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Thread | What the hell happened?!
at 22:36 20 Feb 2024
I went to see comedian Chris McCausland tonight so didn't see the game. I saw we were leading 3-1 in the first half during the interval, so thought it was game over.
Checked my phone after the show & almost fell over when I saw it was 3-3, but then scrolled down to see one final goal notification for 4-3 and the final score.
Bad performance, bad/good luck, Rotherham sussed out our tactics, or something else? |
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Thread | Is Burns suspended vs Leeds?
at 15:26 16 Dec 2023
Graphic showed it was his 5th booking, but no mention of any suspension that I've seen / heard. |
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Thread | Apparently we won the league last night
at 16:27 4 Oct 2023
And are getting a bit cocky, according to some Ipswich-based mates of mine who support Prem teams.
They didn't like that we had Ed Sheeran in the changing room after the game, with the team apparently cracking open a few beers (I didn't see that on the various social media clips?) and acting like we'd won a trophy.
Not sure I saw too much of that myself, although clearly I'm biased.
Thoughts?
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Thread | Greater than the sum of its parts
at 13:06 28 Sep 2023
Found it interesting reading various comments on here and elsewhere about our good start to the season, how we’re playing and how certain players are playing above themselves (or are maybe just better than fans of other teams realise?!) but it’s fairly clear to me that the team, in fact the whole squad, is greater than the sum of its parts.
George Hirst is a good example of this, as he barely got a look-in when on loan at Blackburn last season, but with a change of scenery and more importantly a different manager, he is now a very important player at the same level.
You can also look at Morsy and Luongo – yes Morsy dropped down a division to join us, but he hadn’t exactly set the world alight at Wigan and Middlesbrough previously, while Luongo couldn’t get into the Middlesbrough team last season, but they are both crucial to how we play and again are showing that they can indeed be very effective at this level.
Harry Clarke is maybe another example from his time at Stoke. But the point is, McKenna is getting more out of these players than various other managers have been able to while playing at the same level, while at the same time, players who have historically only ever been deemed good enough for League One (Burns, Burgess etc) are also more than able to hold their own at this level, which again is down to McKenna and his coaching staff. I would bet that if you put any of these players into another Championship team then they wouldn’t be performing at the same level and would return to their pre-McKenna level of performance.
I saw someone make reference to our squad being ranked 17th out of 24 teams in the Championship in the new FIFA / EAFC game (my son plays a lot of Xbox so I’m familiar with it myself!) and while any player and team ratings are clearly subjective, this is just another measure that to me proves the value of better management and coaching. For what it’s worth, Leeds are ranked 2nd and Southampton 3rd (with the scum 4th somehow!) and yet we’ve more than held our own against them, while of course against Wolves their players’ ratings would have been far higher on average than ours, but again our style of play saw us through.
I guess this is a long-winded way of saying that McKenna is able to get far more out of his players than your standard Championship-level manager would and so it is absolutely essential that we do whatever we can to hold onto him for as long as possible. Over the course of time and as we hopefully progress upwards, certain players/positions will be gradually upgraded – Williams for Leigh and Hutchinson for Edwards being the recent examples – so if McKenna is able to get this level of performance out of the supposed 17th best Championship squad, what would he be able to achieve with even better players at his disposal? Say if we’re able to upgrade on other “fringe” players in January (possible examples might be Evans, Harness or Jackson) then the potential for this team just gets higher.
The level of detail that goes into preparing for every match, and evidently that goes into every player transaction, along with how he addresses the team and speaks in the media are things that people outside of ITFC don't see quite how good McKenna is.
I’ve said to some mates who don’t follow us as closely that if we keep hold of McKenna for the next 5 years, IMO we will definitely be in (or at least have been in) the Premier League, so with the additional financial benefits of that, and again upgrading players and positions when the right time comes, it’s hard to keep grounded when thinking about where McKenna could lead us over these next few years. He has everything set up exactly how he wants it here (for the time being at least) and so hopefully he does indeed see the project through rather than jump ship when a PL team eventually comes calling.
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Thread | Likelihood of getting tickets for Cheltenham away
at 18:58 17 Mar 2023
I was hoping / planning to go to this game, as I was looking to tie it in with visiting family in Cheltenham who I haven't seen for a few years and also so I could pay a long overdue visit to the DEYA brewery taproom.
