Former boss Mick McCarthy says the section of the Town support who were hounded him out have “got what they deserved” and he has “no sympathy” with them following the Blues’ disastrous start to the season which has led to his successor Paul Hurst departing only 14 games into the Championship season.

“It’s sad for Paul Hurst,” McCarthy told talkSPORT2. “They did make a lot of changes — a lot of players left and maybe a couple of the signings haven’t worked out instantly.

“I think they were unlucky in a couple of games and it can change around so quickly and all of a sudden you’re on the slide. I’m not one to be talking too much about it to be honest.”

Reflecting on his time at Portman Road and the way it ended he added: “I had my spell there, I loved it, enjoyed it and some of them made their feelings known and it’s not worked out for them since I’ve left, has it?

“I’ll make it clear, it wasn’t everybody. It was a fair section of them and I had a real happy time there because there are a lot of good people and I feel for them.

“But I have to say, the ones that were hounding me for 18 months to two years, I’ve got no sympathy for them at all. They’ve got what they deserved.”

Moving on to tomorrow’s game at Millwall which new manager Paul Lambert, whose appointment will be confirmed first thing tomorrow morning with a press conference pencilled in for Tuesday, will watch from the stands, McCarthy added: “It’s never easy going to the Den. So it’s going to be a tough old job for Paul if he gets the job. I like Paul Lambert.”

The incoming boss is understood to have agreed a three-year deal with Stuart Taylor set to be his assistant and Jim Henry Town's new fitness coach, the pair having left Stoke along with Lambert at the end of last season.

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blueboy1981 added 22:26 - Oct 26 Why dig the dirt when today belongs to a True ITFC LEGEND ? - typical of MM, and his cohorts. Respect ? - neither would know the meaning of the word. Shame on you, claiming to be ITFC Supporters - but you only kid yourselves, so who really cares.
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TomIpswich added 22:27 - Oct 26 Bring back Douglas and tabb
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Geddis78 added 22:32 - Oct 26 Cornishblu, another fan with his head up his ars£. How can you think things are better? This time last year, we had McGoldrick, Waghorn, Celina, Garner. Compare those with who we have now. How were his comments arrogant? All fair as far as I am concerned. You and so many like you don't like the fact that he stood up to you and had bigger balls than you would ever have. Good luck to him. Good luck to Lambert. Let's agree on COYB!

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Geddis78 added 22:36 - Oct 26 Blueboy, you felt free to air your opinion today. Why should no one else? Sanctimonious bullish!t on your part. How dare you criticise others or take the morale high ground.
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Robbo1966 added 22:38 - Oct 26 Don't blame MM at all, he did a good job with limited resources in a league increasingly competitive where money is everything... some fans still live in the past, we would all love to see the glory days return but reality is we are no longer a force in the championship. We don't attract top players and we sometimes have to play to our strengths, or lack of. Too many experts who appear to have little football knowledge and even less management experience. Thank you MM for all you have done for ITFC.

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Henrietta_R_Hippo added 22:48 - Oct 26 *GRUDGE* = One of the finest & most commendable virtues known to Man! And in this utterly delusional and severely GRUDGE-bearing Dino's twisted world-view not only an above all almost unfathomable infantile & unduly disproportionate wish of ILL WILL at that???!!! ...But additionally simply just a completely misplaced 'Claim of Blame' in the first place! Meaning overwhelmingly, it was fundamentally YOURSELF, and then of course YOUR flood of anti-football plus fan-disrespecting & fan-deterring managerial decisions, with the for long subsequent steadily growing number of empty seats at PR , that brought you down here at ITFC! Neither some clearly SMALL portion of fans who surely at times went too far in their heckling of you from the stands, nor just the in all 4 big local polls about 66%-72% crystal clear majority among fans who basically were just IRREVERSIBLY fed-up with you & your often insomnia-curing football and always pointlessly ultra stubborn & 'Delusion of Grandeur' fulled arrogant style! Good riddance your ultra obnoxious fossil!!! PS: Oh and if Marvelous Marcus hadn't been so woefully indifferent & tighta$$ed he should unquestionably have rid the club of you McCarthy much earlier! ....Say if not already justifiable before then most appropriately after the 'Gone Viral' humiliation that was the doubleheader versus then non-league Lincoln in January 2017. Period!

