| Josh Harrop 15:26 - Dec 12 with 12232 views | cbower |
Signed short term deal at Northampton. Christ he was appalling when he was here. Stunk the place out. |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 13:52 - Dec 13 with 2351 views | Garv |
| Josh Harrop on 20:16 - Dec 12 by monkeymagic |
Fair point, Bree did reasonable well but at the time he signed I was naively hoping/expecting us to splash out to avoid relegation and the arrival of a steady right back was underwhelming. |
I don't think any one player would have saved us that year. Keane was a good signing for example, but the overall spine of the team was so bad, or inexperienced, or over the hill, we didn't really have a hope. |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 14:30 - Dec 13 with 2308 views | itfcjoe |
| Josh Harrop on 13:52 - Dec 13 by Garv |
I don't think any one player would have saved us that year. Keane was a good signing for example, but the overall spine of the team was so bad, or inexperienced, or over the hill, we didn't really have a hope. |
We just didn't have any goals in the team - we got rid of Waghorn, Garner, McGoldrick and replaced them with Harrison, Jackson, etc |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 14:56 - Dec 13 with 2261 views | bournemouthblue |
| Josh Harrop on 10:04 - Dec 13 by Dyland |
You are fortunate you can't remember Bennetts.
He could do some step overs and always looked to be direct and run at opponents, and you couldn't fault his application, but on the rare occasions he got past his man he'd ping the ball to literally no one at all. He offered absolutely nothing and if anything the team may have been better off with only ten men so we didn't duff up every attacking situation he was involved in.
To say he perhaps wasn't the finished article is generous. |
This is probably why I don't remember him |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 16:05 - Dec 13 with 2217 views | Kieran_Knows |
| Josh Harrop on 21:29 - Dec 12 by PhilTWTD |
He was sent back to Spurs for a bit, for persistent lateness if I remember rightly. |
Yes, that definitely happened. Cook wasn't impressed by him at all. |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 16:38 - Dec 13 with 2192 views | RonFearonsHair |
| Josh Harrop on 12:20 - Dec 13 by Churchman |
Not forgetting Nathan ‘Duke’ Ellington. Waddled in on a two year contract. 17 appearances zero goals. Lethal in front of a Happy Meal he may have been. In front of goal? Never even got there. Taxi! Those days were long gone. Let’s just say he was paid sy £2k a week. That means he lumbered off with about £200k in his pocket for standing around a bit between meals. Not bad work if you can get it.
The grisly selection above were a horror bunch too. Even a pair of jacamo shorts struggled to cover Eubanks Blake’s rear end. Then there were loanees. The two that leap to mind are Chris Wood and Jimmy Bullard. Wood was enormous and blowing hard before a game started. Waste of space. Next season at Leeds, he came out about three stone lighter, fit as a butchers dog and scoring for fun.
Bullard the opposite. Great loan spell, got a contract and looked like he spent the summer on the lash and filling his face. The state of him.
Thank goodness the Evans era is history. Everything about the club looks and feels so much more professional, regardless of how the team goes the rest of this season. |
Every so often I consider how much I may end up spending on watching Ipswich in my life. Then I think about what difference my monetary contribution may make. Then I realise it probably funds a week of Nathan Ellington and I start to wonder why I have ever been charged anything in the first place. |  | | |
| Josh Harrop on 16:46 - Dec 13 with 2182 views | hype313 |
| Josh Harrop on 12:20 - Dec 13 by Churchman |
Not forgetting Nathan ‘Duke’ Ellington. Waddled in on a two year contract. 17 appearances zero goals. Lethal in front of a Happy Meal he may have been. In front of goal? Never even got there. Taxi! Those days were long gone. Let’s just say he was paid sy £2k a week. That means he lumbered off with about £200k in his pocket for standing around a bit between meals. Not bad work if you can get it.
The grisly selection above were a horror bunch too. Even a pair of jacamo shorts struggled to cover Eubanks Blake’s rear end. Then there were loanees. The two that leap to mind are Chris Wood and Jimmy Bullard. Wood was enormous and blowing hard before a game started. Waste of space. Next season at Leeds, he came out about three stone lighter, fit as a butchers dog and scoring for fun.
Bullard the opposite. Great loan spell, got a contract and looked like he spent the summer on the lash and filling his face. The state of him.
Thank goodness the Evans era is history. Everything about the club looks and feels so much more professional, regardless of how the team goes the rest of this season. |
'Lethal in front of a Happy Meal'...Sorry had to chuckle.
But, yes, agree wholeheartedly with your post.
