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Hurst PR
at 12:50 26 Jul 2018

Ah classic TWTD nastiness. I bet none of you lot would dare say any of this stuff to anyone's faces, you couldn't because you live online. Well unlike most of you lot I actually go to Town games and don't just talk about the Labour Party and Brexit on here all day, but lets go on pretending you actually watch football for a minute.

I do in fact remember the Jewell situation, and while that squad was pretty awful there, Mick was given the resources to sign Tabb, Didz, Stearman and so on. He already had Chambers, Cresswell and Murphy. Hurst has been forced to sign from the third division, while key players such as Webster are being sold.

If you think Mick, or should I say Evans, has left Hurst the best possible start you are simply deluded. But then again, this forum and it's regulars are wrong each and every year about every subject as according to you lot last pre-season we were fantastic and were going to deal really well, and the season before when we were nearly relegated. But lets pretend you lot actually follow the football.

Stick to socialism i'd say, thats the lot of you.
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Hurst PR
at 10:39 26 Jul 2018

He's equally had the hardest starting position of any Town manager, smallest budget, most bare-bones squad really coming in with huge holes still in the back-line with top players having been released, sold or in the middle of selling. I'd say he's got to be hard moving forward, it's the only way he's going to survive here.

If we have a bad first few months and the support turns Evans could just as quickly send him back out the door, his compensation isn't going to be anywhere near what the others had coming either.

I feel for the bloke, a huge step up and he's hardly been backed by the owner in terms of a substantial budget. We still haven't replaced players from over a year ago - Mick took a lot of the flack for the transfer window debacles but it's really the people at the top who keep failing us. We need a center half, and fast. We will need to replace Waghorn if we are selling with another proven Championship striker, but the longest this goes on the the chance of a Leon Best scenario increases again.

Paul Hurst is going to have to deliver big time to survive.
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A short queue to meet the players....
at 10:32 26 Jul 2018

What, whether he prefers to play with Garner or Sears? ;) The awkward silence when he says Didz?
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Waghorn - £3m plus two players apparently
at 00:15 25 Jul 2018

If you read Keane's book, you'd probably think differently as Evans and Clegg were running around on their own doing all sorts and the three men in his entire tenure never even met together, let alone spoke about transfers beyond the basic.
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Johnathan Douglas
at 16:08 23 Jul 2018

On paper a great signing, we looked to be progressing at the time - if only we had spent wisely in that window and pushed on, we wouldn't need to be scouring League One for bargains now! Still no replacements for Berra, Smith...
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Pretty much loving this
at 11:01 23 Jul 2018

That works both ways, we've signed many young and exciting players in the past who have turned out to be total guff. Waghorn wasn't young and exciting when he came here and he was our standout player last season. You need a balance, and I am not sure we're strong enough to get overly excited at the moment, especially when we're thinking about the backline and the wing.
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All this panic on here!
at 18:14 19 Jul 2018

Or the fact we still haven't replaced Smith or Berra over a year on, let alone finding someone as good as Waghorn.

Evans is playing with fire.
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Waghorn big accepted for £5 million.
at 18:12 19 Jul 2018

Oh Evans, if this backfires if you think the wet fart protests last season were all thats coming you have no idea....

If it's a Leon Best style replacement we are fekked.
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Ok, so i expect a lot of downvotes
at 14:31 19 Jul 2018

Careful, you'll upset the everything is great at ITFC safe-space with differing views on the clubs situation, Brexit, the Labour Party and other subjects that will see you reported to the admin over.

Jokes aside, we're in a tough spot. I don't think the new manager is being adequately backed by the owner and I think we're in for a tough season. We've already lost a center half, we don't have enough cover with just a loanee being brought in. Bart could still be sold for the right offer, Waghorn gone weeks before the season starts and we'll probably end up with a Leon Best style replacement knowing the owner. We were awful against Braintree, and only managed to beat Crawley 1-0. The mid-table teams in this league are now outspending us by tens of millions, we simply cannot compete at this level anymore as things stand.

