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Comment | Ward Likely to Be Out for Nine Months
at 15:48:01
Genuine question, when was the last time an ITFC manager had a full squad if players to pick from? I don't think it happened during MM's time? Now it looks like you can add the 2018/19 season to the list. |
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Comment | Martin: I Shouldn't Have Reacted
at 18:34:57
@Cheshire Blue
Shouldn't "Giving 100%" by definition include discipline? Martin got sent off through childish petulance, nothing more. IMO he should work harder at controlling himself.
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Comment | Martin: I Shouldn't Have Reacted
at 16:11:07
I can understand the frustration with Martin. Patience with him is understandably thin given it's not the first time he's been sent off (3rd?) and has had discipline issues since joining the club.
He's also a player we look to (rightly or wrongly) for attacking flair and creativity, which hasn't been delivered.
All of the above, on top of a large transfer fee, and surely decent wages - not a good combination to get the fans on your side. Loathed as I am to see another large fee written off, I wouldn't care if he disappeared from the side for good now, and drifted off to League 1 in the summer on a free.
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Comment | Walters Stripped of Captaincy
at 07:29:34
What is it exactly that Walters has done wrong? He's asked Keane for a transfer, which according to most people (myself included) seems to suit everyone. Has Walters made any public statements? The only person talking about this seems to be Keane - and stories like this can do nothing to help sell him for a good price. I dare say more will come out about this in time... |
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Comment | Keane: Expectations Lower After Last Season
at 13:34:52
@olimar - Keanes comments were to the effect of "I've found decent players, done my bit and stepped back. It was the club that didn't seal the deal, not me"
If he's not crticising the club, then who is he criticising, or more to the point why say anything at all? Why not trot out the usual "we couldn't agree personal terms" or whatever? No instead he was specifically distancing himself from any blame.
This is a team game - it smacks of getting excuses in early.
Working at Ipswich Town is going to involve working to constraints - fact of life. It will make his job difficult, and will bring disappointments for us fans. But it's like Keane thinks he's working for a Man U or a Sunderland. Like it or not, we're neither of those clubs, and he has to manage us appropriately. |
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Comment | Keane: Expectations Lower After Last Season
at 12:33:05
Sounds to me like Clegg and Evans are keeping their money back until January. If we make a decent start then they'll back him at Christmas for a big push, if we don't then it will go to the new manager.
Crisicising the club for not getting his targets is a dangerous move - surely it's up to Keane to target players within our financial reach? Even then, you can't do much about another club offering something different.
Looks like another season of excuses though. |
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Comment | Keane Speculation Continues
at 21:11:12
I'd love Keane to come good, but could someone list the reasons why anyone should be optimistic that he will? He's dismantled the club and now admitted he's "still learning", had a poor record in the transfer market, brought in an unnecessary amount of negative press through his inability to resist getting a soundbite on TV, removed the last ounce of entertaining football from the team, yet managed only to make results worse!
Sure he MIGHT come good, but just how bad does it have to get before some fans start thinking "hmmm, just maybe this guy doesn't actually know what he's doing"...
For Keane to get my support in staying, I'd like to see some indication of his plan, some way to measure the progress he's made thus far, and a timescale to meet his objectives - you know, the sort of things that Managers of any other department / business are asked for on a regular basis. |
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Comment | Speculation on Keane\'s Future Grows
at 10:36:53
I think Keane's now doing more harm than good. He hasn't solved our problem of continual inconsistency, and sacrificed too much (playing style, "the Ipswich name" etc) in his efforts. The season has been a failure, and the 'recent progress' he was taking about last week will - at best - bring us back to where we were when he arrived (an underachieving mid-table side).
The speculation and media circus will just continue until either we have a major upsurge in form (unlikely if Keane stays and we have another summer of mass changes) and will continue to disrupt and distract, or until he goes.
In the long term Keane might prove to be a successful manager, but so much of what he's done this season has been a failure, and we - as fans - deserve better. I for one just don't want to sit and watch him learn his trade at our club. If he does then he should do it the Ipswich way - sorry but we can blend steel with a positive approach - and not risk our club while he learns his trade.
Lets get a new manager in now, give him time to evaluate the squad, plan his pre season etc etc, to give US some hope for next year. The longer we leave it, the more that (already slim and diminishing) hope fades. |
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Comment | Keane: Press Reaction Over the Top
at 11:42:06
Similarly I'm still not decided on Keane either way (though I think I dislike him), but for me I personally find his comments tedious, but so widely reported that I find them equally inescapable.
If he said what he thought and then stuck to it, I'd have more respect for what he says, but he seems to change his mind at a whim. It's a managers right to do so of course, but probably better not to discuss it with the World before you've quite made your mind up?
I wonder if the players feel the same way? I would suggest that we all value consistency from our managers (whatever our jobs), and I think I'd feel really uncertain under Keane to know quite what was coming next.
I respect his honesty when he says he's new and still learning, but from a fans perspective it makes me nervous to see the wholesale changes being done under his leadership. I'm not saying changes aren't needed, but I'd rather they were done by someone who had done it before.
