Blue and true - I was joking.
The Keane and Jewell years were the most unhappy of my 36 years as a town fan. I am a fan of Mick and last season aside I have enjoyed his tenure. I like the players he has bought in and the straight talking. In my opinion and based on my group of friends the thing keeping people away is the cost of tickets.

BlueMachines - rubbish

Interesting comment from MM in the EADT today. Naming only Kenlock, Downes and Nydam. The moment they drop their guard and do less than they were doing they are out on their earhole. Wonder if he would apply the same principle to his favourites. I don't think so. Last season proves that. Plenty of them should have been dropped or rested.
Youngsters will always make mistakes. Beatty and Wark did and they didn't end up bad players did they? Give me a young player with talent who get you off your seat, like Celina and Lawrence anyday as opposed to someone who runs around, look good on the stats, but doesn't have an end product. OK we are doing well on points but it doesn't have to be at the expense of entertainment. Nothing I saw on saturday makes me want to renew my season ticket any time soon.

So nothing has changed this season, MM cannot see why the crowds are down, as one of those who abstain from attending PR, I will try to inform him. Why would I pay the costs to sit in a stadium devoid of atmosphere watching a boring spectacle when I could spend money in other more entertaining pastimes. Even shopping with the wife is a better option. He has split the supporters into two main factions, those who enjoy the status quo and believe anybody who wants change is not a true supporter, even calling them budgies and those who would rather take a risk and try something new. I personally fall into the latter, some say a young manager would take us down, but name our most successful managers, Robson, Ramsey & Burley all young unproven managers. Jewell, McCarthy both have experience but were and are stuck in their ways.

How about you stop picking 7 at the back ( keeper 5 defenders and Skye's before anyone asks what the hell) at home to team bottom of the table with 2 points ?? ( I kno u changed it at half time but wtf were u doing matching Bolton up on the pitch ??? It's friggin Bolton ffs)

How about you start the most exciting player in our squad who makes defenders scared and turn back to their own goal rather than blame the fact he didn't train till Thursday ( nor did Chambers) I appreciate he won't be the right choice for every game but Bolton at home come on Dino !!!

How about you stop the inane drivel every week of telling us how brilliant the opposition are, how they have world beating players and how their league position is false just to make your boring ground out a result point look better than it was.

How about you stop criticising the fans who pay your wages.

We are all over the moon with the start we've made but let's be realistic Muck. We've played ONE good team and they wiped the floor with us. 2-0 was an embarrassing score line for them. We did well to get 0. This is not a fan who can't be pleased moaning when we were at the bottom and still not satisfied. This is a realistic observer who can see that we've been outplayed in periods in every match and only entertained when you were forced by injuries into picking four forwards. I'm not saying we should be gung ho but your football is still sh1t and when you come out with statements like " I'll take the horrible wins" you're not going to get the fans back.

I keep hoping you will learn from your mistakes but no. Wolves at home last season. 6 defeats in a row without scoring. Turned up at PR and there we were 7 at the back. Result 0-0. And you said it was great result. You said this season would be different yet 7 games in at home to Bolton you do it again.

I can't wait for the day you're gone and we have a bright young attacking minded manager with fresh ideas and vision.

Until then we soldier on but don't expect people to like it or come rushing back because you've bored them for too long.

Agree Terryf.One of McCarthy's several bad traits.

He is effusive in his praise of Skuse,especially this week;never criticises him,Chambers or Knudsen;but when others like Celina or Kenlock do well he is less complimentary,and qualifies this with criticism.Cant think this helps the morale of those who are not the 'special ones'

There you have it, straight from the horses mouth! You can stick your entertainment up your a***! 'But we have got abit of something'.......tunnel vision I'd suggest !

So we could get a young progressive manager and get promoted! Ops, sorry, is that too positive ????

What a complete joker McCarthy is. If course it's his fault the attendances are so low, it's the dire football he serves up! Glad I'm not part of the happy clappy we love mick brigade. Soon he goes the better.

