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Comment | Norwich City 1-0 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 15:01:01
I am very confident in top two and this result has somehow left me unbothered, but that performance wasn't good enough today and we should not be afraid to acknowledge that.
Here is why I'm optimistic;
Hull away is THE away game we should win, they are worse at home than they are away and are currently on a poor run of form, similar to their end of season form last season.
Our home games are likely to obtain the maximum points, our home form should see it through, Middlesbrough will be a very tough game.
The coventry away game is a weekday game, Mckenna's unbeaten weekday form in league games should see at least a draw, it could end up being a miracle that it was moved from a Saturday game to a weekday.
We really need to learn how to play football when the kickoff time is 12:30, though. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 4-2 Preston North End - Match Report
at 18:18:23
Not surprised we are 2nd anymore, our form this year is not really surprising when we are playing this well and constantly improving every game.
I've missed Ipswich in the championship, I love this league, even if promotion happens, I honestly think it will now, I'm just happy we get to see us play in this league again. |
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Comment | Derby County 0-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 17:38:49
Although that goal should never have been disallowed, it's nice to see points given back to us after that Barnsley game.
The improvement since the Bristol Rovers game has been absolutely pivotal, and my mind is changed, I'm convinced we are winning the league.
Today was almost a perfect performance in my opinion, they were not scoring any other way apart from that set piece. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 3-0 Accrington Stanley - Match Report
at 22:15:40
We had to win the last 4 games at least to keep the belief, anything less would have been utterly disappointing, even if our opposition have recently just kept allowing us to play to our strengths too easily (thus why I'm not getting carried away until after saturday if we win), that first goal where they forget where Jackson was made me cringe a little as a fan.
Great to get another win, Luongo improves the game Morsy tries to play, and I am really excited by his current performances, it helps because I previously thought Morsy was not creative enough, but with Luongo next to him it just works, and his passes, and general attacking play, are more threatening. Broadhead has fantastic ball awareness in the box.
Comfortable job for our defenders today.
Donacien, those passes into the box, his biggest weakness. |
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Comment | Bristol Rovers 0-0 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 21:56:01
A quick second comment to state that I am also of the opinion that rotation is fine, Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday have regularly rotated their teams and they are flying past us now. It's not the rotation, it's the mismanagement against teams that park the bus. The curse against the bigger teams has crawled back into its way as well now so that's fun to watch happen. |
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Comment | Bristol Rovers 0-0 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 21:53:50
You can't take Ladapo off and expect things to work! He was the only player today who I thought was trying his hardest to win the physical battle up top, and should have been given a penalty.
I don't get it, why do we not change our tempo? Why is our passing so slow and timid? Why were we searching for through balls in the first half, with 4 players on the edge of their box almost at all times, if they were going to sit back and not move for the whole half?
Even with the mild improvement in the second half, when we had our chances, our finishing was not good enough. Broadhead should have scored, and Clarke should have scored.
Once again, our plan B is visible, but it doesn't produce results correctly.
Ever since the 1-1 against Cheltenham, I foresaw our fall really early, but I was wrong — the problem is that our central midfielders are too slow, Humphreys, Morsy and Evans are not quick enough for the system we are trying to implement, and Morsy is not creative enough. We need a quicker Lee Evans. That 4-0 against Morecambe was a standard performance in my opinion, we didn't do anything differently, we just played against an opposition that was unfit to defend anything. This is what happens when we try anything against teams that sit back and soak up unthreatening pressure.
I'm so tired of giving up a good league position midway through the season in this league, this is the 3rd time out of the 4 seasons that it has happened now.
Until the start of this season, I never felt that Woolfenden was good enough for us, but when I thought he was playing well at that point, I had no reason to think otherwise, but I'm back to giving the opinion that he isn't alert enough in situations where anticipation is most necessary, and therefore not good enough for us.
We need a better plan B. Cook's wasn't good enough, McKenna's isn't good enough. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 4-1 Rotherham United - Match Report
at 17:41:03
Our problem was never the striker, our striker is fine, the problem was that we didn't have a suitable backup option there, and we didn't have quality competition in our wider CAMish players through Chaplin, Edwards, Harness etc. With current speculation, I hope we don't have that problem anymore.
Today was what we are supposed to be, and are capable of producing in league 1, and we need more of this, not less. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-1 Cheltenham Town - Match Report
at 17:30:41
We don't need a striker - it was not our problem today.
Apart from Edwards, we need better CAMS/RWS because that is where most of our shooting came from in the box - Chaplin is not reliable against teams like this, and he was absolutely shocking today, and Harness was below average, Humphreys and Morsy had to come forward more to do their job for them and it started to leave a few gaps in our midfield near the end of the game because they got so tired.
Jackson and Camara put their foot behind their knee when sliding in for the crosses coming in from the left side in the second half, both should have been goals, and jackson should have scored the third rebound after we missed the first 2 chances, that was the worst miss of the game.
Ladapo was simply unlucky for me today, he isn't the problem and it's not his fault the goalkeeper managed to save his header.
I also think we need a better defensive partnership, Edmundson and Woolfenden in the same back line is unreliable, and has a history of being unreliable, how many leads have we given away with them in the same team now? When Cheltenham had their only real attack, Edmundson was out of position, and Davis had to cover the center of the pitch, leaving that left side completely open for them to score a shot that Walton should have saved.
I can not see a stop to any of this, and I think it's a lack of commitment when we are ahead, and we panic too easily when we realise our mistakes. |
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Comment | Manager Cook Sacked
at 19:33:38
Not sure how I feel about this, unless we pull the best magic ever, Cook was the only one on record to pull promotions out of the hat of choices, the current lineup of unemployed looks dreadful.
I do not care if we go up with a defensive coach, I do not want a defensive coach. |
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Comment | Morsy Red Card Appeal Rejected
at 18:45:45
There is no point in an appeal system if you are going to protect poor decisions without an actual explanation as to why the decision stands. |
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Comment | Cook: Morsy's Leadership Qualities Will Be There For Fans to See
at 12:57:44
It was almost a decade ago when fans were absolutely raging at Clegg for failing to get people in, the one I can think of is Charlie Austin who went on to be a success at Burnley, Clegg couldn't take players from the lower league.
These guys have somehow taken from the league ABOVE for some of our signings. mental. |
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Comment | Celina: Fans One of the Biggest Reasons For Return
at 18:51:00
He was excellent for the first half of the season, after his goal against Leeds he had such a poor spell and all I can presume is that Mick took his pride away.
Either way, this is genuinely brilliant, I can't wait to see him again in a town shirt. |
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Comment | Blues' Morsy Move "Unlikely"
at 16:50:42
Why can't people respect opinions and attack them instead? No wonder divides are so easy to create.
Of course I don't agree with Monkey's comment by the way, I think Cook just wants to get himself an actual captain and move Evans into a backup role due to his poor performances. |
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