Ian Holloway ...sign him up lol

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I DONT THINK THE CHARITIES ARE GOING TO DO VERY WELL THIS YEAR WITH LOACH!

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I know I know.. But we HAVE to. It wont be easy but we HAVE to forget this, quickly

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this result sums us up
we can't score goals but we can have lots of possession. we certainly can't defend and after 3 games our goal difference is minus 5.
we have been promised players for the last 2 years by jewell and he hasn't delivered. this will be a year of a mid table finish with the odd bit of hope from the ocasional good result and in a years time it will be the same excuses. i haven't seen his report yet but it will be the same old.
jim magilton was fired for finishing 8th?

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A young side will always have an off day, we have lost to this years champions in my opinion, heads dropped at 3-0 there's no doubt. WE the supporters must keep faith in this side, and stay behind them, Jewell must stop picking players that don't perform, JET is one of those players and now must concentrate on getting players in. I've been saying for some time scoring at the end of all our possession is a real problem and at least one striker is a priority. I knew the moaners would start to appear today, don't get me wrong I'm not happy, but it's one game this season and we were beaten by a much better side, but only in the second half!!!

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The intermittent showers and ominous black clouds as we approached Blackpool provided a telling glimpse of what looked like Mordor’s camp, neon and STI smattered cousin. On a pitch you could take in without your moving head, (oddly being watered despite the rain) Town came out with only one change. Drury replaced Carson on the right flank, with the same back five and midfield/attacking shape as in previous encounters.

Blackpool also played with width and one up top, the perennial evergreen striker and much lamented Town target of yore Kevin Phillips spearheading their attack. There was little romance in a game which began at a fast and frantic if emotionless pace. Balls swung to and fro in the midfield as both sides looked to move it around on a tight pitch. Blackpool with home advantage in this grubby tableau would eventually play the Glaswegian on a stag, eventually bending the scouse hen of Town over the metaphorical wheelie bin of Bloomfield Road.

Fittingly Town wouldn’t give it up right away. We were better to look at in the opening exchanges. JET set free down the left and drilling the ball across goal with no one in sight to tap it home. The tip-tap of Luongo and Hyam was pleasing but ultimately it didn’t unlock Blackpool who never really threatened Loach at first.

With our wingers swapping flanks throughout the half Drury made his one decent touch of the game to play in Martin to little avail – the lower league sensation then played the absent father to the youngsters all around him. Disappearing into the background for most of the game, Drury seemed to be the weak link. JET may have been more noticeable due to getting the ball time and again but triple marked at times and rarely with an outlet, the youngster flicked and flounced his way around the pitch, his head dropping as time went by.

The opening came for Blackpool when a tired and leggy Smith misjudged a loose ball, spinning off his head for the hosts to cut it in from the goal line. A panicking Cresswell dived at it and emphatically gifted the lead. For all his neat work going forward the youngster looked to falter from then on in, much like his team mates.

JET sliced one wide to much dersion from a hypocritical few who loudly lauded a stunning volley he later created singlehandedly. Gilks pushed it wide and the former Arsenal man then wasted the corner. Jekyll from JET, hide from some of his team mates as Town slipped further behind the early promise.

Chopra couldn’t out jump the giants at the back and the tiny pitch wasn’t long enough for him to beat them to the ball every time Town went long. Especially as it cut up like Tony Montana’s stash from the opening salvo players on both sides slipping all too often.

Our short passes looked nice but there was no movement of bodies to match. Running out of options it was cruel to go in just before half time two down. Disappointing new boy Chambers gifted the ball to his onrushing opponent and it was coolly put away. We didn’t deserve that.

With the away fans getting restless Town needed words of wisdom and an arm around their shoulders during the break – instead they got a rude reminder of last seasons woe. Ince proved an unfair test for Town and smeared it in our faces with an exquisite third and fourth.

Jinking through our two older defenders to finish at the near post, before taking a fourth for the home team with a fizzing effort from the edge of the box on our left hand side, the young talent compounded a miserable day. Two ladies in front of me unhooked themselves from the stirrups and took shanks’ pony out of the ground.

They were soon followed by droves of blues as Town kept up with the retro chic of last season. Subbing the one player Blackpool were worried about monitoring, and leaving Drury on instead. JET capped a disappointing and frustrating day with a slow jog towards the bench passing Scotland on the way.

Likewise Luongo was inexplicably taken off soon after for Carson to be added to an already sterile attack down the right. The luckless Chopra soon made way for Murray who could do little to effect the game by now as Blackpool were five up thanks to a neat cross and thumping header from Cathcart. Town fans poured out perhaps to ride the Big One, while their team merely sucked it.

The young Irishman Murray collected the ball from deep as Town lost heart, shape and focus, but finding the busy and muscular Caribbean Scotland could only carve out half chances. Playing in Martin who was offside when Town’s first goal of the day was quickly chalked off, Jason wasn’t going to get anything from a miserly home side. They expertly packed the middle and ushered Town out time and again. Martin also showed his Man United pedigree as Smith stuttered the ball out of defence. Desperate for a pass he chipped it towards the lithe and lively Lee. It bounced out before Martin could get anything other than a petulant fist to it, much to the locals’ amusement.

