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Reply | Are we likely to see proper punishment for the trio
at 19:27 26 Jul 2024
I certainly want the rules to be enforced properly, and with real teeth. And I would not mourn for Man City regardless of what, if any, punishment they end up getting.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's not quite right to say that a team is 'due to have punishment' before the charges have even been determined. |
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Reply | Stadium Upgrade video
at 19:51 25 Jul 2024
Yes absolutely. The scaremongering about not being able to play at home for the Liverpool match, our first in the Premier League for over two decades, was quite unnecessary. |
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Reply | This is digusting - west ham tickets
at 17:51 24 Jul 2024
But have you seen where you have to sit when you buy the cheapest tickets? You're half way to the tube station.
Season tickets in the cheapest sections are £345 for adults, which is only just over 6 times more than the price of watching the Man City game. Cheapest on the day for a 17 year old is £55 for the Man City game, versus £109 for a season ticket in the same place. They're basically telling teenagers (And kids) we don't want you if you're only going to come to the odd game. |
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Reply | ITFC to offer 18m for Jack Clarke
at 19:10 23 Jul 2024
Sure, Sunderland won't want to make a loss. But there is zero evidence that they paid £10m for him plus a 40% sell-on fee. It really does appear that you've just made that up.
Yes, FLW are saying 40% sell on fee (first URL below), but then a Sunderland linked news website (second URL below) is saying 25%. That website is written by Sunderland fans who are journalists. Doesn't mean they have any inside track, but if there were credible rumours that Sunderland paid £10m, surely they would be likely to know about that.
As indicated by others, there is ordinarily a significant difference between a sell-on percentage of a total fee and a sell-on percentage of profit. But in this case, the two could be extremely similar numbers, because the fee paid by Sunderland may well have been very small. Clarke was running down his contract, and it may well be that Spurs took a hefty sell on clause as second prize when it became clear nobody would pay a big old fee like they did. Spurs paid £10m. The second URL below says that Sunderland only paid £750,000 for him.
Frankly, the 40% may be speculation, the 25% may be speculation, and the £750,000 may be speculation. But we don't have anything better, as far as I can see.
Where did you get the idea that Sunderland paid £10m? I have seen no such figure anywhere. onefootball says 5.2m euros, which could be made up, or it could be assigning a book value to the sell-on fee. transfermarkt have a question mark, but they have his market value as having declined over that period. One opinion, sure, but I don't see any evidence that anyone is saying that Sunderland paid as much as Spurs paid.
I think he'd be a great signing to be honest. There's bound to be competition for him, and he's bound to command a fairly hefty fee, but not one that's governed by Sunderland's need to recoup more than £10m having factored in a 40% sell on fee.
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/ipswich-town-lining-up-big-money-transfer-move
https://www.sunderlandafc.news/transfers/the-huge-sell-on-clause-that-spurs-incl |
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Reply | Ballot
at 11:55 23 Jul 2024
Does it count as one 'lottery ticket' but a 4 times bigger 'prize' than for a standalone ballot entrant? Or does it count as 4 lottery tickets AND a four times bigger prize if one of them wins?
The former, you'd think. |
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Reply | Fair play Phil, fair play!
at 11:58 22 Jul 2024
We need attacking options, he makes things happen, huge number of goals last season, more than deserves a crack at the prem, nothing wrong with a little more experience in one or two signings (as much as I love the general youth policy for potential to improve under the white heat of McKenna's coaching, and the resultant value mushroom as a result).
The club will not be held to ransom. I'm sure they pushed the boat out further than would have been totally ideal for Hutch, Delap and Greaves, because of the huge upside, and I'm sure they would have done the same for Philogene, but the vibes they give off are that they will not be mugs in the transfer market. We've all commented how it's night and day compared with the impression given under the previous administration. In a sense I can't wait for our first £10m-£30m profit on a player, because it will show the plan is working, as sad as it would be to let a great one go. |
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Reply | Morsy Goal
at 12:04 21 Jul 2024
I think he was number 33 wasn't he? |
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Reply | Who is number 28?
at 15:21 20 Jul 2024
Many would hope not to see Williams near a Carr anytime soon... |
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Reply | From Unibet website
at 14:49 20 Jul 2024
I would love 17th, and I agree it would be an amazing achievement, but you just never know with Kieran. I can't say it's likely that we'll finish in the top half, but I'd have a couple of quid at 10/1. |
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Reply | Shaktar look good
at 13:25 20 Jul 2024
I can't decide if this is an early or a late contender for joke of the season. A strong one, either way, mind...
