| MA & KM 09:18 - Nov 6 with 4479 views | OldFart71 |
Mark Ashton has said "It doesn't enter his thoughts about getting rid of McKenna" It has been suggested that from wherever McKenna isn't up to the job. Whether this be paper talk or rumblings from fans or people just stirring the you know what it's absolutely insane that this subject should be anywhere on anyone's agenda. Yes we are in the bottom three and maybe things haven't gone quite according to plan. But let's not forget the journey we have been on and still have to go. Oh course there will be those that will wish us to fail. You don't have to go that far up the A140 to provide us with just one of those. Jealousy is a horrible thing. Just because someone has better than you doesn't give you the right to wish them ill. We all have a little bit of envy but that should never go so far as wishing that they fail. KM should stay as long as he want's to. He is currently the third best person to manage ITFC behind Sir Alf and Sir Bobby. Of course it's debatable he will overtake either of those two as things have changed so much. In Kieran we trust. |  | | |  |
| MA & KM on 09:27 - Nov 6 with 4389 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
No one is calling for KMs head. |  |
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| MA & KM on 10:59 - Nov 6 with 4122 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
Ridiculous for Brenner to ask that question imo.
Only a couple of twitter trolls and Fake accounts have said McKenna out. |  |
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| MA & KM on 11:00 - Nov 6 with 4110 views | textbackup |
| MA & KM on 10:59 - Nov 6 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
Ridiculous for Brenner to ask that question imo.
Only a couple of twitter trolls and Fake accounts have said McKenna out. |
I couldn’t honestly believe he said it. |  |
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| MA & KM on 11:02 - Nov 6 with 4084 views | FrimleyBlue |
| MA & KM on 11:00 - Nov 6 by textbackup |
I couldn’t honestly believe he said it. |
Based on what Ashton was ok to answer and not answer, it seems to be a pre planned question and answer that Ashton wanted to put out there. |  |
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| MA & KM on 11:19 - Nov 6 with 4018 views | LankHenners |
| MA & KM on 10:59 - Nov 6 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
Ridiculous for Brenner to ask that question imo.
Only a couple of twitter trolls and Fake accounts have said McKenna out. |
Ashton probably quite keen to have an opportunity to answer a question like that as it adds to his 'us against the world' narrative he's pushing at the minute. |  |
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| MA & KM on 12:11 - Nov 6 with 3818 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| MA & KM on 11:19 - Nov 6 by LankHenners |
Ashton probably quite keen to have an opportunity to answer a question like that as it adds to his 'us against the world' narrative he's pushing at the minute. |
Quite possibly a planted question.
Ashton is also trotting out the 'Id defend this club with my last breath" line a fair bit. | |
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| MA & KM on 12:12 - Nov 6 with 3811 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| MA & KM on 11:02 - Nov 6 by FrimleyBlue |
Based on what Ashton was ok to answer and not answer, it seems to be a pre planned question and answer that Ashton wanted to put out there. |
I suspect youre right. | |
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| MA & KM on 12:24 - Nov 6 with 3730 views | textbackup |
| MA & KM on 11:19 - Nov 6 by LankHenners |
Ashton probably quite keen to have an opportunity to answer a question like that as it adds to his 'us against the world' narrative he's pushing at the minute. |
Not sure why he’d feel he needs to.
I’m almost 100% sure that if we fail to win a single game this season that you’d not find more than a handful of proper supporters that would even consider KM being sacked. | |
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| MA & KM on 12:51 - Nov 6 with 3616 views | Blue_In_Boston |
Agreed with everything until you said third best. He's got a long way to go before he creates the memories that George Burley gave us. | | | |
| MA & KM on 13:01 - Nov 6 with 3552 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| MA & KM on 11:02 - Nov 6 by FrimleyBlue |
Based on what Ashton was ok to answer and not answer, it seems to be a pre planned question and answer that Ashton wanted to put out there. |
Possibly, although it was text in and Ashton seemed quite surprised by it.
