| If we don’t get promoted this season… 05:51 - Jan 10 with 14656 views | chicoazul |
It will be the greatest failure in the clubs history. Worse than relegation worse than losing to Them in the play offs worse than not winning the league in 81. All that will pale in comparison. The single greatest failure in history.
The club is on a knife edge. What would the future hold? |  |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:34 - Jan 10 with 2175 views | BecclesITFC |
Possibly wouldn't put it quite like that, but....
I do think there is that added pressure to succeed this season now.
We shouldn't really be dropping too many clangers. We have the best squad in the division, of which I'm absolutely certain. The players seem up for it too.
I suppose my only concern would be discontent from players who aren't getting picked every game. That might cause discomfort in the camp.
But this bunch look like winners to me. I would trust them in big moments and there will be some big moments this season for sure.
Massive game Saturday.. |  | | |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:35 - Jan 10 with 2178 views | SomethingBlue |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 12:28 - Jan 10 by Guthrum |
Agreed, but I'd say there isn't much more we (as a holistic club/fanbase) could be doing to take that chance. It's really down to fine margins on the pitch - the slip of a foot, the bounce of a ball, reffing decisions going one way or the other.
The team can't be accused of playing within themselves, just it's sometimes extremely hard to break through packed defences. The fans are turning up and travelling in very large numbers. There's not a lot more which can be asked. If we fail now, I don't see where the blame can lie. |
This is a fair point, yes. The level of general performance we show, regardless of outcome, is perhaps the most consistent I have ever seen at ITFC. You know what you'll get from us. |  |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:36 - Jan 10 with 2165 views | Stu_Magoo |
Christ. Imagine being this het up at ten to six in the morning?! |  |
| THIS IS DEMOC-RRRRRRR-ACY MANIFEST! |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:40 - Jan 10 with 2143 views | NeedhamChris |
I don't think you can ever really say that without knowing what the future holds.
If we don't go up and the American's walk away, maybe...but I don't personally see that happening as they seem more in it for a medium/longer term than that. Whereas if we go up next year, it'll be looked back on as a blip.
Little bit like relegation from the championship, at the moment that is probably greatest failure in my lifetime - and will be for as long as we're stuck in this division. However, if we go up and really challenge at the top end - I think many will look back on it as something that needed to happen to lose Marcus Evans and the banter era (a la Norwich going down to League One) | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:45 - Jan 10 with 2127 views | BlueBoots |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:45 - Jan 10 with 2127 views | bazza |
This post is a failure… if you were trying to compete with frimleys for most down votes.. |  | | |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 15:40 - Jan 10 with 2028 views | braveblue |
Hyperbole gone crazy!! Administration following relegation was perhaps a little bit more of a failure.
If we don’t go up this year we will do it next year. Nothing is certain other than it would not be failure. | | | |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 17:08 - Jan 10 with 1959 views | LeoMuff |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:40 - Jan 10 by NeedhamChris |
I don't think you can ever really say that without knowing what the future holds.
If we don't go up and the American's walk away, maybe...but I don't personally see that happening as they seem more in it for a medium/longer term than that. Whereas if we go up next year, it'll be looked back on as a blip.
Little bit like relegation from the championship, at the moment that is probably greatest failure in my lifetime - and will be for as long as we're stuck in this division. However, if we go up and really challenge at the top end - I think many will look back on it as something that needed to happen to lose Marcus Evans and the banter era (a la Norwich going down to League One) |
Why would they walk away ? They’ve just invested millions in players, staff and infrastructure. |  |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 17:34 - Jan 10 with 1936 views | Stewart27 |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 11:31 - Jan 10 by chicoazul |
Well I’m not sure I said it would be shameful although I don’t agree that it wouldn’t be. I fail to see how it isn’t our greatest disaster ever though if it happens. |
We got relegated to division 3 a few years back.
That’s more of a disaster.
Stop being a massive fanny!! | | | |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 17:39 - Jan 10 with 1930 views | Stewart27 |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 13:01 - Jan 10 by J2BLUE |
I know you coined the banter era phrase and it has caught on but your desperation to keep it going is pathetic. Trying to find issues with absolutely everything. |
Cringe phrase | | | |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 18:11 - Jan 10 with 1907 views | ibbleobble |
Wasn’t Paul Lambert the greatest failure in the club’s history? | | | |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 18:36 - Jan 10 with 1889 views | Ryorry |
I think the local businesses in Ipswich & Suffolk who were creditors when the Club went into Administration, & who never got repaid in full, would strongly disagree with you.
