| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) 11:28 - Apr 25 with 13290 views | MaySixth |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:29 - Apr 25 with 5776 views | Bluefish |
roy keane
Paul Lambert
Paul Jewell
Paul Hurst
Simon Clegg |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:29 - Apr 25 with 5779 views | bracknell_blue |
1) Sacking Magilton
2) Appointing Keane
The other 3 are immaterial. |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:32 - Apr 25 with 5773 views | Reuser_is_God |
1. Roy Keane
2. Paul Hurst
3. Paul Jewell
4. Not backing Mick when Mick was good
5. Lack of proper footballing structure at the club throughout his tenure
All are in no particular order. |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:35 - Apr 25 with 5746 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Buying it! |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:35 - Apr 25 with 5749 views | BrianTablet |
1. What
2. Could
3. Possibly
4. Go
5. Wrong? |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:36 - Apr 25 with 5736 views | Benters2 |
Sticking a pin on a map and finding Ipswich.
Buying the club.
Selling Murphy and replacing him with Leon Best.
Not cleaning the NS roof.
Selling over priced sub standard food and beer.
For a spare if I’m allowed doing those dippy interviews that the HCs seem to lap up. |  | | |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:38 - Apr 25 with 5730 views | TractorCam |
Appointing Clegg
Appointing Keane
Appointing Jewell
Not sacking Mick after Lincoln
Appointing Hurst
And on a different level as RIG pointed out, not backing Mick with funds in summer 2015. [Post edited 25 Apr 2019 11:39]
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:40 - Apr 25 with 5718 views | Steve_M |
1). Never putting in place a proper footballing structure, meaning every managerial change has seen wholesale turnover of players.
2). Lack of care for the club as an entity, the state of the ground these days is the epitome of an approach that has only now pushed basic community engagement to a sensible level, failed to innovate to attempt to fill PR, sees a slipshod catering organisation seems surprised every single half-time.
3). Being totally half-arsed about his ownership, both distant and micro-managing at times. See also the Five Point Plan (sic).
4). Being far too slow to make decisions (largely down to all of the above) that has lead to the current inertia.
5). Thinking the PR-friendly appointment of Roy Keane was sufficient to achieve success. |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:40 - Apr 25 with 5721 views | Bobbychase |
1 Selling Jordan Rhodes for way under his valuation
2 Appointing Roy Keane
3 Allowing managers to waste too much money on dross like Lee Martin and Paul Taylor
4 Not cottoning on quick enough to the way the club and the fans were drifting apart towards the end of the Mick era
5 Not backing Mick properly in the January transfer window of the 2014-15 season |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:42 - Apr 25 with 5692 views | Benters2 |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:40 - Apr 25 by Bobbychase |
1 Selling Jordan Rhodes for way under his valuation
2 Appointing Roy Keane
3 Allowing managers to waste too much money on dross like Lee Martin and Paul Taylor
4 Not cottoning on quick enough to the way the club and the fans were drifting apart towards the end of the Mick era
5 Not backing Mick properly in the January transfer window of the 2014-15 season |
Darn you that’s good.
No.4 😠[Post edited 25 Apr 2019 11:46]
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:43 - Apr 25 with 5691 views | Bobbychase |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:42 - Apr 25 by Benters2 |
Darn you that’s good.
No.4 😠[Post edited 25 Apr 2019 11:46]
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There could be a lot more than five to be honest.
I wouldn't have sold Jon Stead for example. He still had a couple of seasons left in him | |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:55 - Apr 25 with 5626 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:35 - Apr 25 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Buying it! |
This as number 1, without a doubt. It's been a massive cost to him and millstone around his neck, and a disaster for the club and fans.
2. Lack of vision/drive form the top. Or if there is actually a vision (I don't think there is - see point 3 below), communication of that vision. And I don't mean the usual 'our aim is to be a Premier League club'. That's just a dream. 5 point plan my arse - just another wish list with no evidence of structures put in place to implement it. Which feeds nicely into....
3. Failing to put in an effective governance structure, which left us to dependent on the views of managers with apparently no checks and balances other than final sign off on finances by Marcus himself. Every single issue we've had is linked to this. Each manager is completely free to implement his own ideas on everything. Whilst that can be seen as being supportive (it is), it also prevents us developing a clear philosophy feeding through the youth temas to the main squad, and is costly when managers fail (eg disastrous recruitment under PJ) or when a new manager comes in and wants to change the squad. Take Hurst's catastrophic dismantling of the team in the summer - Marcus expressed his 'surprise' retrospectively. What we needed was some one at the time to say 'this doesn't look like a good idea'.
4. Not investing in the future. Facilities look like they're stuck in a time warp, especially PR. Not easy to do under his austerity regime, granted. And he did let Cleggy paint the turnstiles about 10 years ago I suppose.
5. Managerial choices; consistently gets this wrong both with appointments and timing of departures. Feeds back into point 2. He's needed a senior football man on the ground throughout - his celebrity advisors he meets on the golf course haven't cut it (why would they - they've got nothing invested in us). [Post edited 25 Apr 2019 11:57]
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:00 - Apr 25 with 5612 views | Reuser_is_God |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:40 - Apr 25 by Bobbychase |
1 Selling Jordan Rhodes for way under his valuation
2 Appointing Roy Keane
3 Allowing managers to waste too much money on dross like Lee Martin and Paul Taylor
4 Not cottoning on quick enough to the way the club and the fans were drifting apart towards the end of the Mick era
5 Not backing Mick properly in the January transfer window of the 2014-15 season |
Agree but point of order...
Jordan Rhodes wasn't sold under his valuation at that time. | |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:03 - Apr 25 with 5598 views | Bobbychase |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:00 - Apr 25 by Reuser_is_God |
Agree but point of order...
