....... apologies - 'much' should read:- 'must' - ref my last post.

GIVE HIM TIME what time ???? has Sam had time at West Ham, Freedman at Palace had time???? McKay at Cardiff ?? Barmby at Hull ?? Hughton at Birmingham ??? how many more of these teams with recent managers had similar time Jewell has and they are all doing far better than us.even Saunders of Donny is beginning to get them going and think of tne handicap he started with..
Talk about Jewells long policy his family is not here and he only lodges here?????

Spot on britannia man. All of those managers have had the same time and in some cases less resources. ME must be thinking he got the wrong one again.

For whatever reason PJ has not moved permanently to the area so he has a safety ticket back home if he fails.

He is our manager and want him to succeed but at the moment can't see what he will do differently to turn it round.

A big week ahead.

Coyb

I was desperate for PJ to succeed & up untill the defeat yesterday, he had my total support, however, the last straw was the dreadfull substitution 7 minutes from time when it was evident he had learned nothing from the previous weeks defeat at Forest. When Dave Allard says things are very wrong at our club on TV, it,s time to heed the warnings, as if anyone knows what goes on, he does. I still don,t think Burley/Holland is the answer but, however, change needs to be made & soon. I will be there next saturday & support the players as i have done for the past 43 years but in PJ & his coaching staff, i,m afraid i no longer trust.

brittaniaman - Jewell's like a few of his signings - on an easy meal ticket, for as long as they can get away with it.

I agree with most comments. What direction are ITFC heading in? An ageing team who will only get worse, youngsters given no chance and a host of loan players. We need a long term plan and I (like most) do not think Jewell is the man for the job. Personally I would like to see Gareth Southgate as manager although Matt Holland would certainly be interesting. It has to be said though we have made no progress since we got rid of Joe Royle all those years ago.

What a load of rubbish being spouted on here.

A couple of decent, tall, strong and experienced central defenders and most of the ills of the last 3 games would be put right.

As it is with most sports the difference between winning and losing is very small.

PS I still cannot accept the inclusion of Wright in Saturdays game ahead of ALB. Bad managerial mistake

PPS Holland is happy playing golf and earning a living as a sport pundit, why would he ever want to become a manager and take a lot of abuse from the sorts who post on this website???

Bullard saved him last season but Jewell has this season shown himself to be generally inept at this level both tactically and motivationally .Doubt PJ would even get back on the Sky TV pundits panel after his absymsal tactical performances for ITFC to date.
Why has everything gone wrong after Clegg and ME got involved.?
Please start thinking of ITFC rather than sky exposure Mr Evans when you pick managers. Jewell is hopeless so hopefully 3rd time lucky.

Billy Davies now!

alfromcol - just keep being satisfied and coughing up - it suits you obviously to do so.

Those who want Burley were not at Grimsby for his last game when we lost 3-0, he wrecked our team when we went up onguts and spirit and then he bought mercanaries who were crap, cost us a load of money and eventually caused us administration.

Time to go PJ. FIVE straigt defeats. ONE point from relegation. Only seven from the bottom - closer to the bottom than a top six place. Lots of thrashings. Inept, hopeless management. Blaming of players - certainly not the arm round the shoulder bluelady et al tried to convince us. ELEVEN MONTHS into his reign the excuses from some have to stop - unless you can argue that either Jim or Roy delivered a) FIVE straight defeats b) conceeded 5 twice and seven once c) lost us over 6,000 fans since he took over - mainly because of one up front football ...

Nope thought not. PJ WILL ruin us. The same excuses - as manager - PJ has had ample time to work on these issues. He has failed. Worst eleven months I can remember - and to think people wanted Roy and Jim sacked after just a few games ...

JEWELL OUT!

here's the thing, who is actually going to come in who CAN turn it around in the next couple of months?

