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Thread | Some advice/help please TWTD
at 21:44 12 May 2024
So I’ve been looking into a career change in recent months. And I’ve decided I would like to be a sports journalist.
However, everyone keeps telling me it’s an industry that is about ‘who you know’ to get a foot into the door. Everywhere I’ve looked seems to want either a journalism degree or prior experience. I do have a degree in sports but not in journalism. And obviously I write my horse racing previews which can be quite analytical etc. I enjoy it and I think I’m alright at it. So how do I get a foot into the door somewhere without the experience required.
If anyone knows anyone or can think of a suggestion, I’m all ears. Thanks in advance folks |
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Thread | Eurovison - Anyone followed it this week?
at 17:13 10 May 2024
Lot of boycotting. Israel televote landslide victory incoming and the future of Eurovision to be put into huge doubt in the aftermath. Chaos.
They’re 2/1 now to win outright after being 40/1 yesterday lunchtime before the semi final vote in Italy was leaked. The Dutch bloke being likely kicked out for punching one of the Israeli delegation today too for mocking his dead dad adds to the shenanigans.
It’s always political. We all know that. But this is way worse this year. The Israeli singer was booed throughout and yet the crowd noise was muzzled and replaced with fake cheers over the tv which seems to have increased the tensions. |
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Thread | Baby Reindeer
at 03:21 8 May 2024
Incredible. Just incredible. |
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Thread | Away grounds next season
at 18:43 7 May 2024
What will be the games easiest to get tickets for?
This season was the hardest I can remember for sorting tickets and most of the games i did was in other peoples name. Which obviously means next year will be harder.
Obviously midweek and less high profile games will be easier to get tickets for in my own membership number but I’d also imagine games like Wolves would be doable. 3,000 away end I think and it’s far enough that it should be a game anyone that wants to go, can.
Just want to try and build my numbers up in my name. No point doing 10+ away games again in other peoples name because I’ll have the same problem again the season after. |
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Thread | First game of the season then..
at 19:59 6 May 2024
Who do we want?
Give me United away straight off the bat.
Or a home game to someone we haven’t played in a few years that we’d have a chance against.. Like a Brentford or an Everton |
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Thread | It’s only 7am and I’m a wreck already
at 07:18 4 May 2024
Incredible video. We really have been through it these last 20 years. We’re so very nearly back. One more game lads. |
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Thread | Genuinely can’t sleep
at 04:49 4 May 2024
Looks like an all nighter and then the train at 8:45 to get me to Ipswich nicely in time for a beer and to see the Coach Welcome Blue Action thingy.
In 12 hours, we will know our fate. All season, all decade, virtually all my lifetime. All for the 2 hours between 12:30 and 2:30 today. Absolutely terrifying. |
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Thread | Obviously we’d all like to go up for us..
at 21:32 1 May 2024
But you know what? I’d actually love it for the players too. And McKenna and the coaching staff and Ashton. Just watching reactions like Humphreys and Walton every week on Town in 5 - they’re not getting a kick and yet both celebrate every goal, every win just as much as the rest of us. Ashtons tears, McKenna staring silently at the fans after the game taking it all in. It’s just wonderful.
The team spirit and togetherness in this team is absolutely incredible. Genuinely never seen anything like it.
I want it for us. But I want it for them too. A wonderful group of blokes and each and every one of them has restored so much pride in our football club that we could burst. Finish it Saturday lads. |
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Thread | If we do it..
at 00:50 1 May 2024
Can we go on the pitch this year like every other club without hearing booing and swearing? |
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Thread | Genuinely..
at 22:35 30 Apr 2024
I feel like crying. We’re not there yet but we’re so close.
If we get the draw Saturday, I’ll be an absolute wreck. Met lots of you over the years from here at games and of course the normal crowd around my ST seat. Feel like it’ll be something quite special seeing the same faces celebrating if we do it.
I’m so proud of our club I could burst |
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Thread | Then and now. A few words. A transformation.
at 18:29 29 Apr 2024
So I’ve been reflecting this week about how it is now as a Town fan. Win lose or draw tomorrow and no matter our fate on Saturday, things couldn’t feel any better as a football club. It’s been around 3 years since EvansOut became a reality, rather than just my irritating catchphrase on the train home after every game. Incredible to think what Gamechanger, Ashton and McKenna have done for our club.
Mid table league 1 team with attendances at 15k a week under Evans and no real hope for the future whatsoever as the club died a slow death. And then in the space of 3 short brilliant years the club has been transformed both on and off the pitch.
Just to think of the stadium how it was before, run down and generally a place full of those of us going through nothing more than habit to now where it’s vibrant, it’s been painted and every home match feels like a carnival atmosphere where we all want to be there. When Portman Road sold out against Newcastle years and years ago (Huws with the late equaliser for a 2-2), that felt like the first time in an eternity we saw the stadium full. Nowadays it’s sold out every week. Even last year was the same.
Away matches are no longer a chore where my reports spend 2 paragraphs talking about hotdogs, 3 about the journey up and the local surroundings but only 1 about the football. It used to be me going to Hull and Rotherham with 900 others watching us get beat without a shot on target as the season came to a close. Rotherham 7 years ago we made 10 changes as McCarthy decided that us as the travelling fans didn’t matter and he’d change the whole side for no reason at all. I remember coming on here after the Cardiff away game where we were awful. I was angry. I was disappointed. And then I got to Cardiff train station tired and miserable and across the platform was the Town players eating pizza and having a right old laugh. They didn’t care. That was March 2017. But that was the old regime. That was a football club with no pride in itself. Now we have a management; an ownership and a team that care just like we do. When we hurt, they hurt. McKenna was all of us the other day when he hit that dugout. He and they get it. They understand.
