Still no football Brains >< oh dear; buckle your seatbelt Mick and Terry! Welcome to the soap that is ITFC's boardroom

For what its worth I cannot believe ALL the failings are down to SC, he was the public mouth piece of ME in my opinion. I met him on several occasions through military connections and have nothing but respect for the guy. All the best to you SC.
As for the constant obsession to 'see and hear' more of ME...why??
I say keep your nose out of the football, leave it to the manager, why do we need an owner whose ego is the be all and end all? Clubs with well known and 'always in the spotlight' owners are usually due to controversy, very rarely for positive reasons.

Going to be interesting now to see if everyone who has been blaming Clegg for everything is going to be proved right which I highly doubt. Mind you they'll find someone else to blame people like these need a scapegoat.

Thought Mr Clegg was less involved recently when ME & MM were quoted more in connection with transfer dealings.
One can only speculate that the Chief Information Officer will be the public face of club at meetings etc,whilst Marcus will remain in the background;but be more involved as stated.

Think MM will hopefully be a bit more involved in transfer dealings;but what Mr Milne will be doing goodness knows;but will have to leave it to Mr Evans who is still as previously in absolute charge,with Mr Clegg only doing his bidding,sometimes not with the fans approval (me included).Must wish him all the best though as it must be rotten to be sacked!
Someone referred to Sir Bobby doing virtually everything,I know this to be true as he once answered the phone when I phoned up Portman Road.
Wonder if Micks any good at choosing the curtains for the boardroom?Mr John used to order the wine!

Got to be MM stepping up to a bigger role surely?

Why do people at the top need to know anything about football. There are many CEOs in top flight football who do not have a football background ie David Gill, Karen Brady to name two

As far as I am concerned this just means that MM will have more say in getting players in. Rather than go to SC he will go straight to the top - ME

Bit like Derek Bowden becoming CEO of Essex Cricket Club and even he has admitted he knows next to nothing about cricket!!!!!! Everyone bangs on about Bowden but he knew nothing about football when he came to PR

....and these two have how much football specific experience exactly???

Out of the frying pan - into the fire, I fear !

The picture at the top of the story is indicative of the new public face of ITFC i fear....

Hey Karen Brady has worked under alot of Football people

We desperately need a football man ... unless MM has agreed to be more active in transfer negotiations etc?

It's pretty clear that Clegg has been sacked in my opinion. The FFP is just a smoke screen. The reality is that Clegg failed to complete many deals for the past THREE managers and I suspect finally this has caught up with him, now we have a decent manager. It was afterall Clegg who failed to sign Derry and the Austin - despite both being in the managers office ready to put pen to paper.

I don't know why everyone is panicking about football experience. They have a lot of business experience and that is the side they are running. We have MM to guide the football side of things, I would assume he will be the football experience when it comes to transfers etc. What is wrong with everyone you would have though the club had announced we were going in to administration. WOW!

I think the fact that ME uses HR as a football 'expert' is reason enough to be concerned
Still find it strange that Odewinge turned up at Loftus Road - I really wonder who must have called him ?
ON THE PITCH IS WAHT MATTERS AND FROM WHERE I AM SITTING WE ARE NOT FAR OFF BEING IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE

Getting players to come to a club is one thing. Allowing good players to leave for nothing is another. After the Keane era were were left in a position where we virtually had to give half a team away. A mess which dogged Paul Jewell and from which we are only now beginning to recover. Clegg's fault or Keane's though? I know who I would blame...

The problem I see with this is what if at some stage ME decides he doesn't want a hands on role, because it isn't what he wanted when he invested? Then he may sell up, and looking at the destruction being wreaked across the game by foreign "we want instant success" owners (witness the messes at Forest and Blackburn for a start), I fear we could end up in a similar situation. I hope this scenario never happens, but also be aware it might.

TWO non-football men?
we are a laughing stock

In light of the recent player merry go round and the demands of agents for the services of average footballers it could be argued that SC kept a very tight reign on this type of things hence alleged certain deals not going through. Who knows what will happen now. The club has become a giant game of monopoly for a particular person who has no real allegiance to the club and could take his toys away anytime he gets fed up.

