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McCarthy: Deserved Victory
Monday, 22nd Sep 2014 22:34

Town boss Mick McCarthy felt his side deserved their 2-1 victory at Wigan despite the home side’s late fightback.

“I thought it was an excellent performance,” he said. “Maybe at the start they surprised me, I thought they’d play 3-5-2 but I knew even if they played 4-3-3, which they did, we were set up to play against that, and I thought our front three would cause them problems whether it was a three or a four and that’s what happened. It was a good performance.

“After the first five, we got a foothold, we got organised a bit better and once we did that we were the dominant force in the game.

“I know there’ll be talk about the last 10 minutes when they hit the post and they had a shot that missed, but we could have been more than the ones up by that stage, I thought.

“It’s nice when a plan comes together and works and I think it did tonight. I can come up with all sorts of high-falultin ideas about what to do and how to play but unless the players buy into it and do it, I’ve got no chance, and thankfully they did.”

Asked whether the recalled Luke Hyam was trying to make a point with his goal, the Blues boss added:“That’s lovely if that’s the case. The last thing I want to do is put somebody in and he has a sulk up. I never expected that he would because he’s such a good professional.

“I think he’s proved that with his performance, and he’s scored, which was maybe one of the reasons he got left out because we haven’t had enough goals from midfield. Well, he’s given me nice headache, hasn’t he?”

McCarthy was similarly delighted for Conor Sammon, who scored his first goal for the Blues: “Thrilled for him. He had one where it just hit him in the first half. I thought he grew into the game. I thought he got better and better, Conor.


“He’s not played a lot, he was a sub at Derby for a lot of games and you need to ply your trade to do it properly and let’s hope he’s going to do that for us on a regular basis.”

Sammon celebrated joyously after netting against one of his old clubs and McCarthy says he’s no fan of the modern fad for players not to celebrate against their previous employers.

“I think it’s bollocks that, personally,” he said. “I think it’s the biggest load of nonsense ever. Are you ever going to go back to that club?

“My club’s Ipswich, I’ve had a few, but let me tell you I’m not bothered about who we’re playing against. If we win I’ll be giving it large, and that’s from every club I’ve been at. My loyalty is to Ipswich.”

He says Jay Tabb wouldn’t have started even if he hadn’t been unwell: “Jay wasn’t playing anyway, I’d left him and Ando out, but he was poorly. He would have been on the bench, but he was poorly so he went home.”

Regarding Jack Collison, who played for the U21s against Huddersfield this afternoon, McCarthy says the offer of a contract is still on the table: “I’ve offered him a short-term deal, exactly the same as Darren Ambrose. If he wants to take it, I’m happy to do it.

“I’d like to help him, he’s a great lad, a great pro, he’s a had a bit of a tough time with his injuries and it could end up being symbiotic deal.”

Wigan boss Uwe Rosler felt Town went into the game with a physical approach: “I felt we started very well in the first 10 minutes and then we lost momentum. I think Ipswich came with a clear plan, they wanted to rough us up.

“They tried to make the game a scrap. In periods they dominated our midfield, we couldn’t get the ball down to the midfield and weren’t strong enough to win a lot of second balls.

“I felt the goals came out of nothing. For the first goal we had I don’t know how many we had in the box but we were watching the ball and not taking people out.

“The second goal was a typical description of the game plan that they had; the long ball bouncing into the defender, it came back, second ball, running from them, then a quality through ball from McGoldrick and we were ball-watching and not staying with the man.

“But in general I thought the response we showed in the last 20 or 25 minutes speaks for the character for the players and the spirit in the camp.

“We should have got something out of the game. When you have 19 or 20 attempts you should get more out of the game and we had good chances, it’s not like we had chances from distance.”

Rosler was disappointed with referee Andy Woolmer and particularly with his decision to only book Christophe Berra for the first-half foul which eventually led to Callum McManaman being forced off injured: “It was a very debatable performance from the referee.

“When you let that go and let players get away with it, then obviously they will do that. I spoke about it weeks ago, a player like Callum McManaman needs to have some sort of protection but you saw the outcome today, he had to come off and it doesn’t look so good.

“I think they targeted him, they wanted to take him out of the game and they succeeded and I would have liked the referee, probably, to have stopped that.

“Watching Premier League football yesterday and the sort of yellow cards they were giving out there compared to the ones given out today, it looked like I was watching two different sports.”


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Mark added 22:38 - Sep 22
Three straight wins, fantastic! This evening's win was deserved I thought, even though we had to endure late pressure. Well done to Mick and the team. Only 4 points behind the leaders Forest now.
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brockleyblueboy added 22:42 - Sep 22
Whoop whoop. Over the moon.

Are we starting to look like a team or what. Strength in depth showing through and a goal from midfield😉

Let's keep that winning mentality going against Rotherham on Saturday.

Hey how about some of the armchair fans get off their butts, down from their soap boxes and come down to Portman road on Saturday?

Well done MM And TC.

I literally have never felt more like singing the blues
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rayman_10 added 22:45 - Sep 22
The perfect away performance (albeit the late onslaught) and even better..... Well deserved! The whole team was outstanding but a special mention to Hyam. His performance was incredible from start to finish. Well done to Mick as well for changing to an attacking 433. People who call Mick a '442 dinasour' should eat their words!

