If Lambert and Culverhouse do join the Binners - good luck to them. They did a 'triffic' job for us and we need some vague resemblance of competition from south of the Waveney.
Rob Butler@BobRutler Best thing about (the scrimmage) tonight was hearing Terry Butcher (who is an absolute gentleman) say how envious Ipswich fans are of what’s happening at Carrow Road. Great event @NorwichCityFSC!
Once again Norwich City has a team and a manager we can be proud of. Decent article, despite smacking of 'I-told-you-so' a little. http://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/stuart-hodge-on-norwich-city-1-5752569
It's not that good, mostly a rehash of much of what has been said already. He is not so different to most in so much as he too confessed that after the Leeds game perhaps lessons had not been learnt. then he says this: People need to stay patient, I think, and treat this as another building year. But I said much the same thing for a long time when Paul Lambert was piloting a yellow and green rocket ship bound for the Premier League. Which for me is nonsense. Why on earth would anyone need to have preached patience during Lamberts years? It was essentially one 3 season metioric rise. This time under Farke has been nothing like that and whilst patience was required and still might be. His inference that it should just be another building year, sells short this squad and this years oportunity with no clubs currently looking like they can run away with the automatic places. Bah!
Oh the irony. Is joining Ipswich the karma you get for being too big for your boots Lambert should have stuck with us for another season, but no he got blinded by the bright lights of a "bigger" club. This is what happens when you try and run before you can walk, you stumble and sometimes you end up in the 'sh1t'
To be fair to Farke the ship he inhereted was in a much worse condition than the one inherited by Lambert.
Really! Lambert inherited a side, low on confidence and quality just relegated and thrashed by his Colchester side, with a club in £20m debt and having to beg the fans to help pay for a journeyman striker. The budget then and in the first championship season was certainly smaller, he had lesser talent to call on from the youth system and no sporting director to find him continental bargains (Which he couldn't have afforded) Farke inherited a side that had finished 8th in the championship, had a number of players with PL experience and of gaining promotion there. The cost cutting required was difficult but he still enjoys spending greater sums than Lambert could before arriving in the PL. The club is externally debt free. He has Webber and his scouts helping him find bargains. He has a youth system and previous regimes that has given him enviable youngsters to bring into the team. I really admire the work Farke is now doing, but compared to the clusterduck that Lambert inherited Farke has had it very easy. In fact I'd say the Ship was much better, but the captain was totally inexperienced on the championship seas and that single factor hampered us far more than the quality of the squad inherited. I still believe a good manager with strong championship experience would/could have had us in the playoffs last season. The squad quality especially with Maddison was good enough. Long term Farke is beginning to look like he may have been a smart move. But short term i.e. last season, he under achieved with a decent squad. bah!
TWTD.co.uk - #itfc@twtduk Lambert Set to Be Confirmed on Saturday. https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/34753/ Edit : Lambert is set to bring two members of staff to Portman Road to work alongside him, who appear likely to be Stuart Taylor as his assistant and Jim Henry as his fitness coach. So no reunion for the three amigos, then? Culverhouse resigned from Grantham Town last week - clearly unrelated to Lambert's new gig.
I'd be surprised if they reunited, wasn't it supposedly rather acrimonious when Him, Karsa and Cully split with some rumours circulating about bullying? Bah!
That General is One of the best posts I have read on here and the highlighted text is really what this season is about and for me, it will be interesting to compare the current top 10 with the top ten in 6 months time (I've made a note in my calendar!!).
The good and the bad regarding former players. At Rangers, Glen Middleton has signed a contract extension to 2023 but sadly Graham Dorrans has had an injury setback and needs knee surgery.
This is the only version I can find. Sorry for the poor quality. But this is what he said. The comments, read out with all the spelling mistakes, is worth hanging on for at the end. Some of them are mental. One said about how Wolves have struggled since he left.....I mean...
Would appear he's poached coach Matt Gill from our academy already? Hucks on twitter suggesting he's joined Ipswich.
Of greater concern for us than Lambert: Norwich City FC We can confirm that Under-23s Head Coach Matt Gill has departed the Canaries to join ITFC . #ncfc https://www.canaries.co.uk/News/2018/october/gill-ipswich/ Poaching = compensation...just ask Robbie Cowling.
What!?! How have we let that happen?! And why would he want to? He had a good job here, ex-Norwich player, doing good rewarding work bringing through academy players. That's really worrying.
Only thing wrong with this is he was allowed to buy shrewdly when with us. Evans wallet is sewed shut. Gary Gowers@Gary_Gowers Marcus Evans: "He obviously enjoyed a lot of success at our local rivals and the aim for Paul and everyone at the Club is to see that repeated here - and bettered!" Calm down son
