MANAGER’S REACTION: Jewell slams his players for ‘thinking they’ve made it’

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• Brian, I think Tom has contradicted himself a little, yes, although to be fair to Tom, I think it is because he is starting to see that all is not well at Portman Road, and having been quite critical of those who saw this earlier, he is in a position that he didn't expect to be in, and doesn't want to be in. Let me tell you Tom, I didn't want to be in the position saying that all of these things would happen, when I first did two years ago, yet here we all are. Tom also makes his points in a courteous manner, and whilst he and I are poles apart on the financial position at the club, I am sure we agree on many other points. By the way, even if we win, we will not be top six, due to the fact we have the worst goal difference in the division, and the nature of the fixtures.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, August 30, 2012

• Personally, I don’t mind football managers publically criticising players that didn’t give 100% effort in a game or follow instructions, as long as its fair criticism and justifiable; and the manager should know what each player is capable of. And of course, I would be disgusted if a manager unfairly criticized a player if they did give 100%. I was excited when PJ joined Ipswich but he hasn’t made the impact I was hoping for. I don’t know enough about football management to judge PJ’s management talent, but I surely you’d see a slow and steady improvement in a team’s performance over 12 months from a top manager, and I cannot see any significant from PJ in the past 18 months. I realise this is a pipedream, but I do wonder what sort of money a top manager would be after to manager ITFC (the likes of Rednapp), when you take into consideration the millions we’ve wasted on players over the past eight or so rubbish seasons; perhaps it’s time to stop buying players willy-nilly (that usually turn into disasters) and try and persuade the likes of Rednapp to join us and get the team going in the right direction. The thing I’ve admired about Rednapp over the years is his man management skills and his ability to attractbuy decent players; both which ITFC desperately need.

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  Metal head

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Tom - It would take a mathematical miracle for town to be in the top 6 Saturday on account of the fact that it is highly unlikely (if not impossible) for all the teams above them to lose or draw....I think the most likely result in any case is a draw.....As for Stephen Ellis you need to look a bit closer at the posts you are referring to...I believe I posted that it was too early to judge town (as I did yesterday) based on only a few results however welcome....This "negative" post was in contrast to redhotitfc for instance predicting a play-off berth and the pro Jewellites rounding on those of us who are not Jewell fans suggesting that the win over Watford was proof that he is the man for the job.....I didn't believe that then, didn't believe it when we were outclassed by Blackpool this season or Peterborough last seaon and still don't....And no amount of snide comments will make me change my long held opinion of our manager

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  bluearmy78

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Man management isn't his forte!

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  CasperF

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Old Timer, I take your point but I recall that Keane blamed Town fans, when they criticised his tactics after a run of defeats, for "not understanding the game", rather than take responsibility himself. It caused quite a stir at the time. I also recall he was openly critical of young players in the press (e.g. Garvan, Martin). I am also not sure that the numbers of posters on here is representative of the 18,000 or so Town fans, I mean, if you go on the TWTD site you get a more balanced view and that has many more posters. That said, I am broadly becoming frustrated with things, but I do realise that if we win on Saturday we'll be top 6, and who sacks their manager in that position?

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  Tom

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• At least Keane had a football brain and given the chance would have been a very good manager - I expect. The sad fact is that we have lost our way and don't appear to have the leadership quality to find a solution. Average players can become good players and form an outstanding winning team with the right management. Just look at the team of 6162 and others in our past to see the evidence.

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  Blue and true since 1962

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• I am spartacus don't think I have insulted anyone on here and I certainly don't scurry away that makes me sound like some sort of rat which I find very insulting unlike u I do post on here under my birth name not hiding behind some made up name enough said

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  stephen ellis

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Say what you like about Keane - & sad to see there are still some comments on here so long after his leaving - but he always accepted the blame himself & never tried to divert it to his players - he even said he would boo himself if he was a supporter following one match. The thing I would ask 'loyal' supporters to see is that they should read the comments on here & note that they are now outnumbered by the doubters by about 6 to 1. There are even negative comments creeping in from Tom & Cyril - & also allowing for the fact that many critical comments do not get past the moderator. The comments against Jewell are not nasty in any way but rather confirm a collective desperation of seeing our team being dragged down by managerial ineptitude.

