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Trust Collecting Signatures at Boro Game
Trust Collecting Signatures at Boro Game
Thursday, 9th Feb 2012 09:51

Ipswich Town Ist, the Supporters Trust, will again be by the statue of Sir Alf Ramsey collecting signatures for their petition calling on the club to opt for Category One Academy status before Saturday’s game against Middlesbrough. The petition, which was launched last month, has already topped the 5,000 mark.

The Blues are still to decide whether to choose Category One or the cheaper Category Two option with other clubs, including Norwich City, already having committed to the former.

To add your name to the petition, click here.

The Trust has also launched a new website here which includes a recent exchange of letters with Blues chief executive Simon Clegg on the club’s plans for the Academy.


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itfc1981 added 10:31 - Feb 9
Thank you but I can't enter a protracted exchange on this issue particularly with what other issues I'm trying to focus on at the moment.

Which turnstyle would that be Mr Clegg?
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itfc1981 added 10:40 - Feb 9
;Whilst I accept that supporters provide the continuity to any Club others have to provide the leadership under the direction of the owner and unlike supporters they never have the benefit of hindsight!'

Nevermind hindsight, if only common sense was employed with the sale of Jordan Rhodes
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irishtim added 10:47 - Feb 9
Has to be category 1 for the future of itfc.
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homer_123 added 12:22 - Feb 9
@irishtim - sadly that's simply not the case. Being Cat 1 comes with increased costs (circa £2.6m a year to run the academy) on top of this being Cat 1 does not stop Prem teams coming in and nabbing our better players.

Add to that that the fee for such a situation is nothing at all like what we received for Wickham, we are talking hundreds of thousands as opposed to millions - it does not bode well.

If Cat 1 meant that Prem teams couldn't poach then fine but it doesn't so we leave ourselves wide open with increased costs of a Cat 1.

I'm all for developing our players but Cat 1 (based on current information) is not viable for us.

Not a good deal.

Are the Supporters Club also taking signatures for those against I wonder?
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Mark added 12:46 - Feb 9
A bit of a snub to the Trust for Clegg to say he spends so much time with the Supporters' Club.

I don't understand Clegg's assertion that a category 1 could put us in administration, as I thought we were financially secure under Marcus Evans?!
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mark1969 added 12:58 - Feb 9
Like you Mark i feel like it sounds like we do not have any money i guess Wickhams money is going in wages and Marcus Evans is running this like a business trying to make money .Most Chairmen of football clubs accept that it is a hobby or write off if we have to make a profit for the owner short term the future looks bleak i,m afraid what will happen to our beloved club , anyone know a wealthy Arab or Russian ?
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olimar added 13:29 - Feb 9
Wickhams money could equally be getting put towards the existing running costs of the academy.

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sotd78 added 13:47 - Feb 9
I don't think either side in this argument has the facts. It worries me that we want a category 1 academy simply because we think it would be good. It equally worries me that the club does not want to invest in youth development. Or do they?
Seems to me that the Prem clubs are being greedy again and that those in the Prem will have to have these academies and will simply nick away any decent local talent.
What's even mor telling is that we have a club that is so detached from its fans that thy think the Supporters Club represent us all.
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irishtim added 13:51 - Feb 9
@homer 123. Fair enough iwill admit i dont have all the facts. But whatever will be the best for itfc then ok by me. if our best academy players still can be poached by premier clubs then 2.6 mill a year is a problem
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tractorboy2434 added 14:49 - Feb 9
2.6M is not a lot if a club has any money but as I have said on several previous occasions it is quite clear from its spending in the last transfer window that the club is potless, Evans will not sanction any more big spending and this is born out by the pruning of the squad and wage bill, we are in the bargain basement and its time people realised that we are now also rans in the transfer market.
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homer_123 added 16:42 - Feb 9
@tractorboy2432 - '2.6M is not a lot' - it is when a Prem club can come in and simply sign a player with the fee already pre-determined (circa £400k if a player has spent his entire development at the Club).
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RegencyBlue added 20:23 - Feb 9
sotd78 - Totally agree about your Supporters Club comment!

Liz Edwards and her supine organisation do not represent me!
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linhdi added 23:34 - Feb 9
I am generally a supporter of the Trust, and I think I am still a member. But they have got this 100% wrong. As homer_123 notes above, they are suggesting it makes sense to incur an additional cost of up to £2.6m a year, whilst not being able to receive the kind of fees we previously got for our top talent. If that is the deal, it makes no business sense whatsoever.
Clegg voted against the EPPP, and has repeatedly said - at public events with supporters quizzing him in Ipswich, London and Leeds - that the decision re Academy status will be taken once the club knows what the rules are. Not exactly headline-grabbing but commonsense nonetheless.
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