Whilst RK was Manager NEVER conceded 5 goals,PJ has managed this 3 times in past 2 months of competitive football.He has changed ALL backroom staff including physio and fitness coach.Three of his coaching staff were I believe all out of work when he took them on.Now you see why they (and him) were all free agents and not attached to any football clubs.Worse than at any time in 50 years of watching Town,a complete and utter shambles from Evans downwards.

Think shambles maybe a bit kind after what I saw last night seasider!

I know that teams who spend lots of money will usually end up succesful but it is how you spend your money that is important. Although we didn't pay transfer fees for Ellington and Bowyer, we are playing their and have either of these players added to the quality of the team squad? I don't think so!
Also teams who haven't spent loads of money, such as Blackpool, Swansea and , dare I say it, Norwich, have prospered in the championship in recent seasons by building good passing teams with players (and managers) hungry for success.

Bleedingblue I totally agree, ive been saying this since last season. We have proved it to ourselves with Cresswell, he trys hard and gives it his all. There are plenty of other players out there, in Scotland as well. These clubs are not rich and a moderate offer can mostly lead to them reluctantly agreeing to sell. We need players who go out and think I am so proud to be here, look around and say I cant let thos fans down so I must try my hardest today. Not oh well I get payed, not as good as my days at Leeds but at my age Im just looking to end my days without any injueries so wont try too hard.
We need a back three (excluding LB) a midfielder (so we can drive Leadbitter down to Portsmoth and say just take him, he is yours) and a striker, someone who is big and hungry to achieve (shame Norwich got him first) but seriously someone in that mold along side chops.

Just not good enough.

Blackpool are a great example of how to do it. Take players such as DJ Campbell and Charlie Adam who failed to impress at the top levels in England and Scotland but both knew they had the ability and were desperate to show it. Blackpool signed them, put them out there and they played their hearts out trying to prove a point. Also Seamus Coleman from Everton on loan, a plyer with bags of talent and there to say to his manager OI look at me Im good ernough for your team. We have this in Stockdale and had it in Gio and to an extent Bullard.
But Bowyer etc have nothing to prove, nothing to play for, see Ipswich as a step down, know they are not gonna play for a big club again so on an easy pay day.

What happened to the player we were linked with from Dundee and where did he play? nw10blue agree about Scotland to some extent. Cowie and Conway look useful in the championship and sure there are others too (Snodgrass anyone?). Could we not get a couple of young dutch or scandanavian defenders in? Need to be able to speak the language and adapt pretty quickly by the looks of things. Scouting and coaching need to improve imo and maybe a change in ethos away from big egos and towards hunger and ambition!

So where do we go from here?

Get rid of Delaney, Smith, Edwards and Leadbitter, and maybe scout the lower leagues for players that are hungry, and have a lot to prove.

Just watching Leeds on telly at the moment. They are losing but the way they are playing suggests we are in trouble again next Sat.

I said at the end of last season that I was fed up with the personalised comments coming from some people to me and that I wouldn't post again.
Changed my mind. So to all you positive people - I think we as a team are playing absolutely magnificently, the passion and will to win is so wonderfully evident from every section of Ipswich Town FC. There now - will you criticise me now ??

a terrible result, however i do hope our fans will be right behind PJ and the team because the last thing they need is a hostile atmosphere at home. The defence needs sorting NOW otherwise we will struggle. That's 12 goals conceded in two games to two promoted teams. Unbelievable really. When the likes of Peterborough are hammering us we know it's serious. Still, S'hampton and them have shown how we should be aiming to play. Anyone calling for PJ to be sacked are being stupid. The players owe him big time!

Message to management: ditch the self pity and and get the Martin sending off overturned so he can play the next game. He showed desire, got the ball, was a one-footed tackle, and the Posh player was off the pitch and should have seen him coming and got out of the way. I like the comment: "if I'd made Martin's tackle, I'd have been proud of it."

Sounds about perfect Drew. Need to pick and stick to a system or two and not constantly chop and change. That was one of the main reasons Roy was so maligned! We need more Drury type players as wages are cheap, they have something to prove and a hunger. Club could then get money back instead of losing it ie Fulop. Maybe if the club started making money they could reduce ticket prices?! At a guess, I reckon you could get at least four or five Andy Drurys for one Lee Bowyer and some are bound to pay off!

Two of the best examples from Scotland are Graham Dorrens at WBA signed for £200,000 from Livingston, Snodgrass also from Livingston and Charlie Adam was £500,000 from Rangers. Craig Conway (winger) was the player we were linked to, he is at Cardiff.
Loads of untapped talent, but our scouting network seems to be non existant. I swear we scout by watching Match of the Day, wouldnt be quite so bad if we stayed tuned in for the football league show. So maybe just maybe we could say oh look at that LeFondra lad scoring for Rotherham again, looks like a possible signing.
League One, League Two, Blue Square Premier, SPL, Scots Div One have lots of very good players that are ready to step up. Peterborough, Leeds, Norwich, WBA, Blackpool, Southampton are examples of teams who have followed this and got promotion. Middlesborough are an example of throwing money at useless overpaid players and sinking like a stone.
For god sake while we have financial stability lets look at the hungry ambitious players before we sink to League one, ME buggers off, administrators come in, no money and we start to struggle to attract a Bury Town player.

A very happy Norwich City fan here.The start you've made you couldn't make it up it's brilliant.

Some of you lot ain't got a clue the comment section on here is priceless keep up the moaning it's comedy gold. .

