| I no longer recognise my Ipswich 10:38 - Aug 22 with 18335 views | blueysbackside |
There, I’ve said it and I feel relieved. All these signings….back to back promotions. Wow wow wow. What a time to be a Town fan Maybe it’s an age thing, I don’t know, but this potential £100m summer splurge is, well, nuts for our beloved club. We could already field an XI completely different to the team that got us up. Yes, progress. Yes, we want to stay up. Yes, this is the Prem. It just seems a massive gamble. Even bedding in these new boys will take a while….we’re back to the Cook days when he became the demolition man. Hope the dressing room spirit created over the past two seasons isn’t destroyed by this spend. I feel for Burgess, for Luongo. Oh, well…I guess this is top-level football in 2024. |  | | |  |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 07:40 - Aug 23 with 2403 views | mikeybloo88 |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 14:44 - Aug 22 by GeoffSentence |
I think you are reading too much into what peoples down vtes mean. They could mean anything from simply, 'I disagree with that', to 'you're an idiot' , by way of 'your figures are wrong' and 'bad punctuation'
Not something to get bothered by. |
Downvoted for bad spelling...sorry Geoff |  | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 07:48 - Aug 23 with 2369 views | PioneerBlue |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 10:47 - Aug 22 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I think the downvotes are a bit harsh. I get the sentiment but there is much about the club that is the same. Much has always changed.
I feel a much greater affiliation with the well-run successful club we have now than I did with the run-down on its knees club that we were under Marcus Evans. However, at all times it was my Ipswich. Even under Keane, Hurst, Lambert, John Duncan. Of course, I loved us under Robson, Lyall, Burley, and Royle more but it has always been my club. |
Agreed. I have no challenge with the narrative but my Ipswich is both its history and in the moment. It’s not only a group of players that significantly over achieved the wildest expectations in a quick time. It is now, bringing a group of players to take the reins and do what no other group has done in my life, establish itself as a PL club over an initial couple of years but for the long term. I’m sure KMck and the coaching team will quickly bring an identity to the new group which we all come to love but everything is about this year 1. Stay in the PL better still compete away from the relegation zone! | |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 07:50 - Aug 23 with 2360 views | mrfixit426 |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 23:38 - Aug 22 by Churchman |
No, I’m not particularly eccentric but thanks for the complement. I try to keep an open mind and given the work I used to to do I might be a little more open to change and reality that some I can think of. If that puts me in a minority that’s fine. It’s nothing new.
Do I like the absurdity of modern football? No, not really. Do I accept it? Mostly, because the simple and only alternative is to turn my back on the greatest team sport in the world. That would also mean turning my back on all I’ve enjoyed, my father before me and his father before him all the way back to my club’s early days.
Football today has its problems and potentially self destruction. It’s a circus. We all know that. But it is what it is. Sometimes you can embrace what is in front of you. I’ve embraced the last 3.5 years, you’ve clearly and mistakenly screwed yourself up in bitterness and yearning for a time long gone and was never as good as one remembers it anyway.
My and his father were there when the club joined the football league. They saw the 62 Champions and both took me to my first game as young boy in the 68 promotion season. My dad and I saw the Robson years and beyond, the good, the b awful Duncan and Evans years and the ecstatic. A treasured shared memory. All of it.
There is a possibility I might know a little more about the history of the club than you. There’s a possibility it’s you that has missed out on the simple and pure pleasure of the last few years. This club was never the pure entity that you claim it to have been. It isn’t now.
It is not Ipswich in name only. It is the 27,000 who were there on Saturday. It is the people whose names came up in memoriam on the screen. It is those who couldn’t be there for whatever reason. It is the town, county and way beyond. Past, present, future. I watched kids getting selfies and signatures off Cole and Crouch and the joy on their faces. That is what a club is.
The mercenaries visited the hospice where my dad died before Christmas. The staff and a couple of patients I chatted to were looking forward to it and from the pics all enjoyed it. Mercenaries? Well that’s your take. The very people you hammer have done more for this club in 3.5 years than anyone has managed since I dunno, Bobby Robson.
May it end in tears? Maybe. Is it the same as when Churchmans Grandees and Visionhire were being advertised round the pitch? Nope. It is what it is. Live with it or do something else.
Pink shirt? No, not a fan of pink. In fact the only football shirt I’ve ever owned was a Toffs 1950s replica one my late mum bought for me. But if I was and liked pink I’d have one. My choice.
Until then, it’s key rings, polo shirts, baseball cap, fleece, bucket hat, cushions and mugs for me. Why? Because it’s fun. I like fun and silly - a concept clearly alien to you. [Post edited 23 Aug 2024 11:29]
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Beautifully written. |  | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 07:55 - Aug 23 with 2342 views | CaptainAhab |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 07:50 - Aug 23 by mrfixit426 |
Beautifully written. |
Yeah I enjoyed that, stirring stuff.
