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Apologize if already mentioned
at 03:22 27 Feb 2022

May have missed it but saw no mention. Today was the 30 year anniversary of our Cup replay at Anfield when the opposition survived a no score draw (and goal frame) at Portman Road to take it to a second meeting in Liverpool.

Watched highlights before coming on, was sad in a sense to see a Town team playing with purpose and intent and really making a fight of it against a heavyweight name in a Cup competition. Such things are rare since then.

Some kids today missed out in the recent past when our squad went into an F.A. Cup match and really put on some entertainment or made later rounds Just for the record we lost 3 - 2 after a 0 - 0 at PR but you'd know that already. Had we won (that night) there was every chance of winning it in 1992 but it's all if but's and maybe's.

Won the league title though ! But watching again 30 years on from that night, kind of leaves a sense of what might have been. Tremendous effort from the team, we could and should have won that round.
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Would it be fair to mention
at 03:31 24 Nov 2021

Not one for new topics but since we're stopping by would it be fair to mention every team coach we have employed here since Joe Royle's departure in 2006 has failed.

By failed I mean hasn't met with expectation, has endured poor seasons after another, endured ridicule from the fanbase, has managed the club name to continued poor scores and seasons with no real end product. Apart from one year under McCarthy we have never really looked like making it back to the EPL, and even with those one and only play-off games with "them", we were well beaten.

I reel off names and figures starting with Jim Magilton, then guess it was (in order) Keane, Jewell, McCarthy, Lambert, Hurst and now Cook. Think I may have omitted someone out but can be kind of excused through all the disappointments and misadventure of the last 15 years although been with it just about every step of the way.

The last successful manager here was Royle, at least that's how I feel. OK we didn't make it back to the top league but had some real promising seasons at least. If we had beaten West Ham in either of those two play-off years who knows what might have been or what route the club may have taken but it's all hypothetical now.

Cook, now, and for me, despite all the changes made, i.e. new team, new owners - a whole lot of problems from before still persist. Can't always understand why every coach we have brought in since Sheepshanks was owner has just about failed to deliver and departs with a worse reputation than when they first came in. Cook will be no different, he's had ample time to get things going and the implements of a new team and ownership to propel things forward but seems destined to follow the path of names before him.

If they had said, or been told, back in 2006 that Ipswich Town Football Club would still not have made it back or not been once again a Premier League club - or indeed fallen into the third league of all things - 15 years later, I wouldn't have believed it. And to that I attribute primary culpability to every manager we have hired in that period of time.

Yes some of the players over the years must take their share of blame, and Marcus Evans had his involvement also, but the point here was the managers themselves and no-one else with it. After all, isn't it their duty to motivate, pick teams and formations and cajole the players they have into winning teams ? Bottom line, Cook 2021 and near every other appointment made in the time since highlighted, has failed or not met with expectation. The 'accomplishment' of both play and management have (near always) been largely sub-standard.
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