Match Day Thread Town v Cobblers

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Base purely on how he’s run (down) our Club you really have to question how Evans has become such a wealthy man.
 
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Southcoastoldgaffer said:
All your thoughts and comments, much repeated are bang on, for many seasons we have been crying out for change.

I think that time has come, and wouldn't be surprised to see a root & branch attack, by someoe with the cajones to go at it.

My preferred route is, as said before and echoed by some, a take-over by the supporters under a new structure and regime, as Portsmouth and others have succesfuly done. A community interest company model has worked well, and there will be thousands of fans who will plough in their passion to make sure it works.

I hope & wish I will be around to see these much needed changes, I like all you guys, long to bring back the excitement and enthusiasm of Saturday afternoon footie at Portman Road. And those glances up at the latests scores...".are we still top?!"
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Ian Marshall has tweeted that he doesn’t have an endless money pot, but he’s in for buying Town and Oldham!
 
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It really brings it all home when I watch Championship football in particular on TV and I've been to the ground shown following Town, its not unusual that I've been to the grounds of both teams involved in the match, for me it really is a reminder of what we have lost and the poor standard of football we are playing, just pissed off, so unbelievably pissed off.
 
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Bigalreigned said:
According to TWTD Evans’ meeting with Lambert was brought forward to yesterday afternoon,the end may be in sight!
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Nothing would surprise me with ITFC any more. Maybe they were discussing extending his current contract. 1 of the reasons Hurst was got rid of because he criticised the players after a bad game. PL has come out & basically thrown Jackson & Nolan under the bus. Jackson especially has a right to feel aggrieved, I still think he should be in the team (in a 2 with Norwood) but more simply, he certainly isn’t the own player to be sent off this season
 
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A mate of mines just told me there's a big article in today's Telegraph about the decline of ITFC, and Evans was keen to stress that he is owed £96M by the Club up to last season, it seems almost unbelievable that someone could make a total bollocks of running a business and expect someone else to pay for his incompetence.
 
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San Diego said:
No money and an owner MIA is a problem for sure.

My thinking is that the Ipswich manager's job is now not (and hasn't been for a while) one for a 'big name' manager from the carousel of those sacked and continually re-employed elsewhere after failure. Anyone who has had cash to spend, relative success at higher levels or relies on new players rather than improving those already on the books will have problems working under this regime. The type of person who would succeed here is somebody with lower league experience and lower league contacts, is used to working on a tight budget and uses coaching and tactics to improve a team rather than buying the finished article.

There are plenty of clubs who have a lower budget than ours that are able to assemble a balanced team and play decent football. Just because Evans isn't willing to spend much shouldn't mean that we can't be competitive. We need to have a large clear out of high earning players and let the supporters know that we are building a team for the future. Not getting in the play offs will be seen as failure from Lambert but if we can get somebody in who is ready for the coaching challenge of building a young team from scratch then I think fans would be ok with mid table for a season or two if they can see tangible progress for a change.

For too long it's been all about promotion or the play offs so our managers have mostly made short term decisions based on that target. This has stunted our academy players from getting game time until this season and left us no better as a team for it. The likes of Dozzell, Downes and many others should have way more match minutes than they do at their age. It's also ridiculous that we are giving 18,19 and 20 year old loanees from other clubs plenty of experience whereas ours were nowhere near the squad at the same age!
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Through a Paul Tisdale in the hat there then? I don't think anyone would he content even if they saw progress with a mid table finish, unless someone took over this season and you could see green shoots!!
 
fieldmarshall said:
It really brings it all home when I watch Championship football in particular on TV and I've been to the ground shown following Town, its not unusual that I've been to the grounds of both teams involved in the match, for me it really is a reminder of what we have lost and the poor standard of football we are playing, just pissed off, so unbelievably pissed off.
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I've seen highlights of some Ipswich matches under Magilton recently and this was after ME came in and the football we played was pretty good, we had half decent players then aswell. To think at the time most people wanted Jim out because progress wasn't quick enough....
 
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itfcptc said:
I've seen highlights of some Ipswich matches under Magilton recently and this was after ME came in and the football we played was pretty good, we had half decent players then aswell. To think at the time most people wanted Jim out because progress wasn't quick enough....
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Not many wanted Magic to go. We had Giovanni Dos Santos, it was an exciting time. We should have broken the bank to sign him.
 
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Roystonblue said:
Nothing would surprise me with ITFC any more. Maybe they were discussing extending his current contract. 1 of the reasons Hurst was got rid of because he criticised the players after a bad game. PL has come out & basically thrown Jackson & Nolan under the bus. Jackson especially has a right to feel aggrieved, I still think he should be in the team (in a 2 with Norwood) but more simply, he certainly isn’t the own player to be sent off this season
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Poor management here. Surely trying to get the sack. You can put players in the reserves as a punishment but don't shout about it in the press. Hurst started doing this.... you do wonder if its the fact our managers are always pretty much the only person to front up any criticism. It seems to get to them all eventually
 
Yes it was a great game with Jaimie Peters coming on and really getting us going when we were starting to flag, and Allan Lee playing in yellow and getting dogs abuse, little did we know that Keane was watching and waiting to take over and so the rot started.
 
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