Ex-Town boss Paul Hurst says his sacking by the Blues makes him more determined to be a success elsewhere in the future, while it’s reported that new manager Paul Lambert was lured to Portman Road by a £10 million war chest.

Hurst’s 149-day Town reign was brought to a close at 3.30pm on Thursday via a 10-minute phone call from owner Marcus Evans. Assistant manager Chris Doig, fitness coach Nathan Winder and physio Chris Skitt also left the club.

“This only makes me more determined to be a success in the future,” Hurst told The Sun on Sunday. “Looking back now there are things I would probably change but I have no regrets.

“And now it’s time for me to sit by the phone again and hope that I get a different kind of call.

“When I get it I will be ready and I aim to make sure the experience with Ipswich will only make me better at my job.”

The 44-year-old added: “I don’t feel like I am damaged goods now. Sometimes you have to take a step backwards to go forwards and I have complete belief that I will become a top manager.”

We understand Town will pay Hurst a low six-figure sum to settle his contract, which was due to run until 2021.

Meanwhile, the The Sun on Sunday claims new boss Lambert, who was appointed yesterday on a deal also until 2021, was tempted to take the job at Portman Road by a £10 million January war chest.

While a sum of that size would be a huge surprise given Town’s approach in recent seasons, and owner Evans's much-vaunted Five-Point Plan, Lambert will certainly have some cash to spend during the transfer window as the bottom-of-the-table Blues look to avoid relegation to the third tier for the first time in 62 years.

Lambert, 49, is meeting the players and coaching staff at Playford Road for the first time today having watched yesterday’s dismal 3-0 defeat at Millwall along with his new coaching team, from left to right, first-team coach Matt Gill, assistant manager Stuart Taylor, Lambert and fitness coach Jim Henry. He will be unveiled to the media on Tuesday.

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bricor2011 added 14:26 - Oct 28 Hurst to get a low six figure severance settlement, not bad for making a complete and utter balls up of the job and there's people on here wishing him luck. He has had all the luck he deserves,good riddance to him and his sidekicks.
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martin587 added 14:32 - Oct 28 I agree with most on here,why should we feel sorry for P Hurst.He has left us in dire straights with his total incompetence and knowledge of the championship.He shipped out quality players without giving it a second thought. I don't like to see people out of work but he was a disaster and has ruined our club and most probably got a handsome payoff in the process. We have to get behind PL and give him our full support forget the Norwich connection and move on. As long as he does a good job he could come from Timbuktu for all I care.🤣🤣🤣

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bricor2011 added 14:43 - Oct 28 Just proves the saying,”you can always tell a Yorkshireman,but you can't tell him much”.
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RegencyBlue added 14:53 - Oct 28 I imagine he will get a job in League 1 or 2 fairly easily as he is proven at that level. After the fiasco here I don't see him in the Championship any time soon. Completely out of his depth and doesn't seem to get what he's done!
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brittaniaman added 14:55 - Oct 28 We knew Hursty was struggling, explains why he upgraded Chris Hogg to his first team coaching staff ?? I do not think Doig was very popular here, just little rumours floating about. Although that was no excuse for yesterdays Debacle.
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RIPbobby added 15:20 - Oct 28 The first thing the club needs is a solid centre forward of the ilk of Alan Lee and Daryl Murphy in order to give the centre half a tough game and hold the ball up. I think the likes of Harrison and Jackson can do a job at thus level around the right players. Lots of work to do.
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ronnyblue added 15:24 - Oct 28 I will be very surprised if Hurst manages, after the facts of his time at town emerge, anything above a pub side ! The man has destroyed the players who had been reasonably good by dividing the dressing room and being haphazard in his team selections and tactics! I am looking to lambert to correct these faults and establish a consistent system and form of team selection to enable the players to rediscover some confidence. If the players are going to be saving us they have to be encouraged not derided! He is gone now to recover from the nightmare!

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warktheline added 15:31 - Oct 28 Why should any Town supporter has an ounce of sympathy for Hurst, the league table doesn't lie, not do the far too many inept performances, thus using ‘poor rub of the green' isnt really viable! Hurst lost his ‘vision and the plot' early doors and failed miserably to deliver on what he promised upon the field of play ‘ it didn't do what was said on the tin'! Half baked ideas and succumbing to continually playing ‘McCarthy's undroppables' has cost him very dearly ( McCarthy was slaughtered for the very same! ) Hurst's incompetency, to date, has allowed ‘history to repeat itself' ( club's decline after long tenure by McCarthy )!!!!! In regards to ‘piggy bank'😂, if the ‘knock me down with a feather' actually happens, then McCarthy has every right to feel aggrieved and so would many ( including myself ) others, considering how he fought every point to take his ‘ragtag' team to play offs!!!!! I really don't buy into the ‘idea' the manager declined available funds!!!!

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BlueMachines added 16:20 - Oct 28 No regrets for coming in with Doig and being a couple of merchant bankers? Maybe that was the issue, too pig headed. I am really disappointed it didn't work out but I think a lot of blame can be firmly laid at your door Paul, along with bully boy Doig. Good luck with your next role, learn from the mistakes of this tenure.
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brendenward35 added 16:30 - Oct 28 I don't buy I to the 10m war chest utter rubbish. Evans wouldn't stump up few extra quid for Tilt and a decent striker so why would he change his policy. We shopped at poundland instead of John Lewis and got what we paid for cheap players not fit for purpose. We have to remember we are restraint on the fair play rules as well. I don't think Lambert will take any crap of Evan his not stupid.

