Terry too.
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Terry too.
I would have been pissed off about this when he started but I the way he's started to bring youth through, is good enough for me.
Happy to hold my hands up and say his football isn't as bad as I assumed it to be
Hhmmm would have liked us to wait until the end of the season and then reviewed.
Source?
Great news
I think the timing is right on this one.
Now he can start planning for next season and will know what he wants as soon as the transfer window opens.
One of his first signings will be Ojo i reckon
Fully deserved
Feck it, I'm going with this one because it has the link and more people have commented so far. Apologies to Zowhore and hopefully they can be merged because I thought WJ99mobile had a good point.
My thought when he first signed on with us were as follows:
I think there are positive signs so far to say that point i), ii) and v) are in the process of being met just about as well as they could have been this season. We don't know what his thoughts are for transfer market - small budget at Ipswich lead to less attractive football and our budget is likely to shrink going forward while we're losing some of the flair brought by Wilson and Ojo especially - or longer term plan but presume that conversation has been had behind the scenes.Quote:
I want the manager who can successfully deliver on the aims to i) improve playing style, ii) bring through youth, iii) improve in transfer market, iv) establish longer term vision and v) keep us competitive with longer term plan of promotion that sticks.
If Mick McCarthy has the plan to meet those aims then I'm happy to give him a chance.
I don't think we have the resources to rip apart everything Warnock did* so will be a slow build with sights set on 2022-2023 onwards rather than rushing to play passing football now.
*Neither do I think it's necessary. Warnock got us playing as a team, brought in leaders to get us through tough times and got fans on side. These are foundations to work from.
I do still think 10 games is too early to assess and decision on whether to extend could have been made in the international window with 14 games, including against some of the best in the division, to judge. I think that was the natural break to have this discussion because, as good as it has been, we're still unlikely to go up this year and as soon as relegation was batted away what happens going forward was always going to be more important than what has happened so far. Feeling more positive than negative though.
Club read the CCMB Celtic exclusive!!!
There will be no money unless, god forbid, we are promoted. We will be relying totally on VT if we are still, as I expect, in the Championship.
Players like Ojo and Wilson will be first out the door and we will be relying on Academy players.
I am sure MM understands that and he is the best man to do that job, being well used to it at Ipswich.
that'll be the end of the winning run then
very happy, Regardless of results I actually really like Mick's style of football, none of this boring tippy tappy stuff, when we have played well we have been direct, fast with high intensity and exceptional work rate.
People will rightly ask if this is too early, but the fact of the matter is we do not have the luxury to wait. His impact has not been unnoticed and clubs will certainly have been sniffing around.
Really pleasing news. Let's get behind him.
Excellent news. Fully deserved and the club have acted decisively which allows time for MM and TC to really think about their recruitment for next season.
McCarthy was way outside the front runners for the Celtic job, according to all the betting sites.
As for the contract, I think it might have come a little bit early, but you can't argue with the fact that he's turned the side around, and seems to have instilled a whole new momentum into the club. So good luck Mick - it's 1000 league games for him this Friday, so let's do it in style.
Fully deserved.
Not unhappy with this - but please don't go to shit now Mick you've got the job - although that's more of a lazy footballer trait
Mick's happy about it, the fans are happy about it and presumably the players are too so a good decision by the club to extend his and TC's contract.
A few weeks ago I said I couldn't see the point of the club making a hasty decision regarding his future but now seems as good a time as any and as other posters have said, it will give him the opportunity to plan for next season
It would be stupid to criticise this decision when we're talking about someone whose side have taken twenty four points out of a possible thirty - that's one hundred points plus a season stuff and, certainly in our last two home games, we've played some entertaining stuff. It'll be very interesting to see what sort of players he'll look to bring in this summer if we're still in the same division, will the pragmatist go with more of the same or will he look to gradually change things a bit?
Seems the right decision so the Club can actually plan for next season, either in the Championship or possibly but unlikely the PL.
Let's hope after one defeat no one calls for his head.
Let's be honest we have done as much for his career as he has done for us. He was on the scrap heap, I doubt he would have got a championship job after his failed Cyprus job. By the over reaction on here at his appointment (not by me I may add) I would say his stock was very low.
He has done very well and it's not to suggest he doesn't deserve a new contract but personally felt we needed a new direction and a review at the end of the season would have been fine with me.
If he felt he wanted to go elsewhere at that point then so be it.
this seems rather Similar to a recent appointment at old Trafford...
ole gets the job until the end of the season. then wins a bunch of games and they feel they have to give him the job even though many fans probably wanted someone else more progressive.
yes We've improved under McCarthy, and fine on this great run, but we were never as bad as it seemed under Harris, our underlying stats were always good so we were due a good run. now we have been over performing xG since McCarthy took over - so there will probably be a slump at some point.
he's done well enough to deserve a go though.
my only concern is much of the improvement seems to be "man management" which isn't something that is sustainable, who he brings in and how he develops our style are in answered questions, which will ultimately decide whether this is a good appointment or not, but we will have to wait and see
I think it is a bit simplistic to say it is just man management. He's changed the system, we've got our best players in their best positions and is getting a tune out of them. I think 4 or 5 of them are playing better than ever before and although Moore helps, he's getting more and more out of him too.
What the f*** is all this malarkey about xG and all these other stats, they don't mean a friggin' thing if your winning games, possession stats etc count for nothing if you're winning. And for not being so bad under Harris the team were shocking. They are playing better football now than for the past good number of years.
Why the rush? I thought we were going to review it at the end of the season! No way was he going to get the Celtic job! I would have given him a 1 Year rolling contract, Neil Harris got us to the playoffs last season but we had to pay him off as we did Warnock,Trollope etc We must have wasted millions on paid up contracts to Managers and players! There are plenty of Managers out there desperate for work but most only last 1-2 years?
I don’t begrudge him the opportunity he could not have done better.
It’s a kiss of death though, loss at Huddersfield coming up.
We're going to stuff them 3 0
I am not in the least surprised at this news.
In fact none of us should be as it was pretty obvious what was going to happen should Mick keep us up the way VT has run the club the last few years.
Yes it may be a little bit early and I'm sure we'll have a dodgy patch but hopefully it won't be a Liverpool-type one (:biggrin:)
As has been said, he can start to take more interest in strengthening the team and building for the future rather than thinking short term.
I hear some aren't convinced by him citing we haven't had a bad run yet or we haven't played anyone good, or the manager bounce will soon wear off.
Sime of this may well come to pass but he has exceeded my expectations in that he has changed our style for the better, he has got the players to believe in themselves and the team with some excellent results and increased their value.
Oh and has committed to bringing through some youngsters.
By the way, nobody knows how much his contract is worth, I doubt it's an astronomical amount, but why should we fans be that bothered anyway, it's not our money! :shrug:
Congratulations on securing your new contracts Mick and TC, keep up the good work :thumbup:
Well at least there’ll be compensation due if another club comes in for him.