Not only have we seen another club disappear as the fans of Macclesfield joined those of Bury in being locked out of the game, we might count ourselves lucky to only be locked out of Portman Road for our own good. Owner Evans has written to season ticket holders outlining the situation the club finds itself in and the refund options. On Friday the members of League One voted by majority to instigate a salary cap. Evans purchased the club for one reason to achieve the holy grail of promotion to the premiership. Please note that the ticket office telephone line or club shop will not be open for this process, it is via email only. Whichever option you decide, I’d like to thank you for your support over the past season. Relegation from the Championship was hard to take and the 2019/20 season ended in disappointment after starting so brightly but there is no doubt that the year ahead presents the biggest challenge of my time as owner at this fantastic football club. Portman House, 120 Princes StreetIpswich, IP1 1RS, Woman, 32, dies and two men seriously hurt in Suffolk crash, Nightspot has licence suspended after Covid-19 rules ‘breach’, Pub landlord and customers charged over disturbance, Horror movie filmed in Suffolk town stars Love Island’s Dani Dyer, OPINION: Celebration of being idle - niksen - just seems a load of Double Dutch. Supporters who purchased a ticket for the games but can’t attend the rearranged matches will be entitled to a full refund as usual by returning their ticket to the Ticket Office. Unless I'm missing something, nowhere does it tell me how much my "refund" is worth. I renewed my DD which entitles me to some bonus for 20/21 but I can't remember what!? The Club will add 25 per cent on top of the refund value of the five missed games so for anyone entitled to - for example a £100 refund - will instead be issued with £125 in vouchers. The club now has a new ticketing partner, SeatGeek, who are a global ticketing platform. The final refund amount will be over 12 months from the first missed match. The vast majority of that is tied up in his other businesses. To those who would prefer to wait until football and perhaps life becomes a little clearer, thank you too for your support. Alternatively, please email ifollow@efl.com - note that live chat is recommended for the quickest response on a matchday. So if for example your donation value is £100, we will issue you with £25 in vouchers. Donate 50 per cent of the refund to the club for use in the academy or ITFC Community Trust. Have to agree this is very reasonable - well done Town. Sounds like some on this board have been living in a time warp over the past 3 months. Supporters can opt for a full refund, can take the option of club credit or donate the money to a combination of the Community Trust or the academy. I appreciate that cash-flow is tight for many businesses, which is why the government have contributed to wages, and offered business loans at very reasonable rates. Relegation from the Championship was hard to take and the 2019/20 season ended in disappointment after starting so brightly but there is no doubt that the year ahead presents the biggest challenge of my time as owner at this fantastic football club. His tenureship has been a disaster for us loyal fans. Where have you been tbe past few months. To do this click on the cookie settings button below. All claims must be made via email, with any tickets not refunded or credited by that date being donated to the club’s academy and community trust. So if for example your donation value is £100, we will issue you with £25 in vouchers. The Club will be emailing all 2019/20 season ticket holders that are on the database, which is over 90 per cent, with the compensation options. d) A refund for the cancelled five games repayable in equal instalments on 1 September 2020, 1 January 2021 and 1 May 2021 e) A 50/50 option. Season ticket holders start paying for their season tickets 3 months before the start of a season. The health and safety of all will always be the primary focus but we are also just beginning to see the economic fall-out from the pandemic and football will certainly not be immune from that. They are also giving us more back than we have paid them in the 1st place. This was the season in which we had a realistic chance of winning the Treble - it sounds like complete fantasy now, but it happened. So if for example your donation value is £100, we will issue you with £50 in vouchers.

In an ideal world, all League One clubs for next season would take the extra steps of temperature checks at the turnstiles with entry refused for anyone with a temperature and also insist on every fan entering the ground wearing a mask for the entirety of their time in the ground. I love ITFC more than I could wish for, and it won’t stop even though we are in a deep lot of sh*t :-). Please notify the Club of your compensation option by 5pm on Wednesday, 22 July. If the Club has not received notification by then, option A will apply. So anyone who decides they want a refund, will be getting more than they're officially entitled to. FOR SEASON TICKET HOLDERS WHO HAVE ALREADY PAID IN FULL FOR A 2020/21 SEASON TICKET, PLEASE CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS… a) Donate the money to the Club for use in the Academy or ITFC Community Trust. FROM THE OWNER As you will be aware our 2019/20 season ended eight games early, with five of those games to have been played at Portman Road. Your old password will not be valid on the new system. As a thank-you to those taking up this option, the club will issue you with ‘cash’ vouchers for use at the stadium to the value of 50 per cent of your donation value. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Seems very reasonable. Sally. We will need to add to what is already a very competitive squad to give us the best chance of achieving promotion; we need to continue to invest in the future and we have done that recently with new long-term contracts for Luke Woolfenden and Armando Dobra; we need to continue to fund the Academy so that conveyor belt of homegrown players functions. He's not a fan, he's a businessman that made a poor decision. It’s a worst case scenario - and the indications are that fans will be phased back into stadiums at some stage - but that worst case scenario is what we have to be prepared for. So if for example your donation value is £100, we will issue you with £50 in vouchers. To clarify my point above, the question regarding those who will opt for a refund of five games (not six), is who should most appropriately be lending the club money? To the many of you who have renewed your season ticket for next year, I’d like to say thank you. a) Donate the money to the club for use in the academy or ITFC Community Trust. Town season ticket holders for 2019/20 are reminded that the deadline for selecting their compensation option for the five home games that were cancelled at the end of the campaign is 5pm on Wednesday, 22 July. Whereas we pay a monthly amount which covers however many games are played each month.

We have been hit harder than most in League One but I will continue to provide the financial stability to maintain the club’s competitiveness as much as possible, though as always much will depend on the continuing support of our great fanbase. Covid-19 has affected each and every one of us.