UPDATED: Scott Loach ‘flattered’ but in the dark over Ipswich Town links

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• Yet again, Cyril, you are not making sense. To be frank, despite Kevin's and my negativity towards decisions made by Jewell, Clegg or ME, I'd say we have both been constructive in most comments- you'll note even in this thread that I have commended Jewell for his integrity in keeping transfer negotiations secret. I have commended Jewell's scouting for their capture of Hewitt bearing in mind he has been injured for several months. I am really pleased he has brought Klug back in. Balance is being able to accept when things are done right and acknowledging them. I go and watch games, I have seen the problems first hand (not just from a match report on line like yourself, it seems). I would love to be wrong and for Jewell to turn things round. I just happen to think he won't, and feel he is actually contributing to further problems in the club. That is my opinion. I'm willing to discuss it and put my points across, I guess I just wish you would instead of just criticising others without contributing with your own contrary opinion.

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  I am Spartacus

  Friday, June 29, 2012

• Still waiting for a positive response from Kevin and Spartacus.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Cyril, you are such a hypocrite. You criticise EADT for issuing articles with no direct quotes and then AS FACT state ME will not 'fork out the money'. Where is the quote for that? Surely if PJ has the integrity you suggest he does then he would speak out? My suggestion has always been long term and YOUTH. Klug resigning is great. Hewitt signing is very good. Little else has so far enthralled me. PJ has 63 days left to do so.

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  I am Spartacus

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Wouldnt give ya tuppence for some of these names mentioned on here. Stick with ALB and get a young reserve keeper in and move on to central defenders where we really do need Evans to pull his wallet out

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  KEVIN FRANCIS

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Kevin, Thanks for the response and I wont say that I disagree with a lot of it. However you give two solutions. Play better football and win more game. Is a very obvious point but do you really think PJ has not been trying (whether successfully or not granted) to do this throughout his tenure. He has been let down by some players he bought in (Yes they were his signings), others have left but how is this supposed to happen with limited funds this time around. I am sorry but I dont think Hyam is ready yet, I agree he should have seen more 1st team football last year, but we still require more. You other option is to get rid of Clegg and PJ. I do not have any time for Clegg but also believe that he also has his hands firmly tied. If he is the negotiator and it is that which is letting us down then he should be gone, but I also believe he is sent into these negotiations with limited funds, is unable to budge and we loose out. I would add to this though that I dont believe we sit down or speak to 1 in 5 of the players we are linked to. Getting rid of PJ is interesting as he may be gone at the end of the season anyway but all that will happen is that we will be starting all over again with the new manager. My personal opinion is it would be great to get Chambers, Zat Knight would be a good addition in defence or Danny Gabbidon. There are a few C Mids out there on frees (that I am aware of) K Andrews but we missed that boat, Tom Sourse has some massive points to prove after being touted for great things and could be good and as a long shot John Arne Riise' brother. As for spending money I would love us to take a serious look at Alan McCormack and Matt Richie at Swindon. Saw a lot of them (and Murray) this year when unable to get to ITFC and both would be more than capable to step up and add to CB and RM places respectively. As for forwards there are a few out there but I do think we need some bulk, i wouldn't be dissappointed with Fuller (shhhhh even Heskey is out there for 1 year) and I also notices the McFaddon is on a free. None would be cheap by why not. So there you go, I've added a few names to the hat, none I'm sure we will get anywhere near, but my point really was that I would like to see others give some examples (and not necessarily to agree with me as I quite enjoy the debate) rather than just tell PJ he aint doing it right without thinking it through. (apologies for any grammar issues)

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  Blue Exile

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Blue exile, the club has been an unmitigated disaster as far as communication with it's own supporters for some time. The Middlesborough fiasco and turnstile-gate being two very recent examples. The lack of youngsters in the team, and the treatment of Hyam and Smith, allowing Eastman to go, all contributed to the corrosive drip, drip, drip of the bond between supporter and club. Why was Hyam only offered a 1 year deal and dropped after playing so well? Not making such glaring errors, and then persisting in selecting GL, when everyone knew he was off, when we were safe from relegation was simply idiotic, so not treating the supporters like idiots would be a welcome move in the right direction. This, in my view, needs to be fixed and healed, which can happen in one of two ways. Either we start winning, playing attractive football and do it that way, almost ignoring the problems, or the club needs to get rid of the CEO (and manager in my view) and start to fix the damage done by the ridiculous tenure of Clegg, and the complete non-event as afar as any progress has been concerned, regarding Jewell, who is out-dated, and detached from current football, rather like England were at the Euros. A united club would be more enjoyable, than the current mess. If you think back to the comments from Shane Supple, ITFC has been in a state of decay for some time, and sadly this decay has simply increased in speed since the arrival of Evans, Clegg in particular and Jewell as well. What is needed on the playing side is really simple, round pegs in round holes, loan players to only add quality, not quantity, and consistency of our approach to the game of football, throughout the club. That would then enable the players to concentrate on playing, rather than having to adapt to positions that are not their natural ones. Obviously for the odd game, or in the event of an injury, that is perfectly normal, yet we have not been doing that, not at all. Many of us could see what the answers were ages ago, and posted them. Sadly, not only did the club plough on in the wrong direction, many other posters on here shut their eyes, and called those who are more perceptive, negative. Quite funny really.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Cyril - It's easy. 1) Invest in the youth team and blood the youngsters, oh wait that costs money too and we only really have 2 youngsters (at a push) that are currently 1st team ready and already in the squad which we are told (and i agree) is too small. 2) Get some of the many ex prem freebies in to get some much needed quality.... oh wait did we not try that in last seasons experiment which didn't go well and was a pretty expensive (I am looking at you Mr B) mistake. 3) Lets scout abroad and the lower leagues to bring some of these young hungry players in....oh wait that cost's money too staff the scouts and travel expenses and who would want to come to ITFC blah blah blah. Anyone would think that this football game is quite difficuly, hold on it is, especially when you have 1.5 arms tied behind your back. PJ is going to have to pick and choose very carefully this year due to financial constraints and also to avoud the vitriol that has hit him so hard throughout his tenure. I would also like others to give us some further, slightly less sarcatic, ideas that have been fully thought through. If we go young it will take time for the team, and the players, to blend and mature and this is something PJ knows only too well he does not have the time, or the patience of the fans, for. If he tries experience (again) he will be slated before the players even step out at PR. You only have to read the comments on this very site and other forums to see that PJ has a very difficult job to do at a club that is not what it was, with limited finances and a core of 'supporters' that do nothing but add a negitive atmosphere to every occassion which you can physically feel when you step into PR on a match day if we are not ontop within 10 minutes.

