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McCarthy: Fans a Massive Part When We're Winning But Can Also Be a Massive Part of Us Getting Beat Monday, 3rd Apr 2017 14:45
Town boss Mick McCarthy says the fans play a “massive part” when a team is winning but can also “be a massive part of us getting beat as well”. Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s vital Championship game at home to Wigan, the Blues manager says a negative atmosphere can help the opposition.
Saturday’s 1-1 home draw with Birmingham was played in a fractious atmosphere with fans booing after the visitors took the lead, then aiming chants at McCarthy, owner Marcus Evans and MD Ian Milne.
Prior to that match McCarthy had said he and his players needed the backing of their fans as they look to secure their Championship status and he says they need it again against the second-bottom Latics with the Blues six points off the drop zone with seven games left to play.
“It’s their team, it’s their club,” McCarthy said. “Any negativity is detrimental to the team. And if it’s detrimental to the team and we don’t play well, we don’t get the result we want, they’ve been part of it.
“I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is. They are part of it. Forget us. Generically, when a team’s winning, a club’s winning we’re all winning together, it’s fantastic and ‘Aren’t we great?’ and we, we always tell the fans we’ve got the best fans in the world and ‘Aren’t they brilliant’ and all this and all that. We all win together.
“But when we’re playing badly and we’re losing, we are shit. Maybe we were, I said we were and, by the way, I’m the first to come and admit to it. I never come and try and dress it up and say ‘We played well today’, anybody that’s ever said that about me, forget it because it doesn’t happen.
“I get grief of people who say ‘You were a bit brutal with your team on Saturday, that was a bit harsh, saying you’d played badly’. Well, we did.
“And on a Monday I might come in and think that we weren’t as bad as we thought we were.
“But they are part of it. They are part of it when we’re winning, they’re a massive part. They can be a massive part of us getting beat as well.”
With fans having called for McCarthy’s sacking and expressed their frustration with owner Evans and next year’s season ticket prices, there appears to be a divide between fans and the club.
“There can’t be,” McCarthy added. “They’re a massive part. I know it’s up to us, we’ve got to set the tone, definitely, I get that, it’s our responsibility and I would never pass it on, but then there is a time when you need a dig out, a leg up and maybe that’s tomorrow.”
Does the negative atmosphere impact upon the players? “Of course it does and it affects the opposition positively. That’s what it does.
“I’ve played enough - ‘Happy days, this mob are getting pelters!’. It’s great. And it’s amazing, you see the confidence rise and you can see the other side fall.”
Speaking recently McCarthy said he hoped performances in the final weeks would help mend his relationship with fans. With only seven matches left, does he believe that can still happen? “Win tomorrow they’ll think a lot better about me, won’t they?”
Pressed further, he says he’s not looking any further than Tuesday’s game: “Win tomorrow.”
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WTF???!!! So ow it's basically our (the fans) fault is it??? But as always never never even just a minisculely part your own fault or say **perhaps ** just partly some among the core of often rather poorly performing "Undroppables" fault, "Undroppables" lead by very enthusiastic but also among one of the most inherently utter leadership-less (and skill-limited) Captains I've ever seen in English football??? Nice one Dino and very respectful of those who in principal finance/make possible your lofty pay cheque, you conniving , unscrupulous and not the least irresponsible little deluded Yorkshire " Buck-passer"! ..... and ultra pathetic travesty of a Modern Day professional football manager!!!
SO GET THE HECK OUT OF OUR ONCE PROUD & REVERED CLUB THIS **SUMMER** MR. SORRY-A@S "BLAMESHIFTER" ... AND OH TO GET YOU WELL ON YOUR WAY :-) I THINK IT'S CALLED FOR TO PLAY THIS HERE SONG/VIDEO ONCE AGAIN -- SOLELY IN YOUR SPECIAL "HONOR" DINO -- MOSTLY DUE TO IT'S MORE THAN EVER NOW HIGHLY APPROPRIATE CHORUS:
Football fans can be fickle, not least Ipswich fans but I honestly cannot think of another group of supporters who would have been so patient.There were people from Norway, Germany, the south coast who had travelled to see the game against Birmingham. Maybe I was asleep, but frankly, were the players and McCarthy at the same game? Any abuse wad at the regime, not the players. When moves break down, possession needlessly lost, foul throw. a pass to the half way line from our own corner, then of course the fans will get restless and frustrated, as did McCarthy himself so how dare he criticise the fans for reacting in a like manner. The fans are frustrated at ten years of decline and with a manager that does not take cup games or the Norwich derby seriously -'just another game' he says - NO IT ISN'T.
