| Paul Lambert 442 magazine 15:01 - Jun 7 with 6739 views | RobTheMonk |
Small Ipswich mention, but he knew straight away that the players weren’t good enough for the Championship. States that Ipswich are a brilliant club.
He was a plonker, but he got given a rough hand for us and never recovered from it.
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 18:39 - Jun 7 with 1155 views | Hipsterectomy |
His arrogance at the time just shone through the whole club. Postponing matches as we had a few under 21 players in international matches just screamed arrogance.
I was reminded of him calling Jackson a total disgrace for his red card against Sunderland, his vile and slightly threatening rant towards Stuart Watson, banning Phil for not doxing one of his forum members. But he got a bit agitated at Carrow Road so it's ok |  |
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 18:45 - Jun 7 with 1144 views | Re_User |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 15:38 - Jun 7 by Stu_boy |
Honest question who would you rather have out of keane, lambert or hurst? |
Out of those:
1. Lambert
2. Keane
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3. Hurst
Keane was the biggest disappointment and Lambert to the club to its lowest point in terms of morale.
However, Hurst was completely and utterly out of his depth. It seemed like the club saw what others were doing and wanted to hire a young coach on the way up, but neglected to consider ability. |  | | |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 18:52 - Jun 7 with 1115 views | Leaky |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 15:04 - Jun 7 by tractorboy1978 |
He was a c0ck of the highest order. The worst and most dislikeable manager of my time as a Town fan. For at least the last 12 months, he was begging for the sack and managing the club was a total inconvenience to him. Heard him speak recently about how he was delighted to get sacked by Aston Villa too. Thoroughly odious bloke and I have no sympathy for him whatsoever. [Post edited 7 Jun 2024 15:05]
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Hind sight will tell us that no matter who was manager the ownership wams at fault .Pep wouldn't table get a tune out of us under Evans |  | | |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 18:54 - Jun 7 with 1112 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 18:18 - Jun 7 by Churchman |
Yep, they’re the two!
I get the argument that Lambert inherited a lot of dross. He did. But adding more dross was never going to go well.
I don’t absolve Evans who allowed the club to fall apart. But McCarthy worked in the Evans disaster zone and he’s the measure. Lambert was an arrogant gasbag that was beyond clueless. Yes, he did well at Norwich but those days were long behind him. How he managed to con a five year contract out of Evans is beyond my comprehension. It was nuts. |
'How he managed to con a five year contract out of Evans is beyond my comprehension. It was nuts'.
Similar issue applies the players too. A number of them were with us under Hurst, Lambert and Cook and they used to leech off the club.
Just like for Lambert, the place was an easy payday for him and the players as Evans didn't demand anything on the pitch. Gutless relegation followed by a couple of bleak seasons in League One.
A manager is responsible for tactics/set-ups but he doesn't coach a professional attitude and desire. That was for the players and they were an utter disgrace. Even Dozzell after joining Queens Park admitted that Ipswich had been a 'comfortable zone' for him.
Evans, managers, the players. Everyone has to share the blame. But the money was so easy for some in the Evans world. [Post edited 7 Jun 2024 18:55]
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 19:08 - Jun 7 with 1084 views | tcblue |
BuT hE bOuGhT uS a BeEr | | | |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 19:28 - Jun 7 with 1049 views | Stu_boy |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 18:45 - Jun 7 by Re_User |
Out of those:
1. Lambert
2. Keane
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3. Hurst
Keane was the biggest disappointment and Lambert to the club to its lowest point in terms of morale.
However, Hurst was completely and utterly out of his depth. It seemed like the club saw what others were doing and wanted to hire a young coach on the way up, but neglected to consider ability. |
Agree that hurst was well out of his depth and you could sense it from day 1. However, mick left thr club on a downward trajectory as well, key players like didzy and garner wanted out, we had to sell waghorn to generate funds for squad strengthening.
Hurst though completely underestimated the situation and failed to bring in anyone with championship experience which was our ultimate undoing with such a poor squad | | | |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 20:37 - Jun 7 with 982 views | Nutkins_Return |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 15:23 - Jun 7 by itfcjoe |
He gave up on the job so early, it was so clear from his touchline demeanour and whilst he had all these criticisms he signed a 5 year deal and had the power given to him to actually do something about them.....but didn't mention them until he was about to get the sack |
Don't disagree. I think Evans wanted out and it meant he stayed longer than he should. Almost like he was forcing his pay off by the end and Evans had no choice. Absolutely toxic situation all round. Remember the fitness guy just leaving but weirdly still on the payroll or something like that. | |
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 20:40 - Jun 7 with 972 views | Nutkins_Return |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 15:42 - Jun 7 by tractorboy1978 |
He was hardly saying anything insightful or uniquely visionary - any one with any remote interest in ITFC knew what the issues were and how underfunded the club was, particularly off the pitch.
