| McGoldrick on the move 21:51 - Jun 16 with 2159 views | Keno |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 22:00 - Jun 16 with 2042 views | John_Warks_Willy |
He was very good for us, but I don’t think I appreciated how good he was. It wasn’t the easiest team or set up to shine in though. What a career that man’s had eh |  |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 22:06 - Jun 16 with 2004 views | ITFC_Essex |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:00 - Jun 16 by John_Warks_Willy |
He was very good for us, but I don’t think I appreciated how good he was. It wasn’t the easiest team or set up to shine in though. What a career that man’s had eh |
Penny-pinching on the treatment and medical cost us Didz and Bishop when they were both ready to shine.
Didz went on to become a Premier League player and International but Bishop never did recover from our poor facilities and is now a lower league player. |  |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 22:19 - Jun 16 with 1910 views | homer_123 |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:06 - Jun 16 by ITFC_Essex |
Penny-pinching on the treatment and medical cost us Didz and Bishop when they were both ready to shine.
Didz went on to become a Premier League player and International but Bishop never did recover from our poor facilities and is now a lower league player. |
Add Dozzell into that same mix. |  |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 22:22 - Jun 16 with 1887 views | ITFC_Essex |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:19 - Jun 16 by homer_123 |
Add Dozzell into that same mix. |
Yeah, if you think of some of the players Evans had on the books here in Cresswell, Mings, Webster, Bishop, Dozzell, Downes, Sears, Didz, and go along with a reasonably well qualified manager in Mick and he still managed to turn us into League One fodder it shows you just how badly the whole era was managed. | |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 22:22 - Jun 16 with 1881 views | DeliasMashedPotato |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:06 - Jun 16 by ITFC_Essex |
Penny-pinching on the treatment and medical cost us Didz and Bishop when they were both ready to shine.
Didz went on to become a Premier League player and International but Bishop never did recover from our poor facilities and is now a lower league player. |
The curious case of Teddy Bishop. Linked with Man utd after that first season with us. Bags of potential, i wonder if somebody decent had made a move for him if he would have developed more. |  | | |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:28 - Jun 16 with 1832 views | ITFC_Essex |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:22 - Jun 16 by DeliasMashedPotato |
The curious case of Teddy Bishop. Linked with Man utd after that first season with us. Bags of potential, i wonder if somebody decent had made a move for him if he would have developed more. |
He got injured which forced him to stay, and that was that. | |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 23:16 - Jun 16 with 1679 views | Churchman |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:22 - Jun 16 by ITFC_Essex |
Yeah, if you think of some of the players Evans had on the books here in Cresswell, Mings, Webster, Bishop, Dozzell, Downes, Sears, Didz, and go along with a reasonably well qualified manager in Mick and he still managed to turn us into League One fodder it shows you just how badly the whole era was managed. |
Under Evans after the early punt disenchantment followed along with sweat the assets. And boy did he do that. Lower mid table championship was the absolute pinnacle of ambition. It was utterly right that we sagged through the division and out of it. We had no right to be there.
Rotting club with no ambition propped up by McCarthy’s skill in finding the odd good player with nothing.
All the people in the OP were fine. I’d add Murphy, the CHs and Chambers to that. All good some better than good. McGoldrick in particular though was worth the entrance money. Shame he wasn’t looked after here but it’s good that he went on to have a fulfilling career and is still playing. Good for him!
Mick did his best. A manager who had fixed limited views on how a team should play achieved a near miracle keeping us up after Jewell left. He deserves so much credit for that.
Ok, we didn’t go through what Coventry, Sheffield W and others have gone through, but it was soulless destroying and pathetic. I so wish my dad had been able to appreciate what Gamechanger and McKenna achieved. He would have loved it.
But there it is. I just hope that the misery brigade, if they were around during Evans time, stop and appreciate what the last five years have given us. Hopefully with more to come. |  | | |
| McGoldrick on the move on 00:17 - Jun 17 with 1594 views | WicklowBlue |
| McGoldrick on the move on 23:16 - Jun 16 by Churchman |
Under Evans after the early punt disenchantment followed along with sweat the assets. And boy did he do that. Lower mid table championship was the absolute pinnacle of ambition. It was utterly right that we sagged through the division and out of it. We had no right to be there.
Rotting club with no ambition propped up by McCarthy’s skill in finding the odd good player with nothing.
All the people in the OP were fine. I’d add Murphy, the CHs and Chambers to that. All good some better than good. McGoldrick in particular though was worth the entrance money. Shame he wasn’t looked after here but it’s good that he went on to have a fulfilling career and is still playing. Good for him!
Mick did his best. A manager who had fixed limited views on how a team should play achieved a near miracle keeping us up after Jewell left. He deserves so much credit for that.
