[theo_luddite]

who is your player of the season? hard to ignore Wakey's choice Koroma - given he's our joint top scorer despite being out for ages, I'll give it another who has come back from injury and I didn't expect to see him again, Eiting, even though he's not likely to be back. Would like him to be though.

young player of the season? Lewis O'Brien - took a while to warm up but when played where he should be is as good an attacking midfielder as we've had for a while. He's younger then Eiting.

your moment of the season? Coming away from Preston with no injuries? That or beating Forest at theirs.

best player you've seen against Town this season? Everyone that played for Norwich at Canary Walk, though you could say we didn't make it hard for them. Pukki if pushed.

Town player you've got high hopes for. I'll also go with Koroma. Wasn't convinced when we first signed him but I think he'd have got 20+ goals this season if he didn't get the fluke injury.

and where do Town go from here over the summer?
1. On holiday
2. Come back from holiday
3. Enter contract talks for cheaper deals with some of the soon to be unemployed that are worth keeping - most won't get the same or a much better deal elsewhere even as free agents and I'm not naming who I'd keep or reject. I'm not a paid football coach and they really should have first dibs over some idiot making choices based on what he sees on Football Manager or FIFA 2021 - even if the data on there is better than our data. Statistics and lies and all that. Stats don't tell you about a players attitude.
4. Tell the rest to clear off - though I suspect our Chairlump did that already at the start of January, which might explain the mostly half-hearted performances since Careless and his mates got a contract extension, plus the reluctance to play certain players so they are fit enough to sign for someone else come the end of the season and we don't have to keep honouring their sicknotes. Transfer fees would be nice to replenish some of the brass we wasted but sod it, write it off against tax if you can.
5. Be honest - if you've been shown or given what amounts to a verbal redundancy notice, are you going to bust a gut if you know you aren't playing/working for a new contract? Our idiot in chief has previous at this. He did the same thing last season as he cut the legs off from under the Cowley's.
5. Borrow whatever it takes and pay Deano off and get him out of the club. He's hanging around like a bad smell. I don't begrudge him a penny and I thank him for the best season ever since I were a lad - but..... If I loaned you £100 I'd expect to get it back eventually, however the loans were really a tax free way of investing in the club and he could have sold to someone that would have paid him off and not leveraged the income of the club to pay him off. That assumes he was well enough (or thought he was well enough) to make a sensible decision at the time. The rest of the board didn't have the bollocks or the voting equity to vote against him or otherwise. He didn't want a shared ownership of the club when he bought us. Strange that he still has 25% ownership of the club then isn't it?
6. It's easy to say "get a better coach and better players in", yes we need them (who doesn't) but it's another thing to name them and pay for them, so I'm passing on that one. If Real or Barca go bust as a result of the ESL going tits up we'll happily take their squad on at £1000 week/player but I think we might get out-bid on a few for some reason.

At the end of the day you can have many of the best players in the country/world in your club and supposedly one of the best coaches in Europe/The World, but if the coach and the players don't get on with each other and the board can't see the wood for the trees it isn't going to work. See Maureen for almost everywhere he's been for around 2 seasons or more. The fallout from the ESL won't affect us unless 6 clubs suddenly get relegated but that could be fun to watch next season too.