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Comment | Consumer Rights
at 06:16:34
Kitman, I was not moaning about performances on the field nor am I saying it is right for fans to stay away just because the team is not performing to expectations. I was making a wider point about fans' lack of interest when it comes to the wider picture about the way clubs are being run. In any case, I could not have been at the midweek league match in 1977 against Mancester United because it did not take place. We beat Manchester United in the league that year. And as far as I know we did not have any midweek league clashes against them in the mid 1970's or since.
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Comment | Consumer Rights
at 23:12:59
I want all fans - not just ITFC fans to be thinking individuals. The average modern fan has a superficial, short term outlook and just wishes for a rich individual to come along, buy their club, spend huge money on players and get them to the top. This has resulted in a race to the bottom. I agree with you that Marcus Evans is not a despot. But can you honestly say we are a more dynamic and better run club than we were before he came along? As another blogger pointed out recently, it's not just our crowds that are sliding, ITFC is generating something like 2 million pounds less in commercial income each year than before. The game needs fans who are interested in what is actually going on within their club rather than just being obsessed with the next transfer window. Fans need to be informed and demand accountability. |
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Comment | Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 22:48:11
To all those who say this is a respectable defeat I say this: a respectable defeat is when you're a little club with modest ambitions and you lose to a power club without a blow-out in the scoreline. This is a sign of just how much ITFC has declined as a club and how the expectations of the fans have also gone lower. |
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Comment | Time Tells: Taking Stock Ten Years After the Marcus Evans Takeover
at 09:11:58
I’m fed up with fellow fans saying Marcus Evans saved our club. How on earth could they know what would have happened without hin? As the blog says, FOURTEEN clubs have gone from league 1 to the Premiership while we’ve gone nowhere. We used to think of most of those clubs as being lesser clubs than us Football success depends on engaged fans, passion and strong leadership. We have precious little of that. But think back ten years. We were a more vibrant club.
We already knew about the sliding gates. We didn’t know that ten years ago supposedly struggling Town was bringing in to £6.6 million a year in commercial income and under Mr Great Businessman Marcus Evans we are now getting only £4.4 million. We need more transparency because I suspect ME is paying peanuts for all the advertising he’s getting. Why aren’t questions asked about this at the AGM? And why was Mr Foul Mouth McCarthy not there to answer questions about his team? And when Mr Dynamo Ian Milne was asked why concession ticket conditions were changed he basically said: don’t ask me I’m only the Managing Director! Pathetic. What a shambles this once great club has become
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Comment | Foster Clubs
at 11:26:21
I have lived in a few countries so I've had to adopt a few surrogate clubs at vrious times. I know the feeling well. A really enjoyable blog. |
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Comment | Foster Clubs
at 10:44:17
So you think that because we go to play with "effort" we should appreciate Keane? Er, I thought the manager's role was to pick up points, lots of them.
This bit also had me scratching my head:
“Ipswich Town and Roy Keane were destined to fail. Not because of any fault on the part of either, but simply because they just were not compatible.”
Keane himself said he took on the Ipswich job because it is a good club and it felt right. To excuse his pathetic record because he and the club were not “compatible” is a cop-out.
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Comment | [Blog] Roy Keane\'s Legacy Will Live on Under Paul Jewell
at 10:44:17
So you think that because we go to play with "effort" we should appreciate Keane? Er, I thought the manager’s role was to pick up points, lots of them.
This bit also had me scratching my head:
“Ipswich Town and Roy Keane were destined to fail. Not because of any fault on the part of either, but simply because they just were not compatible.â€
Keane himself said he took on the Ipswich job because it is a good club and it felt right. To excuse his pathetic record because he and the club were not “compatible†is a cop-out.
