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New Additions Helped Lighten Mood After Hard Week
Saturday, 1st Sep 2012 06:08

Blues boss Paul Jewell says the additions of Paul Taylor, Guirane N’Daw and Daryl Murphy lightened the mood at Friday training after what he admits has been a difficult week in the wake of the 6-0 loss at Blackpool and the Capital One Cup exit to Carlisle.

Jewell said: “In the last week we’ve taken a bit of a knock. We got beaten 6-0 at Blackpool and then the trip to Carlisle didn’t go our way, even though it was never a 6-0 game against Blackpool and the Carlisle game we should have won comfortably, but we didn’t.

“When we sat here last Friday not everything was OK. A week later, it’s not the end of the world. It’s a work in progress. We need to improve the squad, and we will do that.

“We need to be tougher when we come under pressure and we need to be more ruthless when we’re on top in games.

“It sounds simple, but they are the two key factors at any level of football. If you’re not ruthless in the opposition’s box when you get chances and you miss them and you don’t defend well enough when it comes in our box, you’re not going to win matches, and that’s what’s happened in the last two matches. It’s a simple game complicated by coaches.”

He says there was no escape from the post-Blackpool depression, a result he hopes will prove to be a “freak” scoreline: “We stayed up north, we all stayed together on Saturday, Sunday and Monday night and travelled to Carlisle on the Tuesday. Five days we were all together, so there was no hiding, there was no getting away from it.

“We came back into Ipswich at 5am on Wednesday morning very disappointed and flat and even [on Thursday] in training that was the case.

“I said to them this morning that it had been a long week, we’ve got to put it behind us. I don’t want the players to dwell on it. It’s happened but we’ve got to pick ourselves up and we’re looking forward to a home game.”

He says the new additions helped to improve the mood at training this morning: “[Thursday] was a bit flat in training, but today with the new lads in, the lads were in good spirits.”


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bigolconnor added 06:25 - Sep 1
Yay!!
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raycrawfordswig added 07:19 - Sep 1
You are so out of touch with the fans.Wish someone would come out and tell us what our plans are.
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townietilidie added 07:31 - Sep 1
Im glad you have lightend the mood in training Paul ... Now just 16/17 thousand Portman Road to go ...
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TooleyBlue added 08:02 - Sep 1
Am reasonable happy with most of the signings and Taylor could be an excellent addition. The players we've lost are good savings in my view. I just remain worried about the defensive positions. Hopefully some loaners to come in next week.

A win this afternoon will do a lot to lift the spirits. I fear the comments on the forum if we lose though though, could be a mirror of last season.....

Come on Ipswich!
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emergencylime added 08:23 - Sep 1
I am up for the 'let in a fair few but score s*itloads' scenario
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walberswick added 08:27 - Sep 1
“Thursday was a bit flat in training, but today after seeing who we've signed, the lads were positively suicidal. Especially poor old Scotty”
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yorksblue added 08:47 - Sep 1
The only signings I'll want to see if we lose today, are a manager and CEO who know what they're doing.
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blueblood66 added 09:20 - Sep 1
Paper thin defence.
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Mark added 10:54 - Sep 1
My mood will be lightened if the new signings do well today, which hopefully they will, but at the moment I am very worried about the defence and am baffled as to why Taylor cost £1.75M (if he did) a year after joining Peterborough for £75K.
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Garv added 11:18 - Sep 1
Mark he cost £1.5m because that is his market value. Lots of people are not giving this signing the credit it deserves. Paul Taylor is a very good and very well thought of footballer. Peterborough have done a bloody good job of developing him over the last 18 months.
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Garv added 11:23 - Sep 1
We bounced back after Peterborough last year to beat Leeds 2-1 after signing three players (one being Murphy), so let's do it again!

2-1 Town - Taylor and Chambers.
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WickedBlue added 11:30 - Sep 1
I really worry about the IQ of our supporters reading this web site. We have one game than a two week period without a game and PJ knows better than all of you put together what his team needs. But as he said getting what you want is not always possible.
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TimmyH added 12:05 - Sep 1
I think Chambers and Taylor might turn out to be our best signings, as for N'Daw, Loach and Llungo are less of a certainty. As many others have said we've got Chambers in and Delaney out and that's about it and Hewitt at RB if Edwards get's injured but inexperienced at this level. So on the whole pretty mixed transfer wise.
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