Paul Tisdale would be ideal for Ipswich. Having seen him work wonders down here for Exeter. The style of play is well suited for Ipswich, Exeter are a really good passing team & Tisdale's man management is fantastic & his players give him great loyalty because of it.

He's also could have left Exeter many times Swansea, Reading, Southampton are some of the clubs who have tried to take Tisdale away from City & he could have quite easily made more money for himself at a bigger club but each time he said he's happy where he's too and hasn't finished his job at Exeter.

Tisdale also looks to the future of the club. At Exeter he has spent some of his transfer budget on tarmacing the training ground car park so it give prospective signings a good first impression of the club. He's also spent some of his budget on having the pitch dug up & relayed so our players can play their passing football on it.

I would hate to see Tisdale leave Exeter for any one but he will manage a bigger club one day & I would sooner it be Ipswich than anyone else.

Tisdale - yes, we need a new car park. While he's at it, could he come and paint the fence?

wilkins would be a great manager here,have you noticed how crap chelsea have become since he left them.Burley & Butcher would be a dream partnership for those nostalgic fans.Definitely not Megson,he has the personality and passion of a housebrick.Anyone who can attract good players to suffolk and get his team to string more than 2 passes together is fine by me(but not megson!)

Not quite sure what all the speculation is here - Jewell is a done deal isn't he?

Curbs plllleeeeeeaaasssee!! a proper manager with experience.

A big no no to Jewell

Don Revie.

Billy Davies, very experienced, knows how to get a team promoted and knows how to motivate a team.

Chris Houghton or Poyet/Tarrico would be my next choice.

Get used to it, it's Jewel.

Jesus Christ the same people who think they know it all and that Keane should have been sacked months ago are the same people suggesting Martin ONeil or Jim Magilton should be our next manager. FFS.

I think we should put Simon Cowell in charge and text in votes for tactics, transfers and line ups.

I wanted Paul Tisdale when Magilton was sacked and time has only make me want him to be the manager of Ipswich more, is an excellent manager and I have no doubt he is one of the few men left in football with the ability to make himself so glorious that a third statue is raised outside Portman Road.

How about David Beckham?

Lets forget the BIG names. We are NOT a big club anymore. Get real please

Not sure if ME would want to get a manager currently with a club otherwise he has to pay compensation

So therefore it has to be a manager out of work.

Jewell - OK
Megson - Not really
Strachan - Hmm!
Hoddle - OK and would bring John Gorman with him
O'Leary - Hmm
Curbs - We are not big enough for him
Big Sam - Again not big enough
O'Neill - Most definitely not big enough for him
Paul Simpson - Hmm
Burley - dont think so
Steve Clark - good no 2
Hughton - same as Keane when he joined - lack of experience

In all fairness not too many average managers out there currently looking for work. Could do worse than go for Jewell and maybe reunite him with Chris Hutchings!!

Sam Allardyce or Curbishley

keano could probably have got the car park tarmac'd cheaper , do ''swapsies'' grecian ,

Not Ian Dowie.

Paul Jewell seems a jolly sort of chap and has had some success.

Poyet and Taricco are still too inexperienced for my liking.

Robbie Savage in a player/manager capacity to keep the wage bill down through multi-tasking

Somebody with a heart - and a brain would be good too! Cross between Terry Butcher with his bloodstained headband & Martin O'Neill.

CHRIS HUGHTON

Could someone give Ronnie Moore a ring and see if he is up for it (again) this time?

Alan Curbishley

I want to see attractive, fluent, football. Curbs. would take us to that promised land.

No more boring football and thick management.

I'll do it! Blast, forgot to apply.

I think a fan running the team would be amazing. Think of the publicity it would generate Mr Evans. The eyes of the whole country, possibly the world, would be on Ipswich and every fan in the country would be willing on a fellow fan plucked from the terraces. There's plenty out there who would love the salary, know football inside out and are great man managers in their own field.

Do a TV series to select the manager from the fans, with weekly evictions. I'd love to see an ordinary man in the street take the job on and show everyone just how uncomplicated the job is. How so many 'respected' figures in the game get it so wrong is beyond me. They probably think they know a new revolutionary way to run a team (e.g. Keano), when it's really just very simple and the formula for success has remained the same for decades.

Hughton, Wilkins, Southgate, Curbishley, O'Neill, Jol would all be very acceptable to me. Love to see Burley back but maybe his day has come and gone.

NO to Jewell, Butcher and the like.

John Lyall did the most miraculous job I've ever seen. Improved every player on the books and got an average team promoted as champions. Turned Kiwomya from a lightweight headless chicken into a lethal striker. Now that was miraculous! Let's have another footballing scholar and gentleman like Lyall please.

Steve Cotterill
Ian Atkins
Poyet and Taricco

Definitely not Strachan, Allardyce, Dowie or Southgate.

Worries about Jewell and Curbishley that they've been out of the game too long. Ideally someone who is his own man, has experience of working on a shoestring but can turn around an unfashionable side without thinking he can just buy or borrow his way out of trouble. Above all, someone whose teams play exciting and/or quality football when resources permit.

Why not Mickey Fecking Mouse!!!

I just want us to start playing decent football again. Our best appointments - Ramsey, Robson, Burley - have been up and coming managers and we've given them the support to slowly build a good team and get success. Of those, only Ramsey came straight from playing and he took 3-5 years to build a team. All had their rocky patches.

Let's get real. We're a club with a proud tradition, but there's no magic wand in this league. Throwing money at players has got us nowhere fast. Let's not go the same way as Sheff Weds, Soton, Leicester, the Budgies, etc into League One. O'Driscoll fits the bill for me.

Player/manager Thierry Henry!!!!!

Now in the real world...
we are gonna end up with the "proffessional scouser" Jewell aren't we, deep joy.