If we're honest, and it's been coming a few years now, we're a League One club in waiting. We cannot hold onto good players because the owners focus is reducing cost at the expense of results on the pitch.
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Why would we sell for less than 15m?
at 14:18 19 Jul 2018

Because when we have replaced players since they've been guff broadly speaking.

Mings - Knudsen
Murphy - Leon Best
Berra ans Smith - No one (and still no one)

Hardly inspiring that, and we've proven to be utterly useless at signing targets before deadlines and have to get make shift loans in. What happens if Chambers or the new Chelsea lad gets injured at the back? Without Waghorn, what are we left with, Garner? Sears?

So yeah, we're very weak.
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I feel a little bit sorry for the state of Scottish football
at 12:29 19 Jul 2018

A few of us on here were desperate to hire a manager form the Scottish second tier not so long ago... until Sunderland was more attractive to him and we moved back to wanting Hurst. It really is the third world in footballing terms now, Scots cannot even break into English teams in the top tier in the way they used to back in the day. They've essentially been replaced by players from Europe, Africa and South America.

Having said that, even young English players now struggle to break into the big sides, I mean how many English players were fielded in the Champions League Final? 3? A pretty poor showing overall. There were only 9 English players (out of what 40) in the Man City squad that wiped the league, with only 4 of them being first team players. The question is, why aren't English players good enough to play for the top sides given how much resources we have for developing football and the strength of wealth in the game here?
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Paul Hurst's comments to the media
at 13:56 18 Jul 2018

I'd say Paul Hurst has the toughest job of any incoming Ipswich manager, he's inherited a mess with a fan-base totally dejected after years of crud football and decline. He seems to know hes got to hit this one out of the park if he's going turn it around.

Obviously we're not expecting promotion this season but we need to see him develop the side moving towards that over the next 5 years. If we're languishing near the bottom he wont be in the job very long and the support here will turn after a season.

If the players are not working for whatever reason he needs to show them the door and get people in who will, regardless of how long they've been here.
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It appears rather telling
at 15:29 17 Jul 2018

He's firing warning shots. If you saw the Braintree game you'd have seen just how bad we were. This wasn't even a League One side we were playing, we were playing semi-pros who should have won 3 or 4 nil.

Pre-season or not we're not far away from the first game and he's right to be lighting some fires up some backsides. Because this could be a nightmare if they are going to play like that in the league.
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Paul Hurst
at 15:25 17 Jul 2018

I am pleased he's come in and said what most of us were thinking anyway. Mick worked wonders with that mob keeping them up, some forget aside from Lawrence we were relegated a few seasons back and many of those players are still at the club.
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Big Sams views on Freddy Sears...
at 15:23 17 Jul 2018

Saying the man who fekked up the England job after 1 game due to being so very professional. Sears has been pretty lost here last few seasons but he's never made as much as a monumental fek up than Big Sam. Never forgot him crying over the Playoff defeat after he tried to kick us off the pitch and it backfired as the ref wasn't having any of it. He of course blamed the ref...
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Let's hope Hurst is talking about Skuse
at 15:18 17 Jul 2018

From Saturday he could be talking about more than half the squad as we were schooled by a non-league side. People cry that it's just a fitness game but we're almost at the start of the season and none of them looked up to it.

Hurst is right to make the point - get them out the door pronto and Evans needs to back his man, or do the same. Enough is enough.
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So who do we all think Hurst is referring to here then?
at 15:16 17 Jul 2018

That's easily the best post ever made on this forum.

You could say the Leon Best post....
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More realistic assessment of Braintree than a nonsensical post previously...
at 21:22 14 Jul 2018

It's just this forum. We could be beaten 50-0, rock bottom of the league and relegated and they'd find the positives and slag anyone with a different view, most Ipswich fans laugh at it. They'll be back to talking about Corbyn soon enough.
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Braintree's goalscorer
at 17:07 14 Jul 2018

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan
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My half time thoughts from Braintree
at 17:06 14 Jul 2018

Agree with these sentiments. It was a very poor showing. Evans needs to back the boss desperately.
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