Oh you might find League One easier we done alright . Have a good season

We are premier league..... On the Ball city...

Forgot to mention 4-1 & 1-5 Get in

If the premier league is so good, why don't you watch your game rather than using your parents' computer?

Berlin blue - whilst I appreciate you optimism I would question your belief that we get behind the team regardless of recent individual performances. Season tickets at Ipswich are not cheap and in return fans would like to see some effort from the team they support. That effort has not been obvious from some players in recent games.
As regards your comments about people calling for the sacking of Jewell stupid, it may be worth asking Derby County supporters for their thoughts regarding his managerial abilities. Furthermore how many Norwich City supporters do feel regret the prompt sacking of Brian Gunn after the 7-1 reversal. If a change needs to be done then do it quickly and move on. Ipswich's performance was completely abject yesterday but the response of Jewell during and after the game gave me no confidence that he was able to address the issues facing the club.

JAS0999 I take your points on board, And yeah your right Keane didn't lose by 5 at any game. The one thing I'm worried is Under PJ We have been thrashed to many times IE: NORWICH, SWANSEA, LEICESTER, SOUTHAMPTON, PBORO.
SCORING 7? CONCEDING: 25 Shocking. PJ and the team have got to improve very quickly or you can see changes happening.

Wow bluemoon09 Get in there Stoke!!!!

so nice to see norwich pig bangers spending their time coming on here to take the pi$$ out of us. it wasnt too long ago they lost 7-1 at home so there is always hope. bring back robert chase to norwich and then we can all take the pi$$ out of them again.

jas0999 - I don't know how many games you've seen over the past 5 or 6 years but I had a season ticket all the way through JM and RK and ended up not having the money or motivation to keep it the season that Keane was sacked. However, I've seen every game so far this season right the way through the full 90 and I saw 3 or 4 games of PJ's last season and even though it still isn't quality stuff, it is vastly better than before. With Keane on Tuesday against Southampton we'd have lost 5-0 because our main striker was Scotland. We'd have never forced our way back in the game the way we nearly did (let down by the defence, again.) and in any case Southampton's track record so far speaks for itself. Norwich and Swansea last season were going up anyway and looking very good. Apart from that if you'd taken our record under Paul Jewell and applied it to the first half of the season we'd have made the play offs. We had no creativity and no quality in front of goal. We have that now but our midfield and strikers can't get a break because we spend our whole time being destroyed in defence. Yesterday every time Andrews picked up the ball in our third he found he was the furthest player up the pitch, how were we ever going to score?!

The football and passing from the likes of Bowyer and Andrews is infinitely better than what we've had in other seasons and our strikers look dangerous, they were going on about them yesterday on the TV for the first half hour until our defence showed us up. Almost every comment on here says that Stockdale and Cresswell are the only decent players in defence and the others aren't. Yet people forget that Keane sold David Wright and never bought in a decent replacement. We allowed McAuley to walk out on a free (not PJ's fault) and were stuck with Delaney and two youth players. Jewell has tried to bring in quality and in every other department he has. He still has a week in the transfer market, do you expect anyone else to come in AND buy some new defenders in that time?? No. We may as well keep him until the next transfer window and let him build, 8 months on the terrible squad he picked up is NOT ENOUGH TIME!! It just isn't. We've got to steady the boat first and to do that we are going to need to address these issues that Keane left us behind with.

Jewell is but he can't buy us a complete new squad. It's going to take a couple of seasons with a decent manager for us to be ready to go up, it's about time the fans started to realise this. Of course its a results game but the bad results started under Keane and possibly even under Magilton. What Jewell did with Derby is take a terrible team in the Prem and fail to change them, because they were not Prem standard players. What he did at Wigan was create a Prem team from the bottom up out of what was an average Championship side. How about we stop pretending that we're the same as Derby were then and just let him work. His interviews show he's far more bothered about getting it right than Keane ever was, he thought he'd got it right.

I don't mean to rant, argue, target individuals or write so extensively. But purely and simply if we carry on spurting such nonsense and calling for his head already, in effect, if we do everything you, jas0999 say we need to do, we're more likely to sink, and sink fast, losing the players such as JET, Chopra, Cresswell, Andrews et al that could easily find better teams. Let it be, we've got 42 more games we're not in trouble yet. If it still goes wrong in January I think PJ proved that you can turn a relegation season around and so nearly did. Sacking him now is the complete wrong decision and thankgoodness Marcus Evens knows better than you!

Starting to wonder whether Jewell is up to the job of managing a biggish club with big expectations?

He did a brilliant job at Bradford & Wigan but they are small clubs with not much expectation behind them.

He did very poorly at Sheffield wednesday & Derby - 2 clubs similar to ourselves.

Don't get me wrong,he did a great job in turning us around when Keane left but how well would we have done without Jimmy Bullard in those matches?..I think without him we may well have gone down.

Very worrying at the moment.

For those who haven't read Steve_M's latest blog please do >>> he's hit the nail right on the head.

^^^just like to add - I am not calling for Jewell's head - that would be ridiculous - I really like the guy - just don't think he's helped himself by not sorting out the glaringly obvious problems with our defence.

Lightning boy I agree, the blog is spot on. Also I can see what you mean, but I don't think we're going to know how good his signings and changes have actually been until at least Christmas, if he goes now then so will half of the players who are definitely a class above what we had! If you read SouperJim's blog although I don't agree with it all, he says some of the only players who seem any good at this level and sits on the fence on a few, most of those players are PJ signings, we need to keep some faith in him for now rather just bail on him at the first sign of weakness.