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McCarthy: We Should Have Won
Saturday, 18th Oct 2014 18:37

Town boss Mick McCarthy felt his side should have claimed all three points from their 1-1 home draw with Blackburn Rovers. The visitors scored from a late freekick but McCarthy believes the Blues ought to have been awarded a penalty in the dying seconds when David McGoldrick was fouled by Lee Williamson.

“Bollocks, that’s the quote for you, that’s just exactly what I said,” McCarthy said afterwards.

Did he have any complaints regarding the freekick from which the visitors scored their goal?

“Not really,” he admitted. “I could see why he gave it, I have to be honest and I could see why he sent [Matt Kilgallon] off as well because the first one was a blatant professional foul.

“The second one, I think it’s a genuine attempt for the ball, but he doesn’t get the ball and he makes the referee make his decision.

“It was a wonderful freekick by us, a wonderful freekick by them. We had enough chances, we’ve hit the post, we had one off the line, Didz has had a one-v-one and the keeper made a good save.

“We really should have put it to bed and we gave the ball away twice. We gave it away in their 18-yard box once, we gave it away in the middle of park, they put it on top of us, they got a freekick, which is just what they wanted, a corner or a freekick, and they benefited from it.

“But we just kept them interested. And yet, at the end of all that, we should have had a penalty in the last seconds.

“It’s a penalty but I don’t think for one minute he was ever going to give it at that stage, I think he’d had enough badgering at that stage from all parties.

“I waited to come off, I didn’t go and say anything to the referee. I’m not into berating the refs. Just have a look at it, it should have been a penalty.


“I shook his hand, what’s the point [of arguing], he’s not going to change his mind. He might get the hump and book me just for saying it.”

McCarthy says his Blackburn opposite number also thought it should have been a spotkick: “I’ve just spoken to Gary, he didn’t see the penalty differently.”

He added: “I thought the first half was pretty ordinary and there weren’t many chances. Gestede took Tommy on and got a good shot in, they got a cross in.

“We had a good cross and half a chance. There was nothing really in the first half. In the second half we were the dominant team, with or without 10 men.

“After they were reduced to 10 men we had our chances. I don’t blame Gary for saying [they deserved the draw], fair dos, they stuck at it and if you’ve got 10 men and you stick at it, you think they’ve deserved something. But we could have been home and hosed.”

Having dropped four points in the final moments of the last two games, McCarthy says they now need to pick them up elsewhere.

“I’m not coming in here moaning about my team or how we’ve been playing recently,” he said. “I think we owe each other four points. We owe the club four points, so we’re going to have to get them somewhere else.

“But it’s another point in my pocket, you can’t take it off me, it’s on the table. We might end up in the play-offs by one point and then look back and say ‘That was the point’. It’s the tally you end up with at the end of the season, I don’t get wrapped up in all that nonsense.

“I think we should have gone on and won that game, but fair play to them, fair play to Gary’s team, they stuck at it. They kept going and they got a great freekick, a great goal. I can’t do anything about it.”

McCarthy confirmed that skipper Luke Chambers missed the game through illness - a bug has been going round the club - and is a doubt for Tuesday’s game at Cardiff.

Luke Hyam won’t be involved due to a hamstring problem but better news is that Daryl Murphy could be back: “He tells me he’s training on Monday, so if he is there’s every chance he’ll play [on Tuesday].”

Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer believed his team deserved the point: “We got our just desserts, we thoroughly deserved it.”

Regarding the red card, the Rovers boss felt referee James Adcock should have penalised Conor Sammon: “It was a foul on Matt Kilgallon and [the referee] can’t wait to send him off.”

Did he think the earlier incident in which Kilgallon was shown his first yellow card had some bearing on the referee’s decision?

“Look how long it took him to consult and then he made the decision that it was a yellow card,” Bowyer continued.

“And then in the second one, he doesn’t even consult. If he thought that the first one was wrong, he shouldn’t then make that decision on the second to correct the first, if he thought it was wrong.

“But I didn’t think it was wrong, I thought the first one was correct because there were players who were covering.

“That’s something that we’ll have to take up with the referees’ association.

"Unfortunately, the lad suffers an injustice but we can’t appeal that. If it was a straight red we could have appealed it and then they would have seen after the game that it’s a foul on Matt Kilgallon and we would have won our appeal.

