Simon Clegg surprised at how well season tickets are selling at Ipswich Town

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• Whatever the details (and finally there is a little more reasoned discussion below) the opinions will still be split. I think the idea of charging interest on the full amount doesn't feel right- and those saying the club would have gone out of business are patently untrue- if the debt could be bought for less than £7mil that was NEVER going to happen (despite what the doom-mongers might like others believe). Fact is though, none of us would be talking much about CEOs and owners if things were okay on the pitch.

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  I am Spartacus

  Sunday, May 13, 2012

• Chris Hampshire - I agree with everything you say - we should all be able to hold our own views & respect those of others . Also we do all want the same thing for the club - success or at least an indication that we are building towards success. The reason I cannot support Jewell is his treatment of younger players - & this is a view shared by many. Should he change this view - genuinely - then I have no gripe with him staying in charge - BUT all indications are that his philosophy remains Dads Army & loanees. I have nothing against the man personally but feel the club can only progress with a manager who believes in a return to the values that once led us to punch so much above our weight & produced players such as Beattie Burley Wark Butcher Osman Gates Brazil Talbot etc.

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  Old Timer

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• Come off it Kevin, Tom doesn't have time to properly read your posts let alone search for facts to back up his fantasies but he still finds time to write frequent posts decrying very concerned supporters and labeling them 'whingers' & 'moaners'.

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  Brian Betts

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• @ Cyril: Hahaha.... 'Claim to support'? Stunning come back, and still no reasoning. I absolutely support the club, which is exactly why I feel so strongly about Jewell's ineptitude. I'm pleased for you and your satisfaction with him, but your continuous sniping and dismissiveness with the bareness of facts or reasoning is becoming boring. It isn't discussion, more an argument of attrition. I like debate, don't mind people disagreeing with me, and learn and can be swayed by good points and satient facts.... kind of why I keep asking why people have faith in Jewell. I'd love to be in that position, but currently feel we have no hope with him at the helm.

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  I am Spartacus

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• Tom, you have stated that we are still in play as a going concern, as one of the aspects that is better since December 2007. As there is no evidence whatsoever that we would not be here had Evans not bought the controlling share in the club, you are simply fantasising, making the fantasy fit your version of reality. Going into administration once more, may well have been better than the last 5 years, and I have never posted anywhere that I would rather we went out of business, so please desist from such comments.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• @Old Timer (1 or 2?): There is one thing we can agree on – everyone is entitled to express an opinion whether they go every week or not. IMO there are three equally important parts to a football club: the Managers (inc Coaches and Owner), the Players and the Supporters. IMO for a successful club each part needs to vigorously support, help and encourage the others. This is most important when the club is going through a tricky patch; and will lead to a quicker recovery than will us all turning on each other. This does not mean that we can't have interesting debates, but we should do this with the shared value that we all want what is best for the club.

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  Chris Hampshire

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• Two things which have benefitted the club since Evans came? Easy. First, we still exist as a going concern (which is kind of important, even if the likes of Kevin B actually would prefer to see the club go out of businessinto administration than have Evans in charge, which quite frankly is absurd but check out the post below). Second, we are and have been in a position to compete financially in terms the calibre of player we can attract. The likes of Keane, Bullard, Chopra and others simply would not have come, nor been affordable without Evans' money. Now, the counter-argument is that even with these players, we have not achieved much success. But that in itself is not something for which Evans can be faulted - he has provided money which, as any fool should know, is essential in the modern game. Finally, in terms of good young players, we have JET, Cresswell, Martin, Hyam, Smith, Whight etc.

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  Tom

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• @Rod Cross - Thanks for correcting my grammar. I will accept your correction as I do not think there is room on this page for yet another long discussion!!! All I can say in my defence is that I have been reading too many of Jewells utterances and any attempt to use good english or indeed say anything sensible has gone out of the window.

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  SussexTractorBoy

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• Spartacus, at last you have got it right, just accept that this repeated harping on by you and others is not helpful to the club you and others claim to support.

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  Cyril Baker

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• To those of you who think the invisible man is a successful businessman who knows what he is doing - ask yourself two questions. Would you (or even Tom) employ this man to run a small town football club? And would you pay him £250,000 a year?

