Kieran Lee’s 77th minute goal saw Sheffield Wednesday to a 1-0 victory over the Blues in this season's final game at Portman Road. The midfielder turned home Daniel Pudil’s low cross to confirm the Owls’ play-off place and consign Town to back-to-back league defeats for the first time in 59 games stretching to February last year.

Boss Mick McCarthy returned to the Town team which beat Newcastle United and Burton Albion prior to the much-changed side which lost 1-0 at Rotherham last week.

Bartosz Bialkowski was back in goal with Jordan Spence at right-back, Myles Kenlock on the left and skipper Luke Chambers and Christophe Berra at the heart of the defence.

Cole Skuse, Emyr Huws and Grant Ward were in midfield with Tom Lawrence, David McGoldrick and Freddie Sears up front. For the Owls, ex-Blues striker Jordan Rhodes was among the substitutes.

Youngsters Pat Webber, a 17-year-old left-back who was on the bench three times earlier in the season having joined the academy from Worthing last summer, and midfielder Flynn Downes, 18, who scored twice for the U23s in Monday’s 6-0 victory over Coventry, were included in a 23-man squad ahead of the match but not named in the final 18.

The play-off-chasing visitors were first to threaten, Spence nodding a Jack Hunt cross from the right behind ahead of Daniel Pudil, then Adam Reach hit a low shot wide.

Town should have gone in front in the sixth minute from their first chance of the match. Sears crossed from the right and the ball reached Lawrence but the on-loan Leicester man, who scored his first Blues goal in the 2-1 win at Hillsborough in November, hit his shot straight at Owls keeper Keiren Westwood.

Soon after, Lawrence slammed a freekick into a Wednesday wall from not far out side the area on the left.

The Owls subsequently enjoyed a lot of the ball without creating an opportunity, while the Blues looked like they were capable of causing danger on the break.

Neither side was able to carve out a significant opening until the 26th minute when, following a corner on the left, McGoldrick curled a low shot towards the far corner of the net from the edge of the area which Westwood punched away.

There was a scare for the Blues on the half hour when Westwood cleared from deep as Town looked to break and almost sent Pudil in on goal but Chambers just managed to get enough on the ball to divert it away from the former Watford man and Bialkowski claimed at his feet.

As the half moved into its final five minutes the Blues were having more of the ball but with neither keeper having been tested further.

On 40 Skuse picked up the game’s first yellow card for pulling back Barry Bannan as the former Villa man broke after dispossessing Ward.

From the resultant freekick the ball fell to Glenn Loovens, whose shot deflected off Spence and behind, off a hand according to some Wednesday players and their fans but not late replacement referee David Coote.

Wednesday began to put the Blues under pressure in the final scheduled minutes of the half, Skuse turning a dangerous low ball across the six-yard box from Steven Fletcher behind, before Town began to press the visitors in two minutes of injury time.

The goalless scoreline was a fair reflection of the half at the break, Wednesday having had most of the ball but with Bialkowski still to make a serious save.

Town had created the better of the game’s few chances with Lawrence having failed to take his early opportunity and Westwood forced to make the half’s only taxing stop from McGoldrick’s effort from distance.

Owls fans will have been happy enough at half-time with seventh-placed Leeds 3-1 down at home to Norwich, a situation which would have confirmed their play-off place at the end of the afternoon regardless of their own result, although that match ultimately ended 3-3.

Three minutes after the restart Wednesday went close to going in front. Ross Wallace was fed in space on the right and cut in before smashing a shot off the inside of the post and across the face of goal but with no one there to take advantage.

On 55 Fletcher hit a strike from the edge of the area which Bialkowski saved down to his right with the Owls having started the second half on top.

Lawrence was replaced by Danny Rowe, who was making his home debut, in the 64th minute. The Welshman, who had gone down feeling his ankle a few minutes beforehand, was making his final Portman Road appearance of his loan spell and was given a standing ovation as he left the field.

January signing Rowe, who impressed at Rotherham last week, quickly moved to the right wing with Town now playing 4-4-2.

Dominic Samuel took over from Ward for Town on 70, while Rhodes and Fernando Forestieri came on for Fletcher and the injured Wallace.

Sears moved to the left of the Blues’ four-man midfield and almost immediately sent over a cross which Samuel headed wide at a tight angle at the far post.