Either way though, just a total pointless segment there was no need for. | |
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| MA & KM on 13:57 - Nov 6 with 3279 views | algy |
| MA & KM on 12:51 - Nov 6 by Blue_In_Boston |
Agreed with everything until you said third best. He's got a long way to go before he creates the memories that George Burley gave us. |
KM's proven his ability as a League One manager, he's proven his ability as a Championship manager. He's only managed 10 games in the top division so far, but hopefully he'll prove his ability here too, and then he can justifiably be rated as our third best manager. | |
| Veni Vidi Participatur. Now we can get back to competing. |
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| MA & KM on 14:57 - Nov 6 with 3075 views | OldFart71 |
| MA & KM on 12:51 - Nov 6 by Blue_In_Boston |
Agreed with everything until you said third best. He's got a long way to go before he creates the memories that George Burley gave us. |
George Burley is a legend, no doubt about that. Great footballer and a decent manager. But we finished fifth in the Premier League and were then relegated. In some part due to bad advice on buying players such as Finidi George and Mateo Sereni. This exacerbated our fall into administration as if I recall correctly sums in excess of £2 million had to be paid to get rid of them. I'm not saying administration solely owed that to those signings because as we know both Churchmans and the North were both replaced. Kieran won't have either of those problems if Town were relegated. The new Cobbold is a year or two off and the players we have were bought with sell on in mind should it be required. Managers are only as good as the backing they get given and maybe Burley wasn't given the same backing as Kieran will be. But KM is a very smart cookie and whilst I'm not saying Burley isn't I still rate KM ahead of George. But that isn't to say I don't appreciate the great times I saw under Burley, both as a player and manager. | | | |
| MA & KM on 15:08 - Nov 6 with 3013 views | Sarge |
KM will leave when he wants to, I don’t believe there’s any scenario aside from sliding back to where he found us, that would put his position at risk. He’s the best man for the job to try and keep us up and if he doesn’t he’s the best man to get us back up again. | | | |
| MA & KM on 16:14 - Nov 6 with 2868 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| MA & KM on 14:57 - Nov 6 by OldFart71 |
George Burley is a legend, no doubt about that. Great footballer and a decent manager. But we finished fifth in the Premier League and were then relegated. In some part due to bad advice on buying players such as Finidi George and Mateo Sereni. This exacerbated our fall into administration as if I recall correctly sums in excess of £2 million had to be paid to get rid of them. I'm not saying administration solely owed that to those signings because as we know both Churchmans and the North were both replaced. Kieran won't have either of those problems if Town were relegated. The new Cobbold is a year or two off and the players we have were bought with sell on in mind should it be required. Managers are only as good as the backing they get given and maybe Burley wasn't given the same backing as Kieran will be. But KM is a very smart cookie and whilst I'm not saying Burley isn't I still rate KM ahead of George. But that isn't to say I don't appreciate the great times I saw under Burley, both as a player and manager. |
Its very subjective and theres no right or wrong answer.
Finishing 5th was an amazing achievement (it was at the time and still is).
GB got us relegated after finishing 5th.
KM might get us relegated in his first prem season.
I think they are on a par, but like I say, its subjective. | |
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| MA & KM on 16:24 - Nov 6 with 2835 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
The question was most likely asked because there has been some press talk of KM's position being under pressure. This is probably click-bait or chat-bot generated, but it's worth addressing otherwise these articles can gain momentum.
It's good to get the club's commitment to the project, and people's long term involvement, in the public domain, regardless of any potential blips (such as possible relegation this season). | | | |
| MA & KM on 19:03 - Nov 6 with 2548 views | cressi |
| MA & KM on 12:24 - Nov 6 by textbackup |
Not sure why he’d feel he needs to.
I’m almost 100% sure that if we fail to win a single game this season that you’d not find more than a handful of proper supporters that would even consider KM being sacked. |
If we were not to win a game all season and we were to keep McKenna he then needs to also understand loyalty as the Palace, Brighton, Chelsea and Man Utd jobs he could have easy jumped ship this rumbled on for weeks with him saying nothing. | | | |
| MA & KM on 19:05 - Nov 6 with 2535 views | cressi |
| MA & KM on 14:57 - Nov 6 by OldFart71 |
George Burley is a legend, no doubt about that. Great footballer and a decent manager. But we finished fifth in the Premier League and were then relegated. In some part due to bad advice on buying players such as Finidi George and Mateo Sereni. This exacerbated our fall into administration as if I recall correctly sums in excess of £2 million had to be paid to get rid of them. I'm not saying administration solely owed that to those signings because as we know both Churchmans and the North were both replaced. Kieran won't have either of those problems if Town were relegated. The new Cobbold is a year or two off and the players we have were bought with sell on in mind should it be required. Managers are only as good as the backing they get given and maybe Burley wasn't given the same backing as Kieran will be. But KM is a very smart cookie and whilst I'm not saying Burley isn't I still rate KM ahead of George. But that isn't to say I don't appreciate the great times I saw under Burley, both as a player and manager. |
George also lost Dale Roberts and never had a team of 15 people. | | | |
| MA & KM on 19:07 - Nov 6 with 2517 views | FrimleyBlue |
| MA & KM on 16:14 - Nov 6 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Its very subjective and theres no right or wrong answer.
