 “A Bright New Futureâ€Written by BillBlue on Sunday, 19th Jan 2014 12:05 I posted an item under the story headlined 'Taylor: Hewitt “Superbâ€' this morning and unbelievably I didn't receive an avalanche of negatives. Cloddyseedbed responded, for which I thank him, but after that there were no further posts which told me I had posted too late for people to read it. Now, as I was trying to get a discussion going it was an abysmal failure so I decided to use what I had written and introduce it as a blog, this is it. There is no doubt in my mind we have the potential to be a top club. We have the players, we have the training ground and we have the stadium, all we need is a sort out. We need to bring back all the loan players and play them here, and put square pegs in square holes not square pegs in round holes simply to accommodate a player who years ago did well for the current manager. Yes, most of the players are still young but they do have great potential and they will only find that potential by playing games and who better to play games for than the club to which they belong and want to represent? All you Mick McCarthy lovers please do not give us the guff about there being a great difference between the Championship and Leagues One and Two because I will tell you it is rubbish, hence Preston are in the fourth round of the FA Cup and we are out (again)! Think back to what the Wolves supporters said about their previous manager when he came here: "He will load you up with useless players". The truth of that was evident when those same players took Wolves down to the third tier and let us beware that there is not a repeat here. Now please do not tell me he saved us from relegation last year because he was reportedly very well paid for doing that and he did absolutely no different to what Paul Jewell did previously and he was not paid a reputed £1m for so doing. If we are going to do this and be successful there is only one thing we need and that is a manager who has the tactical ability and the courage to play his younger players and build a great Ipswich side without all his old mates from years of yore. That man can either be a reasonably experienced manager, an Ian Holloway type, or a young dynamic manager who is champing at the bit. For all you posters who will slate what I am saying without having the sense to think about it let me say to you: forget about the play-offs and promotions because that is not going to happen. If you want to get promoted you need to play football, not just set out not to lose because that way you most certainly will - lose that is! I am truly sorry to write this but it is time some one tried to bring a sensible thought into these discussions and instead of making momentous decisions as to whether Mick should be playing 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 or whatever, you should be thinking about the future of our great club because that is what I am talking about. Managers come and go and, for me, the sooner this one goes the better. For you youngsters who were not there, how do you think Bobby Robson achieved such great success? By being tactically astute and having the courage to play all those wonderful young players while they were still kids and by encouraging them to go out and win (full stop). In Cloddyseedbed's response he mentioned that word 'Evans' and yes, as you say, he is the boss and therefore responsible. This is only the second blog I have written and the previous one was an open letter to that same gentleman when things were first beginning to become difficult during his early blunders. So let us look at Evans's contributions. After he took over things were a bit difficult at the start of the next season then from January onwards things began to appear better and that improvement coincided with the arrival of a new first team coach, John Gorman, who happened to have been Glenn Hoddle's assistant and, while we did not get promoted, even the then manager's critics could see the improvement and most people knew we would be in the mix the next season. Not so Mr Evans. He fired his manager and recruited a person whom almost every, wise Ipswich supporter immediately knew was a disaster. It was about this time I wrote my open letter to him. Soon after, chairman David Sheepshanks stepped down leaving the club with absolutely nobody with football knowledge and appointed the person whom you all loved to hate as chief executive. Disaster followed disaster, Evans sacked his manager and appointed somebody whom we were told had done it before and would get us promoted! Now I am fully aware that many of you hate the name of that person but stop and think for a moment. That person introduced Cressy to us and one or two others too. Where he made his mistake was in trying to get us promoted too quickly and in so doing went about it the wrong way. To be fair to that very likeable person he had little option because his predecessor had fired the person who had helped make our Academy great, though at that time he was on the coaching staff and, most probably out of spite, got rid of our best player from the Academy so he had to bring people in. We were now bottom of the second tier and looking likely contenders for demotion. That manager left by mutual consent and the present incumbent was brought in with the sole object of keeping us in the second tier. As we all know he succeeded and stopped us leaking goals, that being his forte, so a big thank you to Mick, but that does not say he is the right manager to carry this club forward. He is dogmatic and appears tactically naive. Chief executive Simon Clegg then moved on and Evans appointed the joint managing directors, who this time had no sporting experience let alone no football experience, so we are wandering in very wild seas totally rudderless! Marks out of 10 to Mr Evans? I give him two. With this in mind I spend every single penny I can on Euromillions hoping for a very large win it being the only way I can see to get this club out of the Hands of Mr Evans! Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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