| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? 18:53 - May 4 with 4122 views | jasondozzell |
I just keep thinking of the end of the Evans years. The tree growing out of churchman's roof. Blue Action and the flares at the training ground.
And then the last 5 years.
Bloody hell! |  | | |  |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:01 - May 4 with 3027 views | Swansea_Blue |
Phil being banned
A 5 year plan that was nothing of the sort
Signing a bunch of has beens and settling their contracts 6 months later (Jewell a particular offender)
Jewell, Keane, Hurst
Hanging on to Mick WAY beyond what was sensible for us and fair to him
Club staff treated like crap
Thugs turning up at the training ground to break Chopra’s legs
TWNotTD
Whenever we’ve had a bit of a bump in the road, I remind myself how utterly screwed we were under Evans’ disastrous stewardship |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:03 - May 4 with 3007 views | BlueBadger |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:01 - May 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Phil being banned
A 5 year plan that was nothing of the sort
Signing a bunch of has beens and settling their contracts 6 months later (Jewell a particular offender)
Jewell, Keane, Hurst
Hanging on to Mick WAY beyond what was sensible for us and fair to him
Club staff treated like crap
Thugs turning up at the training ground to break Chopra’s legs
TWNotTD
Whenever we’ve had a bit of a bump in the road, I remind myself how utterly screwed we were under Evans’ disastrous stewardship |
Applause to relegation, the five year contract when he'd been found out 6 weeks previously.... [Post edited 4 May 19:04]
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:04 - May 4 with 2990 views | ITFC_Forever |
There is a light that never goes out.
For a long while, it was on a low burn for many…. But now it’s back to the inferno it should be. |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:04 - May 4 with 2988 views | homer_123 |
Contrary to a lot of peoples opinions, this season in particular, I think it is healthy and right to look back and consider where we were and how far we have come.
I understand that our landscape has changed and new aims and objectives are being set. Looking back is not an excuse to write off issues, concerns or performances. More to ensure we stay grounded as fans.
Delight in the highs, celebrate and make the most of them. Accept the lows.
Without lows and disappointments, how would we know what success looks like? [Post edited 4 May 19:10]
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:16 - May 4 with 2883 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:03 - May 4 by BlueBadger |
Applause to relegation, the five year contract when he'd been found out 6 weeks previously.... [Post edited 4 May 19:04]
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Some people did get a free beer though… | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:23 - May 4 with 2804 views | homer_123 |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:16 - May 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Some people did get a free beer though… |
Mmmmmm....Beer! | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:24 - May 4 with 2810 views | Illinoisblue |
Don’t recall exactly when, but I think it was the 4-0 away win at Gillingham when the term “‘McKennaBall” first came into being. Recall some Man Utd tactics/data nerd clipping our goals and raving about KM. He was right! |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:28 - May 4 with 2765 views | jasondozzell |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:24 - May 4 by Illinoisblue |
Don’t recall exactly when, but I think it was the 4-0 away win at Gillingham when the term “‘McKennaBall” first came into being. Recall some Man Utd tactics/data nerd clipping our goals and raving about KM. He was right! |
Yep! His first away game. Was pouring with rain.
We played like Brazil. Bonne, Nors and all.
I remember he was straight on the pitch at the end chatting to Lee Evans. Immediately clear he was a football obsessive.
Never looked back. | | | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:32 - May 4 with 2726 views | jasondozzell |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:28 - May 4 by jasondozzell |
Yep! His first away game. Was pouring with rain.
We played like Brazil. Bonne, Nors and all.
I remember he was straight on the pitch at the end chatting to Lee Evans. Immediately clear he was a football obsessive.
Never looked back. |
https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich | | | |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:34 - May 4 with 2707 views | BlueBadger |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:16 - May 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Some people did get a free beer though… |
...and The Matchday Experience Was Better... | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:37 - May 4 with 2668 views | Illinoisblue |
Mystic Phil called it early:
“While the Blues previously won 4-0 away at Portsmouth and 4-1 at Wycombe, this was perhaps a more complete display and if it’s anything like an indicator of the football that will be played throughout McKenna’s time at Portman Road then fans could be in for a treat.”
We have indeed been treated. | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:41 - May 4 with 2616 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:37 - May 4 by Illinoisblue |
Mystic Phil called it early:
“While the Blues previously won 4-0 away at Portsmouth and 4-1 at Wycombe, this was perhaps a more complete display and if it’s anything like an indicator of the football that will be played throughout McKenna’s time at Portman Road then fans could be in for a treat.”
We have indeed been treated. |
Mystic Ham. | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:47 - May 4 with 2552 views | Blue_Heath |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:16 - May 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Some people did get a free beer though… |
Yes, that was the high point of the Evans era lol |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:50 - May 4 with 2533 views | Dubtractor |
Yep. Don't think any of us could have dreamed about how the last 5 years have turned out when we were languishing in league one, signing players not even good enough to get us out of league one. |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:54 - May 4 with 2501 views | Radlett_blue |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:01 - May 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Phil being banned
A 5 year plan that was nothing of the sort
Signing a bunch of has beens and settling their contracts 6 months later (Jewell a particular offender)
Jewell, Keane, Hurst
Hanging on to Mick WAY beyond what was sensible for us and fair to him
Club staff treated like crap
Thugs turning up at the training ground to break Chopra’s legs
TWNotTD
Whenever we’ve had a bit of a bump in the road, I remind myself how utterly screwed we were under Evans’ disastrous stewardship |
Hanging on to Mick WAY too long?