He made a complete dogs dinner of the season cut short by COVID and then really couldn't be arsed after that. He barely touched base with the players during that COVID break and they were all left to their own devices fitness wise. He chucked the towel in but didn't want to lose out on a pay day so stayed here putting in barely the minimum and taking the p!ss. A complete c0ck. [Post edited 7 Jun 2024 15:48]
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That's not true. With regard the infrastructure we were all calling b***s*** at that time. I mean he was winging big time but he was bang on. I remember Simon Jordan saying he should just get on with it. Of course he should. But our team was worst then I realised if I'm honest and the infrastructure was non existent. Felt like at L1 level we shouldn't need. Rutter. But a really teams.like Plymouth etc were light years ahead in terms of infrastructure which is embarrassing looking back.
The last line maybe. Haha | |
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 20:42 - Jun 7 with 964 views | Nutkins_Return |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 16:41 - Jun 7 by ParisBlue |
He banned Phil from press conferences!
The most bizarre thing about the 5 year contract (still 12 months remaining btw) is that we were on such a poor run of form. After the 5-3 defeat at Lincoln I genuinely thought he was done and should have been sacked at that point. 3 days later..... |
Unforgivable that! | |
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 21:11 - Jun 7 with 946 views | BlueBadger |
His hand was appalling but he did literally nothing to get the best out of it, the incompetent, lazy PR obsessed fraud. |  |
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 21:12 - Jun 7 with 939 views | BlueBadger |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 15:38 - Jun 7 by Stu_boy |
Honest question who would you rather have out of keane, lambert or hurst? |
Could I have the option to sh1t out a hedgehog? | |
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| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 21:36 - Jun 7 with 920 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 21:11 - Jun 7 by BlueBadger |
His hand was appalling but he did literally nothing to get the best out of it, the incompetent, lazy PR obsessed fraud. |
You have forgotten to remind us for the 72nd time that you've banned over your mental problems about him in some Scottish newspaper. | | | |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 07:26 - Jun 8 with 793 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 20:40 - Jun 7 by Nutkins_Return |
That's not true. With regard the infrastructure we were all calling b***s*** at that time. I mean he was winging big time but he was bang on. I remember Simon Jordan saying he should just get on with it. Of course he should. But our team was worst then I realised if I'm honest and the infrastructure was non existent. Felt like at L1 level we shouldn't need. Rutter. But a really teams.like Plymouth etc were light years ahead in terms of infrastructure which is embarrassing looking back.
The last line maybe. Haha |
I think most people knew that both things could be true. He was doing a poor job and was the short term problem but the lack of funding and infrastructure from Evans was the medium-long term problem. There was plenty of chat on here to that effect at the time and that was certainly the conversation I was having with my mates at the time. | | | |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 15:03 - Jun 8 with 674 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Paul Lambert 442 magazine on 15:14 - Jun 7 by Nutkins_Return |
To be honest the easy thing to say was he was awful/useless/total **** etc. I think towards the end his head had completely gone, he'd lost the fans etc and his ego/pride made his behaviour/interviews etc dreadful. He had to go.
But when you look back he effectively predicted and got a lot absolutely bang on. He talked about how important the structure was at a club and how there wasn't one at Ipswich (I thought that was excuse making at L1 level) but he was bang on. Only having seen the difference a ground up infrastructure at a club can make can I see what he was saying.
He talked about if someone could get some momentum with the club it could be massive and we'd fill stadiums and go along way. Bang on.
To a degree the style of play he wanted to do and direction of travel was right. He didn't have McKenna ability, the background staff, players of infrastructure to carry it off. If he had gamechanger might he have got us up and had some success. Honestly yes I think out of L1 at least he might well.
But he's so far off McKenna as a person and coach. Just so thankful those days are behind us. [Post edited 7 Jun 2024 15:21]
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He didn't predict things like structure. A significant number of us fans were saying he was an issue and so was the infrastructure. He just jumped on the latter to excuse himself, when it was already a concept out in the public domain. |  |
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