But Wednesday had had the better of the half and in the 77th minute they went in front via a well-worked goal on the left. Bannan fed Pudil and his low cross was diverted past Bialkowski at the near post by Kieran Lee.

Sears was replaced by Kieffer Moore in the 85th minute, prior to Wednesday missing a golden opportunity to add to their lead, Forestieri missing his kick when played through on the right of the area.

As the game moved into its final couple of minutes with the Owls looking more likely to add to their lead on the break than Town were to equalise, sections of the Sir Bobby Robson Stand briefly began chanting ‘Mick McCarthy, we want you to go’.

In injury time McGoldrick won a freekick on the right having been fouled moments after a superb turn which left two Owls midfielders wrong-footed. The Town number 10 sent the ball into the area and after being flicked on was met at a tight angle by Huws, whose effort flew behind.

Soon after the final whistle was greeted by a huge cheer from the visiting fans and boos from the home support.

Subsequently the Town players received applause from their fans with keeper Bialkowski in particular responding in kind after what could be his last game at Portman Road with a number of clubs having made enquiries in January.

A relatively small number of fans stayed behind for the subsequent traditional lap of appreciation and while most applauded, there were chants aimed at McCarthy from some in the Sir Bobby Robson Stand.

"The result, Wednesday's sixth win on the trot, was a fair reflection of a not hugely entertaining game overall with Wednesday having been much the better side in the second half after a more even first period.

Wallace came close with his strike off the woodwork and Lee’s winning goal was very well worked, while Town never really threatened after the break.

As well as seeing Town to their first back-to-back defeats of the season and their first reverse to Wednesday since 2012, the result was manager McCarthy’s first defeat to the Owls since a League Cup defeat while Millwall boss back in 1995 and his first ever in the league.

The loss was the Blues' first at Portman Road since the 3-0 defeat to Derby on January 31st, meaning Town's home record this season is won eight, drew 10, lost five.

Town will end their season at Nottingham Forest next Sunday with the home side very much in the thick of the relegation battle, level on points with third-bottom Blackburn after losing 2-0 at QPR today.

Town: Bialkowski, Spence, Chambers (c), Berra, Kenlock, Skuse, Huws, Ward (Samuel 70), Lawrence (Rowe 64), McGoldrick, Sears (Moore 85). Unused: Gerken, Pitman, Dozzell, Moore, Emmanuel.

Sheffield Wednesday: Westwood, Hunt, Pudil, Lees, Loovens (c), Bannan, Lee, Wallace (Forestieri 70), Reach, Fletcher (Rhodes 70), Hooper (Semedo 80). Unused: Wildsmith, McManaman, Sasso, Nuhiu. Referee: David Coote (Nottinghamshire). Att: 19,000 (Owls: 2,003).

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lightingblue added 22:01 - Apr 29 lightingblue added 21:58 - Apr 29 As big bad Mick says. 'We haven't been good enough at home'. Please add the away part to that as well. Not rocket science. Play crap, lose games, raised ticket prices, limited entertainment= downward spiral= lose of revenue due to fans not going and lack of corporate deals = relegation= a Leyton orient situation. If it is a business (albeit I've limited knowledge of running a business of any size) I can't see the company strategy moving forward and making money which from my understanding is what a business is about, but as part of the company ethics/ethos you have to keep these to maintain and enhance to move forward and expand the company. What's the plan. Please educate me, I'm willing to learn and listen as knowledge is wonderful. I would like to know where does mr Evans see Ipswich town fc in 5,10 or 15 years times. I like to think that most people associated with the club in any capacity at any level are not greedy, and we appreciate we are possibly never going to be of the caliba of Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea in the modern football world. All we ask is direction and what's the the plan going forward. At present it's hard to see the his for most fans in all due respect to th m including myself. We need this plan in black and white. Personally I do,appreciate what Evans has done for the club financially, but there gets to a point where mr Evans needs to,come out and make himself the face of the club. With the last ke of Milne there I think most people have have worked out that his the puppet part of the show. It's a bit like Mugabe in Zimbabwae. The dictator has lost the plot and is being badly mismanaged. What you think guys

