More than 100 fans attended the Supporters Club AGM on Wednesday evening when chief executive Simon Clegg, academy director Bryan Klug and academy sponsorship and player liaison manager Simon Milton took questions from the floor. The questioning was at times combative but not overly unfriendly despite the protests aimed at Clegg at the previous night’s game.

The question and answer session in the second half of the AGM began with Clegg apologising for the change of guests in the wake of manager Paul Jewell’s departure earlier in the day. Skipper Carlos Edwards and Chris Hutchings, who was appointed caretaker-manager earlier in the day, were originally down to appear.

“I’m sorry that [the meeting] comes in the set of circumstances that we’re facing at this moment in time,” he said.

“The easy thing would be to call off this evening and put it back a few months, but I know some of you have travelled some distance here and have made commitments to be here this evening. So, I thought the least we could do was turn up and do my best to honestly answer questions.”

Clegg admitted it hadn’t been an easy day and said he had pulled Edwards out of the event as he and the rest of the players needed to be concentrating on footballing matters given the current position, while Hutchings was at Blackburn watching Saturday’s opponents Sheffield Wednesday lose 1-0.

The chief executive paid tribute to Paul Jewell and his work during his time at Portman Road: “I would like to place on record the thanks this club and I in particular have for the commitment he made and his efforts he made. But we all know that football is a results-driven business.”

Clegg reiterated his comments from the day’s press conference that he and owner Marcus Evans are working on making the key decision for the club - looking for a new manager who can dig Town out of the current hole in the short-term but also take the club forward in the future.

The evening’s first question asked Clegg what he would put down as his successes at Town if he was writing his CV. He admitted that in footballing terms, he could cite very little: “I accept that when you look at it from purely a footballing perspective, in terms of where we are, there has been no progress.

“But I think we are making some progress in some other areas of the club, but I know that ultimately, whether we like it or not or whether we’re responsible for it or not, we will be judged by what happens on the pitch, and therefore in that regard I would accept that I have not achieved anything that I’ve set out to achieve. Yet.”

He says he remains ambitious, as does Marcus Evans and believes that he can provide the leadership which is required as the club goes into challenging times, both on the pitch and off it with regard to Financial Fair Play (FFP) and the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP).

Questioned about his lack of a footballing background, Clegg said few chief executives have come from that context, and in any case he has now been in his job for three years, admitting that it was initially a steep learning curve, and is now more experienced than most people in similar positions at other clubs.

He again dismissed the idea of appointing a director of football, pointing out that managers at Town receive very little interference from him or the owner with regard to running footballing matters.

Clegg repeated his desire to see a team full of academy graduates, but was questioned about Luke Hyam’s lack of recent chances in the first team. The chief executive accepted that younger players hadn’t always had their opportunity, but says that’s a decision for the manager of the team, not a chief executive: “You either back your manager, or you sack him.”

Regarding the selection of the new boss, Clegg says the people he and Evans take advice from in football are “very experienced, very seasoned, experts in the world of professional football”.

He said he recognised that the last two appointments hadn’t gone to plan and said they were taking some of their advice from “a slightly different source”.

Asked whether Evans bought Town as a football club or as a business, Clegg said that like it or not, football is now a business: “Football has moved on, football has changed in a massive way in the last couple of decades.

“If you cannot apply sound business principles to the decisions that you make, then you end up in a situation like Portsmouth.”

He says he won’t take Town down that road, even if it means making difficult decisions, adding: “I’m not prepared to walk out of this club in shame, hanging my head having financially mismanaged the organisation and having taken it into administration.”

He says FFP will bring hard times which will require strong leadership in order to come through the challenges that it will present.

One fan expressed concerns that the club and the support have increasingly moved apart, but Clegg said he had heard the same comments since he came to Town and from his predecessors that it had been said for a number of years.

He says there is “a general feeling that fans and clubs are moving further and further apart”. He said he believes the club are making efforts to try to close that gap, citing examples such as him being available for Supporters Club events, including the AGM itself on what he said was hardly an easy day for the club when he could have ducked out of it, something that chief executives at many other clubs wouldn’t be involved in.

He says he writes back to people who contact him, even if they are applying for the manager’s job based in their experience on FIFA on their PCs, having had half a dozen such applications during the day.

The chief executive felt it was wrong to suggest no efforts to “interface” with the fanbase were being made.

A supporter said there appears to be no plan like David Sheepshanks’s five-year plan. Clegg said the first thing on that front was to appoint a new manager.

