| Chaplin interview… 20:36 - Sep 2 with 3326 views | SitfcB |
Some really nice words about us and how he’s fallen in love with ITFC.
Leaving this summer wasn’t something that happened over night.
Portsmouth probably the only club he’d have left for.
Cheekly little Mark Ashton saying as well, the boy has learnt.
https://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/videos/9563902a-67c9-41dd-b098-0ef06dde5d6a
Talks so well as we know. Hope he rips it up and we get him back in Jan!! [Post edited 2 Sep 20:44]
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| Chaplin interview… on 21:15 - Sep 2 with 2775 views | olimar |
It feels like hes leaving too early and that interview seems to suggest much the same. Yeah, Pompey is a club he loves, but hes got another one that he loves just as much now and, maybe, isnt quite ready to be leaving behind yet. |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 21:26 - Sep 2 with 2660 views | Linners |
| Chaplin interview… on 21:15 - Sep 2 by olimar |
It feels like hes leaving too early and that interview seems to suggest much the same. Yeah, Pompey is a club he loves, but hes got another one that he loves just as much now and, maybe, isnt quite ready to be leaving behind yet. |
No question that he'd still be here if we hadn't gone up when we did, got all the money etc. One of the very best. |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 21:35 - Sep 2 with 2552 views | Keno |
| Chaplin interview… on 21:26 - Sep 2 by Linners |
No question that he'd still be here if we hadn't gone up when we did, got all the money etc. One of the very best. |
I know how much he loves Ipswich, both the town and the Town and I suspect Portsmouth was the only club who would tempt him away
I’ll miss him in a town shirt |  |
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| Chaplin interview… on 21:48 - Sep 2 with 2399 views | WestSussexBlue |
| Chaplin interview… on 21:15 - Sep 2 by olimar |
It feels like hes leaving too early and that interview seems to suggest much the same. Yeah, Pompey is a club he loves, but hes got another one that he loves just as much now and, maybe, isnt quite ready to be leaving behind yet. |
Would love Chappers to come back whether that’s in January or next season, unfortunately that’s unlikely to happen. As a team we’ve moved on and his place is elsewhere now.
Real shame. | | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 21:54 - Sep 2 with 2335 views | olimar |
| Chaplin interview… on 21:35 - Sep 2 by Keno |
I know how much he loves Ipswich, both the town and the Town and I suspect Portsmouth was the only club who would tempt him away
I’ll miss him in a town shirt |
Yeah it does appear that it was less about wanting to go back to Portsmouth and more about realising that he might need to leave Ipswich, not necessarily wanting to, and Portsmouth presented the only option he was likely to be interested in. | | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 22:02 - Sep 2 with 2231 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Looks and sounds a bit gutted at the start I thought. |  |
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| Chaplin interview… on 22:21 - Sep 2 with 2057 views | GlasgowBlue |
Doesn’t sit right with me seeing Chappers in another club’s shirt. Then again I felt the same seeing Warky at Liverpool, Frans at Forest, Arnie at Man U etc.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da |  |
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| Chaplin interview… on 22:24 - Sep 2 with 2003 views | reusersfreekicks |
Absolute star of a player and a man |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 06:51 - Sep 3 with 1400 views | NickITFC |
Doesn't look or feel right seeing him in a Portsmouth shirt |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 07:36 - Sep 3 with 1213 views | Bluemike31 |
Was gutted to see him go but nothing lasts forever unfortunately. A great move for him and probably the right call for the club too. For every Chaplin that departs a new Egeli arrives to write their own chapter in the History of ITFC. I will be forever thankful for the many magic moments and memories Conor has provided, nobody can take them away. | | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 08:08 - Sep 3 with 1106 views | BrianTablet |
| Chaplin interview… on 06:41 - Sep 3 by ernie |
Just move on. Marcus Stewart was gone within two years in 2002, Johnson within 4 in 2001. Players move on all the time, no need to be sentimental about it. What’s important is the direction the club takes. |
Ah yes, sorry for my sentiment.
Football: 22 humans trying to kick a sphere of leather into a frame, with the ultimate aim of creating wealth for inter-continental hedge-funds. All the while, extracting the maximum amount of currency from other humans who attach themselves to geographically-dispersed units of humans with logos and uniforms.
Emotion? Sentiment? VAR humbug.
I'm SAD that Chaplin has been moved on. Why shouldn't I be?
