Absolute joke of a performance, Milne you're a Chump! McCarthy has run out of ideas just as he did at Wolves and needs to go after last night's debacle and Evans needs to show his grotty little face! If we want a new manager then it's up to us as the club don't give a shiite so an organised protest must be organised and quickly.

In today's parlance.. LOL
Milne you puppet muppet!
Stop with this bull. You're just making yourself look like an even bigger total fool.

Milne knows the reason we are in such a shambles.. Marcus Evans!!!
ME has failed to back MM over the last few seasons. I actually think MM has overachieved given the apparent total lack of support/interest from ME.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a great MM fan but I think most managers would struggle without the complete support of the owner/chairman and investment.
Granted MM 'style' of football is negative/dull/uninspiring/the list goes on... However I think his normal mindset is damage limitation first. Without a budget to get in proven quality players, he's going to be even more conservative to prevent any high score drubbings, grinding out the odd results, and playing those he 'trust'.

Don't get me wrong, MM has the opportunity to use young blood and try new things, but has persisted wrongly with skuglas e.t.c.and that is the problem and why the most people on this forum want him gone.
We can pretty much guess he has had both hands tied behind his back with regards to the transfer market, but that's more reason to push through younger players and try different things.
He's got young boys or 'old' men, mostly from the jumble sale now. I think risk taking and trying new things is not in his make up. That's a younger, hungrier managers style that is out to prove something.
Without a core of mid-playing career (quality) players at, or approaching, their peak performance making up the spine of the club, with a few old heads and a couple of young guns, you're going to struggle. Our team unsurprisingly hasn't got any younger each year and without any quality replacements coming in we have got weaker and weaker. We know it, McCarthy knows it, Milne knows it. Evans? Who knows?

What's happened to the academy? Our historic method of bringing in success.. DEAD? Lack of investment/care. costs too much? .

The trouble starts from the top. Without strong leadership from the owner, ensuring that everyone at the club performs to their best ability, and providing proper support to ensure the resources are available to be competitive, then you have a rudderless ship which will bob about for a while, but sooner or later will be blown on the rocks or capsize.

Evans is ultimately the biggest problem.
1. Poor choice of managers
2. Not truly a fan
3.Found that Football club ownership is more expensive than expected and success most of the time isn't bought unless you are willing to plough vast amounts in. (even then it's not guaranteed)
4. Appears to have lost interest (see above)
5. Does not engage with fans/community - which makes it hard to: a) like him b) understand what he is trying to achieve c) believe anything his minions say

EVANS OUT! + corporate minions
McCarthy has marked his cards with the fans for numerous reasons, but mostly the intolerable poor performances and tactics on pitch and there isn't a way back for him. His time has come and some of the current players too..

Milne like Clegg before him knows absolutely nothing about football and is little more than a bean counter and Marcus Evans puppet. He also seems not to care about the fans concern at the long term demise of our once great and proud club under his boss Marcus Evans.The problem first and foremost is Marcus Evans . He had his own agenda when becoming Ipswich's owner. First he sacked a good manager ,Jim Magiliton who had Ipswich in his blood ,who's team had just beaten Norwich City ,,He then brought in his friend Clegg, who just happened to have Olympic connections ,but who knew NOTHING about football,,,the Olympic connections were important to Evans ,as London were hosting 2012 Olympics, and he needed someone with Olympic connections to sell Marcus Evans tickets. He then bought in a most unsuitable manager, that Ipswich Town could wish for,Roy Keane, but Keane suited Marcus Evans PLC, the reason being that as Keane, because of his outspoken ways, was interviewed most days by national media ,consequently his face was never off our TV screens, and he was always interviewed with Marcus Evans group plastered everywhere, you couldn't buy that sort of advertising! When it became clear Keane had fallen out with the fans, Evans then brings another unsuitable manager in Jewell, who had just got Derby relegated with the lowest ever points haul. Evans then gave Paul Jewell money to squander on players, but when Jewell was eventually found out for the poor manager he was, he too was sacked. Evans then brings in a respected manager but one that had a reputation for boring football and old fashioned tactics, but then Marcus Evans bafflingly fails to carry on investing in the club or the team. I am not sure what Evans plan is, as he wont do the honourable thing and show his face and show some form of leadership, what I do know however, since Evans took over their has been a steady decline in Ipswich Towns fortunes ,and if a new owner is not found soon, then under Evans things will only get far worse .So the EADT and Ipswich Star should have a poll on how many people are happy with the way Marcus Evans PLC is running,,,or should I say ruining ! our once proud club. I really do fear for the future of OUR ITFC.So Mr Milne given the way your boss has run ITFC into the ground ,forgive me for thinking but like the owner Marcus Evans you both don't know your ars# from your elbow when it comes to football

Well Mr Milne, over the last 24 hours I've given this matter much thought. And at the end of one of the longest strings I've ever seen on this site my answer is 'No'. As I've already said, you mis-sold this years season tickets on false premises and I don't believe or accept a single word that you say as being either true or having any value whatsoever. At the end of this season another season ticket holder and small shareholder will walk away. In fact I already have I don't care for you and the mob running this club. Cheerio.