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blueboy1981 added 16:42 - Oct 28 warktheline ......... What proof is there that McCarthy ever asked for funds ? - and never got them ? By not doing so he knew he was able to stay mid table, or thereabouts, and Evans would forever be content with that. It was the fans/supporters (including myself) that wanted more that boring, boring Football that was the next worst thing to watching paint dry. We know Evans has much to answer for as owner of this Club, not least of which is to decide how important this Club, and success is to him - but too date I have seen no definite evidence that he has refused a Manager funds as requested. What I have seen is an owner who appears maybe too easy on allowing Managers to literally 'do their own thing'. In so doing / being he was giving MM a meal ticket for as long as he wanted one - supporter (rightly so) pressure was the deciding factor in not letting the meal ticket roll on, and on. Had MM spent money - he would have been held accountable for more than achieving mid table mediocrity - whatever McCarthy was / is he certainly was / is no fool ..... !!

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LonE17Blue added 16:45 - Oct 28 Probably 10m for the whole of PL 3 year contract!
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shakytown added 16:49 - Oct 28 We really need to get some experience in now as January will be too late. Someone like Robbie Keane with oodles of class but a few years past it and the younger inexperienced players would learn how to play real football from this type of player running the team onfield and off.
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BecclesBlue500 added 17:22 - Oct 28 Dont fall for it!!! How can anybody who is prepared to spend £10m choose to do so to STAY in a division (that doesn't earn you much more than the one below) than spend £10m to get out (up) out of the division in the first place??? Doesn't sound like ME at all; so he's going to give Lambert £10m now? If he was/is prepared to inject that sort of cash at any time why didn't he do it in the summer?? He could have got Lambert then and kept some any/all of Garner, Waghorn, McGoldrick etc AND bolstered up the defence/midfield with 4 or 5 decent players and had a real good crack at promotion?? Who's going to join us in January when we'll in all likelihood be adrift at the foot of the table or certainly cemented in the bottom 3?? All we'll get are the O'Shea's/Wes Browns/Daryl Murphy's [sic] who are no good for the medium to long term anyway; they'll help us stay up (possibly) but we'll have the same problem next season with an aging, appetite-less squad. Just don't understand all this?

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rdibble added 17:25 - Oct 28 Lambert is the best we could get let's back him 3 wins in this crazy league and things won't look so bad Ipswich TIL I die
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inghamspur added 17:42 - Oct 28 Sad to say I think it's a lost cause already.
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OwainG1992 added 18:06 - Oct 28 10 million? Pull the other one.
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ITFCsince73 added 18:10 - Oct 28 Have we sacked the proper blokes yet? If not, then why the hell not!
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phantom added 18:37 - Oct 28 All very well the prawn sandhwich fans saying “well done paul sorry it didnt work out” fact remains im not suprised it didnt work out he was clueless at this level and quite frankly should go back to league two where clearly he at his level of management. And really 10 millon yeah if you look up yoo will see pigs flying across suffolk (rolls eyes) Town are going down FACT. I for one will be glad anything to try and force evans (who istill has an arrest warrant out for him in brazil) to sell the club. Evans was the worse thing to happen to ipswich we would have been beeter of in administration and took the 3 pts deduction that was avialble to us at the time. Ipswich town is full of prawn sandwich fans with no bottle to stand up and deal with our owner the real ipswich fans dont go to the games they know that their money is not funding this regime.

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rkl added 18:42 - Oct 28 £10m is not much in today's market. Hopefully there will be more than that for our new manager.
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warktheline added 18:59 - Oct 28 Blueboy me old mucker, totally accept McCarthy's tenure after play off achievements was 'paint drying stuff', but his first season avoiding relegation followed by a doggedly top six finish suddenly changed thereafter to 'complacent mediocracy'! No proof either way until the people involved maybe one day share 'pre season strategies' ! Whatever the scenario 'all have suffered' the consequences one way or another! ( long term ) . ' Allowing managers to do their own thing', that's one way to view Evans 'leadership', my stance on the owner 'differs'! In regards to 'money spent' its 'messy' and relates to his 'cluelessness'!

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TimmyH added 19:09 - Oct 28 I heard on the rumour mill that McCarthy was happy to work within the 'restraints' of Evans budget whilst here...no evidence of it mind you but when you factor in what McCarthy's wages were and that he received a £1M golden carrot for his efforts of keeping us up why should he push the boat out?
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Popeye added 19:46 - Oct 28 Hurst won't get a job at championship level again unless he gets a lower league club promoted. If it's true that Evans will give lambo £10m to spend in January tbh I think it will be too late as I think we will be in the deep brown stuff by then. Who will want to come to a club that's gonna be relegated to league one and you have to ask ME why he just didn't go for an experienced manager in the first place and give them cash and town wouldn't be in this mess, in fact if it is true then why didn't he give MM £10m to spend. One things for sure Lambo hasn't come here if he hasn't been made assurances about funds in January bcos I don't think he's desperate for a job. My only hope is he hates delia and nodge city with a passion and he's using that motivation to drive him and town to safety and next season push for top six. If he doesn't get the £10m then he does have experience of working at a club with fook all to spend (Col Utd)

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Tractorboy1985 added 19:49 - Oct 28 Couldn't speak to the paying public on a golf day so ‘nice man' he is not! Himself and his bully number 2 doig's tacitcs do not work at this level! Good riddance! Byyyeeeeeee 👋🏼
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Tractorboy1985 added 19:55 - Oct 28 So 80% on here say get him out.. worst manager.. terrible.. we sack him then it's so sorry Paul it didn't work our blah blah blah! The bloke was out of his depth from day 1.. bought in total dross and himself and Evans are to blame for our destined drop to league 1! Bloke was a tool! Players clearly felt the same and stopped playing for him after thee Exeter game! Prob see ya again next season thanks to your and Evans doing!

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