This says it all
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:54 pm
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"
"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"