Carberry, I understand your point of view and you may or may not be right with it originating as a vanity project, I simply do not know, but to make it clear he is not my savior, as far as I know there were no other buyers with the ability to take on the project at the time.
Obviously I'm still awaiting Bluearmy_81 to let us all know to the contrary and who indeed they were.
I also have no knowledge on whether or not he can or cannot get a buyer, what is for absolute certain is he does not have to fund ITFC the level he does.
It is also very clear that ITFC have by and large floundered as a team since the incoming of Roy Keane, subsequent equally respected high profile managers have come and gone and still nothing.
Lack of funding certainly isn't the major factor here so many sides have done it with far less, i.e Burnley, Sheffield Utd and Huddersfield.
To summarise I don't have a crystal ball, thankfully, and I do not know where all this will end, we hope that we won't spend as long in the third tier as the likes of big names such as Sheffield Utd, Sunderland, Leeds or end up in such a mess as Bolton, Charlton and Bury to name but a few.
But the future, who knows it's football, anything can happen which is why by and large we love it.

Theres something inside some fans that says I can't criticise my club however dire the circumstances are, Bluearmy. Pretty much everyone on here is loyal but when there isn't one single positive to draw from the situation other than we exist I don't understand why people don't take an objective view with both eyes open. Talk about an easy ride, the owner hasn't had any grief at all for his inability to run our football club. His plaything has turned into a nightmare, if it wasn't for creative accountancy he would be building houses on the training ground and putting up the shutters at PR. I would love to know what the Evans apologists think he will come up with in the next 5 years.

Bluearmy_81 what ever is nauseating about wanting you to man up and let us know the evidence behind your points?
It is simple, if the assertions you make are factual let us know.
As you can't and will not engage in rational debate your points are worthless, you have surely worked out the psychology behind someones inability to engage in easily assembled facts.

loads of buyers out there Barmy , name one , ONE on your list ,we are all on the edge of our seats .Guess you wont tell us as we are not in facebook army , You keep coming on here giving trying to convert us , and join your little gang, Whats the plan , we all join ,march on Portman Rd , take the place by storm , force Evans to jump from the Orwell Bridge ! .......and then ? who ,is the man you have lined up waiting to spend all the money to get us to the Prem . Come on Barmy enlighten us peasants lol.

Rabbit, I think we love football because anything can happen over 90 minutes, not 10 years. The fact that he bought the club all that time ago doesn't excuse his disastrous tenure as owner. Mis- management, terrible managerial appointments and a drop into the depths of English football cant be glossed over. If you look at our wage bill and spend on players in the Championship you will see lack of funding is a problem. Ths idea he has put £7-9m of his own money in each year is a fallacy, player sales have made a big part of funding the deficit. The examples you make of clubs being successful on small budgets misses the point - they have been well run. We don't even have someone in an executive position to manage our club and before you say Lee O'Neill he was putting out the cones for the kids 2 or 3 years ago. So Rabbit please take a step back and stop defending a shambles.

Sorry Carberry I really don't know what you considered by my response as a defence, as far as the financials go is clearly evident in the accounts quite easily available on the Companies House website, so I will leave it to you to check the facts out in that regard.
Also you are quite right the clubs I mention have been well run but this was after a significant period of being run badly, hence the position they were in for so many years.
As regards how ITFC is managed from top to bottom I don't know, unless I am appointed as an advisor to the board I won't know anymore than anyone else.
But by and large that is irrelevant, what we would like is success for the team we support and the sooner the better, defending it I am not, asking reasonable questions to people that quote opinion as fact is a whole different ball game and for people to insult and ridicule the decent supporters of ITFC is in my opinion the action of feeble minded cowardly individuals

Oh and by the way Bluearmy_81 I was right you have avoided the questions as I knew you would!

no answers, guess thats why weve had gates of around 20,000 and Barmy and his army have numbered around 500, and of those , i doubt even half of them even look in on the site ,theyve probably given up waiting for Barmy's plan to materialise. More chance of having a plan from Baldrick. . Barmy will now argue that there wont be 20.000 next season, probably right, but i bet the FB army wont have increased their numbers, its a lost cause.

True fans will if health allows get to watch their club, every home match for me is over 430 mile round trip(away games are easier) i will always get to a game if fit enough i have just watch the Jim hatrick v Bolton what a night that was i can't help feeling that the biggest mistake our owner(and yes he's made a few) made was replacing Jim for the fantasy of great things with the dark lord, we had just beaten the yo yo club up the road and he was gone.

Dear God its like trying to teach a load of wood pigeons how to be a football fan. It's not the fans job to find an owner. It's irrelevant if there is or isn't a potential buyer right now. Fans should be enraged/apoplectic by our pitiful state and communicating that disatisfaction loud and clear. If you were real (fan)atics you would be like a dog with a bone not just sitting, shrugging and basically saying it is as it is! As Carberry says, the easy ride Evans has had has been frankly embarrassing.

Help us to understand Bluearmy_81, firstly by answering the questions that have been asked of you, if you can substantiate what you say we will all be on your side, if you can't then simply your arguments are not plausible.
You are man enough to make the points back them up, after all you have been found not to know the facts many times before.
In case you can't remember I can quote you.

Actually Bluearmy_81 you talk about real fans......well they go to matches and they don't insult each other even if they do have differing opinions.

