soultrader

12 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Might not be any proceeds net!

Shouldn’t we just seize the assets?

That will hit him where it hurts

Andy King ... should play on the other wing

Naki Wells .. down the channels

23 hours ago, Leveller said:

Imagine if Willie Boly was our goalie, Bradley Dack at right back, a second keeper playing sweeper …

… err, Dennis Hopper as a stopper, Sean Penn at number ten, a Hairy Biker (useless striker)…

… err, that’s it.

For this reason I think Pearson should re-sign Marlon Pack .... to play him at the back

I would like to see Pring on the Wing

Just because I think it would be a commentators dream to have players in positions that rhyme with their surname

10 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

Seems that the message from Mr Wright has got through to our players, Semenyo in particular.

Oh , for those who don’t know , his advice to Antoine was to get into the box as often as possible. 
 

Thank you Ian Wright.

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

Money Talks!!

I don’t believe there’s a Mrs Ashton, only an ex-Mrs Ashton (happy to be corrected)….but she still has a business in the world of football, supplying services like hotels, relocations, etc.  Very profitable services when there’s a lot of transfers and players need to move from one side / end of the country to another.

Providing services to footballers ..... does make the mind boggle 

3 hours ago, SecretSam said:

So, I'm the only one who saw this thread title and started making up rude jokes, right? 

nope

Whoever had a debut for a 12 oclock kick off

Cant remember any matches starting before then

Colin does appear to be a Marmite Manager.  A lot of (other) fans seem to rate him.  Always seems to be that you only likely to rate him if he has managed your club.

14 hours ago, Bs4Red said:

As I said mate he’s been spot on every time he’s given me information. I pass it on as people are interested. Many others have heard the same today. 

I’d post his info again with no hesitation sometimes it happens 

Is it possible your mate has been fed spurious info from within the club to see if there is a leak?

2 hours ago, Phileas Fogg said:

If this is true; then Roy Da Alien was correct !!

Has he ever been wrong?

1 hour ago, Bs4Red said:

Gender presumption in this day and age.

That could spark a 100 page forum classic thread on its own 

21 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

No-one seems to be considering that Shakespeare might follow Smith into his next job...

Both of them down the Gate?

17 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

Paul McCartney did the same after leaving the Beatles.

Wings, the band the Beatles could have been.

Alan Partridge

On 03/10/2021 at 01:07, RobintheRed Red said:

Hes shit mate when you think we got rid of Smozdics and kept him oh god .

Don't be coy, tell us what you really think?

On 02/09/2021 at 10:29, Davefevs said:

Great summary btw.

Re FFP in Lg1/2 it’s different to Champ.

At it’s simplest it’s 60% of turnover on wages (55% in Lg2). But….the key part is this:

Turnover definition 

Under the SCMP rules, the definition of 'Turnover' is particularly important as Turnover is used to determine the maximum wage-spend. Within a traditional accounting perspective, there are usually only three elements of turnover: 

Match-day Income 

Commercial Income (such as sponsorship) 

TV revenue (and any 'merit payments' based on league position)

However the Football League use a is broader definition of Turnover. Crucially, the FL Turnover figure includes donations from the owners to the club and injections of equity. Loans from club owners are understandably not included in the Turnover figure as these would result in growing club debts

Ipswich’s new owners are taking advantage of the bit in bold…in some respects this can make a “big club” in Lg1 terms a very viable investment to get the momentum building.  Their problem will be that if they get promoted they will have to fall under Championship rules.  Irrespective of what “Mark” says, they will be paying big wages for Lg1. Some players will have taken pay cuts, I don’t doubt that, but not that much….and you can bet their contract next season if promoted will be a sizeable uplift.  That will hamper Ipswich….especially when owner donations don’t count either.  It’s why SL can’t just bung us a £10m striker!

The list I originally compiled I looked at in terms of “real” success on the pitch and financial success, e.g. did they perform relative to their fee.  It was very subjective.  I tried to keep it simple by giving them Green, amber, red for both categories, and looked at which ones were green in both.  Plenty of our signings fell into “middle ground”, so not a true success, nor a sh1t signing either.  But I also wanted to overlay the fact that our CEO says our recruitment team and processes are world class, other clubs ask us how we do it.  So against that high expectation set by our CEO, were the likes of Wright and Pato successful, were the meh, or were they bad.  With Wright (and Matty Taylor and Liam Walsh) I was massively frustrated that we exercised their options and still let them leave for free.  We let both go on loan, there’s little chance we recouped all their wages too, so why extend their contract at a cost.  Things like that make the signing of Wright err towards failure from being an ok signing. That’s where Ashton seriously mis-managed us, stuff like that.  Just wasted money.

Back to Q, all very subjective, but rationale to reach that subjectivity

I think if you look back on MAs tenure, regarding transfers, yes we sold some people for big bucks.  Can't argue with that, although you could question if we should have sold them?

I think the main thrust of his tenure was to hamstring the club, by making (mostly) mediocre signings.   So the team was dilluted every time

On 02/09/2021 at 09:12, ashton_fan said:

Only 3 players cost them money, the rest were freebies and loans. I see Wes Burns was one of the new signings and they got rid of Cole Skuse and James Wilson. Some Ipswich fans are saying they have "the best squad in L1 history" and hope to get 100 points this season, they actually mention our title season and they hope to emulate that. Trouble is they've had no pre-season with most of the players so could take them until Christmas to work out their best eleven.

I would be surprised if they (or any other team) did that.  One of the big differences being Cotts had started assembling his team the season before.

Perhaps they all come together and gel as a team?  Maybe ... although given MAs past track record I will not be putting money on them to do so.

I am glad MA has gone.  Will not miss the souless, vapid vibe that he bought to the club

9 hours ago, Davefevs said:

His wife (ex-wife) has a company doing travel, house hunting etc for pro footballers….creaming money out of football.  I’d love to see the detailed accounts of a couple of his other businesses.  Id love to see the money trail of some of our deals over the years too!

 

Would imagine, if he was that smart, he would have a side business setup in Hamstring rehab?

On 06/08/2021 at 20:11, Kid in the Riot said:

That's ironic because he vanished from sight at the first sign of adversity here. 

I heard he has a boat in Poole called Adversity .... 

On 06/08/2021 at 18:25, miser said:

I'm a Guardian reader, but christ they do write some crap at times. I suspect the author didn't actually visit Ipswich. 

Well why would you?  It's a dreadful place

21 hours ago, City oz said:

Have I missed something does it actually say independence. What is that all about ?? Why not just sports bar,

It does look its trying a bit too hard to be AMERICAN.

Do they sell Freedom Fries 

On 27/06/2021 at 22:25, Moments of Pleasure said:

It's not much of a town, is it? 

Its not even got a Burger King

On 26/06/2021 at 16:49, Shaun Taylor said:

Yes well spotted! re-sign

And then immediately resign?

Wonder if you can lay a bet on that?

On 27/06/2021 at 10:29, Eddie Hitler said:

The birthplace of GWR, XTC is from there. Um, can't think of anything else.

Melinda Messenger

On 25/06/2021 at 13:32, MarcusX said:

Not sure that's a laughing matter though really

Not if you want your burgers medium rare !

44 minutes ago, Chappers said:

Possible, but why it needs looking at separately for each of the levels, to work out what CAN be done and what restrictions will need to apply.A lot of National League side will struggle to stage FA Cup games without fans, and I think the League is being suspended, as they just cannot afford to stage the games. 
If only football donated money to the Tory party, or Cummings was a fan... Solutions Exceptions would soon be found.

Fixed that for you