RevidgeBlue

Ive heard the phrase "I want a Club to be proud of" a number of times from Herbie and others on here recently. I dont think I would even put it that high. Id like to see a Club that is TRYING. Everyone makes mistakes and doesnt get everything right. Nor is there a divine right to success. However if I thought I saw a Club that I thought was once again acting in good faith, TRYING to win football matches, TRYING to be successful and didnt appear to view it's supporters like something they'd just stepped in on the pavement................... Id take that compared to what we have now.

You didnt bring anyone down with your beautifully written post. I suspect for many the thread has also provided a valuable outlet for a cathartic outpouring of grief.

Do we need all these keepers at different levels? (Genuine question as I dont know)

I respect your opinion but for £5m + Id be starting the car now. Maybe even £3m - £4m. I can't see even our lot selling Toth AND Pears. Hopefully we manage to offload Pears for around £1m and can bring in either a capable deputy or a young prospect whose career is on the upgrade.

How much do you think Toth would fetch if sold then? Edit: Not the most reliable guide I know but Ai and Transfer Market have his estimated value at £700 k. Id say that's a bit low but I wouldnt pay silly money for him.

On either the loans or the Academy thread thought I read we had 1) Toth 2) Pears 3)Michaelowski 4) Goddard 5) Jack Barrett 6) A lad called Khan? (May have the name wrong but no-one seemed to rate him) plus maybe even one other? Apologies if Im wrong.

Not going to argue with anyone who says he's better than Pears and he's improved since he first arrived but imo he's not that good no. "Shit" is your term looking for confrontation not mine.

Makes sense. I think we only have about six keepers already on the books. As always linked with non starters or cheap squad fillers and never anyone who will actually significantly improve the starting X1. Edit: tbf just checked and he seems to have been out for a while having sustained an ankle injury during the play off finals. He wouldnt have to be particularly good to be an upgrade on either Toth or Pears.

I dont actually think it's a priority to challenge the non response to the letter, the longer it is ignored, the worse it looks on the Club. In response to your second point, I hope the boycott is a huge success from your point of view, but even if it is, I doubt it will achieve much in itself frankly. Sustained action over an extended period of time however might, and it all has to start somewhere and this is an ideal first step.

You've summed it up perfectly there in three and a bit lines. For me there's simply no point in wasting time and money actively following a Club whose only goal is to be "sustainable" (Pasha) or which says in February/ March when you're in the play off positions that the goal for the season was never actually making them but planning for the following season. (Gestede) All allowed by owners with no interest who couldnt care less.

So what's your solution? Give up and do nothing?

Nail, hammer, head.

"Whilst there's eleven players in blue and white on the swamp". Very good!

I dont doubt if VI left that he would be replaced by someone currently out of work - the question is could another out of work Coach possibly do any worse than this one (who was also out of work when we acquired him) Im still struggling to see how anyone could. Perhaps people like winning at home 4x per season or scoring twice every six hundred and odd minutes or something.

We'll score nil, just a question of if/how many Ipswich score "Exciting times" indeed.

Not wishing to defend the owners but Pasha doesnt live 5000 miles away nor the Head Coach who said they could fix the pitch in lieu of signing players. The Club is rotten to the core.

The usual. Identifying players we can't/refuse to pay for. Cracking work if you can get it.

At the moment unless decent money is spent before the end of the window it's looking like the transfer budget for this season is/was minus £2m. (The net position in summer) Bearing in mind we've only bought in a nil cost loan so far and seemingly had to shift Gueye before seeing any movement on the striker front.

Gone for an afternoon at the races to blow his signing on bonus.

That original post would be ideal for the LT if they had the cajones to print it - which they won't.

Well, we've no substantive transfer links to talk about so might as well carry it on. Fun fact: Gueye scored the same number of goals last season as Luke Varney did between 2014 -18. (Six) Reg Varney would have been better. "Get that bus out Butler".

Exactly. " But who would come in?" " But who would buy us?" etc.....

No idea. Scott Wharton? Gallagher?

I think it was Eddie who absolutely nailed Gestede in a podcast about there only being a limited window of opportunity to reinvest due to FFP rules. Gestede couldn't answer that and merely kept repeating a lame excuse about how the transfer budget for the year was unaffected no matter how many sales were made. Which is utterly bizarre when you think about it.

There's some mental gymnastics going on there to try and shift blame away from Ismael. So what is it that makes you think he's doing a decent job? Because we're (currently) a few points outside the relegation zone? Will you change that view if he takes us down?