Article: I've had the best idea ever to help out down the road | Football, Norwich, Ipswich

Our friends down the road tend to have a little bit of trouble filling their stadium. I have come up with a solution. What they should do is sell 'away season tickets'. By this, I mean season tickets in the away end of their ground.

The boys down the road very rarely if ever, play at home on the same day as us. Every time Norwich play away there are 20,000+ fans up here that cannot get a ticket to go. Why don't Ipswich tap into this by extending their away area by 20,000 (I have heard there is plenty of space) and selling away tickets to Norwich fans.

Everyone's a winner, We get to see a game of footy when Norwich are away (supporting the away team of course) and they get to fill their ground. It would also ubdoubtably improve the atmosphere at their home games.

 

They could even run special trains down from Norwich on Matchdays

 

superb idea. If I was near I would go (to the away end of course)

 

You've got more fans, we've got more trophies...

And Kenny, it would indeed be a special train for all you special Norfolk people

P.S. Attendances and cathedrals don't win you prizes, not that you'll ever learn. It is heartening that you find solace in such things. Higher league but still in our shadow.

FOYB xx

 

Was only trying to help you guys out.

In all honesty, good luck next season, would be nice if you could join us. Points are harder to come by in the prem so the 6 from you would be nice.

 

Happy you prefer dusty & rusty old trophies.
Personally I would prefer to be on the up and filling the ground every week - even in League 1

 

Banter aside, I do hope you do yourselves proud.

We've got 5 wasted years to overturn but can see the light with PJ.
Ipswich is a working class Town, certainly less affluent than Norwich.
Ticket prices are too high.
The football was poor for too long.
It takes more to fill up our ground.

As soon as we get back to our renouned passing game attendances will go back up. Thank you for your concern.

 

you do realise that having previously won trophies 30 years ago doesn't guarantee you win trophies in the future, don't you?

 

monkey boy, although i don't rate paul jewell quite as high as many of your fans do - personally i think he is so average that the word average may as well be swapped for the word jewell - he is at least much better than royston and you should be thankful that you probably now won't have to deal with league one football in the near future because it really was on the cards under the previous regime

top 10 is certainly a possibility this season for you guys

 

I am sure there will be times next season when our team does us proud. Undoubtably there will be disapointments along the way, there always is, but lets hope they are few and far between.

As for you guys, I genuinely hope you do see an improvement in your club both on and off the pitch, unfortunately for you, under the current ownership I find that doubtful. There will come a day eventually when your club is back in the control of true fans. When that does happen it can only be good for East Anglia as a whole.

 

Such is the scummers obsession with us I can't work out if this is a genuine proposal or not.

 

a totally agree with that kenny.

the marcus evans era could and perhaps should have been a fruitful one for ipswich, but i feel they have lost their identity and although the majority of their fans might not agree, they were a better club before his tenure, both on and off the pitch.

 

That's ridiculous Superman.

The Roy Keane-era was disastrous but quite rightly Evans put the running of the whole club in his hands.

The PJ-era has been nothing but a roaring success so far.

 

Superman, top ten is the minimum. If we don't get into the play-offs we'll be disappointed but we are happy in the knowledge that as a club and as a team we are going forward.

I guess the rot was so endemic at the club that it's taken us a lot longer to turn around. You've had a head start with one of the most sought after young managers in the country.

Kenny, increased match tickets was a small price to pay for us fans. Marus Evans has put in over £50m in the near 4 years he's been at the helm, saviour.

Yes please cup fixture this season. We like that thing, like you said old and rusty trophies... at least we can console ourselves with our semi-final last season, we should have borrowed your open-top bus

 

yorkie mate, you misunderstand me. i feel you are not being run as a football club anymore - you are being run as a money making exercise for your owner (one which presently is failing dramatically, hence he has to pump £5m+ in every year to cover outgoings). now, i know football has moved on and clubs need to operate as a business, and i'm relieved my own club is doing so, but the point i'm making is that you were always a club who prided itself on youth development and being family orientated - you've totally lost that image now for right or wrong.

the second all your fans started waving wads of cash at us during a game at the portaloo, your image as a club as been dirtied. you have been more focused on spending big quickly than developing your club in the traditional manner - one that has always done you proud.

jewell has kept you up, which was no mean feat seeing as you were very much on the brink, but you can hardly call it a roaring success until you've had some success - he's done fine so far but nothing more than that. lets be truthful, the main reason he turned it around was a man called jimmy bullard, and he isn't there this time.

 

monkey, tough league this year - you will do well to get top ten, but you never know

 

Yeah? And you might do well to beat Direby's points record.

Just reminising about your last fixture against Fulham, you must have been so proud

Premiership humiliation........ TAKE 2 !!!

 

Just think, if we did follow in Direby's footsteps, we'd have to sack Lambert and hope the person we appointed wouldn't be so bad.

 

it would be fair to say, the fulham debacle will long be etched on my memory! 12,000 of us, more fans there than fulham had!! what a disgrace of a performance that day. one thing is for sure, it would not be possible under the leadership of lambert for anything remotely like that to happen again!!

as for direby's record... what was it? 11 points if i recall correctly? i don't think anyone will ever get as few points as that again. 40 points seems a lot, but if we win 9 home games (like last time we were up there), win 2 away, and scatter in 7 or 8 draws, we will stay up. the only reason we didn't stay up last time was cos we couldn't win on the road - we only lost 4 times away last season and the same the year before, so we have the knack now, though clearly its going to be much, much tougher.

we will definitely surprise a few and i'd compare ourselves in terms of ability and character to your own team that went up at the beginning of the century... they didn't do too bad as i recall

 

Quite obviously you don't know your arse from your elbow when it comes to ITFC - we have spent a few million in this window and are currently about £5m-£9m up from the sale of Wickham. It was a similar story last summer. Evans and Clegg have learned not to throw money at the problem, but it's there if we need it.

I think we may have shared your concern but this summer has proved that the problems we were having lay squarely at Roy Keane's feet.