| Next manager is all about results… 00:07 - Jun 12 with 2162 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
In the hardest league in the world. With only a handful of potential staters that can play at a the level.
Tough gig, the more I think about it, the more I think we need a bridge with experience in keeping teams up. |  |
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| Next manager is all about results… on 08:58 - Jun 12 with 263 views | itfcjoe |
| Next manager is all about results… on 08:51 - Jun 12 by StokieBlue |
I just don't think getting a stalwart in guarantees staying up. It's an old argument in my view, a progressive coach or a good one without PL experience is just as likely to keep you up.
Perhaps I am wrong, we will see soon enough!
I do also think the point about toxicity is valid, lots of people get fed up very quickly nowadays if it's agricultural and we still aren't winning.
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I think a balance needs to be struck between experience and potential - personally wouldn't want someone like Dyche at that end of career where it is just another job but think a real up and comer like McK wouldn't be the right profile to come into the PL and all that it brings |  |
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| Next manager is all about results… on 08:59 - Jun 12 with 259 views | Wright1 |
| Next manager is all about results… on 07:34 - Jun 12 by StokieBlue |
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I don't really want to change to a pragmatic or even clogging style just to stay up.
It still might not work and parachute payments are good enough now that our building would continue.
Obviously I would prefer to stay up but if that is after a year of Dyche-ball or similar is that what we really want?
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Honestly, I wouldn't enjoy it... but I wouldn't enjoy getting relegated much either. We would be naive to believe we can go toe to toe with everyone in the league and come out on top. Maybe it is what is required for a year or two. |  | | |
| Next manager is all about results… on 08:59 - Jun 12 with 255 views | StokieBlue |
| Next manager is all about results… on 08:58 - Jun 12 by itfcjoe |
I think a balance needs to be struck between experience and potential - personally wouldn't want someone like Dyche at that end of career where it is just another job but think a real up and comer like McK wouldn't be the right profile to come into the PL and all that it brings |
I think this is probably where most people are in their thinking.
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| Next manager is all about results… on 09:00 - Jun 12 with 252 views | StokieBlue |
| Next manager is all about results… on 08:59 - Jun 12 by Wright1 |
Honestly, I wouldn't enjoy it... but I wouldn't enjoy getting relegated much either. We would be naive to believe we can go toe to toe with everyone in the league and come out on top. Maybe it is what is required for a year or two. |
Nobody has said we should go "toe-to-toe" with anyone.
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| Next manager is all about results… on 09:08 - Jun 12 with 236 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Next manager is all about results… on 08:43 - Jun 12 by SuffolkPunchFC |
Yes, staying up is important, but let’s not also forget that McKenna was instrumental in rebuilding the connection between the club, the supporters and the town/county. This is what Ipswich Town always used to be, but that relationship was lost during the Evan’s years.
Of course I want a manager that has the ability to build a team that has a chance of staying up, and remaining up, but not at the price of losing that connection.
IMO if we destroy that just to stay up, then we’ve lost sight of who we are - and it’s not worth it. So many clubs have bought PL survival, and yet have become soulless husks. Is that what Ipswich town is? Not in my mind. The Manager choice is so critical - SBR, Burley and now McKenna epitomised these values (I only exclude SAR as I was too young to really understand empathetic relationships, so cannot say with direct experience that he did too).
I’m confident the Town board will find the right man, but let’s not sell our soul to the devil just for short term success - it may be impossible to recapture if we lose that connection once again. |
But we tried to buy Premier league survival last time?!
We just failed.
So the approach is no different. |  |
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| Next manager is all about results… on 09:25 - Jun 12 with 183 views | Guthrum |
| Next manager is all about results… on 09:08 - Jun 12 by Marshalls_Mullet |
But we tried to buy Premier league survival last time?!
We just failed.
So the approach is no different. |
However, we didn't change everyone and everything - including playing philosophy - in an attempt to stay up. We didn't spend to our limit, let alone beyond.
We can debate definitions, but I'd hardly say we went all-out financially or transformationally to change the team and style of play. |  |
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| Next manager is all about results… on 09:50 - Jun 12 with 151 views | BlueySwede |
Isn't it always, for every manager?
I doubt McKenna's mindset was anything other than to get results last time in the Premier League; we just weren't ready as a team or a club. I want us to survive, but I want us to attack and play good football as well, when we can. | | | |
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