Town owner Marcus Evans says his reasons for appointing manager Paul Jewell are as strong today as they were a year ago, despite the Blues’ lack of progress since the 47-year-old’s appointment. Evans was writing in a lengthy interview in the programme for today’s match against Blackpool.

Evans wrote: “I have spoken to Paul about my plans here, to build a team that can reach and then compete at the highest level.

“To achieve that we need stability and so long as our manager and coaching team demonstrate the knowledge and clear ability to take us forward, I see little point in restarting the project every season by switching managers.

“The reasons I appointed Paul are just as strong today as they were a year ago and I believe given time and with my continued support he will return the good times to Ipswich Town Football Club.”

In addition to the programme being available around the ground, an online electronic version of the programme is available here.

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Jim324 added 11:13 - Jan 14 Changing manager every 18 months is not the answer. Things are very hard at the moment but I'm confident we won't go down. If we change manager we will start from scratch again. If we stop conceding poor goals things will turn around quite quickly. Just need to sign the players we desperately need. We'll win today!
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llewej_tuo added 12:53 - Jan 14 paul jewell ... hate him, he's a sword fighter JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT
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jas0999 added 19:18 - Jan 14 ... the attendance today should tell ME what the fans think. Season ticket sales will be low. ME is so arrogant I have completely lost faith in him. PJ is the second worst manager of all time based on his first year. PJ OUT
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