| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft 09:51 - Dec 4 with 2764 views | Kropotkin123 |
Humbled by the support of our fanbase
To be humbled is to feel less important as a result of another's actions. The way you say you feel towards the fanbase is completely at odds with the way the club have treated the fanbase
Attacks upon the local press
The absence of any mention of this issue is evidence that you are not humbled by the support of our fanbase.
Ipswich are a community club, where the local press are, by and large, supporters of the club. They represent whole communities of supporters numbering in their thousands.
Banning independent journalists and attacking those that pose legitimate questions over the direction the club is going and the sustained poor performance and form - Losing more games in the last 41 than winning - is an attack on the support base.
Please can you explain why you think it is acceptable to censor criticism as your silence and avoidance of this issue is disgusting.
Be careful what you wish for
The irony of quoting this is obviously lost on you. And using it to insinuate that the fans are responsible for your poor choices is unjustifiable.
- It is you who has presided over the decline of this football club over the past 13 years.
- It is you who fills the DoF with public relations people.
- It is you that hasn’t put in sufficient structure with appropriate checks and balances to protect the club from poor managerial decisions.
- It is you that sanctioned the sales of our best players.
- It is you that sanctioned their replacement with a collection of average league one players.
- It is you that waited too long to stop the damage being done.
- It is you that continues to not recognise poor performances.
- It is you that gave a five-year contract to a manager that had serious question marks over his ability.
Be careful what you wish for is a criticism of you. It is a judgement that you do not have the ability to find a manager and structure the club in a way that will bring better results on and off the pitch.
The footballing side - Performance
It is patronising that you don’t think that supporters can see the poor quality of football via iFollow. Two blades of grass sprouting in the spring of the Sahara desert does not mean we are on the way to building a forest.
We have not simply stumbled over the last few weeks. Over the last 25 games of the previous season we accumulated 25 points. This was relegation form in League One.
We have lost to our promotion rivals 4-1, 1-0, 2-1, 3-0 and 2-0 this season. It isn’t a case of form. We are simply not good enough against the better teams in this division because the football is poor and our coaching is bad.
The footballing side - Injuries
Blaming our poor form on injuries either lacks perspective or is disingenuous. We have had a run of six games undefeated amongst our past 40 games. That leaves 35 points from our remaining 34 games, which is relegation form.
Injuries, however, are a sustained issue at this club and it is more than poor fortune. It is a mismanagement of your resources. Whether it is buying players with a history of injuries, the training schedule or the recovery side. This needs to be addressed and it needs proper assessment, rather than palming off as misfortune.
The footballing side - Youth
There is no structured integration of youth players. During the Burley years, youth players would get time on the bench, coming on to play a few 10-15 mins here and there, before being given their starting debuts.
Instead we have 17 year-olds that suddenly plucked from obscurity and expected to perform at League One level. They are then disregarded and returned to the youth teams. This is not going to effectively integrate them into the team.
The footballing side - Styles of play
There is no evidence of styles of play. Keeping the ball for as long as possible to boost possession statistics is not a style. There is no evidence of incisive play. We lack ideas, creativity and this is due to the stifling coaching and lack of implementable ideas.
Styles of play also suggests that there is more than one. That there is some adaptability. There isn’t. That the manager can say we are poor with two up front is baffling. If you can’t coach your team to be effective with two up front then that is a clear managerial problem.
In summary
There is a massive disconnect between you, the manager and the fans. If you think this level of performance is good enough and will see us promoted, then you are not the person that should be running this club.
I suggest you write off the debt you say you invested and find a new owner. Plenty of other clubs have achieved far more with far less resources available to them.
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Feel free to suggest edits / additional points / corrections. [Post edited 4 Dec 2020 10:04]
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 09:57 - Dec 4 with 2713 views | Keno |
thats actually pretty spot on. well written and thought through |  |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 10:00 - Dec 4 with 2686 views | portmanking |
Bravo sir.
I'd go as far as to say that I think the vast majority of TWTDers would sign their name to this open letter.
