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Thread | Morsy & McKenna
at 15:30 14 Aug 2025
I've been pondering today the deeper impact of Morsy going
If I remember back to when Morsy first arrived and the negative vibe at Town there were some games in particular where it got a bit heated. This included at the end with Town fans (Charlton?) and Morsy didn't seem like he wanted to be here, or was interested and certainly didn't seem like a legend in the making from the off. There were posts on this forum questioning if he was the one etc etc.
Well as it turned out now that Morsy has left apparently he was a god (I agree) and put his heart and soul into playing for Town. But I think he did more than that, he probably brought discipline, structure and enforced standards - not just on the pitch.
Who is going to do that in his absence? that is the real role I think we are missing - rather than a particular players name. I don't think it is Mckennas key strength
Since Morsy has left the following have happened -
- Hutchinson ill / not wanting to play
- Broadhead reporting sick on the day of a game
- Hirst sharing his story of one of his early fallings out with Morsy where his expectations of application were so high
I'm sure 1 and 2 would probably have happened anyway, but whether in quite the same way is something else. I think it sets a dangerous tone to the squad. After all it isn't just about what you do, but rather how you go about it.
Now clearly McKenna is a great guy, my concern is whether he has the right support anymore of a Morsy-eque character. I can't see one in the squad in the same sort of mould, and I don't think it is maybe McKennas biggest strength either
I think that's the real gap we have, someone with that approach to be the enforcer of standards and to help support Kieran. We could have the best or worst squad, I think having that person in there decides the level of the potential reached. I think this is particularly true with lots of new faces / loans and to avoid losing the identity that we have built in recent years [Post edited 14 Aug 15:31]
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Reply | Training Gear All Avaialble Now
at 15:32 7 Aug 2025
I believe the sad logic is this. Town won't make huge sums off it once Umbro fees etc with the licencing structure. So I believe they try and sell as many as they can initially to those who are inclined to buy them regardless, and then clear the stocks out later at lower / minimal margin
It isn't just as straightforward as £4 to make so X profit due to the whole licencing agreement bit
I could be wrong [Post edited 7 Aug 15:33]
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Reply | The real challenge
at 11:57 4 Aug 2025
Agree 100% with that, and we don't seem to have faired well with injuries in recent years.
Let's see who we get onboard, my point being is I don't think they all need to be multi million pound players as this doesn't guarantee attitude and application. And our lack of PL status doesn't guarantee them wanting to join anyway |
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Thread | The real challenge
at 11:28 4 Aug 2025
I have been reading everyone's posts and the flouncing - we should sign this person, we shouldn't have let this person go etc etc. And lots of people of course know better than the club themselves
However for me, I don't really care who we do or don't sign - I just want those players who are here to want to be here and want to play for us and run that extra mile, I want a team rather than a bunch of individuals with their own agendas. After all that is what got us through those testing times and a back to back promotion to the premier league. That I guess is why I feel the likes of Morsy and Luongo are big losses - they wore their heart on their sleeve and put their effort in for the team. Whether they were the best / good enough or whatever really isn't always the primary factor - it's the heart and application to get you through when needed.
We are in a transitional period, we progressed quickly and last summer lots of people jumped on board (including Hutchinson becoming permanent) as we could offer them a ticket to play in the Premier League and they took it. It doesn't mean they felt an affinity to us or the group that had got us there, and now we see them jump off now that we don't serve their purpose. Also others who we think are 'good enough' are not wanting to join as we can't offer Premier League football.
Success for me is being able to watch a game and know regardless of the result the team have left everything on the pitch and put their heart and soul in with a never say die attitude, we had that for a couple years to get us from L1 to Premier league and also back in 1999-2001. They were the best years for me of watching Town. Not because we won, but the application and way we battled.
In my opinion the biggest success isn't the name we sign but the attitude and application. The risk comes from trying to sign 'names' and appease supporter expectation, rather than truly being the right fit
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Thread | Autograph memories..
at 15:23 1 Oct 2024
Following on from my last post about what player you pretended to be in the playground at school...
What are your autograph memories?