He accepted that the last two appointments hadn’t been successful but he says that doesn’t mean he and Evans won’t be successful going forward.

One fan questioned Evans’s commitment to getting the Blues into the Premier League and like the earlier questioner felt that the club seemed divided and also confused because there didn’t appear to be “a commonness of purpose” or a clear vision, unlike in the late 90s.

The same supporter was critical of Evans’s anonymity, comparing that with the passion that Sheepshanks showed during his time in charge of the club, he said he had “someone to associate with ahead of the manager pulling the strings. Something just doesn’t feel right with us any more”, to applause.

Clegg assured fans that Evans, who was in Barbados, watched Tuesday night’s game live through a facility he has access to. The owner remains passionate about the club, he continued, and if he wasn’t then he wouldn’t have spent the sort of money he paid out in the summer, whether it is regarded as enough or too little, and since then more signings have been made.

Clegg says the way the club backs managers has been praised by prospective bosses he had spoken to earlier in the day.

In terms of players turning down contracts, both those already with the club and those targeted by managers, he says Town won’t be held to ransom or be forced to pay over the odds: “It’s financial madness not to set down what a manager believes a player is worth and not go over that.”

He says sometimes the media don’t have the full story regarding transfers with agents or other clubs spinning stories meaning fans don’t always have the whole picture. He says sometimes players use one club as a “stalking horse” to get a better deal at another.

Clegg wouldn’t comment on specific current player contract situations, such as Lee Martin’s, but says there is a regular dialogue on such issues between Evans, the manager and himself. If a particular player wants more money than the club feels he is worth, then he will be allowed to leave.

In terms of wages, Clegg says Town are mid-table in the Championship and says the club don’t have a cap they won’t go above. He says there is a degree of flexibility.

A fan said he felt the last two managers have ignored young players and wanted assurances that talent from the academy would be brought through rather than the club relying on players.

Clegg said the appointment of Bryan Klug as academy director illustrated such a commitment and revealed that as part of the EPPP the club will have a four-day independent standards organisation inspection at the end of the month.

Klug said he wouldn’t have left his job at Spurs if there wasn’t a serious commitment to the academy and also that he was “very pleasantly surprised” with what he found at Playford Road having heard negative reports prior to his return.

He says Evans has learned the importance of the youth set-up during his time at the club, adding that he is confident that there are “some players in the system coming through” with the right management.

Klug says he believes it’s more difficult bringing young players through in the Championship than it was a few years ago.

He admits that there’s “massive” competition from Norwich and also Colchester, who are doing a very good job, but he says he “firmly believes that we will still be the most attractive for those players”.

Klug says there are some players who will be very close to reaching the first team this season but didn’t want to put pressure on them by naming them. He also pointed out that having worked with Kieron Dyer, Richard Wright and Jason Dozzell, he now “had the dubious honour” of coaching their sons, which he thought he wasn’t really old enough to be doing.

He admitted that he gets frustrated when young players aren’t given a chance at first team level, having spent his career working with youth players. Ultimately it’s up to the players to batter the doors down.

The panel were asked, given that football is a business, what product they were trying to sell supporters.

Clegg says in an ideal world quality football that people want to see every week. He reiterated that everything in football depends on what happens out on the pitch, “every aspect of this business is in a difficult position at the moment because your entire business model is made or broken by what happens on the pitch”.

Simon Milton added that what the club is trying to do on the pitch is what the team showed in the first half an hour on Tuesday over the entire 90 minutes.

He says the failure to replicate that standard over the whole game was frustrating for everyone, fans, corporate supporters and the now departed manager.

The former midfielder says that managers can only do so much and that once they are on the field, it’s down to the players.

Off the field, corporately, he says he tries to make sure everything is top class, but everything — ticket sales, catering, hospitality - depends on the football and the results.

Milton feels Paul Jewell will have been frustrated to leave the club, rather than bitter, because he’s worked his “absolutely tail off” but for whatever reason it hasn’t worked and “the buck stops with him”.

Despite the lack of success in recent seasons, Milton says fans will remain loyal to their clubs because “it’s in you”, taking the rough with the smooth, “and we deserve a bit of smooth at the moment”.

One fan said he had had trouble persuading non-hardcore fans to go to games with recent results and current prices, particularly given the make-up of the team with few youngsters and a lot of loan players.

He was also critical of Town playing only one man up front, which he felt was negative and led to a lack of entertainment.

