Just what has become of our club?

This is my opinion based on what I can see and hear.

An underperforming, underachieving, underwhelming outfit from top to bottom.

The common denominator in all of the club's recent woes being Marcus Evans!

You can complain about the various managers we've had to suffer, their tactics, their transfer policies, their man management skills etc. etc. but the inescapable fact in all this is that Marcus Evans has driven us to where we are now. His track record, through his entire dismal tenure of ITFC ownership has been, quite simply, catastrophic. If he was employed by someone else to do this job, he would have been sacked many times over by now!

His lack of football acumen is there for all to see. His lack of acting quickly and effectively to shore up the squad (when it has been badly needed, no matter what the circumstance) with enough decent playing talent to avoid the slide down the league tables, has seen us plummet to this new low. His managerial appointments have all turned out to be appalling errors of judgement. He has mismanaged this once great club AND his unspoken obligation to the fanbase to the point where he should now fall on his sword and do us all a big, big favour.

Lee O'Neill seems to be a complete waste of everybody's time and money... just what is it that he does? Not a lot from what I can see! Whatever he does, it certainly isn't working. Is he at all required? Get rid of him and use what you save on his unnecessary salary to add someone decent to the playing staff.

Paul Lambert is just the latest in a long and sorry list of managers who can't do the job under Evans. Evans seems to appoint anybody who has a CV with the word "Football" written on it somewhere and then fails to support them and the club with enough financial clout to go out and do the business. It may well cost him £5 - £6 million a year at current prices to own this club but it's clear that that level of investment is still not enough for this club! Climbing the leagues is obviously not a cut price option... it costs REAL money!

The squad of players we have available, plainly and simply, is not good enough. Yes, there are some good individuals in the team who need to be kept but there are also enough lightweights and underperformers, journeymen, has-beens and never-will-be's to ensure we are going nowhere, fast! Any potential manager coming into Portman Road will see that the current squad isn't up to it but will no doubt be rebuffed by Evans if they ask for the appropriate (substantial) funds to put it right. I'm sorry, but players like Jackson and Nolan are bang average or below, even at League 1 level and should not be anywhere near this club.

A lot of things need to change if this dark cloud hanging over ITFC is to be lifted... hopefully, starting with the owner!

All in all, it is a sad, sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in.

Spot on KernewekBlue! Important that we keep your words in mind when we soon get a new manager who we can begin bullying after his honeymoon in this never ending downhill ITFC-groundhog day where the main problem just remains year after year.

ME out!

It's time someone started an adult forum and left TWTD to the Junior Blues.

First question Evans will be asking applicants should Lambert go is ''do you like Peanuts ?'' get that one wrong and wont even make short list .

Later in the week ? It's Saturday.

KernewekBlue, spot on!

This has been obvious for years but the Happy Clappers just will not have it. Evans is slowly killing us and that's not going to change whoever the manager is.

We will be back here again in two years time watching the last days of yet another hapless individual unable to turn things around under Evans.

Regencyblue..Can you guarantee that the next person in wont go the same way as Lambert. I am personally not very impressed with the track records of any of the mentioned names to take over, and as for getting Eddie Howe dream on. Whoever does take over I suspect the same people slagging off Lambert on this forum will very quickly be slagging them off as well. Lambert out at end of season, no point now.

I'd go for the Cowley brothers now, let them build team spirit which they are respected in the game for and at least get the players playing for the shirt again. It's either them or Paul Cook for me

Lambert is a grumpy, self-important and vindictive little man who has lost the dressing room and needs to be sacked ASAP.

Not that we would get any, but without action since Northampton that could be another two games and six points frittered away by not acting. The season has gone so personally I'd rather see lambert removed and butcher and dyer in place in the short term to give us some breathing space. All Lamberts backroom mouth pieces need to go at same time. Can't put a non entity in charge temporarily.

So I'm going with a left field suggestion.
Lambert goes, that's inevitable. Take O'Neil with him. Forget Burley, bring in Jim Magilton as director of football and then a head coach ( I'd suggest Paul Cook ) with some blue bloods along side him ( Dyer and Chambers ( waiting for that idea to shot down...lol)

Meanwhile an old Dino at Cardiff who the melts said knew f all about modern day football is taking Cardiff to knocking on the door of the promised land BCWYWF.
Who is the next mug to be slaughtered on the sacrificial alter of TWTD

He's going to be staying isn't he ! Bollox

@ondontractorboy57 - and the player booting in the goals for Cardiff? Kiefer Moore the player MM put out on loan to Rotherham only making 11 sub appearances here before being sold to Barnsley i.e. never getting a chance here!

So not all that Mick touches turns to gold...

whine on Timmy old so whine on

Go and support your true club - Cardiff

Fake news Timmy i still love ITFC i just hate the know all contributors of TWTD who help to hold the club back.

Cheshire Blue nailed it

‘his management of the club hanging by a thread' - unless TWTD have spoken to Marcus (they haven't) or Lambert (don't think so) or someone passing a message down for Marcus (nope!) they have no idea if his management Is hanging by a thread. It's just the sort of journalism you would expect from Fleet Street red top hack trying to write something that is inflammatory but not libellous. Sad thing is one or two read it and believe it!

‘However, we understand that that conversation was not a moving forward of the meeting which is still set to take place later this week and was merely their regular pre-match catch-up'.

By insinuating they have a ‘source' they can just hide behind the oldest trick in the book by saying we can't divulge our source.

‘When Lambert finally departs' - well of course he's going to leave one day so the negative thoughts the comment sends out is fact so the journalist can say ‘it's true.....'

The bitterness in the story writing is pouring out which is rather sad really.

Paul Cook, knows this league, plays football, has had success with Wigan / Portsmouth, i wonder what his record against Norwich is like lol

Evans doesn't need a meeting to sack Lambert so i dont read anything into this. Its usually a telephone call. Our so called owner tied his hands firmly with the 5 year deal. All i know that with most fans & media now seeking a change the writing is on the wall

Paul Cook would be a risk worth taking. Surprised he's not in job. Looks like he fell out with Sheff Wed owner at interview stage