A year ago 5,500 of us trecked up to Barnsley. My coach from Sheffield to Manchester (was seeing my mate after the game) got cancelled and I ended up stranded in Sheffield until the early hours. If that was 5 years ago, I’d have spent the entire time wondering why on earth do I bother. Last year I spent the whole time strolling round Sheffield singing ‘We’ve got Suoer Kieran McKenna’ and ended up in a pub with some local Sheffield uni students who supported a variety of sides. All of them seemed genuinely jealous of the way it was for us as a club even in League 1 going up to the Championship.
And then now we find ourselves 4 points away from footballing mortality. From being only the 2nd team in 20 years to do an EFL double promotion. And if we can get over the line, we’ve done it with near enough the same great bunch of lads as last year. We haven’t gone out and tried to spend big and match the big hitters around us with the parachute payments. We’ve trusted our process so to speak and done it the Ipswich way. Kept the same balanced team and the same players have delivered. Whether this week ends in a promotion party or not, they’ve done us proud.
For so many years at school or college being the only Ipswich fan was something that can be used against me by so many. West Ham fans everywhere would mock. They were still my team so it didn’t matter really but I always wondered if just once I’d be able to say I’m an Ipswich fan and other people are jealous of the way things are going for us. I had to miss Hull on Saturday as it was my Mums 50th surprise party. I made sure the party venue had sky sports and had the game on. I think about half the pub were cheering Ipswich goals despite nobody supporting Towen but me. The footballing world wants us to go up for the story. The David v Goliath underdog fairytale. I even sang Conor Chaplin baby on karaoke a few hours later. It was amazing to feel like so many fans of so many other teams wanted to be me for a while. They wanted to feel how we all feel. On the cusp of greatness and overachieving despite all odds.
I know all of this is somewhat of a ramble but you lot are my only Ipswich link. I don’t have Ipswich mates round here. I don’t know Ipswich fans in Romford. So no matter how jealous other clubs are of us, I know only you lot understand how it feels. We are so bl00dy close and it’s so terrifying and exciting in equal measure but it’s incredible to think how a group of players, a group of management staff and a group of owners have brought so much happiness to so many of us. We might not go up this week but the journey over these three years have been quite magical.
5 years ago today my Grandad who you all would’ve heard in my Rommy Reports sadly died. He was at that aforementioned Rotherham game. He was a Man U fan but always wanted the Town to do well and frankly just liked away matches with me. His face for the late win at Aston Villa one year was one of my favourite memories in football. I remember when we left Rotherham that day of the McCarthy changes he told me he knows he won’t see us in the premier league. I said to him I don’t think that I will in my lifetime either. I think when he died we’d been relegated or near enough. Perhaps it was the season after in fact but I can’t remember. I know he’d have never have believed our club could transform like it has. I know if we win tomorrow and Saturday he will be somewhere up there with a Whisky raising a glass with Sir Bobby. He won’t get to see it in person but I will. So many of us know people who would have loved to have seen what we’re seeing and I can imagine Saturday if we do it, there will be plenty of us in bits.
A few years ago when we scraped a 1-1 draw at Barnsley and the celebrations were ‘Scenes. Absolute Scenes’, that was something at the time that felt like it was all worth it. For moments like that. Now going to home and away games feels worthwhile no matter what happens. Everyone is pulling in the same direction. Everyone is together.
Saturday feels like do or die but it isn’t. It’s a crescendo to the first wave of Ipswich finally being back in the place we all dreamed it might be. Whether it’s championship or premier league next year, our football club that we lost for so long is back. As for the result on the pitch, all we can do now is make as much noise as possible for two massive matches and BELIEVE! [Post edited 29 Apr 18:37]
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Thread | The Towen staff getting 2 tickets thing for the Scum game..
at 19:32 26 Apr 2024
..Man U announced today that despite every year for cup finals the Man U entire staff receive 2 complimentary tickets, along with free hotel and coach travel, this year each staff member will be given just 1 single ticket and must contribute £20 for coach travel.
It says two things really:
1) That 2 comp tickets per staff for an away end of 2k is and was crazy.
2) Man U giving their staff just 1 ticket for a 32k allocation is a bold change. Especially when they’ve always been so overly generous (the complimentary hotel is somewhat OTT). That said, I don’t disagree with him when 30k season ticket holders might miss out at United for a cup final ticket but the security guards wife can go (in recent years).
I’m over it but when I saw that Radcliffe said that today, I thought it was interesting enough to post. [Post edited 26 Apr 19:35]
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Thread | Scenario 8293
at 19:11 25 Apr 2024
If Leeds lose tomorrow, would we take a draw at Hull?
Would mean we’d need (maximum) just a draw and a win from the last 2 games. With Hull probably the hardest of the three games left, a draw there if Leeds have been beaten would put us level on points but with a worse GD to Leeds but with that Coventry game in hand. Another point there and go to Portman Road next week needing to beat Huddersfield to guarantee a place in the Premier League.
It just starts with the, ‘would we take a point at Hull if Leeds have lost’, question?
In theory, I think I’d take that. |
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