Pragmaticblue,McCarthy says ''I want that one'' but.....the computer say's NO .

Would also rather we sign a CM who can pass the ball and take games by the scruff of the neck, than a striker

What a surprise. Same old. Evans has to take full responsibility. The leg work for these deals should have been done. Find out if the player is available as a minimum prior to January. It's going to be loans and lots of spin again I suspect.

No news is said to be good news, but in Towns case it is just that, NO NEWS .We need to look for players in lower leagues that are looking to progress [I say progress with caution and large pinch of salt .Players in Championship or past sell by date Prem players would be unlikely to want to join Ipswich .

as mikeybloo88 says we are not an attractive option for any player
Far too many current players are on the current team sheet no matter what their form is.
Promising youngsters dropped at the drop of a hat in order for the senior pros to play.
What player is going to move from playing week in week out and scoring goals to being dropped as soon as Pitman and McGoldrick are fit.
In all honesty it is not attractive for a bit part player to come here and be another bit part player.
The atmosphere around Portman Road will not change until the Manager changes (too many bridges been burnt) which unfortunately is now just a simple fact.
Mick will not change his Philosophy full stop so therefore the club needs to look at the longer term

Would love to see a complete list of all McCarthy's signings in his 4 & a bit years here (permanent & loans)...i'm guessing there's been a lot more failures than successes.

Can anyone provide the info please?...thanks in advance.

LB

Bidding for a house is quite straightforward. You make a low bid. It is rejected so you make a slightly higher bid. If that is also rejected, move on.

Can anyone on here say they are truly surprised at this? It's the same old story - rumours in shoddy newspapers and links to almost every average championship striker around. We won't sign anyone in this window... and if we do I would hedge my bets they will be a 32yo+ injury prone journeyman... and probably a central midfielder knowing MM.

SurpriZzze SurpriZzze Master Mick .... anything else truly uplifting "old news" you want to enlighten us starved for excitement pis@ poor Ipswich fans with Oh Deluded One???
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Thinking a little further along the serious frightening lines of how beyond SCARY Ipswich as a future place of employment pretty likely must look in the eyes of serious many of the shall we say decent or better transferable players to a Championship club in this here day and Dino Age ... well guess who's birthday it is today??? :-)

Noooo not yours truly, but rather the one & only JASON "I don't always succumb to certain death... but when I do die ... Hey?! I really don't!!! Ha!" VOORHEES, of course!



(Who very extraordinarily *nobly* darn always shows up just in time to stop unfathomable *feeble-minded* teens from having terrible unsafe sex! rofl)

...Voorhees a jolly good fellow, Voorhees a jolly good fellow...

Which bring me to today's slightly silly (it's me writing! lol) but very special "Did you know" topic....... Fear of Friday the 13th (or anything associated with the number 13 really) actually has it's very own somewhat hard-to-pronounce & obviously derived from archaic Greek fancy little name:

TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA!

Might come in handy if you feel like dialing 999 / 112 before this über fright night is over! :-)

:-) CHEERS!

We need some patience re signings but we have all been bitten before with promises of new arrivals & we end up with loans & free transfers.

The club has to do something to get over the lethargy & frustration surrounding it. The fans are fed up - some still with MM but I think for the first time in recent weeks they are in the minority.

Doing nothing & taking the Ostrich approach won't work. Big year ahead for ITFC & as a passionate supporter I am worried.

GET THE CHEQUE BOOK OUT MR EVANS - for MM & our sakes it is back him or sack him time.

COYB!

I think we just have to accept Ipswich Town are not an attractive club nowadays. Whether that is because of the owner the manager the style of football or any other reason is open to debate but in my memory players used to want to come here.
What really makes me mad is thinking about all the players we have released or sold for next to nothing since ME took over who are still playing in the Premier League or top Championship teams because they were deemed not good enough for the manager. Walters McAuley Delano's Wickham Rhodes to name a few.

Jackanory springs to mind!

Jackanory springs to mind!

Mickszzzz tactics. Sorry mate but you are making me Zzzz with your constant irrelevant waffle that makes me (& others) glaze over as soon as I see you have posted, it just unreadable. Try & stick to comments on football. Cheers

@Warkys_Tash (& others)
Please don't feel or say "sorry" my good hmmm 'Exclusively Football Crazed Man' :-) ... As it happens I have for many many years fully known that a depressingly large number of East Anglian based folks -- among other ehmmm "shortcomings" lol -- have little or no sense of humor!, especially the darkish kind or in the above case considering the notorious date of thi s Friday outright morbid kind! :-)

Nah more seriously speaking @Warkys_Tash (and others!), my biggest and and most often inner urge to add this here little trademark "flavor" (be it more ordinary graphic images, or imho near unbearable spot-on & fitting-for-the-occasion classic quotes, or some wisecracking capable imho quite funny memes or jokes etc.) of which SOME of it OCCASIONALLY is indeed yes susceptible to be "off subject" to a varying degree, is.......... that sadly within this generally depressing & torrid last 1-2 of this by the extremely football clueless ME "blue-stamped" Dino Regime, roughly put then about 95% of regular posters here (young as old) basically are saying or at least strongly inferring between their lines the ****SAME**** thing / message over and over and over again (even myself included occasionally!) yes also regardless of whether some of them are diverse enough linguistically etc. to make weekly changes to their wording and phrases etc.!

IMHO this here recent phenomena has a profound negative tendency to make reading TWTD, nowadays, nearly about as BORING & PREDICTABLE as the hedgehog-like anti-football & tactics MM & TC preach!!!!!!!! :-) lol ... which is exactly why I'm always ready to risk my neck "spicing up" the dialogue or banter the aforementioned 'special' way!

HOWEVER as I've found out in recent times meaning before your above post actually, this often also intellectual -prone "spicing up" of mine basically ONLY is appreciated by about the same small handful of members here (you all know who you are, and thanx for your appreciation! lol) .... making it pretty ****crystal clear**** that I should either quit posting here altogether OR else indeed consider shelving it once and for all!, particularly if I'm one of those posters who is deeply preoccupied about my number of up- and down-votes (WHICH I'M NOT!, just in case you are wondering).

So again no real offense taken whatsoever matey .... fair point taken rather.

I have some sympathy for Mick in this area, there are 60+ clubs in the football league all looking to improve on a shoestring budget. The upward mobility of players from lower leagues is stifled by the lack of resources flowing down.

The single biggest mistake our club has made in the Evans era is failing to keep hold of our best assets at a time when we can't afford to replace them with similar or better players, hence a decline that started slowly but is now settling in rapidly.

We had some good players under Keane and Jewell who would've been more successful here under better managers. They looked worse than they were and subsequently were allowed to leave for next to nothing, but had more success elsewhere.

I really don't know how we can arrest the slide without a more progressive manager, and Evans giving said manager enough resources to at least be able to construct a decent spine to the team who can carry or get the best out of lesser players.