| Not very clever at all 21:47 - Aug 17 with 3659 views | SomethingBlue |
That last 40 minutes was diabolical — on a par with the worst stuff at the tail end of last season. We had no idea how to reverse the tide and were thoroughly outplayed. Edwards the one and only bright spot.
I'm sure things will get better, that's obvious logic given the turnaround of the squad. But they now have to improve very quickly. The bare facts read that we have played Morecambe, Newport, Burton and Cheltenham this season, and scraped a single draw in the 92nd minute. No way to dress it up — it's a concern and Cook has to sort it sharply because we cannot waste this season or let the club lose momentum. |  |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:49 - Aug 17 with 2506 views | homer_123 |
Just posted remarkably similar.
We just tanked that second half. |  |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:49 - Aug 17 with 2481 views | Steve_M |
It's all a bit Paul Hurst at the moment. |  |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:50 - Aug 17 with 2441 views | ITFC_Forever |
It’s the Ipswich way.
You could argue the fine margins haven’t gone way in the last couple of games…. Score the penalty on Saturday, score an open goal tonight and we’d probably win both games.
But should we be really be relying on fine margins against Burton and Cheltenham?
It’s an average of two goals per game conceded in the league. That’ll certainly get you out of the division….. |  |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:50 - Aug 17 with 2407 views | SomethingBlue |
| Not very clever at all on 21:49 - Aug 17 by homer_123 |
Just posted remarkably similar.
We just tanked that second half. |
It was terrible. Given that we have an entirely new side in we can't really point to the losing mentality that infected the club for years either. Unfortunately Cook is now firmly under the microscope — for me anyway — because this cannot go on. Hopefully from Saturday we start to get a grip. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:50 - Aug 17 with 2396 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Not very clever at all on 21:49 - Aug 17 by Steve_M |
It's all a bit Paul Hurst at the moment. |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:51 - Aug 17 with 2332 views | chicoazul |
| Not very clever at all on 21:49 - Aug 17 by Steve_M |
It's all a bit Paul Hurst at the moment. |
Remember that time he ripped up a team brought a load of new players in and they played like strangers until he got sacked? |  |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:52 - Aug 17 with 2303 views | Funge |
| Not very clever at all on 21:49 - Aug 17 by Steve_M |
It's all a bit Paul Hurst at the moment. |
Yep, it really is.
Positives?
Clearly a very good squad. Owners invested in the club. Loads of STs sold.
Negatives...
Well, at the moment, it's obvious.
I hate being the reactionary fan I've ripped the p1ss out of for so long - but he's got nowhere to hide at the moment, has he? |  | | |
| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 with 2253 views | Rozz |
Completely agree. Think it will come good, but we desperately need to arrest this run of form and big big questions will be asked of PC if we go down against MK Dons at the weekend.
We need a result badly or I think things will get ugly quickly. There's not much credit in the bank after last season's limp finish. |  | | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 with 2236 views | SomethingBlue |
| Not very clever at all on 21:51 - Aug 17 by chicoazul |
Remember that time he ripped up a team brought a load of new players in and they played like strangers until he got sacked? |
At least these are genuinely good players, I'd say. But then that should make it easier to get them firing. The clock will start ticking if we see too much more of this — we simply haven't got time. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 with 2207 views | homer_123 |
| Not very clever at all on 21:49 - Aug 17 by Steve_M |
It's all a bit Paul Hurst at the moment. |
I'm not sure it's quite that good. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 with 2203 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Not very clever at all on 21:50 - Aug 17 by SomethingBlue |
It was terrible. Given that we have an entirely new side in we can't really point to the losing mentality that infected the club for years either. Unfortunately Cook is now firmly under the microscope — for me anyway — because this cannot go on. Hopefully from Saturday we start to get a grip. |
Soooooo disappointing can't just point at the defence we lost the midfield and created nothing in the second half |  | | |
| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 with 2180 views | pointofblue |
| Not very clever at all on 21:51 - Aug 17 by chicoazul |
Remember that time he ripped up a team brought a load of new players in and they played like strangers until he got sacked? |
Difference is, in hindsight, Hurst clearly brought in poor quality players who were no near the standard of the division. That is absolutely not the case this time around. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:54 - Aug 17 with 2141 views | homer_123 |
| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 by reusersfreekicks |
Soooooo disappointing can't just point at the defence we lost the midfield and created nothing in the second half |
Punished for not doing the basics. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:55 - Aug 17 with 2100 views | Steve_M |
| Not very clever at all on 21:52 - Aug 17 by Funge |
Yep, it really is.
Positives?
Clearly a very good squad. Owners invested in the club. Loads of STs sold.
Negatives...
Well, at the moment, it's obvious.