Thought JCH on Saturday looked like he was in training to take over from Ellis Genge. |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 16:47 - Dec 13 with 2182 views | PhilTWTD |
| Josh Harrop on 12:40 - Dec 13 by itfcjoe |
JR said he could play for England if he focussed on being a CB |
Bearing in mind he basically didn't train, by all accounts, you wonder how far he might have gone with a bit more application in whatever position! |  | | |
| Josh Harrop on 17:09 - Dec 13 with 2158 views | Rjitfc |
Can't believe nobody has mentioned the midfield powerhouse that was Giles Coke! |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 17:25 - Dec 13 with 2140 views | chicoazul |
Never mind all these terrible wingers we signed in the Banter Era, all I can think about now is my lovely Richard Naylor. What a player, a great bloke, told Warnock to shut his pie hole, scored at Wembley. Him and JdV our best centre half partnership since relegation from the Prem. |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 19:27 - Dec 13 with 2059 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Josh Harrop on 11:55 - Dec 13 by Hipsterectomy |
I remember under Mick we signed some random “past-it but were once excellent in this league” players. Paddy Kenny, St Ledger, Ebanks Blake, Leon Best, Stephen Gleeson, Kevin Foley, Jack Collison etc
They were all pretty awful, ineffective, a shadow of who they were, couldn’t be arsed, or never even played for us |
I've just remembered Tom Adayemi.
I think he did a Planet Blue new season's stock photo shoot, so we can't say he contributed nothing to the Club. | | | |
| Josh Harrop on 20:23 - Dec 13 with 2007 views | BLUEBEAT |
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| Josh Harrop on 21:00 - Dec 13 with 1983 views | rgp1 |
| Josh Harrop on 10:15 - Dec 13 by itfcjoe |
Our permanent transfer business that summer was Oli Hawkins, Stephen Ward and Dai Cornell - from what I gather they were all on what would be middling L2 wages and to be blunt ability reflected that
They just didn't improve the squad at all so we started chucking money at loan players |
In fairness at the time, Lambert's injury list could have packed out a field hospital! I think at the start of 20'21 season , he had around 17 players crocked. | | | |
| Josh Harrop on 21:03 - Dec 13 with 1972 views | rgp1 |
| Josh Harrop on 19:27 - Dec 13 by ArnoldMoorhen |
I've just remembered Tom Adayemi.
I think he did a Planet Blue new season's stock photo shoot, so we can't say he contributed nothing to the Club. |
I thought he could have been a great addition. Unfortunately I think he made 4 appearances and spent most of his time in the sick bay. | | | |
| Josh Harrop on 04:31 - Dec 14 with 1820 views | Westcountryblue |
| Josh Harrop on 12:20 - Dec 13 by Churchman |
Not forgetting Nathan ‘Duke’ Ellington. Waddled in on a two year contract. 17 appearances zero goals. Lethal in front of a Happy Meal he may have been. In front of goal? Never even got there. Taxi! Those days were long gone. Let’s just say he was paid sy £2k a week. That means he lumbered off with about £200k in his pocket for standing around a bit between meals. Not bad work if you can get it.
The grisly selection above were a horror bunch too. Even a pair of jacamo shorts struggled to cover Eubanks Blake’s rear end. Then there were loanees. The two that leap to mind are Chris Wood and Jimmy Bullard. Wood was enormous and blowing hard before a game started. Waste of space. Next season at Leeds, he came out about three stone lighter, fit as a butchers dog and scoring for fun.
Bullard the opposite. Great loan spell, got a contract and looked like he spent the summer on the lash and filling his face. The state of him.
Thank goodness the Evans era is history. Everything about the club looks and feels so much more professional, regardless of how the team goes the rest of this season. |
Spot on ! The backroom team were too few and the club reeked of mediocrity.
I can't imagine the entourage of backroom staff we currently have (who have largely been recruited from Premiership clubs) tolerating such behaviour.
Credit to Ashton et al for changing the culture of the club. Paul Cook also deserves a mention for showing the balls to break up cliques such as the Chambers, Sears, Judge Skuse group who were stealing a living and ruling the roost behind the scenes. | | | |
| Josh Harrop on 06:54 - Dec 14 with 1799 views | Churchman |
| Josh Harrop on 17:09 - Dec 13 by Rjitfc |
Can't believe nobody has mentioned the midfield powerhouse that was Giles Coke! |
I’m still trying to forget ‘Cokey’. Beyond useless.