Blackpool also had one removed from the scoreline as they carved us open again only for a silly foul by Dicko to deny them an easy tap in. Alas they were always going to make it six as Loach depressingly flapped helplessly and Dicko restrained himself enough in the final minute to bury Town. It summed up a dreadful day at the office.

An early season beating under Jewell is fittingly nostalgic given the setting, but to achieve the unthinkable and to be outclassed in Blackpool is a rare thing indeed. The three dozen home fans robotically hummed the song they nicked off Celtic with glee throughout the game – such was the joy of the occasion.

We all want the Town of old deep down. Passing football, youngster in the side and that was pleasing to see. But today Jewell seems only to have gone as far back as John Duncan in our history.

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Its a great shame that the encouraging signs get washed over with his defeat. Honesty before today tells us this team will struggle to compete for a top six place but is capable of some good performances which will hopefully keep us well away from danger. We shouldn't look to making anyone a scapegoat as well - Tommy Smith will have some great games this season and will have some games where he will make mistakes.

The brutal truth is that the spine of the team has still not been sufficiently strengthened, we look weak from scoring goals from midfield and whilst Chops can be a potent finisher we don't have a cutting edge or a physical presence up front to make the centre backs know they have been in a game.

I offer up the following quote from the Derek McInnes the Bristol City manager - given that Bristol survived by the skin of their teeth last season they will be a useful club to compare ourselves against for progress - the two signings quoted with an ambitious Chief Executive and Owner could have been wearing the blue of Ipswich.

"We are getting goals from the middle of the park, which we didn't do last season and now have some great options up front.
"With Sam [Baldock] and Steve [Davies] on board, we have a lot of different strikers, who pose threats in various ways. All the clubs I have been at, who were successful, had good strength in depth when it came to strikers.
"It is very early days, but after last season I'm delighted to be challenging at the right end of the table even at this stage of the campaign."

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Arrrived home and not too much to add to Mullet's account but just a few thoughts anyway. Crap stand which is an insult to the £57 it cost to get my old man, boy and myself in - just a shed surrounded by other sheds for toilets and refreshements. At least the rain held off and we didn't get soaked like last year! Lots of passing, possession but too little penetration. Martin behind the striker is HIS best position but with Chopra on his own up top this often ends up as ineffectual for the team as a whole. Smith was poor, caught under the ball too many times, failing to attack it, letting it bounce - all cardinal sins for the Central Defender. Appalling mistake for the opener by him and Chambers compounded this just before the break, sloppily giving it away which lead directly to number two. One rasping effort from JET was the only genuine threat from Town despite the overall eveness of the first half. As Holloway rightly pointed out, 2-0 flattered the home side somewhat. As an aside, the Linesman infront of us failed to keep up with play throughout and consequently was crap. Too slow and too fat! Come the second half and it was soon game over. Ince, increasingly impressive took Smith to the cleaners and drilled in the third shortly after the restart and a few minutes before the hour mark the same player made it four from outside the area with Town players failing to close him down. The droves of Blues supporters who left thereafter with some 33 minutes still on the clock was disappointing for me and something I will never be able to understand. Yes we were getting a mauling, yes it was annoying, embarassing, frustrating and any other negative "ing" you might care to think of but this is our side and having made the huge effort to get there, surely you should stay and "support" to the bitter end? Three substitutions from Jewell made no real difference as rather like many of the supporters who had left, the players were now no longer up for the fight. Indeed, whilst not advocating deliberate fouls, I can't really recall a Town crunching tackle all game and certainly not after 4-0. During the final 30 minutes the boys sort of shadowed the home side and a further two goals could easily have been three or four. I wasn't at the Posh game last year (watched on TV) but I was at Burnley and our second half display was almost as dire as that miserable night at Turf Moor last November. We are crying out for some power up top to add variety to our one dimensional front line. Pace out wide is lacking and JET just has to be more consistent. Chops is isolated and I have run out of the will to carry on writing any more. Boro away will be my next venture out, hope we have a few new faces and can put this episode behind us before that. Thanks for reading.

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There's no disgrace losing at Blackpool, however to ship 6 is a disgrace however good they might have played. This also isn't the first time under PJ where we seem to give up when we go 2 goals down. Its a huge dose of reality for us all. Even though its only the league cup, the Carlisle match is now vitally important to help repair shattered confidence. We need to make sure today was a one-off blip and not go on a long poor run as we have in the last couple of seasons. Its good the players have an early chance to put it right

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Wake up.
This team is very poor.
Last week against Blackburn, we had alot of the ball but created nothing. You can keep deluding youselves by all means, but this lot ; "Board", Chief Exec, Manager, Players, are seconfd rate compared with even the George Burley era. There is simply hardly any quality in the squad, and all are targets are at best second rate. I can only ask what ambition really exists? From what I see it is only about keeping alive in the Championship. It is not aligned at all to what the supporters think.

I'm sure there will be loads of people taking issue with this post. To you I would say, look at the history of ITFC, this is a very, very, poor point in time.

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