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Your Favourite/Best Town captain - 08:03 - Aug 8 with 2714 views

prompted by the Morsy thread who are your favourite / best Town captains

Me - I love Mick Mills, wonderful player, amazing captain and I miss him on the radio

Honourable mentions to Magic and Matty Holland

Alsop Chambers for being all he was through a really crap time at Town

and Morsy once this team gets going will up there

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Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 14:02 - Aug 8 with 594 views

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You cant look further than Mick Mills
England WC captain too IIRC

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Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 14:07 - Aug 8 with 579 views

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Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 13:53 - Aug 8 by Churchman

I can only really comment on those I’ve seen. While I was privileged to see Bill Baxter play, I was too young to judge him, so I’ll leave him aside along with Nelson, McLuckie, Parker etc.

For me, Mills by a distance. Second, Matt Holland. In many ways he was the face of the team in Burley’s time. Ok, I get he couldn’t tackle a hot dinner, but I thought he was an all round good player, especially alongside more creative ones like Dyer and Magilton.

Third place, Jason De Vos. I thought he was a smashing Captain and actually a half way decent Centre Half.

Edit: EADT article from a year ago for interest:

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich-town/ipswich-town-captains-8012890

[Post edited 8 Aug 2022 13:55]

Thanks for linking that!!

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Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 14:29 - Aug 8 with 559 views

Churchman

Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 08:17 - Aug 8 by ElephantintheRoom

I have a certain fondness for Billy Baxter who was something of an inspiration until he fell out with Robson.

Never really took to happy clappy Holland who always seemed a bit lightweight and totally insincere to me - a feeling sort of confirmed by the manner of his departure. And Morsy is something of a cowardly thug (so far) - but could be a poor man’s Roy Keane type of skipper in the lower divisions I suppose.

Other than that your list is hard to disagree with

You are wrong about Holland. He was not insincere in the least. Nor was he lightweight. I never thought he was much of a tackler as mentioned elsewhere, but he wasn’t that type of player.

Matt Holland was a box to box style player who did a lot of the simple things well. He was a great foil for the likes of Magilton and KD. He was also a midfielder who could score a few goals.

When he arrived, I saw him play a pre season game I think against Gillingham. He struck me immediately as a perfect Burley style player for the way he wanted us to play and a steal at I think £800k. And so it proved, both in the Championship and PL.

He went on to do well at Charlton and for ROI. As a Captain, I thought he was good.

Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 18:15 - Aug 8 with 476 views

farkenhell

Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 08:17 - Aug 8 by ElephantintheRoom

So you have a certain fondness for a player who drank champagne to celebrate a defeat, but not a happy clappy, insincere captain who holds the club record for number of consecutive appearances.

You are joking aren't you?

Your Favourite/Best Town captain - on 18:35 - Aug 8 with 466 views

Whos_blue

The correct answer is of course Mick Mills, but Holland was a great captain at a (mainly) great time for the club.
An honourable mention for Chambers too.
Had his limitations sure, but I thought he was a good skipper during a difficult time for the club.
The dogs abuse he got from some on here was way over the top.
I notice he's already racked up 50 appearances for col u.
A good pro.