| No subject 18:43 - Jan 30 with 7122 views | textbackup |
Is anyone a little concerned that we face the final 15 games with the squad we have? (Appreciate there is time to add a couple of others still - but worse case)
Because at present this squad sees us sitting 19th, with 3 wins to our name, and 21 goals scored, in 23 games.
I know ‘bla bla negative’ but that’s the hard truth of the current situation, isn’t it. |  |
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| No subject on 20:31 - Jan 30 with 1974 views | Hipsterectomy |
We are 100% preparing for the championship and I can’t wait to go to some
Away games next season |  |
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| No subject on 20:41 - Jan 30 with 1929 views | homer_123 |
No. |  |
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| No subject on 20:43 - Jan 30 with 1924 views | davblue |
rather than a striker i think a GK and Central midfielder are more pressing areas. |  | | |
| No subject on 20:45 - Jan 30 with 1910 views | homer_123 |
| No subject on 20:43 - Jan 30 by davblue |
rather than a striker i think a GK and Central midfielder are more pressing areas. |
Having your GK press is certainly a new tactical approach. | |
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| No subject on 20:47 - Jan 30 with 1893 views | homer_123 |
| No subject on 19:36 - Jan 30 by cressi |
Ur more confident than me think we have been dismal for almost a month Fulham game I'm not very optimistic. |
Fair enough....we all see things differently.
If we stay up, great. If we don't, hey ho.
I'm enjoying the ride, otherwise, what's the point? | |
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| I think the fact that.... on 20:55 - Jan 30 with 1846 views | Bloots |
| No subject on 20:43 - Jan 30 by davblue |
rather than a striker i think a GK and Central midfielder are more pressing areas. |
....we've got more GKs than CFs in the squad disproves that theory! |  |
| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| Without another CF.... on 21:02 - Jan 30 with 1799 views | Bigalhunter |
| Without another CF.... on 18:50 - Jan 30 by Bloots |
...we are very likely to get relegated.
We have to assume we will get one in before Monday night, it's essentially incompetence from our recruitment team otherwise.
Keep the faith. |
We previously relied on large amount of goals from midfield, but that’s pretty much dried up this season.
If we had centre forwards that were missing sitters (not him!) I’d agree. Delap’s done well to nab as many as he has, given he’s had to either create them himself or hope for a penalty.
Our problems lie squarely with the lack of creativity and goals from central and wide areas. Not entirely convinced Enciso and Philogene will solve that, but I guess KM will just have to conjure up something better than Wolves and Leicester can, from what he’s got. [Post edited 30 Jan 21:10]
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| No subject on 21:19 - Jan 30 with 1734 views | Blue_Heath |
| No subject on 19:03 - Jan 30 by Parky |
Sadly, yes. I don’t think our central midfielders are really good enough for the Prem (except Cajuste), I am also concerned about relying on Delap and Hirst to remain fit, otherwise we resort to Szmodics upfront and we saw how that went against Newcastle.
Burns’ injury is also a blow because I think he offers us something different to Ben Johnson with his pace and ability to get in behind.
All that said, hopefully our new signings settle early and improve us. |
Totally agree but staggered why a seasoned international still can't play 90 minutes. |  | | |
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| No subject on 21:21 - Jan 30 with 1728 views | TractorWood |
I think we've made our way to a reasonable position. Summer business was decent enough.
I worry we are short in cm and cb and ultimately GK. We seem distracted with buying endless flair wide players and get beaten in central midfield every week with a Morsy miles out of his depth. Phillips is not up to it and we have inadequate centre backs.
I think realistically it's drop. [Post edited 30 Jan 21:21]
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| I think the fact that.... on 21:27 - Jan 30 with 1697 views | davblue |
| I think the fact that.... on 20:55 - Jan 30 by Bloots |
....we've got more GKs than CFs in the squad disproves that theory! |
we haven't got a keeper to the standard of Delap either! | | | |
| No subject on 21:44 - Jan 30 with 1654 views | bsw72 |
Nope. I think we’ve done well to build the squad we have. The fact we are not in the position Southampton find themselves is credit to the club.
Anyone that thought we could take the squad we were promoted with and do better than we have done was over optimistic. We have on the whole competed, been unlucky with some decisions and injuries.
Bring on those last 15 games. |  | | |
| No subject on 21:51 - Jan 30 with 1624 views | Broadbent23 |
We are just like a newly formed company with a talented staff. Unfortunately big corporations are more experienced and don't like teams like us trying to survive and getting stronger in their league with players like LD. If we get by with minimum points (small loses) we survive and grow year by year. The process is painful, but hopefully rewarding. Therefore our recruitment has to be tailored to Premier rules. Keep calm and enjoy our survival mission. | | | |
| No subject on 22:04 - Jan 30 with 1590 views | Stewart27 |
| No subject on 19:36 - Jan 30 by cressi |
Ur more confident than me think we have been dismal for almost a month Fulham game I'm not very optimistic. |
Two of the three games since Fulham have been to the best club in the world and the champions of the PL for the past four seasons. Arguably the best PL team of all time. | | | |
| No subject on 23:09 - Jan 30 with 1536 views | Guthrum |
Looking at it another way, this squad (without the January additions) had got us one point and not much goal difference from the team in 17th place - i.e. still in touch. Having only four of our remaining 15 games left against the current top six teams (one of whom we beat).
