| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday 21:16 - May 30 with 2658 views | Lord_Lucan |
If we hadn't have gone up (which was obviously on a knife edge) It would have been more likely that McKenna would have left - and then what calibre of manager would we have got?
It then reminds me that we were biting our nails in the championship for most of the season.
I'm not saying we were lucky because I think we thoroughly deserved it, but it really demonstrates the fine lines doesn't it. |  |
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| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 21:21 - May 30 with 2564 views | RKD |
Sure does.
Think back to February last year when Sheff Wed missed a sitter to make it 3-0 at Portman Road, we probably would have finished mid table in League One this year. |  |
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| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 21:23 - May 30 with 2514 views | DarkBrandon |
Quite.
The thing is we could have stayed down, lost Kieran and replaced him with a very good manager. But that could easily have not been enough. In the world of parachute payments you really need an exceptional manager, or some black swan event like having a couple of outstanding young players come through who somehow aren’t tempted to play in the PL.
It is easy to see a best case where we stay in the top 4-10 positions of the Championship, burning our investors cash despite having replaced KM very well |  | | |
| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 21:26 - May 30 with 2438 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 21:21 - May 30 by RKD |
Sure does.
Think back to February last year when Sheff Wed missed a sitter to make it 3-0 at Portman Road, we probably would have finished mid table in League One this year. |
Actually, I miss spoke, I forgot what league we were recently in.
I meant to type..
It then reminds me that we were biting our nails in the Division 1 for most of the season - going back to the Plymouth and Sheff Wednesday battle. It seems only yesterday that Barnsley were coming up on the outside! [Post edited 30 May 2024 21:28]
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| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 06:38 - May 31 with 1780 views | Churchman |
| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 21:21 - May 30 by RKD |
Sure does.
Think back to February last year when Sheff Wed missed a sitter to make it 3-0 at Portman Road, we probably would have finished mid table in League One this year. |
We wouldn’t have finished mid table, but I take your point. We wouldn’t have made the autos and given our dismal play off record who knows. Fine margins. But then it always is.
In the 70s we came close to winning the league and in 75 in the FA Cup, we were foiled by unlucky injuries and a swine of a referee (Mr Clive Thomas). In 81, we should have won the lot. We deserved to but events conspired against us. It’s how it goes.
This season, the fixture order felt ‘kind’, Southampton stuttered and Leeds fell apart (again). Certain decisions went our way, others didn’t but because of external noise it’s easy to fall into the lucky narrative. Wrong. When all is said and done, 96 points in an extraordinary season. We played the ‘right’ way and while I’ve seen much better Ipswich teams, looking back I’ve never seen a more exciting one.
I believe McKenna’s team will do better than the experts predict. The way they go about things and the way everybody at the club is pulling in the right direction tells me that. There is just something about ITFC at the moment.
McKenna made the right decision to stay. It’s clear he wants one of the top jobs and he will get it too. I just think that if he gives it a good go this season regardless of how it goes it’ll stand him in good stead and by the time he moves on one of the top six one of those clubs will be in a sane enough state to be viable. The state of Man U and Chelsea: he’d have been nuts to go near them at the moment. As for Brighton, there was everything to lose, nothing to gain in my view.
As for ourselves, it’s imperative they stay with the plans to develop and grow all aspects of the club. McKenna is just one aspect, albeit a key one. Nobody knows it’s potential but the more this club carries doing what it’s doing, without losing its head on transfers, new stands etc (see Sheepshanks 2001) the more secure it will be. That is what is most important to me, especially after what happened 2002-2021.
Musing of the day complete. Now time to listen to BlueMonday. |  | | |
| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 07:34 - May 31 with 1524 views | cressi |
Hardly a great comment pretty obvious would probably jumped ship if we failed to go up.
By all accounts close this time. |  | | |
| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 09:53 - May 31 with 1227 views | southnorfolkblue |
| Our Joe made a great comment on Blue Monday on 21:26 - May 30 by Lord_Lucan |
Actually, I miss spoke, I forgot what league we were recently in.
I meant to type..
It then reminds me that we were biting our nails in the Division 1 for most of the season - going back to the Plymouth and Sheff Wednesday battle. It seems only yesterday that Barnsley were coming up on the outside! [Post edited 30 May 2024 21:28]
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Whenever you mention Barnsley I think back to their game at Burton where one of the Burton defenders punched the ball off the line at 0-0. Blatant penalty and red card, which weren’t seen. Burton went on to win 2-1 and Barnsley started to fall away. I always felt that was a bit of a sliding doors moment. | |
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