Although I don't post many threads on here, I do read all the threads as I like to see the views of what I call proper supporters.. So I hope you will indulge me for a while. Like most people I think it's time for PJ to go and I think the timing is perfect. If he went and say Harry was bought in, he would be stuck with what he has got until the next window, but this would allow him time not only to see the deadwood but also see if new traing methods and man management could raise their game to meet the required standard, rather than come in during a window and bulk buy before the close of the window. This extra time would allow him to have a more in depth view of the current mess. This could result in only bringing in a few people. So come on ME do us all a favour, bite the bullet, get rid of PJ use your friendship with Harry give him a long term contract and restore our long lost pride in the team. Love him or hate him there's no debate whether he could produce the goods. Thank you for your indulgence, please be gentle lol.
Harry Redknapp as the next Ipswich manager ? This surely is another one of Guru's pathetic attempts at a wind up ?
I can see what you are saying, but it will never happen. ME backed PJ in the last window with the signing of Taylor and had it not been for Clegg being a muppet we may have bought more in.... No business man would sack a manager he has just invested in. Also there is no way Harry would drop down and his wages would be massive. If we were to get rid of PJ id like to see us get a young manager in. Not an ex big name prem player but someone who is doing well in the lower leagues.
Perfect timing to sack a manager just AFTER the transfer window has closed!? Jesus christ. 4 games into the season, and now is the " perfect time ". Agree with tractor bhoy, words fail me too..........
Is this a joke, I do wonder sometimes. Harry is no doubt a good manager but surely it's obvious to see a) he just doesn't fit the club and b) he would never come here!!!
I'm with Lancs on this, you have got the attention of the three stooges, they all disagree with you, therefore you must be a genius!! (come on then ladies i'm ready for your slating)
Lets hope he doesn't look at both yours and Lancs posting history fortunately for you Spanish 606 is not around for him to trawl through to see how many times you've both been proven wrong on numerous occasions!! Lancs how many Norwich fans have a saying of yours as a signature??? (enough to bite??)
PTC - those Norwich fans know full well what I've been saying. I got it wrong on Roy Keane but I think we can all see it would be hard for any manager to take the club forward with Clegg in the hot seat. i said Lambert would walk at the first sniff of a decent club and he did. I said that they would probably survive a season on the momentum they had before nosediving back due to their board's lack of ambition and they may well do. Yorkiegit is dead right for several reasons, not least because a good manager will make a lot more of the players we have had / have got. The squad is infinitely weaker now than at any time over the last 25 years and we've spent a fortune. It's not all about transfers.
I don't know what to think of Clegg I don't know if he's a major problem, I know he hasn't ripped up any trees and certainly doesn't endear himself to the fans but say if we would have appointed Lambert instead of Keane with Clegg at the helm, I'm pretty sure we'd be a PL team by now. Apart from central defence I think the first team squad is coming together quite nicely. Infact we have some of the best attacking players at the club for sometime. Chopra, Scotland, Martin, Taylor, JET, Murphy, Carson then with Hyam, Luongo, N'Daw & Drury behind there's some real quality there plus Creswell at the back. PJ is starting to put together a decent little team. We may have a reasonably small squad but we have more quality in there now than any other time in the ME era and also that was put together on a much smaller budget. And importantly there also seems to be a togetherness not seen in the ME era either. The same people who moaned last season when we were going for the quick fix approach trying to get to the PL by building a squad overnight spending alot of money on wages and transfers etc are the same ones complaining this season when we are going for the long term approach getting our wages in line and reigning in the spending and then saying we lack ambition. I did cross my mind that perhaps the club were losing ambition (only for a fleeting moment) but I think the signing of Taylor is a real sign of intent that we don't lack ambition!!! And as for replacing the manager, if PJ should go we don't want someone like Rednapp to come in, he's a good manager but with big name players, he wouldn't suit Ipswich, he did very well at Spurs I don't know why they sacked him but he also spend a hell of a lot of money at Spurs. Also do we really think he would come to Ipswich?? If Jewell were to be sacked to me now would be the right time to get a manager to come in from the lower leagues we've got a young/hungry squad and we need a manager who would buy into that. The time to appoint an experienced manager was when Jim got sacked, that was blatantly obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense!!!