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warktheline added 22:50 - Oct 26 @blueboy post 20:33, second paragraph! Hilarious 😂😂 @peteswindon, before calling people ‘idiots' I'd suggest removing that picture of yourself ! 😂 Mick McCarthy, totally ‘classless' ! There's centre half's and there's centre half's, no fit to lace the ‘real man's' boots! RIP Kevin Beattie LEGEND!
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airliner added 22:51 - Oct 26 The crazy thing is that Marcus Evans did not spend his money wisely , he seems to go from one disaster to another. Let's hope Warburton will be the new manager !!
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TB42 added 22:52 - Oct 26 A disappointing interview from Mick McCARTHY - I accept he was not all bad. However, I agreed with the decision to not renew his contract, his style lacked entertainment and we were going nowhere, a change was needed. With change, there is ALWAYS risk. The change implemented has not worked out although I do feel sorry for Paul HURST when you look back at some of the earlier games, as has already been said, Lady Luck certainly did not befriend him! Back to Mick, sadly, it takes two to tango and as I have previously said, whilst some of the comments aimed at him were totally inappropriate, other criticism was fair. However, instead of remaining calm and diplomatic he hit back head on - for e.g. his comments around "if fans chant for a player to come off the bench it would make him more determined NOT to put them on, even if it were the right thing to do!!"etc. etc. and of course notwithastanding his comments after the goal against Norwich. As an earlier poster has already observed, clubs have not exactly been queuing up to offer him a job, perhaps that has contributed to his apparent bitterness....

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Cheshire_Blue added 23:00 - Oct 26 doctorbuzz how right you are. Spot on. Look no further than the numpties who hounded Mick out as the reason for our present plight. The truth hurts. I have said all along that TIME WILL TELL and it certainly has. Good luck to Paul Lambert. He will certainly need it if he is to rescue our once great club from the situation the numpties have got us into. Perhaps one day they will learn to understand the game of football.

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Dissboyitfc added 23:03 - Oct 26 He needs to look in the mirror, which he wont do of course, so full of himself! there was a time when the terraces would be singing "super, super Mick McCarthy" it didnt change over night it changed when he started hitting out at fans with comments like, " the more they ask the less likely i am to do it" He played his part in his downfall. No cup wins crap football. He got what he deserved and i have no sympathy for him! He could have shown some class and refused to comment, but thats MM for you no class! So glad he has gone! Time for everyone to move on!

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Geddis78 added 23:07 - Oct 26 Henrietta has raised her head. This is the ultimate keyboard warrior who even changes his name each season, the complete coward. As hard as it is for you to take, we were a mid table side with an outside chance of promotion previously. We are now bottom of the league with your 'young and modern approach ' to football. Have you been this season? Have you really been more entertained? I haven't. Mick has earned the right to gloat over pretend intellectual clowns like you who clog up the forum with long and tedious self righteous posts. You wanted change. You got what you asked for. We are bottom of the league. Kindly ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh.

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Brockleyblue added 23:08 - Oct 26 I couldn't even be bothered to read this, beyond the headline. You are a deeply tedious human being, Mr McCarthy. Paul Hurst conducted himself with more dignity over the course of fifteen matches than you managed in five and a half years. I'd rather be bottom and be associated with some vague sense of decency as opposed to be mid-table and affiliated with a foul-mouthed, expletive-happy, fan-loathing oik. Your type will never be welcome at Portman Road. The reason that you and Roy Keane fell out is because you are both cut from the same cloth. Both equally uncouth and charmless. Kindly stop using media stories about Ipswich Town as a means of garnering publicity for yourself. It's very unbecoming and, sadly, entirely predictable. True to form, you have again shown yourself to be entirely classless to the end, and beyond.

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RobsonWark added 23:20 - Oct 26 Really Mick? You loved your time and enjoyed your time at Portman Road? I bet you did. It was an easy life for you with bosses like Marcus Evans and Ian Milne who know nothing about football or what the supporters pay their money for each week - to be entertained for 90 minutes. You're hoof ball football was sooooooooooooo BORING!! No one wants to watch that. That is why attendances were getting less and less each week. You should have played a 5-0-5 formation - why bother with a midfield? You have absolutely no idea how the game should be played. I bet you hate watching teams like Barcelona, Brazil or Arsenal who pass the ball. Please hurry up and find a club and buy Chambers, Skuse and Jerk-en!!