That'll be helpful then : I used to work in I.T. ; maybe I should be MD!

I don't care who runs the club as long as it's done completely differently to the past five years. This change will make no difference if Evans continues to be obsessively short-termist. The only route to success at Ipswich is through player development, both our own players and under-appreciated talent from elsewhere. We must see an end to:
- £1m bribes to the manager for the current season's performance
- Loans of less than a season, except in very exceptional circumstances
- Recruitment of established and over-the-hill Premiership and Championship players
- Spurning of our young players (Jordan Rhodes, Liam Trotter, et al)

We must break this one-season-cycle of wholesale changes in the summer, inevitable failure to settle in early season, followed by panic loans and buys in January in a desperate attempt to stay up. Evans has made the same mistakes five seasons in a row. Will he ever learn from his mistakes and the history of this great club?

Mr John and Mr Patrick and their father before them had no idea about football and very few if anybody ever called for their heads? Although those days have long gone, never to return and football is now so much more a business a CEO or Managing Director(s) seems to be a necessity? There is nothing us fans can do to influence what goes on behind the scenes apart from maybe boycott games and that will never happen. As long as the manager and his coaches deliver that really is all we should be concerned about!

I missed a comma after the the word 'deliver' in the last sentence, sorry to all with English o-levels!

There are some very odd posts on this thread. Fans claiming they have no idea who these two are - yet they are directors of our football club and have been for somewhile. Are some fans not even bothered who has been running the club for the past few years ?

The FFP is a very convenient smokescreen. One that excuses a lack of money at the club. Clegg would have been on a decent contract so it will be a while before his departure will make much financial difference.

What should be of more concern is why the clubs accounts have still not been released -they usually come out early Nov. We are pretty much on our uppers despite the continous talk about money being made available at the 'next' transfer window. It is always the next window.

It is that lack of money and wish to avoid any long term commitment that has us having a squad of loanees and had PJ having to scrape the barrel by bringing in so many aged hasbeens.

Clegg was clearly not up to the job. Unfortunately those that oversaw him are still here and have been handed his duties. This is no more than musical chairs on the deck of the Titanic, apart from in this game Clegg and his chair have been taken away (chucked overboard) and the others haven't even bothered to get up and dance round.

I have read all the comments so far regarding these last two posts and it is quite clear that those who had personal dealings with Clegg have good words to say about him. so the bad words personally about him are in my opinion not welcome. He was undoubtedly at the club at a very difficult time.

But I do think his part (which isn't all) in the quantity of players in and out of PR through loans and end of contracts, has led to us as fans not having players who we can love like Matt Holland and Fabian Willnis (of recent era). And therefore I am happy that the club is saying farewell to him.

I really hope and believe that MM & TC can build a successful, honest and youthful team that we can be proud to support and I would be happy if ME with these new directors put their trust in Mick and allowed him and the style of football we play to be the face of our club rather than a CEO who can be used as a scapegoat when things go wrong. I think this could be a healthy change for the club.

Force MDs - who remembers them ??? Tender Love

jas0999, no, im not having a go at you again. have actually thought you put some good points lately. but once again like others youve got your facts wrong in regards to his failure to sign players. yes, weve missed out on a few(not many as youve said), but remember its m. evans who decides the terms of the contracts offered. and as ive said to many on her before, s,c, has completed the signing of more players than any previous chairman or ceo. many more deals at all clubs dont go through nowadays due to it being the agents negotiating the deals rather than the players themselves as it used to be, when most deals succeeded. of course we only know in general of the ones weve failed to complete due to the coverage locally. oh, and fennblue, that really has got to be the most ridiculous post ive seen for a while. what on earth has clegg leaving got to do with the futures of mclean & mcgoldrick?!!!!!

a solicitor and a chief information officer .......aka chief whipping boys.....bloomin hell whatever next............ not much chance of reduced tkts etc in the future then to try and refill the ever depleted ground.....ho-hum......i expect they played ruggers at school too.....did they even know where ipswich was a few yrs ago.....