| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT 12:05 - Dec 21 with 5662 views | TieDyedIn95 |
https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich-town/your-posts-lower-expectations-6860286?
A bit from a convert fan from Colchester. [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 12:05]
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:30 - Dec 21 with 2688 views | jayessess |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:08 - Dec 21 by MrTown |
"lower your expectations" - purely means fall back into the real world and understand where we are right now.
That is nothing to do with what I expect us to do this year.
I have suggested that some fans expectations should be lowered based on where we are right now, and I have further stated what I expect to happen this year (fall short of play-offs), I think my post makes that pretty clear. |
There's an ambiguity in the phrase "lower your expectations". It means both "be content with less" and "I anticipate things will turn out badly". Both this post and your earlier post contain the exact same ambiguity and I'm still not entirely clear which you mean. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:41 - Dec 21 with 2673 views | MrTown |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:30 - Dec 21 by jayessess |
There's an ambiguity in the phrase "lower your expectations". It means both "be content with less" and "I anticipate things will turn out badly". Both this post and your earlier post contain the exact same ambiguity and I'm still not entirely clear which you mean. |
There is no ambiguity to what I posted.
I apologise that you couldn't understand it. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:44 - Dec 21 with 2669 views | jayessess |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:41 - Dec 21 by MrTown |
There is no ambiguity to what I posted.
I apologise that you couldn't understand it. |
That's alright, you could just tell me which you meant. Would take you less time than being belligerent about it. [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 14:45]
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:22 - Dec 21 with 2649 views | MrTown |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:44 - Dec 21 by jayessess |
That's alright, you could just tell me which you meant. Would take you less time than being belligerent about it. [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 14:45]
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My original post was clear. If you didn't 'get it' from that, like I said, I apologise for that but I don't any attempt to explain futrther will make it any clearer. [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 15:23]
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:22 - Dec 21 with 2646 views | MonkeyAlan |
Utter garbage from the eadt. What defeatest attitudes from that paper. Now l know why l never buy it anymore. |  | | |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:22 - Dec 21 with 2648 views | Radlett_blue |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 13:50 - Dec 21 by Kropotkin123 |
"If by some miracle Ipswich did finish in the top six, just by their record alone having lost to so many teams above them I can’t see them suddenly going up.
Unfortunately the fans have simply got to lower their expectations."
Doesn't even make sense. We don't expect to go up. We don't believe the management or footballing structure is good enough. Therefore we expect Marcus Evans to sort out the footballing structure and we expect Paul Lambert to resign.
Leeds, Sheff Utd, Southampton... jeez, even Norwich... didn't accept League One status. That is why they are no longer in the division.
Just a tinpot Col U fan trolling. |
Sheffield United spent 6 seasons in League 1. I'm not sure that would satisfy most Town supporters' expectations. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:43 - Dec 21 with 2636 views | BlueBadger |
As I've said before, I don't think wanting us to be be actually competitive and play well in the third division is overly entitled and unrealistic.
Well, it is with Lambert in charge, but you know what I mean. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:48 - Dec 21 with 2631 views | BlueBadger |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:10 - Dec 21 by MrTown |
What are these "high standards" |
'Vaguely competitive in the championship at least, half way entertaining football and an owner and manager who are competent and give a sh1t'? | |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:59 - Dec 21 with 2622 views | TieDyedIn95 |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:22 - Dec 21 by Radlett_blue |
Sheffield United spent 6 seasons in League 1. I'm not sure that would satisfy most Town supporters' expectations. |
We're only 4 off that ourselves. | |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 16:02 - Dec 21 with 2620 views | MrTown |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:43 - Dec 21 by BlueBadger |
As I've said before, I don't think wanting us to be be actually competitive and play well in the third division is overly entitled and unrealistic.
Well, it is with Lambert in charge, but you know what I mean. |
Are they standards or ambitions? [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 16:02]
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 16:04 - Dec 21 with 2618 views | MrTown |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:43 - Dec 21 by BlueBadger |
As I've said before, I don't think wanting us to be be actually competitive and play well in the third division is overly entitled and unrealistic.
Well, it is with Lambert in charge, but you know what I mean. |
But we are 6th, so that would suggest to a degree we are competitve enough to be in and around the play-offs, which is where we need to be.
I'm not sure the players available are going to produce silky football, we certainly played better when we had a fullish squad start of the season.
Just need to hang in there and get some quality back - Bish, Downes, KVY, Norwood, Edwards [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 16:05]
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 16:40 - Dec 21 with 2603 views | Bluespeed225 |
Archant fake news. Some Junior reporter up there be a a little bit mischievous 😠|  | | |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 17:09 - Dec 21 with 2588 views | ArnieM |
WHY????? Why should we be expected to lower our expectations?? We’re NOT a Micky mouse club. Town fans a correct to demand better than we have been getting for the last 15 years. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 17:32 - Dec 21 with 2579 views | Pinewoodblue |
Think most of us have lowered our expectations. We don’t expect to see the back ofLambert any day soon. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 17:46 - Dec 21 with 2566 views | Steve_M |
Ah, three years encompassing relegation in 2002. Massive bandwagon jumper then if indeed real. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 17:51 - Dec 21 with 2559 views | Illinoisblue |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 17:46 - Dec 21 by Steve_M |
Ah, three years encompassing relegation in 2002. Massive bandwagon jumper then if indeed real. |
Indeed. This moron gave up almost 20 years now we’re supposed to give a s5it what he thinks? If he’s real, fk him. If it’s Archant fakery, fk them. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 18:11 - Dec 21 with 2544 views | dominiciawful |
"Paul Lambert has skin as thick as a rhino"
He does not. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 08:41 - Dec 22 with 2435 views | Kropotkin123 |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 14:29 - Dec 21 by Garv |
Leeds and Sheffield United must have 'accepted' their status for a while, considering how long they spent there? |
No, they didn't. They demanded more and subsequently cycled through a load of managers until one was recognisably competent enough to take them up. They didn't stick with managers who took them to 11th in the division and couldn't beat their competitors. |  |
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 08:45 - Dec 22 with 2431 views | Kropotkin123 |
| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 15:22 - Dec 21 by Radlett_blue |
Sheffield United spent 6 seasons in League 1. I'm not sure that would satisfy most Town supporters' expectations. |
It isn't about how long you are there, but about not resting on poor mangers. They had a new manager every 1-2 years in the division, as they didn't stick on managers that clearly weren't good enough.
Not accepting does not mean instant success. It means change when things clearly aren't good enough.
EDIT: Also, just looked it up and it was four seasons, not six, that they were in league one.
It was Nigel Adkins that finished 11th for them and he was replaced by Chris Wilder, who got them promoted the next season. Just goes to show where a competent manager can take an 11th placed League one side of our size. They only lost six games that season. We've already lost that many. [Post edited 22 Dec 2020 8:53]
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| 'Ipswich fans have simply got to lower their expectations'- GEOFFREY KELLY EADT on 09:51 - Dec 22 with 2398 views | bournemouthblue |
Lowering expectations to a 6th place finish every season is partly why we are where we are now |  |
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