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wayway added 23:43 - Oct 26 Funny how Boring Billy has time to be interviewed on Talksport when managers are preparing for the weekend matches, oh sorry, you are not a manager anymore and you can wash your own car and dig your own garden or does Different Class Dougie still do it. GOOD RIDDANCE
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Draws_apoint_ added 00:05 - Oct 27 Spot on Cheshire BlueMick did the job. Would have him back now. Time some of our fans came off fantasy football and accept the reality òf suppopting a championship team in the present day.
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bluesman added 00:25 - Oct 27 McCarthy is a realist. He knew he'd be giving the owner money and he just got on with it. He did an amazing job and got no thanks. A lot of people on here need to live in the real world. Yeah of course It would be great if Evans invested more money. But we are where we are and what we are. We need shrewd mangers skilled at getting something out of nothing. Not naive rookies. Or dreamers. Or fans stuck in 1978. If I were Mick I'd feel like that. And so frankly would all of you.

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midastouch added 00:32 - Oct 27 The McCarthy debate is in danger of rumbling on longer than Brexit! And we should get Mauricio Pochettino to negotiate Brexit rather than Theresa May as he got Spurs out of Europe in just 2 months no messin'!
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carsey added 01:18 - Oct 27 Why are TWTD even reporting this it only serves to get fans arguing again. Come on Phil you didn't need to do it really did you?
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Lord_Mac added 02:34 - Oct 27 Just because it didn't work out with Hirst doesn't make it wrong to pass on McCarthy. His time was up and his tactics stale and at times inept, MM thinks he is a tactical genius, but he's hopelessly inflexible and won't take a risk even when there's all to gain and nowt to lose. For me the turning point was bringing on Douglas away at QPR. The four games that Klug managed were the clue (sorry) about how to manage the club, using our own youngsters and two up front. Hurst failed to learn, preferred his own inferior players and shipped our youth out to grass. I can't see Lambert applying the right model - and from where we are it's hard to see what we can do. We may have missed a golden opportunity to be managed in the right way.

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Ardentitfc1978 added 03:11 - Oct 27 You know what Mick, we all know you did a very good job here. Its just your fans relationship which is the REAL problem. If you were to manage the fans like what you did here with the players management style of yours....you will still be appreciated. You are a good manager but just not good enough to us the fans.
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Bert added 05:20 - Oct 27 Do some people om here not learn anything in life about abuse and hatred ?
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trncbluearmy added 06:02 - Oct 27 Good for you mate,not quite as broad a back as you thought eh? Bit of abuse and your off. Thanks for saving us, but god your football was boring and if you were still here we would be 15th with gates of less then 10000 and no future
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geminimustang added 06:33 - Oct 27 To understand the words from MM,you only have to read some of the comments on here.There are contributors on this forum who really need to reflect on what comes from their fingertips.MM gave his all for ITFC.He may not have been able to win promotion with little financial backing.He may have been a blunt as a hammer.He may have defended himself from hate with offensive language.All that but for me a great man who along with TC did his very best.To supporters who don't get him,you don't understand what he tried to do with three washers and half a dozen coat buttons.On the transfer market,his dealings probably kept this club competing when the funds from Marcus barely kept the Club afloat.Rant over.My utmost respect to MM & TC with apologies for the bahaviour of some.If MM ever comes back,i,for one will be standing.there clapping.

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bluearmy84 added 07:35 - Oct 27 I believe Mick was a fantastic manager at the club with the resources he had and an excellenr man manager both with the players and also to all the staff around playford road. managing is not all about going out and picking 11 on a sat. something clearly paul hurst failed to do. and nearly all players that played for MM gave 100% for that man!! yes i agree at times mick was outspoken and controversal but on the same hand its ok to critiscise him but not expect anything back? 5 years was enough for him and the club i think mick wanted a new challenge as theres only so much you can do with a mid table championship club with ni backing! how those fans who hounded him out would love a player like daryl murphy cristophe berra ryan fraser or tom lawrence right now! and yes i believe they should eat their own words like MM said! i remember 2 of my mates saying "id rather go down than watch MM football anymore" and at that point i thought theyve lost the plot! and now they will prob get what they wished for!!

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