He was a great player, played the game the right way and did lots off the field.
I'm also sad we have lost Morsy, and Woolfie and Burgess and the rest.
It's a cr@p situation, and - in my opinion - it hasn't been done well.
Football is about magic. And we had that magic for a while.
It's easily-lost and very tough to attain.
We had it and we've lost it.
McKenna is an excellent manager and I've no doubt it'll come around again.
Hopefully this season, maybe next.
Let's see.
But I'll be sentimental about what we had, thanks.
Good luck to Conor and the rest... |  |
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| This on 08:21 - Sep 3 with 1026 views | Dyland |
| Chaplin interview… on 08:08 - Sep 3 by BrianTablet |
Ah yes, sorry for my sentiment.
Football: 22 humans trying to kick a sphere of leather into a frame, with the ultimate aim of creating wealth for inter-continental hedge-funds. All the while, extracting the maximum amount of currency from other humans who attach themselves to geographically-dispersed units of humans with logos and uniforms.
Emotion? Sentiment? VAR humbug.
I'm SAD that Chaplin has been moved on. Why shouldn't I be?
He was a great player, played the game the right way and did lots off the field.
I'm also sad we have lost Morsy, and Woolfie and Burgess and the rest.
It's a cr@p situation, and - in my opinion - it hasn't been done well.
Football is about magic. And we had that magic for a while.
It's easily-lost and very tough to attain.
We had it and we've lost it.
McKenna is an excellent manager and I've no doubt it'll come around again.
Hopefully this season, maybe next.
Let's see.
But I'll be sentimental about what we had, thanks.
Good luck to Conor and the rest... |
I feel the same way, more about football in general. It is what it is and not sure that things have been handled badly, more the reality of football these days. Hell, it's been like that for decades. Go back to the early 80s and Mariner et al. All left for money at the end of the day. It's what makes the word go round (though actually not, its gravity and this is the point). Can't help feeling sentimental about it can we. |  |
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| Chaplin interview… on 08:28 - Sep 3 with 988 views | tonybied |
| Chaplin interview… on 06:41 - Sep 3 by ernie |
Just move on. Marcus Stewart was gone within two years in 2002, Johnson within 4 in 2001. Players move on all the time, no need to be sentimental about it. What’s important is the direction the club takes. |
Part of the direction of the club we all want is to feel connected to our team, isn't it? How do you get that without sentiment and emotion towards individuals? It's okay to show you have feelings towards another human, especially one who has been pivotal to our team's rise, and just as importantly to the improvement of ITFC's involvement with its community. |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:18 - Sep 3 with 816 views | ITFCson |
The sentiment makes me sad, but equally, it makes me sad from a football perspective. Despite all the signings imo he should still be an integral member of the squad. In fact I would have him as club captain over O'shea. | | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:28 - Sep 3 with 775 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Chaplin interview… on 06:41 - Sep 3 by ernie |
Just move on. Marcus Stewart was gone within two years in 2002, Johnson within 4 in 2001. Players move on all the time, no need to be sentimental about it. What’s important is the direction the club takes. |
What about those who don't like it from a football perspective irrespective of sentiment? He's played in every game this season, started the last one, still looked one of our brightest players when he came on against Southampton. We've effectively given him away for peanuts and the squad place has gone to a 4th right back who can't stay fit and when fit hasn't looked good enough.
Sentiment aside I just can't square this one tbh.
Hey ho, its done now. We move on. |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:33 - Sep 3 with 738 views | baxterbasics |
On the whole sentiment / player churn issue.
Understandable a few of us fans are feeling a bit of disconnect with the team now. Comments like "Heart and soul ripped out" being one of the more extreme (and of course silly) manifestations.
But I am optimistic that we just need a bit of time before some new heroes emerge from the current bunch. A relationship between players and fans needs to bed in just like it does between the players/manager themselves. So long as performances improve it should come. |  |
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| Chaplin interview… on 09:48 - Sep 3 with 667 views | BlueForYou |
| Chaplin interview… on 08:08 - Sep 3 by BrianTablet |
Ah yes, sorry for my sentiment.
Football: 22 humans trying to kick a sphere of leather into a frame, with the ultimate aim of creating wealth for inter-continental hedge-funds. All the while, extracting the maximum amount of currency from other humans who attach themselves to geographically-dispersed units of humans with logos and uniforms.
