Jason De Vos
Paul Jewell is ‘exceptional judge’ of a player says former Town skipper
By Dave Gooderham
Friday, January 27, 2012
10:51 AM
JASON De Vos knows all about what makes both Paul Jewell and the Super Blues tick.
And the former fans’ favourite, a leader of men at both Wigan under Jewell and then Ipswich, has today delivered a passionate rallying cry to Town players, the club and supporters alike.
The no-nonsense centre-back remains convinced his former boss is the man to bring the glory days back to Ipswich – if fans remain patient and if the board continue to back him.
But on the day Jewell looks to introduce a Braveheart named Wallace into his ranks, it is De Vos’ warrior-like battle-cry to the current side that should hit home the most.
De Vos said: “You have to get the right blend in the dressing room and have players who will die for each other when they step over the line.
“When I was at Ipswich, the likes of Jim Magilton and Richard Naylor bled blue and wanted to be successful for the club and the fans. This is something we have to get back.”
Town yesterday had a bid accepted for 19-year-old Scottish centre-back Murray Wallace – and must now convince the talented teen that his future lies in Suffolk with other clubs also tabling offers.
And former Blues defender De Vos believes Jewell will get things right at Portman Road – both in this transfer window and the future.
He explained: “Paul is an exceptional judge of a player. The team that he had at Wigan was virtually all made up of players brought in by Paul.
“He knows what he wants and he knows how to put the pieces of the jigsaw together.
“These are tough times but you don’t become a bad manager overnight. I hope he is going to be given time at Ipswich, to steady the ship and then move the club in the right direction.
“It is baffling for me to see the side struggling. I had a great experience working with him and I am confident he can turn things around.”
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19 comments
sadly his record at portman road does not match jason's comment, if he is the 'judge' then the 'jury' is still out.
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martyn elmy
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Clearly 'exceptional' is a typo for 'exceptionally bad'. There can be no other explantion for such a daft article.
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Rob Steroo
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Paul Jewell and his misfiring team might come good but will it be too late and when we start to play in League 1 a more difficult division to get out of than the Championship. Decisions are NEW players need to happen now or we will be left to sign more Loanies when the transfer window comes to an end on Tuesday !! But hey season ticket renewals soon and I for one will be renewing mine !!
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Nick Ward
Friday, January 27, 2012
Frank Weston - where can I get a pair of those rose tinted specs?
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MR.E
Friday, January 27, 2012
Perhaps he got his tenses mixed up, and should have said was.
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jungle boy
Friday, January 27, 2012
What would be nice is if the board appointed the right man in the first place. I hope they have learnt from their mistakes and will next time give the job to a younger, hungrier and less egotistical manager - as if there's one thing Magilton, Keane and Jewell have in common, it's their Ego's!
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Tom Conder
Friday, January 27, 2012
Frank Weston - your words have been marked. Most likely, you will come off looking completely wrong again but I can't chastise you too much because you are after all a fellow Ipswich fan! But - it might not happen overnight, but you can go from being a successful manager to an unsuccesful one. Jewell has proved it before, as have countless other managers. Would you like me to name some? Ok - Gary Megson, Terry Venables, Ron Atkinson, George Graham, Ian Hollowhead, Sam Allardyce. Shall I go on? Ok, Howard Wilkinson, Roberto DiMatteo oh and ROY KEANE. I think you're looking at it the wrong way - success doesn't come overnight. It has to be earnt. Jewell earnt it at Bradford and Wigan by playing in a certain way and bringing certain players to the club. But he failed to achieve success at Sheff Wed or Derby or now Ipswich by trying to do the same thing - because times have changed. Do you think the current Man Utd team play the same way now and operate the same way as when Alex Ferguson won his first title with them? No - things change, football evolves and Jewell doesn't seem able to keep up with the changes. I admire the way he's changing tact now going for younger players instead of older ones - but the mistakes he's made you'd expect of a rookie manager, not from a man with his experience. The players at the club and potential ones to come in have no faith in him as he chops and changes so he has to go even if he keeps us up this season. Horses for courses and all that
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Tom Conder
Friday, January 27, 2012
Frank, we have continuity of failure under Jewell, and if we sign nobody in this window, and West Ham take us apart, as I would expect them to, and we lost at Coventry, then will you still be in denial? A few misguided and impatient supporters? I presume that in Holland the words misguided and impatient mean something entirely different. Being loyal, and supporting your club, is one thing, suggesting we carry on as normal, when we have just 7 players in contract for the start of next season, according to my calculations, and have averaged half a point a game over the last 16 games is not loyal and supportive, it is utter and complete stupidity.