No doubt totally over Elephants head though, the big negative nelly | | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 09:30 - Aug 23 with 2238 views | OldFart71 |
I know this is my second comment on this and being an "Old fart" nobody takes any notice of what I say. But here goes. Just read on EADT that our current spending if the winger from Sunderland comes in will be around £80 million and top £100 million should we remain in the Premier League and the loans turn into purchases. Yes a heck of a lot of money. But then some of the bigger clubs are paying 40-65 million on one player. That put's into context what we are/have spent and that's on 11 players. Can possibly see another two coming in also. But around four going out. If I am right with the maths that would be a 28 man squad less 4 taking us to 24. So maybe another 3 in and four out ? | | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 09:37 - Aug 23 with 2206 views | Freddy |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 10:43 - Aug 22 by blueysbackside |
Apart from Leif, Morsy and Omari, I can’t see many of the other promotion lot being regulars |
Could be an ace card, with 11 new players, might piss off last years 11 though | | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 10:30 - Aug 23 with 2133 views | AVJones |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 23:38 - Aug 22 by Churchman |
No, I’m not particularly eccentric but thanks for the complement. I try to keep an open mind and given the work I used to to do I might be a little more open to change and reality that some I can think of. If that puts me in a minority that’s fine. It’s nothing new.
Do I like the absurdity of modern football? No, not really. Do I accept it? Mostly, because the simple and only alternative is to turn my back on the greatest team sport in the world. That would also mean turning my back on all I’ve enjoyed, my father before me and his father before him all the way back to my club’s early days.
Football today has its problems and potentially self destruction. It’s a circus. We all know that. But it is what it is. Sometimes you can embrace what is in front of you. I’ve embraced the last 3.5 years, you’ve clearly and mistakenly screwed yourself up in bitterness and yearning for a time long gone and was never as good as one remembers it anyway.
My and his father were there when the club joined the football league. They saw the 62 Champions and both took me to my first game as young boy in the 68 promotion season. My dad and I saw the Robson years and beyond, the good, the b awful Duncan and Evans years and the ecstatic. A treasured shared memory. All of it.
There is a possibility I might know a little more about the history of the club than you. There’s a possibility it’s you that has missed out on the simple and pure pleasure of the last few years. This club was never the pure entity that you claim it to have been. It isn’t now.
It is not Ipswich in name only. It is the 27,000 who were there on Saturday. It is the people whose names came up in memoriam on the screen. It is those who couldn’t be there for whatever reason. It is the town, county and way beyond. Past, present, future. I watched kids getting selfies and signatures off Cole and Crouch and the joy on their faces. That is what a club is.
The mercenaries visited the hospice where my dad died before Christmas. The staff and a couple of patients I chatted to were looking forward to it and from the pics all enjoyed it. Mercenaries? Well that’s your take. The very people you hammer have done more for this club in 3.5 years than anyone has managed since I dunno, Bobby Robson.
May it end in tears? Maybe. Is it the same as when Churchmans Grandees and Visionhire were being advertised round the pitch? Nope. It is what it is. Live with it or do something else.
Pink shirt? No, not a fan of pink. In fact the only football shirt I’ve ever owned was a Toffs 1950s replica one my late mum bought for me. But if I was and liked pink I’d have one. My choice.
Until then, it’s key rings, polo shirts, baseball cap, fleece, bucket hat, cushions and mugs for me. Why? Because it’s fun. I like fun and silly - a concept clearly alien to you. [Post edited 23 Aug 2024 11:29]
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Great to read such thoughtful analysis.
Nelly, why don’t you open yourself up to a proper debate on this? Consider the pro’s and the con’s. The good and the bad.
You clearly have a view, and are bright enough to recognise the complexity of it all. You know the history, and know it wasn’t all sunlight. And fair enough too, lots about today does seem strange.
Have a proper discussion - it could be seriously insightful. | | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 23:03 - Aug 23 with 2049 views | reusersfreekicks |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 00:24 - Aug 23 by IPS_wich |
Not going to downvote you, but our club isn’t your Ipswich, it’s not my Ipswich, it’s an investment vehicle for a pension fund and venture capitalists. What we’ve seen is classic asset management behaviour - speculate to accumulate.
In this context, this summer is entirely predictable. The pension fund isn’t sentimental and it’s clearly not interested in ‘just having a crack’.
But - it’s not as bleak as you make it out to be. McKenna’s game management style means we need to stop seeing our team as simply a ‘first XI’ - it’s a ‘first XVII’. He’s reiterated it again this week, he will every week swap out the front four on 60-65 minutes. He will switch one of the centre midfielders if we’re being overrun and he may switch the right back if we need to pivot to be more attacking or more defensive.
