| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. 10:06 - Jan 9 with 4253 views | Damster |
Rewind 2 years and who would have been brave enough to think of Ipswich in the Premier League securing a front 3 who lead the line for England U21’s.
The transformation is incredible but it will undoubtedly come at the expense of losing 3 or 4 of our previous promotion hero’s and fan favourites.
The likes of Woolfy, Burgess, Clarke, Chaplin and Burns will have to make way and some moved on which is very sad but a result of the success and natural evolution of football if you want to compete at a higher level.
The signings are very smart from a “Young English Asset” point of view and should hold the club in a good position regardless of where we finish with Delaps value probably writing off the cost of all 3.
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| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. on 12:53 - Jan 9 with 651 views | OldFart71 |
Having had quite a few jobs in a working lifetime of 52 years, not all full time. In latter years I worked a couple of days a week until I reached 71. Never in that time or whatever job I had did I believe I was irreplaceable. I know some fellow workers did, but they were wrong. When you are replaced or leave a job the person taking over may or may not be as good as you. They may do the job differently. But they do the job. Football is obviously a totally different animal in that footballers don't work, if you can call it that, for forty or fifty years. Very few will even get too much over fifteen years and of those only a handful at the very top. I sometimes find myself reminiscing over players like Beattie, Hunter, Mariner, Woods, Gates etc. I do feel sad that some have passed on. But I don't feel sad that they were replaced as that's how it works and any sensible player is aware that they will either go on to greater things or will end up playing for a local side. As our American friends say " That's the way the cookie crumbles" | | | |
| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. on 12:54 - Jan 9 with 647 views | Denny32 |
I'd say by the end of season, hutch morsey and broadhead will be only three remaining ,rest will be sold loaned ..its all about putting food on the table and raising a family and paying bills.. | | | |
| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. on 13:03 - Jan 9 with 622 views | itfcjoe |
Obviously there were many that came in along the way, some making major contributions like Omari and Keiffer, some making minor ones like Ball and Travis and some in the middle like Sarmiento and Tuanzebe.....but we will presumably now see the exits of a number of the double promotion boys.
For me, this is the team I'll always look back at it as:
GK - No one because of the quirk
Clarke
Woolfie
Burgess
Davis
Morsy
Luongo
Burns
Chaplin
Broadhead
Hirst
Without checking, I imagine those 10 started much more than anyone between January 2023 and May 2024 which was the greatest 18 months ever as an ITFC fan......looks like Luongo and Harry Clarke are the furthest away from playing now and closer to the exit (permanently or temporarily)
If we stay up, as we all hope we do, then a real chance more than half of them aren't here this time next year |  |
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| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. on 13:43 - Jan 9 with 520 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. on 12:50 - Jan 9 by Churchman |
There is room for sentiment and there is no room for sentiment. This group of players have been special and what they achieved was phenomenal. They will always be part of the club.
They should also be looked after in that they should be respected and helped to find their next best move and leave on the same excellent terms as Jackson did.
Where there is no room for sentiment is in what the club is trying to do. Progress. If that means personnel has to change, so be it. It’s no different to the real world. Change is a fact of life.
In my career I brought in people and moved people on. Recruited and sadly had to fire a couple (the most ghastly of tasks). On a few occasions I was got rid of and on one occasion at a young age told quite directly that I wasn’t good enough to do the one thing I wanted to do. They were right too.
It’s just how it is and sport is an extreme version of it. For me, a bit like supporters calling out players they don’t like, it’s not what is done, it’s how it’s done - see Kaydon Js departure for how to do it right.
In terms of the change at the club, it feels like a runaway horse at the moment. I don’t understand the mind boggling numbers or of course what the plan is. The club appears measured by comparison to every era back to the Cobbolds’ pomp so I go with that. Compared to how it was just four years ago, omg, I still can’t quite believe it. |
That's fair.
Of course for the club they have to do what's right to progress and continue to get better and that means moving on players we all love.
As fans though, we are allowed to be sentimental. They certainly feel like more than "employees" to me. |  |
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| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. on 13:48 - Jan 9 with 504 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| Exciting Times with a tiny bit of sadness. on 13:03 - Jan 9 by itfcjoe |
Obviously there were many that came in along the way, some making major contributions like Omari and Keiffer, some making minor ones like Ball and Travis and some in the middle like Sarmiento and Tuanzebe.....but we will presumably now see the exits of a number of the double promotion boys.
For me, this is the team I'll always look back at it as:
GK - No one because of the quirk
Clarke
Woolfie
Burgess
Davis
Morsy
Luongo
Burns
Chaplin
Broadhead
Hirst
Without checking, I imagine those 10 started much more than anyone between January 2023 and May 2024 which was the greatest 18 months ever as an ITFC fan......looks like Luongo and Harry Clarke are the furthest away from playing now and closer to the exit (permanently or temporarily)
If we stay up, as we all hope we do, then a real chance more than half of them aren't here this time next year |
One of those teams where in 20 years time the line up will just roll off the tongue.
Some serious town legends in there. | |
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