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Bert added 22:07 - Apr 29 Should MM go, yes but would Evans give a new manager any more money no. Have I renewed yes because it's in my blood and it can only get better. Are posters who do not attend games given any credence, no. If you can't stand MM stay away please but let others support their team.
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MicksZzzTactics added 22:26 - Apr 29 Ahhh Darn it! I suffered a very brief moment of seemingly uncontrollable TWTD "relapse", this after contemplating today's undebatably unacceptable and fan-deterring but hey thus truly "classic" for a MM lead team :-) utter dross performance in this the for days proclaimed biiiig biiiig PR & inferred important to the fans final home-game of 2016/2017! So since I'm logged in anyway heck I might as well contribute with some vintage MZT darkly humored and/or controversial but always fairly factual anti-MM inputs: Firstly some very distinct and not the least hyper SYMPTOMATIC characterization of wunderschön wunderscön entertaining + full-value-for-your-hard-earned-money "DINO BALL anno 2013-2017" on this here always detailed page's **non-rosytinted & non-sugarcoated** match report: https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1085295/ STRENGTHS: * "Team has no significant strengths!" (LMAO!!! Although classy goal-keeping has regularly been listed here during the course of the season due to perennial MOTM candidate King Bart) WEAKNESSES: * "Were poor at finishing!" * "Lost possession often!" (Momentarily forgetting all about the positive ABERRATION, repeat ABERRATION, that was Newcastle on SBR Day.... ehmmm these 2 descriptions (along with the also fairly often appearing here: "Too much [clueless] back- and sideways- passing!") do sound awful awful hyper familiar under MM don't they know? :-) rofl STYLES: Although we are widely known or feared if you like :-) as with the self-perceived football genius MM at the helm being largely 1-dimensional and having only 1 real viable plan ('A') there were however several mentioned 'styles' on the match report for this particular ITFC performance (exactly as there atypically were in the aforementioned Newcastle contest) but what hmmm blatantly stands out this time around -- as it has done innumrous times before during the last 4+ excruciatingly dull MM years -- is not surprisingly once again this one here * "Favored long balls (aka vintage MM & TC advocated: HOOF!, HOOF!, HOOF!)" Aye pretty much everything is back to it's fan-deterring "dinosauric normal" once again, I dare say! HiHiHiHi Alas people ... clearly Mick not only still "knows" :-) lol ...but Mick for Mayor!!! :-) lol

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StochesStotasBlewe added 22:26 - Apr 29 So off i trundled to the bus stop to catch the number 15 to Town, went to the bank to pay in this weeks takings, had a very swift pint, got into the Sir Alf at 2.50 & took my seat in what looked like a sparse crowd (Owls fans in big numbers mind). Sat through another turgid display in which nothing much happened. Left at the final whistle without so much as a backward glance. Whilst waiting for a number 15 bus, a gentleman said "that was sh#t", he then informed me he had been to every home game for the last 31 years, but that was his last match & had cancelled his season ticket. I felt sad for him. Caught the number 15 home, Mrs Pinewood took the p#ss a bit, sat in my chair, poured a beer, e mailed the club to inform them i would no longer be a season ticket holder, cancelled the direct debit, had a few hours contemplation, have had a few more beers. I thought i would feel really sad, BUT I DONT. I,ll kind of miss the chaps who i,ve sat with, don,t know their names but we had some interesting discussions over the years. Watching the mainly dross these last few years has worn me down to the point i just can,t do it anymore... Will try to take in a few games here & there next season & who knows, a change in manager/ownership may inspire me to renew in the future, but can,t see that happening too soon. The fishing rods will be getting much more use from now on.