I expect a core of last years team - Woolfie, Axel, Leif, Morsy, Burns, Hirst, Omari and Taylor to each have 25+ appearances this year.
Sadly, I fear that Chaplin, Clarke, Woolfie, Burgess and Luongo may be the stalwarts who end up being squeezed out - but other than Chaplin I’m sure most of us in our heart of hearts would have questioned whether they were premiership standard. [Post edited 23 Aug 2024 1:46]
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You seem to be hedging your bets on Woolfie's prospects! |  | | |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 04:44 - Aug 24 with 1965 views | Benters |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 11:03 - Aug 22 by blueasfook |
Those lads will be long remembered as heroes who got us back to back promotions. But we have to be realistic and accept we need a bit more quality if we're going to make a go of it in the premier league. |
This. |  |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 04:47 - Aug 24 with 1961 views | Benters |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 14:58 - Aug 22 by warky_1970 |
If your Ipswich is the absolute dross laden rubbish that was served up for pretty much every season over the last 20+ years run by an absolute clown and his cronies then surely that’s a good thing that your Ipswich no longer exists. |
And that. | |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 08:29 - Aug 24 with 1861 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 11:38 - Aug 22 by blueysbackside |
The down votes don’t bother me as I’m not 16 but it’s great to read so many opposing views. I appreciate your post. |
On a similar vein I no longer recognise Ipswich ‘supporters’. Back in the day whilst sitting on a blue arrow train waiting to make its interminable journey it was possible to think the club had great supporters.
Nowadays they seem to largely be inmates of secure facilities or spoiled toddlers. | |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 09:29 - Aug 24 with 1808 views | MattinLondon |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 08:29 - Aug 24 by ElephantintheRoom |
On a similar vein I no longer recognise Ipswich ‘supporters’. Back in the day whilst sitting on a blue arrow train waiting to make its interminable journey it was possible to think the club had great supporters.
Nowadays they seem to largely be inmates of secure facilities or spoiled toddlers. |
You’re putting too much effort into your trolling now. I think TWTD fame has poisoned your miserable carcass. |  | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 09:40 - Aug 24 with 1785 views | Churchman |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 08:29 - Aug 24 by ElephantintheRoom |
On a similar vein I no longer recognise Ipswich ‘supporters’. Back in the day whilst sitting on a blue arrow train waiting to make its interminable journey it was possible to think the club had great supporters.
Nowadays they seem to largely be inmates of secure facilities or spoiled toddlers. |
Wow, that’s an interesting opinion of 27,000 people and many 1000s more besides. Especially as you don’t go, so know nothing whatsoever about any of them.
Ahhh, yes, the Blue Arrow. Yes, we’ve all seen the BBC production made in the late 60s. Even Norwich supporters. OTBC! |  | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:03 - Aug 24 with 1708 views | Buhrer |
Yet I recognise 'my Ipswich" more and more. Just really look around you. Town are on the rise. The county is full of it. Feel the positivity around ITFC. Everyone's up for it. So much community spirit, it's our Ipswich back again.
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:29 - Aug 24 with 1683 views | BlueOura |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 23:38 - Aug 22 by Churchman |
No, I’m not particularly eccentric but thanks for the complement. I try to keep an open mind and given the work I used to to do I might be a little more open to change and reality that some I can think of. If that puts me in a minority that’s fine. It’s nothing new.
Do I like the absurdity of modern football? No, not really. Do I accept it? Mostly, because the simple and only alternative is to turn my back on the greatest team sport in the world. That would also mean turning my back on all I’ve enjoyed, my father before me and his father before him all the way back to my club’s early days.
Football today has its problems and potentially self destruction. It’s a circus. We all know that. But it is what it is. Sometimes you can embrace what is in front of you. I’ve embraced the last 3.5 years, you’ve clearly and mistakenly screwed yourself up in bitterness and yearning for a time long gone and was never as good as one remembers it anyway.
My and his father were there when the club joined the football league. They saw the 62 Champions and both took me to my first game as young boy in the 68 promotion season. My dad and I saw the Robson years and beyond, the good, the b awful Duncan and Evans years and the ecstatic. A treasured shared memory. All of it.
There is a possibility I might know a little more about the history of the club than you. There’s a possibility it’s you that has missed out on the simple and pure pleasure of the last few years. This club was never the pure entity that you claim it to have been. It isn’t now.
It is not Ipswich in name only. It is the 27,000 who were there on Saturday. It is the people whose names came up in memoriam on the screen. It is those who couldn’t be there for whatever reason. It is the town, county and way beyond. Past, present, future. I watched kids getting selfies and signatures off Cole and Crouch and the joy on their faces. That is what a club is.
