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28,500 fans on a Friday under the lights! with cementing an automatic promotion spot a real possibility, playing the largest club in the league, who are also promotion rivals, and with Town playing a style of football to excite and a group of players to value - Jesus my blue brothers and sisters - does it get any bigger and any more exciting?
Black and Black Army
It's on Sky and it's a big pressure game, against a manager who has had the measure of Ipswich for some time - what could possibly go wrong?!
Paul Warne has regularly blown us away with his high tempo, physical and more direct style of football. But positively he's still not quite got the players yet, or has managed to get his way of playing into the Derby side. And there is a chance their higher turnover of ball, may leave some space between the lines to move through them quickly. But tonight, I expect them to sit deeper on us, and try and break. Jackson may start against 'slower CBs'.
Derby fans on their Forum, are coming to terms with Warne, and the more direct style. They feel he's made them more robust and stronger than under Rosenoir, but not the finished article (thread below)... and not everyone agrees. This is heartening:
"Ipswich are better than anyone we've played so far and I think the way we set up will leave our back three exposed, Ipswich to win relatively comfortably I think. I'd actually have had more faith in some sort of result in this game playing the Rosenior way, purely because we'd have had more of the ball. If we end up in a basketball match as has been the pattern under Warne Ipswich are good enough to punish us for it properly."
And a Basketball match is a great analogy for perhaps how Warne and McKenna ball combine!
Lets get tribal tonight people... total volume and energy from the stands, roar them on. Don't rely on the players as is the PR norm, generate ourselves. A win tonight would be quite the shot of adrenaline into the automatic campaign and a tonic after Lincoln. Time to see if McKenna has got the measure of Warne.
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