Warkys_Tash good posts, agreed

brittaniaman with the exception of Swansea they are all in the Championship so what is your point?

What Evans said to PJ, what PJ thought ME said to him or what was said to Clegg is a totally irrelevant come 5pm on Saturday.

Owners, Managers and Players come and go but the fans remain. Once the majority of match day fans do not believe in the manager then the writing is on the wall. Make no mistake a loss on Saturday and the pressure on ME to take action will be too great.

I truly hope that PJ can pull it out of the bag but my gut tells me he has lost the dressing room.

bigolconnor. Some of us on here are not "sucking the balls of Norwich" as you so elequently put it. Just telling it as it is.

PJ has brought in 3 players with deal lasting until 2014.Creswell,JET and Chopra.
They look decent signings to me. Consider that a bright spot in this dark hour.
http://www.transfermarkt.de/en/ipswich-town/kader/verein_677.html
He or whoever runs this club now and in the near future should start rebuilding for the future NOW. There are 28 matches to go and staying in this league really shouldn't be beyond this squad. I really don't like the idea of rebuilding in League 1.

smelliott - well said. we cant just chuck another manager out because of a few poor results, PJ has done his best with the team we've got, the players like him, hes not on a lot of money and generally likes the club. if we were to get a new manager it would take at least 2 seasons to input their team together. people dont realise how much it costs to sack someone. PJ did his best to sign player but the fact is nobody wants to come to ipswich because its so far off the city lifestyle that all the young players crave. hes proved himself that hes a good manager in the past and tbh hes generally a nice bloke! so sick and tired of ''fans'' chatting negative on here, you sing their praises when we win and complain when we lose, if all you are going to to is diss this club then get off here and support the scum! a true fan sticks by their club through good and bad times! someone just needs to raise the confidence of these players and we'll be back up there in no time. COYB!

It's going to take more than sacking the manager to turn this around. He'll be replaced and this time next year we'll all be here making the same accusations about him. And then the cycle shall remain.

it's all quite simple really - win the next 3 he stays, lose them & he goes - a mixed bag of results will see us limp along inconsistently, going nowhere like we've done for the last 6 or 7 years!

Just been looking back at the comments on our first game. You were all happy then weren't you? Don't give up faith yet. I give Jewell at the very least 2 games to get a win or i think it will be the end.

COYB!

alfromcol: The point I was making about Brendon & Swansea was he took them over last season and went through the championship in to the premiership first time, I know it was through the playoffs which makes it even harder !!!!!!!

I think Marcus Evans should employ me as pJs assistant. I will even do it for free. My 5 aside team hasn't lost a game all year!! We score goals for fun and don't let to many in. I'll even take my best players from that team and donate them to the towns cause! Please,let's add dome passion to the team. Personally. I would go for experienced spine through the team and put faith in the youth on the flanks.

Dear Marcus Evans,

I know you are a very busy man but please read this.

When you took control of our beloved football club we were all grateful and felt that the good times would return to Portman Road. However this is not the case.

I do not doubt your belief in the club and your desire to suceed but I think you are missing the point. A football club is a business I accept that, but not like any other business. It is based upon history, tradition and a passion for the identity the badge brings. We supporters are supporters for life and from a business perspective that loyalty must help. I mean we will always be there whatever happens but please do not exploit that loyalty.

The past three seasons we have had to witness a load of rubbish to be honest. Us supporters are your customers, your main source of income and you must surely see that income is falling rapidly. We are treated with inflated ticket prices, over priced merchandise and extortionate refreshments in the ground. We receive precious little in return for our loyalty as well.

On the pitch the entertainment for which we pay is lacking any effort and cohesion and the club appears to have no direction whatsoever. You only ever speak to us through Mr Clegg ( who has no idea about football however successful he has been elsewhere). Apart from your notes in the opening programme of the season when do you ever tell us of your plans for the club?

I am not telling you to sack or back the manager, that is your decision.However we only ever hear that from Mr Clegg or Mr Jewell never from you What I am asking is that you come and tell us where you believe this club is going, how it will get there and prove we really do have a future.

Your position is very priveliged as the leader of our club and whilst it is your money it is still our club and never forget that.

Please treat the loyal supportes with the respect they deserve, and come out and tell us where our club is heading. If you do then maybe we will all get together and support you in that aim as opposed to the current ( almost constant for the past 3 years) bickering and arguing on sites like this.

Above all remember the tradition of ITFC and particulary its Chairman and their relationshiop with the supporters.

Yours.....



Please stop relying on our loyalty to ITFC and

People say you should never go back, so those asking for George Burley might be wearing rose tinted glasses. I know Nigel Pearson has done well on his return to Leicester, but George seems a little out of touch nowadays. He still calls the premier league the premiership and things like that when you hear him on the radio!
If we were to go for Ipswich passion in our next manager, I think it should be Terry Butcher, but I'm backing PJ and I'm backing Ipswich Town.

Have just managed to get the courage to watch the burnley goals

There is something seriously wrong at our club, and anyone who cannot see that is kidding themselves (read Supples comments,he tells it as it is and why not,nothing to lose)
There is no spirit,no desire and this is reflected in the god awful support,the fans have lost faith,there is no hope,there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

From the time we celebrated having loads of money we lost our identity,ITFC forgot who they where,the appointment of beano was a catastrophic mistake of biblical proportions,but in truth it was only a symptom of what the club had become.

Whats the answer?
You can`t keep sacking managers our success in the past was based on patience and whilst people have different opinions about "the Ipswich Way" it did mean something and it did lead to success,Super Jim understood that and I do wonder where we would now be if he had enjoyed the patience shown to Sir Bob and GB.

I don`t like clegg I think he is incompetent and whilst I had no time for beano he did say that if he had known at the start what he know at the end he would never have joined ITFC.

So get an experienced CEO in,Neil Doncaster (I hate to say),get Bowden back,get Sheepy in, any of these are better then what we have.

Get rid of the yes man on the board.

Appoint a football supremo at board level, George Burley with responsibility for transfer policy and liaison with coaching staff


and give PJ more time.

Sounds like a Plan

TractorBoy1961

Good heartfelt post,lot of truth in what you say.

Put it in a envelope and mark it for the attention of ME