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New Owner's Review Gives Town Book Boost
at 23:57:55

Now up to number 3 in the Amazon chart. Amazing!
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Town Launch New Fans' Panel
at 18:51:38

I was on the old Fans Forum in the years when the excellent Derek Bowden was CEO, immediately following administration. There have been attempted replacements since, but this looks like the closest to what we had back then (or it will be if the MD attends). We discussed a lot of subjects, and put some really good ideas into practice. But most importantly, the club used the opportunity to explain itself in response to our questions, and members could disseminate the information. So it's important that there are members of the Panel who are active on TWTD, Twitter, the email list, etc. Then it could be useful!
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Attendances? We've Never Had it So Good
at 11:51:36

38,010 against Leeds. I was there, in Churchmans, standing on my home-made steps, next to my mate standing on his upturned beer crate.
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If Statistics Won Games: Brighton 1-2 Ipswich
at 19:47:48

Yeah, OK, you can have the Wigan seat, as long as we don't get thrashed tonight.
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If Statistics Won Games: Millwall 0-2 Ipswich
at 12:46:10

Great stuff as ever. So much so that I've just stuck a fiver on Murphy and 0-2 at 25/1. If it comes in, I'll let you sit in my swanky X Block seat at the next home match. Oh. You already are. :-)
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Evans's Salary Cap Proposal Scrapped
at 13:41:14

I'd be quite happy if the Premier League closed itself off and left the Football League to do its own thing. Maybe they could come to an arrangement to ensure that a dying Premier League team could swap with an exceptionally good Football League team, by way of an annual top-versus-bottom playoff, but that'd be sufficient. To be Football League Champions would be quite enough of a target for most supporters, and it would deter the short-term financial speculators who buy into Football League teams solely in the hope that they achieve promotion and Premier League riches (which they then understandably extract from the club anyway). I desperately want to see Ipswich challenge for the title every season, but I have no interest in the promotion to the Premier League which goes with it. The current Championship brings us constantly interesting and usually exciting football, which is all I want.
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Reading Recall Keeper McCarthy
at 07:27:22

ALB this season: P10 W5 D1 L4. Just about playoff standard.

Only Luke Hyam and Imbrahima Sonko have given the team better records when in the starting lineup. Enough said.
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Ipswich Town Fixtures 2011/12
at 09:52:02

So if I go on holiday for Easter week and the one after, as currently planned, I miss the last 3 home games of the season? You're kidding!
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TWTD Questionnaire 2010/11 Now Online
at 16:48:24

At the end it said "Thanks" and "Here are your answers" but the rest of the page was blank. So I will never know if my votes really counted...

[GavTWTD: Your votes have been counted. I've checked, and will get back to you about your site improvement suggestion]
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TWTD Questionnaire 2010/11 Now Online
at 00:48:57

Some excellent discussion on the subject. Nice to see TWTD sparking some intelligent discourse instead of the usual sub-Beavis and Butthead comments. One thing which might affect some of the points made is to acknowledge that the turnover in season ticket holders is usually way higher than most people think: up to 50%, IIRC from "Why England Lose", a book which everyone interested in football and economics will have read. What do all the ex-season ticket holders do? What were the new season ticket holders doing in the past? As a knock-on, the offers on season tickets can change the demographic of the occasional supporters significantly.
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TWTD Questionnaire 2010/11 Now Online
at 14:16:43

Well spotted dobbie73 - apologies for that slip. It's amazing how we manage to erase defeats by Norwich from the collective memory. Let's hope all recollection of this season's games will similarly be consigned to history.
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TWTD Questionnaire 2010/11 Now Online
at 18:39:48

ITFC_Forever: We did indeed win 2-5 at Hull in March 2007. It was only 2-1 at half time, so it doesn't trouble any of the stats here.