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MicksZzzTactics added 23:04 - Apr 29 Secondly, did all of you ANti-MM'ers in particular read the quite thought provoking EADT/IS pregame article on the subject of that awesome-to-be :-) 'Fan Appreciation Lap', which sadly for ehmmm quite recognizable "NON obvious" reasons :-) (find out exactly what I'm alluring to by reading the whole BS-filled article yourself!) apparently was deemed either unimportant or unworthy to TWTD's esteemed members but oops! :-) of course nowadays also largely dominated by a large group of fairly angry & hot-headed anti-regime members at that???!!! http://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/will-you-stay-for-ipswich-town-lap-of-appreciation-t Obviously you might have spotted it yourselves but anyway here is my unmistakably fuming '20 pence worth' to said BS-filled article: 1) Not only has the Dino generally speaking and with blatant obviousness been giving us the fans 'stick' and even with alarming regularity a unmistakable '2-fingers-up', ALL bloody season long! and btw while eagerly doing so more or less directly blaming us for "this and that" misadventurous thingie including apparently also being sooooooooo bad fans that we indirectly are to blame for some of the team's (read: HIS! as in HIS sovereign accountability!) flop results and failure to win particularly during that mind-boggling 1-victory-in-14 run?!, but ADDITIONALLY: 2) It's only a very short time ago -- in his delightfully impudent warmup to the SBR Day & Newcastle game -- that the Dino made earth-shaking negative **FA history** by referring to those many thousands of his team's fans who still bothering to turn up fort this special 'SBR Day' event or just league games in general i.e. the paying ITFC fans, as them "F@CKERS"!!! 3) Furthermore, innumerous reports from those who in the very next game traveled all the way to Rotherham spending a considerable amount of £ in the process ---- only to be presented with a utter disrespectful RESERVE team (i.e. 9 overboard changes from Monday's best performance of the season!) which btw went on to lose & also be held goal-less against an already relegated toe-cringingly poor and especially diabolical poor defensive team (97 goals conceded) ---- have stated here and elsewhere that the mighty "Good" Dino + several of the players too actually, didn't even **BOTHER** to acknowledge + applaud the travelling fans afterwards???!!! 4) ....and YET Mr. Mick "Ohhh I so wish that enough of my perceived 'xxxcellent top 10 finishes' some day will get me knighted like Sir Bobby!" McCarthy has the ultra provoking & deluded audacity to finish off this the very latest complete **BS** interview with saying: “The fans have been GREAT (???!!!) ehhhh given the season we've had and we need to give them something to smile about." WTF????????????? YOU UNSCRUPULOUS IRISH FLIP-FLOPPER!!! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME, ONCE AGAIN!!! [READ: TAKING A BY NOW WELL POST THE-EARLY-BIRD-SHOWING-OF-A-NOTABLE-DECLINE-IN-SEASON-TICKETS-SALES PURELY PUBLIC RELATION DRIVEN **PIZZ** ...DIRECTLY AT ME & YOU THE ITFC FAN]!!! ---- But otherwise I'm of course 'officially' still on that loooong Siesta (as I'm generally still feel overwhelmingly beyond fed up with just about EVERYTHING relating to Marvelous Marcus's circus known as Ipswich Town FC incl. the highly fickle-mind susceptible and simply too biased prone ol TWTD!) so you few but truly dear to my heart semi-starving "MZT groupies" :-) simply have to wait for those more regularly appearing image trickeries + novella-like TWTD rantings of mine to return at the very earliest on the likely prescription drugs needed depressing unfolding of next season's "breathtaking & ambitious" ITFC campaign ........... or ehmmm more likely to right AFTER the dreaded Dino say "accidentally" slips -- in for instance either of these exotic sounding **booby-traps** A) semi-melted mango & kiwi Italian Granita ice cream; B) Diabolical disguised freshly laid yellowish puppy poo; c) Super slippery Dominican imported extra huge plantain peels; all rumored to repeatedly be strewn around the Kent countryside and in the local vicinity of MM's posh Bromley residence by an ehmmm quote: "Still unidentified intimidatigly big & 6.5 ft severely disgruntled looking ITFC scarf wearing man in his late 40's" -- and **VOILA** literally 'falls off some (Kent) cliff'!!! And hmmm subsequently sustains hopefully only non-too-severe trauma to the ol prehistoric coconut of his, but nevertheless head trauma rendering the immaculate Mr. Mick McCarthy forever "MEDICALLY INCAPACITATED" of ever managing any football club ever again ...........all God forbid OF COURSE!!! :-) but darn it! giving the fact that Marvelous Marcus seemingly didn't have neither the 'cohones' nor the 'petty cash' to fire the Dino after the double Lincoln embarrassment, nor during the 1-victory-in-14 beyond ultra unacceptable run by his favorite 'proper blokes' and perhaps most alarmingly nor after MM referring to and calling the teams' fans "F@CKERS"?! .... well then I'm sadly as good as dead certain he will thus never ever elect to directly fire him under any circumstances!!! Rather I've a well-founded nagging suspicion that media-shy Marvelous Marcus basically find's Mick, his brotherly-like super deluded style and his lame willingness to Get By on practically no or very small transfer funds soooo freakin' cozy for his Scrooge-like inner self but especially for the all embracing **Corporate Tax Deductibility Purpose** of him owing ITFC in the 1st place!!! that he might very likely offer to timely exercise that 2 year extra option on Mick's contract regardless of how we as a club really fair in the standings in the 2017/2018 season! UHUUU! And if Evans indeed winds up doing so i.e. extending the unpopular Dino to 2020..... UHUUU! Well then right freakin' there good Ipswich Town loving folks lies imho a perfectly genuine proper manuscript & plot to ehmmm that much talked about but still yet to be released would-be-blockbuster 'SCARY MOVIE 6' if you ask me! :( :(

