| Mark Ashton 09:16 - Jun 17 with 5717 views | Keno |
How long his contract and can we extend it? |  |
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| Mark Ashton on 11:57 - Jun 18 with 939 views | Churchman |
| Mark Ashton on 11:42 - Jun 18 by Nutkins_Return |
The despise of Ashton by Bristol City fans is classic football fan stuff really. He did some good things there and made some mistakes but basically everything that has gone wrong for them or not gone right has be laid at his door. He's become their Paul Lambert basically....(brought a lot on himself by the end but ultimately had no chance to succeed under the regime and the despise is probably a bit OTT). Obviously Ashton is not the manager and is more capable then Lambert....I'm not.forgiving Lambert all sins I'm just saying collectively as fans it's kind of nature to pin all blame on someone.
Ashton has literally proven over the last two years that he is.extremely capable. He has brought in a fantastic backroom team and football manager. Commercially he has been outstanding with shirt sales, ticket sales etc. Put 10k a game on bums on seats. Nothing short of fantastic.
Is he extremely cheesy and hints of David Brent. Yes. Does he use hyperbole and oversell what's going on a bit. Yes probably (but he should, that's what he should be doing - it's positive energy breeding more positivity). Do Ipswich fans swallow everything he says as completely accurate. Some yes and some no (again nornal). BUT has he got excellent contacts, done good deals and been overwhelmingly positive for the club to date. Absolutely yes.
As with anything in football things can change fast. Bad signing and bad decisions. An be made. He will be accountable but he's built a level.of trust and that is deserved.
That's where we are. |
I think their hatred goes above and beyond the normal supporter stuff. The swivel eyed brigade are building a right head of steam up again and there will be 100 pages of it by the time the season starts at this rate. Tremendous stuff. Go for it! I quote from one of their posters a few minutes ago:
‘I don't like Ipswich fans in general. Used to have a FM related soft spot for the team.
The reason I don't like them is that as far as I can tell, our fans have only ever tried to warn them to be vigilant against the damage Ashton could do to them and their response has been deluded arrogance. Starting with the idea they had poached him and our warnings were sour grapes down to the now belief that they are in some way vastly superior to us. Let's be honest, they're a middling club from a footballing backwater. They're the Eastern England version of us. (Maybe the gas actually, as Norwich are to my mind the bigger club).’
Dear oh dear. |  | | |
| Mark Ashton on 12:10 - Jun 18 with 920 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Mark Ashton on 20:53 - Jun 17 by hunty21 |
Another viewpoint having read the reasons for fans making him a pantomine villain is that hes learnt from his mistakes
Positives- great at genersting an increase in revenue and commercial activity and this seems apparent with ipswich
Good at negotiating both players coming in and going out
Great recruitment team
The biggest dislike they have is that he appojnted dean holden who was an unknown and it didnt work out and that fittness levels decreased ? Hes clearly learnt his lesson and stayed clear of any involvment with playing setup and coaching and there is a bigger setup here of coaches that no their roles
The last pount is people seemed to feel he was arrogant and saying 'I' instead of we when claiming credit again hes not coming accross like that at all and has stayed clear of any negative interview infact he speaks very well and connects with fans and its refreshing we dont hear off him for large parts of the season . |
The other positive is he saw the potential of and brought in Kieran McKenna. |  |
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| Mark Ashton on 18:26 - Jun 18 with 809 views | mutters |
CEOs are human as well and just like footballers they can often succeed at one club but fail at another. We've probably all had jobs where we've been more successful than others, it's just life |  |
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| Mark Ashton on 19:29 - Jun 18 with 758 views | Nutkins_Return |
| Mark Ashton on 18:26 - Jun 18 by mutters |
CEOs are human as well and just like footballers they can often succeed at one club but fail at another. We've probably all had jobs where we've been more successful than others, it's just life |
Yep. Read Paul Cook. Clearly done good jobs elsewhere. It just didn't work for him (and he's more suited to an older fashioned structure of manager has control of all facets).
Also, generally speaking you get a good sense of if someone is decent by whether staff follow them. If he was incompetent or a bad boss then you wouldn't have the staff that has followed him come in.
Mike O'Leary has also had a good career and clearly hold Mark in very high regard.
He's doing a good job. Huge step forward from what we had. |  |
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| Mark Ashton on 21:58 - Jun 19 with 609 views | FevsBCFC |
| Mark Ashton on 18:26 - Jun 18 by mutters |
CEOs are human as well and just like footballers they can often succeed at one club but fail at another. We've probably all had jobs where we've been more successful than others, it's just life |
Fair comment. |  | | |
| Mark Ashton on 09:22 - Jun 20 with 521 views | Churchman |
| Mark Ashton on 18:26 - Jun 18 by mutters |
CEOs are human as well and just like footballers they can often succeed at one club but fail at another. We've probably all had jobs where we've been more successful than others, it's just life |
This is very true. When I look back the teams I was involved in ranged from plain awful to just a few where everything clicked. Bit like hitting the perfect golf ball or Saka’s rocket of a second goal last night.
Environments do matter and a big part of that is getting the right balance of people. The last programme I worked on started with six of us and within two years it had 150 in various teams. It had to be that way, but the consequence was that it was all very fractured.
Do senior people like CEOs change over time. I’m sure people in most walks of life do. I hope so.
I believe in certain fields of work everyone has a ‘shelf life’. Mine was two to three years. My mate? A lot longer in his world. A CEO? No idea. My binoculars can’t see that high but I will guess three to four years max?
It is all an inexact science. As you rightly point out, it’s just life. | | | |
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