Blues boss Paul Lambert called for everyone at Town to pull in the same direction at tonight’s PLC AGM in the Sir Bobby Robson Suite at Portman Road.
At a sometimes frosty meeting - towards owner Marcus Evans and the club rather than Lambert who was warmly welcomed by shareholders and praised on a number of occasions - the new boss made his call for unity after answering questions along with MD Ian Milne and Lee O’Neill, who confirmed he is taking on a role as general manager of football operations.
"This is my first time meeting you guys and I sense a little bit of animosity, a little bit towards the club and the club towards you. I sense it and can feel it,” Lambert said having asked PLC chairman Roger Finbow if he could make a concluding statement.
"As I said before, at some stage that’s got to stop everybody’s got to be pulling in the same direction or we’re never going to have success.
"The football club needs you, without a doubt it needs the fans, other working class people, we need everybody to be pulling the same way and hopefully things iron out and the club starts to [look up] rather than what’s happening at the minute.
"You’ve got a brilliant club, you’ve totally got a brilliant club, it just needs a little bit of help and everybody working together.”
You can read TWTD’s live blog of the meeting on the Forum here.