Town boss Paul Jewell again bemoaned his side’s tendency to concede “calamitous goals” after Doncaster left Portman Road with a 3-2 victory. The Blues manager praised his side’s second half character as they pulled two goals back but felt they’d left themselves far too much to do with their first half display.

Jewell said: “With the goals we’re giving away we’re giving ourselves mountains to climb at the moment. We did it at Peterborough, against Southampton, Millwall and again today. We’re giving calamitous goals away and when you do that you’re always going to be up against it.

“When we’re bad, we’re hopeless,” he conceded. “ We just look so vulnerable and every time they went forward they almost scored a goal.

“I think we showed a bit of character in the second half, even though at 3-1 we wanted to be more on the front foot, but I don’t think it was as bad as the [Peterborough and Southampton] games. We showed some character in the second half.

“But the first half performances and the way we concede goals is killing us. We’re making basic errors. There are experienced players out there, as well as one or two young ones.”

The Blues boss outlined the failings on each of Doncaster’s goals: “Every goal you concede is a bad goal but the first one’s from a freekick, which doesn’t get cleared, gets crossed and Diouf gets a free header.

“The second one is a cross from the right under no pressure, another a free header. The third one, the two centre-backs get in one another and the game’s over almost. It’s not the midfield, it’s not the forwards, it’s the team as the whole.

“When we’re not controlling games, we’re getting done. There are plenty of teams that haven’t controlled games that have got a 0-0 or a 1-0. And we, at the minute, because it’s not going our way, we get done at the back.”

Freekicks and corners are also a problem: “It’s not just a defensive point of view, it’s set plays as well. We switch off at set plays. When we got to 3-1 and everyone’s got their man for set plays, they could have scored two goals. That’s just down to basic poor defending. That might not be a defender, that might be a midfield player, it might be a forward player.

“Even if you’re playing not very well, as we were in the first half, we’ve got to be able to get in at half-time at 0-0 or still be in the game.

“At 3-0 you don’t give up but you give yourself a mountain to climb. Our goal difference tells you that we don’t defend very well.”

Jewell wasn’t using the switches of personnel as an explanation for the alarming drop in form: “All those things we were doing three weeks ago have just disappeared for whatever reason, through confidence or whatever.

“Perhaps we made a few changes through injury, but we’re not going to use that as an excuse. Some of the goals we’ve conceded, not just today but this season, are not of the standard of a decent Championship team, or a bad Championship team even.”

Doncaster boss Dean Saunders was delighted with the win but admitted he was worried at the end: “We played really well today, although George Friend’s missed four open goals, so I’m a bit disappointed at what happened right at the end because if there had been another five minutes on the clock, you never know, they could have forced the ball over the line somehow, got a lucky break.

“But I can’t complain. Those were two great crosses from Coppinger, he worked his socks off and played really well and the finishing from Diouf and Billy Sharp was great. It was a good three points for us, we needed it.”

Rovers striker Sharp, whose new-born son Luey died last week, thanked Town fans for their applause after his goal and when he was subbed via Twitter: “Just like to say a big thank you to all the Ipswich fans for the ovation they gave me when I scored and got taken off.

“Will never forget that moment today at Portman Road. Ipswich Town fans unbelievable, never seen anything like it.

“And another thank you to all Blades fans, heard about the minute's applause on 24 minutes, very special, I scored on 24 minutes too,” said the former Sheffield United player and boyhood supporter.

Photo: Action Images

churchmans added 13:36 - Nov 6 YORKSBLUE you phuckin dikk! 'burley hasnt been particulary effective iyo!???????' complete dikk apart from ramsey and robson who has done better than burley??? no one playoffs 6 seasons running playoff winners 5th in the prem leauge 2 seasons in europe going to milan and moscow you are a complete knob and anybody else who doubts burleys reign with ipswich. 90% OF TOWN FANS WOULD WELCOME HIM BACK WITH OPEN ARMS. oh he done all of this with a shoestring budget. and if any prat on here mentions the relegation in burleys last season what about pj, keane oh and didnt we get relegated the season after we won the leauge in 62.

