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Ipswich Town. 08:53 - Dec 5 with 633 viewshomer_123

Now foreign owned by business orientated Americans and backed with funds from a pension fund.

Previously owned by Marcus Evans and his 'business conglomerate'.

Before that, taken into administration by Sheepshanks and left a lot of local businesses high and dry.

We haven't been the Ipswich I know since then....and we will likely never go back. Certainly with our current owners that are only in it to get a return.

So, let's all step back from this blue tinted view of a reality that hasn't existed for over 15 years.

We've drifted and sleep walked into L1 giving most managers to much time when the evidence was clear it wasn't working. We are a shell of what we were. Under Cook it wasn't improving but sadly regressing again.

I like Cook...on paper he was my second choice and I wanted him and it to work. It wasn't and therefore this is absolutely the right decision and the right time.

Gives an incoming manager the time and opportunity to turn it around this season and that 'must' still be the aim. Promotion this season...that is what we must strive and aim for. Staying in this division playing some decent football isn't good enough and it certainly isn't good enough for our new owners.

This is a competition...this isn't some weird non-competitive sports day where you get a prize for taking part.

Promotion into the Championship and then go and a build a run for the Prem and Europe again. I'm sick of 'settling' for more improved football and match day experience. I want to see Ipswich win, even if it means sh*thousery or being cut throat.

What's the fecking point otherwise?

Ade Akinbiyi couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo...
Poll: As things stand, how confident are you we will get promoted this season?

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Ipswich Town. on 09:01 - Dec 5 with 535 viewsPlums

Couldn’t agree more. ‘The Ipswich Way’ is a pipe dream, we’re very fortunate to be in the position we’re now in after the decline of the Evans era, for the good of the Club we all have to move on.

It's 106 miles to Portman Road, we've got a full tank of gas, half a round of Port Salut, it's dark... and we're wearing blue tinted sunglasses.
Poll: Which recent triallist should we have signed?

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Ipswich Town. on 09:12 - Dec 5 with 467 viewssotd78

Your new head coach will get twenty games then. The summer to buy some more average players and then what? Ten games to fail again? It's not the way to build .... it's just shuffling deck chairs.

Blue shirts/white shorts - sotd78

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Ipswich Town. on 09:15 - Dec 5 with 442 viewstimothyeo

Ipswich Town. on 09:12 - Dec 5 by sotd78

Your new head coach will get twenty games then. The summer to buy some more average players and then what? Ten games to fail again? It's not the way to build .... it's just shuffling deck chairs.


Every other similar sized club manages to work that way and 95% of them in a higher position / league than us.

Therefore what you're saying is demonstrably incorrect
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Ipswich Town. on 09:15 - Dec 5 with 445 viewshomer_123

Ipswich Town. on 09:12 - Dec 5 by sotd78

Your new head coach will get twenty games then. The summer to buy some more average players and then what? Ten games to fail again? It's not the way to build .... it's just shuffling deck chairs.


In the last 15 years we have given managers too long when it was evident it wasn't working. Do we just continue doing that?

Ade Akinbiyi couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo...
Poll: As things stand, how confident are you we will get promoted this season?

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Ipswich Town. on 09:22 - Dec 5 with 401 viewsstrikalite

Absolutely spot on, the players themselves should take a read of that too...
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Ipswich Town. on 09:23 - Dec 5 with 401 viewsElephantintheRoom

What delluded tosh. Football is a meritocracy - the well run, or good by serendipity rise to their glass celing - and the badly run or bad by design (ITFC twice over) sink.

Town have briefly been good under Ramsey - a mere 60 years ago and for slightly longer under Robson a mere 40 years ago. There has been a steady decline since the mid-80s back to where they came from punctuated by a very brief blip at the turn of the century funded by someone else's money that destroyed the club.

A huge % of the support actually support Ipswich Town for what they were - albeit knowing it will never return.

Town are where they are now on merit - or lack of it. The idiocy of the Cook reign is entirely of the making of a deluded ownership with no idea of what they were buying in a country and league they know nothing about. Town are one of perhaps 40 clubs that think they belong in the Prem - with perhaps the 40th right to be there based on geography, support, and economic decline of the area.

Cambridge Utd are more likely to be in the Prem before Ipswich - a far more attractive proposition for chancers likes Town's blinkered owners, hamstrung by debt they have to repay to a business plan thwy now know is fantasy

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Ipswich Town. on 09:23 - Dec 5 with 382 viewsTexaco73

Ipswich Town. on 09:12 - Dec 5 by sotd78

Your new head coach will get twenty games then. The summer to buy some more average players and then what? Ten games to fail again? It's not the way to build .... it's just shuffling deck chairs.


It's a results business because that's how the club makes money.
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