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MicksZzzTactics added 23:11 - Apr 29 Ohhh PS: If you happen to be a real compulsive Betting Man, ehmmm then here is an true 'insider tip' for you: Please hurry up down to your nearest Ladbrokes or equivalent and 'Bet the Farm' i.e. the 3rd mortage is it??? or else your 2nd wife's High-Street-TV jewelry or if you are real cruel then your kid's or grandkid's 'Special Limited Edition encrusted I-Phone 7 ....or what have you! :-) :-) on that above mentioned yet to be identified "someone" laying out those ment For-MM-Only highly slippery prone "booby traps" around Bromley and the Kent countryside ....being none other than yours truly MZT! lol Just "kidding" dearest Phil & Co, just "kidding" ...wink -) wink -)

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ArnieM added 23:19 - Apr 29 can't be arsed to read your posts mate.
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Elizabeth added 23:39 - Apr 29 Penultimate game of the season and another disappointing result. Whatever the masses are calling for unfortunately is not going to happen . It would cost the club far too much money for MM to go ! We can only hope that the necessary investment is made available next season to bring in some quality players to give us a chance of competing for a top six place. Enjoy the summer ! 🌞🌞

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Minneapolis_ITFC added 01:59 - Apr 30 Have seen zero by way of today's "action" or available game highlights but fan response provides a good enough analysis. Feel genuine sympathy for the season ticket holders and those who religiously travel to see the team play and are invariably subjected to sub-standard displays and one score and performance of inadequacy that follows another. Star attraction of the last weekend would appear to be "who can we send down to League One". Mick McCarthy may as well respond to Nottingham Forest at the earliest opportunity and put across their league status is safe for another year, there will be little in the way of effort when we face them in the final game. Needless to say, PLEASE resign and F--- off this summer - taking Marcus Evans with you if at all possible as you make your way out. These two "individuals" (for want of better words) have put this club so far behind in recent years it's going to take substantial time to ever get back anything like our previous stature.

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ormey75 added 02:11 - Apr 30 Have we still got the same dugouts/ since the 80s,? Need to spend some money on the stadium, it's looking crap in places
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dirtydingusmagee added 07:05 - Apr 30 Mickszzz do you wear a curly white wig and black gown lol .Whilst I recognise you are as pissed off as I am ,im finding your posts too rambling to follow, lighten up a bit ,lol.
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Dorsetblue added 08:28 - Apr 30 If as some have put it "I'm talking s**t. I'm not a MM in or out person, but just pointing out it's not all his fault, Mr Evans has a lot to answer for and by his inaction he does not care as the debt is being used to reduce the tax bill. So maybe point more of a finger at the owner would also be useful, the set up does not work and the club needs to restructure. Why did I say watch out for you wish for, we'll look what happened to Wolves, Bolton, Sheffield united, even Norwich all big clubs who went down and even being Ipswich doesn't mean we would bounce right back. The game we held them for most of the game, but a lack of supply to the front is the issue, going back does not work. I love the fact people say get burley back, just remind me why we fired him? How good has he been since? Who would want to come to a club with no budget and we are no longer a big club. MM like everyone has a contract like us all, so would you leave your job for free? No so stop moaning and support the club.the club is only the important thing, but rather than support you don't renew and complain. The truth about our club is the owner does not care and unless things change this will happen with whoever is in charge, no money means loan players who don't care. Always looking on the brightside at least Norwich who spent money screwed it up.