Personally I don't really get the autograph thing, except when I was a child or in my role as a dad going with my kids to collect them:
For me football creates great memories - whether good or bad they are about where you were in your life at that time, who you were with and the heightened emotions
Memory 1:
I'm going to say August 1991 away to Bristol Rovers (opening game of our promotion season and when Rovers were playing at Twerton Park - Bath), I was 9 years old and determined to get EVERYONES autograph even if they were Rovers. I ended up set on this quest and ended up asking the Ipswich coach driver for an autograph by accident!
A sign of how things have changed though is the Rovers striker Devon White came out with a pint of beer and got 9 year old me to hold it whilst signing my programme.
My mum took me to this game by herself and had accidentally brought us tickets in the Rovers end, so there I stood in my town shirt...
Probably worth mentioning that a certain Marcus Stewart played that day too
Memory 2 -
A few years ago away at Reading with my kids we were waiting to see the players despite losing and playing horrendously. MM with his face like he was chewing wasps was there and had the audacity to say to the town fans waiting with their kids something like 'come on, we want to get home tonight', I instantly glared at the arrogant tw*t and was about to say we've just watched this absolute shower and these kids just want to see the players, have some respect. But then he changed and obliged, begrudgingly.
I don't miss that bloke and what a different place we are for it.
What are your autograph memories? [Post edited 1 Oct 2024 15:53]
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Reply | What player were you in the playground?
at 19:34 26 Sep 2024
Guys, to be clear this is who you pretended / wanted to be rather than played similar to. I was as silky as sandpaper and aerodynamic as a brick
The only thing I had in common with my hero Stockwell is we were both born in Chelmsford  [Post edited 26 Sep 2024 19:36]
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Thread | What player were you in the playground?
at 13:57 26 Sep 2024
I'm sure like many kids we all had a 'go to player' that you 'were' when playing football in the primary school playground, a great way of aging us too
Bearing in mind it was around this time that I relocated to Wiltshire I can assure you I was in the minority with my choices of Forrest / Stockwell / Kiwomya depending upon the position I was playing at the time. [Post edited 26 Sep 2024 14:02]
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Reply | Phil
at 13:53 19 Sep 2024
Wasn't it JET that I think Paul Jewell (?) said something along the lines of 'One day he's a world beater, the next a panel beater'. I found that very offensive to panel beaters |
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Reply | Phil
at 13:42 19 Sep 2024
Poorly thought out, terrible execution, 1 in 5 success rate, lack of skill and lazy. And that's just his performance on the pitch
No wonder with the same traits this ill conceived plan didn't work out for him |
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Thread | Mark Kennedy
at 22:56 3 Sep 2024
I'm already struggling with this 2 weeks of no Town games. I spent some of the evening flicking through cup games on sky and spent 10 minutes watching my now local team (Swindon) to which I promptly fell asleep
The standard was absolutely shocking but my favourite bit was reading the comments from Mark Kennedy (Swindon manager) after the game, who despite not managing a win in his first 7 games...
"Nothing but positivity is going through my mind right now" and "I had nothing but positives to come out of tonight, I am really pleased with where we are at"
Also I enjoyed ""The goal that won the game tonight was another wonder strike, so, no, there are no nerves." - That 'wonder strike' may well have been made possible by 4 of your defenders running away from him as if he was carrying a hand grenade
Good luck with that Swindon fans, I'm not sure what is worse for their fans, the losses or the dillusional comments from the manager
Yet again a reminder of how lucky we are with McKenna and his absolutely sense that he talks
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/24561222.mark-kennedy-sees-nothing-posi [Post edited 3 Sep 2024 22:58]
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Reply | Planet blue order delays
at 18:55 27 Aug 2024
I'm going to assume (so likely wrong) that the OP purchase is featuring some sort of customisation / shirt printing. That's what delayed mine anyway and they are quoting 10 working days for that |
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Reply | Planet blue order delays
at 18:51 27 Aug 2024
If it was 17 days ago (Saturday 10th August) then you are only on working day 11 now if you exclude the weekends and B/H.