Very true comments from the beat, especially the one about ruining Sears career. McCarthy should be ashamed of the way he's done to that player!

A lot of fans are staying away because of MM's turgid style of football for sure but in my opinion what has really done for the club is ten years of complete and utter mismanagement by Mr Evans.

In ten years he's managed to half our crowds and take the club from the heart of the community to being an overpriced laughing stock!

Its going to take a long time to encourage anyone but the diehards back to PR.

More concerning for me at least is that I remember being at the Swindon Game and to think that was nearly 19 years ago!
I seem to remember Mark Walters winding up the crowd but I can't remember why...I think maybe he dived to try and win a penalty

Swn98 I meant progressive not adventurous , simple question in reply to your usual ''snipe'', now ive corrected my post perhaps you will rejoin the thread and explain .

Prebbs,you too have nailed it !

I'm convinced McCarthy believes Ipswich Town FC is a dead club walking, and its his 'ugly' football tactics beating off the inevitable !

luckily we get the answer to the latter.

Evansblue - Irony? Really? Here? That's as audacious as a shot by Cole Skuse.

Dirty you know my views.

Dirty you know my views.

i know your views Swn98 ,but you made a statement , I just asked a resonable question in reply to it .,

Always try to play attacking football Mick, that's what I believe the supporters want to see, also please tell Mr Evans that you have to be able to compete financially with other clubs, it does not please the fans when players like Tom Lawrence go to our competitors after serving us so well last season.

Play off places (could be higher) v solid unexpected start nice one (no one expect that after last year) division harder than ever
Perhaps stop the negativity to individual games will never with perfect team be perfect many teams would prefer our start (though board huggers will disagree)
Anyone to get ITFC out of here probable to up-down cycility but then who knows
However overinterpreting a low attendance v BW with 300 fans is Trump style #fakenews junkyism
Well some kind of ism - our ave gate plus sum about par really....
Typical non-story Twtd - jumped all over after a win and 5th.....

Think too many on here have unrealistic expectations. We aren't the big hitter some think we are, and have no divine right to be near the top. We have a manager who is definitely too honest sometimes with his opinions for his own good. He is a bit like marmite. There is a section of our support that have never taken to him from day 1 and always put a negative spin on whatever is said.
With the exception of last season he has delivered top 9 finishes on a budget of 16th-18th yet is an awful manager?? It's easily forgotten that with the previous 2 managers the common complaint was often a lack of effort. That is 1 thing that can't be labelled about this regime.
However because we are more resilient and dogged the price has been attractiveness of the football. The compromise therefore is position over style, bigger clubs and teams with greater resources have gone down or struggled badly over time while we have rarely had to look over our shoulder. So yes a change might mean a better style but we will be hard pressed to find a manager who will consistantly outperform the resources they are given and could easily end up in a new league and not the one we hope for.

Funny how it's Mick fault.......
Not the fact that football is too expensive and people can't really afford 3 or 4 games a month

next weeks game is a 5 pointer against leeds, we can go top with our game in hand after, then win the 2nd division before the end of February...we could be back in the 1st if all team members play to the standard of bart every game..lets do it..

Some of these comments about resign and leave, dino, when we are 5th in the league and if win our game in hand we're top are absolutely laughable.

So lets say these fans got their wish, Mick was sacked tomorrow. We got god knows who in, who tried to play open expansive footy and results were horrific.

Sure, short-term crowds would be massively up. However, say we were 19th but playing ' pretty to watch stuff with zero product ' would people still continue? Of course not.

I'd imagine many a club would happily swap positions with us right now.

Don't get me wrong, I've no idea how this season will go however I'm willing to find out. I don't live life in such a negative way to be able to say ' I told you this I told you that I knew it would go wrong '

Was fed up of these comments for the duration of the 14/15 season too. Unfortunately for these people, it didn't fall off a cliff and we came top 6 with on paper one of the worst midfield combinations available!