| Just one year. That was all I wanted. One year. 17:13 - Sep 11 with 2625 views | The_Romford_Blue |
One year of some success, some wins and ultimately promotion. In 20 years of supporting this club and spending Saturdays getting a train for hours on end to even get to Portman Road. Plus all those wasted away days up north.
But no. It just never happens.
I literally just wanted to believe. When we can’t even have a year of success down in League 1 and it’s still as miserable and as painful as ever, I’ve lost all faith. I’d rather spend my Saturdays at the best racing Britain has to offer than the misery of this football club.
As for the match, that was the worst defensive display I’ve seen from any team ever. Including Germany’s against Brazil (7-1) and Southampton’s against Leicester (9-0). Far too much space. Far too much time. Bolton walked rings around us and I honestly don’t know if our lads even cared that it was happening. No urgency, no desire, no heart. And then to sum it all up, Cook brings on Jackson - a player he forced to train in the under 23s for the last year.
In many many years of lows, we’ve now reached a new painful plummet.. Even with new owners signingexciting players, we still find a way to distinguish all hope of anything even remotely near success. I used to be the optimist. |  |
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| Just one year. That was all I wanted. One year. on 19:22 - Sep 12 with 276 views | TheBoyBlue |
Don't think I've seen a post that sums it up better. I've calmed down a little from yesterday and my overriding feeling is that of resignation. I just wanted to have a season where I haven't got to politely smile at the jokes about ITFC, even if they are just bantz. Just to feel chuffed about supporting Ipswich, to have some hope. I thought that this season would at least offer that. I thought we'd recruited players specifically for their fight, but there was none of that for the entire second half yesterday. I can put up with losing, even to various teams that were non-league nonentities not all that long ago, especially as I felt it was gradually moving to something better. But I can't accept what I saw yesterday, it is just more that same feeling of... resignation. We've just found a more entertaining way of disappointing. |  |
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| Just one year. That was all I wanted. One year. on 20:48 - Sep 12 with 236 views | HARRY10 |
The sickener is that we are not mid table, bemoaning the fact that a couple of bad decisions from the ref, sloppy conceded goals etc have denied us the points that would put us comfortably in the play off places.
That would be acceptable, as the thought would be that these things balance themselves out and we look good enough to challenge. The squad is beginning to take shape, things look great on the pitch and it is just a matter of time.
Instead, we are faced with the (almost) fear that we have been tucked up again. Cook could now turn out to be a hapless bozo like Jewell, or a man with the past of Hurst and Keane - but the future of shares in Blockbusters. That this supposedly expensively squad is no more than 'mates' of Cook .... told they should get themselves down to Portman Road and 'fill their boots'.
So far has been Xmas day as a little lad when you excitedly open your Xmas present and the box is empty. It is not the latest Action Man with all the kit - but Action Man deserter. He has gone AWOL, and you are left with just an empty box.
'Plus ça change......', as the Welsh would say. | | | |
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