“But because it’s two yellows we can’t appeal. How crazy is that? Yet the decision is still wrong. That’s something for them to look at.”

He added: “But I’d rather talk about the spirit and the character and the never-say-die attitude of a such a young group going down to 10 men. Phenomenal.

“I thought we were good value in the first half, their goalkeeper’s made the save of the game from Rudy Gestede and we really stuck at it and we just felt that there was something there for us today before the game and certainly at the end it was a magnificent freekick.

“If those two freekicks were in the Premier League they’d be shown over and over again. They were of outstanding quality.”


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bluefeast added 18:55 - Oct 18
COYB on to the next one.....
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Jimmy86 added 19:05 - Oct 18
Come off it bowyer you idiot. The first was a stonewall red card any day of the week and the 2nd yellow was more deserved than your point ul be going home with. Wasnt a foul from sammon. And your freekick was a foul on berra!!!! So shut up
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Chicago_Blue added 19:07 - Oct 18
No questions asked as per usual by Brenner on the topics that we wanted answers on. For example, why make the subs he did, changing our shape, moment and game? Easy questions as per the norm.

I mean, come on, this is hardly the first time this has happened is it Mick! When will he learn that sometimes you don't have to make a change for the sake of it, and also sit deep to defend a lead. It doesn't work for us.
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Pip50 added 19:07 - Oct 18
Usual illiterate response. What about the hoooof ball tactics. Please stand aside and let someone else come in who can get us up!
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bennyitfc added 19:12 - Oct 18
Do be quiet @Pip50. These performances at the moment are of top six quality, it's been a while since we conceded from open play and we are a real threat going forward. Gut-wrenching not to get the three points mind.
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Hamish1979 added 19:16 - Oct 18
Pip50 - That is an idiotic comment
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floridaboy added 19:30 - Oct 18
Pip50 - bet you are braised off because the scammers lost. Wrong board old boy
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bluefeast added 19:30 - Oct 18
Its easy for Pip50 to make comments like that. As it takes an idiot to make an idiotic comment ,especially every thing that regurgitates from him is trash.
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bohslegend added 19:31 - Oct 18
Hilarious Pip sitting waiting for something to go wrong to have a gripe. And Chicago, did you see the game? We attacked all day long.
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Steelmonkey added 19:31 - Oct 18
And we might miss out on automatic promotion by three points.
You can say what you like, but if you don't put away the chances you create, you have no complaints.
Forget what the ref should or shouldn't have done, maybe his autobiography says he doesn't like blue either, it's the result at the finish of the game that counts.
I think this was the most entertaining and the most confident we have looked on the ball at home for some time.
If we had had a full compliament of players on the park today, the result may have been different.
But hey what a team performance the other players put in, that haven't been playing regularly.
Sammon, Hunt, Smudger and Bru all put in a great shift today.
It's turning out to be a good squad that MM has put together.
The players that got substituted, did they really look as if they wouldn't have lasted the full ninety?
They were down to ten men, did we really have to disrupt the team so much.
We have to realise that one goal is never going to be enough, and we cannot rely on trying to shut up shop for the last 15 mins., if you are in your opponents half with the ball they are not going to score, it's the best form of defence.
Good luck at Cardiff on Tuesday, COYB's.
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Pip50 added 19:43 - Oct 18
Baaaaaaah baaaah baaaah. Truth hurts. I'm no scum man just a realist.
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ShropshireBluenago09 added 19:51 - Oct 18
Another very good performance. We are actually passing the ball, keeping the ball and creating enough chances to win 2 games. All played well and the whole team and staff should be proud that we are in the top 6 - and only 4 points off top spot.
As someone on the chatroom stated; those two late goals conceded, v Forest and Blackburn aside, we would be sitting at the top of the league! Who would have predicted that after the Norwich game?