COYB!
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muccletonjoe added 22:45 - Sep 22
Mm has certainly silenced his critics on here for a little while.
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warktheline added 22:48 - Sep 22
Spot on muccletonjoe. Not bad for a dinosaur!
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Smithy added 22:51 - Sep 22
certainly now believe we will be there or thereabouts come May, plus we have a little bit of cash to strengthen in Jan. to help us further. Onwards and upwards
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mojo added 22:51 - Sep 22
Love it when a plan comes together. Midfield is off an running with the goals now.
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TimmyH added 22:53 - Sep 22
Don't forget we won 3 on the bounce the previous 2 seasons under Mick - Rotherham have been a good away team so far this season so they certainly will make it tough to make it 4.
But agree with Mick - we deserved it, will be interesting to see if he continues playing 433 in future games, but it certainly worked tonight.
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shortmarine1969 added 22:54 - Sep 22
I really like the way mick talks and the above quotes show what bright guy he is in reality..On the one instance he is saying what a load of bollocks things are..(good down to earth plain speaking) and then follows that up by talking about symbiotic deals with players.!!he has a good brain beneath the plain speaking northern man.!!..and is putting a good team out on bugger all money..all credit to the guy.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 22:54 - Sep 22
I love it when a plan comes together, did we catch the a team at the weejend mick? Dah dah dah dah, give that man a well earned cigar
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bluemagic74 added 22:55 - Sep 22
Dam straight mm
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Kikapu added 22:57 - Sep 22
I've heard him using a few choice words in the past but never symbiotic. There's more to this man than meets the eye.
Great result. Please let's not trip up over Rotherham.
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Michael11 added 23:07 - Sep 22
Well done Mick. I've been one of the people ranting about how negative we are, especially away from home, but setting up with 3 strikers was a signal of intent tonight that we never just came for a 0-0 draw. It was refreshing to see us go away and go for the 3 points. If we had this attitude more often I'm positive we'd end up with a hell of a lot more points. If I had to have one grumble then Smith should've been on A LOT earlier than he was as McGoldrick looked knackered after 60 minutes!
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EatonBlue added 23:18 - Sep 22
It's not often that you hear the words highfalutin, bollocks and symbiotic in the same interview.
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martleshamitfc added 23:24 - Sep 22
Totally agree about "not celebrating against your old club" Stuff that - enjoy every goal, well played Connor , first of many goals for ITFC!
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Immy added 23:42 - Sep 22
Great win, despite the nervy 10 minutes at the end.

Think the not celebrating against old clubs comes down to the player and club in question and the relationship between the two. Don't think it would be a big deal for Sammon to celebrate against Wigan, whereas I can see why Lampard didn't celebrate against Chelsea.
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rozeeboy added 23:56 - Sep 22
I really thought we were going to come unstuck for not taking more of our chances - and we almost did. Could have scored 5 tonight.
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MacMan added 01:32 - Sep 23
I was getting a bit nervous toward the end but it was great to be able to watch the game live here in NZ (7am kickoff). Mick has an amazing ability to put a good team together with bugger-all money to spend. We played some good football away from home and it must do the team's confidence no end of good.
After 3 seasons away I still have my season ticket, and when (not if) we get promoted I am coming home!
I love the club, ITFC are in my blood and when they win it makes me so proud and happy.
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 04:20 - Sep 23
Rosler's talking rubbish. What game was he at? Outplayed and outfought except for a brief spell at the end. Nor do I see the logic in the comments about cards in the PL. The cards given out there are quite often given for ridiculous theatricals ( e. g. Leicester vs. United). Therefore we should do the same in the Championship?
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battyblue added 05:50 - Sep 23
Nice one enjoyed that except the last 10 nice to have an away win now and again which we will need to do on a more regular basis to push on but credit to all tonight.
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cartman1972 added 08:24 - Sep 23
Spot on Steve_Sweden roller is talking complete rubbish, the championship is about applied muscle and ipswich are a very very strong physical side, Keith Andrews on sky summed it up pretty well when he said sides like ipswich are a nightmare to play against as they disrupt all the fluency.....well played mm
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rugbytomc added 08:44 - Sep 23
I thought that was a really good team performance, everyone worked really hard in pressing the opposition and then showed some quality on the ball to create and finish chances. They came back into it after Skuse and Bishop went off as that disrupted our rhythm a bit but thought we deserved the win overall - so boo hoo Rosler.
There's room for improvement - Henshall is still coming along, hopefully Marriott will improve enough to force Sammon out of the team and I'd like to see Hewitt challenge or replace Parr. I think Smith should rotate in on occasion as well to keep players fresh. Stewart to come back from injury too and hopefully Ambrose, Collison and Bru to challenge Hyam for a spot. Would also like to see Gerken remove the cinderblocks from his feet and come off his line occasionally to claim the ball in the air!
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ellisd5 added 09:19 - Sep 23
Great win! And love the sour grapes from rosler, 19 or 20 attempts? They hadn't had a shot on target entering the last 20
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BobbyBell added 09:35 - Sep 23
Brilliant performance. I thought we controlled the game and could have had 4 or 5 goals. The only reason Wigan had a late rally was that we began to tire and didn't hassle them quite as much allowing them a bit more time and space. I'm not complaining about that because our strikers and midfield put in one hell of a shift chasing and hounding them. I think losing two key midfielders through cramp and knocks took away a bit of the intensity. Ambrose certainly wasn't in their faces as quickly. I think our three stikers were superb, they were always chasing and hounding Wigan and then when we got the ball they looked really lively and dangerous. The whole team look so good and so organised. We did rough it up a bit but I'd rather see that than see us backing off teams and showing them too much respect.
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itfcserbia added 09:44 - Sep 23
ah the table looks so nice now :)
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