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Comment | Evans Reiterates Commitment to Town
at 13:41:52
I'm sick of reading posts from people who say that without ME Town would no longer be in existence or would be playing in League One at best. Are you able to see Town in some parallel universe minus ME's money? No-one can ever know where would be playing now. But even under the worst case scenario where Town was forced into administration for a second time, we would have emerged as lean club with a board that understood football and represented the fans. We are now a joke of a club dependent on the whims of one man.
ME has to say he is in it for the long term. The last set of accounts show the club owes him £36 million. He has to hope and pray that Town gets promoted before the debt escalates much further. Once in the Premier League he could just pocket the extra money that comes from the television deal. Even one season in the Premier League could see him get back his money and more if no extra investment was made in the playing squad. Town might last just one season but that might just be enough for our owner.
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Comment | Evans Reiterates Commitment to Town
at 13:41:52
I’m sick of reading posts from people who say that without ME Town would no longer be in existence or would be playing in League One at best. Are you able to see Town in some parallel universe minus ME’s money? No-one can ever know where would be playing now. But even under the worst case scenario where Town was forced into administration for a second time, we would have emerged as lean club with a board that understood football and represented the fans. We are now a joke of a club dependent on the whims of one man.
ME has to say he is in it for the long term. The last set of accounts show the club owes him £36 million. He has to hope and pray that Town gets promoted before the debt escalates much further. Once in the Premier League he could just pocket the extra money that comes from the television deal. Even one season in the Premier League could see him get back his money and more if no extra investment was made in the playing squad. Town might last just one season but that might just be enough for our owner.
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Comment | Evans Reiterates Commitment to Town
at 14:59:57
WarkonWater, are you seriously suggesting that Simon Clegg should resign for a silly mistake like saying our attendances have declined 2% when the real figure is 7%. I think Clegg is a bumbling fool but I don't think he should hang for something like that.
I think what SanityBlue was trying to say about the debt was that Marcus Evans can't have his cake and eat it too. If the debt was to Marcus Evans one year ago and is only £36 million today it is only because of the interest that has accrued. If he had bankrolled the club as was suggested for operating losses in the order of £5 million or £6 million plus player transfers the debt would in fact have been much higher than £36 million.
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Comment | [Blog] Spin and Statistics
at 14:59:57
WarkonWater, are you seriously suggesting that Simon Clegg should resign for a silly mistake like saying our attendances have declined 2% when the real figure is 7%. I think Clegg is a bumbling fool but I don’t think he should hang for something like that.
I think what SanityBlue was trying to say about the debt was that Marcus Evans can’t have his cake and eat it too. If the debt was to Marcus Evans one year ago and is only £36 million today it is only because of the interest that has accrued. If he had bankrolled the club as was suggested for operating losses in the order of £5 million or £6 million plus player transfers the debt would in fact have been much higher than £36 million.
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Comment | Keane and Clegg Set to Face Shareholders
at 15:28:01
What a joke this club has become under the current regime. We have an invisible owner who won't tell us what his long term strategy is, a CEO who know f… k all about football and provides no value add and a manager who has squandered the sort of budget other mangers in the Championship would dream about. We owe for £36million and are relying on the mercy of ME to survive, ticket prices are at rip-off levels, our crowds are falling, we are playing crap football, we are sliding down the table………. The heart and soul has been ripped out of this club. Give me the old ITFC any old day, even with the struggle to pay the interest bills to Norwich Union. At least we were a real football club then. We were shrewd when it came to the signing of players, we didn't pay ridiculous salaries like we do now to our overrated CEO and manager, we had a fairly settled squad, we didn't rely to such a large extent on couldn't give a f…k loan players, the fans were treated with more respect. Ipswich Town was admired for the way it developed its players, the style of football it played and for its ability to compete even though it was a small town club. We have every right to be angry at how far we have fallen. |
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Comment | Keane and Clegg Set to Face Shareholders
at 15:28:01
