Town Topic: Gamechanger Takeover Four Years On Monday, 7th Apr 2025 11:38 Today marks the fourth anniversary of Gamechanger’s takeover of Town, while we're all hurting a fair bit at the moment, it’s been a remarkable period in the club’s history, what have been your highlights?
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bobble added 11:54 - Apr 7
My highlight was |  | |
harrydarbyshire added 11:56 - Apr 7
My Memory is seeing the redevelopment at Portman Road while also the two promotions and ofc being in the top flight |  | |
Flight_of_Shefki added 12:00 - Apr 7
Actually achieving promotion to the PL and then shedding out £100m + on players. Relegation or not - THAT is a highlight for me. |  | |
superblues9 added 12:05 - Apr 7
McKenna and premier league ! |  | |
Broadbent23 added 12:33 - Apr 7
Game changer have got us out of the gutter and we are so much better. The journey to the PL has been brilliant but to sacrifice our league status the resources have been used for the academy etc . Yes we lacked a Premier strength side, but we can develop with the right decisions. It will take time. The Town's rebirth has started thanks to Game changer. . |  | |
trulyblue added 12:34 - Apr 7
Barnsley..... Best away game since Helsingborg. |  | |
fifeblue added 12:49 - Apr 7
Today marks the fourth anniversary of Gamechanger’s takeover of Town. While we're all hurting a fair bit at the moment, it’s been a remarkable period in the club’s history. What have been your highlights? Undoubtedly, the highlight is the astonishing level of support and, despite the impending relegation, the continuous upward trend in performance at the club in every respect. |  | |
blueboy1981 added 13:06 - Apr 7
Four Years in - and Relegation from the Premiership ! - One Year left only of the 5 Year Plan - so now expect CHANGES ! If yhere are none, then I will be very surprised ! |  | |
Miaow added 13:17 - Apr 7
The promotion parade on the Bank Holiday Monday after we'd beaten Huddersfield on the Saturday was a great experience. |  | |
USA added 13:33 - Apr 7
He’s magic you know…..! |  | |
ghostofescobar added 13:34 - Apr 7
That chaotic, beautiful, loud, joyous, friendly, uplifting, messy night of celebration around the town when we got promoted to the Prem. One homogeneous mass of kindred souls, simultaneously exercising 20 years of hurt, banality and decline. A never ending stream of smiles, laughs, hugs, songs and good will. I will remember that night for the rest of my life. |  | |
cooper4england added 14:04 - Apr 7
1st April 2024 Sarmiento 97th minute. We dared believe. |  | |
Leejames99 added 14:30 - Apr 7
Gamechanger have been great and our story is on a par with Wrexham it seems to be and they have bought league 1 in league 2, then Championship for League 1 and will no doubt attract some good Championship and old Prem players in Championship if promoted. If they get to Prem they will have to spend on ground etc so very similar tge difference being I can't see Marriot and Mullins and Rodrigez etc playing in Prem and sure Parkinson will deserve a go in Prem if he takes them there but I don't see 6 of their squad playing in 2 seasons in Prem like we had. Players and managers have a level. As I said we have had progression, we are now in regression so it's time to strengthen around new signings to make progression for promotion again and more signings to maintain Prem status. With 1 season parachute, money from sales and a season windfall for promotion we should achieve tgat. Start of a new era for final stage of the plan and the process but for some the journey with Ipswich Town be over! We are in good hands with Gamechanger and Ashton. Mckenna has tough calls to make, can he make them we will see in Summer. On another note where is Ben Godfrey? Also I realised if we are to sell Delap we should at least wait until after the European under 21s because if England win and he scores loads his stock will rise. Incidentally Cresswell contract expires in Summer, he could defo still do a job in Championship with Townsend if somebody like Leeds wants Davis, he has to go anything over 1 million is profit, got to be worth 10 now. |  | |
poet added 14:44 - Apr 7