Well, I have read it all now! I totally agree with Westy, PTC and Tractor Bhoy on this - it would be madness to sack any manager at this early stage of season and after transfer window just closed. Why have all the doubters and whingers appeared again after a very promising start a couple of weeks ago, ok a nasty wake-up call, but so long as we dont have a 7 game run of shocking results again, I am happy to back this really quite strong squad for once, and just hope the PJ has the people management and coaching skills to bring the best out of them. As someone said, we have one of the most talented midfield line-ups in the Championship today. I would love to manage that lot! Keep your chins up and get behind the Town.
It wasnt the fact that some want our manager gone that made words fail me. If you hated him last season then chances are you are likely to still hate him now. I dont expect you to suddenly change your opinion It was the fact that some of you are STUPID (and I do actually mean stupid) enough to come on here and moan that we cant afford to pay derby the extra 100k for Davis, apparently we cant afford an extra 5k a week for Boyd but we can attract one of the biggest managers in the country. Tell you what if we can attract Harry then why not go out and get Pep, hes probably recharged his batteries now after Barcelona and he worked wonders aswell. Nobody seems to care that Harry as also come out and said he wont leave the premiership as he thinks he can compete with the best. He has stated that working with a team of lesser ability would infuriate him - his words 'I have worked with the best and would find it very hard to work with a lower standard of player' and unless he is going to commute on a daily basis the total length of the south of the country then he will never leave his house which is in the most exclusive area of the country outside London. I wont even go into the vast amounts of cash he has spent and the dubious off the field deals he has been caught up in.
No I'll tell you who's stupid tractorbhoy. The man who would not want one of the greatest managers in the English game to take over from Paul Jewell. That's seriously thick. It's even more thick to presume that because he said that he would never step down. I'm sure he was working with the likes of Gareth Bale at the time but you're forgetting that was the first time he'd managed at the very top level in club football having managed at Bournemouth, West Ham, Southampton and Pompey for 25 almost unbroken years! It's not impossible given his strong links to the club and the situation in which we find ourselves, but it is of course unlikely because he's bound to get top flight offers. Being of the age he is he might just fancy trying to emulate Sir Bobby at Ipswich. Now the other point. How the hell is commuting an hour or two from London travelling the length of the south coast?! What a stupid ****tard of a comment.
s He famously (or so I thought) lives in Sandbanks which is in Poole! and even if all of that was overcome then you still cant havent answered how you think we can afford him when your all moaning that we wont pay the going rate for Boyd/ Davis/ Pearce/ Kzuzchek (sp?) and countless other targets this summer. Maybe your not being stupid but I think even you will have to admit that the chances of him coming here are so slim its not really worth considering as a realistic option.
honestly, some of you lot are barking mad. yorkiegit (nice name) in particular for posting it quite how you've found such division in the ranks from this OP is staggering - it is the most senseless piece anyone has posted on your board for some time. i know many of you are not fans of jewell, understandably in my opinion, and i know some are still firmly behind him, but sacking a manager a few days after the transfer window, days after spending the best part of £2m on one player, and replacing him with a guy who would NEED the transfer window, a huge budget (which you don't have), massive wages (which you can't pay) and STILL wouldn't put his heart and soul into managing your club cos he'd have to commute (he wouldn't move from sandbanks for spurs, he ain't going to for ipswich) and be more interested in his media commitments, not to mention he'd almost certainly **** your club up even more than it already is... well, as i say, some of you are barking mad though maybe its more that some are more blinkered than others, especially if you think a) it'll ever happen and b) it would be a good decision
Thanks Supers, I thought i had moved into a parrellel universe where nothing was making sense for a moment. If people want him gone then fine, I can understand why but be realistic in your replacement!
And if Harry were to come to the club, I would seriously question why he would. He's a manager who's in the twilight of his career, he's just been linked to the England job and he's just managed a top PL team, I would seriously question his motives. It's like people see a big name flashing up in lights and they think awesome but they don't actually think about a) if it would happen and b) the consequences. Look at the appointment of Keane, I've never seen such ridiculous excitement before over a managerial appointment but people didn't actually think about it and realise that he was a cr*p manager, really didn't fit the club and had the potential to ruin us. 2 years later and he had!!