I do remember Polish Pete though. If ever a bloke looked like he’d won the ‘be a footballer for the day’ prize at his local boozer, it was him. |  | | |
| Josh Harrop on 09:37 - Dec 14 with 1709 views | PhilTWTD |
| Josh Harrop on 11:14 - Dec 13 by tractorboy1978 |
He said he preferred playing at CB just after he signed here as our main centre forward signing that summer. Another peak banter era moment (of which there were many). |
Think he said the opposite, that he was an emergency centre-half if needed.
 Hawkins: Brilliant Start From All the Boys 27th Sep 2020 17:25Striker Oli Hawkins was pleased to pick up an assist on his full league debut for the top-of-the-table Blues in Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Rochdale and felt he was unlucky not to score having hit the post, seen a header brilliantly saved had having had another effort cleared off the line.  17
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| Josh Harrop on 10:46 - Dec 14 with 1647 views | Radlett_blue |
| Josh Harrop on 04:31 - Dec 14 by Westcountryblue |
Spot on ! The backroom team were too few and the club reeked of mediocrity.
I can't imagine the entourage of backroom staff we currently have (who have largely been recruited from Premiership clubs) tolerating such behaviour.
Credit to Ashton et al for changing the culture of the club. Paul Cook also deserves a mention for showing the balls to break up cliques such as the Chambers, Sears, Judge Skuse group who were stealing a living and ruling the roost behind the scenes. |
Hmm..the hapless Paul Hurst I think also felt there was a clique of senior players in charge of the dressing room & a culture of mediocrity. Some of his attempts to change that were ill thought out e.g. his treatment of Bart & Knudsen, who had been to the World Cup, but he probably had a point. |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 11:00 - Dec 14 with 1616 views | itfcjoe |
| Josh Harrop on 10:46 - Dec 14 by Radlett_blue |
Hmm..the hapless Paul Hurst I think also felt there was a clique of senior players in charge of the dressing room & a culture of mediocrity. Some of his attempts to change that were ill thought out e.g. his treatment of Bart & Knudsen, who had been to the World Cup, but he probably had a point. |
Or it was just rank bad management to alienate a keeper who had just become our highest paid player of the back of 3 consecutive player of the season awards?
Do you think McKenna would have come in and done that? He'd have just quietly moved on the players he didn't want and re-engaged everybody | |
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| Josh Harrop on 12:40 - Dec 14 with 1528 views | PhilTWTD |
Think he's ultimately been proved right as that's where he's ended up. | | | |
| Josh Harrop on 12:44 - Dec 14 with 1510 views | cbower |
| Josh Harrop on 11:00 - Dec 14 by itfcjoe |
Or it was just rank bad management to alienate a keeper who had just become our highest paid player of the back of 3 consecutive player of the season awards?
Do you think McKenna would have come in and done that? He'd have just quietly moved on the players he didn't want and re-engaged everybody |
Yep. Softly, softly catchy monkey. Hurst, however, managed to sell off Webster, Waghorn and Garner, let McGoldrick go (though I agreed with this at the time & Hurst says he was nothing to do with it), and replace them with Harrison (now L1), Nsiala (L1), Nolan (L2), Roberts (L2) and Donacien and Jackson (who hopefully might get another crack at Champonship level next year). The most disastrous transfer window we have ever had. We are just about recovered I reckon but still in L1. We went from mid table Championship to mid table L1 in just over 18 months! | |
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| Josh Harrop on 13:02 - Dec 14 with 1483 views | Plums |
| Josh Harrop on 12:28 - Dec 13 by PhilTWTD |
If I remember rightly, JR wanted him to play at centre-half at Oldham, which was why he wanted to move and hence his celebration when he scored on his debut at Oldham.
Richard Naylor was originally a centre-half in the academy, they were short on strikers, so he went up front and stayed there and broke into the first team before ultimately returning to the defence. |
The Oldham fans had also been singing 'thank you very much for buying Marshall' to us at the start of the game. We thanked them for selling him at the end! |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 13:24 - Dec 14 with 1461 views | Radlett_blue |
| Josh Harrop on 11:00 - Dec 14 by itfcjoe |
Or it was just rank bad management to alienate a keeper who had just become our highest paid player of the back of 3 consecutive player of the season awards?
Do you think McKenna would have come in and done that? He'd have just quietly moved on the players he didn't want and re-engaged everybody |
Not disputing that Hurst's way of dealing with the Town players was disastrous, as he clearly alienated most of the existing players & created a divide between them & his disastrous new signings, just saying that he was right that there was a culture of mediocrity at the club. | |
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