Not to mention the drop into L1, & more than a decade of Evans misery as he uncaringly ran the club down through neglect & incompetence, with the English version of tumbleweed literally starting to grow in the cracks at PR. |  |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 19:31 - Jan 10 with 1814 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 07:12 - Jan 10 by StokieBlue |
When one aspires to be an internet edgelord then this is the kind of dedication that is required.
Chico still has a long way to go, he's probably still on the second page of the Unabomber manifesto.
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Which part of the manifesto analysis do you disagree with.
More generally Chico has a point as we need to maintain some momentum now as a club going forward. |  |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 19:48 - Jan 10 with 1798 views | Dyland |
This is only true in your head. Objective reality and context, of course, says different.
Have you been on the toot Chickers? :) |  |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:00 - Jan 10 with 1770 views | chicoazul |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 19:48 - Jan 10 by Dyland |
This is only true in your head. Objective reality and context, of course, says different.
Have you been on the toot Chickers? :) |
I just don’t understand all the downvotes. Why doesn’t everyone agree? Do you all somehow think that, despite spending millions on Davis Ahadme Camara and Broad and being 3rd in the League early Jan and reinforcing with 2 Premier League forwards and an international midfielder that failure from here would *not* be the biggest catastrophe in the clubs history? And that there is a real chance that that failure would lead to us being sold and/or all our management leaving?
Mind you I know many many on TWTD have forgotten what success looks like and I don’t blame them. | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:05 - Jan 10 with 1759 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:00 - Jan 10 by chicoazul |
I just don’t understand all the downvotes. Why doesn’t everyone agree? Do you all somehow think that, despite spending millions on Davis Ahadme Camara and Broad and being 3rd in the League early Jan and reinforcing with 2 Premier League forwards and an international midfielder that failure from here would *not* be the biggest catastrophe in the clubs history? And that there is a real chance that that failure would lead to us being sold and/or all our management leaving?
Mind you I know many many on TWTD have forgotten what success looks like and I don’t blame them. |
Failing to go up could definitely severely affect momentum, especially if KM is lured away. | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:21 - Jan 10 with 1715 views | StokieBlue |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:00 - Jan 10 by chicoazul |
I just don’t understand all the downvotes. Why doesn’t everyone agree? Do you all somehow think that, despite spending millions on Davis Ahadme Camara and Broad and being 3rd in the League early Jan and reinforcing with 2 Premier League forwards and an international midfielder that failure from here would *not* be the biggest catastrophe in the clubs history? And that there is a real chance that that failure would lead to us being sold and/or all our management leaving?
Mind you I know many many on TWTD have forgotten what success looks like and I don’t blame them. |
There is no evidence whatsoever that we would be sold or that McKenna would leave if we failed to get promoted
Please provide a source for this.
Relegation from the Premier League after finishing 5th and heavily investing in the stadium and some players which lead to essentially declaring bankruptcy was a far bigger catastrophe that not getting promoted this season would be.
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:27 - Jan 10 with 1709 views | Dyland |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:00 - Jan 10 by chicoazul |
I just don’t understand all the downvotes. Why doesn’t everyone agree? Do you all somehow think that, despite spending millions on Davis Ahadme Camara and Broad and being 3rd in the League early Jan and reinforcing with 2 Premier League forwards and an international midfielder that failure from here would *not* be the biggest catastrophe in the clubs history? And that there is a real chance that that failure would lead to us being sold and/or all our management leaving?
Mind you I know many many on TWTD have forgotten what success looks like and I don’t blame them. |
Where to begin Chickers...
Well, all the catastrophes that have happened in the last twenty years now lead us to the newest biggest catastrophe. Etc. It's like you've been on the bongs bruv x
Your assertion makes no sense, semantically. In other words, you is talking bollix innix | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:34 - Jan 10 with 1690 views | LeoMuff |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:00 - Jan 10 by chicoazul |
I just don’t understand all the downvotes. Why doesn’t everyone agree? Do you all somehow think that, despite spending millions on Davis Ahadme Camara and Broad and being 3rd in the League early Jan and reinforcing with 2 Premier League forwards and an international midfielder that failure from here would *not* be the biggest catastrophe in the clubs history? And that there is a real chance that that failure would lead to us being sold and/or all our management leaving?