We need to make hay between now and the middle of April, facing teams a lot of whom we have already taken points from. |  |
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| Without another CF.... on 23:14 - Jan 30 with 1520 views | smithy69 |
| Without another CF.... on 18:50 - Jan 30 by Bloots |
...we are very likely to get relegated.
We have to assume we will get one in before Monday night, it's essentially incompetence from our recruitment team otherwise.
Keep the faith. |
Give over. That’s meltish | | | |
| Without another CF.... on 23:21 - Jan 30 with 1492 views | Funge |
| Without another CF.... on 23:14 - Jan 30 by smithy69 |
Give over. That’s meltish |
Nah, not really.
We need a CF; one injury to Delap or Hirst, and our substitute on 70 minutes is, once more, AAH waddling around up front.
Nice bloke, sure, with the power of a nation behind him, but absolutely not Prem standard, nowhere near.
Ashton needs to fix up, sharpish. 24 hours, Mark.
EDIT - oh, turns out he's got til Monday. Fine, Wider point still stands. [Post edited 30 Jan 23:24]
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| Without another CF.... on 23:26 - Jan 30 with 1478 views | Horsham |
| Without another CF.... on 23:21 - Jan 30 by Funge |
Nah, not really.
We need a CF; one injury to Delap or Hirst, and our substitute on 70 minutes is, once more, AAH waddling around up front.
Nice bloke, sure, with the power of a nation behind him, but absolutely not Prem standard, nowhere near.
Ashton needs to fix up, sharpish. 24 hours, Mark.
EDIT - oh, turns out he's got til Monday. Fine, Wider point still stands. [Post edited 30 Jan 23:24]
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Also AAH is out on loan but on the plus side the window doesn’t slam shut until sometime on Monday so a bit longer to agonise over this! |  | | |
| Without another CF.... on 23:29 - Jan 30 with 1471 views | Funge |
| Without another CF.... on 23:26 - Jan 30 by Horsham |
Also AAH is out on loan but on the plus side the window doesn’t slam shut until sometime on Monday so a bit longer to agonise over this! |
Oh yeah.
In fairness, I've had a lovely evening drinking. | | | |
| Without another CF.... on 23:32 - Jan 30 with 1454 views | Horsham |
| Without another CF.... on 23:29 - Jan 30 by Funge |
Oh yeah.
In fairness, I've had a lovely evening drinking. |
That’s the main thing! Hopefully Ashton’s working to your schedule and gets the necessary ahead of the deadline! | | | |
| Lol, decent discussion mate. (n/t) on 23:32 - Jan 30 with 1454 views | Bloots |
| Without another CF.... on 23:14 - Jan 30 by smithy69 |
Give over. That’s meltish |
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| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| What you been drinking Admiral…. on 23:33 - Jan 30 with 1454 views | Bloots |
| Without another CF.... on 23:29 - Jan 30 by Funge |
Oh yeah.
In fairness, I've had a lovely evening drinking. |
….meths and milk?! | |
| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| Without another CF.... on 07:10 - Jan 31 with 1270 views | smithy69 |
| Without another CF.... on 23:21 - Jan 30 by Funge |
Nah, not really.
We need a CF; one injury to Delap or Hirst, and our substitute on 70 minutes is, once more, AAH waddling around up front.
Nice bloke, sure, with the power of a nation behind him, but absolutely not Prem standard, nowhere near.
Ashton needs to fix up, sharpish. 24 hours, Mark.
EDIT - oh, turns out he's got til Monday. Fine, Wider point still stands. [Post edited 30 Jan 23:24]
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The fact you don’t even know that AAH has left the club on loan says it all really
Some of our fan base - Jesus wept | | | |
| No subject on 07:23 - Jan 31 with 1227 views | Nutkins_Return |
| No subject on 19:36 - Jan 30 by cressi |
Ur more confident than me think we have been dismal for almost a month Fulham game I'm not very optimistic. |
It's not really that I'm confident. I'm more just being pragmatic.i think we've made quality additions as best we can and it gives us a chance.
My honest assessment is that relegation is the most likely result but we're in a position to have a go. | |
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| No subject on 07:41 - Jan 31 with 1187 views | bazza |
We are as good as Leicester and wolves, I look at it now, like we are in a promotion battle, between 3 teams, and this year second place won’t do, if someone had said come the end of January you’d be a point off survival and in a 3 horse race , id have taken it, we’ve had injuries , we’ve had poor Decisions go against us, and we’ve had some poor games, we’ve had some good games. We just need to get behind the team, hope hirst stays fit, and cling on tight. We have the players imo and we definitely have the manager. COYFB’s !! |  | | |
| Without another CF.... on 08:01 - Jan 31 with 1141 views | Funge |
| Without another CF.... on 07:10 - Jan 31 by smithy69 |
The fact you don’t even know that AAH has left the club on loan says it all really
Some of our fan base - Jesus wept |
Yes sorry Stiffy that was my error it is very important to get everything right about Ipswich all the time. | | | |
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