Dammit!

Okay, maybe it's old school, but I like the way the entire team is shown in the photo. It shows a real respect to the staff and keeps the teamwork spirit alive.

Also...

Oh, Sone Aluko!

Hope they have a big car park at Playford Road !

Not that it's important, but how the hell did he only win it twice two seasons ago?

Great thats its a pic of everyone, turning it into a team award if you like!

Lets hope the first of many!

Thoughts Blueboy?

Really well done - and some people were calling for him to be sacked

I got a good feeling about this season, dont think we are going to be relegated which some have implied!

It's almost as though those of us pleading for patience and shouting down the idiots demanding he be sacked in August had some idea what we were talking about...

Well deserved. This is a new squad, and the ciaching staff, plsyers and manager are working their magic, again. Its starting to knit together. Im now very excited for the rest of the season again..... The World is BLUE!

Well done Kieran.

Well done Kieran ..

The guy is class personified. I firmly believe he will be our greatest ever manager and to be a Town fan in this era is something to behold.

Hopefully, the early season jitters, moans and nonsense have died away as the new guys are showing their worth under a very clever and humble manager. Still a lot of room for improvement but the signs are there that an exciting squad is being built.

Pretty good for a "one trick pony" right? You know who you are!

Well done Kieran and all the team
It is starting to come together. Looking forward to the rest of the season. It's going to be a hell of a trip.

Congratulations Keiran, well deserved.
An award Norwich can only dream of !

I’m very pleased for McKenna, he throughly deserves it. However, it makes you wonder who nominates these managers for this award, for instance…. Paul Heckingbottom?
I’m sure we all remember the cunning, technically gifted, and skilful tactics that he employed when Preston played us.
I’d say that if there was a manager who diminishes the old saying ‘the beautiful game’, then he surely fits that bill!

The Dark Horse will not be happy...

It’s great he has won it.

Just throwing it out there - if the Blackburn game had continued and we could well have lost with how it was heading. Would he still have won this?

McKenna may be lauded for what he achieved with back-to-back promotions, and maybe it is a lesson he has learned at Man Utd, but how many young managers would have stayed with us (OK I know he is well paid) when 'bigger' Clubs were sniffing and he had an easy-out.

How many Managers, young or old, stay at a Club to build a second team....let alone do so successfully.

How many Managers would take these career gambles, never waiver and begin to recognised all over again for ability....as this award shows.

I have said/felt for some time that McKenna sees Management as a life-long career, that he is that confident that is the case and that he is at the right Club to build all the tools he will need when (as he surely will) he is managing a Man Utd, Real Madrid or similar, that he is willing to back himself and see this project out, with the end game being Ipswich as an established Premier League Club.

There will certainly be dark days ahead, but I believe this to be his and our path and all we need is continued consistent management/ownership from above and the patience of the supporters and am sure we will get there together! COYB

If KMCK builds a second promotion team, that will put him up amongst the gods

Well done ITFC......
Cue, an incoming message of joy and compliments to KM , from "Darkhorse".
Not heard a lot from him since Nodge crumbled on Sunday.

Sorry Derbyblue didn't mean to down mark you.

Congrats to McK for winning the award.

Think its ridiculous/hilarious that some are crowing about how they know something about football and the moaning was nonsense, after recent decent results and performances. The football being played prior to these games was poor. The number of attacks/shots/goals was really poor. There werent any wins on the board. So people have a right to feel frustrated. Show some patience.....that a fair comment. Think I could have done a bit more of that. But lets not forget that we had won 4 games in about 40 at the time. Also, McK has been given so many resources.

He took on a decent enough team in Div 1 and definitely should have gotten promoted...anything else would have been a failure. The biggest surprise was the immediate promotion from the championship and I give both he and the players a lot of credit for that achievement. I have always been concerned about the limited tactical approach he plays with. Sticking with the same tactics/formation even when we are losing. This was evident in the premiership and the game against Utd when we were losing against 10 men....and he still kept doing the same thing without creating. Agreed, it was never going to be easy after back to back promotions.

Now in the championship and he has had a huge amount of resources given to him again. Completely gutted the squad that he put together and now rebuilt again. Finally we have put together some decent enough performances, attacked, had shots, scored goals and won some games (not rocket science) and McK has deservedly won an award. But with the resources at his disposal he really should have us challenging at the right end of the table. Its just one month. Im certainly not getting carried away. Lets see how we do away against Middlesbrough. Hopefully the improvement will continue. From my point of view I wont be referring to him as a legend at this point. I reserve that for those that succeeded in the top flight as a player/manager.

Well deserved.
I think whilst the tactics have pretty much stayed the same throughout the matches this season so far, there are two key reasons why things are on the up and we've achieved results:
Firstly....the new players are starting to understand the system, expectations and develop relationships and understanding of their teammates, and
Secondly....a number of players that have been underperforming are now starting to show why ITFC paid out so much money for them.
The hangover from last season where we were on the back foot for 90% of the time in games and rarely had the ball, dissolved all confidence and belief....but it's all coming back!
And I'm still smiling after Sunday, what a great game, atmosphere and result.Was great to be there and see the win!!

DifferentGravy, these days the word Legend is very overused in football and in life in general. I could name a few true legends of this club both on and off the pitch, but it's not necessary. KM has quite some way to go, but he's on the right path at least.