Spare  a thought

Mick MaCarthy  will be the new manager of Ipswich Town from today,

Ipswich are £60 million in debt, have 8 loan players on their books and the rest are crap,

He will have to be a miracle worker to turn turn things around,

Best of luck Mick , you will need it,

We could be playing Ipswich in the league in a couple of season.

The issues at Ipswich are certainly huge, through no fault but their own etc i presume but i must say they have remained relatively quiet...usually a club in the championship would have all its business well documented in the press.

Quoted from aldi_01

The issues at Ipswich are certainly huge, through no fault but their own etc i presume but i must say they have remained relatively quiet...usually a club in the championship would have all its business well documented in the press.

They owe it all to their chairman, a bit like us,

BUT

The plumber working at my house ( who is a big Ipswich fan )

Thinks he will pull the plug soon, demand his money back.

AND

Sell the ground,

Ah well !!!!!!!!!!!

"usually a club in the championship would have all its business well documented in the press."

An interesting observation and I suspect it's because no one further than 5 miles from Ipswich gives a monkey's about them. I bet most folks couldn't point Ipswich out on a map, let alone take an interest in their football team.
I live 25 miles away
They are my closest league team
........ I couldn't name you a single player

Quoted from AlfromBuryTown

"usually a club in the championship would have all its business well documented in the press."

An interesting observation and I suspect it's because no one further than 5 miles from Ipswich gives a monkey's about them. I bet most folks couldn't point Ipswich out on a map, let alone take an interest in their football team.
I live 25 miles away
They are my closest league team
........ I couldn't name you a single player

Thats because they are mostly loan players Al.

Another club who think they bigger than they actually are

Also another club that was once in the premier league and has been on hard times ever since...how many clubs in or have been in that league go into serious financial difficulty?

Remember going there first game of the season ,1.1 think Ian Walsh scored for us in the last minute. It was one of my first big away games , about 16 yrs old on one of two of Arthur's busses, well single decker GCT,s. To this day still one of the craziest away days ever.

Quoted from AlfromBuryTown

"usually a club in the championship would have all its business well documented in the press."

An interesting observation and I suspect it's because no one further than 5 miles from Ipswich gives a monkey's about them. I bet most folks couldn't point Ipswich out on a map, let alone take an interest in their football team.
I live 25 miles away
They are my closest league team
........ I couldn't name you a single player

I remember when I was at Marham in 98 watching on the local television station an interviewer asking people who would win the Norwich / Ipswich derby.  One of the lads she interviewed was a player and she had no idea who it was, it was indeed Kieron Dyer and his mate was laughing his head off.

Everyone seems to forget that Ipswich is one of the major reasons why points against were brought in for clubs going into administration.  A proud history but tainted with that new ground and facilities they could never afford to build.

Quoted from AlfromBuryTown

no one further than 5 miles from Ipswich gives a monkey's about them. I bet most folks couldn't point Ipswich out on a map, let alone take an interest in their football team.
I live 25 miles away
They are my closest league team

Never mind 5 miles - I can almost see the floodlights from my house and I don't give a monkeys, I have lived here 34 yeras and I have been inside Portman Road half a dozen times I suppose - five time to see the Mariners and once to a pre-season friendly against Willem II with a Dutch friend.

I have had season ticket holding neighbours for many years who have constantly taken the p!ss about the Mariners, more so now we are non-league (and likely to remain so for years to come I fear) so I am loving the problems Ipswich are having at the moment plus they paid the father of a mate of mine 10p in the £ of what he was owed when they were in admin.

The banana-hootered Yorkshire Irishman is welcome to the job - he'll fit in well

That said dropping to League 1 didn't do Norwich any harm at all

Quoted from grimsby pete

They owe it all to their chairman, a bit like us,

BUT

The plumber working at my house ( who is a big Ipswich fan )

Thinks he will pull the plug soon, demand his money back.

AND

Sell the ground,

Ah well !!!!!!!!!!!

I don't see that Pete - he might bale out but he'll not create any waves - he likes to remain un-noticed and avoids publicity. No one even knew what he looked like for 3 years!

Quoted from Ipswin

I don't see that Pete - he might bale out but he'll not create any waves - he likes to remain un-noticed and avoids publicity. No one even knew what he looked like for 3 years!

I was only quoting what Gary the plumber told me mate,

BUT

Agree with you about Marcus Evans, he likes to keep a low profile.

The new manager effect.

Yes, a win at Birmingham is a good start to try and change things. The debts will have less significance if the team is consistently winning.  

I never liked Ipswich as a club ,reason being they never used to bring many fans to Blundell park dispite us always taking loads there and them getting crowds 3-4 times that of us .Nowich always used to fill the away end mind  and thats about the same size club and the same distance to travel

Quoted from grimps

I never liked Ipswich as a club ,reason being they never used to bring many fans to Blundell park dispite us always taking loads there and them getting crowds 3-4 times that of us .Nowich always used to fill the away end mind  and thats about the same size club and the same distance to travel

I have lived in Suffolk for over 25 years and I have learnt two things,

1. Suffolk born people tend to marry one of their  family,

2. Suffolk born people do not like to leave their county.

I know people in my village who have never left Suffolk.

Why all this hating for Ipswich? It was always a well run club, until fairly recently, and one that regularly punched above its weight, playing great football and often beating much bigger clubs. I remember seeing them batter St Etienne 4-1 away, when I lived in Switzerland, in the UEFA Cup. One of their legendary performances in Europe. We've always done pretty badly away at Portman Road, though. I seem to remember a 4-1 defeat (or even 4-0?), among many excrement performances by Town there.