Milton said it was difficult for any of the three of them to comment as they weren’t the ones who have picked teams, but he says bosses pick sides on what they’ve seen in matches, in training, on whether they’re fit and how they see things.

He says when the rest of us pick teams we think of the player in each position playing at their best from the last game we saw, probably a few weeks ago.

Regarding fans saying they felt further away from the club, Milton said you feel closer when the team is winning: “Results are absolutely everything.”

He says contrary to what some people might think, players do care when they lose, particularly in circumstances such as Tuesday.

One supporter said he knew of fans who hadn’t renewed season tickets who hadn’t received calls from the club trying to persuade them to relent. Clegg said he’d look into it, while Milton pointed out that corporate customers in a similar position would have been contacted.

Clegg was asked how long he himself had to get things right, given that the last two managers had been given 20 and 21 months respectively. He said it wasn’t a question he could answer, as that is down to Evans.

Questions were asked about unfit players coming into the side having only just joined the club, but Clegg felt again that this was a matter for a manager to decide rather than something any of the panel could comment on. Footballing matters — selection, transfer targets etc — are down to the manager.

A supporter pointed out that the reason for Town’s tradition of giving managers a long time was that they kept appointing very good ones in the past — “You don’t have to sack Bobby Robson because he was a very good manager”.

However, Clegg responded that Robson very nearly was sacked. “He never got near the bottom of Division Two!” the fan came back.

Another questioner asked about coaches, querying the number at the club compared with the handful that would have been employed a few years ago, particularly given the lack of success they had brought about. He also cited the way that the best had been got out of players like Milton and Micky Stockwell in the past.

Clegg admitted that clearly the staff haven’t got the best out of the players. Klug added that “the game has changed”, pointing out developments such as the technology involved these days.

At academy level the EPPP demands things like sports science support staff. He says the players are used to it and expect it. However, he feels the new academy system has gone too far on that front because it is designed for the big clubs such as Chelsea and Tottenham.

Klug believes that you’re only as good as your staff and he always tries to get the best coaches he can to work with his players. Getting good people is the most important thing. Clegg adds that it’s something else which, at first team level, is down to the manager.

Returning to the new appointment, Clegg pointed out that most managers spent most of their time being unsuccessful and that more bosses lose their jobs in the Championship than ‘win’ themselves better positions at a higher level. “Very few people secure success.”

He added that Town have no divine right to be successful, contrary to what some people might think.

Another supporter complained at the lack of appreciation the players showed to fans at the final whistle at Hull on Saturday. Clegg said he would speak to skipper Carlos Edwards about the matter on Thursday.

Town had become the “final stop on the journeyman’s tour”, said one fan, pointing to many of last season’s signings and also the fact that Paul Jewell had been out of the game for two years before joining the Blues and Alan Curbishley, who is understood to have been targeted by Town, having been without a club for four years since leaving West Ham.

Clegg took exception to the claim that either of the last two managers had just been here “for the pay cheque” — one of whom “certainly didn’t need it” - and had track records of being able to get clubs promoted from the Championship. In terms of players, he reiterated that managers have to be backed regarding their signings.

The same supporter asked whether the club was scared to appoint a manager who is “young and hungry”, such as Karl Robinson at the MK Dons.

In terms of the long list of potential candidates, Clegg said that it had increased from 34 to 39 over the course of the afternoon.

Milton was asked about how the next generation of supporters were being encouraged to the club. He said that the Charitable Trust is in schools, runs soccer courses and gets children involved in football as well as other activities to try to get them into the club from an early age.

He said the club has thought about ways in which it might offer things to every six-year-old in the county amongst other means of getting younger children into the club. But again, he says winning matches is the key, as well as their families bringing them to games.

Milton says he went to two or three schools a week last year around the county and said he was disappointed with some of them.

“You go to a school and say ‘I’m bringing two players along’ and you’re there between 2pm and 3.30 and you go there and there’s nothing set up,” he said.

“You go to another school — some of the special schools actually — and you start off and you’re drawing with the kids and everything is planned for you.”

Milton says those sorts of visits to schools are like a recruitment drive for the next generation of supporters.

A supporter suggested holding children’s small-sided games at half-time, although Milton suggested this was impractical. However, he said there was a “window of opportunity” towards the end of the campaign to use the main pitch when they play local cup finals. He also said the Fieldturf could be utilised better on a matchday.

Milton agreed with a fan that there seem to be fewer 20-30-year-olds watching games these days, which he felt was partly due to the wider variety of activities and sport they can get involved in now.

