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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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Best performance for a long time, and on Sky, and against a top side, and still people on here complaining. Compare our squad cost and salary vs Norwich. I don't even agree with the neutrals. We did enough to win. We created more chances and had a goal and penalty wrongly dissallowed. Knudsen and Ward were excellent. I dont even agree that Murph is a one season wonder. He won just about every header despite being wrestled and he worked hard and looked real threat. If we play like that every match, we should move quickly up the table. I have been a big critic of the preseason and opening performances (we were flattered against Barnsley and woeful against Stevenage) but credit where credit's due today. Onwards and upwards!
Brownie - we did, true, we also played a better brand of football under Magilton and Royal and we regularly gave the budgies a good kicking?
Of course spending money makes it slightly easier. I don't think you could use Derby and QPR in that example though....QPR are a midtable championship club and Derby bottle it every year. Boro only really spent money in the past year or two as well. Plus, you could say the same about us when Keane blew millions?
Where have I hammered Mick or the lads on today's performance? In fact, if you read my post on the 'match report' thread, quite the opposite! I find cheshire_blues post about the "real fans" very patronising and a tad naïve to say the least. When things start going the same way as last year and they start getting fed up, just like some of us already are, and they start saying it's time for MM to go.....will they still be 'real fans' then? Did these so called 'real fans' call for Keane and Jewells head or were they happy watching and supporting them destroying our club?
Aye, opinions are like backsides; everybody has one. But slating and berating others because theirs differs to yours is small minded and childish.
Be careful what you wish for? The SAS, the best special forces in the world, have the motto "who dares wins"....if they feared the unknown, they wouldn't be the best...
Mick Mills Tache Makes me laugh how you say on one thread ' I can't comment on the standard of play as I wasn't at the game and just listened to the odd snippet on the radio' and yet you come on here and berate the standard of play, the tactics and the management. And have the gall to mouth off to all those that thought we put in a good performance, support the team and the manager.... Really?
Still not sure on knudsen tho. Cost us a goal again today being caught out of position but made up for it. I would like to see kenlock given a stint but......... I know MM knows better than me.
I also stated that it sounded like we put in a good shift today and have also said previously in this thread that 2 slightly better performances does t make up for the tosh served up against Stevenage, Brentford and the majority of last season. Also, you'll find I'm the match report thread that I said I don't care how we play against the budgies, so long as we beat them. Maybe you shouldn't just selectively read/quote the bits that suit you and read/quote the whole lot, Gcon? I'm not mouthing off at all, merely putting my opinion across. After all, that is what a forum is for. I support the club, I don't support the manager. I will be supporting ITFC long after the likes of Chambers, Douglas et al are all but confined to the history books and I wouldn't bet against me supporting ITFC long after Mick kicks the bucket seeing as I'm probably 30 odd years his junior.
Excellent first 20 mins squeezing high up the pitch and hunting in packs and then went off the boil, stood off our men and resorted to type. Point a fair result but could easily have taken three today if we hadn't kept hoofing it to an isolated Murphy.
Webster has had a poor start to his Town career. Not sure how anyone can see that differently. Stood off Jerome for the goal, some weak decisions allowing men to run off him and clearing when not under pressure. Weak clearance led to them hitting the post. Great to see Bishop with a bit of impetus and look for intricate forward passes. The only one in that midfield today who didn't look to put it over the top or play it sideways.
So bored of watching Skuse. Wins a good tackle and then disappears. Rarely demands the ball and when he gets it, he slows play down or we squander a good opportunity. Freddie still doing more defending than attacking. Ward needs full back to get by him and he'll do a lot more damage...
5 games into the season and I can guarantee we're no way near good enough to challenge. Happy with a point but should have been more.
We shouldn't feel happy with the result (they won't be happy if they draw with us at home), but should feel happy with the performance. We got at them straight from the start and really put them under the cost for the first 15 minutes. Webster lost his man and the Jerome goal was really against the run of play. It was pretty much 50/50 for the rest of the half with a great reply from Knudsen right at the end.
We were a bit more ragged in the second half and the last 15 minutes we were hanging on. Another Webster mistake led to Whitaker nearly giving them the lead and then in the closing stages they came close twice, particularly Their winger who nearly scored. Bishop also came close for us.
Good performance, but really wanted to get our first win since 2009. Their record against us still stands and that's not good. Reaction at the end of the game was as if we won without the Chambers fist pump. Bizarre reaction I thought, almost like we were delighted with a point. Maybe the reaction was more based on the fact we didn't lose.
@Horsehollerer i don't see how you can count blocked efforts going wide and shots flying over the bar as shots on target i try and post fairly on what i see, we have no quality in the final third and not much in midfield to be honest,Sears spent more time defending in our box than attacking thats down to MM.I want us to be a force to be reckoned with and can't see us being anything more than average with McCarthys thinking,,a ambitious manager would have rolled over a poor Norwich yesterday but not a manager with a just don't get beaten attitude which really works,enjoy your football you may be satisfied but i am not.....Mick states he can't stand being praised one game and slated after one bad half of football well that just shows what he knows..
