Re Priskin.
In his autobiography ( bought for £1.50 at a local charity shop)he says he asked Simon Clegg to handle that transfer and he should be able to get him for around 450K only for Clegg to come back to him to say I’ve got our man for 1.2 million. Says a lot about how the club was run by people who knew nothing about football. Thank goodness for today’s owners and management. Happy Christmas one and all.

Was excited when he arrived but As soon as he sold Jordan Rhodes I feared the worst!

Too right you did!

December1963 At first I thought you were reading Simon Clegg's autobiography!

Keane could play the devil and KM could play the angel in the ITFC Christmas panto!

knowing Roy he probably told Evans that he was a POS. who cared nothing for the club. Lambert obviously didn't.
Not saying that Roy didn't cause damage as Sunderland said he would ,but the neophyte Evans wouldn't listen.

As a player you'd want him in your Team but as a Manager here he was a disaster. No player management skills. Team selection was baffling at times. Poor recruitment,
sold Jordan Rhodes for peanuts and oh! yes let's not forget he wanted to change our shirt colour from BLUE to RED. Probably the worst Manager we've ever had. I feel sorry for Jim Magilton because he was doing a good job before Keane arrived and he was blue through and through!

As a manager you have to manage people, the players and the staff. Keane to me, until recently, seemed permanently angry about something. never got him, totally the wrong type of personality for a rural club like ours, never liked him as a player, accept he had ability but was a thug on the pitch.
he's right he got the sack and deserved it.

Roy Keane is a very unusual fellow, and completely unsuited to management.

As many of Marcus Evans decisions were dire Roy's appointment and Jims sacking stunk to high heaven i wonder how long this plot was going on in the background without Jim's knowledge? at least now we have moved forward after more managerial disasters to find ourselves as a proper football club that gains respect again it's taken one helluva while but the last 2 years have been well worth the wait C.O.Y.B & K.M.

Calm down everybody!
He gave his honest opinion!

My main concern about this whole episode is that the Imoge for Ipswich tractor Boys on X seems the be that a John Deere, Green and Yellow Tractor ?????!!!!
What is wrong with a lovely Blue and White Ford Tractor???? It is the Suffolk Punch of farm machinery.
If ever proof of the lunacy of Elon Musk was needed this is indeed it.

he should be banned from any participation in football as he admitted to purposely injuring another player...

He was never going to be a good fit here. Evans never understood the culture of the club. Big time Charlies not wanted here.

Stu-boy, I think the player you're referring to was Rory Fallon, who through a quirky twist of fate sets up a rather unusual Ipswich Town trivia question.

What is the connection between former Ipswich Town players Terry Butcher, Mick Mills, Paul Mariner and Tommy Smith?

Fallon drew attention due to his excellent performance in a single game, topped off with a bullet header from a corner that won the match one nil. The game was between New Zealand and Bahrain, and it was the final qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Without Fallon that day it's unlikely New Zealand would have made it.

As a twist of fate would have it, New Zealand would be eliminated from that world cup after drawing all three group games. Which means that the four former town players in the question above have all been through a world cup without losing a game. Apart from Smith, the other three obviously never lost with England in 1982. And aside from Butcher who was rested against Kuwait, the other three started every game their nations played.

I would love to see Tommy Smith on Life's a Pitch sometime. He'd sure have plenty to tell us about the Marcus Evans years, and Roy Keane too for that matter. Came through the academy, former player of the year, and scored against Norwich. He could remind Terry Butcher that he was never rested in a world cup either ;).

The biggest damage Keane did here was that he put Evans off ever investing big in the squad again. Evans big problem was that he had so called football people in his ear feeding him bull. Ashton and co constantly talk about due diligence before making a move for anyone. What surprises are in store for the January window?

Agree gosblue.
Rhodes, don’t forget Jack Marriott.
He sold all our good players…..

When Marcus Evans bought the club,I suspect that he saw what he thought was an easy way to make money. The plan probably went along the lines of appoint a big name manager, give him £20 million (or whatever it was), get promoted and sell the club on for a fortune. Appointing Roy Keane looked like a no-brainer; he was a serial winner as a player who had a promotion with Sunderland. Unfortunately, the plan had a flaw. Marcus Evans didn’t Know much about football and in Simon Clegg he appointed a CEO who didn’t know much about it either. If he had spent some money appointing an experienced football man, a Mark Ashton type, as CEO, then history may well have been different.

Must be feeling lonely and bored . lol

Very simply, the wrong person for the job.

His main problem was that he thought every player should be of the standard of his fellow Man Utd players.
Had no idea how to build a team to a system that our previous successful and current manager have and are doing.
Ipswich at that time were never going to be able to buy success and probably never will be able to.

At least he's honest about it. I'm just glad we have a wizard doing the job now.

The one key core player we had at the time was Jon Walters.... and Keane blew him off... Can never forgive him for that. [Mind you, my spinster aunt in Woodbridge who never expressed an interest in anyone, really fancied him - quite an achievement!)