Mind you I know many many on TWTD have forgotten what success looks like and I don’t blame them. |
It wouldn’t be ideal, but to describe it as the biggest catastrophe in the clubs history is flouncing of the very highest order. | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:41 - Jan 10 with 1671 views | Ryorry |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:00 - Jan 10 by chicoazul |
I just don’t understand all the downvotes. Why doesn’t everyone agree? Do you all somehow think that, despite spending millions on Davis Ahadme Camara and Broad and being 3rd in the League early Jan and reinforcing with 2 Premier League forwards and an international midfielder that failure from here would *not* be the biggest catastrophe in the clubs history? And that there is a real chance that that failure would lead to us being sold and/or all our management leaving?
Mind you I know many many on TWTD have forgotten what success looks like and I don’t blame them. |
Because you are imagining something which there's only slight chance *might* happen in *future*.
I too am concerned re what *might* happen if we aren't promoted, but you're talking & stating as fact, the outcome as if you're the owner of the Club & have already decided, unilaterally, to cut & run if we don't go up.
It's just nonsense, esp compared with the massive failings of the past 20 or so years that have been listed in previous posts - Administration, relegation to L1, a spiral of deline etc. | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:52 - Jan 10 with 1652 views | Swansea_Blue |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:58 - Jan 10 with 1638 views | Swansea_Blue |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 20:21 - Jan 10 by StokieBlue |
There is no evidence whatsoever that we would be sold or that McKenna would leave if we failed to get promoted
Please provide a source for this.
Relegation from the Premier League after finishing 5th and heavily investing in the stadium and some players which lead to essentially declaring bankruptcy was a far bigger catastrophe that not getting promoted this season would be.
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Failure to go up would make it more likely we’d lose KM. How likely though, who knows. But we could equally lose him even if promoted, if a juicy enough offer came his way. Not worth worrying about is it.
Agree on PL - the timing was awful. If we could have consolidated for a few seasons it could have made a massive difference to our finances. Relegation to L1 wasn’t too good either. Although I’d put the takeover by Evans above both of those. Took us back decades and left us adrift at a time of huge advances in the top division. | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 21:37 - Jan 10 with 1587 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 06:51 - Jan 10 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
You got up early to post that…really not worth it.
I suppose some might 🎣 |
I expect it had been keeping him awake all night and eventually he decided "Oh, OK, I know it's a ridiculous post but I have my reputation to keep up so I had better post it." |  |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 21:46 - Jan 10 with 1577 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 08:17 - Jan 10 by RobTheMonk |
The biggest failure in my time was giving Paul Lambert a 5 year contract lol.
I'd be disappointed if we don't go up, but I wouldn't call it a failure. We've progressed massively both on and off the pitch and are building a team that can compete in the Championship. |
Never put you down as so young, Rob.
The biggest failures in my lifetime are:
Bankrupting the club into administration and eventually leading us where we are now. (I can understand why it happened and I supported it at the time; but in hindsight it was the biggest failure.)
Followed by appointing Roy Keane and allowing him to overpay for Sunderland players until it had burnt Marcus Evans' fingers so badly he decided the club had to cut its cloth repeatedly until we ended up being funded as a League 1 club.
Followed by the financial decisions surrounding building the stand that led to having sell off Bobby Robson's team to pay for it. That one at least left us with a better, bigger ground and thanks to Lyall and Burley we did bounce back from. | |
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| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 21:51 - Jan 10 with 1574 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| If we don’t get promoted this season… on 11:23 - Jan 10 by chicoazul |
It’s not stupid. It is a fact that, if we don’t go up after all this investment and new players in addition to the ones we have, then it will be our greatest ever failure and, if that did happen, what would our future be. Why would you not think this? |
OK. I will play your game. What do YOU think our future would be if we did not go up this season?
Will GameChanger firesale all assets and flog the club to anyone prepared to pay something for the shell that remains? How much do you think that would raise? Would that be a better outcome for them than buying a club like Ipswich and looking to take them to the Premier League and sell for a profit? They are not desperate to protect their investment like someone like Evans was. Rather they want to make a big profit on what (in the context of the money they have available to them) is actually a relatively small outlay. | |
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