Good old-fashioned common sense (part 3)

"Neil Doncaster" writes:

"We therefore have an average away support of 1,552 in comparison to an average of only 1,082 visiting Carrow Road. And taking into account that, along with Plymouth Argyle and Cardiff City, we are a geographically isolated club with much further to travel than most other clubs, these are seriously impressive figures."

Mr "Doncaster" is clearly unaware that the journey from, say, Preston to Norwich, is the same distance as the journey from, er, Preston to Norwich. Surely anyone with a bit of "good old-fashioned common sense" could work that out? But then anyone with a bit of "good old-fashioned common sense" should also be able to spot that replacing a team of talented, motivated championship-winners who love the club with a bunch of expensive and disinterested journeymen is not necessarily a strategy for success.

Why don't the board listen to the manager?

Nigel Worthington talks a lot of sense, yet Delia and her chums don't take any notice of him. Back in September he told the Pink 'Un "Palace were as good as buried the Christmas that they went up with us, but they went on a tremendous run."
Remind me again, Nigel, just what was it that the Palace board did in December 2003 that ours didn't do in December 2005?

Nigel Worthington tells it as it is

Said Nigel Worthington of the Preston debacle "It was one of our better away performances". This remark has attracted a lot of criticism - but in this case the manager is speaking the truth. A performance where we created nothing, had no meaningful strikes on goal, scored two own-goals and where most of the players were not interested does indeed rank as one of our better away performances - under this manager anyway. I wonder why he is still in a job?

David Williams speaks!

"I am sure Seb will tell you that his favoured position is through the middle," said David.
"However I have asked him to a job for us in a wide position on a number of occasions and to be fair to him he has always done a solid job for the team.
"I believe he is the fittest player in the group with exceptional stamina, his work-rate is very high and he has good pace, and he puts all these to good effect during the game."

All sounds grimly familiar doesn't it? Williams for manager? No thanks!