| Just watched the training ground video 10:30 - Nov 14 with 3637 views | Keno |
Say what you like about Ashton and the owners group but they arent p1ssing about are they??
Thats some very impressive investment and the work on PR is obviously still to come
COYBs!!! [Post edited 14 Nov 10:31]
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| Just watched the training ground video on 10:44 - Nov 14 with 2734 views | Reuser_is_God |
He’s brilliant isn’t he |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 10:46 - Nov 14 with 2739 views | MrPotatoHead |
Certainly putting their money where their mouths are.
Players and league positions come and go, but this level of investment in the training ground and stadium shows their intent for longer term value. |  | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:53 - Nov 14 with 2688 views | Guthrum |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:46 - Nov 14 by MrPotatoHead |
Certainly putting their money where their mouths are.
Players and league positions come and go, but this level of investment in the training ground and stadium shows their intent for longer term value. |
Contrast with all the clubs where they have assembled vastly overpriced squads and mortgaged the existing infrastructure to the hilt.
Our way may not yield such quick results (tho it hasn't been bad, by any means*), but the long-term benefits promise to be much greater.
* I found a couple of things Ashton said interesting in that regard. Seemed to imply that they intended to get much of the work done before we got to the Prem and that last season's excursion in a sense got in the way of the plan. |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 10:55 - Nov 14 with 2658 views | homer_123 |
My only gripe is just how many times 'stitched pitch' was mentioned! |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 10:57 - Nov 14 with 2655 views | homer_123 |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:53 - Nov 14 by Guthrum |
Contrast with all the clubs where they have assembled vastly overpriced squads and mortgaged the existing infrastructure to the hilt.
Our way may not yield such quick results (tho it hasn't been bad, by any means*), but the long-term benefits promise to be much greater.
* I found a couple of things Ashton said interesting in that regard. Seemed to imply that they intended to get much of the work done before we got to the Prem and that last season's excursion in a sense got in the way of the plan. |
I suspect it's a culmination of the fact there was more to do at the training ground than maybe first expected and then Prem promotion on top of that. | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 10:57 - Nov 14 with 2633 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:55 - Nov 14 by homer_123 |
My only gripe is just how many times 'stitched pitch' was mentioned! |
woah there, he can talk about pitches as much as he likes lol.
look at those pitches!!!!! beautiful |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 10:58 - Nov 14 with 2633 views | homer_123 |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:57 - Nov 14 by FrimleyBlue |
woah there, he can talk about pitches as much as he likes lol.
look at those pitches!!!!! beautiful |
All 10 of them!!! | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 10:58 - Nov 14 with 2635 views | SitfcB |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:55 - Nov 14 by homer_123 |
My only gripe is just how many times 'stitched pitch' was mentioned! |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 11:02 - Nov 14 with 2608 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:53 - Nov 14 by Guthrum |
Contrast with all the clubs where they have assembled vastly overpriced squads and mortgaged the existing infrastructure to the hilt.
Our way may not yield such quick results (tho it hasn't been bad, by any means*), but the long-term benefits promise to be much greater.
* I found a couple of things Ashton said interesting in that regard. Seemed to imply that they intended to get much of the work done before we got to the Prem and that last season's excursion in a sense got in the way of the plan. |
"* I found a couple of things Ashton said interesting in that regard. Seemed to imply that they intended to get much of the work done before we got to the Prem and that last season's excursion in a sense got in the way of the plan."
This shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone. I've written elsewhere that if you collect all the various public snippets / comments made, the plan is very long term. Established in the PL by ~2032, and we're still well ahead of schedule. This is why I have patience. You can imagine how disruptive having to accelerate some plans would have been. [Post edited 14 Nov 11:07]
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| Just watched the training ground video on 11:27 - Nov 14 with 2500 views | BseaBlue |
| Just watched the training ground video on 11:02 - Nov 14 by SuffolkPunchFC |
"* I found a couple of things Ashton said interesting in that regard. Seemed to imply that they intended to get much of the work done before we got to the Prem and that last season's excursion in a sense got in the way of the plan."
This shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone. I've written elsewhere that if you collect all the various public snippets / comments made, the plan is very long term. Established in the PL by ~2032, and we're still well ahead of schedule. This is why I have patience. You can imagine how disruptive having to accelerate some plans would have been. [Post edited 14 Nov 11:07]
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If you look at the achievements since the new owners took over it makes for some impressive work over a relatively short space of time.
- Turned around the form that saw us languishing in League one.
- Employed our most successful manager since Burley
- Established a 'Championship Ready' squad in League one
- Promoted out of the Champ at the first time of asking
- Complete renovation of the ground which had become dated
- Purchasing of land around the ground for further development & long term plans
- Brand new state of the art pitch at Portman Road
- Catergory one Academy delivered
- Record transfer fees paid and received
- Huge staffing infrastructure in place, where numbers had lacked before
- Complete re-build of the training ground
- Investment and development of the clubs community programmes
- Further investors brought into the club
I'm certain I have probably missed things but hugely impressive in such a short space of time and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate when you look at other smash and grab owners. Whatever happens now, they have left a real legacy and I look forward to seeing what else they are going to deliver for us. [Post edited 14 Nov 11:28]
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| Just watched the training ground video on 11:37 - Nov 14 with 2448 views | Meadowlark |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:55 - Nov 14 by homer_123 |
My only gripe is just how many times 'stitched pitch' was mentioned! |
He said "hence why" too!  |  | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 12:54 - Nov 14 with 2181 views | Ftnfwest |
The thing that struck me was how mickey mouse it was before 2021, bearing in mind Gamechanger have already improved it. |  | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 12:56 - Nov 14 with 2158 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Just watched the training ground video on 11:37 - Nov 14 by Meadowlark |
He said "hence why" too! |
'look' is defo a fav word too | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 13:08 - Nov 14 with 2109 views | SitfcB |
| Just watched the training ground video on 12:56 - Nov 14 by FrimleyBlue |
'look' is defo a fav word too |
I cheered when he said “what got us here won’t get us there” | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 13:13 - Nov 14 with 2056 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Just watched the training ground video on 13:08 - Nov 14 by SitfcB |
I cheered when he said “what got us here won’t get us there” |
I was awaiting best version of ourselves, but he didn't quite get there. | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 13:14 - Nov 14 with 2066 views | Churchman |
| Just watched the training ground video on 11:37 - Nov 14 by Meadowlark |
He said "hence why" too! |
Hence why
Stitched pitch
World class
Elite
Investors
Winning mentality
Millions
Coffee Cup
I couldn’t care a less what words he uses. He can do Singin’ in the Rain wearing a clown suit juggling a Big Mac and fries for all I care. I’m interested in what they are aiming to do and whether or not they are delivering.