While these comments are quite entertaining, I feel MM might have got the wrong end of the stick here. Nobody said he personally is boring, and in fact I think he's refreshingly colourful. Rather, that his teams play really boring football!
Keep going like we saw for most of yesterday's game (bar the 15 or so after they scored) and a lot of people will be won back round.
Must be the lowest derby gate for years, possibly ever.
Should some people be asking why-------I think we know, quality of football and what people now expect at Portman Road, many have just had enough and have voted with their feet.
If we do not get 2 young sharp forwards in by end of deadline we are in big trouble, surely the manager can not expect us to go through the season with tiring ageing forwards who miss very presentable chances and sick notes----or does he!?
Absolutely right MM to do so, the idiots need to be told. “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". Those so called supporters deserve a team in league 2, which was where club was headed when he took over. Look at the spine of the team yesterday, Bialkowski, Berra, Skuse, Douglas, Murphy who each for me were superior to their Norwich counterparts yesterday, all signed by MM for free, and that is without McGoldrick (also a free).
The abuse Skuse & Douglas get indicates the football ignorance of the idiots. Who have you ever coached or managed. The danger is MM leaves. Anyone who expects to consistently outplay teams coming down from PL with millions, is living in cloud cuckoo land. MM continually develops the football side of his teams, as this summer's signings have shown. Webster is a very promising centre back. Smith for me, though brave, committed and strong in the air, was very limited in terms of distribution, pace and reading of the game. He was given more than adequate time. Chambers for me was most at fault for the goal, though otherwise was decent. He is not playing centre back, because he is not good enough to play there. He can do a job at RB and I can see why MM plays him there, though we all know he will never be top class. Bru has some ability and his workrate cannot be faulted, but for me he will struggle to get into the team when Grant and Bishop are fit. Otherwise we have a decent team, which with one further good attacking addition and a returning McGoldrick, will be right in the mix again this year.
Mick has never been given money to spend so it's hard to know how well he'd do if he was given some decent funds like RK (especially!) and PJ had before him. The question is, if he did get funds do you think he'd get the team playing in a much more attractive style or do you think he'd still set the team up with plenty of grinders and a few hoof merchants? I guess we'll never know as can't see MM being given that luxury by ME. We know MM has a very poor record in the Premier League, that is a fact. However, he deserves great credit for getting us out of a hole and operating well with very limited funds. But we still didn't win yesterday (even though the team gave their all and played well and therefore deserve immense credit - we were unlucky not to win) but because we didn't quite win (it's been far too long!) I can't yet declare Mick as being the Messiah as I said I would if we finally beat Norwich! But still, a big round of applause for yesterday and thus ensuring Norwich weren't top of the league at Portman Road. Now that would of been far too grim for words! BLUE ARMY!!!
1 thing is clear, and pardon me for stating the obvious, be we desperately need a striker with a proven goal-scoring pedigree, I think we can all agree on that! Let's hope we get a new arrival this week as that could make or break our season.
i actually think the win was there for the taking but Mick maybe decided to be cautious and settle for the point second half?
had one change left to make, Pitman on the bench - could have gone two up top and gone for it and i think Norwich may have crumbled. I understand why he didnt as he would have seen it as a good point against a strong side.
Also Murphs legs had gone on around 70 mins (he had worked hard up there to be fair to him) so frustrated to see he didn't freshen up the attack.
Would have snapped your hand off for a point in the morning but having seen how the game panned out i feel it was a huge opportunity missed to shut them up finally! man for man we wanted it more than them and there wasn't a poor performance on the pitch from anyone in blue.
It's got little to do with money and everything to do with McCarthy's obstinacy and blindness to the weaknesses of Chambers and the inadequaciws of Bru and Douglas. However poor certain individuals never get dropped so complacency sets in. McCarthy wouldn't know a TACTIC from a TICTAC
Pengiun Blue,I agree that McCarthy is foul mouthed,in fact I have never known an Ipswich Manager or any others for that matte swear as much as him in public.
I have also never heard an Ipswich Manager be so disrespective towards fans who don't agree with him;and clearly a thousand season ticket holders are not too enamoured;so fall in this category.I asked him a question in a meeting once, which he did not like,and I got short shrift,lucky I wasn't drinking lager at the time.He is no better than Roy Keane in this respect;so it isn't surprising they fell out.
But its the football he must be judged on,and the league positions he has attained on such a low budget is commendable,although the means of obtaining them not so,hence the reduced attendances,especially for the League Cup.
I thought his team played well yesterday,yes a bit more hoof than recently,but I expected this approach against Norwich;and it nearly resulted in a win;had it not been for the officials.
I am flummoxed by his attitude to Chambers though,who I felt should have closed down Jerome before the Norwich goal;but Sears had already been brushed aside and Knudsen beaten before it reached the Norwich forward.Even the much praised Webster,who gave away a penalty in the previous game,made another error and was saved by the post.
It is easy for us fans to criticise;but overall yesterday I thought Ipswich played well,with no obvious outstanding player;but then nobody had a bad game either,and all the players were 'up for it'.
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