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  Old Timer

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Boyd and Taylor are good additions, we've got to come back with a good win on Saturday to get us back on target. We could be top 6 by Saturday evening - the season is hardly over because of one terrible and one poor result. And PJ is going nowhere for the timebeing so the sooner you lot realise that the better.

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  Tom

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• and the ITFC site quotes prior to the Carlisle debacle: "BOSS READY FOR CUP TEST!" Yeah and with bells on....?

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  Blue and true since 1962

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• And now Carlisle!.....Don't slam the players - they are bought, trained and play under the direction of.....wait for it....THE MANAGER!!!! The team is without direction and in serious difficulty..... the responsibility rest with management!!!

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  Blue and true since 1962

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• @ Stephen Ellis: It's funny, you are just a polar-opposite to the anti-Jewell brigade. The only difference being that most of those that feel Jewell has been inept for way too long now offer reasoned arguments (in the main). You on the other hand just offer a blanket insult and scurry away. Perhaps you could enlighten us with your reasoned views? Offer aspects to feel positive about? Anything.....?

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  I am Spartacus

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Moan all you like about Jewell, he will not be sacked, not whilst he has a year left on his contract. After that things might change. Come on Harry.

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  NB

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Roll back a week and i posted after the 2 good opening results where are the usual anti pj clegg and evens brigade just waiting for something negative so they can unleash there moaning and one sided we don't engage in any sort of response views and I got slammed by a certain Blogger well here they all are again only waiting to post when its a negative result never after a positive I rest my case

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  stephen ellis

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• It seems the loyal Jewellites are starting to understand what some of us have been saying for a while. Perhaps now is an appropriate time to put forward a view on 4 common myths: 1. Jewell needs more time!! Well to my reckoning he has now had more than enough of the time both he and Clegg claimed would be needed to get back into the Premiership. Even if (which I doubt) Roy Keane and other previous managers were to blame then surely 2 years is enough time to at least get things moving in a different direction. I have no doubt that if (and how I wish) there had been a modicum of success in the last two years they would have claimed responsibility for that. 2. There is money left over from the Wickham sale!! Well I am no accountant but simple mathematics suggest that with the high level of debt and high interest rate being charged on the loan to cover that debt then those funds have long since been successfully re-allocated leaving nothing for player acquisition. 3. The results are down to the players!! Lets be honest the ITFC players are at best average. However even average players need direction and that is something Jewell appears incapable of giving. He cannot even be consistent with his daily utterings and actions that constantly contradict themselves. How on earth can a team play together when it seems likely they do not know or understand what is being asked of them. Too often games have been lost not on the pitch but in the tactics (or lack of) employed by Jewell. 4. The fault is entirely that of the club management!! Whilst they may be the direct cause it is the ITFC supporters that perpetuate the demise of this Club by their willingness to continue funding it. There are alternative sports and many local amateur clubs and organisations that would welcome your support and money. They would undoubtedly provide a more cost effective and possibly more enjoyable form of entertainment. Showing the club that your support cannot be taken for granted would be a very strong and persuasive message to the corporate minded owners. Action speaks louder than words - all it needs is for your courage to take those actions and show the club just how you feel about the current management and what is happening to your club.

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  SussexTractorBoy

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Tom, of course the league cup is not irrelevant, as we could have drawn Man UnitedChelseaMan City at home in the next round, which would have given everyone a lift, and provided a decent slug of revenue. By the way, Keane asked the fans not to criticise the younger players, but to criticise him instead, as he picked the team. Jewell criticises the players in public, so an interesting contrast. Also, why is it that those on here, like myself, who feel that Jewell is not up to the job, never criticise those supporters who disagree with us, yet we are called all sorts of things and told to support another club? That is also rather revealing, is it not?

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  Kevin Bailey

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Jason Pilbury.....it has nothing to do with losing two games, the two losses are simply the latest evidence (in my view) as to why Jewell is incapable of being successful at Ipswich. You may not agree with me, but telling me to support someone else because of that is just a little childish isn't it?

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  Kevin Bailey

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• I would just like to say I think Keith has got his comment spot on. We were very good first half, which makes me wonder why on earth we collapsed so poorly in the second half!? Is it bad management or just a poor team? I think its a bit of both, Jewell has to play more positively but saying that we hardly help ourselves with the amount of chances we miss. Boyd and Taylor would be excellent signings, Murphy would be helpful but I'd prefer somebody permanently. We have to sign a CB though, it is a WEAKNESS!!!! Come on town head up, by the way nice to see Kevin Bailey has taken the reigns of biggest moaner at Ipswich. Him and Steroo hit the pub together every Friday.