For me, the highlights were the incredible achievements to have gained promotion from division one, and then the following season, promotion from the Championship to the Premier League. That won’t be repeated by any football club anytime soon…. It was simply magnificent. It was all the more satisfying for me, having come through the dull and ambition-less years of the Evans and McCarthy period. Anyone who’s feeling too disheartened by our impending relegation, well, just think back to those days, and take account of just how far we’ve come since those dark, lifeless, mundane seasons, dished up by what I believe to have been a destructive ownership and damaging managerial period of this great football club, to a point of total ineptitude. With the footing upon which this club now stands, those dark days are long gone. Our new American owners, Mark Ashton and Kieran McKenna have, in my opinion, achieved greatness. Long May that continue. |  | |
Bert added 15:20 - Apr 7
It has to be that we have our club back with good owners, decent management and two promotions. Quite what blue boy thinks by not answering the actual question posed only he knows ! Of course there have been negatives but the positives outweigh the negatives unless someone has been asleep during the last four years or unwilling to show support for the club. I would love TWTD to interview Gamechanger and find out what thoughts they have about the future and the possible impact of Trump’s peculiar economic policies on their investment strategy bearing in mind the impact on the pension fund they are associated with. We live in difficult times economically. |  | |
Leejames99 added 15:24 - Apr 7
It was an amazing acheivement to get double promotion but it looks like it be emulated very soon by Wrexham who are on course to go from national league to Prem in a miracle climb, if promoted they will of got to Championship in 4 seasons, do we think Marriot be playing in Prem and James McLean etc if they got to Prem, of course they won't be. Our league 1 players deserved the chance but for almost most it hasn't worked out so time to progress in the playing squad |  | |
ArnieM added 16:27 - Apr 7
Anyone else wondering what that the effects of tw8 Trump's antics will have on USA pension fund holders and the impact therefore on Town as our owners? |  | |
RegencyBlue added 16:36 - Apr 7
The highlight for me is that the managed decline under Evans stopped and people who know what they are doing took over the club. Everything else stems from that! |  | |
Blueray added 16:46 - Apr 7
I don't know what the future holds...and being owned by a pension fund / hedge fund or whatever isn't ideal....but it's a whole lot better than in the dark days of signing amateurs from Denmark ..now we have nvestment in the infrastructure/the academy and non playing staff. And yes...we had two fantastic promotions that will live long in the memory. So...put this season down to experience....and enjoy the journey ahead |  | |
flykickingbybgunn added 17:00 - Apr 7
Highlight was beating Sunderland on the first match in the Champs. I had expected us to be tonked. But it was just the start ! |  | |
Northstandveteran added 17:21 - Apr 7
Being surrounded by family who support Tottenham boasting how they would smash us 8-0. Although those minutes of extra time nearly killed me! |  | |
ArmaghBlue added 17:33 - Apr 7
My favourite moments were seeing the owners being open and happy to interact with fans on the podcasts etc. Complete contrast to Marcus Evan’s. |  | |
Dissboyitfc added 18:27 - Apr 7
the post asks for out highlights and you don’t have one blueboy, football can be very painful and if no one has any highs from the last four years then maybe football nots for you blueboy! For me there have been so many highs, so for me it’s the transformation from an average league one Side And back to back promotions, the pain this has caused to them up the road! Am I hurting? Hell yeah but I Love my team! It’s been a hell of a journey and it ain’t finished!! |  | |
WhoisJimmyJuan added 18:33 - Apr 7
Barnsley 0-3 April 2023 also for me. Favourite moment rather than best obviously! |  | |
trevski_s added 18:35 - Apr 7
What a four years its been. Proper owners that look after and care for the club. In four short years managed to completely turn the club and infrastructure around, brought the fans back to the club they love and this is only the beginning. New training ground on the way as well and looking forward to seeing what else in in store for the future (besides returning to the Premier League). Thank you Gamechanger, Detmer, Bakay, Johnson, O'Leary, Ashton and of course SUPER KIERAN MCKENNA |  | |
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