Clegg says the playing staff believed that they weren’t far from turning things around prior to Jewell’s exit. He adds that changing a manager creates huge upheaval at a club, amongst coaches, who may be concerned for their jobs, and also amongst players, who may find themselves out of the picture under a new boss. The appointment of Hutchings as the caretaker-boss will help reduce that turmoil.

The chief executive says there is a very good spirit in the camp, despite the lack of form, although it’s a touch subdued given the circumstances. Clegg says that fans of other clubs would see the squad as better than their current league position.

He says he’s looking to get the appointment made quickly with Hutchings as caretaker for one or at most two games.

Milton says it’ll be interesting to see what side caretaker-manager Hutchings fields on Saturday. He will have given his input to Jewell but won’t have selected the team himself.

Given the circumstances, Milton says it’s vitally important for fans to get behind the team against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.

Regarding the academy, it was asked who makes the decisions on releasing or keeping on second-year scholars. Klug said that ultimately it’s down to the manager but having liaised with the academy staff. He says all the bosses he’s worked with have been interested bringing through youth players.

Klug said there is a lack of U21 players but felt this would be addressed in years to come. The new system, which he says needs “tweaking”, is aimed at the likes of Tottenham where they had 70 players between the ages of 16 and 21, whereas at Town there are, with the youth team, 20 or 21.

He also said that there aren’t too many youngsters playing in the Championship these days with players generally making their debuts later.

One fan questioned the timing of the managerial change, Clegg countering that everyone had their own “tipping point” and that there is no ideal time to switch a manager.

A question was asked about European scouting, which Clegg says is an expensive business in terms of having full-time scouts. He says the club has someone out there doing it but says the costs rack up given the size of the area to be covered.

He says the club has some “feeder systems” and there are a couple of people who are overseas regularly. Ex-players also play a role in pointing potential signings out to the club, while Milton also cited the number of players who had been on trial having been recommended.

The question of players using Facebook and Twitter was raised, Clegg saying, “It’s an area of concern, not just in football but across sport. Just look at the England cricket team.

“There are two different approaches, one is to stick your head in the sand and tell players that they can’t do it, which is ridiculous.

“These new methods of communication are out there and it’s what the kids of today are doing, so we need to embrace it and educate them and give them some guidance in terms of what they should and shouldn’t be commenting about.”

Another fan questioned the signing of Stephen Henderson in the wake of Scott Loach’s errors against Cardiff, Clegg again saying that managers have to be backed in these type of decisions. He added that Jewell had pointed to a number of goals Loach should have saved earlier in the season when he was making the case for bringing the loanee in from West Ham.

A similar question was asked about the number of players Jewell signed during his time in charge with much the same response from the chief executive. He added that teams and their personnel are changed when they aren’t winning.

Clegg was asked to outline the criteria upon which the new man will be appointed: “I don’t want to be too specific as you’ll all be running down to William Hill’s and putting bets on.

“This is not going to be a high-risk appointment. We need to have someone that we’ve got the confidence in, who has got the necessary experience and skill base to get us out of this current hole and get us to where we want to go in the long run.

“We need to have someone who is passionate, who is prepared to give every waking hour to this football club and who inspires confidence amongst the players and the coaching staff.

“It’s a fairly wide brief in some respects. We’ve got to have someone who can work with Marcus and who can work with ourselves, particularly in the context of Financial Fair Play.

“There’s no point in getting a manager in who is standing up every 10 minutes saying ‘I’m not getting enough money, I need another £5 million for this, another £5 million for that’.”

Milton pointed out that good managers who succeed at one club don’t always succeed at another, while a supporter suggested that Klug be added to Clegg’s long list.

Finally, Marcus Evans’s low profile was queried, a supporter saying she felt the perceived distance between club and fans wasn’t helped by his anonymity.

Clegg said that that situation wouldn’t change and that he was the face of the ownership, liaising with Evans at least every other day and most days more than once.

He added that the recent Sky TV appearance at the Sir Bobby Robson Classic golf tournament in Portugal was an error: “He’s quite a shy man, he didn’t know that was taking place at that moment in time. It’s been a bit of an embarrassment for a number of us that it went out, although we can’t change that.

“Marcus is absolutely committed to this football club, he continues to invest heavily on the financial side. Be careful what you wish for because without it we really would be in a very difficult place.”

Earlier, in the more formal first half of the AGM Supporters Club chair Liz Edwards admitted her own frustrations with the current position: “I cannot pretend that it is business as usual at ITFC.