I hate being the reactionary fan I've ripped the p1ss out of for so long - but he's got nowhere to hide at the moment, has he? |
Cook hid behind the players last season and an awful lot of fans bought into it, the players weren't blameless by any means but we needed a good start to this season. This isn't it, we just have to win on Saturday now. | |
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| Indeed on 21:56 - Aug 17 with 2034 views | Dyland |
We’re going nowhere in this league if we can’t defend clogging sh1t football like that. On the flip side, we have quality going forward and we were three single moments away from drawing or winning the last two away games. Draw or scrape the odd win away and turn it on at home and we’ll be up there. Home form is everything this season, and no reason to think we can’t have a successful season. So we need to get PR rocking.
No excuses though. We had on paper the kindest fixtures for Cook to get something going, and it’s not worked out. After the disappointing last season end he’s got no credit in the bank and needs to own his squad rip up innit. Oh well, can’t judge it until October, but it’s the same old sh1t isn’t it… very few teams look totally sh1t against us…
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| Not very clever at all on 21:56 - Aug 17 with 2025 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 by pointofblue |
Difference is, in hindsight, Hurst clearly brought in poor quality players who were no near the standard of the division. That is absolutely not the case this time around. |
As long as we aren't saying the same "in hindsight" in 6 months.
Gwion Edwards looked a world beater on his debut. |  |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:56 - Aug 17 with 1982 views | homer_123 |
| Not very clever at all on 21:55 - Aug 17 by Steve_M |
Cook hid behind the players last season and an awful lot of fans bought into it, the players weren't blameless by any means but we needed a good start to this season. This isn't it, we just have to win on Saturday now. |
We are carrying on from last season.
We continue to be able to really boss a game in any way. Cooks tenure has been extremely poor...there is no getting away with it. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:57 - Aug 17 with 1981 views | Steve_M |
| Not very clever at all on 21:51 - Aug 17 by chicoazul |
Remember that time he ripped up a team brought a load of new players in and they played like strangers until he got sacked? |
And it was ten times better football than McCarthy, even though it wasn't. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:57 - Aug 17 with 1977 views | billlm |
| Not very clever at all on 21:52 - Aug 17 by Funge |
Yep, it really is.
Positives?
Clearly a very good squad. Owners invested in the club. Loads of STs sold.
Negatives...
Well, at the moment, it's obvious.
I hate being the reactionary fan I've ripped the p1ss out of for so long - but he's got nowhere to hide at the moment, has he? |
He hasent, he's poor, missing Richardson I'm afraid, |  | | |
| Not very clever at all on 21:57 - Aug 17 with 1945 views | Funge |
| Not very clever at all on 21:55 - Aug 17 by Steve_M |
Cook hid behind the players last season and an awful lot of fans bought into it, the players weren't blameless by any means but we needed a good start to this season. This isn't it, we just have to win on Saturday now. |
1 point from 2 games against relegation favourites (and very nearly none)
Woeful scenes.
Such a kind start, and we've p1ssed it away. | | | |
| Not very clever at all on 21:57 - Aug 17 with 1942 views | chicoazul |
| Not very clever at all on 21:53 - Aug 17 by pointofblue |
Difference is, in hindsight, Hurst clearly brought in poor quality players who were no near the standard of the division. That is absolutely not the case this time around. |
Sooooo….if they aren’t bad players, why are they playing badly? | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:58 - Aug 17 with 1896 views | Dyland |
| Not very clever at all on 21:52 - Aug 17 by Funge |
Yep, it really is.
Positives?
Clearly a very good squad. Owners invested in the club. Loads of STs sold.
Negatives...
Well, at the moment, it's obvious.
I hate being the reactionary fan I've ripped the p1ss out of for so long - but he's got nowhere to hide at the moment, has he? |
Nope, nowhere to hide... except as I say in this thread, three moments that have turned draws or even wins into losses in last two games. That's football though, and Cook knows that. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 21:59 - Aug 17 with 1825 views | Suffolktractor |
End of first half and all through the second, Cheltenham hassled and harried and made life difficult for us. We had no answer. For all our supposed quality, if you are not given space or time we are not good enough.
Second half we looked exactly like last season. No fight, no guile and no idea how to take the sting out of the opposition, who had one tactic and played it really well.
All the teams who play us this season will be up for the challenge against the supposed ‘big boys’, on tonight’s showing our team have as much bottle as last seasons. Cook has a lot to do, let’s hope we see some fight as well as the undoubted quality we have got.
No one will let us play pretty football, let’s get used to it. | | | |
| Not very clever at all on 22:00 - Aug 17 with 1808 views | pointofblue |
| Not very clever at all on 21:57 - Aug 17 by chicoazul |
Sooooo….if they aren’t bad players, why are they playing badly? |
Exactly. | |
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| Not very clever at all on 22:01 - Aug 17 with 1746 views | Funge |
| Not very clever at all on 21:58 - Aug 17 by Dyland |
Nope, nowhere to hide... except as I say in this thread, three moments that have turned draws or even wins into losses in last two games. That's football though, and Cook knows that. |
No doubt - but Dyllers, honestly, and at risk of sounding like the entitled middle-class pr1ck that we all know I am - we really shouldn't be talking about 'moments' against Morecambe and fcking Cheltenham.
all respect due etc etc | | | |
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