In fairness to MM, he does deserve some credit for signing Drinan and Cotter for the long-term future of the club when he will probably be leaving in the summer. I just wish we could see young players more involved though. It was great when Downes and Nynam were involved during our brilliant start to the season. A bit of me worries that was only due to the injury crisis and really MM would prefer experienced players in the team. For me our only chance of promotion is the investment in young players (bringing them in and giving them game time) and we're still not doing it nearly enough.

Bit of a strange one, MM scouts and recruits young talent, but rarely ever gives them a fair chance in the first team.
A whole range of players are coming through the academy now thanks to all the work from ME downwards.
I believe the future is actually bright with a load of talent coming through.
however, still believe MM won't be here next year.
Mark Warburton leads candidates for me right now.

Most Town fans will agree that under the circumstances MM has done a reasonable job. However, it is time to move on. I dread to think what the season ticket no's will be if an announcement has not been made regarding his departure before the deadline. You would think with all the sh*t he has had he would be be announcing it sooner rather than later. Assuming he is leaving that is.

Sounds like he will be here next year. The question though is how many ST holders will not renew?

In fairness i think you have said what many of us feel. I also have trouble with Micks rudeness towards the fans. Regardless of if a fan wants him to stay or go most of us are pretty decent, yes he takes some abuse but that's not from the majority .

I ment to address my comments to Mark , regarding his post.

I think most fans will be beyond caring if he stays.

He's done a great job. I hope he stays.

Fine with him keeping things ticking over until the summer and he has brought in a lot of good signings over the last 5 years (aswell as quite a bit of dross) BUT my god this club needs a breath of fresh air next season and that means he has to go.

Can someone please convey that to our owner.

I can see him staying as he never criticises ME and town fans are too docile and passionless to make the change that needs to happen happen. If he stays we will be playing to 9k next season. He has to go. And to anyone saying, "careful what you wish for," have some damn ambition!!

I can see him staying as he never criticises ME and town fans are too docile and passionless to make the change that needs to happen happen. If he stays we will be playing to 9k next season. He has to go. And to anyone saying, "careful what you wish for," have some damn ambition!!

I was saying he had to go after Lincoln. Has anything good happened since? Beaten Norwich? Had a cup run? Got into playoffs? Seen off our pi ss take owner for ruining the club?!

....... young players have flair - McCarthy is the complete opposite - he'll sign young players, mainly from lesser Irish Clubs ... which helps them out with a few thousands bucks each time. But what happens thereon in - invariably they never get a chance here to prove their worth, or capability.

Don't ever expect McCarthy to change, he can't, therefore he won't. Stop being deluded people, and stop expecting otherwise.

toxtethblue ....... ' too docile and passionless' unfortunately describes extremely well, far too many.

McCarthy ha sussed that out - and know full well he can milk it a bit longer - if HE desires to, of course.

He's a Dinosaur - but no Mug .... !! He knows what bus he's hopped on for sure.

I've got to be honest, as a person, I like and admire Mick, he's a very experienced and unlike most of us he knows the game inside out and I imagine he is a good boss to work for who doesn't tolerate fools easily. No matter how good you are however, I think every manager has a 'shelf-life' and maybe Mick has reached the end of the road. I think maybe the time has come for a change, I hope it's an Ipswich man and I wouldn't mind Frank Yallop having a crack and bringing in a right hand man like Matt Holland. I think with vision and building a young side will be key for Town and Mick has had a hand in that too. Whatever he does I wish him well.

More often than not change is a good thing. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just deadly bored with ITFC these days. I watch other teams (including our arch rivals) sign players that I'd like us to sign. We play football (to be frank) that on most occasions is mind numbing (it's got a little better of late). Only exciting year in last five is when we got in the play-offs, to then be humiliated. No FA cup or league cup (know it's not called that anymore but fed up of all it's name changes) run to speak of. In fact, we've only ever been humiliated by lower league opposition. When was the last time we beat Norwich? Most teens supporting this club don't even know what that feels like and we go into those games fearing defeat or another humiliation. I examine the injury record of our new signings and shake my head in disbelief as it's obvious we are trying to make do (Drinan and Neymar aside). It just feels DULL. Really really DULL. How many more years are we going to spend languishing in the middle of the table doing nothing and going nowhere.

PART 1

Haven't spoken to Evans since "BEFORE Christmas"???!!!

Awesome "Business Protocol" ehhhh :-) :-), as since December 16 we are 1-2-5 (might even have been winless if not for the gift of a meltdown-spurred dismissal and subsequent 53+ minutes man-advantage against Leeds!) and for the umpteenth time once again out "at Mick's earliest convenience" of the fan-luved & also potentially profitable FA Cup ....and with pretty much ANYWHERE else but in this nowadays utterly moribund-looking & circus-like-run professional football club known as ITFC , an *genuine* AMBITIOUS owner (or his awesome mouthpiece) would surely have been "in touch" with an ALREADY largely unpopular manager (surely Dino McCarthy is still below 35% in "Wanted Here" rating, just like he was pre-season with the 2 large local surveys etc.) ... about not only the very poor run of form, but also the transfer window's potential in's & out's!, and last but not least the at-it's-time-of-making utterly indefensible! 2-year contract option , which imho MUST have some sort of *respectful* (time wise) deadline like in other sports, and as such that deadline might very well already have been passed and uhuuu! therefore the club & MM could ostensibly just be feeding "them f@ckers", i.e. the fans, certified BS ...as they have done soooo many times before!

