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McCarthy: Disappointed We Didn't Win
Sunday, 21st Aug 2016 15:31

Town boss Mick McCarthy was pleased with his side’s performance as the East Anglian derby between the Blues and Norwich City ended 1-1 at Portman Road but was disappointed they didn't claim all three points. Cameron Jerome put the visitors ahead of 26 but Jonas Knudsen equalised in first-half injury time.

“You’d expect it to be [a bit of a scrap], wouldn’t you?” McCarthy said. “But there was a lot of quality in there as well, it wasn’t just a scrap, from both teams.

“We were the better side. I think we played well, I think we had a really good performance. I thought we were solid for the main part, we just let our guard down after 20 minutes and they got in. But they’ve got a lot of quality in their team.”

Regarding Jonathan Douglas’s disallowed goal, which replays showed was onside, McCarthy added: “I haven’t seen it but I’ve just been speaking to the lads at Sky and they said there was a suggestion from their pundits that it may have been onside.

“I said, ‘Make your mind up, it’s either onside or it’s offside’. I live in a fairly black and white world and they decided it was onside, so if that’s the case, I’ll be battering PGMOL’s [Professional Game Match Officials Limited] door down again on Monday morning with a tirade of, ‘Is there any chance of us getting a decision?’.

“No I won’t, I’ll be doing it tonight, leaving an answering machine message. We’ve had two in a week, we’re owed a little bit. Maybe we’ll get the decisions back over the season. Let’s hope so.”

McCarthy was delighted with the way his team had began the game: “We had the ball in the net, didn’t we? Sadly disallowed, but it was a good start.

“I’m really pleased with the performance, especially as a week ago I was sat in the press conference at Brentford and I’m really angry and annoyed about a second half in which when we conceded we looked like conceding another, and we did.

“We were certainly different today, we were more resolute and tough and played very well.”


McCarthy was pleased for Jonas Knudsen that he had scored his second goal for the club, although was surprised that it came via his right foot: “I didn’t buy him for that because it’s akin to my left foot.

“He was unlucky at the far post just beforehand because he and Murph got in one another’s way.

“A really good performance from Jonas. It’s nice for him. He does all the dirty jobs well, he gets up and down, he works hard, he puts his head in, he puts his tackles, in he’s a proper grafter.

“It’s nice for him to get a bit of love for scoring, especially against Norwich, it’s lovely.”

The game’s other contentious decision was referee David Coote’s decision not to penalise Tim Klose for tripping Daryl Murphy in the second half with the striker looking to be in on goal.

“We appealed for it,” McCarthy said. “I thought he caught him and I think the big fella coming off has said that he got away with one to some of the lads.

“And then strangely enough we got a right wishy-washy freekick about 35 yards out after that. But I don’t know. I’d have to see it for me to really say.

“That’s my thoughts now, I thought maybe he got away with one. I might look at it tomorrow morning and think the referee’s got it spot on.”

Overall, despite facing one of the division’s favourites, McCarthy wasn’t satisfied with the point.

“I’m disappointed we didn’t win,” he continued. “Somebody just asked me, ‘Did you do enough to win the game?’, well quite clearly we didn’t, what a stupid bloody question. No, because we didn’t score two goals.

“But I thought we played well enough but didn’t manage to get the goal, so the performance was good enough but we just didn’t have that second goal in us.

“But they’re a good side and are bloody hard to beat and all, by the way. They’ll be a team up in the top all season long, I think.”

Asked whether the encouraging performances against Wolves and Norwich will have instilled some enthusiasm amongst fans, a clearly irked McCarthy retorted: “I get sick to death of us playing one bad half and we’re all s–t and we can’t play and the manager doesn’t care, ‘Get somebody who cares’, and I’m a boring c–t, somebody called me last week.

“I wished he’d called me to my face on my own because his pint of lager, he’d have been wearing it, let me tell you.

“So I heard the comments and, let me tell you, if that’s what they think about me and my team, well they’re sadly mistaken.

“I’m not having that, I’m not having that all of a sudden now we’re great this week. We’ve got to play Preston on Saturday, a team we’ll be expected to beat because they’ve not had a great start, although they beat QPR yesterday.

“And after that we’ll all be great guys again. Do me a favour, let’s just be consistent about it. It really does irk me that, up and down like a fiddler’s elbow. I’m all right one week and I’m not the next. Generally, I’m pretty consistent myself.”

Norwich manager Alex Neil was disappointed with the way his team started the game and admitted that they didn’t do enough to claim the three points.

“We had the better chances but our play didn’t deserve the victory,” he said. “We didn’t play the ball as quickly as we can and they were happy to let us have it in front of them. Unfortunately we weren’t good enough on the ball.”