Finishing 5th was an amazing achievement (it was at the time and still is).
GB got us relegated after finishing 5th.
KM might get us relegated in his first prem season.
I think they are on a par, but like I say, its subjective. |
GB didn't however have the funds to have his side as one of the most expensive in league 1
He also didn't get 100 mill to spend in his first season in the prem.
KM Is probably gonna be in a league of his own in years to come but he's not outdone Burley yet.
KM did however manage to get us up in his first season in the champ against parachute teams so he does have a big plus in that respect. | |
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| MA & KM on 19:10 - Nov 6 with 2497 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| MA & KM on 13:57 - Nov 6 by algy |
KM's proven his ability as a League One manager, he's proven his ability as a Championship manager. He's only managed 10 games in the top division so far, but hopefully he'll prove his ability here too, and then he can justifiably be rated as our third best manager. |
He could as yet become our best ever manager. For now he is no higher than 4th on the list. It will be interesting to see how high he does go.
As for those saying how support for him is universal, it certainly should be but I remember a few suggesting he lacked loyalty to us when Man Utd were sniffing around simply because he hadn't at that point committed to us. There are fickle fans around. |  |
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| MA & KM on 19:26 - Nov 6 with 2455 views | cressi |
| MA & KM on 19:10 - Nov 6 by Nthsuffolkblue |
He could as yet become our best ever manager. For now he is no higher than 4th on the list. It will be interesting to see how high he does go.
As for those saying how support for him is universal, it certainly should be but I remember a few suggesting he lacked loyalty to us when Man Utd were sniffing around simply because he hadn't at that point committed to us. There are fickle fans around. |
If we go down without winning a game and start badly I admit il be wondering and so will thousands of others let's hope this don't arise. | | | |
| MA & KM on 09:19 - Nov 7 with 2014 views | textbackup |
| MA & KM on 19:10 - Nov 6 by Nthsuffolkblue |
He could as yet become our best ever manager. For now he is no higher than 4th on the list. It will be interesting to see how high he does go.
As for those saying how support for him is universal, it certainly should be but I remember a few suggesting he lacked loyalty to us when Man Utd were sniffing around simply because he hadn't at that point committed to us. There are fickle fans around. |
Out of interest, what order is your 1st and 2nd?
(Personally, no idea, just interested in what others think) | |
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| MA & KM on 10:46 - Nov 7 with 1885 views | norfsufblue |
| MA & KM on 09:19 - Nov 7 by textbackup |
Out of interest, what order is your 1st and 2nd?
(Personally, no idea, just interested in what others think) |
Sir Alf..... he made us champions of England from a similar position KM inherited
Sir Bob..... don't really need to explain that do I
( Sir😉) George ..... most exciting team we've had over a consistent period and that 5th place was an extraordinary achievement
Keiran McKenna..... if he keeps us up he shares 3rd with GB. Unbelievable start to gaining his current rating... if he's with us in 3years time he will have probably exceeded Sir Bob I believe
And for good measure.....
Bill McGarry wasn't to shabby in his limited time here but him jumping ship explains why he doesn't really get a lot of credit for returning us to the First Division |  | | |
| MA & KM on 10:53 - Nov 7 with 1862 views | ElephantintheRoom |
You might recall the second hand care salesman gave McKenna, a manager who wanted to leave with no Premier League management experience, a five year contract worth £5million a year - hopefully with a relegation clause that reduces that ridiculous salary by 95%.
Just because McKenna is now managing like a manager with no Premier League experience doesn’t mean Ashton regrets his ludicrous decision - he cannot afford to sack him even if he wanted to - either for monetary reasons or reputational reasons.
However, this time next year might be interesting IF the franchise are floundering in the lower half of the championship. | |
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| MA & KM on 19:01 - Nov 7 with 1559 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| MA & KM on 10:53 - Nov 7 by ElephantintheRoom |
You might recall the second hand care salesman gave McKenna, a manager who wanted to leave with no Premier League management experience, a five year contract worth £5million a year - hopefully with a relegation clause that reduces that ridiculous salary by 95%.
Just because McKenna is now managing like a manager with no Premier League experience doesn’t mean Ashton regrets his ludicrous decision - he cannot afford to sack him even if he wanted to - either for monetary reasons or reputational reasons.
However, this time next year might be interesting IF the franchise are floundering in the lower half of the championship. |
To clarify then, if you were running the club and it happened to be in the position it was in when we offered McKenna his contract, you would happily have let him go and get a new manager in. | |
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