Still nothing from our CEO yet then!

Both better statements than the club could muster. Do better Town, get Mark Ashton in front of a camera and explain.

Zzzzzzzz.

Getting boring now.

Any football news?

Northstandveteran, unfortunately not for several days I fear. Unless you count international club news. I just hope by the time Birmingham rolls around, we have players, manager, supporters and everyone else singing from the same song sheet. It seems rather a long way off that at the moment.

Time for full disclosure from the club. Perceptions matter and so does our brand. If a mistake was made or Farage misrepresented the club come clean. Not adding to yesterday’s bland statement is hurting the club and its stakeholders.

Mr Ham doing his very best to divide the Ipswich Town fan base!!! DROP IT!! Clearly the club regret what has happened.. this is NOT football news what PROPER fans visit this very good site 2-3 times a day to catch up with ITFC! 200+ comments on feeds nothing to do with what really matters and that’s on the pitch! Even when we went back to back we didn’t see so many comments! Football is a release of the daily grind and every corrupt politician that exists! This is becoming detrimental to what really MATTERS… ITFC returning to the PREMIER LEAGUE at the first attempt! COYB

I'm guessing the club are being very careful about their next move, possibly for legal reasons, but despite being as pissed off as anybody else about what has happened, I still believe that they'll do the right thing in as much as they now can and give us an open, honest, unconditional explanation and apology very soon. They do need to do it tomorrow as far as I am concerned though. As bad as it actually is (and it is bad) people have been jumping to a lot of unsubstantiated conclusions over the last couple of days. Also there has definitely been a degree of image manipulation used. (See slowed down video for clear evidence of this). Come on Town, do the right thing now.

"Mr Ham doing his very best to divide the Ipswich Town fan base!!!"

What utter garbage. He's not responsible for any of this.

Absolute rubbish being talked on here and elsewhere about this. What advantage would Farage get by going to ITFC it’s an insult to the majority of fans if they think it will in anyway influence how people will vote. Those who were going to vote reform still will and those who weren’t still won’t. I suspect Blue action who do not represent the majority of fans are proving they as politically motivated as the very people they are complaining about.

Thanks for highlighting these takes on recent ITFC events.

In other more important news 10 kids called up for international games. Finally a youth set up getting going.

Yawn....... really bored now. Can we move on from this nonsense. I don't care if Farage was at the club just like Arsenal didn't mind giving Starmer matchday hospitality on multiple occasions. He arguably got far more exposure than a behind the scenes tour. Move on please.

What's done is done. It's politics, people have differing opinions, it shouldn't be integrated into sport, whether its ANY political party, they ALL absolutely suck, and are out to push this that and the other. 99% of regular people just want to work, look after their family and live their lives, and are just too busy for this nonsense. Just move on.

Well said LUKEYBOY.. nail on the head

As I’ve said before, sport and politics don’t mix.
But as Wokingblue points out, no such outrage when Starmer turns up at the Arse, yet you could argue both are equally despised by certain sections of the population.
Personally, I am of the opinion the club should comment no more. Yesterday’s news. Move on.

No comparison whatsoever with Starmer, or any other politician, going to clubs they support.
This was a carefully engineered publicity stunt. It has done untold harm to our club, and if anyone from the club was involved with it, then they need to take responsibility.

As someone who has supported Town for over 70 years I was deeply disappointed that the club has allowed itself to be used in a political campaign by Farage and his party. I find their politics divisive and discriminatory and the club and/or their representatives have been naive in allowing this to happen. What did they expect?
It is worth remembering that during our glory years of Ramsey and Robson our eccentric Chairman, John Cobbold, was the Conservative party candidate for Ipswich, but I never remember him using his position to promote his party, his politics or enhance his chances of election.
Other politicians have been closely associated with football clubs, Harold Wilson with Huddersfield, Michael Foot with Plymouth (he was always on the team sheet) and those unlikely bed fellows Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn with Arsenal but again they have not exploited that relationship in the opportunistic way in which Farage (never previously associated with the club) has done at Portman Road. I support the statements by Blue Action and Rainbow Tractors and believe the club should distance themselves as far from this publicity stunt as they possibly can.

I've been following the fans' reaction over the last couple of days with interest. Farage is currently odds on favourite to be the UK's next Prime Minister which means that he and his party are more popular than Labour, Conservative, Lib Dems, Greens etc. Whilst many might not be comfortable with this, the over-reaction from many ITFC fans has been embarrassing. Those people claiming he's racist need to fact check who is Chairman of Reform (spoiler, its Zia Yusuf, a Muslim) along with the many other 'non-white' prominent members of the Reform party. And those claiming he's a fascist need to look up what that really means. You're embarrassing.

And for the record, I'm not, nor will I be a Reform voter. I'm just not jumping on the bed-wetting leftist bandwagon. Some people have different views to you. Get a grip and grow up.

These constant articles do not help....just drop it. There are other groups that are not unhappy with the events, however you would not publish that. As we know certain groups like to be heard louder and this just encourages that. This place will be in hysterics for 1 reason or another come May 7th.

This is very bad judgement on somebody's part.

Oh thank god. Ive hardly slept waiting for these views.

Jeez!...is this still going on? if only some of these fans/supporters put as much heart in for the team on matchdays as what they are on this issue we'd be the loudest stadium in the UK.

New chant for Birmingham at home… NIGEL FARAGE OLEY OLEY….

Until this issue haven't even seen half of these posters...where are you after matchdays?

First and foremost I am in no way a supporter of Ferage or his Reform party.

Blue Action, have seen it necessary to produce a statement as a group of ITFC supporters. This of course does not represent the views of every Town fan.

I quote - “As a group, we will not get drawn into any political argument. This to us is about our football club being egregiously exploited by a political figure for personal gain, and those in charge
seemingly allowing and even welcoming”.

I fully agree with their statement, apart from the last sentence, and once again I quote - “and those in charge seemingly allowing and even welcoming”.

The club state that Ferage was not invited to take the tour, and that it was arranged by representative/s of Reform by going through the normal channels open to anyone else who would like a tour. That is, going onto the ITFC website.

Reform state that Ferage was actually invited to take the tour.

Now the only photographs that I have seen are of Ferage gurning at the cameras with no sign of any ITFC official accompanying him.
If there are photographs showing him being accompanied by a club official, then let’s see them.

Presumably there could be electronic communications available that can prove how the tour was arranged? Assuming those communications exist, and can be produced, we are left at an impasse. That is who is right, ITFC or Reform?

So until it is resolved one way or the other, Blue Action’s last sentence which I have quoted above, suggesting that the club seemingly allowed and welcomed Ferage’s tour, is an unfair assumption.

Politics should never be involved with sport. We live in a democracy and there will inevitably be different opinions regarding political leanings. But surely one thing us ITFC fans all agree upon is supporting this club and getting it promoted back to the Premier League. So let’s drop this pathetic argument, and get on with doing exactly that.