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We picked up the Turnstile blues on Saturday’s home game and it is great , your should think about doing more . It has put in to words what we as town fans think .
Thanks Andrew, pleased you enjoyed it. I’ve been overwhelmed by the response and how quickly they sold. We’re talking about what to do next, but this took a lot of time and hard work to put together and we all have work/family other commitments. We certainly seemed to have struck a chord with many town fans, which is reassuring. Emma (@tractorgirly)
Picked up on what you’ve done from the publicity today – what a well put-together, passionate defence of our club. You are true Blues, and I applaud you. I don’t agree withe everything you have to say, (though I do with a lot) but that’s not important. It’s much more important that you are speaking up – in such a constructive way – and giving a voice to the fans who are hurting under this crazy regime. More power to your elbow!
Thank you so much for your comments (Susan here). We really appreciate them and the huge amount of positive feedback we have had. We all love the club and want the best for it. Hopefully we can start to change things from this small beginning.
Sad to see your sense of humour (oh and concern for football) is not matched by Suffolk Police.
Next time, please sell from your original post and don’t be “persuaded” to move 50 yards away.
Thanks Peter. Had our seller not had his children with him I think we would have stayed put. What the police failed to say in their statement was that although told he “didn’t have to move” when asked what would happen if he didn’t he was told “I will have to ask uniformed officers to come down”. The words Breach of the peace and arrest were used several times. Designed to intimidate I believe, and the police were very clear that “the club” had asked them to act. I think it is unfair that the club seem to be trying to ‘hang out to dry’ one particular member of security staff, rather than taking responsibility for this sorry shambles. They have though, illustrated some of the points that we were trying to make in the ‘zine rather beautifully. And we keep being told that Clegg is some kind of PR guru? :-) Emma
I’d like to thank Suffolk Police for trying to arrest your seller. Because of them, your ‘zine was discussed on Naked Football, on ICR, so I was able to down-load and read it. Without the police’s heavy-handed actions, I might not have heard about your excellent magazine :-)
I thought your piece on the finances was really interesting. Any idea why a business man, like Marcus Evans, would want to accumulate debt? If we understood that one, maybe we’d know why they keep failing to sell players before their contracts run out.
Hi Izzy. Thanks for your comments. I think understanding how the football part of the “business” fits with / benefits other parts of the business empire could well help our understanding. Is what is bad for ITFC bad for ME enterprises? I suspect not. I find it really worrying that we can’t seem to find out where our club is registered for business purposes. Certainly adds to the muddied waters that an average football supporter like myself struggles to wade through. I feel generally uneasy about the whole set up, and getting involved with Turnstile Blues is, I hope, the first step to working out what questions we need to be asking, then trying to find answers! Emma
bought a copy from you in the Greyhound, a good read, passed it on to another Town fan at the AFC Totton FA Cup game today. Living away from Ipswich i jiI dihadn’t realised quite how bad things have got, the atmosphere v Cardiff was awful. I am one of the lucky ones, following them in the 70s and 80′s, invreasingly difficult to ge the youngsters behind them.
mag could do with a few more pictures/cartoons
Thanks, Kevan (Susan here). Thanks for your comments and for spreading the word by passing your copy on to another Town fan. I think you’re right about the lack of images & hopefully we can improve that if we produce subsequent issues. Sorry that your relatively rare visit to PR was for the Cardiff game. I was there too unfortunately. Let’s hope that things have changed for the better by your next visit.
This is a terrific combination of sad, very funny, nostalgic, amusing and interesting, and congratulations to all involved.
I have been posting similar, yet much briefer comments on ME and his finances on EADT when not moderated out, and I must say that more and more supporters seem to be at least trying to find out what is going on, whereas initially (a couple of years ago) I was either abused, or called mad for doubting ME.
The fact that the club asked your seller to move, when he had his children with him, is, at best, poor judgement.
To then deny that it was the club afterwards, is just cowardly, and tells you all you need to know about the PR skills of the man at the centre of turnstilegate, none other than Clegg.
Keep up the good work, and I fear being an Ipswich supporter is going to be nothing to have any pleasure attached to it for some time, unless Clegg leaves, and ME starts running the club properly.
I fear it will get very much worse as yet.
Hi Kevin (Emma here). Thanks for your comments. One of the things we had hoped to achieve was to get people asking more questions about what is really going on. I understand what you mean about the lack of pleasure in being a town fan, but for many of us involved in producing the fanzine, pre match lunch in the greyhound and discussing ideas for future articles and meeting like minded people – not to mention some of the lovely comments we have had – has given us a great deal of itfc related pleasure. One thing that Evans and Clegg cannot trample all over.
Hi Emma
Good point on the pleasure front, I really should have been more specific!
All I want to see is a manager like Karl Robinson, with a Director of Football type role, for someone like Mick Mills, who could act as the go between, so that the manager can manage, and not have to deal with ME directly too often.
If ME would not like that, and would want to have more direct involvement, then maybe we can start to see why it has all gone a bit wrong.
I am in a self-imposed exile until Clegg leaves, although I will be at the Club AGM and will be proposing a motion of no confidence in Clegg, and also ME.
Should liven things up a bit!
I look forward to hearing how the motion of no confidence goes. Keep in touch. Emma