Satisfy my answer to that and maybe I'll join the bandwagon.

jas your post is above me so I'll pick on you. Don't you blame the players at all? They haven't performed for three managers now...

also Roy and Jim still had more time than this guy.

also the 6,000 fans could easily be leaving through rasied ticket prices which I believe has more to do with Mr Clegg and Mr Evans.

If we now have 5 more straight wins you'll still emphasise the defeats, therefore I shall continue to look on the bright side, there's a long way to go yet and a reasonably surefire way of getting relegated in this division is going a couple of months managerless.

p.s. the people who say PJ needs more time ... assume you were the same people who wanted Roy and Jim out from day one? 11 MONTHS and no progression - the worst run in a long while ... MORE time - for what - to lower attendances more, to sign more has been injury prone players - to see if we conceed 5 or 7 again - or just wait until we are in the relagation zone - it's the lovers who need to get a grip ... time to realise that PJ ruined Derby and he is doing exactly the same here. ME needs to accept he made a poor decision and deal with it.

When you are a manager, everything starts again, you inherit a team you didn't want, you change it, or build it, you then need a season for it to develop and gel, you then need an second season to make your intent clear and progress, if you only narrowly miss out then you get a third season to do what you intend (promotion) and if you fail, you're out. That's what happened to Jim and it only didn't happen to Roy because he was worse in his second season and wasn't progressing based on his own record. As for Jewell, he was effectively a caretaker last season, keeping us up and then working out the team he had, this is his season to build, by dropping Bullard and Bowyer on saturday, perhaps he realises there's some more building to do, but that needs a season. Promotion was never on his lips this year like it was with Roy, who set the bar too high. We're putting words into the club's mouth to say promotion is this season's aim. It's stability. I know we don't have that I won't pretend we do, and if we don't by the end of the year, Jewell will go.

It's time you started suggesting a realistic choice of replacement. If Jewell goes and we don't have a plan B, we've been as ad hoc as we claim Jewell is being with his signings. Keep calm.

ps. jas that was answering you question. Hope it helped, feel free to respond further than you're favourite three statistics, they haven't convinced me, particularly the attendance figures you've probably guessed/made up.

Dear Jas,

Just going to quote you...

'ELEVEN MONTHS into his reign the excuses from some have to stop - unless you can argue that either Jim or Roy delivered a) FIVE straight defeats b) conceeded 5 twice and seven once c) lost us over 6,000 fans since he took over - mainly because of one up front football ..'

Derby (2-0), Barnsley (3-1), Hull (1-0), Norwich (4-1), Swansea (3-1) and Preston (1-0) were the SIX games (worse than Jewell) that we lost on the trot under Keane at pretty much exactly this time last year as I've pointed out on another comment as bizarrely everyone seems to have forgotten the fact. That's one of your points you are so confident on in the bin.

The other one, embarrassingly I've told you numerous times that the figure of 6,000 people that Jewell is supposed to have dropped attendance figures by is wrong, its a fact. You can't deny it, as much as you will try. Maybe a comment back admitting you are wrong? I'm not holding my breath. I'm not going to bother telling you the real figures because I have done so in the past too many times for my liking. And the so called reason you give for attendance dropping is one up front, the same tactics used by Roy Keane numerous times when in charge, and Keane gave us a much worse standard of football, even when in form. As I've said before I would (and most fans would) rather watch a Jewell side in form, beating West Ham 1-0 and Brighton 3-1 than watch a Keane side in form beating Crystal Palace 2-1 for example (from the good form of the start of last season). Saying we were generally better under Roy Keane is just stupid and an embarrassingly childish reaction to the recent bad run of form.

Obviously the amount of goals conceded cannot be disputed, but typically you won't see the other side of it. We were crying out for a decent striker and goals in general for 20 months under Keane. Jewell came in and his first home game was a 3-2 win, and we started to score more goals! In addition to this he brought in Chopra in the summer, equaling more goals. The trouble is the more ruthless nature of our forward play came at a price and our defence has since struggled and conceded goals as you point out - losing McAuley didn't help, and we know Jewell looked for replacements all summer, eventually got Sonko in who was at the heart of our unbeaten run, it's bad luck he's torn a hamstring. My point is though, I'm glad its this way round and not the opposite like it was under Keane, boring 1-0 losses or 1-1/0-0 draws. More draws but Jewell's win percentage is better so generally neither have us in any stronger a position in the table. Therefore my opinion that the 'Keane was better' shouts are ridiculous I think is justified.

