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Reply | Memberships
at 11:20 3 May 2024
I'm not just concerned about away games - I'm concerned about home games too. There's a real possibility that demand for home tickets will be sky high like it is for Huddersfield, and members like me will just never get any tickets because we haven't been to enough matches, and we haven't been to enough matches because we can't get tickets.
I don't have a problem paying the membership money to the club, but it does seem a little bit annoying to do so and then just never be allowed to attend even a home game. Maybe a ballot for home tickets with a guaranteed number of home match tickets during the course of the season is the answer? |
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Reply | Town's salaries
at 11:13 2 May 2024
Brandon Williams, £65,000 per week, "gross" (appropriate).
Status: "reserve". Like a Rioja Reserva, which under Spanish wine rules has to be put away for three years in order that it can mature before anything can be done with it.
The bigger and more mature point is of course that Ashton et al have worked wonders to get the right bods through the door (in the vast majority of cases), and Kieran has worked wonders with good resources, but resources that should never be able to touch the likes of Leicester or Leeds. An incredible achievement, even if we fluff our lines on Saturday, which we won't. |
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Reply | Irrespective of us being in the PL or not
at 10:30 2 May 2024
Yes I think if people buy membership and then get sod all for it, that would not be a good look. Especially given the Catch 22 - if you haven't been to a match you don't have eligibility to go to a match... |
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Reply | The moment that won (or lost) it for us..
at 10:28 2 May 2024
Yes the end of the game against Southampton did have a sort of season-defining miracle feel to it.
If we fail? I'm still blaming that injury time against Charlton! Lolz. |
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Reply | IF we do go up...What business needs to be done?
at 17:44 1 May 2024
I agree with most of that.
One factor which I think hasn't been discussed a lot is that our recruitment thus far has been very UK-based. Teams which are not loaded (or living like they are) and are trying to be upwardly mobile have succeeded in recent years by having broad based recruitment including some from overseas. It will be interesting to see whether we can get that scouting infrastructure in place quickly enough. Also, integrating players into the ITFC family has been a key part of the Ashton-McKenna approach, and that has been done incredibly. Bringing in players from other leagues who may take more cultural and footballing integration will be a new challenge (but if done right, will pay dividends). |
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Reply | BCWYWF
at 10:16 1 May 2024
Not the time to reopen old wounds. |
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Reply | Leeds fans
at 22:30 30 Apr 2024
Nice to hear that about Leeds - no fanbase can be universally horrid, and having come down last year, and with 10s of millions of attacking talent, and 90 points ffs you can imagine their frustration.
As for Norwich. Well, we have 93 points and 90 goals. With a game still to go. Do me a favour...
If Naaridge win the playoffs against Southampton, well, that will make next season that bit easier for us, no? |
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Reply | Hladky…..what…..a……save
at 22:27 30 Apr 2024
Absolutely. You have to shrug a little bit when he makes a mistake, because he's capable of THAT! I swear, those reactions were so quick that if he were an Olympic sprinter that would be called as a false start! |
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Reply | Luongo
at 22:26 30 Apr 2024
He may be one who struggles to get game time in the Premier League, but yes, what a shift tonight, and it's right to praise the less glamorous work done in the team as well as the silky skills and deft finishes. He's been so so consistent this season and he's usually overshadowed by the diminutive Egyptian whom we love so much when it comes to fans' praises. So yes, here's to Mass! (not that i'm drinking  ) |
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Reply | So, what else do we want to happen on Saturday?
at 22:23 30 Apr 2024
My first ever Town game was a 0-1 defeat away at Birmingham in the late 80s. Very disappointing. The terrace seemed pretty empty. How far we've come. I would polish the boots of every Birmingham player if it meant us going up and Norwich staying down. |
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Reply | Town fans in the Huddersfield end….
at 20:16 29 Apr 2024
And if we can make sure that Rutter gets stuck in the concourse at Elland Road, all to the good. Not celebrating, obvs. |
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Reply | I've only just realised
at 14:00 29 Apr 2024
Leeds haven't won their 4th May fixture yet. And all league games are worth the same number of points.
