Gamechanger director Ed Schwartz said he had a fantastic first trip to Portman Road, even if Saturday’s League One match against Oxford was “one goal short of the perfect night”.

Schwartz is the CEO of ORG, the US investment firm which manages funds on behalf of the Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS), which holds a 90 per cent stake in new Blues owners Gamechanger 20.

The 54-year-old has been at the club for the first time since the takeover, appearing at the fans’ forum last Monday and taking in the Papa John’s Trophy tie against Colchester, which the Blues won on penalties after a 0-0 draw, and Saturday’s match against the U’s.

Schwartz, who spoke to reporters including TWTD’s Phil Ham prior to the fans’ forum, will be back at Portman Road for the home game with Sunderland on Saturday 18th December along with the rest of the Blues US directors and investors, Three Lions, Brett Johnson, Berke Bakay and Mark Detmer, and Mark Steed, the chief investment officer of PSPRS.

“It’s a really special place. It was just one goal short of the perfect night,” he told iFollow Ipswich. “It’s very inspiring to be a part of this - I absolutely love it!

“The overall trip has been great. It’s been a fantastic trip and I can’t wait to come back in December.

“To have this place rocking even more is hard to imagine. I can’t wait to come back and experience that full house so I’m very excited.

“We’re all [the board and investors] going to be here in full force for the first time. We’re very excited to show all the Ipswich fans how much we care and how much we want the same thing they want - huge success for the club.”

The Sunderland game is the first in the three-match #PackOutPR promotion with adult tickets for the trio of games priced at £40 for adults and seats for single matches from £15 with reduced prices similarly available for concessions.

Photos: TWTD/Matchday Images

pennblue added 18:25 - Nov 15 Thank you Ed for supporting this initiative: PackOutPR. It is a fantastic scheme, truly well done. Any chance you can you get Mark Ashton to sort out the Sir Bobby Robson Stand? We need a proper singing stand at Portman Road, with a well designed roof so we can generate some decent noise. When they replace 'the old North Stand', they killed the atmosphere. There is this horrible concrete block roof in the back part of the Lower part of the SBR stand, and the roof in the Upper part of SBR stand is too high up for the people singing in the lower section to benefit from it. Also, over the years, a lot of the middle sections of SBR lower have been populated by very loyal supporters, but not necessarily 'singers'. So we now section 6 (Blue Action) stuff down the corner of the lower part of the stand, which makes the job of generating noise twice as hard. The whole SBR stand design is not well suited to generating decent noise. If you take a look at the noise generated at the Wycombe (away) game, and Charlton (away) will be the same. We want this noise and atmosphere at home, every week.

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ImAbeliever added 19:16 - Nov 15 Absolutely right pennblue in my days of bouncing up and down in the North the noise generated was scary and absolutely electric(probably from fewer fans than this season). Hopefully something can be done but dont stop the singing in the meantime.
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Nesspointrunner added 19:56 - Nov 15 AS somebody with many years commitment to ITFC. I find it difficult to stomach their statement that they are only looking at the next 10 years or less.
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churchmans added 06:58 - Nov 16 NESSPOINTRUNNER! Would you prefer 15 years or more with marcus evans? At least the debt is gone, investment has come and they (new owners) have been honest in what they want to do in the next 7-10years! I feel absolutely fine about it and so should you
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IpswichT62OldBoy added 13:18 - Nov 16 10 years seems long term, it's half a generation, 1971 to 1981 or 1991 to 2001, you get the idea. A lot of very good stuff can happen in that time, or a lot of unpleasant stuff over 15 to 20 years as @churchmans points out. We have started well, big crowds again, actual noise and excitement.
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