Are you having a fecking giraffe mate. Are you honestly blaming the fans for voicing their frustrations at your disgusting team selections, your prehistoric tactics, your primitive style, your ugly stubbornness, your thoughtless rude comments and your total lack of respect for our club and the people that pay your wages.
You're a total joke. And if you think you're the big man and not scared of anyone or anything be very careful where you go in the dark and keep a very close look over your shoulder as you have very very few friends left around here.
Give us our club back and feck off a very long way away !!!
The fans are reacting to four years of dross on the pitch, bizarre, negative team selections, lack of investment and a year-on-year downward trend in league position. Town fans are a fairly docile, forgiving bunch but I really think breaking-point has been reached with both manager and owner. Sadly I can see this club going the same way as the likes of Charlton and Coventry if a sea change in approach on and off the field doesn't happen.
I left the pub Saturday thinking we could against Birmingham that thought lasted until the team was announced, Skuse and Douglas spells defensive bad football. I'm not having a go at any player just the useless moron in charge of picking the team.
McCarthy said. “Any negativity is detrimental to the team."
Hahaha, doesn't he see the irony? How about the negativity below being detrimental to the team?
Going into a home match against a Birmingham team who are in an awful run and below us in the table then starting Douglas and Skuse in midfield. Outcome of negativity, three shots on target all match including one fluke goal.
Going into a home match against a Wolves team who are in an awful run and below us in the table then starting Diagouraga and Skuse in midfield ahead of five defenders. Outcome of negativity, two shots on target all match and no goals.
I love all the comments about picking a bad team. Who the hell else is there to pick? Agree we are all frustrated but until we have some decent investment things won't change.
How often have you heard any team's supporters signing their hearts out when a team is losing and not playing well? Answer never. It is a two way street give the fans something worthwhile to support and they will sing their hearts out. I know we have all sang "I'm Ipswich 'til I die" when we are losing or in the process of being relegated, that is totally different to singing your heart out. Please be honest with yourselves and others, you may sing a short chant that soon peters out through lack of enthusiasm.
Been going to games since 1976 - so had the highs of Sir Bobby, the fun times with Mr Lyall and been promoted with Mr George only to be undone by others such as Finidi, Mr Duncan, Jewell and Keane. Through all of that I've remained loyal.
But Mr McCarthy's sheer bloody arrogance has finally pushed me over the edge.
Have cancelled two season tickets today, and will not buy them again until he is gone.
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/marktwerttabellenplatz/wettbewerb/GB According to this we're one place above that which our market value would suggest. I wonder how many people take this into account, or if we should? No doubt Mr Evans could claim he is getting good service from Mick. The days of football being a game above a business seem so long ago..
So bugblatter and his mate Mick thinks its the fans fault now.
Get real!
In 55 years I have never heard a manager of Ipswich Town criticise the supporters.Or any Manager of any team.This bloke has to go.
Scapegoating cuts no ice with me mate,and if we are treated like this by Evans and McCarthy then all out protest is called for, I for one don't care who it upsets.
Billybaxterwasbest go and use your digit for picking your nose or cleaning out your bell end instead of trying to annoy people you really are like our so called manager tiresome and boring.
Ipswichbusiness- that team looks TASTY apart from one massive Flaw, Taylor instead of our very own Captain America (aptly named for throwing his boots on the floor when confronted by a disgruntled mob baying for MM's blood after the Cardiff atrocities!!!😂). Apart from that all good!!!
Look mick it's not rocket science release the shackles play the right players in their best positions play attacking forward thinking football with the squad at your disposal you had the chance to introduce youth into the team but you persisted with the skues Douglas partnership for far too long you are to set in your ways and guess what just maybe your way might not have been the right way. We as fans could see sluglas wasn't working,chambers isn't a RB,Knunden isn't a brilliant LB, the team needed width, pace in midfield and heaven forbid a little flair.but as you keep telling us you know best and we are just dumbf@&k local yokels that know nothing. So a win tomorrow night won't change my opinion of you, you my friend are a dinosaur living in the past the football world has moved on pity you were to stubborn to move with it
Some comments here suggest you haven't read the article and just the headline. If you read, Mick says he takes responsibility (as he should) and that the fans have a massive part to play. The title is extremely misleading and just adds fuel to the fire.
IF you are such a good bloke Dino and do a good job, WHY did Sunderland sack you, and the same with Wolves ????? We are Just waiting for the Hat Trick ?? Although you have said many times yourself you have a job for life here, God help us all !!!
Even if he genuinely believes what he said, “....be a massive part of us getting beat as well”, he should have had more brains than to say it - given where we are in the table and the clear unhappiness about the ST price rise.
You can't say that you need the support of the fans - and then come out with that and expect a positive response!
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