| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? 21:04 - Aug 11 with 3608 views | eddiespearitt03 |
What Ipswich has achieved in just 2 years M.Evans could not achieve in 14 years. It is remarkable what is happening at this club .
How did Evans ever think things were going to get better ? That he often changed managers and then persevered with a really poor set up . Relegation was only a matter of time.
The recruitment and selling decisions were simply abysmal.
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:06 - Aug 11 with 3273 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
If he does, I would imagine he regrets surrounding himself and the club with business people, instead of football people. |  |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:06 - Aug 11 with 3264 views | FromReuserWithLove |
Evans is a typical Chelsea fan. Knows F-all about football. |  | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:09 - Aug 11 with 3232 views | J2BLUE |
Hopefully.
Would be one thing if he had sold up after 4-5 years but to learn nothing in his time here...I hope his 5% or whatever it is now gets diluted and eventually bought by the Three Lions. |  |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:16 - Aug 11 with 3186 views | MattinLondon |
If he ever thinks back to his days here then I hope he is full of embarrassment.
Embarrassed that he took the club back decades - apparently he hasn’t been back at the club since he sold-up. That’s either due to complete apathy or he knows that he was a complete disaster. |  | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:16 - Aug 11 with 3178 views | pennblue |
It seems obvious in hindsight how the club should have been run. He should have used the models from other clubs that were being successful, but did he really have the cash for that? | |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:17 - Aug 11 with 3155 views | Bobsthename |
He still has shares in the club doesn’t he? | | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:20 - Aug 11 with 3151 views | SE1blue |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:09 - Aug 11 by J2BLUE |
Hopefully.
Would be one thing if he had sold up after 4-5 years but to learn nothing in his time here...I hope his 5% or whatever it is now gets diluted and eventually bought by the Three Lions. |
Same feelings. He outstayed his welcome, like every managerial recruitment he made.
He claimed to be one of us, but I seriously thought he was going to run us into the ground with little to no f’s given at the end. I am sure he had financial regrets but no football-related regrets. |  |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:23 - Aug 11 with 3127 views | MattinLondon |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:16 - Aug 11 by pennblue |
It seems obvious in hindsight how the club should have been run. He should have used the models from other clubs that were being successful, but did he really have the cash for that? |
When he took over he had the cash - without a doubt. He brought Norris for £2.6 million which at the time was a lot by second tier standards. But within a few seasons the market exploded. That’s not his fault but other clubs achieved promotion without spending a fortune.
He oversaw the collapse of the club in terms of infrastructure and if he had not sold then we would be a lower half team in L1. And still, some defend him. | | | |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:39 - Aug 11 with 2967 views | blueasfook |
I think he was just out of his depth with a football club. Wasn't the right project for him, and he wasn't the right person for rhe project..Sheepy was desperate to sell and he came along. I think he had ambition for the club to start with. He brought Roy Keane in , who'd had some success with Sunderland. Sadly, he was a flop with us. Then Paul Jewell, who in my opinion should never have been allowed near this club. When he inevitably didn't do a great job, then for me, that's when our downward spiral began. Bland football under MM. Then the disastrous appointments of Lambert, Hurst and Cook. But we are in a new era now, a positive era with so much improvement in many areas of the club. Long may it continue. COYB. |  |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:57 - Aug 11 with 2841 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
Regrets - you’d think have financial ones, but then perhaps owning a money pit has some advantages to a tax exile.
Maybe he had some good intentions, but ultimately took us from a competitive Championship club to a mid table L1 team. For me he doesn’t deserve a pat on the back for keeping ITFC ‘afloat’, it’s the bare minimum for an owner. Infrastructure was falling apart, the day to day staff running the club were non existent, hired successively more incompetent managers and more or less halved our crowds. Other than all that he was a great owner… | | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 22:20 - Aug 11 with 2744 views | ArnieM |
Considering he still holds a 5or 6% stake in the club he’s only going to benefit from Gamechangers efforts . He’s no mug in business ( tried his luck at football got burned but he’ll recoup that money when unfortunately GC sells us on as they will at some point ) |  |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 22:46 - Aug 11 with 2657 views | Stenvict |
His first mistake was not having a Mark Ashton in charge of the day to day running of the club. Then Championship football simply became too expensive for him. He pinned all his hopes on us getting to the Premier League in the first couple of seasons.
Then when he saw what MM could do with barely any money, he thought anyone could do that, which didn't help in the long run. | |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 23:01 - Aug 11 with 2584 views | WicklowBlue |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:09 - Aug 11 by J2BLUE |
Hopefully.
Would be one thing if he had sold up after 4-5 years but to learn nothing in his time here...I hope his 5% or whatever it is now gets diluted and eventually bought by the Three Lions. |
Have Evans shares been diluted already from the investment over the summer? Correct me if I'm wrong but thought we had more shares issued. Could be completely wrong on that though.
Alongside the above, has there been any movement on the land Evans retained at Playford Road? [Post edited 11 Aug 2023 23:03]
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 23:41 - Aug 11 with 2486 views | Stewart27 |
Shhh
Don’t tell Elephant in the room this.
