| What a manager we have 17:05 - Aug 19 with 4736 views | Mullet |
If you can keep your head when QPR are all around you, kicking everything and missing easy chances you won't be League One again will you?
Thought the early start faded and we were relatively poor/disjointed for a lot of that. Wasn't clicking in behind Hirst, right hand side were being targeted and making poor decisions. Armstrong will be looked at by a few I reckon in the final week of the window - he's just brutal when he gets moving.
Not sure how Eltringham will feel about his performance but it was sh1te. Missed so much all over the park and bottled decisions. Likewise, we rode our luck superbly and kept going.
The benefits of a squad glued together by that promotion seem to be reaping rewards early on. It's like that start to the Championship the other year when everything went in or stayed out as we needed it to. |  |
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| Shoulda gone after Lincoln innit on 10:55 - Aug 20 with 580 views | Dyland |
| What a ridiculous conflation, and borderline libellous! on 10:48 - Aug 20 by Dubtractor |
Exactly this.
Mick did a decent Job for a bit, but should have gone a year earlier for all of our sakes, including his own. That last season, both the football and the souring relationship with the fanbase, has meant people forget the good stuff he did. |
Was discussed the other day cos we were playing QPR, the away game shortly before the cup exit epitomised Mick's grinding and increasingly intractable tactics and infuriating attitude. The death by a thousand cuts and oik-like fallout was embarrassing for all parties. Mick takes his portion of the blame here, and it's sad it ended like it did. The real culprit is Evans though, who was clueless to the mood cos he was absent even when he was here. |  |
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| What a manager we have on 10:56 - Aug 20 with 573 views | pointofblue |
| What a manager we have on 07:56 - Aug 20 by Churchman |
Nobody wiped the floor with Micks team 2014/15, but they did the following season. We had a good start then we played Brighton at home. They won 3-2 but the score was a travesty really. They played us off the pitch. I notice that it was followed by the 5-1 drubbing at Reading. It was these games that convinced me the opportunity was gone.
I’ve never liked Mick’s way of playing football, even before he managed us. Dour. However, there’s a place for it. There aren’t many managers who could have got us out of the abject mess Jewell left or could have built such a competitive, tight team with so little. Pragmatic, disciplined and effective. It was what we needed at that time and no rewrite of history will change that for me.
But it went on too long. It was crushingly dull and actually embarrassing watching a once great club treating every point a prisoner and scratching at home against the likes of Rotherham. His time was up. Evans of course carries much of the blame for allowing the club to rot inside out.
Would Mick’s 2014/15 beat the current team? With Murphy having his golden season and Didzy in his prime, at the moment probably. But firstly the current team will improve and secondly I’d much rather watch McKenna’s exciting team. I watched MMs team out of go to the match habit, not love - especially in the last few seasons.
I said last Saturday that I thought they were the best side since since Burley’s team. An OTT view fuelled by the excitement of the day, but I genuinely think they will be. |
The 5-1 at Reading was the final straw but not in the way you think. I remember the game well and we actually played decently and out together some nice moves. It was one of those freaks where we couldn't convert and they scored with every attack. Unfortunately, instead of taking his medicine and keeping the approach he started the season with - we were trying to be open and expansive at the start of the season - he returned to his safety blanket of safety first. He never recovered here. |  |
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| I remember it as well now on 12:45 - Aug 20 with 547 views | Dyland |
| What a manager we have on 10:56 - Aug 20 by pointofblue |
The 5-1 at Reading was the final straw but not in the way you think. I remember the game well and we actually played decently and out together some nice moves. It was one of those freaks where we couldn't convert and they scored with every attack. Unfortunately, instead of taking his medicine and keeping the approach he started the season with - we were trying to be open and expansive at the start of the season - he returned to his safety blanket of safety first. He never recovered here. |
Skuse played really high and we had less defensive cover as a result. That was partly the reason we conceded so many, and as you say the scoreline was not a good reflection of the play. It was typical of Mick to instantly revert to being defensive and cautious. A shame cos he knew how to get a song out of players and a team. Man was he stubborn, and defensive in both senses of the word :) | |
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| What a manager we have on 10:35 - Aug 25 with 320 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
McCarthy will forever be divisive. A nice bloke if tediously cliched to listen to.
Ultimately he was a symptom of the decline of true club under Evans. The ‘industrial’ (if we are being kind) football was not the ‘Ipswich way’. He kept us competitive in a tough league under the constraints of Evans.
Ultimately though sport/football is entertainment (and not cheap), and I like many others gradually disappeared from Portman Rd, when I found it was much cheaper, and more appealing to stay home and pour Tabasco in my eyes. [Post edited 25 Aug 2023 10:36]
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