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That's It I'm Afraid
at 14:03 18 Jan 2017

Defeat to non-league Lincoln has finally called time on my days actively supporting Ipswich Town.

Don't get me wrong, I've been there through some great times and I'll always be thankful for the enjoyment that gave me but this is one humiliation too far.

What has happened to our club?

We ARE a big club, whatever that lot up the road say we have a proud and illustrious history; three stars above our crest to prove it. Yet now we find ourselves at, for me, our lowest ebb.

It all seems such a far cry from when Marcus Evans came riding into Portman Road all shining armour aboard a fine Suffolk Punch. Promises of glory and a return to the heady days of the 70s and early 80s. We'd seen the money work at other clubs and with Keano appointed and a money-no-object owner, surely the good times beckoned.

How wrong we were. The truth is that it never got better than waving tenners at the Budgies all those years ago. Since then Evans has systematically destroyed our great football club. Off the pitch by screwing us royally to the fact that we owe him the national debt of a third world country and on the pitch with a series of crap managerial appointments and a tight-fisted transfer policy. Even when we uncover a diamond like Mings he is sold and the money just gets trousered by Marcus.

It simply isn't fair.

Problem is, he has us all over a barrel. How can we force him out when the debt position is as it is? Who on earth is going to underwrite that?

So, here we are. An utter shambles and a laughing stock.

People criticise Mick but he's fighting Mike Tyson with one hand behind his back. He's making a decent fist of it really, let's be honest, under Jewell or Keane we'd be in League One by now and how he ever managed to get us to the Play Offs is incredible. Manager of the Season stuff.

But, there's always a but, it's no coincidence that our gates are dropping quicker than a whores drawers at the sight of a twenty pound note. We're awful to watch. We may be the Tractor Boys but surely we don't have to play in this god-awful agricultural style. The ball spends less time in the air at a volleyball match.

We're crude and one-dimensional to the point that a non-league team with a bit about them were clearly better than us over two whole games. How embarrassing is that? We won the UEFA cup for heavens sake.

I honestly thought we hit the all time low when the carrot crunchers destroyed us that Thursday night but this is entirely new territory. I'm embarrassed to go into work and talk football with my colleagues because our team are a disgrace - no, that's wrong, the team do their best; our club is a disgrace.

So, with heavy heart, I'm knocking it on the head until there is serious change from top to bottom at Portman Road. Norwich couldn't beat an egg yet we're still below them, I'm afraid I'm not willing to spend any more time in that ghastly yellow shadow.

I'm out until Evans is out.

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