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Problem now is that if Norwood hadn't been brought back into the side, there would have been few League One clubs interested in him come January. Memory's are short. Now that he's back and scored twice in two games, League One clubs will be keen to snap him up - and there'll be suitors in this league that appreciate him far more than Town fans do.
League One isn't complicated. You don't need to play like Barcelona every week to get promoted. You need to score goals and keep them out the other end. Norwood has, and always will, know where the back of the net is. Born goalscorer. Town should at least keep him until the end of the season, or else he's the kind of player that will come back to haunt us if he goes to a rival. This squad is good enough for promotion; they just need to be managed right.
Suffolk based Brighton fan here. Christian is an interesting one. He’s one of Brighton’s long-term projects that hasn’t worked out - which is unusual for us. He’s gone up through the leagues on loan moves, only to stall in the Championship and now going in the wrong direction in terms of progression. I think most Albion fans thought we’d see him as No. 1 one day - but it isn’t to be. He’d be 4th choice behind Sanchez, Steele and Scherpen. Sounds like if the price is right we’d be more than happy to sell and I think it’d work excellently for all parties.
Suffolk based Brighton fan here. Very glad to see this thread.
Hughton is arguably our best ever manager. Took us from a relegation-threatened Championship side part way through a season to safety, play-off the next (missing out on automatics on goal difference), promotion the next and two seasons in the PL, with an FA Cup semi-final too. Considering that was his second to last job, that is hugely impressive. It didn’t work out for him at Forest, but he still kept them up. And besides, who has it worked out for at Forest in the last ten years? His reputation has been unfairly tarnished by a bad 2 month period at the end of his Brighton career and it not going right at Forest.
Those who say Hughton is defence-minded are short-sighted. He was for Brighton and Norwich in the PL, but he had to be where survival is everything. Anyone who watched Brighton for the two years we were in the Championship with him will know that the football was excellent. We beat the budgies 5-0 for crying out loud!
Dignified, humble and hard-working. Chris is a wonderful manager and human being and I genuinely don’t think he’d have anything to lose coming to Ipswich - and possibly everything to gain.
Following on from History Indoors' talk last Wednesday on whether the 70s and 80s was a golden era of football, we dug a little deeper into the topic in our roundtable discussion. If you're not sick to death of podcast style football chat, you could do worse than spending an afternoon listening to 3 Ipswich Town fans, 1 Brighton and 1 Ebbsfleet fan talk about nostalgia, safe standing and the glory days of the Blues.
And the actual talk if you're interested in listening back:
Great to see the discussion the topic has sparked already, thanks for your contributions everybody. They'll certainly be reflected in my question to the speaker during the Q&A session after the talk!
On a similar thread on another forum somebody mentioned the declining attendances too. Many thanks for the graph - it's really interesting to see that reflected in the numbers. I'm in my late 20s and thus wasn't around in that era. Was the decline in attendances directly due to football matches not being a safe place to be? Was there a decline in attendance at Portman Road too during that time?
History Indoors is an organisation run by researchers from the University of Essex providing free history talks to the general public during the lockdown on Zoom. Our next talk on Wednesday looks at whether the pre-Premier League 1970s and 80s was a golden era or not. Terracing and affordable ticket prices versus racism and hooliganism?
This might be particularly enjoyable for Town fans. Do you look back on pre-PL football with fondness?
Obviously I don't know the man, but there's a big part of me that thinks he's rejecting some of these Championship clubs because of the way he's been treated by the hierarchies at other clubs. Hughton openly admitted that he was utterly shocked when Tony Bloom fired him at Brighton after helping us stay up two years in a row in the Premier League, which suggests that his brief from Bloom must have been PL survival but this changed when all was said and done. He was also treated shoddily by Newcastle (ownership, not fans) and again at Norwich. I wouldn't be surprised if he dropped down to League One if he trusted in the project and how he'd be treated. He's a man of great dignity.
Reviving this in light of this week. As a lifelong Brighton fan who now lives in Suffolk and keeps a close eye on Town matters, I think Chris Hughton would be a great fit for Ipswich. He is dignified, hard-working and loyal. He is not a defensive coach as many irritating Norwich fans insisted. Rather, he is a pragmatist and works with what he has in the squad. When he got us promoted to the Premier League, we played fantastic attacking football, beating Norwich 5-0 and many other teams regularly by two or three goals. He was responsible for us signing the likes of Knockaert and Murray who were fantastic Championship players. He stuck with a formation that worked and had a consistent starting XI week by week, the exact opposite to Lambert.
If Lambert goes in the summer and Hughton came in, he'd be a credit to your club and I'd have no doubt that he'd get you promoted to the Championship and make you easily competitive in that division. It'd be a brilliant project for him in my opinion as many other Championship clubs he could go to currently would be poison chalices.
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