“I have been a fan since 1967 and honestly can’t remember when I last missed a game. But I also cannot remember when I have been downbeat, so depressed at the state of the club.”

She said she is similarly irked by the treatment the club receives from some quarters: “I am fed up with people who call themselves fans but who then vilify the club at every opportunity, on radio moan-ins and who hide behind usernames online, with those who call themselves fans and then jeer the first misplaced pass or even go public proclaiming their intent to rip up or get rid of their season tickets.

“I’m also fed up with the media who seem to delight at criticising the club and everything we stand for; it is as if they want us to fail.”

Edwards and the rest of the Supporters Club committee were all returned to their posts by a show of hands.

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SitfcB added 04:23 - Oct 25 Cheers for the write up Phil :) Intresting read.
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shamboy added 05:58 - Oct 25 Extraordinary comments about Scott Loach, drawing attention to mistakes earlier in the season that most supporters had not noticed. Is there nothing these sort of people will not do in order to deflect criticism? Also, it is staggering that they contemplated inviting Carlos Edwards onto the platform when it is crystal clear that he will not always toe the corporate line. Overall, a competent display from Clegg, but a far from inspiring one. He is not really cut out for this job.

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bgexile added 06:43 - Oct 25 Many thanks Phil
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shamboy added 07:08 - Oct 25 Look at the body language in the picture above. It paints a thousand words.
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Suffolk_n_Good added 07:24 - Oct 25 Interesting read, thanks Phil :)
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Bob7881 added 07:42 - Oct 25 What is it with these people who claim if you voice discontent your not a fan. ITFC is not a cult fans have their own minds and opions. Liz Edwards you dont have the monoply on ITFC.
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gazmangaz added 08:47 - Oct 25 Sounds like they're looking for a yes man to replace jewell so he tows the line at FFP and gives every waking hour to the club.
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Karlosfandangal added 09:03 - Oct 25 Have to agree with Liz. Just look at the post on here. Sound like most fans just went to look for a fight. Sir Bobby was a great manager and I doubt if you could find a fan of any club would say different, however how many town fans were calling for his head in his early days at Ipswich. Town fans have always been fickle if we were top of the table we would get a full house and no one would be moaning about price of the ticket

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TR11BLU added 09:05 - Oct 25 “This is not going to be a high-risk appointment. We need to have someone that we've got the confidence in, who has got the necessary experience So take your pick from the usual suspects then. McCarthy, Redknapp, Curbishley, Megson. So much for a young up coming thruster. L:ooks like we will be repeating this process every couple of years then. Count me out for renewing my ST if Im right.

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Blue_Poison added 09:40 - Oct 25 Interesting read but I have to admit my heart sank when I read this: “This is not going to be a high-risk appointment." So no young and hungry, up and coming manager for us then?
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MattinLondon added 09:47 - Oct 25 @karlosfanangel Town fans have always been fickle if we were top of the table we would get a full house and no one would be moaning about price of the ticket Exactly like most clubs out there?
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commuterblue added 10:14 - Oct 25 Phil, Many thanks for taking the time to write this up.
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itfc1981 added 10:18 - Oct 25 £80 million debt riden club in league 1, not to far off Portsmouth Mr Clegg! The George Boyd dealings sums up Clegg, for 10k we could have had a play-maker of quality. Clegg says he wanted to much, then we end the up having to pay PL wages to loan players! Clegg's ideas of how to work in the transfer market have been distorted by Keane's ideas of a quality player. This was during Clegg's 'steep learning curve', therefore he cant see that a small increase in wages as in the Boyd case for a quality player would be of benifit in the long term.

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Wickets added 10:21 - Oct 25 Nothing new on Scapegoat Loach all our players have made mistakes all season long,thats what happens when a team is struggling.PJ said we wanted him for a year so should have known any shortfall in his ability and be prepared to help him work through them once he decided to sign him.Most fans will forgive mistakes if the effort is there,it clearly is with Loach but not with many others. Murhpy for one has clearly been takeing it easy this season, his half hearted attemps at Hull had to be seen to be belived. Just watch the first Hull goal and how he didn't bother to defend,just shrugged his shoulders and let his man go.