Ok, we didn’t go through what Coventry, Sheffield W and others have gone through, but it was soulless destroying and pathetic. I so wish my dad had been able to appreciate what Gamechanger and McKenna achieved. He would have loved it.
But there it is. I just hope that the misery brigade, if they were around during Evans time, stop and appreciate what the last five years have given us. Hopefully with more to come. |
I recall there is more details to the Banter era that has been summarised here.
Someone could write a book on how to not sack a previous Manager while at a loved one's death bed. Bring in a celebrity circus manager with one promotion on their resume with evidence they did so on others coat tails before them.
Then sink circa 30m into said manager.... as your big bet to get back to the big time.
MickMac did wonders saving us from relegation that season that should never be underestimated. Following one of the most disgraceful and shameful performances Jewell's team put in against Peterborough despite what followed that game was my personally biggest stain for this club while watching the team disintegrate on live TV:
https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich
Peek banter era....
As you said Churchers MM did an unbelievable job and there were questions around McGoldrick in the years following as I recall. Mainly around travelling distances to training, injuries and then moving to the Blades and suddenly being injury free.
Not dissing McGoldrick but the whole.club under Evans was a shit show, from all angles... contracts, physio, FPR, turnstiles go on and on on. McCarthy rightly got pelters to the end of his tenure but he performed miracles to get us limping into the playoffs that season. After that it was downhill.... until the 3 lions luckily didn't get anywhere with the Toon and looked at Towen as strong brand dormant. |  | | |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 00:21 - Jun 17 with 1585 views | hoppy |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:22 - Jun 16 by DeliasMashedPotato |
The curious case of Teddy Bishop. Linked with Man utd after that first season with us. Bags of potential, i wonder if somebody decent had made a move for him if he would have developed more. |
A bit of a latter day Dean Bowditch? |  |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 01:36 - Jun 17 with 1459 views | Libero |
| McGoldrick on the move on 00:21 - Jun 17 by hoppy |
A bit of a latter day Dean Bowditch? |
Dean Bowditch could play 90 minute games. |  | | |
| McGoldrick on the move on 05:44 - Jun 17 with 1364 views | victorysquad |
| McGoldrick on the move on 00:17 - Jun 17 by WicklowBlue |
I recall there is more details to the Banter era that has been summarised here.
Someone could write a book on how to not sack a previous Manager while at a loved one's death bed. Bring in a celebrity circus manager with one promotion on their resume with evidence they did so on others coat tails before them.
Then sink circa 30m into said manager.... as your big bet to get back to the big time.
MickMac did wonders saving us from relegation that season that should never be underestimated. Following one of the most disgraceful and shameful performances Jewell's team put in against Peterborough despite what followed that game was my personally biggest stain for this club while watching the team disintegrate on live TV:
https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich
Peek banter era....
As you said Churchers MM did an unbelievable job and there were questions around McGoldrick in the years following as I recall. Mainly around travelling distances to training, injuries and then moving to the Blades and suddenly being injury free.
Not dissing McGoldrick but the whole.club under Evans was a shit show, from all angles... contracts, physio, FPR, turnstiles go on and on on. McCarthy rightly got pelters to the end of his tenure but he performed miracles to get us limping into the playoffs that season. After that it was downhill.... until the 3 lions luckily didn't get anywhere with the Toon and looked at Towen as strong brand dormant. |
Still recovering from that one. Went to get a burger when we went 2-1 down, sat down again and it was 4-1, and the defence stopped bothering to even run. | |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 09:57 - Jun 17 with 1116 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| McGoldrick on the move on 05:44 - Jun 17 by victorysquad |
Still recovering from that one. Went to get a burger when we went 2-1 down, sat down again and it was 4-1, and the defence stopped bothering to even run. |
Did we sign Paul Taylor off the back of that performance too? |  |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 10:45 - Jun 17 with 1030 views | darkhorse28 |
| McGoldrick on the move on 22:22 - Jun 16 by ITFC_Essex |
Yeah, if you think of some of the players Evans had on the books here in Cresswell, Mings, Webster, Bishop, Dozzell, Downes, Sears, Didz, and go along with a reasonably well qualified manager in Mick and he still managed to turn us into League One fodder it shows you just how badly the whole era was managed. |
Reasonably qualified .., it fascinates me, probably will have managed at a MUCH higher level than KM when their careers are over, maybe not, but it’s very possible.., never managed in league one for a reason, and kept two different sides in the top flight and a World Cup last 16 losing in pens to Spain .., with Ireland.
Reasonable - and did it with us in 14/15 without spending a penny…, wonder if he’d had £200 million to spend whether he’d have got 10 points more too? - he’d have likely won the league doing hand stands.
