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  1. johnnywarksmoustache

    johnnywarksmoustache Well-Known Member

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  2. YorkieLancsHampyLondoner

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    An absolute credit to himself today.

    Evans won’t fire him because then he’d have a big pay out.
     
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    johnnywarksmoustache Well-Known Member

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    I'm just bored of the whole fooking circus to be honest, I'm not setting foot inside Portman Road again while that Charlatan Evans is the owner.

    Enough is Enough!
     
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  4. Bigalreigned

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    As I said on the Matchday thread I think this shows that Lambert may soon be off and who could blame him?
     
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  5. Nuggets

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    Why does this surprise him? When he took the job last year, he surely did his research on Evans and noticed this owner has been putting in the bare minimum levels of investment. He must have noticed that we consistently make more money than spend money in the last several transfer windows before Lambert joined? This is the way our owner has operated since 2010. I was apprehensive at the start of the summer for the season ahead, now I'm completely disillusioned. I'm seeing an owner who looks like he's given up and a manager already making his excuses.

    This is a deplorable owner with a standing arrest warrant out in Brazil. This is an owner whose name is blacklisted by several international sport bodies for his event management's practices. An owner who is responsible for overseeing a decade of stagnation and eventual decline to the third division. An owner who, somehow, is beyond criticism by an element of our deluded fanbase on social media and TWTD. Those drooling idiots will parrot the lie that this owner puts £6m of his own money into the club every year. Those same drooling idiots will then have you believe that this club has no money to spend at all. Well if it is, the question should be why the hell is it - when you've got teams like Rotherham, Portsmouth, Peterborough, and Gillingham splashing the cash this summer and bringing in good players? What good has this useless owner done?!

    Look at our summer business so far. We've offloaded so many players from the wage bill that you could make a starting eleven and a bench out of the names. What is it in all - nearing 20 now? We've received over £2m from sell-on clauses alone this summer. And what have we done with this? We've brought in three effing freebies and two cheaper loanees. Even in the wake of a massive injury crisis at the club. An injury crisis which is self-inflicted due to the cost-cutting measures we've made in the medical department. Measures painfully laid bare by the report in The Independent, which the club got all hot and bothered about, vowed to release a lengthy statement disputing it the day after, and - almost five days on - are still holding their tongues. Maybe because it's true.

    Now people can rightly say we've lost a lot of money through relegation. But we'll stand to lose even more if we stay in this division for a season longer, because that's when SCMP regulations will really start to bite. Why doesn't the owner fund the club from his own money? We've adhered to FFP for several years now, the owner has the leeway for some actual investment. Will he do it though? Will he ****! This club somehow owes him over £100m - for what? What good has he actually done?!

    So yeah, I sympathise with Lambert. But from my perspective, Lambert knows the owner is a cheapskate. Lambert knows the expectations are high following his failure to keep this club in the Championship. Lambert's only ranting about the money and passing the buck entirely to Evans because he's covering his own rear end. Lambert knows that if he was sacked or chose to walk, he would have overseen back-to-back relegations for Stoke and Town. Even in a domestic game that makes a habit of hiring old, failed British managers time after time, Lambert may find his career options drying up. If he cannot get this squad competing for the play offs through good coaching and management, then that's another blot in his managerial copybook. The temptation to walk away is probably quite enticing for Lambert, but then why walk if you can stick it out for a couple of months and take the compensation for being fired?

    We know that this club is not in an ideal state. It is broken, and it has been broken for some time. Lambert's empty words doesn't change that fact and nor will his words repair the foundations of the club. The only way we will get back into the top flight - and maybe even the Championship - is if this hapless owner sells up and we have a coaching team that can get performances and confidence out of this squad. Running your mouth off in the press conference on the eve of the season is highly unlikely to achieve the latter. The season hasn't even started and I already feel like I'm done with it.
     
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  6. YorkieLancsHampyLondoner

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    I don't really think he knew all that nuggets. It's obvious to some of us as fans but a high percentage of the supporters swallowed the lines they were fed as you say. How would an outsider know?

    It's been an appalling summer for the club, way below even my low expectations.

