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Comment | Town Edge Closer to Al-Hamadi Signing
at 12:31:01
McKenna’s last two lower league strikers have lasted a few weeks and a few months before becoming ignored and sent on loan. Third time lucky maybe. |
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Comment | Gallagher Move Stalls
at 05:49:29
Not quite as expensive as Kayden Jackson, a bit more expensive than Ladapo. Might be cheaper and more effective to persevere with the players already signed to do the same job. |
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Comment | Kieran's Great Matter
at 09:02:14
Option 7 appears to be getting in a plethora of pointless loans in positions that wold appear to be well covered in the first place |
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Comment | "Your Dad's Not Proud of You"
at 08:11:27
Good read -it’s not long ago that friends supporting either tem could go together and not be herded away from where they wanted to go.. Segregation, jealousy and daft kick off times have all contributed to the problem of deranged idiots screaming abuse. Maybe the carpetbagger will try a few right-on USA initiatives… I’m sure this Neanderthal behaviours is c0mpletely alien to them. |
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Comment | I Take Your Point
at 07:13:14
Harking from north Suffolk I have never understood the ‘scum mentality’ that seems to have taken root in recent years. It presumably comes from a festering jealousy that Norwich have often been on an upward cycle this century whilst Town’s recent trajectoryhas been largely downwards in the last 40 years - so Town supporters have only distant memories or nothing to sustain the through the lean years.
Having long since moved away I have no idea if there are people that regularly watch both teams which geography and the fixture list made much easier than going to away games and some good natured rivalry between friends who supported each team. Somehow I doubt it. The decline in spectator behaviour was rather embarrassingly illustrated by obsessive idiots shouting ‘scum, scum, scum’ at some geriatrics in a car - and the absurd reaction of posters on here seeking to justify such pitiful and embarrassing behaviour. The odd kick off times have made a difference too
Enjoyable read though I’m not sure money levels the playing field = the relationship between league position and wage bill has remained constant into the money doping era. And I’d probably want Jennifer Lawrence and Margot Robbie for my dream date as Grace Kelly is no longer available. |
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Comment | Chirewa Joins Wolves
at 16:19:54
Franchise football has no time for youth development. Nor it seems do many franchise followers. |
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Comment | Burgess: A Huge Honour
at 07:00:21
Another wholehearted player that the deluded franchise followers want out. More signings!!! |
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Comment | Opposition Preview - Stoke City
at 14:41:04
Davis ‘ked the press a lot down the left hand side’? He’d get more publicity if he can take the TV pundits with him for this one. |
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Comment | Club Introduce International TownTV Subscription
at 07:50:35
£170 for some shamateurish ramblings about a franchise and some match coverage of second rate football? And franchise followers appear to be as happy as Larry. Well done those chancers for squeezing more cash out of their franchise. How about a special Town TV shirt? |
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Comment | Town Make Companies House Filings
at 10:11:56
‘Adding value'. Inflating the share value of the club, diluting their worth by making them non-voting - and looking around for mugs to buy them. |
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Comment | Then or Now?
at 08:09:25
I’m quietly intrigued about the love in with the new ‘owners’. - which as far as I know still includes Marcus Evans after recent share issues to cover the massive operating losses as ‘value’ is added to the club. I wonder if any of the current crop of franchise followers ever travelled on a Blue Arrow train. To my mind that summed up the relationship between supporters and the club in bygone era when the club represented Ipswich and Suffolk, rather than a profit opportunity for outsiders. To continues the rail theme, sometimes for a match against London clubs, you might be on the same train as the players and manager - who were left in peace in their compartments on those old diesel trains that seemed to work, even when there were leaves on the line. As a supporter of what used to be Ipswich Town FC I find it bizarre that buying promotion out of the third division - beating some once good but now skint clubs to second place at a cost of £20 million is seen as a huge achievement. Big Dunc might have done the same at Forest Green given the same head start. People like to follow a winning team nowadays rather than a team - and the internet makes communication and belonging’ very easy and potentially very profitable. The motives are chalk and cheese. The Cobbolds were charming figureheads who left the club to be run by some people who cared deeply about the club. I doubt anyone remotely considered Ipswich ‘a big club’ then because they weren’t - they were a successful club punching above their weight - just as they have become an unsuccessful club punching below their weight now. The second division is every bit as curious and eclectic mix as the third division - with the likes of Luton, Coventry and Sunderland showing you dont need very much to get in the promotion mix iin an era when a mediocre 6th place gained fortuitously on the last day of the season might well do. I see the most recent blogs are a shopping list of players to be signed to replace the 30 odd signed in the last two years. You can’t get a better example of the radical difference between then and now. No sense of loyalty to players who are now simply commodities to be bought and discarded on the alter of money doping. Quite sad really to those that recall football as a competitive sport - and ‘little Ipswich’ |
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Comment | Blues Boss McKenna ‘On Celtic Radar’
at 10:15:20
Surely any of these clubs would be more likely to target the Plymouth manager who did a bit better with £20million less. |
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Comment | A Look at Potential Transfer Targets: Defenders
at 08:54:02
given the experience of last season perhaps you should be looking to pen a blog on January signings to replace August signings. A tough ask before the revolving door twirls this summer - but last season’s January arrivals were repeat offenders in the loan market - so could be attempted with some accuracy. |
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