| 21k ST Sales 14:44 - Apr 13 with 4691 views | hype313 |
I'm staggered, Marcus Evans must be thinking where did it all go wrong, especially for someone who made his money from selling tickets.
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| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 23:33 - Apr 13 with 863 views | Churchman |
| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 19:17 - Apr 13 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Not all those managerial decisions were bad ones on the face of it, at the time. |
Mick wasn’t. Cook wasn’t though he should never have been appointed at that time - and proved to be totally unsuitable for the new ownership.
Hurst was a curious one. Young manager, along with the Sunderland mush. Seemed like a step to the future. Shame that in reality he didn’t know a team from a teapot, spun a line to get the job and promptly drowned with it.
Keane and Jewell? Laughably bad. Both sacked with aplomb from their previous jobs. Lambert? Dear god, it was never going to work. Evans even gave the windbag a 5 year contract |  | | |
| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 05:22 - Apr 14 with 750 views | PioneerBlue |
| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 17:54 - Apr 13 by unstableblue |
... CEO and manager even if they were presented to him on a velvet cushion with a big arrow saying these people are competent!!
Clegg, Milne
Keane, Jewell, Mick, Hurst, Lambert, Cook
Frightening - who the feck was advising him??
I mean Keane so many red flags on him it was ridiculous. |
The ME is the wasted decade. It’s still ridiculous looking back.
It is sad more for the fans than the guy that lost millions, the way the ME era could have been more successful, his patient capital should have been used to much greater success.
GC20 immediately showed what was missing in all the ME ownership period.
Even Paul Lambert nailed it on the way out, the club lacked infrastructure.
I agree with OP. Had ME appointed an MA character with a three year budget and asked them to crack on, go build a club with legacy value, it might have been very different. Instead ME was drawn into overpaying for management and playing staff that delivered exactly zero time and again, it then became more and more short term and delivered less and less until relegation.
There was clearly a lack of football club leadership, ie MA, with Milne and Clegg, they should never have been near a club the size of ITFC. Having appointed both and failed, ME still didn’t learn at third time of asking.
Club management was a problem also, individually managers were reasonable appointments in their own right however without the MA character and club infrastructure to support and challenge in the right way right from the RK appointment it’s was clear the backroom coaching set up was critical and was never sorted up until KMcK. GC20 we’re still sorting this themselves during the PC transition period.
And here we are, on the cusp of making a step back towards the season of reset as per 2002/03, c10 years following relegation then the ME years.
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| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 07:57 - Apr 14 with 660 views | Bbmaj |
| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 17:54 - Apr 13 by unstableblue |
... CEO and manager even if they were presented to him on a velvet cushion with a big arrow saying these people are competent!!
Clegg, Milne
Keane, Jewell, Mick, Hurst, Lambert, Cook
Frightening - who the feck was advising him??
I mean Keane so many red flags on him it was ridiculous. |
Keane was bad/mad, but Lambert was the nadir or ME era for me.
“Why don’t we appoint a manager with a strong Norwich connection, that’s not going to be a problem is it?”
We may have to change the website to These Are The Days soon! |  | | |
| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 10:01 - Apr 14 with 584 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| No the crucial difference is Marcus Evans couldn't idenitfy a modern football.. on 07:57 - Apr 14 by Bbmaj |
Keane was bad/mad, but Lambert was the nadir or ME era for me.
“Why don’t we appoint a manager with a strong Norwich connection, that’s not going to be a problem is it?”
We may have to change the website to These Are The Days soon! |
I think the Norwich thing could have been overlooked if he was vaguely competent. As we now know he was just an agent for Delia! | | | |
| 21k ST Sales on 10:57 - Apr 14 with 540 views | Vaughan8 |
I don't think plodding along in the same league for nearly 20 years helped though. AFter the first few seasons back down in the league, we made the playoffs once?
Mick was effective at times but it was ahard watch. Then what came immediately afterwards was dreadful.
you can't underestimate the fact we are doing well (albeit in a lower league) and the club seen to be moving in the right direction instead of plodding along. | | | |
| 21k ST Sales on 11:19 - Apr 14 with 523 views | Ryorry |
If ME really needs that question answering, he only has to look in the mirror.
It was always glaringly obvious that he was making the wrong decisions time after time after time - even in his own sphere of ticketing & catering, remember the endless complaints on here throughout those years on the h-t queues to get food/drink, which if you did manage to reach the front before the game re-started, wasn't worth eating/drinking anyway?
Never understood how he made his millions, must have been sheer good luck, tho some of us haven't forgotten about those questions over his alleged ticket touting for the 2016 Olympics either. |  |
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| 21k ST Sales on 16:12 - Apr 14 with 382 views | HatStand |
The day he bought the club. | |
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| 21k ST Sales on 20:39 - Apr 14 with 317 views | essexpaul64 |
Wouldn’t trust him to sell me a used bus ticket. |  | | |
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