This says it all

[verulam]

Nick Ames writing in The Guardian today has this damning yet wholly accurate report on the state of our club. I have nothing to add.

"Forty years ago this May, an exhausted Roger Osborne was helped from the Wembley pitch after scoring an FA Cup final winner for Ipswich against Arsenal. That day will never be forgotten at Portman Road but the same cannot be said for what passes there nowadays. Ipswich's limp third-round defeat against a second string Sheffield United brought their eighth successive exit at this stage and what a disservice this seems to a club that used to exchange punches with anyone. Those days are long gone. They have little chance of re-entering the Championship play-off pack and it is verging on open secret status that Mick McCarthy will depart in the summer. The club are dogged by a lack of money and imagination; their shocking form in a competition that brought them international renown is a handy analogue for their decline under Marcus Evans's ownwership"

[herforder]

Neatly links the past with the present, and accurately describes the bland landscape that represents our future under the current regime. A view from a perceptive, non-partisan, observer. Would like to imagine it would have an impact on those who need to read it. Seriously doubt it, sadly.

[Bluemike]

It really is a sad state of affairs

[Charnwood]

A shockingly accurate summary of where we are.

[hallamblue]

The key sentence is the very last one.

[Ricco]

Where did I put my noose?