Evans spent a lot too early on, none of us moaned when we were one of the biggest spenders, we didn’t complain at all string of managers with countless promotions to the premier league between them - what, maybe five or six? Keane, Jewell, Mick, Lambert managed at the highest level too.
Revisionism. Funny thing.
If there’s another thing it highlights, it’s how promotion to the premier league as a manger guarantees nothing, none of them were good enough to stay at that level; maybe Mick the best of them all at an elite level.
The money ran out. Had Mick arrived at the start of Evans, suspect we’d have been going up and staying up, but that’s life.
The 14/15 group though - they’d beat out current group by 2 or 3 .., they were a team.., and you forgot Murphy’s 27 goals.., he’d walk into this side .., he’s twice the level of our forwards .., and he wasn’t at premier league level either, maybe was the extra season he gave us, instead of leaving.
You shouldn’t forget him. He wasn’t brilliant and he was loyal, and he grafted his socks off, with real quality. | | | |
| McGoldrick on the move on 12:55 - Jun 17 with 843 views | Blueschev |
| McGoldrick on the move on 00:17 - Jun 17 by WicklowBlue |
I recall there is more details to the Banter era that has been summarised here.
Someone could write a book on how to not sack a previous Manager while at a loved one's death bed. Bring in a celebrity circus manager with one promotion on their resume with evidence they did so on others coat tails before them.
Then sink circa 30m into said manager.... as your big bet to get back to the big time.
MickMac did wonders saving us from relegation that season that should never be underestimated. Following one of the most disgraceful and shameful performances Jewell's team put in against Peterborough despite what followed that game was my personally biggest stain for this club while watching the team disintegrate on live TV:
https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich
Peek banter era....
As you said Churchers MM did an unbelievable job and there were questions around McGoldrick in the years following as I recall. Mainly around travelling distances to training, injuries and then moving to the Blades and suddenly being injury free.
Not dissing McGoldrick but the whole.club under Evans was a shit show, from all angles... contracts, physio, FPR, turnstiles go on and on on. McCarthy rightly got pelters to the end of his tenure but he performed miracles to get us limping into the playoffs that season. After that it was downhill.... until the 3 lions luckily didn't get anywhere with the Toon and looked at Towen as strong brand dormant. |
I had to go out 30 minutes in to that Posh game. We were 1-0 up when I left!
I really enjoyed Mick's 1st season when he kept us up. I remember going in to the pub looking at the scores after a victory only for everyone around us to have won too.
Didn't we end up finishing 13th? Seemed impossible on November 1st When Mick first took charge. |  | | |
| McGoldrick on the move on 12:57 - Jun 17 with 835 views | ITFC_Forever |
Player of the 2010’s decade for us. |  |
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| McGoldrick on the move on 13:47 - Jun 17 with 731 views | Bluespeed225 |
| McGoldrick on the move on 10:45 - Jun 17 by darkhorse28 |
Reasonably qualified .., it fascinates me, probably will have managed at a MUCH higher level than KM when their careers are over, maybe not, but it’s very possible.., never managed in league one for a reason, and kept two different sides in the top flight and a World Cup last 16 losing in pens to Spain .., with Ireland.
Reasonable - and did it with us in 14/15 without spending a penny…, wonder if he’d had £200 million to spend whether he’d have got 10 points more too? - he’d have likely won the league doing hand stands.
Evans spent a lot too early on, none of us moaned when we were one of the biggest spenders, we didn’t complain at all string of managers with countless promotions to the premier league between them - what, maybe five or six? Keane, Jewell, Mick, Lambert managed at the highest level too.
Revisionism. Funny thing.
If there’s another thing it highlights, it’s how promotion to the premier league as a manger guarantees nothing, none of them were good enough to stay at that level; maybe Mick the best of them all at an elite level.
The money ran out. Had Mick arrived at the start of Evans, suspect we’d have been going up and staying up, but that’s life.
The 14/15 group though - they’d beat out current group by 2 or 3 .., they were a team.., and you forgot Murphy’s 27 goals.., he’d walk into this side .., he’s twice the level of our forwards .., and he wasn’t at premier league level either, maybe was the extra season he gave us, instead of leaving.
You shouldn’t forget him. He wasn’t brilliant and he was loyal, and he grafted his socks off, with real quality. |
Except we scraped in via a missed penalty by Darren Bent. Murphy had never had a season like that, and never did again. It was a high point among the dross of the era. That side would get royally pumped by the present squad. MM sorted Evans mess out in 2012, and should probably get credit for working with what he was given, but as fans, all we saw was very dull football, and him seemingly going along with what Evans wanted. It had been worse under Jewell, and got worse again after Mick. | | | |
| McGoldrick on the move on 14:35 - Jun 17 with 661 views | CastroSito |
14/15 side beats the current team 2/3-0?
My word. | | | |
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