    SCMP regulations are not likely to be a factor for us to worry about unless we start going around spending sizeable transfer fees. But regardless of that we are on seriously dicey ground now.
     
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  7. Roystonblue

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    Have to admit that I thought Evans would appease the fans by bringing in the players PL wanted. Season could be an exciting 1 as to win games, it would seem we will need to score at least 3. I know football is not played on paper but on paper, our defence looks shocking. I worry about the future of our club. 1st team reliant on youngsters, medical / training facilities are substandard and the owner clearly doesn’t want to be here any more but I & many others will still go
     
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  8. YorkieLancsHampyLondoner

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    I think Woolfy is another class but the full backs are a massive concern. Midfield we have a wealth of options and up front we have no back up but the front two excite me.

    With a lot of luck on our side we might just pull it off. As always a lot depends on how we start.
     
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    I feel like I've been extremely tolerant of Evans since he's come to the club and yes he's made bad decisions but some of the blame can be laid at the managers feet.

    If things go wrong this season, there is only one place the blame lies and there should be protests to get him out of the club
     
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    I don’t think it will take the whole season for protests to start. If we start the season badly and PL walks away, I think the protests would start then
     
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  11. Bigalreigned

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    I think/hope we’ve now reached rock bottom and any goodwill ME had with the fans is now well and truly exhausted.Perhaps the way forward is a Portsmouth or Wimbledon.

    Like Roystonblue I’ll keep going as I’m Ipswich ‘til I die!
     
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  12. YorkieLancsHampyLondoner

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    It's like bloody Brexit all over again and the Tories are still somehow in power, wouldn't hold your breath.
     
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    I've been saying it for years, this clueless, negative, inept, destructive owner will lead us into non league status, and if anyone doubts that just think there's only one division between us and disaster.
    After our shameful relegation last season I would have thought it would trigger a reaction in our owner but not so, if anything he's more extreme with his tightfistedness while the Club staggers on under the impossible restraints he's placed upon it at the same time plying some deluded fans a diet of alledged huge debts which they swallow all too readily, personally I think someone had better open a window and let the smell of bullshit out of the room, the figures may keep HMRC happy and that's all that seems to matter whilst the Club spirals further into decline.
    People are posting PL seems pissed off, why would t he be ? Hes just realised that there's no ambition or drive from above and he's wasting his time, what's the point ? I wouldn't blame him if he told Evans to shove the job up himself, we will watch developments with interest especially if we have a bad start.
     
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    Inept leaders,three in a row!
     
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  15. YorkieLancsHampyLondoner

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    Hopefully you will enjoy a victory field.

    The irony of not being able to get a ticket to watch Town play Burton in the current circumstances !

    We found out from Burton that it had sold out. Our own club website, our own ticket office operatives did not bother to enlighten us with such information.
     
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    We spoke to some Albion fans tonight and they are confident and found it hard to believe our circumstances, it makes no sense they said, that's right I replied.
     
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    WTF has Brexit got to do with it? <doh> Give it up for FFS your side lost <ok>
     
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  18. Buckyohare

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    If lambert goes that’s the last straw for me; I want Evans gone. Putting PL in charge was the last roll of he dice fir me in terms of following whatever “the plan” is and I think he’s a very good manager for us. If he slips away we’re really ****ed.
     
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  19. YorkieLancsHampyLondoner

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    There certainly aren’t many winners Warky, but I was referring more to the shambolic handling of the situation by the government from inception to execution rather than the result itself, which mirrors our owner’s ineptitude.
     
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    Lambert’s gone to the press again, publicly asking Evans to explain the lack of transfer activity and spending to supporters. It was framed in a respectful, diplomatic way - and he’s got the goodwill of three points behind him - so fair enough. I struggle to see why Evans would refuse to do so. It’s about time our owner stopped taking us all for mugs and actually communicated what is happening at this club and answers those pressing questions about his ownership, which has spectacularly failed the club over the last few years. Most other football clubs, particularly well functioning ones, ensures their owner or a CEO regularly keeps paying supporters in the loop.
     
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