| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love 11:02 - Nov 5 with 1191 views | StuartSlater |
What a bloody team and era -
often not talked about but that first season in prem we were good and very competitive...
The promotion team was great.
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:12 - Nov 5 with 0 views | Steve_M |
That team probably comes third in my time of watching Ipswich (I was alive for the second half of the Robson-era but too young to pay proper attention to it).
It's third though because it lacks the build up over successive seasons that Burley had in the late-90s or the 2.5 years to double promotion that McKenna managed.
1991-92 was a superb season, and the one that cemented my support of the club, but a bit behind those other two spells. |  |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:17 - Nov 5 with 0 views | mellowblue |
Really good blend of experience and youth, talent and journeymen. The team really were one of those that are greater than the sum of it's parts. Really hard-working but entertaining too. Lyall did a superb job. Second half of the promotion season, we were pretty unbeatable. | | | |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:23 - Nov 5 with 0 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:12 - Nov 5 by Steve_M |
That team probably comes third in my time of watching Ipswich (I was alive for the second half of the Robson-era but too young to pay proper attention to it).
It's third though because it lacks the build up over successive seasons that Burley had in the late-90s or the 2.5 years to double promotion that McKenna managed.
1991-92 was a superb season, and the one that cemented my support of the club, but a bit behind those other two spells. |
Same, a young boy becoming aware of the beautiful game and I remember seeing that year in the paper all the talk of the premier league. The sun did a spread, the teams that could be founding members of the premier league. A big 2 pager 1st page in from the back. They had all the badges of the apparent founding teams, one of which was a horrifically offensive yellow budgerigar and none of which were a hadsome horse. I was remember being really annoyed about that. Then we won promotion at that was it.
As young lad growing up amongst sister botherers that felt particularly important. I certainly think that team and that promotion cemented me as a town fan. The reaction from all the scum supporting kids at school after just made me reveal in it even more. |  |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:44 - Nov 5 with 0 views | ITFC_Essex |
John Lyall is (much like Joe Royle) an underrated Town manager when we talk about the best we have had. He turned a club firmly on its ars- post Robson, in a short amount of time, from passengers in the 2nd tier, to a good footballing side on a shoestring budget. Even then there were big spenders at this level, and we out competed them in 1991/92 and of course he was the last Town manager to achieve 3 seasons in the top flight, as well as actually win a league.
His biggest mistake was moving upstairs into what was a semi-director of football role, allowing a very functional, but dull McGiven to run the team. We actually had footballers at the club who could play neat football at the time in the likes of Stockwell, Williams, Milton, Johnson and co. but we didn't really utilize that under McGiven. Selling Dozzell was a blow, and it's a shame we didn't have he, and Marshall, in the same side.
I'd argue that he's ahead of McKenna in the Town manager table, purely on the fact he won a league and kept us up three seasons with a budget comparable to that of Swindon's at the time. [Post edited 5 Nov 11:46]
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:48 - Nov 5 with 0 views | mellowblue |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:44 - Nov 5 by ITFC_Essex |
John Lyall is (much like Joe Royle) an underrated Town manager when we talk about the best we have had. He turned a club firmly on its ars- post Robson, in a short amount of time, from passengers in the 2nd tier, to a good footballing side on a shoestring budget. Even then there were big spenders at this level, and we out competed them in 1991/92 and of course he was the last Town manager to achieve 3 seasons in the top flight, as well as actually win a league.
His biggest mistake was moving upstairs into what was a semi-director of football role, allowing a very functional, but dull McGiven to run the team. We actually had footballers at the club who could play neat football at the time in the likes of Stockwell, Williams, Milton, Johnson and co. but we didn't really utilize that under McGiven. Selling Dozzell was a blow, and it's a shame we didn't have he, and Marshall, in the same side.
I'd argue that he's ahead of McKenna in the Town manager table, purely on the fact he won a league and kept us up three seasons with a budget comparable to that of Swindon's at the time. [Post edited 5 Nov 11:46]
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To this day, I do not recognize Mick McGiven as a Town manager. I tend to regard it all as the Lyall era. | | | |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:50 - Nov 5 with 0 views | algy |
I hugely enjoyed our 4 promotions under Burley and McKenna but what for me stands out from Lyall's brief success is that we didn't just get promoted, we did so winning the division. First place. Top of the division. We are the Champions! Simply the best! | | | |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 12:00 - Nov 5 with 0 views | ITFC_Essex |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:48 - Nov 5 by mellowblue |
To this day, I do not recognize Mick McGiven as a Town manager. I tend to regard it all as the Lyall era. |
The tragically bad football we played in 1993/94 was more related to the McGiven brand, than the Lyall brand. They argued it kept us up, which it did, but the season before we were a lot more aspirational in our game and we, on our day, did alright. I don't understand why we started to move backwards. We didn't have the thugs to play like Wimbledon. | |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 12:07 - Nov 5 with 0 views | ITFC_Forever |
It comes up on here for time-to-time… for those of us of a certain age, it’s our favourite season, me included.
I was at sixth form and meeting like-minded Town fans, going to away games, getting served in pubs and trying (and largely failing) to impress the opposite sex.
