Klose and Naismith was down to the good financial management that McNally has achieved

 

[eatonparkboy]

Funny how the majority of the discussion heavily involves money. We haven't lost any money by relegation. We just won't be receiving as much next season. And three clubs knew that at the start of the season. And staying in the Prem is nothing more than a football matter. I would dare to suggest that the financial side is best left to those with a vested interest and the footballing side is open for discussion amongst all of us.

You cannot sack the owners for a poor performance overall. They just say yes or no to the matters put in front of them. And as CEO of the club, he must accept his portion of the blame.  But that is not something we can rationally debate without facts.

The manager and his staff and the players must accept the footballing consequences. And that is open to debate by us.

 

[KeiranShikari]

What an absolutely awful season. Losing McNally and Bowkett makes the impending relegation seem minor.

The slide will truly begin today.

 

[OldRobert]

Can't help feeling we will regret this.  If Nephew Tom gets the gig, then the Pitchforks would be out I think.