POLL: Paul Jewell praises impact of departing Lee Bowyer – but was he right to release him?

19 comments

• Tom B, fair point, thanks for the clarity, apologies for slightly misreading your original post

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  Kevin Bailey

  Friday, April 27, 2012

• glad bowyer has gone.....liability from the start....

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  Mr DJ

  Friday, April 27, 2012

• Kevin Bailey: I was not belittling Bowyer's more recent conduct but his conduct in his earlier days was poor, and he had several brushes with the law. That just happens to be a fact. The fact that he has grown up a lot is to be applauded. But the fact is that a player of his ability should have, for example, played many more times for England than he did, and it is a shame that one of the more talented midfielders of his generation did not quite live up to that potential.

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  Tom Burroughes

  Friday, April 27, 2012

• Ian Wright you can go as well, can't you see that jewell is realising we need to cut our squad down and age and bring in fresh hungry peak players and youngsters

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  Dave21

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• rammstein rules - you should read some of the comments you deride - they are well thought out & articulate & are from genuine Ipswich fans who are frustrated are the way the club is going - if only your response was equally condidered. You will find it hard to identify any instances of the 'moaners' insulting the 'loyal' fans - whereas you always feel you have some right to do so. If you look at the various articles on this site you will note that the majority of the 'moans' are about the treatment of young players & how these have not been given the same consideration as the Dads Army that has failed so miserably. The traditions of Ipswich have been built on having a good acadamy & bringing youngsters through the ranks & it goes against the grain to see this thrown away. Your rallying cry to 'get behind the team' is flawed because in no other walk of life would you donate to a cause you no longer believed in. People will find other things to do on a Saturday rather than pay good money to watch the turgid fayre served up all too often at PR. What you fail to realise is that the club is there to serve the fans NOT the other way around. Not doing so will lead to gates continuing to fall - less money for players - & if you are going to compound this by abandoning a youth policy then it is a very slippery slope. If football fans all followed their team no matter what then this would be regarded as acceptance & none of them would strive to improve. I have followed the town for 50 years & only in the last few weeks have I decided to stop watching them. Your implication that not getting behind the team & following them whatever is some sort of traitorship could not be further from the truth. Rather it relates to the fact that I genuinely feel that during my years of support this is the low point. I watched my first game in Ramseys title winning year - so feel that my decision to stop this year is hardly hasty. You should read comments from fans & realise that the critisisms they make are genuine & support is not withdrawn lightly - then perhaps you - & even Mr Jewell - will realise there is a problem with the product being supplied that goes somewhat deeper than the customers being a 'miserable old farts'

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  Old Timer

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• The question here should be 'Was PJ right to sign him'? The answer is NO. Terrible management. Far too many of Jewell's signings have already left the club. Time for ME to bring in a new manager in order to build this Summer. As others point out, after the dust settles and PJ's has beens and loans have gone, we are left with a very small squad ... PJ failed last Summer and this season. He and Clegg should pay the ultimate price. Disappointed with Marcus Evans - very disappointed. PJ OUT!

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  Jason

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• What a prat Jewell is, he quotes above “He goes with our best wishes, but we are going down a bit of a younger route.” Did this man not know Bowyers age last year, like Bullards, Sonko, Ellington, Wright, Igmarsson. Utter clown and with his sideshow clegg joined at the hip it would not suprise me if the younger options turn out to be cubs and scouts.. Worse team in last 10 years shows what progress we have made!!

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  Crippen

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Embarrassing player to have at the club - signed by an embarrassing manager.

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  Rob Steroo

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Town have had too many players recently who can deliver on the training ground but have not delivered on match days or have not been given the opportunity to deliver on match days. Will Paul Jewell be given the time & money to correct the errors he has been party too?

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  Neil Gedny

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Just remember that Jewell has said there won;t be an overhaul this summer. We currently have 22 first team squad players at the club. Wright, Bowyer, Sonko and Kennedy are leaving (down to 18). Smith, Scotland and Leadbitter are looking at contracts (possibly 15 left). Of those 15 Jewell clearly doesn't rate ALB, Hyam, Carson, Ellington, Ainsley and Peters (Now 9 players left). Assuming PJ possibly putting more faith in Hyam and Carson next season, that still leaves us with 11 first team players, which means a desperate search for at least 6-7 players, which is a percentage overhaul for anyone living in reality. Says one thing, does another, and treats all of us Ipswich fans like utter idiots. I find this offensive and am continually stunned that some fans still feel he is fit to be our manager. I think it is unhealthy to keep changing managers and a strength to give managers time, but it is equally a strength to realise when a mistake has been made. Jewell is most certainly a mistake.

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  I am Spartacus

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Bower has been a great player in his hayday,we need to replace him weth a younger player.Ellington muet also go.Bullard needs to get himself sorted out,still could do s good job for the team,but pj needs to sort his head out pre season.as for new players no one over the age of 25 pj.two centrebacks,a right back,ana a young hungrey player up front.

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  darkey

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• see the good old true ipswich fans are out (NOT) why cant u guys just get behind the team and support them instead of running them into the ground dont u think they read these comments cause i think they do grow a pair people and start getting behind the team instead of being miserable old farts u sound exactly like steroo mind u aint seen him about for ages maybe hes gone back to carrow road lol

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  rammstein rules

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Well that's another waste of space and good money gone,I just cant wait for Jewell and Clegg to follow.

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  dk

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Tom, too early to write Bullard off. IF played in a creative middle of the park role, with Martin in front, and Hyam behind, that could be very productive for us. I agree that Ellington was an utter waste of money, and that Bowyer had to go, as Bullard is more creative, and Hyam is better defensively, thus rendering Lee as surplus to requirements. Tom Borooughs....Lee Bowyer did have issues when younger, which are documented, and widely known about. However, he is a responsible man now, and a good influence, and not deserving of the comments you make about him (in my view)

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Whilst you have to back the release of Bowyer you can just see the statement from PJ in November about the poor results being due to overhauling the squad in the summer and the importance of having a team

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  J Brown

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• For goodness sake lets get rid of all the croanies with Jewell and Clegg leading the way

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  ian wright

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• It may be true that LB has been a "good role model" in recent years but his early misadventures off the field while at Leeds (he was acquitted, however) suggest that he had some issues. An excellent player in his prime; I kind of feel that he should perhaps have achieved more than he did.

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  Tom Burroughes

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• One down, how many to go? Plus those who will leave of their own volition. Hope we have a team left for next season. Besides the ladies that is.

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  JOHN BURLS

  Thursday, April 26, 2012

• "Whatever he does, he wants to win". Shame he didn't show that in the numerous poor performances he put in, including where we needed that will to win and competitveness in the middle of the park when we got stuffed on a number of ocassions. Bowyer, along with Bullard and Chopra, have been the two major disappointments this season. Good to get rid of deadwood - just need Bullard, Ellington etc to go now and replace them with hungry, committed 25 year olds.

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  Tom

  Thursday, April 26, 2012