However, I'm not an ST holder or gold club member etc and for various reasons don't get to many games at all, so was going to rely on a mate who has got an ST, but only been to 3 or 4 away games.
I'm guessing the chances of getting tickets (we were hoping for up to 4) are going to be somewhere between none and eff all, but I just wondered if there might be another route I could use? |
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Thread | Fan disorder at most of our games?
at 09:53 28 Dec 2022
Got a mate who works for Norfolk police (although he's a Forest fan) who reckons there's been trouble at most of our recent games. He works a lot of games at Carrot Rd but never comes this side of the border.
I'm guessing this is his scum-supporting work colleagues fabricating stories, but was just curious if there was any truth to it as I haven't heard anything about this elsewhere. |
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Thread | Went to the game on Saturday, tested positive today
at 18:42 15 Mar 2022
Sat in block B of the Cobbold stand with my son, so apologies if I've passed it on to anyone else, or conversely I shake my fist in your general direction if I caught it from you! |
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Thread | Well done Section 6
at 09:39 10 Oct 2021
Took my lad yesterday (who loves football but isn't a Town fan - yet) to his second ever game and we were sitting in the Cobbold stand down towards SBR and therefore near section 6.
The other game I took him to was Bolton earlier this season (sat in the family area in the opposite stand) and the difference in atmosphere between the two games was night and day.
The almost constant signing and drumming were great and the atmosphere, at least in that corner of the ground, was brilliant.
I've seen section 6 get some stick on here, but while I can't comment on that, I can say that yesterday was great.
Well done lads, keep it up. |
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Thread | Taking my son to his first game tomorrow
at 10:15 10 Sep 2021
He's nearly 10 & has liked playing footy for years, but he's "on the spectrum" & as a result has the attention span of a goldfish if something doesn't interest him.
Until the Euro's he'd never watched a full game on TV, but he got really into it & said he'd like to go to a game, so we picked this one.
Main question really then is what will there be to keep him interested / occupied prior to the game? Is the Fanzone worth a look or any other suggestions? |
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Thread | Am I the only one who can see their goal was offside?
at 18:15 27 Apr 2019
No mention of it on Sky or on here that I could see. Both Sheff Utd strikers in the middle were offside when the ball was played, so while we don't deserve anything from the game based on the first half, the goal shouldn't have counted. |
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Thread | Another one for craft beer fans
at 21:52 7 Nov 2017
A mate told me about this new place called Hopsters today, recently opened on St Nicholas Street opposite Zizzi.
It's just a small craft beer bottle shop, but they've got a great selection in there. Definitely worth a look if you're a fan of Cloudwater, Northern Monk, Beavertown etc etc. |
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Thread | Anyone see the Chris Packham aspergers documentary last night?
at 13:36 18 Oct 2017
I've mentioned on here before that my son has autism, of which aspergers syndrome is a variant, and so my wife and I made sure we watched the programme as I had no idea that Chris Packham was autistic.
Since our son was diagnosed 3 years ago (he's now 6) we have tried to help him as much as we can by learning as much as possible about autism, techniques to deal with him when he's struggling, but at the same time trying to be consistent and disciplining him appropriately when required, because lets face it a 6 year old boy is going to misbehave whether he's autistic or not.
But most of the stuff that we've seen on TV, either drama type programmes or other documentaries, haven't necessarily been as accurate or as helpful as they maybe intended. Until last night. Hearing Chris talk about his struggles growing up, how he has learned to deal with his condition and the way he needs to live his life to not cause undue stress to himself really struck a chord with my wife and I. So many of the things he said, you could say about our son and it was good to see how he has found ways of managing his emotions in order to appear on TV as frequently as he does.
I know it's a long way off, but I do have concerns over how my son will make the transition into adulthood in the future, so to see how Chris managed to do it, while at the time not actually having been diagnosed (which didn't happen till he was in his 40's), gives me hope that it may not be as hard for my son as I fear.
I know we have a few parents of autistic kids on here so just thought I'd mention this and to see what others thought.
And if you haven't seen it, it's well worth a watch on iPlayer, if anything just to learn more about how an autistic person sees the world. |
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