0

churchmans added 13:38 - Nov 6 WE WANT BURLEY
0

northernblues added 14:13 - Nov 6 respect to your comments churchmans
0

fanofblue added 14:37 - Nov 6 Agree with Garv,terrible team selection,basic errors all over the pitch and gave the opposition a head start.Jewell paised the second half performance,well it couldn`t get any worse could it.We need at least one winger on the pitch,we are too narrow and too predictable.With the players we have we should be in the top six and have the consistency to remain there.
0

stoofer added 16:02 - Nov 6 churchmans don`t count me in your "we". no thanks.
0

jas0999 added 16:14 - Nov 6 I see one or two people on here are slating me ... whilst one or two of the PJ lovers seem very quiet. We won't sack PJ I suspect ... ME can't afford to - but to the deluded few, just a few facts. 1. We are FOUR points worse off than at the same point last season 2. Results and preformances under PJ have been far worse than Roy and Jim 3. we have just been thrashed at HOME against the bottom team in the league 4. we have no future: PJ's signings are too old and/or on loan. We are screwed either way - the same happened to poor old Derby when erm, PJ was in charge 5. Attendances are 6,000 lower under PJ than Roy or Jim 6. Some of PJ's gems: Town 1 Norwich 5; Swansea 4 Town 1; Town 0 Watford 3; Town 0 Reading 3; Town 1 Northampton 2; Town 2 Doncaster 3 (they should have had 10); Town 2 Southampton 5; Millwall 4 Town 1; Leicester 4 Town 2; and my favourite ... Peterboro 7 Town 1 - not Man City, Not United, but Peterboro. Rather than slate me, take a good long hard look at the manager - a man who now has his own team, his selections, his tactics. A man who has been here TEN MONTHS, but STILL delivers this RUBBISH. We are worse off under PJ. I don't recall any other manager delivering this rubbish in just 10 months. Anyone care to disagree? Looking for a manger who has conceeded 4,5, 7 so many times in just TEN MONTHS???? Didn't think so.

0

IvorFeeling added 16:21 - Nov 6 Garv - On the balance of results the West Ham and Middlesborough games have been the exception not the rule. We were good for 80 mins against Brighton but they have also been found out. The odd result you are going to get but shipping 7 to Pboro, 3 to Donny and 4 to Millwall is relegation form. Not only that the team do not know how to defend save Sonko, collins and Stockdale, many off field issues and a total lack of pace save Carson & Martin who until yesterday couldn't get in the team. I love the club but at the mo the only way to benefit is through the bookies backing other teams against us rather than the enjoyment we should get watching them play. Those that think we a too far away from the bottom three take a look again in 4 weeks - already our goal diff is relegation material.

0

Ipswichbusiness added 16:21 - Nov 6 I live in the Midlands. I know quite a few Derby supporters. They are not holding out much hope for us.
0

irishtim added 16:30 - Nov 6 stockdale = fulham one of our best players. What happens if he is recalled? Again no answer. Collins = stoke gone very soon. Its a total shambles. I believe the whole system is wrong. Burley back ipswich to the core. Lets build with youth & passion & forget overpaid overthehill players. Ipswich till i die but want more than the rubbish we r getting.
0

MickMillsTash added 16:51 - Nov 6 Towards the end of Magiltons career he was as much a problem to the team due to lack of mobility as he was a benefit to the team due to his passing. Today Bullard is giving us the same headaches only it is probably a lot more frustrating due to his potential, his wage and supporters expectation after all the spending and players coming in. The midfield is the problem and Jewell needs to fix it- whether this includes Bullard or not I do not care though suspect that it doesn't. The midfield needs someone who can tackle and organise ( I thought this would be Bowyer) and who will help the defence out. This sort of player will give the team the basis for the full backs to get forward as much as they have. Jewell complains about giving soft goals away but he chooses who he signs, who plays and how the team is organised (though sometimes I think he chooses not to bother with this). The results and performances are a reflection mainly on him which I am not certain he realises. Can anyone face another 10 months similar to the first 10 months of his reign? Does anyone see any improvement? Does anyone think there will be any under Jewell ?