Jewell can turn this around, and deserves time. Jim had time, Keane had time and Jewell has done no worse than Keane (Jim I think positions-wise was the pick of the three and in hindsight was booted out too early) so deserves at least the January window to bolster his squad. He has brought in enough quality to keep us in this league comfortably, if we are in the sh by February then maybe its time to think but I'm confident he will have us in midtable by then. Let him do that and we can push next season and try and progress, remember Jewell never boasted he could get this club promoted this season unlike Keane, in-fact the word promotion has never crossed his lips, apart from when telling everyone to calm down during our unbeaten run.

So please jas0999 stop sprouting lies, and please accept Jewell is doing no worse a job than our previous manager.

At the moment he is doing no better either !!!!
I hope by next sat. at 5pm I am wrong !!!!!

Not this season, certainly last season, I'd say it's enough in the balance for us to give him more time. Everyone loved Jimmy last year and were desperate for him to sign and he's been one of the season's largest disappointments. Also, had we not lost so badly to both Norwich and Swansea (who both got promoted) at the time that we did we'd have said he'd done a really good job. This season hasn't worked, but it isn't right to just boot him out for two or three very poor months, I'm sure the best is yet to come.

For the record Jas, we suffered six straight defeats under Keane this time last year:

09.11.2010 Derby County home 0-2
13.11.2010 Barnsley home 1-3
20.11.2010 Hull City away 0-1
28.11.2010 Norwich City away 1-4
04.12.2010 Swansea City home 1-3
11.12.2010 Preston North End away 0-1

To be fair though, Jewell is not far from equalling this record. Dark days..
COYBs!

I dont think we should sack him. If we could defend (individual mistakes, Set peices) then we would have 6 points in last 2 games. This is not entirely PJ's fault, its the mentality of the players.

Not one challenge was made in Readings 3 goals. (i sit behing the goal, 6 rows back) This is not PJ's fault its the players.

What is PJ's fault is the substitution, why start defending when that is our biggest problem (of many)?

Here are some questions for you before we start singing "Sack PJ", Although at PR there is no singing.

Has he been told that he CAN spend money? He has not so far, he's has to scrape around looking for Loan deals or freebies, is this PJ's fault or the board?

Is there any team spirit? No - Could be PJ's fault

Is there any movement? NO - this is why its all HOOF and hope! - Not PJ's style, down to players.

Other than starting Martin and not JET, would anyone change the lineup?

We need to stick by the manager, it will work, but he NEEDS MONEY to spend on young, tall, quick talent. You cant get them players on a freebie or loan deal

What makes me sick is that PJ is still manager and ruining our club!

I don't want to see us becoming a "hire 'em and fire 'em" club like Leicester and the pre-Arab Man City, with the manager's name in chalk on the door.

Sacking Jewell at this juncture would serve little purpose, but there's no doubt he's got one hell of a job on to turn it around. The players he signed that looked quality on paper simply haven't performed for him - special mention to Bullard in this regard.

Jewell's goal this season is now to keep us in the division, then he needs to have a good long look at his current policy of recruiting experienced ex-Prem players, all of whom can go back to their massive homes after a defeat and count their fortunes already made earlier in their careers. I'm not saying they don't care, but they're doing a good impression of it at the moment.

TOMISAMOSOSOS

do you fancy jewell ?? he's ruining the club. His club record of most conceeded goals in a 6 game run wont be beat for a long long time buddy. Its pathetic.

and stop with your keane nonsence, at least he wasnt delivering hammerings week in week out like this twit ... im sick of loking at town conceeding so many goals this season, its embarrising