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  Rob Steroo

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• Okay, okay, okay... I give in. Selling more season tickets clearly indicates Paul Jewell is doing really well. I guess it also shows that all the fans are happy with the running of the club by ME and Clegg. The future is rosy, we have lots of youth players coming through and being goven a good chance. We are being clever with our money and ensuring all our assets (players) are being tied to the club so we are appropriately compensated. A real feel good factor is coming out of the club with clear non-contradictory messages and I feel like the pros at the club have a clearly better knowledge of the game than the average fan. Of course, to believe the above it might be helpful to offer more than just a leap of faith. For those that dismiss the point of view of those that are not happy with the current running of the club (despite many of us offering reasoned arguments), I still ask why you have such confidence. Only Chris H seems to have offered any modicum of reasoning. I guess it doesn't really matter, all clarifications will be made on the pitch in the next 3.5 months, anyway.

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  I am Spartacus

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• Tom you confuse alleged debt with financial reality. The sad truth is that nobody knows where the money is going at Portman Road... and how much of the llegedly exponentially-increasing losses are due to cross charges & Evans' management 'expertise' let alone the asset stripping of the playing staff, running down of the academy etc etc. Before you crow about the mysterious Evans and his allegedly successful companies do a bit of research... you'll do well to find any meaningful business in the UK at companies house for example. Town are just as vulnerble to the perils of offshore ownership as Portsmouth, Birmingham, Blackburn etc... and at least their alleged ownership can be identified.

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  Rob Steroo

  Friday, May 11, 2012

• Tom, will you permit me to 'jump the gun' and reply to your last question to Kevin, Without the current backer we would not be in this current position. His financial backing looks on the face of it good but those he selected to administer the club has not been altogether successful nor conducive to a good tempered fan base.

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  Brian Betts

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Cyril, your comments about certain posters are becoming more personal and your self confessed dotage does not excuse you. As you claim to have watched and supported ITFC for over sixty years pleas allow me to suggest that you could have gazed at a book written in Chinese for a lifetime but still not understand it.

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  Brian Betts

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Tom, so you don't have enough time to check and confirm Kevin's figures, but you seem to have enough time to continually deny them and along with Cyril announce your admiration for ME !!!!! Are you by any chance related to him or employed by him to act as reinforcement to Clegg as his mouthpiece?

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  Brian Betts

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Tom could you name the good players what we have is.average at best. all the good young players have left.. the leauge table tells the truth.

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  mike benham

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• The increasingly fractious nature of the posts on this board suggest, nay imply, that there is something seriously wrong at PR. All seem to agree on one thing. Mr Clegg is a problem and has been at the heart of the mismanagement of the club. If this is so, and Mr Evans continues to underwrite the clubs losses (although 8.1 million surely sweetens the pill), why does he tolerate a situation that all (apart from Keith Adams) seem to think is untenable? As regards the season ticket sales, perhaps Mr Clegg should look at how many Norwich sold on their relegation to Div 1, before he gets too excited (Yes, I know that there is nothing else to do up there). To reiterate a point I made on a previous thread, it is no means certain that we would have been worse off without Mr Evans' intervention, especially if Mr Bowden had been able to reach a more favourable accommodation with lenders.

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  Mike Wyatt

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• @ Cyril: Deep depression because Jewell has failed? Yep. Although I have said his future will be decided by the end of August- whether he is playing the youngsters and whether he is scratching around for more loanees (oh, and whether he has sorted the contracts that he keeps promising will be sorted -13 next season, I believe- before they run out and players leave for diddly squat again). I'll add though, those people criticising fans going to games still are very wrong. The club is who we support, not the transients that pass through it aimlessly. I salute those willing to still go, I just choose to reduce my games to a handful this coming season- I can't personally financially justify getting a season ticket to see the dross Jewell has inflicted on us for the last 16 months. I'll agree with Monkey and trueblue, the atmosphere has often been awful, although some of the crude inane chanting by a handful is pitiful. That said, I've seen the eye-rolling by some thinking they are going to the game for peace and quiet..... a little depressing.

