Some of you reading this may feel that the beginning of March is a slightly odd time to be starting a new football blog, and, to be quite honest, I completlely agree with you. However, there is good reason for me to be initiating my first venture into the virtual world of expression at this moment in time.

The first being that I am currently in the middle of my first year at Sixth Form, where the subjects I take are Maths, Further Maths, German and Economics, so any opportunity to do anything vaguely creative is one I will grasp with almost excessive enthusiasm.

My second reason is that, following the fantastic result on Saturday in South Wales on top of many other positives associated with the new manager, I can only see the club moving forward from the position we currently find ourselves in and for me to be able to comment on and analyse the fortunes of our football club is an idea that quite appeals to me

Even though I may only be 17, I am already in my 13th season as a season ticket holder at Portman Road, so I have seen a fair share of ups and downs over the years. Fortunately, for the vast majority of time as a Town fan, the ups have outweighed the downs.

Unfortunately, the season and a half before January of this year has largely consisted of down points and mediocrity, with a few small exceptions. Despite this, every other Saturday around 19,000 Town fans and I would trudge to Portman Road with little expectation, occasionally questioning our motives for making the trip and generally having little fun.

It was not until that magical night of Tamas Priskin's immortalisation in Suffolk folklore that I remembered why I started coming to football (aside from being too young to make a decision for myself and having to do what parents told me) and kept coming back each season.

Ever since that gently curling side-footed shot rippled the net behind Wojciech Szczesny, I, like most regular Town fans, have started to look forward to Saturdays with more hope and more excitement and more optimism.

Unlike many football fans, I don't believe sacking the manager is the answer to the problems faced by a struggling team but, on this occasion, I am more than happy to admit that I am wrong. The change in the players, the fans and even the media is unmeasurable and I sincerley hope this 'bubble' can be carried forward into next season, when we can have a proper stab at making it to the top.

In case you were wondering, I wrote this before tonight''s game but didn''t get round to posting it!

Garv added 00:32 - Mar 9 a good read.
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fourth added 18:32 - Mar 9 Yes TJG743 (good to have a label, what?) Me too. On my orange box in 1954. Stealing off school as a boarder at the Ipswich School to watch the InterMilan game. We have had such a wonderful run for our money. We need, I think to be patient. Does one swallow make a football team? It's an incredible gap between our pride in the Cobbalds (I played cricket against one of them at the age of 90 (him, not me) in what 1964?) and the resultant gradual lessening of LOCAL involvement. Yes, a moment in time, a bit of brilliance is inspirational and appears to be fast moving, but in fact events move in their own mysterious way. Having said that, I think we are lucky to have young Jewell in place and I think he has enough character and belief to make things happen. Anyway TJG, why aren't you out there with our other 17 yo? All best From The Great SouthWest of France Jack

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