This infrastructure stuff is literally and figuratively the foundations of the football club. It will improve us and encourage ITFC to grow. Yes things like drawing a game with Watford we should have won is disappointing and the first team winning is always the focal point of what the club has to do.
However, I’ve banged on a lot about the underlying bigger picture, long term stuff and I guess seeing that piece is what I’ve been on about. Set the football club up right for the 2020s and success will come maybe this year, maybe next - but it will happen. |  | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 13:32 - Nov 14 with 1982 views | ITFC_Forever |
I know we all live and breathe the week-to-week results, but when you look at the club now and how it was before Gamechanger came in, it’s a different world.
We all want ITFC to be the best it can be and for much of the ME regime, we were a far cry from that.
An interview with Mike O’Leary sticks in my mind on the day the takeover went through. He spoke about Ipswich Town should be in the top division or at the very least at the very top of the one below fighting to get out. That was the lightbulb moment for me…. We were mid-table in League 1 and it brought it home how far we had let our standards drop, both as a club and a fanbase.
We now have genuinely top operators at our club, led by Ashton and it’s brilliant to see. |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 14:31 - Nov 14 with 1778 views | Vic |
Darkhorse, darkhorse, where are you? |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 14:49 - Nov 14 with 1728 views | farkenhell |
| Just watched the training ground video on 11:37 - Nov 14 by Meadowlark |
He said "hence why" too! |
Hence=therefore. He's (therefore) saying "Therefore, [that is] why...".
Nothing wrong with that in my book. | | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 15:53 - Nov 14 with 1627 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Just watched the training ground video on 13:32 - Nov 14 by ITFC_Forever |
I know we all live and breathe the week-to-week results, but when you look at the club now and how it was before Gamechanger came in, it’s a different world.
We all want ITFC to be the best it can be and for much of the ME regime, we were a far cry from that.
An interview with Mike O’Leary sticks in my mind on the day the takeover went through. He spoke about Ipswich Town should be in the top division or at the very least at the very top of the one below fighting to get out. That was the lightbulb moment for me…. We were mid-table in League 1 and it brought it home how far we had let our standards drop, both as a club and a fanbase.
We now have genuinely top operators at our club, led by Ashton and it’s brilliant to see. |
I actually look back on that period with a bit of embarrassment that us as a fanbase just sat by & allowed that to happen. | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 16:01 - Nov 14 with 1591 views | mellowblue |
| Just watched the training ground video on 13:14 - Nov 14 by Churchman |
Hence why
Stitched pitch
World class
Elite
Investors
Winning mentality
Millions
Coffee Cup
I couldn’t care a less what words he uses. He can do Singin’ in the Rain wearing a clown suit juggling a Big Mac and fries for all I care. I’m interested in what they are aiming to do and whether or not they are delivering.
This infrastructure stuff is literally and figuratively the foundations of the football club. It will improve us and encourage ITFC to grow. Yes things like drawing a game with Watford we should have won is disappointing and the first team winning is always the focal point of what the club has to do.
However, I’ve banged on a lot about the underlying bigger picture, long term stuff and I guess seeing that piece is what I’ve been on about. Set the football club up right for the 2020s and success will come maybe this year, maybe next - but it will happen. |
The business plan is certainly well crafted and the long term nature of it certainly gives us security knowing they are not short-termist about what they want to achieve. Gamechangers must be surmising that the value of established Prem teams are going to go the way of F1 teams, bearing in mind the world reach that both have these days. Mercedes Benz racing team was recently valued at 4.6 billion, not sure if USD or GBP. Those are the levels they see Premier League teams going to, NFL would be another benchmark. | | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 16:04 - Nov 14 with 1581 views | DanTheMan |
| Just watched the training ground video on 15:53 - Nov 14 by Reuser_is_God |
I actually look back on that period with a bit of embarrassment that us as a fanbase just sat by & allowed that to happen. |
It's hard when the decline is over a long period - feels like the norm. |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 16:26 - Nov 14 with 1514 views | NthQldITFC |
| Just watched the training ground video on 14:49 - Nov 14 by farkenhell |
Hence=therefore. He's (therefore) saying "Therefore, [that is] why...".
Nothing wrong with that in my book. |
For me it's a tautological pleonasm. |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 16:28 - Nov 14 with 1504 views | Keno |
| Just watched the training ground video on 16:26 - Nov 14 by NthQldITFC |
For me it's a tautological pleonasm. |
I had a 'tautological pleonasm', I think the doctor gave me some cream for it | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 16:28 - Nov 14 with 1504 views | farkenhell |
| Just watched the training ground video on 16:26 - Nov 14 by NthQldITFC |
For me it's a tautological pleonasm. |
Bless you. Honey and lemon usually sorts me out. | | | |
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