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Comment | Town Spend Least in Premier League On Agents
at 00:46:06
Football governance is a joke. A rule prohibiting clubs from paying fees to a party which does not represent them could easily be introduced. I am not aware of any other sport where this kind of thing is allowed to happen. |
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Comment | McKenna Commits Future to Town
at 07:07:18
I agree with those who say his stock has fallen and that ITFC is the biggest club that would have him right now. I’m glad he’s our manager but I have to say I lost a bit of respect for him last season over the way he extracted more money out of the club. McKenna was rewarded with a much improved contract when he took the club out of League One which included a bonus for promotion to the Premiership. He collected his bonus and he deserved it. But getting into the Premiership is one thing; staying there is another. What exactly did McKenna achieve over and above what was in his contract to warrant yet another pay increase? I believe Mark Ashton and the board should have been tougher and told him he would only get more money if he kept the club in the Premiership and that if it wasn’t good enough for him then he could leave. |
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Comment | Delap Release Clause £30m
at 07:04:41
My understanding is that the club cannot get anything more than £30 million less the sell-on percentage to Manchester City. A club only needs to put £30 million on the table and if Delap is happy to join that club then ITFC has no choice but to release him. |
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Comment | New John Wark Book to Mark 50th Anniversary of Legend's Debut
at 06:49:57
His achievements were extraordinary. He had the sort of ability that was highly respected by fans, fellow players and managers. His goalscoring record for a defensive midfielder was freakish. He had longevity. For me, he's the best ever ITFC player. |
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Comment | Blues Legend Whymark Dies
at 16:07:19
For me Trevor Whymark personified the Ipswich Town team of the 1970’s. He was an all-round player, not just a great header of the ball. He scored plenty of goals but also brought others into the game. He was a revered figure but off the pitch he was modest. That’s how you want your heroes to be. |
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Comment | Goodman: I've Been Nothing But Complimentary About Ipswich
at 12:53:16
The bottom line is that Leicester, Leeds and Southampton had deeper and more talented squads than us. Most pundits and neutral fans believed that eventually we would drop out of the top two. The fact virtually everyone was proved wrong says everything about the character of this ITFC team. To attack Goodman simply because he’s the most prominent person who got it wrong about ITFC shows immaturity and cockiness. Woolfenden should have stayed silent. It’s important to show class. A famous American sports coach said something like: “say little when you lose and say even less when you win”. |
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Comment | No Dividends For PLC Shareholders
at 13:48:59
If the supporters have less than a one per cent interest any dividend paid to them would have been paltry in any case. Is this the first indication of extraordinary greed and entitlement by Gamechanger? |
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Comment | Leeds Thrashed at QPR
at 02:49:49
This just goes to prove that speculation is pointless. The ultimate irony would be if we clinch promotion Tuesday night when everyone has been saying all season that it would go down to the last day. |
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Comment | Town Agents' Fees £1,263,523
at 13:06:40
How hard would it be for the governing body to have a rule that the agent’s fee must be paid by the party for whom the agent acts ie. the player. As has been pointed out, it works out to an average of 60k per transaction and for many other clubs it is a lot more than that. It’s an absurd amount of money for what is probably a few telephone calls and meetings. This is a prime example of why some aspects of the game should be overseen by an independent regulator. |
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Comment | Town Agents' Fees £1,263,523
at 06:08:16
Nothing exemplifies the shocking way football is governed than agents’ fees. In every other industry the lawyer, accountant, adviser etc. is paid by the party they represent but in football it’s the club that pays. Absolutely ridiculous. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 0-0 Watford - Match Report
at 09:03:51
The result was slightly disappointing but Watford are tricky opponents and the one point means it's still in our hands. Leicester and Leeds dropped points when their fixtures looked easier so we've gained in relative terms. Also in our favour, Southampton are still alive and they'll be desperate to win when they travel to Leicester and might still have a mathematical chance when they go to Leeds on the last day of the season. After Middlesbrough we have challenging away games at Hull and Coventry but we will have had a much needed two week break before then and we might have Burns and Hirst back. When we play Coventry it will be our game in hand and we'll know exactly what result we need. For Coventry it will be their fourth game in ten days with one of those matches having been the FA Cup semi-final so they'll be tired and maybe flat. There are endless permutations but the bottom line is that it's in our hands and the way the fixtures have lined up helps us. |
