| Well Done Mr Rich Evans 10:48 - May 12 with 5370 views | Churchman75 |
Since you’ve been here you taken us from the cusp of the promotion to Division three.
So pleased for you that you have all these other assets but you are happy to sell ours off at the first opportunity and replace with nothing.
What a utterly decent leader and owner you really are.
You call yourself an Ipswich fan, you’re nothing but a ðŸ [Post edited 12 May 2019 10:53]
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 10:49 - May 12 with 3094 views | Superblue95 |
We weren’t on the cusp of promotion when he came in |  |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 10:51 - May 12 with 3085 views | mrshallisfit |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 10:49 - May 12 by Superblue95 |
We weren’t on the cusp of promotion when he came in |
No. But we are certainly in Division 3 now. | | | |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 10:54 - May 12 with 3063 views | gtsb |
Where would we be if he didn't make up the short fall in revenue every year. It's not peanuts either. |  | | |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:12 - May 12 with 3017 views | Guthrum |
There have been massively adverse changes in the environment since 2007 (the galloping inflation, growing inequality, failure of FFP, etc.). That bit isn't Evans' fault - the club has consistently voted against them when given the chance.
Everyone wants to blame our owner for trying to balance the books and nobody the football authorities who let things get to the stage where a rich man cannot afford to fund a top-level football team (the Cobbolds would have had no chance). |  |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:14 - May 12 with 3008 views | Garv |
Don't let me do Jim a disservice but is that really 'on the cusp of promotion'?
It's like saying we were on the cusp of promotion in 2015/16. We weren't. |  |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:16 - May 12 with 2990 views | BlueBadger |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:12 - May 12 by Guthrum |
There have been massively adverse changes in the environment since 2007 (the galloping inflation, growing inequality, failure of FFP, etc.). That bit isn't Evans' fault - the club has consistently voted against them when given the chance.
Everyone wants to blame our owner for trying to balance the books and nobody the football authorities who let things get to the stage where a rich man cannot afford to fund a top-level football team (the Cobbolds would have had no chance). |
Evans' main mistake when we DID have a big advantage of an owner willing to spend big for the time was that he appointed very, very badly in terms of his managers in eth shape of Keane, Jewell and to a lesser extent Magilton(who he didn't appoint and managed to achieve a top-ten finish despite some bizarre transfer activity in the summer), so by the time we had one(Mick) who COULD have achieved promotion with a bit of financial support in first teams affairs we couldn't capitalise were faced with the diminishing returns of his latter years followed by the house of cards collapsing with Hurst and, to a lesser degree, Lambert. |  |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:16 - May 12 with 2994 views | Superblue95 |
I know but it’s still hardly “the cusp of promotion”. It’s the cusp of the Play Offs, a competition in which we have an extremely poor record.
There are enough sticks to beat Evans with without people making things up or rewriting history | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:17 - May 12 with 2983 views | BlueBadger |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:14 - May 12 by Garv |
Don't let me do Jim a disservice but is that really 'on the cusp of promotion'?
It's like saying we were on the cusp of promotion in 2015/16. We weren't. |
It's certainly closer than anyone, bar Mick, achieved subsequently. Had Mick had the resources afforded Magilton, Keane or Jewell we would have gone up. | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:17 - May 12 with 2978 views | BlueBadger |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:16 - May 12 by Superblue95 |
I know but it’s still hardly “the cusp of promotion”. It’s the cusp of the Play Offs, a competition in which we have an extremely poor record.
There are enough sticks to beat Evans with without people making things up or rewriting history |
Well Done Mr Rich Evans by BlueBadger 12 May 2019 11:17It's certainly closer than anyone, bar Mick, achieved subsequently. Had Mick had the resources afforded Magilton, Keane or Jewell we would have gone up.
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:21 - May 12 with 2949 views | Guthrum |
The season before we were 14th and the one before that 15th. | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:24 - May 12 with 2944 views | Guthrum |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:16 - May 12 by BlueBadger |
Evans' main mistake when we DID have a big advantage of an owner willing to spend big for the time was that he appointed very, very badly in terms of his managers in eth shape of Keane, Jewell and to a lesser extent Magilton(who he didn't appoint and managed to achieve a top-ten finish despite some bizarre transfer activity in the summer), so by the time we had one(Mick) who COULD have achieved promotion with a bit of financial support in first teams affairs we couldn't capitalise were faced with the diminishing returns of his latter years followed by the house of cards collapsing with Hurst and, to a lesser degree, Lambert. |
His single biggest mistake was judging that Roy Keane was a good fit for Ipswich Town. After that, we were always playing catch-up, having dissipated our advantage and wasted the available funds. | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:25 - May 12 with 2928 views | BrixtonBlue |
Who's Richard Evans? |  |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:32 - May 12 with 2912 views | Garv |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:17 - May 12 by BlueBadger |
It's certainly closer than anyone, bar Mick, achieved subsequently. Had Mick had the resources afforded Magilton, Keane or Jewell we would have gone up. |
Can't argue with that statement. | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:42 - May 12 with 2859 views | braveblue |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 10:54 - May 12 by gtsb |
Where would we be if he didn't make up the short fall in revenue every year. It's not peanuts either. |
He created the shortfall. Don’t make excuses for him. | | | |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:46 - May 12 with 2850 views | Binner |
who knows what a mess we could be in without his input. |  |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:47 - May 12 with 2849 views | footers |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:42 - May 12 by braveblue |
He created the shortfall. Don’t make excuses for him. |
If you mean he buys players, pays wages and general running costs, then yes, I guess he is responsible for the shortfall. |  |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:49 - May 12 with 2836 views | BryanPlug |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:50 - May 12 with 2822 views | footers |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:49 - May 12 by BryanPlug |
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Pies aren't up to much either. | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:51 - May 12 with 2800 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:24 - May 12 by Guthrum |
His single biggest mistake was judging that Roy Keane was a good fit for Ipswich Town. After that, we were always playing catch-up, having dissipated our advantage and wasted the available funds. |
I've been saying this for years. | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:53 - May 12 with 2802 views | BryanPlug |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:51 - May 12 by BrixtonBlue |
I've been saying this for years. |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:54 - May 12 with 2785 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:53 - May 12 by BryanPlug |
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Hmm, not when some people still think Jewell is our worst ever manager. | |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:57 - May 12 with 2782 views | BryanPlug |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:50 - May 12 by footers |
Pies aren't up to much either. |
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| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:58 - May 12 with 2781 views | BryanPlug |
| Well Done Mr Rich Evans on 11:54 - May 12 by BrixtonBlue |
Hmm, not when some people still think Jewell is our worst ever manager. |
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