Stuart Webber is sitting at a large round table in Carrow Road’s Gunn Club lounge, waiting to be quizzed.

Such rendezvous were a regular feature of Webber’s first four years as Norwich City’s sporting director, although they have been fewer in number over the past 18 months.

Lately, Webber’s relationship with some supporters has deteriorated, recruitment has been called into question and Norwich followed Premier League relegation by finishing 13th in the Championship.

Repairing that damage, restoring reputations and Webber’s own future were all subjects visited at that large round table as The Athletic talked to Webber, starting with his feelings on the season just gone…

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Stuart Webber: We didn’t achieve our goal to get promoted. Obviously, that’s a disappointment but it’s about moving forward and remembering all the good things happening at the club, making sure we come back next year and have a stronger go at it.

The Athletic: Is it difficult to analyse and reflect on what has happened? Everyone wants that forward focus. Is it important how you balance the two?

We analyse everything we do every day. We learn from good things and bad things. But what’s important is keeping the context of where you are as a business. You can’t keep going over things you…

Norwich City’s sporting director Stuart Webber has been to one game of women’s football and says he is not interested in it.

In April, Norwich City Women played at Carrow Road for the first time, winning 5-3 against Ashford Town in front of 7,500 supporters.

In an interview with The Athletic reviewing the year at Norwich and a disappointing season for the men’s team as they finished 13th in the Championship, Webber was asked how they would build on the success of that women’s game.

“That was the first women’s game I’ve been to because it’s not an interest to me. I don’t mind admitting that,” he said. “I love working with Flo (Allen, the general manager of Norwich City Women) and helping her, but that’s because it’s Flo.

“Women’s football, I do not watch it. It’s of zero interest to me in terms of on the telly because I watch enough men’s football and if I’m not watching that, I want to watch other sports. It’s a choice which I think should be OK.”

In a wide-ranging interview that touched on Norwich’s recruitment, the decision to sack Dean Smith and his own future at the club, Webber also spoke about the abuse he has received from fans of the men’s team, many of whom blame him for the club drifting down the Championship table.

“All the…