| Kieran McKenna 12:45 - Jan 16 with 1528 views | OldFart71 |
We as supporters/fans/followers of ITFC all know we have a gem in KM. According to Joe Cole (EADT) if he keeps Town in the Premier League this season the world is his oyster. But as we know you can always get a dodgy one. Sir Bobby stayed 13 years so is football that much different now to then ? Well yes in many ways. Better pitches, better stadiums and a whole lotta dosh sloshing around. I heard once upon a time that Paul Mariner was on £2,000 a week at Ipswich, admittedly several thousands, even hundreds of thousand less than the elite are on now. With the constant merry-go-round that is the life of football managers now I suspect that to think KM will be with us another ten years is pie in the sky. But it would be nice to think that he at least gets Town established in the Prem and we have a 40,000 seat stadium before he goes. |  | | |  |
| Kieran McKenna on 13:10 - Jan 16 with 1349 views | EdwardStone |
I'm a sentimental fool....but I like to hope that KMcK will be with us for a fair while
He will quite rightly take great pride in having raised us from mid-table League 1 to where we are today
With the correct backing in this and other transfer windows, why would he want to move?
I get that he has affection for Spurs and ManU, but surely he should now have greater love for Town given his remarkable success here. He was only ever a part of a coaching team at his previous clubs, but with us he is the Head Honcho, the Big Cheese, the Master
Mr John backed Sir Bobby to the hilt, I am delighted that M Ashton and Gamechanger seem to doing the same for KMcK......
Roll on the Glory Years |  | | |
| Kieran McKenna on 13:31 - Jan 16 with 1239 views | WickhamsLeftBoot |
Reckon one of KM’s long term targets is to qualify for Europe. |  | | |
| Kieran McKenna on 13:48 - Jan 16 with 1145 views | bsw72 |
It's clear from his approach this season that his plan is to build a team that is good enough now to keep us up but with coaching, experience and some more key recruitment will be better next year and the year after. Consistent success usually comes down to a combination of style of chairman, board, manager and players with appropriate funding and financial support. Right now all are aligned, but things do change.
There will come a point where a club reaches the peak of what can be achieved, and at that point the manager will look for that next step. My hope is that we get to our peak under KM, and when it comes to move on, it happens professionally and with integrity. |  | | |
| Kieran McKenna on 13:56 - Jan 16 with 1072 views | VanSaParody |
I've said it before, something very special is happening at our club
Since Gamechanger took over from Marcus Evans & especially since McKenna's been in post, something began to feel different... right
His first full season ended in promotion out of League 1, but it wasn't just the end result, it was the way we got there, the way we play
Before our Championship season began, I had a feeling we might get promoted again
At each window, KM has been backed by MA/Gamechanger in his recruitment, never mind all the improvements to the club away from the playing staff, too
What's happening at our club, the timing, is like a perfect storm
I don't think there's another club in world football that can give KM what he's got here
I think it would have been an error for his career to have gone elsewhere last summer
He's made absolutely the right decision to remain at PR
With continued backing, we'll stay up
& with continued squad improvements, as early as next season, we'll win a trophy &/or qualify for Europe
If we do neither by the end of next season, I'd understand if he went
But if we do (at least qualify for Europe) I can see him in post for at least another 2 or 3 years or more, & truly believe he'll have put at least another star on our shirt by then!
COYB's! |  | | |
| Kieran McKenna on 14:43 - Jan 16 with 895 views | Europablue |
I really don't think that it is unreasonable to imagine KM and almost all of our players staying with us over a move to a "bigger" club. As long as the club is progressing at pace, then KM is proving himself at the next level. If we are in the Prem next season, we will be looking to become an establish Prem team. The next season, mid-table, then competing for European places and for the cups. Just look at a player even of Delap's quality, he won't get as many minutes at Chelsea and he risks not being the next manager's cup of tea.
It's interesting that there aren't really that many stable well-run clubs at the elite level. Liverpool and maybe Arsenal, Man City a few years ago. | | | |
| Kieran McKenna on 15:29 - Jan 16 with 757 views | Bluroo |
I was convinced right from the start that we have a once in a generation managerial talent at the helm. I believe there to be a new breed of contemporary football-educated manager and we've found a pearl.
The combination of his obvious intelligence, perfect communication, the way he deploys a mix of short and long term visions and strategies and of course his focus and dedication adds up to a world class package. I’m certain that if he wasn’t a football manager he could be a superb CEO.
That he’s doing this with a quality brand of football and a one-game-at-a-time-we’ll-try-to-be-competitive philosophy and generating real hope within the fanbase, is just the icing on the cake,
It’s absolutely unfathomable to me that any fan can question KM across his body of work with us so far or actually call for his sacking at any point. The div list is too good for such “fans”. Obviously no human being is going to get every single decision right (and we don’t live in the alternative reality where the outcome of plan B can be compared) especially where the level of competition is so high and where there is a level of managed risk required to try to close the gap. It’s also important to appreciate that a level of patience is required to allow certain improvements that KM is working on, to come to fruition.
I personally wouldn’t swap KM for any other manager in world football and all I can do is appreciate and enjoy this period he is here and hope it last forever. But it won’t. A manager this good comes around once a generation, if we're lucky, so there will be many fans like me who may well not witness Ipswich led by another Messiah in their lifetime…
In the meantime, Sky's the limit as far as I'm concerned, If the likes of Forest, Leicester, West Ham and Villa can have their moment at the upper reaches of the Premier League or in Europe, in modern times, I don't see why we can't.
Shout out to Gamechanger and MA who have not wasted the opportunity we have but rather facilitated it. | | | |
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