Football: Rick Waghorn surveys the aftermath of Glenn Roeder's sacking for Norwich City
The biggest appointment of their boardroom lives? Oh, yes. By a couple of country miles.
On the last two occasions that the City board sifted through a pile of applications and arranged for a ten-man interview panel to meet the select few in some out-of-town location, it was mid-autumn.
There was still half of the season to play and the whole of the January transfer window with which to work.
Come January, 2009, and Delia and Michael and Co have no such luxuries; no such breathing space.
Whoever steps into the breach following Glenn Roeder's dismissal this week has to have an instant impact, instant knowledge of where to pick up a player or two and pretty much instant respect from within the dressing room.
There is no time for anything else.
Which is why, for me, the early fingers are pointing to a quick, local fix – be it either the gentlemen who lives up on the North Norfolk coast when not following Northern Ireland on their World Cup travels – or else, the one-time Gunners boss, now back from Denmark and still at home on the Norfolk Broads.
Nigel Worthington and Bruce Rioch may yet only be seen as stop-gap measures; temporary fixes that do no more than save Norwich's Championship bacon this season before everyone has a long, hard look at the situation this summer.
And there are some easy fixes out there.
Jamie Cureton's instant recall from Barnsley – just in time to face the Tykes tomorrow – was one such easy 'win'.
Putting Simon Lappin on the bench is another; as, of course, is getting any sort of appearance out of Darren Huckerby.
Get Craig Fleming out of Lowestoft; put him in charge of the Ressies.
Get some decent, Norfolk people back in the building. Not half of Tyneside.
If the lift yields three points against Barnsley, with a Cureton winner to boot, then you have ten days to bed everything in ahead of the midweek home clash with Southampton.
Pot stirred, smiles restored and points already gained, then you've got some wind in your sails; you're up and running again with a cloud duly lifted.
But it needs that kind of quick, local fix to work.
And that's where I think the mood is heading; bang, people we know and trust.
And who can get the job done.
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