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Comment | Let’s All Take a Deep Breath
at 00:22:54
The whingers are a tiny minority and I can't recall anyone saying that if we don't go up automatically it will be a disaster. When a team concedes two goals in the circumstances we did at Cardiff, it's natural that fans will be critical. But most are intelligent and mature enough to put it into context. Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill. |
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Comment | Town Announce New £105m Investment From Bright Path Sports Partners
at 04:22:40
Private equity investors have a reputation for being sharp operators. I'm not sure what expertise they can bring. Let's hope that for this "expertise" we don't see huge consultancy and management fees going to Bright Path. On the other hand, Portman Road needs expansion because a successful ITFC would be limiting itself if the capacity remains stuck at 29,000. If the bulk of the 105 million goes into stadium improvements and the club continues to be well run then it will have been worth it. Time will tell. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 3-2 Bristol City - Match Report
at 22:50:25
We seem to make heavy weather of beating these teams at home - Port Vale last season and more recently Rotherham and Bristol City. This is the seventh time this season we've fallen behind and come back to snatch victory. It must be really frustrating for Leeds and Southampton. There are now ten games to go and anything can happen. But with the character of this team one thing is for sure - if we don't win automatic promotion it won't be because we couldn't cope with the pressure. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-2 Maidstone United - Match Report
at 00:37:31
I’m angry and in disbelief but I’m trying to keep a sense of perspective. Ok, we played poorly, but given the number of chances created if we had won by five goals no-one would have said the scoreline flattered us. Freak results happen. It’s what makes football what it is. Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia in their opening match at the 2022 World Cup and then went on to win the tournament. It’s how we respond to this result that matters. We have to keep the faith. |
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Comment | Burgess: A Huge Honour
at 17:45:46
Massimo Luongo in my opinion deserves to be in the Australian team. Burgess had a good season last season, but everyone would agree that Luongo was even better. Given that Australia's biggest weakness s in midfield I'm surprised he wasn't called up. But then it could be that he's considered a bit too old or Luongo himself might have decided that at this stage of his career he doesn't want to be involved in international football. |
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Comment | Town Make Companies House Filings
at 21:52:23
After the Marcus Evans takeover most of the commentary was "Thank you Marcus for saving our club". Anyone who was a bit sceptical was dismissed as a Norwich fan or just plain stupid. Just a few years later the same fans who were in thrall to Marcus Evans were saying how he had ruined our great club. A bit of scepticism is a good thing so don't go rubbisihing people like Elephant and others like me who are uncomfortable with the way football clubs are owned and managed these days. I'm not saying Gamechanger are crooked or unethical but the fact remains they took over the club to make a good rate of return for the members of their pension fund. If our club does well and they get an offer that will deliver them a good return they will sell. It's as simple as that. The new owner might be the son of a dictator in some backwater country, a kleptocrat .... The reality is that even though the money the fans put into a football club through attendances, merchandise buying etc. dwarfs the money investors put in, the fans have absolutely no say in the way football is managed. |
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Comment | Fleetwood Town 2-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 02:53:16
Congratulations on a fantastic season. At the start of the season there were gripes that we weren't clinical enough. Well, we were easily the highest scorers in the Football League. The reason we are not Champions is obvious - our defence is not at the level of the rest of the team. We failed to beat bottom half teams like Lincoln, Cheltenham and Fleetwood. Out of a possible eighteen points we collected a measly five against these teams and in all of them it was sloppy goal that cost us. Keiran McKenna knows he will have to bring in at least two quality defenders. |
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Comment | Broadhead Nets Last-Gasp Debut Goal to Claim Point For Wales
at 07:52:22
It's a sign of the growing stature of our club that we have players on international duty. I remember the glory days of the mid/late 70's and early 80's when most of our players regularly played internationally:
England - Mick Mills, Kevin Beattie, Terry Butcher, Russell Osman, Brian Talbot, Paul Mariner
Scotland - George Burley, John Wark, Alan Brazil
Northern Ireland - Allan Hunter
Netherlands - Arnold Muhren, Frans Thijssen |
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Comment | Barton: McKenna a Man Under Pressure
at 14:11:00
Everyone knows KM is under pressure. Barton takes a cheap shot by saying KM should have had better results given the resources available to him. The jury is still out on KM but it's clear Barton has no class.
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