Pip - im used to your negativity now and its getting very tedious - go back to watching TOWIE and playing with your extensions.
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bluebrit added 19:53 - Oct 18
What a frustrating result - Blackburn looked a very average team and the referee seemed out of his depth but really Ipswich should have finished them off, especially having been so dominant for 30 minutes of the second half. I can understand why the team attempted to hold on to the ball towards the end but how many times have we seen this approach come unstuck in football especially when they are only one goal ahead. This was definitely three points lost. Still there were positives, especially the performance of Bru, who had an excellent game. Lets hope it acts as a spur on Tuesday in what will be another difficult game.
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bluebrit added 19:56 - Oct 18
ok - perhaps that should be two points lost!
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Blue041273 added 20:16 - Oct 18
No games in this league are easy and Blackburn are no mugs. They messed up our game early on but once we settled down we largely dominated. We certainly played the better football and with a better slice of any luck going would have won the match. If you read between the lines in MM's comments (with barely hidden irony) he clearly has a low opinion of the performance of today's referee and I don't blame him for that. It is hugely disappointed to drop two points when the overall performance deserved the full three, but football kicks you in the teeth sometimes.

As for Pip claiming to be a realist, my grandson believes in Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy but still understands more about reality in this world than this clown.
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dannyrr added 21:00 - Oct 18
Disappointed not to come away with three points. We seem to use the same tactics constantly when we're in front. We wait till ten minutes before time take of some of the best performers of the game and then try to defend for the last ten minutes. We then sit so deep that we are constantly under pressure which only leads to an inevitable goal against us. We should have continued to attack and secured that second goal. Hope we get a result against Cardiff but it's always difficult for a visiting team there. Good Luck COYB
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muhrensleftfoot added 21:15 - Oct 18
How annoying is that. We should have won, no doubt. Love Mick, but sometimes he's just too cautious. 1-0 up against 10 men, we should have chased them down and attacked,but MM made defensive substitutions and tried to close it down. In these circumstances attack is the best form of defence. I hope we don't miss out on playoffs or promotion for those lost 2 points.
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Seasider added 21:45 - Oct 18
Agree with many of comments that Mick seems to think a one goal lead is enough to sit on allowing opposition to push for a draw/win.
He seems however to set up his teams now to take the game to other side instead of negating them by matching up;also we are playing more attractive football than previously,so perhaps will also change attitude in latter stages of games.
Although its frustrating to lose 4 points in added time against Forest and Blackburn still in 6th position with three quarters of season to go so mustn't get too down hearted.
Kevin Bru M.O.M.Was good in his last game and better still today,hope he will now play more regularly and not just to fill in occasionally.
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ArnieM added 23:39 - Oct 18
Whilst im generally really impressed and enthralled by Town's progress this season, I get TOTALLY pissed off with our persistent attitude of trying to sit back on a 1-0 lead and try to pass the ball along the back four for the remainder of the game in the hope we can "see the game out", only to once again fluck it up and gift either an equaliser or winner t the opposition. WHY ????? And especially against 10 men today. Utterly PATHETIC!

?.. and wtf does Mick see in Hunt? How many times does this player give the ball away. At least Tabb doesnt do that everybtime he plays.


So onto Cardiff. Here's hoping we dont score in the first minute. My ticker just won't take the strain.
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Walk_the_Wark added 23:53 - Oct 18
Wasn't at the game. Did we shut up shop at 1-0 as we did against Forest? If so when is boring mick going to learn?
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Deep_Blue added 23:57 - Oct 18
TOO F*CKING RIGHT WE SHOULD HAVE WON!

IT'S YOUR JOB TO MAKE SURE WE DO YOU F*CKING NORTHERN DULLARD!

I have been drinking. I apologise.
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blueboy1981 added 00:24 - Oct 19
......... instead of stating the obvious Mick - How about getting out of the habit of making negative substitutions, and trying to defend a single goal lead ?

It doesn't work for us - How many times do we need to see it before it sinks in ?

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ITFCRealist added 00:59 - Oct 19
Too right Blueboy!
The voice of reason on TWTD. A football mans version of Nigel Farage. I salute you, and must have a pint with you one day.
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ITFCRealist added 01:36 - Oct 19
Why did we get rid of Taylor. Looked premiership class when he came on for Rotherham against Leeds. Better then the Palace loanee did today, and he is our player.
Oh wait, I forgot our manager only picks his mates like Hunt who was abysmal today.

sigh
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 05:47 - Oct 19
Why is it that football managers as a breed seem to find it necessary to talk unadulterated rubbish, without any hint of critical analysis? If Bowyer had said, "We were pretty rubbish, particularly in the second half, and we were damn lucky to get away with a point," I would have more respect for him. Thankfully, our MM is one of those few less inclined to spout b****t.
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