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  I am Spartacus

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Chris Hampshire - you must excuse me getting a little liverish - but am fed up with the pro brigade being able to simply trot out that they are the only ones entitled to an opinion because they go each week - no matter what. It is then suggested that we are 'moaners,so called supporters,disloyel' etc & as such are having a detrimental effect on the club. I however feel all views are valid & indeed you could alternatively argue that following the team whatever could also assist their decline. Cyril Baker - seems there are 2 'old timers' on this site - the other one who seems to know you & suggests you have not been to a match for 20 years ?????????? What sort of 'loyalty is that ? Old Timer 1 - sorry to steal your name - thought EADT would have some system to not allow 2 the same - will try & change before next season. Apart from anything else Cyril seems to be of the opinion that your name should be 100% descriptive & that as he has been supporting Ipswich for 60 years I should not be allowed to call myself Old Timer !!!!!!!!!! Sorry Cyril - & I really don't know how to tell you this - but rumour has it that I am Spartacus isn't really Spartacus either !!!!!! The cheek of it.

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  Old Timer

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• tom, how about you actually answer a question.....like the one I posed earlier, name two things that are better since Evans arrived. As far as us being better off with a millionaire owner, the facts suggest otherwise. Falling crowds, weakened academy, players leaving on frees when they could have been sold, youth players leaving rather than staying here, and the debt doubled now, and rising fast. Everything is worse, and nothing is in any way better, which is precisely why I ask you to name two things which are better. The alternative may well have seen us go into administration again, yet in all honesty, I would have preferred that to the slow death we are currently enduring. Having all of the 'power' in the hands of one man, is never a good thing, and if Evans walks away, we will be precisely where Portsmouth are, which is precisely why I feel that Evans has been nothing short of a disaster for ITFC. We can agree to disagree on that, as it is my opinion, it is not a fact. We cannot agree to disagree on the falling crowds, as that is a fact. As the majority of the debt pre-Evans was owed to Aviva, who are selling their American Life business at a loss of £1BN, then frankly, £32M is small beer. They had already agreed to a 2 year interest free period, and would have agreed to something, as the land cannot be sold, can it? At present that is, of course, as there is a covenant on the land, that it must be used as a sports stadiumfacility.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Tom, you cannot agree to disagree on a fact, only an opinion! I have looked at all of the clubs in the championship over the periods I have used, and the number of bigger and smaller clubs cancel each other out. If you haven't got time to check them, then the comment that my figures are all over the place, and doubting my source is utterly absurd. You have had the answers that you say you haven't, you will need to revisit previous threads to find them. We are in a better position owing £66M than £32M. You certainly have an unusual way of interpreting numbers.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Sorry to ruin your argument, Sussex Tractor Boy but loyalty is not an adjective! it's a noun!!

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  Rod Cross

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• I am surprised too cleggy , considering the rubbish we regularly see on the pitch!

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  KEVIN FRANCIS

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Kevin, please explain what the alternative is to a multi-million pound backer and why this would be better for us than the current position.

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  Tom

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Kevin, no, I still await a straight answer to the fact that the debt is only repayable to ME when if we get promoted, at which point we would recoup significantly more than that (assuming he would choose to call in the debt, which is by no means certain). I simply fail to see how this is such a terrible position to be in. Any other club without money (as we were in 2007) would jump at that kind of deal. He has underwritten the club's losses each season. How do you suggest the club would continue to exist without a wealthy backer to keep it going? Do you seriously think that it was better pre 2007, when we had no money, no chance of keeping good players (and the extra few thousand on the gate made zero difference by the way)? The club could very easily have gone bust, which it almost did a few years before. Do you not follow the news and see what has happened to a number of clubs recently? As for your figures, I am afraid you do not have evidence that they are causally linked to EvansPJ. You would need to ask those who don't go why they don't go. As for average attendances, I don't have time (like you) to check your figures, but even if they are correct, the fact that gates may have increased last season could be due to any number of factors, such as the size of clubs in the leaguerelegated from the prem etc. I am afraid we will simply have to agree to disagree on this.