CleverTrevor: We've never scored more than 7 in the league, to which all these stats refer. We've had a 10 and an 8 in European competitions, and 10s, 13s and even a 15 in friendlies. In the FA Cup there was a 7-0 in 1938, and 6-1 victories in both 1978 and 1979. We've had a 6-1 and a couple of 5-0s in the League Cup.
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TWTD Questionnaire 2010/11 Now Online
at 20:58:01

I have to agree with that, tractorboy2434. Only twice in the last 9 seasons has a team come from the bottom half of the table at the mid-point of the season to make the playoffs: Palace in 2003/04 and Preston in 2004/05. So history is not on our side.

In the past two seasons, all the promoted and playoff teams were in the top 7 at the mid-point of the season, and with one exception in the last decade (Sunderland in 2006/07), the automatic promotion spots have been taken from teams in the top four at the halfway stage.

At the other end, four times in the last six seasons, the bottom three teams at the mid-point of the season were still there at the end. No team has fallen from the top half at the mid-point of the season into the relegation zone at the end, although Walsall in 2003/04 (13th at the halfway stage, 22nd at the end) almost proved to be the exception.
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TWTD Questionnaire 2010/11 Now Online
at 13:07:24

Bluebaz, I would certainly agree that the standard of football for 18 months has been appalling, although as EatonBlue points out, we've had a lot worse results. And rml123, you're right, I was just trying to say that many older supporters might give Keane more time simply because Burley and Ferguson proved to be better than those sequences suggested (although history showed us that Ferguson didn't take us anywhere, it's true). Me, I find myself pining for the Joe Royle era, and who'd have thought any of us would ever have said that at the time?
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TWTD Questionnaire 2010/11 Now Online
at 12:18:06

The honour of the worst manager in the history of the club has to go to Jackie Milburn, I'm afraid. In his one-and-only season, 1963/64, Town finished bottom of the top flight, and shipped 121 goals in 42 matches, and remember, this was only two seasons after being Champions. Milburn did, however, set up the youth team, and for that we should be forever grateful.
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Walters Again Hits Out at Keane
at 11:18:34

Is everyone reading an article I've missed? Only @fallyblue above seems to have read what Walters actually said. And while Roy Keane may still be here in 20 years' time, presiding over a Champions League side, equally he might be gone by this time next year, with the club wondering why they let loyal stalwarts like Woods and Klug go. It's a quite reasonable argument.
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Walters Again Hits Out at Keane
at 20:38:59

Every time I post some stats, someone says: "and your point is...?". My point is nothing. These are just some stats to make you think. Make of them what you will. As ever.
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Walters Again Hits Out at Keane
at 13:33:35

Over the first third of the season we played to relegation standard (11 points from 15 games), and over the middle third we've played almost to playoff standard (22 points from 15 games). If we carry on at this rate (22 points from the next 15 games) we'll go into the last match with 55 points, which should be plenty to avoid relegation.

That's all I'm saying.
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Walters Again Hits Out at Keane
at 10:19:18

The most rational and informed analysis of the club's ownership I have read for a long time. As you conclude though, we're just going to have to live with it. It would have been nice to have just continued to plough our own furrow, even if it meant we would only rarely ever again compete at the top level, but that was always going to end one day. And far better that we're run by the seemingly well-intentioned Marcus Evans than by the nightmare owners which some clubs are getting. I find it equally galling to have our club described in ungrammatical "vacuous, cliché-ridden, corporate-speak" but that says it all - not just about the corporate world which the Marcus Evans Group operates, but about the way in which football is viewed nowadays. As long as there's something to watch on the pitch and discuss afterwards, I'm happy.
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[Blog] Still To Be Converted to the Faith
at 10:19:18

The most rational and informed analysis of the club's ownership I have read for a long time. As you conclude though, we're just going to have to live with it. It would have been nice to have just continued to plough our own furrow, even if it meant we would only rarely ever again compete at the top level, but that was always going to end one day. And far better that we're run by the seemingly well-intentioned Marcus Evans than by the nightmare owners which some clubs are getting. I find it equally galling to have our club described in ungrammatical "vacuous, cliché-ridden, corporate-speak" but that says it all - not just about the corporate world which the Marcus Evans Group operates, but about the way in which football is viewed nowadays. As long as there's something to watch on the pitch and discuss afterwards, I'm happy.
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