Absolutely spot on. |  | | |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 13:07 - Dec 4 with 2563 views | Kevdave2003 |
Looks like a brilliant summary of how so many of us feel. Agree it may well be a good example of an open letter that many of us will be happy to sign. | | | |
| It's fine, send it off Kroppers on 13:13 - Dec 4 with 2549 views | Dyland |
Good work. |  |
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| It's fine, send it off Kroppers on 13:20 - Dec 4 with 2525 views | Dyland |
| It's fine, send it off Kroppers on 13:13 - Dec 4 by Dyland |
Good work. |
The only thing I'd add (and I'll do this, I don't expect you to) is the naive comparison between the support base's criticism of McCarthy and that of Lambert. It is totally different, and importantly started with a very different set of fans who had no agenda except concern about ITFC being in L1 for years, or worse. If he thinks this is solely a hundred gosh1tes on TWTD thing he's got it totally wrong.
That part of Evans's statement is imbecilic. It's very worrying and revealing.
MEG is mud. If I used them I would cease. Not sure how else I vote with my feet except sadly not renewing my long standing ST and cancelling stuff this season.
Evans Out. | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 13:24 - Dec 4 with 2493 views | Metal_Hacker |
Amazing stuff...well done and if forwarded to the club ,I thank you !! |  |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 13:32 - Dec 4 with 2473 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
Perhaps a trivial point to add
But what about the state of the ground. Its filthy, mud, dirt, window plastic things. Where is the pride in our stadium under his watch; |  |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 13:34 - Dec 4 with 2473 views | SouperJim |
Excellent, happy to put my name to this. Are you going to share it with the local press?
The only point that makes me slightly nervous is encouraging him to find a new owner. With the job he's done on finding managers, we'll end up with Massimo Cellino. I think a less combative tone might be to encourage him to appoint a DoF, with relevant experience and hopefully an established understanding of ITFC, to run the club in his stead. |  |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 13:40 - Dec 4 with 2450 views | StokieBlue |
It's all correct and true but I fear attacking him in that way is only going to make him more entrenched.
Surely a better course is simply to keep it to how poor Lambert is with stats to back it up - you might get through to him on Lambert and get some results - asking him to write off 100m and declare himself a failure is only going to make him disregard all your points.
Perhaps I am wrong, depends what your goal is.
SB |  | | |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 15:08 - Dec 4 with 2373 views | Keaneish |
I’ll put my real name and customer to it as should we all. |  |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 15:18 - Dec 4 with 2350 views | SomethingBlue |
Full of good points but — and I'm sorry — the word count needs to be 50% of this and passages like "The irony of quoting this is obviously lost on you" need to be excised. | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 15:35 - Dec 4 with 2306 views | skankerman |
Good communication, and the points being made that this is not just a few disgruntled fans, this has been building over many months and years, it's now potentially the majority of the fanbase | | | |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 15:44 - Dec 4 with 2275 views | jeera |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 15:18 - Dec 4 by SomethingBlue |
Full of good points but — and I'm sorry — the word count needs to be 50% of this and passages like "The irony of quoting this is obviously lost on you" need to be excised. |
Agree but am assuming his first draft contains emotion and superfluous wording that will be edited out later on.
I do like the bullet point style though. It drives home the points better than a length of continuous text. |  |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 17:14 - Dec 4 with 2208 views | monty_radio |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 15:18 - Dec 4 by SomethingBlue |
Full of good points but — and I'm sorry — the word count needs to be 50% of this and passages like "The irony of quoting this is obviously lost on you" need to be excised. |
.... as does the word "disgusting" and the suggestion that he write off his money. I know some will think it's lily-livered, but it's just pratical sense not to deflect the receiver's attention elsewhere i.e. towards the gratuitous insult and away from the main argument. | |
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| It's fine, send it off Kroppers on 18:12 - Dec 4 with 2145 views | Kropotkin123 |
| It's fine, send it off Kroppers on 13:20 - Dec 4 by Dyland |
The only thing I'd add (and I'll do this, I don't expect you to) is the naive comparison between the support base's criticism of McCarthy and that of Lambert. It is totally different, and importantly started with a very different set of fans who had no agenda except concern about ITFC being in L1 for years, or worse. If he thinks this is solely a hundred gosh1tes on TWTD thing he's got it totally wrong.
