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It will show to me that after 18 months we have not learned from our mistakes. The one thing this club seems to thrive on is an increase of crowds and the good feel factor to return. If we go down the route, the club will get neither. Make no mistake, if Ipswich felt they could trust Jim Magilton with the increased budget, they would not have brought in Roy Keane.
We may have made a rod for our own back with short term appointments and I can see the arguments of not spending money for the sake of it, but we have just come off a bitterly disappointing season, the last thing we need is to feel we have no hope for the next one. Understanding the complexities of the championship and what kind of manager we can attract is difficult to understand, surely in order to make a statement of intent you aim high or certainly higher then a manager who has not had much success at ipswich Town. When are we going to realise that the extra cost of bringing in a top manager, will be balanced out with a vast increase of supporters paying at the turnstiles and even supporters queing for season tickets if they geuninely believed we had an excellent chance of promotion.
This club is a great club, but its slowly becoming a laughing stock. By appointing Jim Magilton it will show that we have gone around in a complete circle to a time when we had John Gregory as manager. When the new owners took over, we believed to a degree all the hype we were given and voted with our feet to watch the team we love. With subsequent increases at the tuirnstiles, we even accepted that someone like iain Dowie could possibly get us promoted.
Why can we not go for a top top manager? Surely, in percentage terms money spent elsewhere in and around the ground is peanuts compared to bringing in a top manager. I often get accused of being a mouthpiece, which is unfair, I also get accused of being told all and sundry what goes on, which is also unfair, but one thing I do is speak on how I feel, which often upsets people. I have defended the club, because I felt that 18 months is no time to make judgements and in the slightest hope that anyone from the board does read this, then I urge you, if Magilton is favourite for the job, to think seriously what you are doing and don't be surprised to see the lowest number of fans for the start of the season game, you have seen for years.
I don't buy the fact he has done well at Ipswich, our ambitions should be way and above a team who have finished 14th, 8th and 9th in the recent 3 years. The fans play a bigger role to this club then maybe given credit for and any feeling or positiveity remaining will quickly be washed away.
We may have made a rod for our own back with short term appointments and I can see the arguments of not spending money for the sake of it, but we have just come off a bitterly disappointing season, the last thing we need is to feel we have no hope for the next one. Understanding the complexities of the championship and what kind of manager we can attract is difficult to understand, surely in order to make a statement of intent you aim high or certainly higher then a manager who has not had much success at ipswich Town. When are we going to realise that the extra cost of bringing in a top manager, will be balanced out with a vast increase of supporters paying at the turnstiles and even supporters queing for season tickets if they geuninely believed we had an excellent chance of promotion.
This club is a great club, but its slowly becoming a laughing stock. By appointing Jim Magilton it will show that we have gone around in a complete circle to a time when we had John Gregory as manager. When the new owners took over, we believed to a degree all the hype we were given and voted with our feet to watch the team we love. With subsequent increases at the tuirnstiles, we even accepted that someone like iain Dowie could possibly get us promoted.
Why can we not go for a top top manager? Surely, in percentage terms money spent elsewhere in and around the ground is peanuts compared to bringing in a top manager. I often get accused of being a mouthpiece, which is unfair, I also get accused of being told all and sundry what goes on, which is also unfair, but one thing I do is speak on how I feel, which often upsets people. I have defended the club, because I felt that 18 months is no time to make judgements and in the slightest hope that anyone from the board does read this, then I urge you, if Magilton is favourite for the job, to think seriously what you are doing and don't be surprised to see the lowest number of fans for the start of the season game, you have seen for years.
I don't buy the fact he has done well at Ipswich, our ambitions should be way and above a team who have finished 14th, 8th and 9th in the recent 3 years. The fans play a bigger role to this club then maybe given credit for and any feeling or positiveity remaining will quickly be washed away.
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