The mercenaries visited the hospice where my dad died before Christmas. The staff and a couple of patients I chatted to were looking forward to it and from the pics all enjoyed it. Mercenaries? Well that’s your take. The very people you hammer have done more for this club in 3.5 years than anyone has managed since I dunno, Bobby Robson.
May it end in tears? Maybe. Is it the same as when Churchmans Grandees and Visionhire were being advertised round the pitch? Nope. It is what it is. Live with it or do something else.
Pink shirt? No, not a fan of pink. In fact the only football shirt I’ve ever owned was a Toffs 1950s replica one my late mum bought for me. But if I was and liked pink I’d have one. My choice.
Until then, it’s key rings, polo shirts, baseball cap, fleece, bucket hat, cushions and mugs for me. Why? Because it’s fun. I like fun and silly - a concept clearly alien to you. [Post edited 23 Aug 2024 11:29]
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:37 - Aug 24 with 1639 views | AVJones |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 08:29 - Aug 24 by ElephantintheRoom |
On a similar vein I no longer recognise Ipswich ‘supporters’. Back in the day whilst sitting on a blue arrow train waiting to make its interminable journey it was possible to think the club had great supporters.
Nowadays they seem to largely be inmates of secure facilities or spoiled toddlers. |
Sorry, but this is when you should be banned.
Utterly rude, totally without any basis of fact and plain nasty.
This isn’t your ‘alternative opinion’ or an attempt at humour. It is just vile. | | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:46 - Aug 24 with 1595 views | GeoffSentence |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:37 - Aug 24 by AVJones |
Sorry, but this is when you should be banned.
Utterly rude, totally without any basis of fact and plain nasty.
This isn’t your ‘alternative opinion’ or an attempt at humour. It is just vile. |
I put the elephant of gloom on ignore ages ago, the persistent, tedious, petty sniping got too dull for words.
It's an approach I heartily recommend to everyone. Makes TWTD a nicer place and starves the elephant of attention. |  |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:54 - Aug 24 with 1565 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 23:03 - Aug 23 by reusersfreekicks |
You seem to be hedging your bets on Woolfie's prospects! |
I am also not convinced that either Tuanzebe and especially Taylor were part of the core of last season's team. |  |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 21:25 - Aug 28 with 1270 views | Matt_Netherlands |
Losing to a lower league team in the league cup in August? Surely things are looking a lot more familiar tonight?! |  | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 21:30 - Aug 28 with 1191 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 21:25 - Aug 28 by Matt_Netherlands |
Losing to a lower league team in the league cup in August? Surely things are looking a lot more familiar tonight?! |
Not any more! | |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 12:56 - Feb 3 with 646 views | blueysbackside |
The dressing room spirit we once had is dead. Official.
Panic buy. Of course I hope it works. That’s Muric (and Walton) gone in the summer.
So many new faces.
I have no idea what our best XI is.
God knows how KM works it all out.
Sorry for bringing up this thread again.
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:07 - Feb 3 with 591 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 12:56 - Feb 3 by blueysbackside |
The dressing room spirit we once had is dead. Official.
Panic buy. Of course I hope it works. That’s Muric (and Walton) gone in the summer.
So many new faces.
I have no idea what our best XI is.
God knows how KM works it all out.
Sorry for bringing up this thread again.
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"The dressing room spirit we once had is dead. Official."
So dramatic. |  |
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| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:12 - Feb 3 with 543 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 12:56 - Feb 3 by blueysbackside |
The dressing room spirit we once had is dead. Official.
Panic buy. Of course I hope it works. That’s Muric (and Walton) gone in the summer.
So many new faces.
I have no idea what our best XI is.
God knows how KM works it all out.
Sorry for bringing up this thread again.
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And your evidence that the dressing room spirit has gone - I'd say there is evidence to the contrary.
Seems a bit of an overdramatic statement to me. | | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:14 - Feb 3 with 525 views | MattinLondon |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 12:56 - Feb 3 by blueysbackside |
The dressing room spirit we once had is dead. Official.
Panic buy. Of course I hope it works. That’s Muric (and Walton) gone in the summer.
So many new faces.
I have no idea what our best XI is.
God knows how KM works it all out.
Sorry for bringing up this thread again.
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You’re not sorry for bringing this thread up - you’re simply trying to say ‘I told you so’ even through there’s another 14 matches to play. Or you’re trying to wind people up and in the process, getting much needed attention.
Either way, you’re not sorry. | | | |
| I no longer recognise my Ipswich on 13:34 - Feb 3 with 457 views | Reus30 |
I did find it a bit weird that all the likes for the OP are from users I haven't noticed before.
Are we inundated with Russian bots to spread negativity? Or 4 fingered folk from north of the (county) border. |  | | |
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