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  Tom

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• All these statistics are starting to muddle my brain. One sobering thought though is that 12,600 season tickets sold at an average of £450 (before you correct me I have n't worked the average season ticket price out exactly!!) works out at £5.67m. Compare this with 8% interest on the loan debt and I really think all you supporters ought to be digging a bit deeper otherwise there might not just be any left for new players. Or is that why we are all being primed to not expect anything other than tall (or was it short today) athletic (or was it slow and skilful today) young (or was it experienced today) players willing to turn out for Town just for the love of it.

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  SussexTractorBoy

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• THAT'S COS I.T.F.C. HAVE A LOAD OF SILLY SUPPORTERS ..

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  MIGUEL100

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Come on KB, get cracking with that slide rule!

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  JOHN BURLS

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Kevin, If ME goes the club loses his financial support, if Clegg goes you lose nothing indeed you would have to benefit.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Tom, I have answered you, and if you chose not to read the detailed comments, then that's up to you. My figures are not all over the place, they are precise, and I have used the ESPN site if you wish to check them. I have compared completed Championship season with completed championship season, and all has been clearly explained. You stated that crowds everywhere are falling, they are not. If you wish to re-invent the facts, then so be it, yet down include me in your post of denial.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• So Frank, if Clegg is just a mouthpiece, why do you call for him to go, and why not Evans? You are surely contradicting your own point?

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Well 12.600 mut have a lot of money to waste. no wonder clegg has a smile on his face.

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  mike benham

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Sadly Simon Says is so far removed from football reality that he is living in another world. I am however pleased that Marcus Evans has not pressed the panic button with regard to Paul Jewell, who I am convinced will come good. If Marcus Evnas had decided to get rid then Clegg would have been the man to break the news. The reality is that Clegg is nothing more than a mouth-piece for the owners wishes and nothing more than that.

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  FRANK WESTON

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Tom, Kevin has clearly forgot that we were in administration pre ME. Also who is Kevin to decide what is negative and what is positive. Large ego come to mind.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Some facts for those that are interested. In the last full season prior to ME arriving, we had 516,231 supporters at Portman Road, giving an average league attendance of 22,444. The average Championship attendance that season was 18,391. In the season just ended, we had 420,138 supporters, giving an average attendance of 18,266, meaning that we have LOST 96,093 supporters as it were, or some 18.61%. Compared to this, average Championship attendances in the season just finished, were 18,568, which is actually a rise of 0.96% over that period. For those that seek to suggest that we should look at last season compared to the one before, because of economic factors, we lost 30,948 over this season alone, or 1,347 EACH game, a loss of 6.87%. Over the same period, the average Championship attendance was actually 18,568 UP by 5.77%. So, these are the facts of the matter. We have an average attendance lower than the Championship average, and against a difficult economic backdrop, whilst the average attendance rose, ours fell, and the average includes our falling average, so it is even worse than that if I was o exclude our figures prior to calculating the relative percentages.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• @Old Timer: OK you win - almost! I read comments on this site with interest and try to appreciate what is being said; and then comment on the substance of the comments and not the person making the comment. Your latest pitiful comments have almost driven me to make an exception! The logic leading to the suggestion that ‘loyal’ supporters are killing the club is beyond me, and thanks for branding me and several thousand other supporters as stupid. Also, I really do question the inherent theme in many of your rants that the owner, CEO and manager do not care whether the club does well or not.

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  Chris Hampshire

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Total debt in the premiership is around £2345,000,000! Can anyone say what was the state of indebtedness say 50 years ago in the old First Division?

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  JOHN BURLS

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Just remind me how many seats does Portman Road hold, then add the average attendance to when Town were in the Premier League, and then review if selling only 14,000 season tickets is good? The last 3 seasons have been a disaster, and the pricing for tickets does not value the matches. Its easier to watch a SIL or Ridgeons match and get more value for money!

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  fence sitter

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Tom, I speak for nobody other than myself, although from emails and comments made directly to me, many agree with what I have posted, and even many who don't at least acknowledge that I make my points logically and with evidence, even if they draw different conclusions. May I say, that you seem to avoid evidence as if you have an allergy to it. It is impossible for anyone to speak for all fans, as there is such a difference in what people expect from the club. Constructive criticism is actually very positive, and blind support is actually very negative, although you seem unable to grasp this fundamental truth. Debt in the Premiership is horrific, yes, although let's stick to the facts here, and the precise topic, which is ITFC debt. Since ME arrived it has doubled, and I ask you to name just two aspects of the club which are better now than in December 2007. Can you?