0

h32 added 17:10 - Nov 6 MickMillsTash - there will be no success under Jewell to talk of - this is his level of capability. and everyone should now be able to see this.
0

Gazelle added 17:13 - Nov 6 Alpine Blue you're wasting your time arguing with this lot. I seem to remember that some people were calling for Sir Bobby's head 40 years but the Club persevered with him and it bought fantastic rewards. Alex Ferguson also started badly at Man U. And i hate to say it, when Norwich were bottom of the league three seasons ago their supporters stuck with them, 25,000 got behind the team every week. Fat chance that happening here. I've told you before, i've been a supporter 50 years and i've never come across a club with so many moaners as we've got. Think it's hereditary.

0

h32 added 17:14 - Nov 6 jason0999 - no one, other than idiots could disagree with any of that. Absolutely factual.
0

h32 added 17:21 - Nov 6 Gazelle - likewise, I have been a supporter of the Club for a similar period - it's high time you woke up to reality in my opinion. Heads, like yours, in the sand will get this Club nowhere, other than of course oblivion.
0

h32 added 17:28 - Nov 6 Garv - reckon you'll soon be forming an ITFC 'losers' Club - you'll get a few members.
0

Garv added 18:32 - Nov 6 H32 can I ask how is 'performances under PJ have been far worse than under Roy' factual? It is an opinion, and my opinion is that is rubbish and if you think performances under Keane were generally better you don't know good/bad football when you see it. You can go on all you like about scores that we have been beaten by under PJ, they have been awful, but I would argue that a Jewell side at its best is much much better to watch than a Keane side at its best. A Jewell side at its worse at the moment sadly looks on par with that of Keane, but atleast Jewell brings us goals! I don't have numbers to hand but I would also guess that Jewell's win percentage is better as well. You refer to Keane a lot so I will also. This heavy criticism is I think is clearly due to the amount of goals we concede and not necessarily the results. I can understand that getting beaten 7-1 is a lot worse than getting beaten 2-1/1-0 (often in the Keane era) but comparing Jewell to Keane to justify his sacking is not fair at all. Jewell dug us out from the mess that Keane left us in and kept us up comfortably. OK we've had some shocking results this season, but we've also had some good onces and I will say I don't remember such a good six game unbeaten run ever under Keane (you will refer to start of last season) with such entertaining and inventive football being played. So my conclusion is that despite some debacles we are much safer with Jewell than if Keane had stayed and he needs time. Why are you so quick to turn on Jewell when all I read after our first Keane season was 'he needs time'?

0

TractorRoyNo1 added 18:52 - Nov 6 sign him up - but only if we can get the ball in the box
0

tomisamos added 19:08 - Nov 6 Jas009 I like your use of capitals, it really emphasises your point. Thanks. h32, I wondered where you'd snuck off to during the 6 game unbeaten run, good to see you're back. Some of you are ridiculous. When we're winning you're all going on about blue skies and how we've turned a corner and everything PJ says is hilarious. As soon as we start to lose it's a travesty and he has to go immediately. How about you open your eyes and realise we've still got well over half the season and are sitting mid-table. There's alot more than could happen yet. See you all in Nottingham.

0

jas1972 added 19:10 - Nov 6 Just a few observations brought about by some of the comments made on this particular chain of postings, and in the context of the thick(?) end of 40 years of watching Ipswich Town. George Burley did a good job for us while we were in what is now the Championship. when he was provided with money and a place in Europe he lost both the money and the plot, big time, and arguably we are still trying to recover from that debacle.With the possible exception of his last part season with Hearts he has done nothing since as a manager and the "bring back burley" calls have no rational justification. A large part of his last season or two was full of moans about team selection and tactics, in particular the insistence on playing Jermaine Wright, which was a continuing complaint when they both went to Crystal Palace. Matt Holland has shown no inclination to get involved in the management side (wise man) and Terry Butcher is very comfortable and appreciated in Scotland, so calls for such people are pointless. See also Alan Curbishley - such a good manager-in-waiting that unaccountably no-one else has yet invited him to take a job, nor has he applied for one. Three poor results - yes they have been poor - and calls are for sacking the board, manager and players. Look on almost any other Championship message board and you see the same thing - Leeds lost 5-0 at home to Blackpool; Leicester, with all their money and "quality" players lost 3-0 at home to Millwall (and we know how useless they are) and Nottingham Forest lose to almost everyone. Yet these are all teams who feel that they have the same "entitlement" to win and be promoted as Ipswich; some at least of them are going to be disappointed. Losing to Doncaster is not a "bigger result" than beating West Ham; have we forgotten the many years in which we could never beat Crewe at home? Bad things happen - in life and in football. Of 24 teams in the Championship 21 are going to be disappointed each season - three of them very disappointed. We do not have a divine right to be promoted nor to expect a manager or players to be better than any other manager or players in the division - the odds are just not in our favour and if we don't accept that then we are doomed to being perpetually among the bitterly disappointed. As a side point - regardless of any lack of service issues, Priskin was woeful, particularly when called upon defensively. Did PJ play him purely as an "I told you so"? And did Billy Sharp acknowledge the applause from Town fans rather too enthusiastically - like someone who is planning on seeing us all again soon? And worryingly I am agreeing more and more with bobble and even understanding some of the posts.

