The Official Ipswich Town Thread

The Official Ipswich Town Thread

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The Stuntman *

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609 posts

217 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/i/i...

Probably a better proposition than top flight. From here, he can learn and progress.

zeb

3,201 posts

218 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Its a crap appointment.

He's straight out of the keegan book of 'quit if it looks a bit too much like hard work'

when o when will people learn that just because you played for man ure it doesnt automatically make you a competent manager...?

bryan robson proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt....

merseyboy

365 posts

181 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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he'll want £500 million to bring in 100 new players and none of them will work so he will want more money to keep the influx of random players coming in - i mean wasn't that is theory at Sunderland. The guy spent an absolute fortune there. Where did the money come from ?

zeb

3,201 posts

218 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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irish bookies mainly...hehe

Bit of a Unit

6,709 posts

197 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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I think its a great appointment for Ipswich, Sunderland were struggling in the Championship when he took over and he took them straight up.

As for former ManU players being crap managers?

George Graham, Steve Bruce, Barry Fry, Mark Robins, Gordon Strachan, Mark Hughes and Steve Coppell have all done dreadfully haven't they????

merseyboy

365 posts

181 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Bit of a Unit said:
I think its a great appointment for Ipswich, Sunderland were struggling in the Championship when he took over and he took them straight up.

As for former ManU players being crap managers?

George Graham, Steve Bruce, Barry Fry, Mark Robins, Gordon Strachan, Mark Hughes and Steve Coppell have all done dreadfully haven't they????
Shouldn't you balance your argument up by listing former Man Utd players who haven't made good managers in the same time frame as your list above ?

zeb

3,201 posts

218 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Bit of a Unit said:
I think its a great appointment for Ipswich, Sunderland were struggling in the Championship when he took over and he took them straight up.

As for former ManU players being crap managers?

George Graham, Steve Bruce, Barry Fry, Mark Robins, Gordon Strachan, Mark Hughes and Steve Coppell have all done dreadfully haven't they????
wow thats got me rocking...disgraced,wigan,gone upstairs,rotherham,celtic and reading.......barry f***kin fry a decent managerlaugh

If thats an attempt at humour then bravo

If its an attempt at a reasoned debate then i'd go back and start again if i were you...

Bit of a Unit

6,709 posts

197 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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merseyboy said:
Bit of a Unit said:
I think its a great appointment for Ipswich, Sunderland were struggling in the Championship when he took over and he took them straight up.

As for former ManU players being crap managers?

George Graham, Steve Bruce, Barry Fry, Mark Robins, Gordon Strachan, Mark Hughes and Steve Coppell have all done dreadfully haven't they????
Shouldn't you balance your argument up by listing former Man Utd players who haven't made good managers in the same time frame as your list above ?
Or I could add more sucessful managers Darren Furguson, Chris Casper....

Incey, Great at Macclesfield and MK Dons not given chance at Blackburn
Robson took Boro' up and to two cup finals, less successful at WBA and Sheffield but how are thise three teams doing now, in Europe Challenging for honours??

Is that what you were looking for???

Bit of a Unit

6,709 posts

197 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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zeb said:
Bit of a Unit said:
I think its a great appointment for Ipswich, Sunderland were struggling in the Championship when he took over and he took them straight up.

As for former ManU players being crap managers?

George Graham, Steve Bruce, Barry Fry, Mark Robins, Gordon Strachan, Mark Hughes and Steve Coppell have all done dreadfully haven't they????
wow thats got me rocking...disgraced,wigan,gone upstairs,rotherham,celtic and reading.......barry f***kin fry a decent managerlaugh

If thats an attempt at humour then bravo

If its an attempt at a reasoned debate then i'd go back and start again if i were you...
Reasoned debate on here now, thats as funny as my post biggrin


Cara Van Man

29,977 posts

251 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Being a lifelong tractor boy, I'm a bit surpirsed at the appointment of Keano.

My money was on Alan Curbishley as apparently he is mates with Marcus Evans and has also just bought a house locally to Ipswich.

However, I'm happy at Keano as he took Sunderland from bottom spot to winning the Championship in less than a season.

Fingers X'd.

ETA: From one feisty Irishman to another.......a bit of a theme here....

Edited by Cara Van Man on Thursday 23 April 12:21

sleep envy

62,260 posts

249 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Cara Van Man said:
However, I'm happy at Keano as he took Sunderland from bottom spot to winning the Championship in less than a season.
you said that this morning, do you still believe it?

dirty boy

14,697 posts

209 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Cara Van Man said:
Being a lifelong tractor boy, I'm a bit surpirsed at the appointment of Keano.

My money was on Alan Curbishley as apparently he is mates with Marcus Evans and has also just bought a house locally to Ipswich.

However, I'm happy at Keano as he took Sunderland from bottom spot to winning the Championship in less than a season.

Fingers X'd.

ETA: From one feisty Irishman to another.......a bit of a theme here....
My money was on Curbs too (although secretly hoping for Frank Rijkaard hehe)

Keano is a good appointment though, didn't do badly, but the money thing worries me. He did have a substantial budget at Sunderland, and I doubt Evans will have quite the same attitude to throwing money at him.

Time will tell, but i'm happy. I hope he's given a free reign and a reasonable budget so he can't have any excuses.

Cara Van Man

29,977 posts

251 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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I'm genuinely excited. this could be one of the best things to happen to us in a long time.

A good mate of mine is the brother of one of the players (first team striker), so I get quite a lot of 'inside' info from the dressing room. He says that Jim lost the dressing room a while ago when we were playing badly because he flew into a rage and was offering players 'outside' at half time. The respect for him went.

I'm hoping that being another firey Irishman the same thing doesn't happen.

Edited by Cara Van Man on Thursday 23 April 14:05

Cara Van Man

29,977 posts

251 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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sleep envy said:
Cara Van Man said:
However, I'm happy at Keano as he took Sunderland from bottom spot to winning the Championship in less than a season.
you said that this morning, do you still believe it?
I'm not saying that will happen, but I'm saying it could be a good move for us.

He did it with Sunderland, so why not us?

Ok, I know, BUDGET.

sleep envy

62,260 posts

249 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Cara Van Man said:
Ok, I know, BUDGET.
yes

bear in mind he was also slated by the Sunderland dressing room for his management style - it's more suited on the pitch and than from the dug out IMO

Cara Van Man

29,977 posts

251 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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sleep envy said:
Cara Van Man said:
Ok, I know, BUDGET.
yes

bear in mind he was also slated by the Sunderland dressing room for his management style - it's more suited on the pitch and than from the dug out IMO
Yes,yes,yes.

Let us have our moment in the sun.

You have to admit, it's a bit of a coup for us, the likes have not been seen since we poached Campo from Bolton wink

sleep envy

62,260 posts

249 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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ok, I'll give you a truce for 24hrs


fancy a game of football in no man's land?

you can be germany

Cara Van Man

29,977 posts

251 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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sleep envy said:
ok, I'll give you a truce for 24hrs


fancy a game of football in no man's land?

you can be germany
Ok, you can be Italy.


sleep envy

62,260 posts

249 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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Cara Van Man

29,977 posts

251 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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hehe

Oh, you meant football?

I thought we were talking 'World Wars'.

Never mind, at least you've won something.