Wouldn't mind harry, Owen Coyle or Mick McCarthy

I wonder if this time next year....we'll be glued,watching the F.A cup 1st round draw

i know they say never go back but my choice would be Burley with Holland as no 2.George could get the stylish football back into the club and also get the youth system sorted again.Matt could learn the ropes for 3 years and then George could move upstairs.
Other options could be Di Canio or Karl Robinson.

Simon Grayson would be my choice for a really good manager, he's not available though, unless Mr Evans opens his two ton wallet.

Well i was hoping that i would wake up this morning to the news that jewell had resigned, ah well still all day to make up his mind.

Michael Appleton

I went to the game. We were awful from the start. No passion, no desire, second to every ball. Hoof ball to Murphy. Disorganised. Abject. The worst display I have seen in a long time. Reminiscent of the Keane team. Redknapp please, now....

All I want is a young coach/manager who is open minded enough to build a team based upon ability and not reputation.

Who ever we get in needs to be signed up on a 5 year contract with players signed up on 3/4 year deals.

I wish there was still the rule about only having a certain amount loanees throughout the season (i think it was maximum of 5 with 1 long term one).

Jongy

Agree with you. Unfortunately vast amount of supporters want instant success and will be too short sighted to see the bigger picture

I do not want Jewell to go...if Clegg remains. Clegg out first, them Jewell. Redknapp never, it's early but it really is TARICCO TIME!!!

Where do i apply!!!

Lets all remember.....it took SBR,the best part of 4 years to turn it all around.Who ever comes here(either for a quick fix),or long term....it will take time.We all want instant sucsess,but we all know its not gonna happen

Okay, cards on the table, I never wanted Jewell as a manager; sorry but he was Royle-lite, another wonderfully quotable bloke who can crack a good joke but underneath there is no substance or consistency or real track record of achievement, and on a clear downward curve, other than it aint my fault.
Equally I must admit to have given up going to matches, 13 years of season ticket ended after the season before last after Jewell was appointed. Interestingly for a commercially well run club (allegedly), ITFC never contacted me to ask why or to chase up a renewal. And that is symbolic of the malaise for me.
Jewell out is not going to resolve the mess; not only do they need a better manager, they are never going to achieve anything without a Chairman that knows what he is doing. How can any business allow themselves to have lost the type of assets they have over the last three or four years by allowing players contracts to run out and potential income disappear. Sorry, but let's just mention one name of a now premiership regular, McAuley. And then remember the mess we have had at the centre of our defence, for years!!
So the mess at ITFC has to be nailed on Clegg. He has to go as well, and he should be being challenged now as to whether he too is considering his position. This is the man who had complete control of contracts (with Evans) during the Keane era, and has still had main control during Jewell. It is him that has overseen the failed renewal of contracts, the failure to sign new players when negotiations have been ongoing, or even minor things like what sounds like a remarkable small sell on percentage for Rhodes. did we seriously accept only 10%? there are clubs out there that get nearer 50%; 10% is a jokey opening offer, and he accepted it??!! Clegg is out of his depth. Why has Evans never acted on that?
Sorry, again I think that Magilton was sacked too early; and I am not as hard on Keane as so many are. The club sacked Keane after the first year, but just failed to do it. He was given no money to buy players, or backing after that first year. What I will say about him is that he at least gave young players their chance, and actually more of a chance than many supporters did!! His use of young players was encouraging; and not a Royle style thing (which is a bit Jewell-like as well) of playing them for one game (earning his cash bonus for blooding an academy player it seemed) and then saying ah, they're too young, not strong enough, not good enough and shutting them out again.
Keane and Rhodes? yeah, he is always going to be crucified for that, but sorry lets forget hindsight and look at some facts. Keane had two league games at the end of a season before the Rhodes decision, while Jordan i think was still out on loan. So any decision he made must have been based on what little he knew, and what people at the club told him. (And i too am a poor judge. Sorry, but from the time he was on the pitch at Portman Road, and again he was a young player that had been blooded, albeit by Magilton, I did not think he was quite good enough. He was someone that did not demand to be on the pitch. Potential but not yet proven. Forget hindsight and that was actually true!). What Keane was faced with was a player who had had a chance but had potential or Wickham! If Rhodes had stayed, Wickham would not have prospered. I actually think Keane made the right decision. After that, it was down to Clegg to do a decent deal for him. Clegg didn't, wow, what a surprise!!! So sorry, i would ask people to stop linking Keane and Rhodes together unless you also link Keane and Wickham in the same sentence, and out of the two players I know which i would rather have!!!
Jewell? Is there any point having a go at him anymore, it is liking taking sweets from a baby or shooting fish in a barrel. Fun but what's the point? However in passing I hope that people recognise that the faults in Jewell are actually the same as with Royle; there is too much fond nostalgia for Royle. He had a premiership squad and failed to use it; he had quality young talent and either failed to use them at all, or played them and slagged them off. Look back at Royle's handling of Bent, or Garvan, or Counago even, look at his choice of signings, those stop gap centre halves, all followed by the witty joke and the put down of his players publicly. Jewell's butchering of Loach was pure Royle. Gut a player in public and distract the attention away from yourself. I have no idea how good Loach is, but he has to be a far better man than what Jewell did to him post Cardiff.
The future? ITFC is a joke, poorly run from top to bottom. No-one with any experience is going to touch us with a bargepole as long as Clegg is there; anyone that does is after a pay day or is totally desperate. Relegation is not inevitable; there is enough talent there to win the 12 or 13 matches that would see us to safety, they just need to be managed properly. Sorry, but my goal would be to just see us playing good football again and bringing through our players and trusting them. Yes, it also needs the crowd to just be happy with that, to not be impatient for the premiership, to accept that our best players will always leave, but to know that there are more coming through.
Next manager? Dunno, i would be happy with Burley, just as someone who knows how the club should be run; no-one else at the club seems to know that anymore. I do not want someone who Clegg or Keane has seen doing the telly! We need someone who thinks the long term is actually about the future growth of the club and not just whether they still have a job!

