Joe Royle achieved back to back promotions to the prem with Man City. Before we relegated them back again…. (-:

@spiritofjohn
If fans didnt post rude comments that are not football or Ipswich Town telatedaimed at me then I wouldn't have to reply!
It's not gal to comment my opinion on Kmk performance this season and thoughts on the future of the club going forward, its a forum.

I would say it's more strange that you use the term 'our manager' like he is some powerful leader and how he is worshipped and can do no wrong, he has been good but right now we heading back to where he started unless things change led by the manager who has got the worst records in club history with more on horizon.

He could get the record for 2 promotions and two relegations as yet, let's see your views when we are about 10th next season and Mckenna saying, change of players, had to adapt, gel, fine margins, not always easy teams coming down look at division most have played in Prem. You can pre-empt him now.
He will go anyway, Scott Parker will go to Tottenham and a merry go round begins and Mckenna will jump on it

Jesus... Just came back to this site after a week.
It's still the Lee James Forum.
This site isn't just about you, but you have made it that way.
23 comments on this first page and nine from you, that's about 40%.
What a massive narcissist you are.
And no, I don't read your comments, so sorry to burst your bubble where you think everyone is coming on here just to hear your opinions.

@bangaloreblues
If you didn't write non related football or Ipswich Town related. If you don't read them then why comment, you just added more nonsense it's a football forum, if anyone thinks they can call me names and I just take abuse for having a difference of oponion then no.

I suggest you block my comments if you don't want to read them like others have

Some people engage with appropriate replies that agree or disagree with name calling g etc. So you just wasted 5 mins of day replying to you and your the one calling me a narcassist, your the one writing non Ipswich related insults to get likes. And don't use blasphemy.
Next!

Skip73
Jog on

@Juggsy
See ya

@westsussexblue
Respect your opinion but don't agree, there will be at least 10 teams with a real chance and we will be one of them at the start of season but then so was Luton.
If you, like many think mckenna the man to take Ipswich up again and remain that's cool, I'd love to see that, but i dont think he will nor do i think he will be here if a Prem club comes knocking, he will go with his hero status intact before he gets sacked and tarnishes his already falling legacy, another relegation and back to square 1

@wooly74 you’re probably the same age as me, we’ve seen a lot of dross, but some great times too.

Personally o don’t get the normalisation that playing in, or getting promoted from the third division was anything special, I really don’t, Plymouth have aged like an old sock too, so that was a poor six months for KM (same record as cook) followed by a really good 13 months.

Next was an exceptional 12 months, as good as anything, as you rightly say, fantastic. A team with belief and momentum, achieving way beyond the sum of its parts, and KM deserves nothing but full credit…, although I watched most games that season.., and we got SO many points with VERY fine margins, like I’ve never seen in any season, born from a huge team spirit though.

But equally this season, in the context of investment has been very poor, the club records aren’t good, performances getting worse, and a real lack of belief in the group.

When you add that he spent all summer trying to leave us, and the money we spent keeping him, we have missed a generational opportunity.

My view is Ashton was lazy. Keeping McKenna was easy. Making him the 5th best paid manager, based on EFL form came with low downside to his career. If he’d let McKenna leave because the money he wanted wasn’t realistic (it really wasn’t for where we were at) and we got relegated with a new manager, he’d be getting dogs abuse now.

But with the money we spent we could EASILY have attracted a Pereira level of manager.., world class, won trophies all over the world, truly elite, and for less money.

Where would we be, with this group of players, with a world class manager. Relegated? .., with him or similar, probably mid table.

That’s thro difference.

We aren’t league one. We aren’t championship. We WERE in the best league in the world, with the best resources in world football, that was our chance.

So maybe McKenna will be that good, who knows, but he isn’t right now, and no I wouldn’t have sacked him either, unless it was ‘pay me world class money or I sign for Brighton’ and we don’t know if that’s true.

Saying McKenna sensational season in the championship, makes him elite, and world class doesn’t wash. It’s nonsense, more now than ever, the gap is huge.

It didn’t used to be so big…, but Jewell, Keane, Mick etc they all had those seasons in the championship, and not in the prem, they all failed to make the step and we are talking getting Wigan and Bradford promoted, and Sunderland from bottom to top in a season, so equally impressive.

We’ll see on McKenna.

On Ashton. That decision was him putting his career first and not taking a risk, and also not having the global contacts and networks to do it, we really can’t pretend this season has been anything but failure. It isn’t a process when you soend so much you have to sell your best assets.

Leeds fascinate me.

Similar position, only they actually know Farke isn’t good enough.

Wonder if their top execs will be lazy and pit themselves first, keep him and say ‘we had to’

I suspect they’ll look at us and wolves.., and he’ll be gone before a ball is kicked, and if they get a world class manager, maybe that will work.

Who knows. Not us old timers for sure.

Spot on @blackhorse28
I just looked at Luton players and can see that being Burns and Morsy and Chaplin all clapping fans this time next year as we too go back down to league 1, all their contracts are up and best plays and Mckenna gone and back to square 1 and league 1

We need to act now because Mckenna is going he wont want his hero status tarnished and can just say he left club in good position.
Need to play all the league 1 lads vs West Ham, give them a good send off and sell sell sell and get a good manager in before Prem start their sackings.
Go get Dyche, he knows how to win Championship and keep a team in Prem.

LeeJames99…
Good lord, can you bookmark or screenshot your last post and take a look next May please.

I accept that we all have a right to our opinions But do we have to have one(?) igoramus drowning us with his IMO, I am 96 have seen it all since 1938/9 . McKenna has done well since being here with the reasources that he has .maybe if we had a Billion to spend he and Ahhton could have bought better But tle Premier league is now like Trunps US .Money is ALL !

Lee James 99must have a penchant for radishes ,as he keeps repeating himself so often?