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Reply | Home vs Away tickets
at 11:35 20 Jul 2024
I agree with this approach. Otherwise, those who paid for membership last year and this year, but live far away, might not get to /any/ games. That doesn't seem terribly fair. I'd much rather everyone who has been loyally paying for memberships get a chance to go to at least 1 game rather than 0. I'd be happier with a 3-game fan and a 10-game fan getting 2 each this year rather than the former getting zero and the latter getting a couple more. True fans who have paid for membership should be allowed to see at least one game. One has to remember that many people do not have a lot of money, and transport costs to Ipswich from much of the country are huge.
These are not 'fairweather fans', and they will not get to go loads of games. I think the right balance has been struck. It would be unfair on, and frustrating for, people who have paid for a membership to get absolutely nothing to show for it. A chance in a ballot is fair enough in my view.
(incidentally, the idea of tarring genuine supporters as faithweather fans has always seems a bit of a pejorative thought to me anyway - we want the club and the community to be thriving together, with as many fans interested as possible. I don't like the attitude of being sniffy about people who are less holy because they let their faith lapse for a bit. Or even worse, complaining that kids support Chelsea and Man Utd and then turning one's nose up when suddenly they all support Ipswich.) |
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Reply | Home vs Away tickets
at 11:32 20 Jul 2024
I don't agree that the existing client is taken for granted (in the sense that they are not given any additional benefit as a reward), for several reasons:
(i) Previous season ticket holders were allowed to renew. They did. Nobody else got a look in. I'm not a season ticket holder, but I'm totally fine with this. It seems totally fair to me, and I think there's consensus on this;
(ii) season tickets, and tickets in general, could be doubled in price and they would still sell out. The club is clearly not looking to fleece those who are loyal, when they absolutely could do. If Vodafone double your bill, you move to EE. People ain't going to Norwich anytime soon, so the club could very much open tickets to proper market forces. I'm glad they don't. Just look at Arsenal's season ticket prices. And even those are certainly not at a full-on market supply and demand price;
(iii) you only get in the 1+ ballot if you've paid for membership in a previous season. That is surely an existing client? Someone who has paid for membership previously, not merely attended a game. If you aren't going to give members any kind of chance at priority, why would they pay for a membership at all?
I don't think the analogy is entirely fair on the club. |
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Reply | Seeing lots of people say we’ll comfortably stay up….
at 12:01 18 Jul 2024
This is where most fans I talk to are at. Not certainty that we will stay up by any means, and it will be hard. But we 'have what it takes', and if I were to put my money where my mouth is at the current odds I would back us to stay up. Is it possible that we go down? yes. Is it possible that we finish top half? Yes, although it would be a crazy achievement.
Without Kieran, I think it would have been an incredible achievement to stay up, but with the financial backing that's been shown, by no means impossible. |
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Reply | Why not "Towen TV" ?
at 11:58 18 Jul 2024
There aren't /that/ many other teams called Town, and I think Towen does play into the tractory rural stereotype that makes us easy to mock. We reclaimed "tractor boys" and I think that was the best way of neutralising it as a condescending term. There's nothing wrong with being from any part of the country or having any accent, but given that the vast majority don't naturally say "Towen", I don't think it represents the fans even.
So although I like ideas that have a bit of personality, and I do like shouting 'Uppa Towen' once in a while (And it's even funnier when the American owners have a go at it!) I think Town TV works just fine. |
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Reply | Muric done
at 14:34 17 Jul 2024
He seems to have had the highest save percentage of any goalkeeper in the Premier League least season who played more than 14 minutes. That's a pretty remarkable achievement in itself.
He does seem to be good with his feet from what I've seen. A highlight reel is a misleading thing a lot of the time, but one tackle in particular last season was an absolute belter. If he can play the ball when someone else has it in his area, I'd be pretty confident when he's in actual possession! |
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Reply | Signing
at 13:47 17 Jul 2024
No number on the jersey! Hoping he's number 1. Very excited about this one! Winning the first XI spot at Burnley over Trafford was no mean feat, regardless of context. |
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