.... cat - admire your optimism and positive opinion for sure, just hope for the sake of all it's not misjudged, and all turns out for the better.

I would feel far more confident with a few more points on the board - current indications would suggest that, so far, all is far from how many of us would have reasonably expected.
Will/would be a great feeling for me personally, to be proved wrong to have such thoughts proved unecessary.
Of course - time will indeed tell, as always.

Good luck Tristan if you do go on lone to St Johnstone hopefully he will get games and come back stronger and better than ever . COYB !!!!

Oops sorry meant loan not lone ??

blueboy1981 - after the last 2/3 seasons of negativity, I've got positivity and optimism to burn fella (lol) As i said last season, I'd take a chance on a young, upandcoming manager and here we are. Besides, I've been impressed and completely get what PH is trying to achieve, as I have been with most of the new additions, cause if he gets it right, we will be ENTERTAINED in the proper way.
I get that posters are getting twitchy, as that's comes without a win, but with Sunday's big one looming it's the time dump the axes and grinders and get behind the manager etc. I dare say if we don't win on Sunday, then it will be anarchy on here, but I'll give PH at least a couple of months, for the very reasons I mentioned.

might as well go to bury town,same level of football and he wont need a passport or have to talk a funny language

Really think this will do him some good. One James Maddison went on loan to Aberdeen from the scum came back twice the player. Then made England u21 team and now look 22m pound signing for Leicester

Bit of context from last season. Championship starts for Academy grown players with substitute appearances in brackets:
Tommy Smith: 3 (0)
Myles Kenlock: 9 (0)
Luke Woolfenden: 2 (0)
Teddy Bishop: 1 (3)
Luke Hyam: 3 (8)
Flynn Downes 3 (7)
Tristan Nydam 7 (6)
Andre Dozzell 1 (0)
Adam McDonnell 0 (1)
Ben Morris 0 (2)
Nice to see so many Academy grown players make the first team, but can hardly claim they make up the backbone of the team. Here's the loanee figures:
Bersaint Celina: 20 (10)
Callum Connolly: 24 (3)
Cameron Carter-Vickers: 11 (0)
Dominic Iorfa: 20 (3)
This excludes short-term contract signings Carayol & Gleeson, now also gone.
Truth is that the squad is much younger than last season so will need time to find form. Give them a chance and please try to stop rewriting history.

Another crap rubbish pig headed decision by PH

When MM went everyone on here was on a high because
We are going to get a young hungry manager who will bring these brilliant youngsters through... And now

He is going on loan, until January. Four months experience which will help him develop in to a still young player for us. I really don't understand the meltdown.

This does not give a good view to youngsters trying to get a game in the first team. They will go out on loan because brought League 1/League 2 players will be preferred even when Town are struggling to score or can't get close to winning a game at the moment. It has been a while since the last Academy player has played regularly for Ipswich.

Sad sad time. I believe in our young stars think they are better then some of these league 1 boys. Certainly deserved a good chance/ run

For the Dingbats who do not understand why loaning our best young players out on loan is Bad/negative decision on the manager's part is that the other people (like myself) pay £hundreds of pounds each year to see our boys develop in our 1st team and watch the team and club rise up through the leagues. WE WANT TO SEE OUR OWN BOYS PLAY IN OUR OWN BLUE SHIRTS! #enuffsaid. It is extremely irksome for me to see a manager bring other loan players in who (lets face it are not much better than our own promising young players) and give them plenty of game time in a foreign shirt to them only to see our own bright young players pushed to one side!! We've had enough of managers who do not give our own young players the chance to have a run in the 1st team and develop the way we want them to!!! Whats the point giving them to another manager to teach in a way that is alien to our own way of playing?? Has PH dictated to the loaning manager how he wants our best young players to develop at another club!?!? the answer to this is probably not, no. So then why send them out on loan for no reason?? I WANT TO SEE DOWNES, BISHOP, NYDAM ALL PLAY IN THE 1ST TEAM AND DEVELOP ALONGSIDE THE OTHER SENIOR PLAYERS WHO WILL GIVE THEM THE GUIDANCE THEY NEED!!!!! #RANTOVER

These you gsters are good enough to play foe England under 19s so they are obviously the pick of their age group but apparently not good enough for the championship does not bode well for England.

I could accept a relegation battle if the youngsters were involved and getting valuable Championship experience unfortunately Hurst policy of flooding the team with league 1 and 2 players makes this nigh on impossible.
What's happened to Cotter?he looked a really bright player last season.
IF we don't beat a really poor scum team Saturday we are doomed.

I for one am delighted we are sending out one of our most promising young players on loan for 3 months because the first team are doing very well at the moment.

It is about all-round development! In many walks of life experience in more than one company, organisation etc adds something. As I said before, he is going for just four months. Nydam is not, on his own, going to have a massive effect on our season if he stays. The SPL is hard league, it will toughen him up for the likes of Bradley Johnson.

The loan players Hurst has brought in have played far more games for England Youth teams at all levels (Chalobah 31, including captaincy, Edun 34) than Nydam (2) and Downes (5). Only Dozzell has a comparable number of caps (36) - and he's not being played as still being brought back carefully from a major injury.

A good move for all concerned. Nydam is a prospect but will be well down the pecking order in the centre of midfield once Huws and Dozzell are up to speed. He'll get regular football at a decent level and the SPL will toughen him up. The club will get a better player back in the end.

No one on here going to be positive after sunday
Too many changes too soon

What you got too remember all these players rushed through the door at the last minute are just one man's opinion PH thinks they can step up to championship level...... Does not mean they can....

Im sure there was no mention of our own youth system. Being totally over looked in ME 5point plan
The academy was very highly spoke of..... What has changed