Neil, who said he hadn’t seen a replay of the disallowed goal, was unhappy with the way his team conceded Knudsen’s goal.

“It was a good finish but a rubbish goal from our point of view,” he said. “We had a corner and I was thinking this is a chance to get a second goal but 45 seconds later they had the ball in our net.”


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billlm added 15:39 - Aug 21
Thwy were there for the taking, a lot better than last saturday,bishop looked a lot better today
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jas0999 added 15:39 - Aug 21
Good interview from MM. Pleasing that he was unhappy with a point,rather than the usual take a point all day long. As it goes I personally thought it was a fair result. We need to press on and certainly address the lack of goals in the last four matches. Good hard working display with loads of passion. Whether it will be enough to convince the stay away fans to return, I'm not so sure.

P.s. Fraser starting for Bournemouth today. Sadly rules a loan out. Shame.
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TimmyH added 15:46 - Aug 21
Personally felt a draw was about the right result, most of the quality on the deck came from them and particularly their goal but the first half of the 1st half we were the better team with more desire and getting more players further forward. Second half was scrappier and what chances there were went to them (trying to struggle for a decent chance we created 2nd half).

No point dwelling on the disallowed goal it could have changed the whole complexity of the game and made us sit back and defend without little desire to do anything else.
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muccletonjoe added 15:49 - Aug 21
starting to find some form . we need 3 points next week before the break and then i think we will be comfortably top 10 this season
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NoCanariesAllowed added 15:56 - Aug 21
That little taboo rant was hitting another level on the Post-Match Mick scale. Love it. Why have I never heard that fiddler's elbow expression before?
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bedsitfc added 16:17 - Aug 21
Tactics spot on today, we aren't as bad as some supporters think!!!!
We will be ok
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Mark added 16:23 - Aug 21
Excellent performance today, we were passionate, well organised and the better team. Knudsen MOTM and it would have been fitting if his late throw resulted in the winning goal. Webster is settling in nicely. We couldn't ask for more today, well done lads.
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battyblue added 16:31 - Aug 21
We were the better side keep dreaming McCarthy!! didn't have a shot on goal all second half.
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dukey44 added 16:49 - Aug 21
Got to say best I've seen us on tv!! And nope still want Mick out sorry
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horsehollerer added 17:00 - Aug 21
@battyblue As usual, you are talking absolute rubbish. Off the top of my head, I can think of a Berra header on target, a couple of blocked Sears efforts, a Murphy turn and shot just over the bar, and of course the Bishop double chance near the end, which forced a block and a really good save. All of this was in the second half. What game were you watching?
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Penguinblue added 17:27 - Aug 21
Firstly glad we did not lose - and we have played worse.
Despite getting the early goal we were not set up to go out and win, nor did we try to hard to win in the closing stages.
McCARTHY claims to be a straight talker. He is not. He talks crap and is the most one dimensional manager your team could have the misfortune to have.
A few facts
McCARTHY must go for Ipswich to improve
Chambers is neither a right back or a captain, a hoofing liability
Murphy is either idle or past it or both
Bru, unfortunately, is not good enough
Sears is wasted on the left.
Knudsen is improving, not just because he scored, but all round.
Webster has more to do to prove he is better than Smith

McCarthy has no Plan B and is fouled mouthed.
Please go - please fans, let him know his time is up
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ShropshireBluenago09 added 17:33 - Aug 21
Mick has played a masterstroke bringing in Ward. Thought we played well, against a good side, but i fear we need a top quality striker. It is clear that; 1. Sears is out of form, 2. Murphys 20+ goal haul was a flash in the pan, 3. Mc Goldrick is too injury prone ¬ reliable enough, 4. Reg is not the answer.
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Mick_Mills_Tache added 17:46 - Aug 21
I think you'll find, Mick, there's a very large group of us on here that have a very strong dislike for you and some of your players, regardless of the result. Your little rant there has just further compounded my dislike and discontent at you being the manager of our beloved club. How does that proverb go; one swallow does not a make summer? Two slightly better performances doesn't make the season and doesn't make up for the tosh served up last season. Besides, let's face it, they couldn't get much worse than the Stevenage or Brentford performances!

Anyhoo....today highlights our shortcomings. No in form striker meaning a total lack of goals. The right back position that hasn't been addressed probably since David Wright left back in 2010. Either buy one or play young Emmanuel (I'd prefer it if we did both..) and we could also do with another good standard, creative centre mid and also a left winger to give Sears the chance to play where he's supposed to be: up front! It's destroying Freddie plonking him on the left.
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bedsitfc added 18:05 - Aug 21
Mick mills tache
Budget
Is the only answer!!!

