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Ipswich Town v Shrewsbury Town Been a fan of Ipswich since 81 and Shrews since 83, having moved from Glos to Shrewsbury in 82. UEFA cup winners, the Burley years and consistently a Prem or Championship regular. Shrewsbury on the other hand, league two and more recently league one. How we have fallen! I’ll be in the away end with my brother and a couple of mates, as an ‘ultra neutral’ 🤫 😛 sitting on my hands!
Gus Uhlenbeek
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Never thought this day would come... on 21:13 - Aug 28 with 2154 views
Never thought this day would come... on 21:13 - Aug 28 by Edmundo
Weren't they both in Division 2 in the 1987-88 season? Duncan days so I'd forgive anyone for losing them from memory.
That's the season I watched my first Town game and when I first got into football. As a boy at the time, I had imagined that Shrewsbury had always been at that level.
Our bogey FA Cup team in the early 80's! First game featured on below link. They'd already knocked us out a season or two previous.
I can remember the 5-1 away with a Milton hat-trick and missing the return through chicken pox when Dalian scored a rasping free-kick (only home match missed between 83-92). Edit. I missed game with chicken pox, not Simon Milton.
Played them in the league cup in the early 90s too, winning over 2 legs.
And that was it until that penalty shoot out game a few years back.
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Never thought this day would come... on 22:24 - Aug 28 with 1832 views
As a Shrew exciled in mid Suffolk for the past 12 years and with a wife and son with Portman Road season tickets I'm also somewhat excited about this. I think we drew 1-1 in the early 90's in the league cup before getting stuffed in the 2nd leg, and I was at the 3-3 in 2009 before we lost on penalties - that was one heck of a game, some absolute worldie goals, think Connor Wickham got a couple that night.
Fejiri Okenabirie, our most natural goalscorer is out, Norburn our best midfielder has not played yet this season and Williams probably our strongest defender was injured at MK Dons a few weeks ago so we're certainly struggling a bit. We've nonetheless looked very capable at the back with only three goals conceded but the key for us is whether our midfield show up. If they do we look a solid unit albeit often ponderous and uninspiring going forward.
I think we'll lose this one by the odd goal, but, hey ho, that's the life of a Shrewsbury fan, and mostly I'm just pleased I don't have a 400 mile round trip to games.
[Post edited 29 Aug 2019 8:23]
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Never thought this day would come... on 08:31 - Aug 29 with 1349 views
Never thought this day would come... on 08:21 - Aug 29 by Stowmarketshrew
As a Shrew exciled in mid Suffolk for the past 12 years and with a wife and son with Portman Road season tickets I'm also somewhat excited about this. I think we drew 1-1 in the early 90's in the league cup before getting stuffed in the 2nd leg, and I was at the 3-3 in 2009 before we lost on penalties - that was one heck of a game, some absolute worldie goals, think Connor Wickham got a couple that night.
Fejiri Okenabirie, our most natural goalscorer is out, Norburn our best midfielder has not played yet this season and Williams probably our strongest defender was injured at MK Dons a few weeks ago so we're certainly struggling a bit. We've nonetheless looked very capable at the back with only three goals conceded but the key for us is whether our midfield show up. If they do we look a solid unit albeit often ponderous and uninspiring going forward.
I think we'll lose this one by the odd goal, but, hey ho, that's the life of a Shrewsbury fan, and mostly I'm just pleased I don't have a 400 mile round trip to games.
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I’d expect Shrews to be a difficult nut to crack. They set up with 3 big solid central defenders and Dave Edwards plays the CDM role well as captain. Scoring has been their problem. Expect Morison (ex Millwall) and Shaun Whaley to cause us problems.
Gus Uhlenbeek
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Never thought this day would come... on 09:41 - Aug 29 with 1231 views
1983 - did you ever see Ipswich Town legend and good mate of mine, Andy Crane, in a Shrews shirt?
Great left peg and loved a tackle. He broke David Moyes leg in training, I believe. England U20's captain in the same team as Tony Adams too.
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