Jordan Rhodes wasn't sold under his valuation at that time. |
I'd disagree. There had been a lot of talk about him for months and anyone who watched the Under-18s or Academy teams play knew we had a player on our hands. He was worth at least £1m BUT the right thing to do would have been to keep him and sell him for the millions other clubs did down the line when he was hot property.
There is an argument I've heard which says because we had Wickham coming through there wasn't a place for both. That's no excuse for releasing probably the best striker we've had on our books since relegation under Burley. And who says two big strikers can't play together? Shearer and Sutton did a pretty good job at Blackburn | |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:07 - Apr 25 with 5584 views | woodbridge_blue |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:40 - Apr 25 by Bobbychase |
1 Selling Jordan Rhodes for way under his valuation
2 Appointing Roy Keane
3 Allowing managers to waste too much money on dross like Lee Martin and Paul Taylor
4 Not cottoning on quick enough to the way the club and the fans were drifting apart towards the end of the Mick era
5 Not backing Mick properly in the January transfer window of the 2014-15 season |
Just for clarification purposes, what was the definitive reason for Keane selling Rhodes....was it anything to do with Rhodes Senior? | | | |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:09 - Apr 25 with 5557 views | SouperJim |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:07 - Apr 25 by woodbridge_blue |
Just for clarification purposes, what was the definitive reason for Keane selling Rhodes....was it anything to do with Rhodes Senior? |
The word at the time was certainly that Rhodes Senior played a part, was very pushy for his boy to play etc. Doesn't take much to rub Keane up the wrong way and make him dig his heels in. |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:10 - Apr 25 with 5551 views | Superblue95 |
1. Sanctioning the sale or release of just about every decent player we had last summer
2. Not backing McCarthy when we were second in January leading to us fading away, barely scraping the Play Offs and having zero momentum going into them
3. Doing nothing for far too long when the atmosphere and relationship between McCarthy and some fans had turned toxic
4. Not having enough ‘football people’ around the club and using non football men such as Clegg and Milne as mouthpieces for the club, making what was probably two very intelligent blokes look like a pair of muppets.
5. Appointing some truly woeful managers, some of whom have been well past their sell by date |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:10 - Apr 25 with 5547 views | No9 |
Buying ITFC
Not having a 'proper' football man @ PR to oversee the day to day football matters
Spending too much money at the wrong time
Appointing poor managers
Re-newing MM's contract | | | |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:13 - Apr 25 with 5525 views | Bobbychase |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:09 - Apr 25 by SouperJim |
The word at the time was certainly that Rhodes Senior played a part, was very pushy for his boy to play etc. Doesn't take much to rub Keane up the wrong way and make him dig his heels in. |
Yeah, cheers Roy. Putting his own interests before the club. | |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:13 - Apr 25 with 5523 views | Reuser_is_God |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 11:29 - Apr 25 by Bluefish |
roy keane
Paul Lambert
Paul Jewell
Paul Hurst
Simon Clegg |
You could argue that appointing Lambert has been a masterstroke given that PL's PR work has given Evans a free ride in terms of getting absolutely zero stick this season from the terraces. | |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:22 - Apr 25 with 5484 views | BackToRussia |
It would be much harder to find five good things he has done.
1. Stopped us from going into administration by continuing to invest money into the club (which any owner would do).
2. One playoff finish.
That's all I can think of really. |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:25 - Apr 25 with 5467 views | J2BLUE |
1) Not backing MM. Whatever people might think of MM now, the fact is he is a good manager and had proven repeatedly that he could turn water into wine. This is especially true when we were challenging for promotion. Just imagine if he had handed MM the £9m we are expecting to lose over the next season.
2) Selling off assets to reduce his financial input. I understand that it's his money and a fair thing to do but it's a stupid thing to do. It left us trying to replace top players with cheap punts which was only ever going to lead one way. It's staggeringly stupid for a man who would only see a return on his investment if we went up. This money needed to be invested in the squad. Selling Murphy and then pretending Best was his replacement is the best example of this stupidity.
3) Sacking Magilton. I think our form dipped under JM after we spent quite a lot of money but he deserved another season. The method of his sacking also left a very sour taste.
4) Appointing Hurst and giving him free reign. I want to point out that I was excited for Hurst (my second choice) and I was completely on-board with giving him complete control. I was excited by the changes so I am not too critical of Evans here because i'm not a hypocrite but it was a mistake and it belongs on the list.
5) Constantly undervaluing players when making offers. So many windows where we were chasing players where the saga ran all window before we failed and then had the classic 'we'll target loans' story. The Portsmouth 3, Hugill, Boyd. We chased them for an entire window and then it was later revealed we never got near the valuations. Extremely frustrating. Add in the lack of a plan b if we didn't get these players and it was a recipe for disaster. |  |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:31 - Apr 25 with 5447 views | ActionMan |
The sad thing about this you could probably have a top 5 mistakes a year he's made ... |  | | |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:42 - Apr 25 with 5387 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:31 - Apr 25 by ActionMan |
The sad thing about this you could probably have a top 5 mistakes a year he's made ... |
The other sad thing is that none of it was intentional. I firmly believe he wants what's best for the club, he just hasn't been able to deliver it. A lot of his decisions can be justified at the time, but ultimately turn out to be bad. | |
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| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:44 - Apr 25 with 5376 views | Reuser_is_God |
| What are the FIVE biggest mistakes that Marcus Evans has made at ITFC? (n/t) on 12:42 - Apr 25 by Swansea_Blue |
The other sad thing is that none of it was intentional. I firmly believe he wants what's best for the club, he just hasn't been able to deliver it. A lot of his decisions can be justified at the time, but ultimately turn out to be bad. |
Agreed, he's just useless rather than wreckless. | |
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