We went into that season with hope than optimism/ expectation and we got promoted Lyall Style. TWTFD. [Post edited 5 Nov 14:20]
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 12:43 - Nov 5 with 0 views | Pinewoodblue |
We finished 14th, or was it 15th, the season before. John Lyall pleaded with fans to renew season tickets to give him a chance to buy. Season ticket renewals were way down probably between 2-3,000. We had at least one game with an attendance of under 9,000. Only one match with over 20,000 (Cambridge United) before the year ended. Seasons average was under 15,000.
The final game of the season over 26,000 attended. Even the Brighton didn’t want to leave at the final whistle with a reminder being given that train was leaving soon.
A special season. |  |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 12:56 - Nov 5 with 0 views | ITFC_Forever |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 12:43 - Nov 5 by Pinewoodblue |
We finished 14th, or was it 15th, the season before. John Lyall pleaded with fans to renew season tickets to give him a chance to buy. Season ticket renewals were way down probably between 2-3,000. We had at least one game with an attendance of under 9,000. Only one match with over 20,000 (Cambridge United) before the year ended. Seasons average was under 15,000.
The final game of the season over 26,000 attended. Even the Brighton didn’t want to leave at the final whistle with a reminder being given that train was leaving soon.
A special season. |
Cambridge game was 17k, the biggest crowd for a few years and the away end was allegedly boosted by budgies as Norwich didn’t have a game that day.
Final game was a 28k sell out. | |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 13:10 - Nov 5 with 0 views | BelsteadCav |
1992 is still my favourite year of football
Just left school, got a car and went to every away game that season. Bloody loved it
I’m on the official video 2/3 times as well lol |  |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 15:59 - Nov 5 with 0 views | algy |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 12:43 - Nov 5 by Pinewoodblue |
We finished 14th, or was it 15th, the season before. John Lyall pleaded with fans to renew season tickets to give him a chance to buy. Season ticket renewals were way down probably between 2-3,000. We had at least one game with an attendance of under 9,000. Only one match with over 20,000 (Cambridge United) before the year ended. Seasons average was under 15,000.
The final game of the season over 26,000 attended. Even the Brighton didn’t want to leave at the final whistle with a reminder being given that train was leaving soon.
A special season. |
We were already promoted when we played Brighton but we sent them down that last day. Perhaps their fans were just making the most of what could have been their last visit to what was a second tier club. | | | |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 17:36 - Nov 5 with 0 views | Radlett_blue |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:44 - Nov 5 by ITFC_Essex |
John Lyall is (much like Joe Royle) an underrated Town manager when we talk about the best we have had. He turned a club firmly on its ars- post Robson, in a short amount of time, from passengers in the 2nd tier, to a good footballing side on a shoestring budget. Even then there were big spenders at this level, and we out competed them in 1991/92 and of course he was the last Town manager to achieve 3 seasons in the top flight, as well as actually win a league.
His biggest mistake was moving upstairs into what was a semi-director of football role, allowing a very functional, but dull McGiven to run the team. We actually had footballers at the club who could play neat football at the time in the likes of Stockwell, Williams, Milton, Johnson and co. but we didn't really utilize that under McGiven. Selling Dozzell was a blow, and it's a shame we didn't have he, and Marshall, in the same side.
I'd argue that he's ahead of McKenna in the Town manager table, purely on the fact he won a league and kept us up three seasons with a budget comparable to that of Swindon's at the time. [Post edited 5 Nov 11:46]
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Lyall assembled a promotion team with shrewd signings like West Ham old boys Goddard & Whitton. However, he was hugely helped by the emergence of Dozzell & Kiwomya as top players at 2nd tier level.
We didn't really have the money to sign the players we needed to establish ourselves in the Premier League. Geraint Williams did well in our first season, but Dozzell had to be sold & we squandered what money we had on misfits like Slater & Paz, while Sedgley was also a disappointment. |  |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 18:13 - Nov 5 with 0 views | Dubtractor |
| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 11:12 - Nov 5 by Steve_M |
That team probably comes third in my time of watching Ipswich (I was alive for the second half of the Robson-era but too young to pay proper attention to it).
It's third though because it lacks the build up over successive seasons that Burley had in the late-90s or the 2.5 years to double promotion that McKenna managed.
1991-92 was a superb season, and the one that cemented my support of the club, but a bit behind those other two spells. |
My position also, pretty much word for word.
I was also playing Saturday football at the time, so didn't get to as many games.
It was still a properly memorable season though. |  |
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| The Lyall Era - I loved that bloody team - and does not get the love on 18:23 - Nov 5 with 0 views | Bluespeed225 |
Terracing, a full North Stand by the end of the season, pubs full, The Black Adder. We started slow, Swindon at home with Hoddle a bit of a lesson, losing to Cambridge! Then pre Christmas it started to happen, beating big spending Blackburn set the tone. Then in the new year you started to notice the subs. Whitton/Goddard off at 60/65 minutes, Palmer/Johnson on, pace picks up. Newcastle at home! Southend away! Oxford, then back home to a Town Center we wouldn’t see again until 23’( in 2000 the pubs were shutting by the time we got back from Wembley!) The last season of (almost) innocence (Walker and Blackburn has set a precedent), Lyall with a point to prove after his sacking? The Shammers went down, we went up, perfect! it was as happy as it was unexpected! Loved it! | | | |
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