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  Paul The Alien

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Does any ITFCsupporter really want a revolving door policy on managers? Absolutely not, but the question isn't 'Should Jewell be sacked?', it is 'How did he ever get appointed in the first place?'. Jewell has proven himself to be contradictory in every press conference, willing to blame anyone he can for his own failings, tactically wanting, uninspiring to both our own players and to prospective ones AND, most damning of the lot for ME and Clegg, utterly clueless when it comes to nurturing young talent. Jewell has only ever created old sides. Ipswich cannot survive in any meaningful way without progressing youths. The two didn't, don't and never will match each other. Those still supporting Jewell are inthe minority. Keith Adams stating he saw the match last night should have seen some of the shambles' at PR and elsewhere. The younger players should be encouraged and nurtured but by someone tactically adept and not outdated in their policies. Jeez, hate Jewell being our manager and welcome a proper one finally being appointed after his 2 years of waste.

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  I am Spartacus

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Tom, at last you're smelling the coffee, Well done !!! Paul the Alien, Harry Redknapp,? He's the one who endorsed Jewell as our manager when tapped up by ME.

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  Brian Betts

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Time to hold my hands up as i have been a supporter of PJ since his arrival, ok its took a while but I cant defend the guy anymore. I have always been one for letting a manage and never believe we should sack managers until they have been given a chance. I am now at the point where I cannot think of a poorer manager especially blaming his team of players for last night. A good manager will know which players to cuddle and which need a kick up the backside. I think his comments should have been made looking in a mirror, and in the past few months the club have rightly paid up contracts for poor players. It is now time to pay off his contract and go.

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  smokie

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Tom - I simply can't agree that the league cup is irrelevant. Ask Cardiff fans what they thought of the day out at Wembley, the exposure it afforded their team and the revenue their journey created. I'm not sure any of them would swap that experience for anything !! After the drubbing at Blackpool it was the perfect opportunity to regain some confidence by playing lower league opposition because what was most important about the loss on Saturday was the response and turning a negative into a positive. Drubbings last season brought about a very swift loss of form and confidence from which Town never recovered - if that happens again Jewell will be gone and a year too late in my opinion.

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  bluearmy78

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Paul Jewell must be sacked NOW.He is void of any idea whatsoever on how to run this club.He has chased shadows for three months and got nothing to show.Nobody wants to come to this great club as they have no faith in the manager.It looks as though it's a last gasp cry to get these players from Posh,what we need more than anything is a top class defender.Poor old Smith looks very tired .He has not had a rest all summer and it shows.This club needs motivation and we are not getting it with Jewell,So Mr Evans do the correct thing and get rid NOW before we slip even further. COYB.

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  brisie58

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Kevin Bailey Jewell was talking the truth! If you want a manager out after just losing 2 games then go and support someone else!

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  Jason Pilbury

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Kevin is wrong as most of the Jewell knockers are. I am from Ipswich and moved to Carlisle well 20 years ago. I sat in the main stand with the Carlisle supporters. Ipswich played brilliant football in the 1st half; they dominated and were unlucky not to have two more goals. The Carlisle supporters just sat and watched in silence. In the 2nd half, Ipswich sat back and let a spirited, gritty Carlisle team get stuck in and lost their way. As much as the knockers care and as decent as they are, they know little about football management and football business - and one or two have got into a hate PJ mode.

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  Keith Adams

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Yet more excuses from a man who still fails to realise that it is he who has just had 4 months of pre-season to build a team. If we are not good enough, don't have enough players or the right players or the quality - then it's PJ's fault. Just two fit permanent players signed this season; who NO ONE ELSE WANTED - let alone their previous clubs. Loach is poor, whilst Chambers is average at best. Time for ME to make the right desicion - PJ OUT! AND TODAY PLEASE.

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  Jason

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Kevin give it a rest, if the owner is prepared to invest 1.75 million that should tell you PJ is going nowhere. Live with it, but dont forget to go along Saturday and see just what your man Kean cost us.