Emotion? Sentiment? VAR humbug.
I'm SAD that Chaplin has been moved on. Why shouldn't I be?
He was a great player, played the game the right way and did lots off the field.
I'm also sad we have lost Morsy, and Woolfie and Burgess and the rest.
It's a cr@p situation, and - in my opinion - it hasn't been done well.
Football is about magic. And we had that magic for a while.
It's easily-lost and very tough to attain.
We had it and we've lost it.
McKenna is an excellent manager and I've no doubt it'll come around again.
Hopefully this season, maybe next.
Let's see.
But I'll be sentimental about what we had, thanks.
Good luck to Conor and the rest... |
Well said. |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:51 - Sep 3 with 653 views | ernie |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:28 - Sep 3 by _clive_baker_ |
What about those who don't like it from a football perspective irrespective of sentiment? He's played in every game this season, started the last one, still looked one of our brightest players when he came on against Southampton. We've effectively given him away for peanuts and the squad place has gone to a 4th right back who can't stay fit and when fit hasn't looked good enough.
Sentiment aside I just can't square this one tbh.
Hey ho, its done now. We move on. |
Not sure that’s an argument that stands up either. In the later on high pressure games of 2023-4 in the second half of the season he often went missing and his quick one touch passing/ snatching at shots style didn’t pay off in the prem either | | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:56 - Sep 3 with 620 views | MattinLondon |
It is sad to see him in another teams shirt and he does seem quite teary eyed when discussing the last few years here - and I do think he would much prefer to be here.
But at the beginning of the interview does he mention ‘seeing what Sindre brought? As if he knew that the new player was a lot better than him. Maybe CC knew that his time was up and that he wanted to leave when the going was still good rather than being put on the transfer list?
Or maybe I’m completely misheard and he said ‘Sunday’ which is when Pompey contacted the club. |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:58 - Sep 3 with 605 views | soupytwist |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:56 - Sep 3 by MattinLondon |
It is sad to see him in another teams shirt and he does seem quite teary eyed when discussing the last few years here - and I do think he would much prefer to be here.
But at the beginning of the interview does he mention ‘seeing what Sindre brought? As if he knew that the new player was a lot better than him. Maybe CC knew that his time was up and that he wanted to leave when the going was still good rather than being put on the transfer list?
Or maybe I’m completely misheard and he said ‘Sunday’ which is when Pompey contacted the club. |
I heard it as Sunday, which makes sense because he was talking about playing in the game the day before when he knew something was afoot but very few other people did. |  | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 10:17 - Sep 3 with 521 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Chaplin interview… on 09:51 - Sep 3 by ernie |
Not sure that’s an argument that stands up either. In the later on high pressure games of 2023-4 in the second half of the season he often went missing and his quick one touch passing/ snatching at shots style didn’t pay off in the prem either |
If we're judging on our premier league performances we won't have much of a squad left. He didn't get many opportunities last season for different reasons, but don't think he was any worse than a lot of the expensive signings we brought in tbh.
I think the bit about our promotion season is a myth tbh. He scored 13 goals in that season, he's a bit streaky but even in the 2nd half of the season he scored our winner against Sunderland, winner against Swansea, winner in the 1-0 at Ewood. Also scored massive goals against Birmingham & in the 3-2 win over Bristol City. It was only really April where the goals dried up a bit but on balance he was massive for us that season. 28 years old, walked away effectively for very little in favour of a handful who have everything to prove here. Just feels weird to me when we had room in the squad for him. | | | |
| Chaplin interview… on 10:22 - Sep 3 with 497 views | IPSWICHFANITFC |
I get the feeling he will be recalled in January and it'll be another Edmundson scenario.
Chaplin won't be back in an ITFC shirt, but Portsmouth will want to keep him and he will want to stay there, so if we can get a fee for him in January, we will. |  |
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| Chaplin interview… on 10:28 - Sep 3 with 478 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Chaplin interview… on 10:22 - Sep 3 by IPSWICHFANITFC |
I get the feeling he will be recalled in January and it'll be another Edmundson scenario.
Chaplin won't be back in an ITFC shirt, but Portsmouth will want to keep him and he will want to stay there, so if we can get a fee for him in January, we will. |
Think you're right, the recall is in there for us to retain that element of control and try to squeeze a fee out of Pompey or someone else. | | | |
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