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Kevin Bailey
Friday, January 27, 2012
"Paul Jewell is ‘exceptional judge’ of a player says former Town skipper" - must be what he does to them once they join then coz they ain't playing exceptional football that's for sure (unless you mean exceptionally bad).
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Ipswich'Til-I-Die
Friday, January 27, 2012
Jason De Vos - our last decent centre half. Perhaps now he's back on the scene, Jewell might try to sign him up - he's in the right age bracket. Mind you, he'd probably still be better than our current crop of CBs at the age of 38 and having been retired for four years!!
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Ian Henderson
Friday, January 27, 2012
Jim Magilton bled blue for the club and the fans and look where it got him! Am I not correct to think that ME dismissed him at the first opportunity? Maybe it was because Jim was a realist who told the truth rather than what ME and co wanted to hear. But the real truth is that since Jim's dismissal the club has gone backwards (apart from those spectacular turnstiles)
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MOTT MIKE
Friday, January 27, 2012
I see there is no mention of Paul Jewell's failure at Derby from Jason De Vos. It is all well and good re-stating the success Jewell has at Wigan. But that success was at Wigan and not Ipswich! ITFC are in dire straits right now and Paul Jewell failings have helped caused the crisis, Ipswich find themselves in.
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Denaufers
Friday, January 27, 2012
"you don’t become a bad manager overnight"...True, but Jewell hasn't been any good for 5yrs
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Sheila Windscreen
Friday, January 27, 2012
Errrr evidence would suggest otherwise Jason...And no you don't become a bad manager overnight but it is ten years since Jewell could be described as a good one. Equally you don't become a good manager overnight so on that basis he should be relieved of his position and replaced by somebody who is currently a good manager.
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bluearmy78
Friday, January 27, 2012
Quite sad that these sorts of rallying cry comes not from our own dressing room but from a former and very good, skipper. We don't see or hear on the pitch the same ‘William Wallace’ fervour from the likes of LB, JB, GL. So come on guys, on Tuesday night break out the’ woad dye’ & get hold of a copy of Mel G’s script, give the lads a ‘they will not take our freedom’ moment, then bare your buttocks to the opposition and get stuck in for 3 points. It would be better than the half time ‘come on where are you...hic’ entertainment from up the road a few years back.
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Tractors R Us
Friday, January 27, 2012
He may be an 'exceptional' judge of a player - it's after that when it all tends to go wrong - having identified 'exceptional' he sends them out on loan & borrows some other ageing mercenary - the man is a buffoon.
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Old Timer
Friday, January 27, 2012
Paul Jewell will come good, mark my words. Continuity is the key and Jason De Vos has hit the nail on the head when he said that you don"t become a bad manager overnight. The board must be patient and not press the panic button on account of a few misguided and impatient supporters.
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FRANK WESTON
Friday, January 27, 2012
'you don't become a bad manager overnight' - PJ has had more than a night to become bad, out of work when we got him and people seem to remember the poor times he has had, seems Clegg only got him for the promotions he has achieved, not thinking about the relegations he has suffered.. poor appointment and sorry Jason but you are not paying huge amounts of money to watch this shocking football.
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Sid Tractorgirls
Friday, January 27, 2012
Yet another person harking back to Jewells days at Wigan. For Gods sake Britain once had an empire but times change!! As for not becoming a bad manager overnight I agree - the current manager has been working at it for the last few years.
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SussexTractorBoy
Friday, January 27, 2012