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bluescoles added 08:52 - Apr 30 I think the majority of people here will be happy not coming home and away and doing other things ,like fishing.Personally I am happy for you to get on with not coming and not supporting the team and not renewing your season tickets if you promise to stop ranting on with your negative rude and pointless comments so I can get on with supporting my team.
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grumpyoldman added 08:59 - Apr 30 Dorsetblue, Bolton finances messed up, Sheffield United deteriorated over a number of years, Wolves similar, Norwich got fid of a manager, took a risk on a young manager and had short term limited success. How does using those examples back up your statements? Who picks the team ?who chooses the tactics? who chooses the subs? who sets the team's philosophy? who perseveres with out of form players? who says he will give youth a chance then at the first opportunity drops them in favour of his regulars?

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dirtydingusmagee added 09:47 - Apr 30 Dorsetblue I agree with a lot of what you said,however,fans pay a lot of money to go to and watch games.Since midway through 15/16 the crap we have all had to endure is not acceptable ,With respect everyone who puts money into the club IS the club, and we should be able to vent our anger and frustrations at Evans and McCarthy if vocal protests are ignored it leaves little option than to boycot the games. as I have done for past season ..McCarthy is just marking time ,if he really wanted more money to spend he would stand up for himself and try and prove how ''brilliant'' he is.Instead he go's along with Evans's shackles dragging club down ,and his own ''reputation ''.

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MicksZzzTactics added 10:34 - Apr 30 @ArnieM (plus indirectly all those who felt "strangely" :-) inclined to upvote you regarding my posting) No problemo whatsoever mate... as always I subscribe to "each to his or hers own"! :-) The Internet is literally stuffed with chat-boards of ALL sorts (meaning not just those covering sports, but political, environmental, health ones etc. etc.) where a substantial number of it's jolly participants (but in my personal experience most predominant in the hillbilly infested US) either basically can't GRASP or simply muster the imho fairly smallish amount of MENTAL CONCENTRATION required (i.e. thus often succumbing to just replying "can't be bothered" or "can't be arsed" or similar lol) to read more than say a maximum of 10 lines! ... but preferably no more than 5 lines! And while I has always somewhat reluctantly silently accepted that I have nevertheless also in some more recurring and/or ill-mannered cases countered back to those folks with this following little personal "doctrine" of mine: I actually feel genuinely sorry for you lot possessing these should we gently call them "literary limitations" lol NOOOOO! certainly not because you simply opt not to read some of my more long-winded silly prone ITFC related chat ramblings :-), but entirely because if 5 to 10 lines IN GENERAL is your personal absolute maximum 'literary capacity'..... well then my good man or woman then I'm sorry to inform you that in the vast majority of cases that person will hence practically NEVER EVER 'Broaden Their Horizon' on the current **objective** state of whats generally 'Going On', particularly 'unofficially' & 'behind the scene', on Planet Earth!!! And ohhhh additionally neither will such a person be very likely to not only ever broaden their overall delightful 'intellect' but nor broaden any specific knowledge or ** detailed** insight into any specific matter, especially complex matters!!! Nothing real personal of course but rather JUST unmistakably sad indeed if you ask me .... but especially in this Day & Age is a much more widespread trend isn't it now as you obviously also see this phenomena among the current very young 'Smartphone Generation' (say particular the 10-25 year old) who overwhelmingly "can' be arsed" or allegedly "find the time" to neither read a real good book let alone read a real newspaper! ehmmm seemingly all due their OCD obsession with constantly fiddling with their smartphones... and if not that then their shiny Playstation 4 gaming consoles or state-of-the-art PCs at home! But alas as I stated earlier: Naturally "each to his and her own" as the saying goes.

