What a team Souness built there.

Who knows, Chaddy? For a club in Norwich's position though, they're crying out for someone who can keep them in the PL. Dyche would be perfect for that, even for just 2 or 3 years should they then decide they want better.

Norwich could do worse than to go for Dyche IMO and vice versa. He'd give it a good shot at keeping them up, but if they did go down, he's a good bet to bring them back up. For him, a bigger club, a bigger fan base, cash to spend and the opportunity to show he's not a one trick pony.

I'd be suprised if we could sell 8,000 match tickets for a league game in the current climate at any price.

The same effect was had at the Sheff Utd game. £14.60 all round, so people grab the best seats. Where I sit in the JWU, it was rammed in comparison to a normal game. To me, the BBE didn't seem much busier than usual.

I sincerely hope that the club suitably treated the Chile supporter to replica shirts, accomodation etc. He's done more marketing for the club in one foul swoop than the club itself has done in months.

I genuinely don't think we need to spend anywhere near 20 million to get out out of this division. 3 or 4 decent signings made by an astute manager to supplement the core of our existing side, would get us a long way.

So do I. It would make a refreshing change to see an English manager do well at the top level.

We have enough injury prone defenders - Nyambe, Ayala and now Pickering. We don't need another one, thanks all the same.

They could offer a loyalty scheme for those who buy a certain number of individual match tickets over the course of the season. Buy a ticket for any 5 individual games, get the next one free. That sort of thing.

Insane pricing. On the back of the Sheff Utd game, they had an opportunity to encourage people to come back and keep building up the home attendances. We could have got over 20k for this. My cat has more business nous that Waggott.

I can imagine Mogga fuming at the sight of Kenny visiting Ewood. 'It's not 1995 any longer, you know. I've got a journey to finish'.

Exactly. 3,000 up on previous games.

I reckon that Hughton would get us pretty close to promotion. Warnock and McCarthy are probably knocking on a bit too much.

John Robertson at Forest was the best non-Rover winger I've ever seen. My dad used to take me to see Forest occasionally in the early 80's when they played at Utd, City etc. Robertson was mesmerising.

I suppose the modern day equivalent of a chairman is a CEO, which we do have. Not a very good one, mind you.

Dyche is a victim of his own success. By that, I mean keeping Burnley in the Prem by playing to their strengths, which perhaps isn't the prettiest. As a result, he's tarnished - possibly unfairly - as a hoofball merchant. He's probably been there too long now for opinions to change.

The Sheffield fans were pretty quiet I thought, considering that had that many. Mind you, their team isn't exactly much to cheer about.

It's a really interesting thing you do here btw, hats off to you for taking the time and trouble 👍

No arguments from me either 🙂....I was just trying to say that there's more than one way to get success. Without a decent manager though, it's impossible. Yeah, Sheff U were poor alright, in complete contrast to Fulham who they came down with.

I'm surprised that Davenport scored so low. I thought that he was one of our better players on the day.

Sorry. I'll go and wash my mouth out 🙂

And how much money have Norwich made in 3 seasons yo-yo'ing? 2 lots of promotion money, 2 lots of PL money, 2 lots of parachute money... Anyway, I'll qualify my comment. It's brought them no more on field success than Norwich or Sheff U. The point I'm trying to make, though, is that this moneyball thing isn't the be all and end all. It's merely one way of running a club, and one way to possibly become successful. The 2 other clubs I mention have been successful via a different approach. As have Burnley, for that matter.

Irrespective of what the moneyball means and how Brentford apply it, its brought them no more success than Norwich, Sheff Utd..... At the end of the day, for a club to be successful, whether using moneyball or otherwise, it needs a good manager (sorry head coach), which we don't have.

Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, they're slipping.