That part of Evans's statement is imbecilic. It's very worrying and revealing.
MEG is mud. If I used them I would cease. Not sure how else I vote with my feet except sadly not renewing my long standing ST and cancelling stuff this season.
Evans Out. |
Yeah, it would be great if you wrote a concise section on that. I feel it will sound better from you. Just be overly careful to stoke any MM debates in it. | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:14 - Dec 4 with 2135 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 13:34 - Dec 4 by SouperJim |
Excellent, happy to put my name to this. Are you going to share it with the local press?
The only point that makes me slightly nervous is encouraging him to find a new owner. With the job he's done on finding managers, we'll end up with Massimo Cellino. I think a less combative tone might be to encourage him to appoint a DoF, with relevant experience and hopefully an established understanding of ITFC, to run the club in his stead. |
It is a good point, I will amend as I think more people would go for the appointment of a Burley type DoF. | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:15 - Dec 4 with 2132 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 13:40 - Dec 4 by StokieBlue |
It's all correct and true but I fear attacking him in that way is only going to make him more entrenched.
Surely a better course is simply to keep it to how poor Lambert is with stats to back it up - you might get through to him on Lambert and get some results - asking him to write off 100m and declare himself a failure is only going to make him disregard all your points.
Perhaps I am wrong, depends what your goal is.
SB |
Yep, will amend as per last reply | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:17 - Dec 4 with 2119 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 15:18 - Dec 4 by SomethingBlue |
Full of good points but — and I'm sorry — the word count needs to be 50% of this and passages like "The irony of quoting this is obviously lost on you" need to be excised. |
I think it is very hard to strip away 50% of your own writing. But I take the point and I'm happy for someone to edit into a more concise read. But I think you are right and it fits into the less combative tone others seek and suggest. | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:19 - Dec 4 with 2109 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 17:14 - Dec 4 by monty_radio |
.... as does the word "disgusting" and the suggestion that he write off his money. I know some will think it's lily-livered, but it's just pratical sense not to deflect the receiver's attention elsewhere i.e. towards the gratuitous insult and away from the main argument. |
Got it. I'll look to put up a second draft tomorrow. Or happy for someone to take the second edit off my hands, taking a more inclusive and practical tone. | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:45 - Dec 4 with 2060 views | Woolfenthen |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:19 - Dec 4 by Kropotkin123 |
Got it. I'll look to put up a second draft tomorrow. Or happy for someone to take the second edit off my hands, taking a more inclusive and practical tone. |
Very well written, we could all print off a copy and post it, would then look like more fans had written in much like they count attendances |  | | |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:50 - Dec 4 with 2049 views | bobbyramsey |
How about the lack of a fitness coach, seems like a fairly important roll at a professional football club. (Professional by definition, not in attitude.) |  | | |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:51 - Dec 4 with 2044 views | bluelagos |
Suggested Edit:
Even Keno thinks you're a **nt. |  |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 19:18 - Dec 4 with 1981 views | jas0999 |
Excellent post and spot on.
Sadly Evans won’t read this, respond nor care. He’s deluded. | | | |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 19:57 - Dec 4 with 1920 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 18:50 - Dec 4 by bobbyramsey |
How about the lack of a fitness coach, seems like a fairly important roll at a professional football club. (Professional by definition, not in attitude.) |
That's a good point, I overlooked that. | |
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| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 20:00 - Dec 4 with 1902 views | jeera |
| Open letter to Marcus Evans - First draft on 19:57 - Dec 4 by Kropotkin123 |
That's a good point, I overlooked that. |
Like you said, first draft.
That's the point isn't it. | |
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