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  Cyril Baker

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• The sooner we get rid of Jewell the better. These comments are a sign of weak and poor management, as in blaming the players he is seeking to absolve himself from blame. If he is correct, and some players think that they have made it, then that is an admission on his part that he has failed to manage the situation effectively. Should we fail to sign Boyd and Taylor, and end up just adding Murphy, then it will simply go from bad to worse under Jewell's out of date management style, which surely must be out of time? Karl Robinson's MK Dons beat Blackburn, something we failed to do, and Swindon were awesome at Stoke. So managers can make a difference, as ours is proving, sadly in the opposite direction. Paul Jewell is a nice guy, yet a poor football manager, which only bothers me because he is at Ipswich.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• I thought Blackpool was bad. I need help here, for the first half I listened to on the radio and it sounded like we played an alright game and should've been out of sight. A problem already, we simply don't take our chances! Hopefully Boyd and Taylor (who we need in) will change that! But what on earth was the second half about? Who cares if they are a league 1 side we simply sat back and let them come at us. We have a group of players who think the job is done at 1 - 0, Ipswich have never been good at sitting back and it doesn't change. Negative tactics don't work, Jewell has to ditch his stupid formation and start playing two up front. I hope he can change it around .... if not Harry Redknapp awaits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  Paul The Alien

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• The league cup is irrelevant and we are better off out of it. But I am starting to get a little concerned, and I have been someone who has supported Jewell (or, at least, has realised there is no one better on offer at present and chopping and changing a manager every season or two is bad news). But, it must be said, if he complains that "we just haven’t got enough players in the group who can see those times out" - surely that is a reflection on him, given he has put the side together? He can't say it's Keane's team, which was the excuse when he first came in, for them being in a relegation fight. On the other hand, if we win at the weekend, we'll be top 6. We have to give it 10 games and let the league table decide his fate.

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  Tom

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Sorry PJ you have to take the blame for this one, as much as the owner has let you down with taking value out of the team (Wickham Sale} rather than investing, the motivation of the players following Blackpool result is down to you and your coaches, and it did not happen. I do hope the Cresswells nightmare of a match was not due to the fact he has a move on his mind. Dont get too excited about the reported 1.5 million offer for two Peterborough players, he still has nearly 4 million left from the Wickham sale.

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  Cyril Baker

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• I thought PJ had found our level and we would be able to hold our own against 1st (3rd) division opposition. I can see I got that wrong. Unfortunately I do not feel confident that each defeat will bring us closer to his departure. Is he now the worst ever Ipswich manager?

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  peter sadler

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Same old same old. This is Jewell's team, he signed every single last contract bar Martin. We had 8 players out there under 25 and Jewell decies to rip into them. Please, ME, understand that PJ is well out of his depth.

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  I am Spartacus

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Exactly the same as last season, bright start and then all hope dashed. Ipswich Town have now stagnated for nearly a decade,actually it`s worse the Club gets worse year on year. The potential is there for all to see,I was at Watford and saw the joy on 1500 Ipswich fans faces as we finally thought a corner had been turned. What`s the answer? I don`t know, but worse still the management of ITFC don`t know either. The one thing that does spring to mind though is if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

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  mike blunt

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• It really is time for ME to decide what he hopes to achieve with ITFC with just 3 day's till the transfer window closes we need atleast 3 or 4 players on a permenant basis not loans and defo not murphy.We also need a new manager PJ really does not have a clue we are going to be in real danger of going down this season as it stands.

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  The Gov

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• That's right PJ blame the players...The very players you have assembled into your team, the players you train with on a daily basis, the players you provide with your tactical expertise, the players you manage, the players you are supposed to inspire, the players who you will no doubt have coached not to switch off in your numerous sessions together and yet all the while you ignore your very obvious failings in your purchasing history, your tactical ineptitude, your lack of man management, your inability to inspire players to chose ITFC over other such glamorous outfits such as Bristol City and your complete lack of managerial ability....You PJ may be able to convince yourself, Mr Clegg, Mr Evans and a select bunch of staunch Jewelites that progress has and is being made but I'm afraid for those of us that were around to witness the real progress of this club in the 70's & 80's we see you for what you are...A failed manager with other clubs now failing miserably at our club....You should have gone last season but you will be gone before the end of the year....

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  bluearmy78

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Poor result. Bounce back on saturday lads with hopefully Taylor and Boyd in the team PJBA

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  Sindre94

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012