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Wickets added 10:22 - Oct 25 Thanks Phil i enjoyed reading through this.
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itfc1981 added 10:27 - Oct 25 A supporter pointed out that the reason for Town's tradition of giving managers a long time was that they kept appointing very good ones in the past — “You don't have to sack Bobby Robson because he was a very good manager”. However, Clegg responded that Robson very nearly was sacked. “He never got near the bottom of Division Two!” the fan came back. SUPERB STUFF!
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Daleyitfc added 10:35 - Oct 25 Liz Edwards really is an idiot : she can't understand any criticism of our current rubbish team?? Just shows the Supporters Club is all 'Club' and no 'Supporters'.
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KiwiBlue2 added 10:39 - Oct 25 A very sad situation all round. I have no doubt that Paul Jewell did his absolute best . However I think that his failure to really address the defence effectively has been a major part of his undoing. I also think that last season the central midfield was inadequate until he moved Drury and Hyam in there to inject a bit of vitality and the poor run was then halted with us , at one point, looking like we could have threatened the play-off positions. I think that the new manager will need a specialist defensivequickly. Burley's move to bring in Stewart Houston (?) in the late 1990s (?) paid very quick dividends. Hopefully with a few more games the significant new players brought in will lift the proceedings. I will be very interested to see where we are in January. I am hopful it will be lower mid-table and climbing if we get a decent new manager.......

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portmanteau added 11:29 - Oct 25 if carlos was picked to appear in the knowledge that there was a match on saturday, it makes no sense to say he is not here because of that match! my conclusion is he was dropped from the meeting because he might not have toed the corporate line. the one chance to hear something from an actual player about their side of the situation was thus lost....
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Wickets added 11:58 - Oct 25 Klug is very much his own man dont think he would just toe the corporate line,i think Carlos absence was just that the meeting had very much changed 'cos the manager had now gone,so it was rightly deemed that a player should not be there.I think a new manager will think long and hard as to who his capitain should be! i mean no disrespect to Carlos as a player. a player being played out of postition for the last 2 years!!!

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linhdi added 12:33 - Oct 25 Liz also said that hers is only one view - and the fact that the Supporters Club were happy to have over 100 people each having their chance to quiz the club suggests that people with very different views and perspectives are actively encouraged to speak out.
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Big_Foot_Blue added 12:33 - Oct 25 "He says he writes back to people who contact him, even if they are applying for the manager's job based in their experience on FIFA on their PCs, having had half a dozen such applications during the day." Well thats rubbish, im a 3rd year uni student and between march and june I wrote to Mr Clegg twice asking for some summer work experience offering my services free of charge just so I could see and insight into the business of football and get experience in the right environment, I even followed those 2 letters up with a further email all adressed to him and checked by the club ticket office who gave me his official ITFC adress, he has never responded to me to this day. Sorry I struggle to believe him sometimes.

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Hoppersblue10 added 12:44 - Oct 25 Thanks Phil, was not able to go last night as my son had footie training. It would seem Liz Edwards is as removed from the fans as mr clegg. We live in a country the encourages freedom of speech, if you think that, at whatever level the club is being mis-managed you should be able to air your views freely, be that of regular supporter/season ticket holder or an "arm chair fan" who is not able to attend regularly for whatever reason. Or would she prefer we all suffer in silence on our journey down the football league.? A side not to this baring in mind the ground swell against Paul Jewell has been relatively short in length; of the available 60 points from our last 20 league games we have taken just 17…!

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linhdi added 13:24 - Oct 25 Hoppersblue10 - "you should be able to air your views freely" - that is precisely why the event took place - fans were actively encouraged to turn up and quiz the club, and many did so. Those who couldn't get there on the night were actively encouraged to send questions by email and via twtd.
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madmouse1959 added 23:25 - Oct 25 So,in a nutshell. In footballing terms Clegg has achieved nothing in 3 years and admits its been a steep learning curve. The new manager is now expected to dig us out of a hole with the same squad thats struggled to win a game for months and with the same restraints (time to mention the FFP) In fact the manager is expected to work miracles by thinking/working every hour to get things right and still has to get on with everyone at the club at the same time. What planet is Clegg on, he must be on planet blue. Its all down to Mr Manager and if you can,t do it we,ll get someone who can (one day) Oh no,we don,t have "directors of football" here....(that might upset my cushdie little number) Just had to laugh when Clegg was questioned because it seemed that nearly everything will be down to the new manager. The biggest applause came when the club is accused of distancing itself from the supporter. It seems Evans will only remain attached to the club via Clegg/Satellite TV/Telephone/Internet and a game of golf. So,no change there then. Then "Milts" talks about school visits to get kids on board....yawnnn. Everything depends on the football and the results. I pity the next manager.

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