He will consider getting his Marcus Evans tattoo removed. | | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 23:49 - Aug 11 with 2466 views | MattinLondon |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 23:41 - Aug 11 by Stewart27 |
Shhh
Don’t tell Elephant in the room this.
He will consider getting his Marcus Evans tattoo removed. |
I don’t think that even Elephant would back Evans - that’s too big a stretch even for him. | | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 23:55 - Aug 11 with 2445 views | davblue |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:20 - Aug 11 by SE1blue |
Same feelings. He outstayed his welcome, like every managerial recruitment he made.
He claimed to be one of us, but I seriously thought he was going to run us into the ground with little to no f’s given at the end. I am sure he had financial regrets but no football-related regrets. |
I’m convinced we would have eventually ended up in league 2 under his ownership. The club was rotting Cook wouldn’t have done anything under him either. |  | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 23:58 - Aug 11 with 2426 views | davblue |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 22:46 - Aug 11 by Stenvict |
His first mistake was not having a Mark Ashton in charge of the day to day running of the club. Then Championship football simply became too expensive for him. He pinned all his hopes on us getting to the Premier League in the first couple of seasons.
Then when he saw what MM could do with barely any money, he thought anyone could do that, which didn't help in the long run. |
It appears the money he put in initially for transfers and wages was his one big effort, then it was spending the absolute bare minimum on the club. I suspect he was looking for a way out after 4 years. | | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 03:49 - Aug 12 with 2211 views | Ryorry |
He was just a chancer who thought he could make money from us.
Didn't even care enough to keep the stadium clean & tidy; wasn't even astute enough business-wise to get PR catering up to scratch - despite hospitality being his background.
He did do two good things for us though - wrote off our debt & sold us to Gamechanger, who have proved lovely investors & a springboard to returning us to the Champ - so I can just about forgive him ...
I hope his daughter is still a genuine fan. |  |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 06:54 - Aug 12 with 2069 views | ElephantintheRoom |
I expect he regrets not getting the ground. | |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 08:08 - Aug 12 with 1944 views | textbackup |
Regrets?
He’ll see the amount of money we’ve spent and sht his tight arse pants.
He’ll see the ground improvements and all the comments about the mess it was in, and my hope is he feels embarrassed. |  |
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| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 08:25 - Aug 12 with 1870 views | OldFart71 |
The sad thing for Town was really knowing we were going nowhere but it was the hope that killed us as fans as we were in the years following decent investment by Evans fed on a diet of lies. Being told there was money for transfers and then seeing our best assets sold and a plethera of hasbeens and players only interested in topping up their pensions coming through the doors of PR. Even when Kieran McKenna was appointed because of the years of failure there was doubt running throughout the very loyal band of supporters and when we achieved the promotion the relief as much as elation was palpable. I never wish ill on anyone, even my worst enemy and I don't on Evans. I wish him the best. But am I glad he went ? You bet I am. | | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 08:41 - Aug 12 with 1801 views | RegencyBlue |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 03:49 - Aug 12 by Ryorry |
He was just a chancer who thought he could make money from us.
Didn't even care enough to keep the stadium clean & tidy; wasn't even astute enough business-wise to get PR catering up to scratch - despite hospitality being his background.
He did do two good things for us though - wrote off our debt & sold us to Gamechanger, who have proved lovely investors & a springboard to returning us to the Champ - so I can just about forgive him ...
I hope his daughter is still a genuine fan. |
People keep crediting him for writing off the debt but he had no choice in reality.
Nobody was going to take on that level of debt alongside the amount of investment needed to put right 14 years of gross mismanagement! |  | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 08:55 - Aug 12 with 1734 views | backwaywhen |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:16 - Aug 11 by MattinLondon |
If he ever thinks back to his days here then I hope he is full of embarrassment.
Embarrassed that he took the club back decades - apparently he hasn’t been back at the club since he sold-up. That’s either due to complete apathy or he knows that he was a complete disaster. |
Yet he still owns that middle executive box in the Magnus … nobody uses it most games , give it to a local charity match by match , redeem yourself ME . | | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 08:55 - Aug 12 with 1733 views | Chocorange |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 21:09 - Aug 11 by J2BLUE |
Hopefully.
Would be one thing if he had sold up after 4-5 years but to learn nothing in his time here...I hope his 5% or whatever it is now gets diluted and eventually bought by the Three Lions. |
That’s an interesting point, as Gamechanger keep diluting his shares to a smaller and smaller amount , does their monetary value of Marcus Evans shares become less ?
If so as a supposed successful businessman , he didn’t do his due diligence on that did he ? |  | | |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 09:20 - Aug 12 with 1654 views | nrb1985 |
| Do you think Marcus Evans has regrets ? on 08:55 - Aug 12 by Chocorange |
That’s an interesting point, as Gamechanger keep diluting his shares to a smaller and smaller amount , does their monetary value of Marcus Evans shares become less ?
If so as a supposed successful businessman , he didn’t do his due diligence on that did he ? |
No it means he has less influence in theory as he goes from 5% to say 2% ownership.
In reality I doubt he has any influence at all so him being diluted is meaningless other than being slightly symbolic. | | | |
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