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  Blue Exile

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Well Kevin and Spartacus instead of so much negativity lets hear your answer to the problem. ME will not invest, CEO will not pay the wages, so PJ has to loan as late as possible so that the CEO does not pay the wages to soon. Come on lets hear your positive response.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• What is remarkable, is that most people who love football, are more than aware that the spine of the team is crucial, yet here we are, well into the Jewell time as manager, and still we have not resolved either the GK, CB CM or CF situations. Whilst this article itself is somewhat typical of a slow news day, the underlying truth remains, that despite having the need to strengthen our spine, we have done nothing about it for all of the transfer windows that Jewell has been here, not just the current one. When Richard Wright left for Arsenal, it probably got us relegated, as we then signed Sereni, and the communication with the defence was poor. It is imperative that we sign a permanent GK that will bed-in prior to the commencement of the new season, as more than any other position, the communication with the defence is vital. You would have thought that someone as experienced as Jewell (as described by Clegg, and Frank Weston) would have resolved this months and months ago.

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  Kevin Bailey

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• OK Spartacus, lets have a little positive input from you, if ME will not fork out the money, and Clegg will not pay the wages of those that PJ has put before hime, what option does PJ have. The loans are left late because Clegg does not want to pay the wages too soon. So now instead of so much negativity lets have a positive suggestion from you.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Well, one thing I do know, PJ hasn't spoken to me either, and I am sure I could do quite a good job in goal if allowed a walking stick.

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  JOHN BURLS

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Well done EADT, another pointless story to stir the habitual moaners into a frenzy.

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  The Snake

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Whats new and different at Portman Road then SUPRISE SUPRISE NOTHING.

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  max ward

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• I can see Jewell ending up loaning a 'keeper and saying he tried to sign one permamently but couldn't agree terms.... all the time having never approached these good young keepers. Who knows, we might even amusingly get Marton Fulop back (another free agent). In fact, I have just been able to google the list of free agents and there were 140 from the Prem with many good players included for our level. For all those that say 'not many deals have been done throughout the league' I'd suggest that my concern doesn't come from the quietness of the deals (I have to credit Jewell with the general secrecy of deals), but the fact that he has history of rushing through transfers at the last minute in panic deals: for reference see Sheff Weds, Derby & us last season. Clegg may also be at fault, but unless Clegg was at those clubs too, the common denominator isn't hard to find. 63 Days to D-Day for Jewell. Either he brings the right players in or he is gone by New Year. I hope he doesn't waste another season for us.

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  I am Spartacus

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Hope i'am really wrong on this feeling. But for the life of me can not see us getting any players in that might lift the chances of us returning to the prem. Clegg-less will want anyone on the mega cheap and we will have so so season yet again.. The blood of our club is being sucked out by the very poor way things our done at Portman Road these day's WAKE MR EVAN'S.........

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  david bradley

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• You could hype up your non-story more by suggesting that Town have NOT spoken with thousands of goalkeepers.... or perhaps even suggest the world is NOT flat... but I suspect one or two of your regular posters would take issue with that.

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  Rob Steroo

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Alright, I'll admit I am very, very frustrated. We keep getting linked to this player and this player but by the sounds of it we aren't getting any of them. Hm, other teams are building immensely strong squads together. We seem to just be sitting doing nothing. If we do not sign the necessary players in this transfer window, by the next one we'll be in big bother and Jewell will be on the verge of being gone or, he will have been sacked.

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  Paul The Alien

  Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Keep it up eadt, just try and cause a little more unrest. Might I suggest that if he has not contacted either of these keepers he already has somebody lined up, as according to your paper Scott Loach would love to come back so whats the worry.

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  Cyril Baker

  Thursday, June 28, 2012