By the way, were we represented at Lincoln last night. Was Milne there to see the debacle for himself? We should be told. I went to Derby earlier in the season and apparently there was no representative from the board. Disgraceful, that's how low we have fallen.

He's another one that needs to go….clueless!!

The only way you'll get this stubborn c#nt out is to boycott the next home game, it make make the news and deeply hurt Marcus's business (bad PR)

@DoseOfReality

IMHO don't expect Phil to run another TWTD poll anytime soon (sincerely hope you don't need a Arnold S. like 'Total Recall' to remember with sheer dread how many "eons" it took him to finally be swayed to make the 1st one here? :-) lol ... Also the good Phil currently seems ehmm slightly preoccupied with clarifying and answering questions regarding his own / TWTD's stand incl. their own and general questioning techniques when facing the notorious media-unloving Dino, plus much much more actually .... all quite interesting reading (especially "between the lines" so to speak :-) HaHaHaHa) here at the by now a "tad "unpopular (currently at -57 votes! ouch!!!) forum thread started by poster @carlisleaway here:

http://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/396319/time-for-phil-to-show-where-his-loyalties-lay

As for another almost The Clash sounding "Should MM Stay?! or Should MM Go?!" basic poll, well poster @The_Last_Baron has had one running since early this afternoon here:

http://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/396262/should-town-change-manager-now

... and as you can see: SurpriZzze SurpriZzze close to 33% of those TWTD members who have ehhh "bothered" to vote on this one still UNFATHOMABLY wants MM to stay???!!!
Hmmm please remind me again when the last official Lobotomy was performed in this part of lovely planet Earth? LOL .... Ahhh nevermind let's be real nice shall we and just suffice it say that one of the genuine Arthur Conan Doyle worthy conclusions one can thus derive from this little astounding figure & poll is that: It simply MUST be some of the very same English citizens who are not only bringing 'The National IQ Average' down but more specifically 'The Suffolk County's IQ Average 'down too! :-) :-) :-) :-)

I hope your read TWTD Milne. Apart from not being in touch with fans, justifying that we stick with the same sh!te is frankly insulting our intelligence,

"Lincoln City were clearly the better organised team"
There it is - in your own statement Mr Milne. That's why he has to go. We were out organised by a non-league team. Your manager has stopped performing at anything like an acceptable level.
I will not pay to watch ITFC again until he has gone.

EVANS OUT and take your pathetic cronies with you

Sorry if I'm boring you but I can't leave this one alone. We have been utterly humiliated on National television with arguably the worst Ipswich display in decades against a non-league team. I feel sick and very hurt by it. I don't think the Club, by which I mean ME, Ian Milne and Co have any comprehension about the anger the fans feel about this and the general demise of the Club. After last night there can be no way back for MM, except Ian Milne's comments amount to a Vote of Confidence and so make it virtually impossible for the Club now to act and do what it must do. Yes we need new players, but I don't think those we have are bad at all. It is the case, however, that MM is playing certain players out of position and in the wrong situations. Freddie Sears for example is a striker and was scoring regularly from his debut until MM put him on the left and he has hardly scored since. If he was played as a striker again I'm sure he would start scoring again, but MM won't for reasons only known to him.

Surely we will wake up tomorrow and this has just been one big nightmare and the headlines on here will be "McCarthy sacked"

It's clear he's going nowhere. We will "grind out" a 0-0 at Huddersfield followed by all the silent Mick-Inners saying "all is well". It's a disgrace.

Westy - you didn't see us at home to Stevenage in the cup this season and our midfield displays last season against Pompey. What we saw on TV was a very normal performance for this team, I've witnessed much worse. Pompey last year is etched on my memory forever. Sunday league midfield play at its finest.

I do not wish to gloat but I was posting on here how bad Evans PLC were for I T F C long before the playoffs and was always shouted down. I still believe there is no 'Marcus Evans' only someone the company puts up every so often. Now during the dark days of John Duncans reign some local businessmen and landowners formed the Ipswich Town Action Group with the intention of putting someone on the board to reflect the views of the ordinary fan. No I know that with the Evans Corporation no one is accountable for the way they are running this club into the ground but surely there are still people with influence who support the club and are sick to death at the way it is being mis managed. It is time for these people to step forward and speak up, there are some rich people in Suffolk and pressure must be put on Evans PLC to sell up. was there not an Arabian race horse owner form Newmarket interested in the club at one time? Just think on this, it is a good job we do not own the ground because Evans PLC would have sold it for development long ago

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-cup-lincoln-idUKKBN1521WC?rpc=40 friend sent me this, suggested that if we don't want non-league quality players in our team we should do something similar.

The local press and this site are too cosy with the club to question anything at all - you can see it from the verbatim propaganda reports - how much does Phil make from this site now from the ads??

