This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of 09:36 - Sep 2 with 5298 views | artsbossbeard | We've seen 2 maybe even 3 teams come here and set up 2 banks of four and look to be difficult to break down and play a bit of counter attack. Shrewsbury, in particular, didn't have a Plan B after the early goal or in fact a Plan C after the sending off. We are THAT big fish this season, we've got to expect plenty of teams to come here and potentially look to shut up shop and set up for damage limitation. Probably got more chance of seeing more goals like our superb 3rd goal away from Portman Road this year where teams will have a go and space opens up. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 09:49 - Sep 2 with 4403 views | Darth_Koont | Agreed. I missed that from my look at Shrews and particularly how automatic promotion teams play. They also "play" a more limited game because the opposition is also trying to contain and outbattle them more often than not. Although, I don't think the Shrews were that scared of us or defensive even down to 10 men. Hopefully that will come more and more and we can see it as a measure of how well we're doing. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 09:54 - Sep 2 with 4358 views | Oldsmoker | It's a good measure of how other teams view us when they set up to counter our strengths rather than expose our weaknesses. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:07 - Sep 2 with 4277 views | itfcjoe | I do think we are still some way off where we'd want to be though, and guess a lot of that is to do with availability of players. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:15 - Sep 2 with 4225 views | StokieBlue | Ideally we will try and grab an early goal so teams can't just sit back. Easier said than done of course. SB | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:39 - Sep 2 with 4135 views | MrTown |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:07 - Sep 2 by itfcjoe | I do think we are still some way off where we'd want to be though, and guess a lot of that is to do with availability of players. |
No team is off and flying to their peak after 6 games. Even more so off the back of a horrendous decline over the past 18 months. I remember Norwich looking oh so ordinary last year, but the momentum they have hit, with good recruitment has worked out very well for them. Good side now. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:41 - Sep 2 with 4126 views | xrayspecs | While Shrewsbury were organised, they were good in possession and created a number of chances. With a bit more quality/luck they could have had a couple of goals. Agree that lots of team will simply try and stop us playing. Whether we have enough quality/creativity up top and in the wide midfield positions will determine how many teams we can unlock. | | | |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:52 - Sep 2 with 4079 views | itfcjoe |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:39 - Sep 2 by MrTown | No team is off and flying to their peak after 6 games. Even more so off the back of a horrendous decline over the past 18 months. I remember Norwich looking oh so ordinary last year, but the momentum they have hit, with good recruitment has worked out very well for them. Good side now. |
I think there is an underlying malaise that eneds to be cleared and is being cleared at the moment, and hopefully we can begin to find out what we want to do from a position of strength at the top of the league because I do think we'll end up in some form of 4231 or 433. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:55 - Sep 2 with 4060 views | britbiker |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:52 - Sep 2 by itfcjoe | I think there is an underlying malaise that eneds to be cleared and is being cleared at the moment, and hopefully we can begin to find out what we want to do from a position of strength at the top of the league because I do think we'll end up in some form of 4231 or 433. |
Just hope us as fans dont start getting frustrated on the occasions when we can't break teams down easily. Teams will start to see one point at PR as a good result. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:00 - Sep 2 with 4028 views | Herbivore | I think for me the thing that's been quite noticeable is that we're not great at controlling the game and keeping possession. I'd like to see us get better at that. Saturday was all quite scrappy and frantic and whilst the scoreline was comfortable I never felt like we were bossing the game. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:06 - Sep 2 with 3986 views | BryanPlug |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:55 - Sep 2 by britbiker | Just hope us as fans dont start getting frustrated on the occasions when we can't break teams down easily. Teams will start to see one point at PR as a good result. |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:15 - Sep 2 with 3953 views | IpswichKnight | No surprise to me that we went after Shrewsbury early to get the goal and stop that 2 banks of 4. What else I noticed was that they defended narrow and we hit several high cross field balls behind the full backs for our own full backs or wingers to run onto this dragged the big lumbering oafs at centre backs into play and they did not want a foot race with anyone. | | | |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:15 - Sep 2 with 3950 views | britbiker |
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It is surprising how quick we as fans go from being a supporter of a perenial struggling team to one that expects to win easily in this division. I agree that we need and should be looking to get back to Div 2 at the first opportunity, but I also remember just how bad we have been against perceived lower opposition in the last decade. I think most of our regular fans understand it but im sure many of those returning expect to win and be entertained. | | | |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:19 - Sep 2 with 3935 views | Garv |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:00 - Sep 2 by Herbivore | I think for me the thing that's been quite noticeable is that we're not great at controlling the game and keeping possession. I'd like to see us get better at that. Saturday was all quite scrappy and frantic and whilst the scoreline was comfortable I never felt like we were bossing the game. |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 13:47 - Sep 2 with 3754 views | reusersfreekicks |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:07 - Sep 2 by itfcjoe | I do think we are still some way off where we'd want to be though, and guess a lot of that is to do with availability of players. |