Let's face real facts shall we
MM came in when we were bottom of the league and looking down and out!
He has without spending money turned us around and into promotion contenders (like the style or not we are contenders)!
MM is not the problem at our club!
Investment is!!
We compete regular with clubs with much bigger budgets than us and 2 poor halfs against Stevenage and Brentford doesn't make him a bad manager.
Those 2 games the players let themselves and the club down.
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Cheshire_Blue added 19:25 - Aug 21
Yes, but the very large group on here represents a very very small minority of the 20,000 plus real supporters who have enough sense to recognise a good manager and MM is up there with the best on a shoestring budget.
Penguin Blue OUT
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Brownie added 19:32 - Aug 21
Better side today definitely - can't believe people on this site moaning about the performance today. Living in the real world The Budgies have better players across the piece but you wouldnt have known that today..

I still think some people would rather we lose so they can feel vindicated..

Unless ME is going to spend we are stuck with this budget & similar players coming in. If we can't get behind the lads when they do alright then something is wrong. If MM fails then so be it but let him fail first before hammering him..
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Langdon_Blue added 19:58 - Aug 21
Robbed of 4 points in a week by poor decisions from officials. Fact. We'd be in in second place tonight if the linesman got those two decisions right. When you look at it like that, the players and management can't be doing that badly after 5 games. Well played today. Especially the first half.
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spanishblue added 20:03 - Aug 21
You know what there are some people in this world should stay in bed and turn there lights off,cus they talk rubbish,you play a team just out of premier league have payed millions for a single player,they should be better than us but for a c--p officials we could and should have won,yes we don,t play tippy tappy football but the idea is to score any old how,and until such times as we get bought by a dodgy chinaman or a saudi prince or russian whats it we will have to make do,if you don,t like our club go write on the canary wall have a nice day,end of season will tell all
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blueherts added 20:09 - Aug 21
Nice one spanish beds and others - voices of reason and reality - I think we on it today and lets take it into our next few months !!
I do however find MM pressers abit tedious - we all hear bad language in every day use - but I find a manager of a Professional football club spouting it every other presser very un professional
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Mick_Mills_Tache added 20:47 - Aug 21
I love the way some Town fans claim that you're not a 'real' supporter because you don't like or support the current regime. By that sense, if you don't like the 'Tories, you can't be proud to be British.

Budget has absolutely nothing to do with playing a better brand of football. Just because you haven't spent any/little money on players, it doesn't mean the only thing you can do with those players is to launch it into the heavens at every opportunity. I think you'll also find that doing that makes our lives more difficult because 8 times out of ten, the ball ends up co,img straight back at us because there isn't anybody up there for Murphy to flick it on to. Budget also has sod all to do with playing two, sometimes three, defensive midfielders at home, playing one up front at home, playing a CB at right back and never dropping him even if he plays terrible, keeping Smith out of the team when he was a better player than Berra last season. I said when Mick took over, we'll never go anywhere under him.

If hoofing scored us goals and won us games, where are all the goals and where are all the wins?
Aren't the season ticket sales down? Aren't the average gates dropping? I know several people who have only renewed out of habit.

Brownie, what is considered failing? Not being promoted? It's been two full seasons of no promotions....

Stop with the holier than thou stuff just because you support dire football and a tactically inept manager.
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ArnieM added 21:10 - Aug 21
Get lost u utter prick!
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Brownie added 21:29 - Aug 21
Mick Mills Tache - 'better brand of football' would be nice I agree; Jewell played a better brand of football and we lost 5-1 at home to NCFC.

Getting promoted is harder every year due to budgets. Are you saying if you spend money like Boro,Derby,Norwich, QPR & even Bournemouth that doesn't make it easier.

Not sure why suggesting that MM & the lads don't deserve to be hammered for today is holier than thou? I was as bored as anyone last year but today wasn't boring yet people still have an agenda to moan.

Its all about opinions!

I just wonder if people need to be careful what we wish for though..
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hudbud10 added 21:37 - Aug 21
Please play Feddie Upfront and NOT on the bloody wing, he was more of a left wing back today and shouldn't have been put in that position for there goal!! When we hoof it to Murphy even if he could control the ball,which most of the time he can't, his got no one with him to either run of his flicks or join the play from midfield. Still miles off from doing anything in this league - need a RB, CM, and a goal scorer to replace Mcgoldrick as his not interested in playing for us! One week left of the transfer window but I'm not holding my breath. Norwich were there for the taking today and negative tactics stopped us from getting all 3 points. Loved the clappers tho 😀
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vesuviusblue added 21:43 - Aug 21
“Somebody just asked me, ‘Did you do enough to win the game?', well quite clearly we didn't, what a stupid bloody question. No, because we didn't score two goals."

Classic Mick!
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bedsitfc added 21:58 - Aug 21
Budget has everything to do with it!!!!
MM plays to the team strengths
More technical players cost more money!!!
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