See even the Prime Minister is in on the action. Morgan Freeman has even made a comment on the game and how brave Lincoln are and he knows nothing about soccer.

http://www.greenun24.co.uk/home/theresa_may_congratulates_lincoln_city_after_hum

I don,t want McCarthy to have more time to get it right. Even if results did improve I would still want the smug McCarthy out of this club. No more games for us until he is gone.

@wayway
Fully Concur!

In relation to your post, and any of our ****great**** supporters fully aware of this:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/corporation-tax-tax-deductibility-of-

See especially the setion titled: "Economic impact", about halfway down the above document.

Taking effect on April 17, 2017 is some new UK Tax Laws that among other things will seek to: "Limit the amount of interest that may be deductible for corporation tax purposes".... and effect: "Groups that have engaged in aggressive tax planning using debt to reduce their tax bill"!, and while it's basically pretty hardcore stuff fairly tough to fully decode for non-tax experts or the like, I still got the impression from a slightly more layman-like newspaper article on this subject from back in December that said new laws COULD theoretically also effect our own rather dubious scenario at ITFC where you basically have someone (ME) owing themselves (or another company in their name) vast amounts of money .... as in ITFC's almost customary sizable annual operation loss which obviously have made the original purchased debt of £ 32 mill THEN owed to Evans's "shady" empire gradually skyrocket to nowadays being a total debt owed to ME at more than double that at around £ 67 mill ... All SEEMINGLY done from ME's pov very "noble" :-) purpose of having said debt to some fairly obscure & intricate degree being somewhat leveled out simultaneously (if not originally back in 2007 directly advantageous!) by the benefit of the debt / interest being tax-deductible on his business empire's overall corporate tax bill.

Anyone better informed here please feel free to correct me -- gently though! :-) -- in the case I got this mostly wrong, cause I repeat I'm certainly not remotely savvy with hardcore corporate tax-laws and corporate tax-benefits etc., just sort off speculating out loud at this late hour after having walked the dog, whether some of these aforementioned new corporate tax laws coming into effect this Spring MIGHT effectively make the shady Evans a notable less "happy camper" (read: owner, who at least originally clearly was an all-out tax benefit fixated owner at that!) here at Portman Road?

IT REALLY ISNT THAT BAD !!!!!!!!!!!
I cant believe people are saying we are in a very dark place and we are having such an appalling time and nobody wants to support this rubbish , now I know it isnt great and far from great but it isnt as bad as people are making out , it is what it is , all teams have bad spells just ask Man utd and about a dark place but did man utd fans give up ? no. saying about a dark place that's the thing that is getting to me , Dark place ? just ask fans of Coventry , Charlton , Portsmouth and Derby because they've been in a darker place for a very long time and they've all been in the premier league more than us , albeit it Coventry havent won divison 1 but they have one fa cup also and Charlton no divison 1 but also one fa cup and Portsmouth have two divison 1's and two fa cups and Derby have two divison 1's and two fa cups so if anything they are just as big as Ipswich if not BIGGER so look at Coventry , Charlton , Portsmouth and Derby before saying how much of a bad time we're having as they're in a much darker place than us , People are going on like we were relegated last season and havent won a game this season sitting rock bottom of league one 25 points off safety heading to league 2 - thats what it feels like with how people are reacting . It really isnt that bad people , Further on to this look at Bradford , Nottingham forest , QPR , sheffield wednesday which all are teams just like us . like I said it is what it is and I want the best for Ipswich like everyone I just want to show that it's not such a dark place that we are in that people are making out

MicksZzTactics
Intelligent post. I have read something similar but can't say that I know much about it. It may be something for Phil to look at but as you've mentioned he's pretty busy right now. It could shed some light on a dark situation.
Matthew Crush
I think you will find that fans of Coventry, Portsmouth, Blackpool et al complain about the state of their clubs also. They are not all silently sitting around doing nothing, stoically accepting everything that happens. Many fans have issues running for years now with ITFC that have failed to be addressed. Depth of squad, lack of suitable replacements, lack of right-backs, players played out of position, lack of tactics, players devolving once here, hoofball, boring football, lack of investment, squad players that shouldn't be playing professionally, overworked GK, lack of possession, lack of shots, no target men....
General about petition
Still unclear. I still believe it needs 1000 signatures to get an answer from the club. According to research I have conducted, 500 signatures only designates a voluntary answer from the club, therefore it needs 1000. I might be wrong, I'm not a Petition Expert.

https://www.change.org/p/english-football-league-mick-mcarthy-out-of-ipswich-tow

Milne you are as deluded as the rest, you know nothing about football and the great supporters of itfc.

Just Go and Take the McCathy Evans crew with you!

After an Ipswich legend lambasts the club, after we as a club are humiliated by non league opposition, no disrespect to Lincoln, after we are seen by the national as resembling a poorly run Sunday league team, no disrespect to any Sunday league implied, how will anybody continue to post "in Mick we trust". Anyone who continues along that line should not be argued with, just feel sorry for their lack of clear thinking.