So I'll be treating Saturday as mattering regardless. Whatever happens, Portman Road will be packed on Saturday because however bad tomorrow's result is, we can still be promoted on Saturday, and however good tomorrow's result is, we can still fail on Saturday. |
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Reply | PLC Share Dividends
at 13:56 29 Apr 2024
Gamechanger, and ORG, are invested in Town not because they love the Club like us, or because they are Patrician local custodians like the Cobbolds, or loaded Hollywood stars wanting a fun ride like at Wrexham, but because they want to make money.
Every decision they are able to take will be with the goal of giving themselves as much money as possible. In relation to 99% of decisions, particularly whilst we are on the up, our interests will align, happily. But they will only act in fans' interests where it is in their interests. They are able to take the decision they have taken, lawfully, and they clearly calculate that it will not lose them any material amount of goodwill. Fans will be feeling jubilant or distraught in the next few weeks because of what happens on the pitch, and this is probably a good time to let this news seep out.
In reality we're talking small beer here, but I think it's outrageous for the Club to tell fans what they were or were not expecting when they purchased their shares - if anyone has the share prospectus from 2003 or thereabouts I'd love to see it.
“I am sure you’ll agree that none of us, as shareholders in ITPLC, bought our shares in expectation of a future dividend" - in 2004/05 we finished 3rd, 2 points off automatic promotion. West Ham were promoted through the playoffs having got 12 fewer points than us. It goes without saying that we could easily have gone up that year. If we had, we could have established ourselves for a few years as a Prem team. Unlikely, but possible. If that had happened, why on earth should the fans who saved the club and came to own it not receive dividends? The main priority was to save the club and keep it alive, but those who took risks may very well have expected that they would receive a modest financial share in any profits. For the club to tell us otherwise is patronising.
Gamechanger has an exit strategy. I wonder whether we'll love it when it arrives... |
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Reply | Has anyone checked Cov’s form in the last five games?
at 08:13 29 Apr 2024
They played Man Utd, drew over 120+ minutes. We all know about how very close they came to winning, but I accept they did not. Their 3-3 draw was against a top 6 Premier League team. Ours was not even against a top 6 Championship team.
Coventry fans checking out our form will probably also be licking their lips. On paper it's fallen off a cliff - from 9 wins out of 10, to 0 wins in 4.
Tomorrow night, Cov are at home, and we are away.
On the last 4 home matches form table, Cov are 12th.
On the last 4 away matches form table, we're 13th.
The stats don't come closes to telling the whole story in either case, but it's fair to say that our form is not stellar. |
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Reply | Promotion is so close and yet....
at 20:18 28 Apr 2024
I'm going to try to have this attitude, certainly. Agree that Hull was the hardest of the 3, and agree re Taylor.
But the potential loss of Davis is worrying. We would be unspeakably lucky to go up without winning another game. And Davis creates so many chances. Great to have Burns back on the other side (see 1st goal v Hull), but who replaces Davis? Clarke on the left and Axel on the right I suppose? Not sure we have too many full back options what with the Williams debacle.
As for young Hutch, he's been so great, with such a positive attitude, and we're lucky to have him for the run-in. Now is not the time to be pessimistic or to look too far ahead, but I can't help it - he's has been so terrific, I worry that if we don't go up, we can't have as good a side next year with which to seek to go up. Hopefully that will not become an issue. COYB! |
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Reply | i feel sorry for Christian Walton.
at 19:58 28 Apr 2024
And against Fulham in November also had a poor game.
Vaz has been the right choice. It's sometimes frustrating to see him punch rather than catch (see 3rd goal v Hull) but overall he's a high risk-high reward goalkeeper who has stayed the right side of the risk-reward ratio this season, and has had a hard task in what has to be seen as a pretty attacking set up. And by the way he of course also helps facilitate that attack when on song. |
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Reply | With what is at stake…
at 17:30 28 Apr 2024
A win against Cov would be great, and we can go into it with positivity knowing that we're a good side and we're playing against a Coventry side who are understandably deflated and sinking towards mid table.
However, we haven't won any of our last four, and I'm sure Kieran would quite like to have won at least one of them. So I'm confident that we can win, but I'm far from confident that we shall win. And in that context it's difficult to say that we 'have' to win it, otherwise, well what does that mean if we don't? |
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Reply | Why were Hull City
at 12:07 28 Apr 2024
To showcase the creativity and imagination that went into making an away kit that's so very different from their home colours. |
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