Agreed - i think with the players we have we can play much better. Shrewsbury opened us up a few times and strongly tested Holy even when down to 10 men | | | |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 13:58 - Sep 2 with 3726 views | bluelady | Aren't the best teams those that even when not at their best win games? The old Ipswich would have struggled to break teams down, but we do have wingers, at least one full back that can burst forward and pace up front, so we are now a team that can win on the counter. I do believe there is far more to come BUT we were bottom of the league, devoid of confidence and pretty much the same team (other than 1 or 2 signings) so as the confidence starts to return so will the performances. 8 goals for and 0 against in two games is a pretty good result :-) | | | |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:07 - Sep 2 with 3698 views | textbackup | I’ve not counted, but I’d hazard a guess a few of our goals have been from counter attacks. Especially now KVY is of that right hand side, can see plenty more coming | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:10 - Sep 2 with 3674 views | Durovigutum | Maybe I'm just getting old, but on the occasions I could get to FPR in the late 90's and early 200x's when the Burley team was flying we would see many teams turn up with a deep 4-4-2 and just sit back to play for a draw. I seem to remember that was why we went 3-5-2 many times, trying to create a bit of space out wide. We will have to get used to it again I suspect as teams will see our results and not try to be particularly ambitious. That said, Shrewsbury didn't come to defend. As you go up (or down) the levels of football the difference is often the ability of a higher placed team to take advantage of the mistakes that their opponent makes and last season at least of of their chances would have been taken by the players in a top Championship team. | | | |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:15 - Sep 2 with 3652 views | Herbivore |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:19 - Sep 2 by Garv | Rock 'n' roll football |
Not sure about that. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:17 - Sep 2 with 3636 views | textbackup |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 11:00 - Sep 2 by Herbivore | I think for me the thing that's been quite noticeable is that we're not great at controlling the game and keeping possession. I'd like to see us get better at that. Saturday was all quite scrappy and frantic and whilst the scoreline was comfortable I never felt like we were bossing the game. |
APart from the 4/5 times we had the ball for 20-40 passes u mean? | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:17 - Sep 2 with 3637 views | artsbossbeard |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:10 - Sep 2 by Durovigutum | Maybe I'm just getting old, but on the occasions I could get to FPR in the late 90's and early 200x's when the Burley team was flying we would see many teams turn up with a deep 4-4-2 and just sit back to play for a draw. I seem to remember that was why we went 3-5-2 many times, trying to create a bit of space out wide. We will have to get used to it again I suspect as teams will see our results and not try to be particularly ambitious. That said, Shrewsbury didn't come to defend. As you go up (or down) the levels of football the difference is often the ability of a higher placed team to take advantage of the mistakes that their opponent makes and last season at least of of their chances would have been taken by the players in a top Championship team. |
Swindon would be a great example in the Burley years. They just wanted the game over and done with and with limited goals against. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:58 - Sep 2 with 3591 views | Herbivore |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:17 - Sep 2 by textbackup | APart from the 4/5 times we had the ball for 20-40 passes u mean? |
Did we? I'm not sure about that. Look, we carry a genuine threat going forward and that's great. For me though we're still quite scrappy and I'm not entirely sure what our style of play is. We look like a side that's not really clicked. The positive is that despite that we are winning games and scoring goals, so all good on that front. I'm sure the performances will improve as confidence grows and the team gels further. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 15:08 - Sep 2 with 3559 views | Darth_Koont |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 14:58 - Sep 2 by Herbivore | Did we? I'm not sure about that. Look, we carry a genuine threat going forward and that's great. For me though we're still quite scrappy and I'm not entirely sure what our style of play is. We look like a side that's not really clicked. The positive is that despite that we are winning games and scoring goals, so all good on that front. I'm sure the performances will improve as confidence grows and the team gels further. |
Indeed. Winning comfortably while not playing all that well overall should give Lambert and the squad a huge confidence boost. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 15:11 - Sep 2 with 3549 views | Ryorry | Dunno why, but your headline made me think of Boris :( | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 15:23 - Sep 2 with 3502 views | MrTown |
This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 10:52 - Sep 2 by itfcjoe | I think there is an underlying malaise that eneds to be cleared and is being cleared at the moment, and hopefully we can begin to find out what we want to do from a position of strength at the top of the league because I do think we'll end up in some form of 4231 or 433. |
I really can't see a point in changing something that is clearly working for us. | |
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This "we're winning but not playing well" line I'm seeing a lot of on 15:33 - Sep 2 with 3481 views | SouperJim | Shrews came to spoil, frustrate, kick us etc. Unfortunately for them, that all fell apart once we were 2-0 up within 10 minutes. Second half in particular was one-way traffic from the ref because they had spent the first half trying to kick us. Essentially their entire game plan failed spectacularly. I agree that we look like we can go up a gear or two yet, it'll come the more games the team play, partnerships are strengthened etc, but at the minute we look like we have enough to beat sides regardless. Despite how difficult it can be to play flowing football when teams come and park the bus. | |
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