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Kevin, your figures are all over the place. You compare our attendances from the pre-ME era, but only look at championship attendances in the last season. It's not like-for-like. Nor do you provide any source for your "evidence". You are also only looking at season ticket sales vs this time last year, which don't include total sales for matches. You have no idea what % the crowds will be next season. As for denying that the double-dip recession has had an impact on crowds, well, that really is an odd position to take. I am also still waiting for you to give a straight answer in response to the various points I have made about ME and the debt position. You claim that your comments are "moderated" but lots of others are able to post on the same. You have completely failed to convince me that you have any answer at all.

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  Tom

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Tom, we have to accept that the likes of Spartacus and Kevin are blinded the fact that they and the eadt did everything they could to remove PJ and they failed this has left them in deep depression. Kevin no longer responds to me because he was incapable of supporting his argument. The simple fact is that the gates are only 2.6% down on the figure for last year, and many will be waiting to see what happens in the transfer market, I think we can confidently look towards increasing last years sales. Old timer, you can call me what you wish, but I have never said that PJ, ME, and SC are doing a good job, my argument has always been one of ethics. You may call yourself old timer, but I have supported itfc over sixty years that does not make me an old timer but a loyal supporter you should try it.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Spartacus, PJ has taken sides up before (twice), which is clearly relevant evidence. Beating West Ham home and away, in addition to good form from FebMarch onwards.

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  Tom

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Loyalty is one adjective that can be used to describe the 12000+ who have already bought their season tickets for next seasons performances - hope you all get good value. There are of course other adjectives that could be used to describe them but probably best to let them decide how they feel about theirr decision at the end of next year. I hope you receive your thank you letter from the Bahamas in the post soon. As for Toms comments I can honestly say I have never seen anyone (pro Jewell or anti) claim to represent all supporters and as for your reference to a small band of "message board obsessed posters" it seems to me I see your name on these pages as often as anyones - where does that place you?

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  SussexTractorBoy

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Cyril, that's rich from someone who hasn't been for 20 years.

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  old timer

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• monkey1986: have to agree there. our atmosphere is a disgrace we have the worst home support in the league and our away support is made up of lower sir bobby people. i am 15 and sit in the Cobbold. as soon as i join in i just get dirty looks from middle aged men. we are an embarrassment!

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  trueblue

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Putting our position into perspective, go and look at the accounts of the prem clubs for 201011 which have been released today by The Daily Telegraph. Our debt is low compared to many and is owed to the club itself, not third party commercial banks.

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  Tom

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• To Cyril - from 'so called supporter' - it is actually you & your ilk that is killing this club - the 'loyal' supporters who hand over their cash each year to indicate to the manageement that they are doing a good job & nothing needs to change. You are propping up a discredited & failed regime who are taking advantage of your stupidity & blind alliegance. As Ipswich flounder in the bottom half again next year - at best simply flirting with relegation - just remember it was your decision to effectively vote for this.

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  Old Timer

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• The fact that Clegg is pleased with a 3% fall is further evidence of the mess at ITFC. We have 18% less people attending every game, when compared to the arrival of Evans, and that is the most damning statistic of all. Those, like Tom, that make the comment regarding the economic situation, would do well to explain why Championship attendances over the same period (ie since Evans arrived) have fallen by less than 1%, not the 18% seen at Portman Road. Avoiding reality doesn't alter it Tom, and these are utterly indisputable facts, so you cannot even spin them.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Cyril, are you for real? You really think fans (which is just a shortened term for 'fanatics') that love the club regardless are renewing BECAUSE of Jewell? This is Parliamentary spin of the highest order. This is a graspng of any fact and trying to wring the last piece of positivity from it despite the reality. I question whether you actually go to the games, and if you do, if you ever speak to anyone else. If you did you would know that Jewell is not held in positive regard by the majority. I'd love a poll on here asking if people think Paul Jewell is, long term, the manager Ipswich need to achieve success. I'd be amazed at a 20 percent affirmatuion of this. Amongst people I speak to it is even less. Clegg is clearly either an issue and obstacle to success too, or his public persona is so poor that it is reflected that way, but no-one would be in any way bothered about a chief Exec, or ME for that matter, if the work done on the pitch (and the future of the club in youths) was secure. It isn't, and that fault lays at Jewell's door. I still ask, and still get no answer, as to what Jewell has done to offer anyone positivity and hope for the future apart from Cresswell and JET....... the silence is deafening.

