 Happy Dappy DooWritten by paulthebluealien on Monday, 24th Nov 2014 13:54 Right, let's cut straight to the chase. There are far too many people posting happy stuff on this forum; it's annoying me so I'm going to bring us all crashing back down to earth by being negative. OK, I've got nothing. Just how great is this? How lovely, how superb, use whatever adjectives that you can find. Right now, Ipswich Town Football Club is in a very good place indeed. This is a club that has been torn to pieces through years of turmoil, hopeless managers and poor player expenditure. Then it all changed, Mick McCarthy is the best thing to happen to Ipswich Town for many, many years. Certainly, since Joe Royle. McCarthy has been there, won this league and accomplished many great things in the game. I read an argument the other day that no matter if Ipswich go up we'll come straight back down as McCarthy does not no how to adapt his game in the top flight. For me, that is utter rubbish. It's clutching at straws and munching on sour grapes. The Town squad is, by all definition, a strong squad. Yes, it is thin on paper but there are 20-odd professionals who fight, scrap and play for their manager. This factor is highly undervalued. The likes of Luke Chambers, Tommy Smith, Luke Hyam, Daryl Murphy and others would fight to the end of the world for McCarthy. Could the same be said for the regimes of Keane/Jewell? Certainly not. Keane distrusted Jon Walters so much he made him send a picture of his vomit to arrive at a conclusion that he was ill. This was distasteful, disrespectful and to all extents leads to total squad demoralisation. Poor man management can lose you a dressing room and results. As much as having a poor team can, in fact. That's enough on those plonkers though. I'm as guilty as many admittedly, when I hear "Roy Keane" my natural instinct is to mutter "bastard." On to our squad at the moment. I read it is now one defeat in 14 games. That is, well, exceptional. We will be promoted showing form like that. It hides away from the fact that Town, home and away, are nowadays an extraordinarily tough team to conquer, to defeat. We have a strong defence, a competitive midfield and a dream strike force. It has been a long time since I go into games like high flying Bournemouth away and not expecting to lose. Because now I simply do not expect us to. It is a similar story with Charlton away, I cannot see us losing. A draw? Perhaps, but I see us winning and winning comfortably. I would be there too, if it wasn't for being in Yorkshire studying and striving for survival on a student loan. It is OK, I'll be at Bolton away though. So chant my name, yeah? "He's an alien, alien!" . My final point I would like to analyse is the goalkeeping situation. It has been scrutinised, analysed and every other 'lysed' known to man. For me, at this time it has to be Bialkowski keeping his place for two reasons; form and results that have accompanied his tenure. Three wins and a draw. Yet, I disagree with the boring negativity about Dean Gerken. For me, he is a great shot stopper and actually, contrary to popular opinion, Town have two very good goalkeepers. So, let us hope we continue to perform and grind-out results. It will be tough but looking at us right now it is by no means an impossibility. Apparently, 'anything is impossible', which in the case of Ipswich means we may actually, finally, get out of this bloody division. As for the negativity? Well, there is not any, is there, stupid. Give us a follow @Puffman180, praise, criticise, I really do not mind. Thank you for reading. Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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