Mick did a great job in his first few seasons, steering a hopeless side away from relegation, then gradually improving us until we got into the play offs in his second full season. In his 3rd season, we finished 7th. Should he have been sacked then? Really?
Yes, Mick's last season was dull, with the football becoming increasingly turgid & only enlightened by the goals of Tom Lawrence & Mick left at the right time. |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:57 - May 4 with 2472 views | Ftnfwest |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:50 - May 4 by Dubtractor |
Yep. Don't think any of us could have dreamed about how the last 5 years have turned out when we were languishing in league one, signing players not even good enough to get us out of league one. |
For a couple of years there we couldn’t compete financially with the top six in L1, that’s how desperate it was. Wages were mid table or even slightly below compared the rest of that division. My 2 main low point memories were having 300 fleetwood fans singing ‘you’re not Ipswich anymore’ at us as they beat us 1-0 at PR just before lockdown and the Northampton debacle, although there were countless others like being outclassed on more than one occasion by Lincoln. |  | | |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:00 - May 4 with 2440 views | BlueBadger |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:54 - May 4 by Radlett_blue |
Hanging on to Mick WAY too long?
Mick did a great job in his first few seasons, steering a hopeless side away from relegation, then gradually improving us until we got into the play offs in his second full season. In his 3rd season, we finished 7th. Should he have been sacked then? Really?
Yes, Mick's last season was dull, with the football becoming increasingly turgid & only enlightened by the goals of Tom Lawrence & Mick left at the right time. |
The thing is, we were on a SLOW deterioration under Mick(who was doing the best he could under what were ultimately impossible conditions), Hurst and Lambert achieved in one season what Mick would have spent 3 fighting against. And we would have FOUGHT a relegation under Mick. | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:12 - May 4 with 2338 views | EastTownBlue |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:28 - May 4 by jasondozzell |
Yep! His first away game. Was pouring with rain.
We played like Brazil. Bonne, Nors and all.
I remember he was straight on the pitch at the end chatting to Lee Evans. Immediately clear he was a football obsessive.
Never looked back. |
Looking back it is difficult to believe that it was only a few weeks following the lows of the away defeats at Charlton and Barrow. | | | |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:19 - May 4 with 2290 views | Churchman |
Yes, I do. And a little sad. I’d love my dad to have seen what has happened since 2021. Sadly he was too ill to understand it, but he’d have been over the moon and absorbing every second of it.
Like myself it broke his heart to witness Evans’ neglect the club to inevitable oblivion had Evans kept his grasping claws on it. Mine too. We both loathed that period. Even the play off season was soured by the fact that we were long ball poor bailed out by the best player in the club, McGoldrick and Murphy’s season of a lifetime.
It was obvious it was a high water mark, not supported by Evans who saw 15th as an ambition not a starting point. Lies to keep season ticket holders on board, Clegg, Milne, turnstile paint. And the runaround by Brighton at home early 2015/16 to confirm just how off it we were.
MM did a great job with nothing. He deserves our thanks. But it was still depressingly awful. Then we had diddy Hurst and windbag video man Lambert. It was beyond hopeless.
The haters on here have short memories. I am mystified that somebody claiming to be a supporter could want the club to never be promoted again or that some prefer the Evans years.
Things are by no means perfect but I appreciate where we are, have come from and the good and tough times during the time I've followed this club.
The last 5 years - bl00dy hell. [Post edited 4 May 21:52]
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:21 - May 4 with 2270 views | LeoMuff |
I remember a month before Kmac joined being beaten 0-2 by Rotherham at Portman Road, we barely got a look in and were completely dominated.
I thought oh to be a side as good as that ! Rotherham in league 2 next season. Kmac and Gamechanger have saved our bacon. |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:24 - May 4 with 2241 views | Guthrum |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:16 - May 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Some people did get a free beer though… |
Talking of beer, remember Ian Milne turning up at the Bristol pub-meet before a game, having a few and perhaps being a little indiscreet. Fair play for coming to chat informally with the fans like that, tho. |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:27 - May 4 with 2215 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 19:54 - May 4 by Radlett_blue |
Hanging on to Mick WAY too long?
Mick did a great job in his first few seasons, steering a hopeless side away from relegation, then gradually improving us until we got into the play offs in his second full season. In his 3rd season, we finished 7th. Should he have been sacked then? Really?
Yes, Mick's last season was dull, with the football becoming increasingly turgid & only enlightened by the goals of Tom Lawrence & Mick left at the right time. |
His last year was as toxic as I’ve ever known at the club, and the year before wasn’t much better. We had two years of slow decline in quality and moral. He should have gone at least a year earlier than he did, possibly 18 months earlier. Although he wasn’t the main problem of course, but under Evans the only option we had was to change manager to try and freshen things up. | |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:43 - May 4 with 2090 views | jas0999 |
No. Expected it this year. And they delivered. Well done all | | | |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:47 - May 4 with 2067 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
The home games man. Jesus Christ.
12k fans, we did well to muster a shot on target most weeks, the place was almost falling apart.
We were absolutely heading for League 2. |  |
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| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:58 - May 4 with 2020 views | jasondozzell |
| Anyone else still find this totally surreal? on 20:47 - May 4 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
The home games man. Jesus Christ.
12k fans, we did well to muster a shot on target most weeks, the place was almost falling apart.
We were absolutely heading for League 2. |
Yep!
I just remember sitting through games feeling sort of numb. Kept hoping each change would be the start of something but it was managed decline in the end.
I remember midweek home games and looking around and even when they said 14,000 it looked more like 10,000 | | | |
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