What is there to consider. PJ you can't be getting any job satisfaction. Just leave and join Keane boring us on ITV, or better still there must be an under 11s side somewhere needing a manager. It's not all your fault the players are awful but you can't sack a whole team unfortunately. Just take the pay off and light the fat cigar til your next appointment.

Levington : your quote "if he wimped off home to Bradford last night he ain't coming back. No fight and a cowards way out. "
Thats exactly the sort of moronic quote I referred to in my post on page 8. IF he is definately considering his future at Ipswich, don't you think it would be reasonable to expect him to discuss it and all its implications with his wife and family. Where would you go?

Billy Davies,George Burley,Jim Magilton,Alan Curbishley...

..they're all available Marcus and will do a damn site better job than the current idiot...for God's sake put us all out of our misery and get it done today.

Ianthomas

So you're having a pop at Royle. He got us in and around the playoffs. Just imagine what he could have achieved if he had the sort of money subsequent managers have under Evans. Only needed about 500k when Kuqi got injured near the end of that near-miss year and we would have gone up i'm sure.

Anyway that is a different argument...

Well said ianthomas what abount the so called players who get £1000's per week and can not hit a barn door etc, they should take a lot of the blame for the position this club is in, not all of the managers fault.

Henderson
Ainsley Chambers. Higging. Carson


Edwards. Reocoker. Ndaw. Martin


Cambell. Mohsni

Subs
Loach, murphy, scotland, hyam, smith, wellens, Jet

AND there is us thinking that Jewellio is with his wife and family in Yorkshire,, but no he turned up at Playford rd.this morning to watch the under 21 game, so it is possible he could be staying !! God Help us all !!! BY the way an over 30 yr old scored the winner

ianthomas,longest post have ever read on here,Joe did a good job in very difficult circumstances(administration)
Dont suppose anybody will read this as I rarely get past page three !
Didn't want PJ from start.He was successful at Bradford and Wigan but failed at both the next two clubs we play.
Have paid out getting on for £10m in interest over last 3 years,and as ME owns almost all the debt must be going to him;so as I see it part of the increased debt to the Marcus Evans group is money paid to Evans himself.Year ended 30 June 2011 ITFC loss £3,171,000 Interest paid £3,311,000.Profit before deduction 140k.

So, the eadt are reporting Jewell will be in charge on Tuesday night. So he has decided that this is for the best interest of the club.

We are in big trouble.

Please don't give the job to Mills or Butcher or Mowbray. I'd hate to see Town legends get slagged off on her it they fail to win the first 10 games.

I was one of the supporters who watched this disgrace. Second best from start to finish and a total travesty that we were ahead at any point in the game. Should have been a 5/6-0 thrashing. Some of the tactics were hopelessly inept and the whole "long ball to Murphy" was very Keane-esque

Roy Keane's stats at Ipswich
34.6%- Wins 30.9%-draws 34.6%- Losses

This compares to Paul Jewells present stats at Ipswich
38.9%- Wins 19.4%-draws 41.7%- Losses

Both sets of stats are pretty similar, only PJ has failed to chalk up the draws and because of this has ended up with a whole bunch of losses.

Don't think Paul Jewell is going anytime soon. He's got to beat his record for Derby afterall....
Think about it- he resigns now and no-one will want him. His stats are simply horrific. The only hope he has is either to turn it around (not going to happen) or wait until he is forceably removed (with stats like these it is only a question of time) with a big payment to boot.
He isn't going anywhere. Where is he going to go???????

Keane vs. Jewell is like discussing which form of execution you would prefer.