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  I am Spartacus

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Cyril, I completely agree with you. The fact is that there is a very small number of regular posters on here who claim to speak for all fans with their constant and often repetitive criticism of the club, but in fact clearly don't speak for us all. In my view, it really comes down to the kind of person you are - are you someone to whinge, moan, criticise and belittle? Or are you one to accept the challenges, see the difficutlies, but also see the possibilities and positives? I am in the latter, as are many others. The small number of EADT messageboard obsessed posters, for whom it is clearly therapy, choose the former. That's fine, it's their right, but they don't speak for everyone. Come on you blues.

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  Tom

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Bertie, a 3% fall in sales during a double-dip recession would be regarded as reasonable by any business, given that many are suffering far worse drops in income, and a number are going out of business altogether. In any event, it is net profit which businesses ultimately judged on, and a drop in sales does not mean that profits are hit because margins can be increased, costswaste reduced etc.

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  Tom

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• It doesnt really matter how many there are the atmospheres usually pretty dreadful anyway. Theres no chanting or singing or cheering really so i dont see how the players will get motivated by the crowd. The Bobby Robson stand is the exception and usually at least attempt to get behind the team. I tried to get a chant going from the South Stand at the end of the season when we won a corner right in front of us and i heard about 1 other person join in and got about 10 people just turn and look at me. If the entertainment on the pitch is bad this can be compensated by a good atmosphere but its so rare its never expected. Look at the Millwall fans in the last game. Some of their chanting was out of order but their few hundred easily out performed out crowd so no wander their team kept plugging away at us, it must have felt like a home game.

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  Monkey1986

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Nice one Cyril! Bertie, you are comparing the current sales figure with the final figure for last year, so your negative conclusion is irrelevant. It is quite possible that the final figure will be a % increase for 1213.

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  Rod Bennett

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• In a big business organisation, a 3% sales decline would be catastrophic. In a small operation like ITFC, such a decline is less marked financially but still a clear indicator of the waning popularity of the product. Falling income, rising costs = problems ahead. ITFC is neither an attractive financial proposition nor, regrettably, an enthralling sporting one. As they say on the telly, 'I'm out'.

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  Bertie Shrimp

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• In a big business organisation, a 3% sales decline would be catastrophic. In a small operation like ITFC, such a decline is less marked financially but still a clear indicator of the waning popularity of the product. Falling income, rising costs = problems ahead. ITFC is neither an attractive financial proposition nor, regrettably, an enthralling sporting one. As they say on the telly, 'I'm out'.

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  Bertie Shrimp

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• So.... Supporters are stepping up, so now over to you Mr Clegg. I am in my 40th year of following my beloved ITFC...and every season I start with hope and expectation. This coming season I am taking the stance that we will not perform so not to be expectant of great things. For me the last season has been one of minor elation and major disappointment, but still I believe and renew.. So, Mr Clegg.... Two years has seen some that seemingly got away, in more ways than one. ITFC is a business, but remember a business needs customers to exist... Get it wrong this season and surely it will be "game over" for you sir.....in more ways than one.... Let's see some hunger, quality and desire joining the lads we have. PJ is at last chance saloon door, but so are you Mr Clegg.........COYB

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  My Comment is this..

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Must be a vote of comfidence in PJ. Unfortunately there will be those on this site who would have celebrated a reduction in sales, then they call themselves supporters.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• 12,600 people need their head tested!!

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  MR.E

  Thursday, May 10, 2012

• I think you would find Mr Clegg that you would get 2 to 3 thousand more supporters If we could see the club being RUN properly and not seeing the premiership dream being done on the cheap. And at the moment failing in such a disastrous manner. You had some of the most loyal supporters in the land and treated them very poorly..So i say to you again Mr Clegg the problem is down to you and Paul Jewell..

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  david bradley

  Thursday, May 10, 2012