Gunn Gets Bullet
By: David | August 14th, 2009Norwich City today sensationally sacked manager Bryan Gunn on the eve of City’s first away league game of the season. The Club has only played two games this season. Admittedly they were a 7-1 home thrashing at the hands of also rans Colchester, the Club’s worst ever home defeat and the worst display of goalkeeping and defending ever witnessed in senior football. The second game was the 4-0 win over Yeovil in the first round of the League Cup. Although you can only beat what’s put in front of you, it was hardly a tough test.
I wasn’t in favour of Gunn’s appointment in the first place, but to sack him now having just assembled his own squad, and with every other decent manager in employment, is rather strange. Especially on the eve of the first away league game of the season.
The board have been decisive, but perhaps too decisive, too early. Considering the shambolic defending and midfield display of Saturday I’m surprised the entire coaching staff have remained if the manager has been fired. Obviously someone is required to prepare the team for tomorrows game, but I’d be pretty worried if I were Messrs Butterworth and Crook. Unless the board plan on offering them the position full time…
Attracting a replacement may prove difficult with such mayhem off the field and the board seemingly having an itchy trigger finger, so I would imagine they have a name or have made contact with someone regarding taking over prior to pulling the trigger on Gunn.
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LOL i put some hype on Theo and he did bad… did he play really bad or was it the team as a unit?
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Marcus, to paraphrase an ex City coach; “if some of our 13 year old trainees defended like that then they wouldn’t be at the club anymore.” Sums up the woeful display. I would put 3 goals down to bad keeping for sure, but combined with none existant defending! He got dropped for next game 4-0 win and last game 1-1 draw. We’ll see how he comes back. Alnwick who replaced him is only on loan from Spurs for 3 months.
I’ll tell Theo you were to blame for his calamity lolPosted from
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lol cheers, im trying to keep track of the ex melbourne boy(s), and i try to follow Norwich cause theve had a couple (Leijer and Theo).
Is Leijer still there or is he at Fulham?Posted from
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He’s back at Fulham Marcus, only loaned him til end of last season. Not sure if he’s out on loan at a league 1 club. Hopefully we’ll see the best out of Theo now a real manager is here…
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