What a joke this club has become under the current regime. We have an invisible owner who won’t tell us what his long term strategy is, a CEO who know f… k all about football and provides no value add and a manager who has squandered the sort of budget other mangers in the Championship would dream about. We owe for £36million and are relying on the mercy of ME to survive, ticket prices are at rip-off levels, our crowds are falling, we are playing crap football, we are sliding down the table………. The heart and soul has been ripped out of this club. Give me the old ITFC any old day, even with the struggle to pay the interest bills to Norwich Union. At least we were a real football club then. We were shrewd when it came to the signing of players, we didn’t pay ridiculous salaries like we do now to our overrated CEO and manager, we had a fairly settled squad, we didn’t rely to such a large extent on couldn’t give a f…k loan players, the fans were treated with more respect. Ipswich Town was admired for the way it developed its players, the style of football it played and for its ability to compete even though it was a small town club. We have every right to be angry at how far we have fallen. |
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Comment | Keane: Lack of Goals Came as a Surprise
at 14:10:12
You can come up with dozens of colourful quotes and be a real media darling but if you can't get a team remotely close to promotion with all the money you've had to spend then you can't be much of a manager. |
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Comment | Keane: Lack of Goals Came as a Surprise
at 14:10:12
You can come up with dozens of colourful quotes and be a real media darling but if you can’t get a team remotely close to promotion with all the money you’ve had to spend then you can’t be much of a manager. |
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Comment | Keane Hits Out at Mariner
at 10:53:47
No one knows the true circumstances. But even if PM was disrespectful towards RK, why blurt it out? There's no such thing as quiet dignity when it comes to RK.
By the way, can anyone else recall RK slanging Jim Magilton and ITFC as well when he was Sunderland manager over a transfer or loan that didn't go ahead? What an embarrassment. |
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Comment | Keane Hits Out at Mariner
at 10:53:47
No one knows the true circumstances. But even if PM was disrespectful towards RK, why blurt it out? There’s no such thing as quiet dignity when it comes to RK.
By the way, can anyone else recall RK slanging Jim Magilton and ITFC as well when he was Sunderland manager over a transfer or loan that didn’t go ahead? What an embarrassment. |
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Comment | Keane Hits Out at Mariner
at 11:29:25
I agree that there has been too much complacency in the playing ranks over the years and that someone was needed to come in and shake things up a bit. But there's more than one way to skin a cat. Is RK's fire and brimstone approach the right one or are there more intelligent ways of going about it? And besides, motivating the squad is only one of the skills of being a manager. What about nous in the transfer market, team selection and tactics? Overall he has failed miserably so far.
I believe RK should be given the 2 years he signed up for. But he has to be judged against very high standards. He did not take over a struggling team. We finished 9th in the league last season. RK has been given the resources that most managers in the Championship can only dream about. If he does not take us into the play-offs next season he will have been an abject failure and should be shown the door.
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Comment | [Blog] Who\'s Really Responsible?
at 11:29:25
I agree that there has been too much complacency in the playing ranks over the years and that someone was needed to come in and shake things up a bit. But there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Is RK’s fire and brimstone approach the right one or are there more intelligent ways of going about it? And besides, motivating the squad is only one of the skills of being a manager. What about nous in the transfer market, team selection and tactics? Overall he has failed miserably so far.
I believe RK should be given the 2 years he signed up for. But he has to be judged against very high standards. He did not take over a struggling team. We finished 9th in the league last season. RK has been given the resources that most managers in the Championship can only dream about. If he does not take us into the play-offs next season he will have been an abject failure and should be shown the door.
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Comment | Magilton Claiming £350,000
at 14:05:35
I'm no lawyer but it seems to me JM is entitled to the amount he would have earned at Ipswich up until the end of the 2010 season less the amount he earned during his seven or so months at QPR. He still has an opportunity to reduce his losses by finding another managerial job. Therefore, it's not clear at this stage what he has actually lost by having his contract terminated early at Portman Road. We shouldn't jump to any conclusions about the club not meeting its obligations. |
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