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Reply | Spent the last 20mins chuckling over the Foxestalk in match thread...
at 15:35 2 Apr 2024
It was this one, second half of the game -
I'd like to think I can distance myself enough to not be too biased, but I would say it's a stonewall penalty. If it's given and converted then we likely go on to win comfortably. As I say, however, whether or not we finish 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th will not depend on any one decision. We could have lost that game 3-0 and still should have more than enough points if we hadn't inexplicably lost to QPR, Boro, and Bristol City in recent games, or thrown away points in the last minute against Sheff Wed, Leeds, Cov etc.
Every team can pinpoint various decisions that they feel aggrieved about. Ultimately, where we finish after 46 games is where we'll deserve to finish, same for every team in the division.
Anyway, good luck (to an extent!) for the remainder of the season and should you be victorious come early or late May then I hope you put up more of a fight than last seasons' victorious teams. Football needs success stories like this and ours in recent years and not a monopoly. |
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Reply | Spent the last 20mins chuckling over the Foxestalk in match thread...
at 14:07 2 Apr 2024
I think post EFL and PL reports some have adopted the Everton fan approach of being hard done by every man and his dog, rather than looking inwardly at the club and those in charge. Nothing more and nothing less than that, essentially.
We have been on the end of a few dodgy decisions in key games (wrongly offside goal v Leeds at 1-0 to go 2 up and the Dewsbury Hall penalty at Portman Road, for example) but it's hardly the official's fault that we missed various chances v Leeds or lost to Bristol City/QPR/Boro etc.
I've read opposition fan forums after we've played teams off the pitch this season and still you'll find the odd poster lamenting refereeing decisions or saying that they were unlucky not to come away with anything etc. It's just part and parcel of football fandom, I guess. |
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Reply | Spent the last 20mins chuckling over the Foxestalk in match thread...
at 12:56 2 Apr 2024
Hello chaps,
Leicester fan here in (relative) peace.
I'm sure most will gather that any football forum, or the internet in general, is not the go to place for reasoned debate and intelligent discourse (yet, here I am).
I would like to think that the majority of Leicester fans are objectively impressed and in admiration of what Ipswich have achieved thus far this season. However, the difficulty of course is the 'objective' part of that sentence. When we were X points clear it was slightly easier to be objective than now that we're 2 points behind. Objectivity goes out of the window and subjective bias comes into play.
I've always been a pessimistic football fan, so even when we were 17 points clear (or whatever it was) I was far from confident given the season the top 4 have been having, it was only ever likely to take a fairly small slip up to get dragged back in. Whoever comes 3rd and 4th is going to be incredibly dejected, particularly 3rd. Some of your fans may argue that you won't, as you have far exceeded expectation anyway, but let's face it - even if you're an amateur long distance runner who leads the London Marathon until the final few hundred yards - you're going to be majorly disappointed regardless of pre-race expectation.
I have personally thought that 100 points is the magic number for the past few weeks and stand by that; which is quite scary to think top 90s may not be enough. Though your chaps certainly have experience from last season! That's 5 wins out of 7 for us, 4 wins and a draw out of 6 for you (possibly 5 wins/4 wins and two draws depending on GD) and 5 wins from 6 for Leeds. One would think it's very unlikely that all three of those scenarios happen, but who knows this season.
Given the seemingly impending points deduction and absolute mess that is modern flight top flight football, I'm not overly enthused about promotion - but we seem to have created a football world whereby it's Premier League or bust once you've spent a few years in the top flight so I don't think we can afford not to. The thought of becoming the next Stoke, or even Pompey isn't overly enthralling either.
My ideal would remain a Leicester/Ipswich top 2 and anybody but Leeds or Cov in the play offs, but my prediction would probably be Leeds/Ipswich/Leicester/Saints/West Brom/Norwich with us losing to Saints in the final (arghhh!) |
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