11 of the 37 posts by bluearmy. Get a life!

BA81 you keep on about getting Evans out ,AND insulting the fans ........then declare its irrelevant if there is a buyer or not now . ! GREAT, !

Seriously, only a complete moron with no love of this club would want Evans to continue his disastrous reign over this club. A ridiculous suggestion that nobody would buy it, every club finds a buyer at the right price.

Thanks Gcon, someone with a fcukin brain cell...

Just sell to Ed Sheeran for a quid.

People really need to get real. Evans' business is all about conferences and, absent some seriously heavy-duty insurance EVERY event he's involved in, world-wide has been cancelled. Meanwhile, we're facing the biggest recession in human history.

It's going to be a very, very difficult few years ahead.

Rabbit and others do you actually think Evans has done a good job? Surely it's no? Why not answer these questions you're very quick to ask ‘name a buyer' it doesn't mean fans have to put up with what is happening at the club just because some people on here settle for average at best. Some fans want more or at the very least improvement somewhere but there's no improvement anywhere if you think there is please tell us? Here are some facts please enlighten us to the answers or skip round them as you normally do rabbit.

1. We have gone from championship challengers to an AVERAGE league one side at best since his tenure why? If he's done such a good job how? Clegg bought in who knew NOTHING about football but helped along with Seb Coe to bring the olympics to London but knew nothing about football never worked in football? Sacked magilton over the phone whilst his mother was ill in hospital, hired Milne, and managers coming towards the end of their club careers Mick was out of work a while after us why. We will only afford managers like this and lambert.

2. The debt has gone from 30 million to over 90 million and that's with 50 million bought in during that time in transfers so that actually losses of 110 million before sales? Where has 110 million gone since being here it's not on the stadium or team clearly so answer us where? Why are we selling players in the ilk of Webster for 5 million to go a year later for 25 million because were known as a selling club at any price whereas Bristol City and Brentford's get top value and play hardball to get it that's why they survive and challenge because they use that money again. Bart worth 1 million start of the season sold for half that in January and you wonder why the debt rises.

3. The 5 year/point plan is an absolute nonsense most of this is to introduce kids from the youth team into the first team. Great that is if you're not selling the best prospects before even leaving the youth team like we have past 4 seasons some of which fans weren't even aware of or if as soon as they come in the first team and have any quality are then sold to the first club that comes in. This worked under Burley and Sheepshanks as we could turn down offers and there was no catergorys within the youth set up which is by no means a fault of ME but shows we cannot do this.

I would simply like to know why Mr Evans bought our club? Did he think we would make the premier league within 2 years, which would allow him to sell for a profit? I believe he has done well personally out of owning ITFC, the exposure he and his company got, with his company name as main sponsor in the early years must have been worth millions. Then he sells the sponsorship rights when we are falling like a stone? He is a businessman who I truly believe has no interest in the results on the pitch and does not share the hopes and ambitions of the fans to have a successful football team. We are however stuck with him. Who would buy our club? Third tier, in debt and we dont even own the land we call home.

BeattiesBackPocket thanks for the post and I am happy to respond to all your very relevant questions,firstly I do not believe that Mr Evans has done a good job, neither have I ever said or suggested he had.
1 I believe that ITFC have suffered from poor management, not necessarily on the playing side but I don't know the answer here because I do not, anymore than anyone else on this forum, know what happens on a daily basis within the business. To be fair however there seems little other explanation given the good level of funding that is poured into the business.
Your comment about only being able to afford managers such as MM and PL I don't fully understand, as they are both respected previously successful managers who came to ITFC with a large price tag.
2 No you are wrong, I do not wonder why the debt rises because I do read the accounts and can see quite clearly, I can see the huge amounts going to the academy, huge amounts in salary and loan deals. All perfectly reasonable in order for an ambitious team to succeed, so no complaints from me.
With regard to other clubs getting better prices for their players, that is something we simply don't know enough about, for example was Webster worth £25mil when ITFC sold him, personally I don't think so, should we have kept him another year, I don't know, lets face it the management at the time made their choice, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
3 Regard to the 5 point plan this is common within in any business of any substance 5 year plans are collated and tweaked year on year always taking into consideration the current climate of the business area they operate in.
The youth set up is an entirely different matter and as you rightly point out, these days a much more complex scenario, gone are those halcyon days of Mr Robson cherry picking the best youth from every corner of the UK, what a shame for British youth footballers in my opinion. Again as you allude it is not good that the expense of nurturing these young men is lost when their heads are turned by a more glamorous and prosperous team but I'm afraid that's the way it is as far as I can see.
I hope that I have been clear in my response but happy to chat further if not but anyway thanks for the input.

Tweaked year on year.....our 5 point plans fail after 5 minutes.

rabbit, '' I do not wonder why the debt rises because I do read the accounts and can see quite clearly, I can see the huge amounts going to the academy, huge amounts in salary and loan deals. All perfectly reasonable in order for an ambitious team to succeed, so no complaints from me. ''
Really, no complaints, are you sure?

Ok Carberry maybe I didn't phrase that quite clearly enough, my apologies.
To be specific there is no complaint from me about the large amount of money being spent on the academy, salaries and loan deals.

Bluearmy_81 I don't understand your down vote, by down voting you are saying you don't agree that I have no complaint, quite an eccentric point of view on your part, actually quite amusing.