However Marvelous Marcus's ITFC, particularly in the post-Jewell era, is not like any other professional football club is it now lol :-) :-), as here the current manager is nowadays in complete actuality more or less merrily "allowed" to FREEWHEEL cozily about season after season... JUST AS LONG AS he keep us in the league ....and thereby keeps Evans's original corporate tax-deductible MASTER PLAN with Ipswich Town Football Club afloat (although there can be little doubt imho that said no-doubt highly intricate tax-deductibility advantage is not as great as it was in his early days as owner mostly due to new & stricter UK corporate tax rules coming into effect in April of 2017 as I have elaborated on before) ...and, to the Dino's credit do so without objecting too overly :-) :-), to getting along on absolute minuscule or zero funds available! this from a very very wealthy man with a reported bigger net worth than even Sir Paul McCartney!

PART 2

Aye personally a little further *rare* credit is also due to Mick (or to be perfectly honest more than likely at least as much as 50% of that credit should probably go the more hmmm "MODERN football thinking" lol among our busy scouts!) for having "unearthed" a few gems, some surprisingly highly profitable, in Mick's micro-transactions -- but ehmmm let's not forget THE REALITY that so do a substantial number of other managers here or abroad on fairly shoestring budgets or in much smaller clubs even! -- and aye periodically Mick's selected 'Proper Bloke XI' do indeed produce small "miracles", POINTS-HAUL wise mostly mind you! Cause him & they very very rarely do it ENTERTAINMENT wise!

The same indefensible favorisme is still very much there, the same mind-boggling Too Late or simply woefully Incoherent substitutions is still very much there, the same impatience (or distrust rather) with the vast majority of our more creative youths is still very much there, and obviously the in 85% of fixtures opening gameplan a.k.a. = "Let's-adjust-to-THEM!-while-keeping-the-HEDGEHOG-approach!-and-basically-just-try-to-NICK-all-3" opening gameplan is still ultimately very much there!
Or to sum it all up : This unequivocal FAN-DETERRENT, notorious archaic & very often outright wimpy tactical ineptitude & Gung-Ho with any single away-point of Mick McCarthy is still there for ANY objective and/or neutral football observer on this planet to see, in his now *6th* season here!!!!!!!!!
And furthermore that by the Mick-inners chronically "overlooked" fact, and a very *undebunkable* fact at that since these inexcusable lame flaws of his fundamentally has NEXT TO NOTHING to do with how much "allowance" MM has nor with how much other opposing Championship clubs "allowance" is. Period!

Sadly not only is Mick "allowed" this ambitionless & appalling FREEWHEELING about as outlined above, but unlike any other workplace he is additionally also "allowed" to repeatedly and very VEHEMENTLY curse at & offend or childishly toy with a very large chunk of the CUSTOMERS???!!! i.e. those many fans who don't outright worship him and his dispositions, unconditionally! (Most recently we all remember his dumbfounding remarks regarding the call for Celina to get on the field or how about how he close to indefensibly suddenly used the for long ousted & soon departing Douglas for the entire hmmmm "spiteful" 95 minutes in that then hyper crucial April 2017 encounter with Birmingham!)

Now from a pure business perspective -- and Evan must at LEAST once-upon-a-time have been a fairly shrewd businessman cause how else could he accumulate such a vast net worth of £ 700+ million! -- this is much more mind-boggling than indifferently & UNAMBITIOUSLY letting McCarthy simply FREEWHEEL about in the Championship season after season, as you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that this EAGER hostility of Mick's towards many of the ITFC fans is simply bad for business especially in the long run!!! ...and much more so than his often fossil-like negative approach to football in the 21th century is potentially also "bad for business", since as described above periodically Mick's team does indeed do moderately *well*! & accumulate (or fortuitously "nick!" lol) a lot of points! or at the very minimum just enough points to steer clear of relegation come May. (Which in case of the rather unglorified latter -- see for instance last season'a worst finish in 58 years!!! -- is then joyfully (mis)used by some of our esteemed fans to hmmm ludicrously cultivate & nourish the greater than great "THE ONE & ONLY MANAGER IN THE ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM WHO CAN SAVE US FROM THE ABYSS!" urban legend or super myth! :-) :-)

Hard to predict the future but think ME will offer MM a contract; it just whether MM accepts it or not. We do know this club leaves it late on the contract front. Stagnant that's what this club is, with negative football at its finest. Every game is like the 300 protecting Greece from the Persians, backs to the wall stuff with high fives when they've stopped the most recent attack or Gk pulls off another worldly. Last ditch stuff, really is.

Mick will still be here and has taken up the 2 year option I think. The plan is to keep fans guessing, make them think a new man may come and things will change, get them excited just to get them to renew or purchase their season tickets. Their not going to tell fans his staying yet because they know season tickets will drop again prob to £5k or something.

I think MM will be staying but in an "upstairs"job moving away from front of house .... This make more sense we keep what we need about him (his phone book and old mates club) and hopefully we promote from with in (Nash) so that the ethos of the academy u19 u21 u23 which is to play proper football.

I'm not a MM fan but he does have a use for our club I think it could work really well

Time for change.

McCarthy did a great job for 3 years and we should all give him credit for that. However, these last two years have been nothing short of dreadful. I believe he was appointed to bring stability to the club at a time we badly needed it and he's done that job very well. But now it's all gone a bit stale sine then and it's definitely time for a change. I'd like to see a young ambitious manager come in who isn't afraid of playing attacking football and playing young players.

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Of course he will be here next season. A yes man to Evans who asks for no money.
Working together to run the club at a loss for Evans other profit making companies.
Low gates eaquals less money, more to offset against his other companies. Good business sense.