Maybe that person isn't out there, or our Towns reach and we have to be happy with what we've got. |
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Comment | Keane Set to Ring Changes for Barnsley Clash
at 13:16:00
It's a strange irony that for Keane to stay on as a manager requires one thing from his manager that he doesn't offer his own staff - a desire for continuity.
I am no fan of Keane, but if we change the manager again then we'll endure another season of changes while 'the new man imposes his own style etc etc etc'. Unless he goes now, then a new guy won't have enough time to get settled in for the start of 2010/11. Personally I'd rather see Keane hang on and keep us up, then give him a firm target of top 6 by October or "bye bye".
I wish Keane would stick to 14 players, tell them that he has faith in them and they have his support, and give them 10 games rather than two - especially the forwards. |
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Comment | Keane Confirms Klug Axing
at 16:53:31
xrayspecs - yeah, to support your point I felt a great deal of sympathy for Peters for whom there was so much expectation. The expectant roar from the crowd on a foreign kid which went up when he made his debut was indicative of the hopes we put on our younger players. Nonetheless, as the catalogue of players listed here suggests, the comments from coaching colleagues past and present, and even the remarks of RK, it would be hard to judge Brian Klug's time at the club as anything other than a successful one.
I think it's because young players coming through - especially the local ones - are so cherished by the town faithful that letting Klug go could be a big loss for us. |
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Comment | Keane Confirms Klug Axing
at 15:29:55
@xrayspecs - when Clarke came in, fans were furious at the prospect that he mught be sold for even £1m, and Bowditch was a player coveted by so many. It didn't happen for either at ITFC in the end, but hard to say the academy was at fault.
Peters wasn't brought in as young as some, but lets not get into an argument as for who qualifies as an academy player! |
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Comment | Keane Confirms Klug Axing
at 15:29:55
@xrayspecs - when Clarke came in, fans were furious at the prospect that he mught be sold for even £1m, and Bowditch was a player coveted by so many. It didn't happen for either at ITFC in the end, but hard to say the academy was at fault.
Peters wasn't brought in as young as some, but lets not get into an argument as for who qualifies as an academy player! |
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Comment | Keane Confirms Klug Axing
at 13:41:26
@BlueKnight85 - just thinking that you'd imagine we should be able to get good use and value from one of the most qualified coaches in the country? Not saying we should do him any favours, but you'd have thought he'd have something more to offer? Maybe he was offered something and he declined - we'll never know.
I'd add Trotter to the list of successes, plus there is great optimism for Tommy Smith, Jamie Peters and Owen Garvan. Bowditch and Clarke were also close. |
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Comment | Keane Confirms Klug Axing
at 13:18:44
It does seem odd that there wasn't a role for Klug somewhere in the club?
For someone with only 18 months left on his contract, it's concerning that Keane is dismantling the infrastructure so completely. IF he gets it wrong, it could leave nothing left for his successor.
However, maybe this is the answer to lift ITFC from continual medicority, maybe the cuts have to go deep and the changes have to be this fundamental. I hope RK sees it through to success. |
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Comment | Keane: I\'m Glad I\'m No Longer Playing
at 18:53:49
@Injured Animal - take your point. From my POV you seemed to be lashing out at me for raising a POV, and not debating on what I was trying to say. I don't think it's wrong to criticise the club when I think it's done something wrong - isn't that half if the point of a like minded online community? I was as upset as anyone at the decision, and really just wanted everyone to move on. RK didn't allow that by his comments.
I think my annoyance with Keane on this one was that by taking the rise given to him from the press, he's kept it alive and kept it newsworthy. It's a repeated pattern that - in my opinion - is harmful to the club and its fans.
I think you and I have the same pretty similar views on the club etc, but perhaps apply those views in different ways.
Thanks for the lively debate and happy new year. |
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Comment | Keane: I\'m Glad I\'m No Longer Playing
at 09:59:53
@ChurchmansChild - Loyal and true Ipswich Town fan mate
Sure I was disappointed by the decision, just not surprised. I'm more peeved by Keane's response, and find his attitude tiresome and disappointing
@Injuredanimal - great contribution, thanks, really worthwhile. |
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Comment | Keane: I\'m Glad I\'m No Longer Playing
at 00:12:00
@Jamie22 well said, agree 100%
@Carsley - clearly we shouldn't have made an appeal as it cost us a player for another game (or is that too complex a concept for you to understand)? Sure that's the benefit of hindsight, but my point (if you'd bothered to ready my posts) was that the appeals system is sh*t, that it's unclear how it should be used, but that the club should know what it's doing.
@wrexham_blue - wtf? Just pathetic.
Look, this is clearly too adult for you morons to understand, so I'll spell it out:
a) I'm not a Naaridge fan
b) I think the red card was a poor mistake
c) the four match ban was disproportionate punishment for the offence
d) the appeals system is wrong
e) because the appeals system is wrong, they had no choice but to take the action they did
f) the club should know what it's doing when lodging an appeal to avoid making a bad situation worse
g) Keanes commets today were immature and unhelpful
h) Happy F***ing New Year, don't expect many more contributions from me next year if I'm going to get sh*t for trying to propose a reasonable argument. Stick with your banal "Keane out" and "Roy Keane for Prime Minister" brigades instead. |
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