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Lightningboy added 11:13 - Apr 30 McCarthy sounded like a dead man walking in his interview on C5 last night...like a man who has no love for this club whatsoever,just waiting to be fired/paid off. Between them they have to come to a mutual agreement and put everyone out of their misery otherwise next season will be a disaster.
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VulpineBlue added 11:59 - Apr 30 Bluescholes, Dorset, I respect your views but please don't call me a 'rude moaner'. Any criticism I have made I feel is well founded and in line with many who sat around me for years before I started my boycott last September. (At least 2 of these guys had held season tickets since the mid seventies, and I understand that they have not renewed either. Though I have not renewed I remain a shareholder. I really, really hope that things change and that joi d'vivre returns to Portman Road, & the stance I have taken has not been easy. l simply feel that my continued support for the current regime will only further damage the club. If you want regime change then you have to withdraw your support for that particular regime. It is the regime and not the club from which I have withdrawn my support.

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blueboy1981 added 12:25 - Apr 30 Too disillusioned with everything associated with Portman Road to make any further comment. Just glad the season is virtually over - like many others no doubt.
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blueboy1981 added 12:45 - Apr 30 ......... and still some appear 'happy' with this complete state of flux .... !!!!! Absolutely SPEECHLESS that they call themselves real supporters.
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Bert added 13:01 - Apr 30 So Norwich and others went down to League One and still got near capacity crowds. That's what I call support. Pity that most on here do not get it that whilst m any of us want MM to go we will still support the club we grew up with. Change comes from within not outside so pointless thinking that by not renewing you are doing something good. I would not expect any balance from hardened outers who now swamp this site as their sad hobby. Follow the example of others and support your club when the chips are down.

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Seasider added 13:16 - Apr 30 This game has confirmed to me that the performance against Newcastle was down to Bobby Robson as much as Mick McCarthy,as was the extra 10,000 crowd. Yesterday saw an ok first half performance but what subs for Wednesday,which turned the game!It shows that unless something is done in the close season we will never be able to challenge for the Premiership under Evans and McCarthy. In the 2nd half it was as you were with Ipswich looking toothless and second best to a far superior side. Back to a couple of chances,backs to the wall;with the midfield over run. I do hope that McCarthy goes,and wouldn't be sorry to see a change in ownership;but fear that neither will happen,and the decline will continue.

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MicksZzzTactics added 13:37 - Apr 30 Very Well said @Vulpine Obviously I too (as a now turned "Boycotter") still support the club just as I've done for about 40 years, as well as most of of those currently wearing the once proud 'The Shirt' (although like many of you I do maintain that several among the current exclusively MM signed, picked & "cultivated" CROP :-) isn't really worthy or simply skillful enough for this level to be wearing I though!) .....but also much like @Vulpine I simply cannot and will not allow myself to continue to compromise my own deeply held moral etc. principles and thus bring myself to ever again -- in ANY way or form, but especially the monetary one! -- show support for this current overall utterly indifferent & vastly fan-disrespecting regime! Particularly said regime's 2 megalomaniacal ornamental like 'figureheads' of course with both being inherently OBNOXIOUS human beings at their very respective core .... and the many many reasons for labeling them as such doesn't''t need any more repeating here on me thinks!!! As well as in the case of of ME while supposedly a very shrewd Business Man (based on his alleged £ 700 mill or there about worth) then certainly also an unfathomable unsound & Football CLUELESS clown! ...... and in the case of MM due to his all-embracing prehistoric outlook on how the game should be played (and tried to be won or "nicked" rather!!) and it's paying customers entertained, all this in this the later half of the 2nd decade of the bloody 21st century! then the very equivalent of an unfathomable unsound & 'Modern Day' Football INCOMPETENT clown! Period.

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mg415 added 13:41 - Apr 30 Bert in my opinion you are missing the point I would rather watch ITFC playing good football in league 1 than this dross in the Championship Every supporter has to choose what they wish to do I respect your decision but you can hardly criticize others who have after years of boring hoofball have had enough.Maybe they love ITFC more than you, and cannot watch their beloved club as they care so much. ? True supporters need to be entertained with good football, not just results. We have chosen not to renew while this type of football is played. I do not care who is the manager it is the lack of quality football and boring tactics that I hate You are no more a true supporter than those that decide to cancel their season ticket. My guess is the stadium is going to fairly empty.Which is very sad.

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MicksZzzTactics added 14:57 - Apr 30 PS: An little purely friendly (of course) advice: Get a "LIFE" matey!!! Or if that seems way too complicated for you then how about just returning to Maravillosa España, and proceed to immediately seek professional help at the ... hmmmm ... nearest local Exorcist! :-) lol
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