0

Wickets added 19:12 - Nov 6 No one with any sense should be calling for the sacking of the manager just 10 months in but as yet i an unconvinced that he can get us where we want to be, oh and what does Clegg do now?Why is he still at the club?
0

alfromcol added 19:21 - Nov 6 Garv Agree. lose some games and all the moaners come out in force. I witnessed the game on Saturday and at half time was speechless. We were clueless at the back, mainly caused by team selection at the start. WE need some width and some pace out wide as we had in the second half. Despite some saying the two we scored were consolation goals, we won the second half on merit and I suspect that had we started the game with Martin and Carson on the pitch we would have had a good chance of winning the game. Simply having the likes of Carson and Martin running at defenders in a team like Doncaster who had conceded so many goals would have taken removed a lot of their attacking ambitions. PJ has to find a way of giving Jimmy Bullard more space, he is still our only midfielder who can run a game. But currently teams have sussed this out and have someone closing him down all the time and denying him space. Take a deep breath everyone, plenty of time to get things going and finishing in the play offs. Don't get me wrong I am just as disappointed as the next man with recent results. There is no alternative than to support the team and the management. On a separate note, I was very proud to be an Ipswich supporter and be amongst real caring human beings who applauded Sharp when he scored his goal and when he was substituted. It made you realise that there much more important things in life that winning football matches

0

StochesStotasBlewe added 19:49 - Nov 6 I,ve calmed down now after yesterdays debacle, am seeing things more rationally (the effects of last nights very good red having worn off). Sacking PJ at present,but i love him so that it would be pointless
0

churchmans added 19:55 - Nov 6 ALFROMCOL when ipswich play badly very badly there will be moaners out in force just as there will be heaps of praise when ipswich win! that is the nature of football so that has p issed all over you first comment and we did not win the second half like you say and i will tell you why doncaster cruised to your speechless 3-0 halftime score line and won the game! they subbed sharp and diouf. the game was already won so they didnt need to do a lot and i saw 4 OPEN chances that doncaster missed and chopra scored in what 90=4mins p issed on that part of your comment again. as for having no alternative POLLOCKS! new manager! let me give you an example the team up the a140 sacked managers left right and centre and when they got hammered 7-1 by col utd they poached there manager and look at them now! nobody on here cannot disagree with that he spent hardly no money so there are better managers than pj so far he has failed badly

0

StochesStotasBlewe added 20:01 - Nov 6 That was the missus pissing about so please ignore the last bit of that last post. Sacking PJ would be pointless at the moment, and as for suggesting Burley/Holland, get realistic, that would be a big step backwards. Yesterdays result & performance were wholly unacceptable, now is the time to prove ALL at the club have what it takes to get things up & running again.

0

alfromcol added 20:26 - Nov 6 Hi Churchman, the score in the second half was 2-0, we won the second half!!!! Forget all the near misses. There is a lot of pissing going on in your neck of the woods. Easy to give an example and pick out Lambert AFTER he has success. Nobody had heard of him before Colchester. Norwich had momentum from success in Division 1 which carried them through to the Premiership as have Southampton this year. Have patience my friend. Care to put up and name who you would like to take us to the promised land?

0

Blogs 297 bloggers

Ipswich Town Polls