From memory they quote working days, not calendar days
Mine was late too but to be expected at the minute, give them a call |
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Reply | Fair play to Rovers fans
at 22:49 15 Aug 2024
Very true. For someone that I have seen described as 'gobby' elsewhere his behaviour and conduct regarding the move and class towards the Rovers fans is great to see.
Professionalism, and it seems at odds with some other strikers not too far away up the road
Shouldn't have ever been in doubt, if McKenna likes him he's obviously got a good attitude [Post edited 15 Aug 2024 22:50]
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Thread | Busy Busy
at 14:23 15 Aug 2024
What a couple of years and what a couple of days!
Quickly shifting from what felt like weeks of nothing going on in the transfer marketing to suddenly having lots of interesting leads seemingly coming together in the last couple of days.
My refresh button is worn out
I think Phillips could be sensational for us, as could we for him with the McKenna touch and hopefully getting him enjoying his football again. I assume that as McKenna and co like him he must have the right attitude and ethic
I think that's been key to our success tbh as instilled by Mckenna, the teamwork, application and dedication. The idea that you aren't always going to be the best but if you're the fittest and most applied that you stand a chance.
The real challenge here is to keep that approach whilst adding some additional quality too, and that takes time and assessment of characters. Getting that perfect mix of potential (or resurrection in Phillips case and those that can deliver day 1). Personally I'm still fingers crossed for Szmodics too as I think he could add a lot straight away.
Broja less so and might take more time but would be a fantastic addition as well as szmodics, rather instead of in my mind [Post edited 15 Aug 2024 14:28]
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Reply | Sorry if already posted.
at 23:44 14 Aug 2024
I watched this earlier. The post match scene at the play off final I re watched 5 times as I felt I recognised someone / something seemed familiar
By the 5th viewing it turns out it was 17 year old me staring me back in my face [Post edited 14 Aug 2024 23:47]
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Reply | feel a bit dirty
at 14:46 12 Aug 2024
Not sure why anyone would have an issue with this,
The only unfair nature would be caused by:
1. Being able to buy more than your allocated fair share of tickets as a result (which isn't [possible as sales are done with customer ID allowance presumably)
or
2. Giving an unfair advantage with regards to your queue position - but if this was the case that is down to an IT issue with the clubs infrastructure.
If anything it's a useful bit of info for people that your observation is that mobile devices place higher than desktop.
Being in the queue 1 time or 1000 times you weren't going to get additional tickets so where's the issue? Other than IT issues outside the OPs control
Nothing a couple of signings can't fix anyway to sort the mood! [Post edited 12 Aug 2024 14:48]
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Reply | The never ending saga
at 23:10 22 May 2024
You're not wrong. Easier said than done though to ignore the updates.
But like I say if he doesn't want to be here then it's best he goes and quickly.
If he does then great, let's crack on.
We can't change that but can only hope to get it wrapped up one way or the other |
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Thread | The never ending saga
at 23:03 22 May 2024
I keep promising myself I won't get sucked into this, and then find myself every 30 minutes seeing if it has been confirmed he has left yet
I would have expected (Rightly or wrongly) that KMc would have taken the opportunity to help dispel the rumours last night when he was asked the questions. Even if it just meant not talking in the third person when talking about the club, or even a 'we have a lot to look forward to next season' would have been nice.
Who knows what will happen now, my head says he's gone, and if that's the case it is for the best. I thank him wholeheartedly for the last 2 seasons, in the same way that I believe he should be thankful to the entire club around him and the opportunity and environment to thrive, initially out of the spotlight to a degree as underdogs.
If he's to go off now then good luck to him, but let's get it done and give the club, fans and players some certainty.
If he does leave then quite honestly I think he's made a big mistake and he isn't quite the shrewd character that I thought he was. If he isn't an immediate success then he'll get blamed (whether it is his fault or not) and his reputation tarnished and he'll always be the manager who jumped ship from us after success.
Personally I think he should give it a season with us and see what happens and carry the project on. If it doesn't work out for us his stock won't be devalued, it will be because we are 'little old Ipswich' and that is what often happens with newly promoted clubs. If he succeeds with us next season then he truly would be the messiah and he would be rated a miracle worker.
Either way, lets get it done and move on. If its not to be its not to be
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