| We are too lightweight 06:54 - Mar 9 with 5958 views | Blue_In_Boston |
Can't complain about the effort and endeavour yesterday, we were just beaten (again) by a more physically powerful team.
In League 1 we had possession, neat on the ground football and used skill rather than muscle, that confidence and method see us through the Championship. In the Premier League our possession has dropped off, certainly in the areas where we can hurt teams. Much of that is down to strength and size - my Dad always says a good big 'un will beat a good small 'un ninety percent of the time. |  | | |  |
| We are too lightweight on 10:38 - Mar 9 with 1173 views | LeoMuff |
| We are too lightweight on 09:21 - Mar 9 by billlm |
Lol that's going to be controversial |
I suppose it depends on who stays or goes, if we just lost Delap and Leif then I would be amazed if we finished 10th, but if there was a mass exodus then you are in the lap of the gods a bit.
I can’t see vast amounts of interest in this squad, Delap, Leif, Dara maybe we will also need to replace Phillip and Cajuste which is a big ask.
However we will be at a big financial advantage, if we keep Kmac then I would be confident of autos. |  |
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| We are too lightweight on 10:40 - Mar 9 with 1170 views | Nutkins_Return |
| We are too lightweight on 07:41 - Mar 9 by textbackup |
I think we’ll flop next year. 10/12th
This lot haven’t got it |
That would depend on a lot of factors. We absolutely need to keep McKenna first off. And most of the players we have are absolutely outstanding championship players.
We will be stronger then the year we went up by some distance most likely. My only worry is losing Omari. Delap I just accept is gone. Davis possibly but he will have fewer takers but teams going up night go for him.
CM rebuild is critical. Wouldn't mind us doing something like Sheaf and Travis. Travis the relatively cheap option but brings some continuity as he would slot straight in as squad CM. Sheaf is the more expensive Morsy replacement (Cov may well go up though). [Post edited 9 Mar 15:41]
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| We are too lightweight on 10:41 - Mar 9 with 1168 views | Smoresy |
| We are too lightweight on 08:46 - Mar 9 by SuffolkPunchFC |
Pure conjecture.
The various segments released on TownTV would suggest the opposite. |
Agreed, team spirit appears fine. We're digging in hard. Fans tend to disagree when you're a losing team though - the optimistic mindset that anybody can achieve anything if they put their mind to it perhaps, so losing equals lack of will to win rather than ability. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 10:51 - Mar 9 with 1135 views | algy |
| We are too lightweight on 08:46 - Mar 9 by SuffolkPunchFC |
Pure conjecture.
The various segments released on TownTV would suggest the opposite. |
TownTV is just PR spin orchestrated by the ITFC media department. Such segments are as reliable and objective as an article in the Matchday Programme. | |
| I was there when McKenna's ITFC won in the Premier League at Home. Our only home win in a year. |
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| We are too lightweight on 10:56 - Mar 9 with 1122 views | Smoresy |
| We are too lightweight on 10:51 - Mar 9 by algy |
TownTV is just PR spin orchestrated by the ITFC media department. Such segments are as reliable and objective as an article in the Matchday Programme. |
We're digging in hard on the pitch though, that's pretty obvious. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 10:57 - Mar 9 with 1124 views | ITFCson |
Seems football has done a U-turn because it was not so long ago pundits and fans alike would claim the lower leagues to be more about physicality and the Prem a lot more technical. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 11:04 - Mar 9 with 1107 views | redrickstuhaart |
| We are too lightweight on 10:57 - Mar 9 by ITFCson |
Seems football has done a U-turn because it was not so long ago pundits and fans alike would claim the lower leagues to be more about physicality and the Prem a lot more technical. |
I don't think that has changed. The point is that the prem players have both. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 11:08 - Mar 9 with 1095 views | blueasfook |
| We are too lightweight on 10:00 - Mar 9 by witchdoctor |
does he ever? |
I don't think he even knows where Portman Rd is. |  |
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| We are too lightweight on 11:09 - Mar 9 with 1095 views | Smoresy |
| We are too lightweight on 10:57 - Mar 9 by ITFCson |
Seems football has done a U-turn because it was not so long ago pundits and fans alike would claim the lower leagues to be more about physicality and the Prem a lot more technical. |
Good point but that speaks to clichés and misunderstandings among football fans, rather than anything that's happened on the pitch. L2 has always been deathly slow compared to the top flight, with comparatively acres of free space. It's only ever been more physical in the sense of nastier tackles and lump-it football, not in the sense of genuine athleticism.
And it's always made total sense: if you fix a player's ability with a football, the more physically gifted they are, the better they'll be at the sport and the higher they'll play. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 11:21 - Mar 9 with 1068 views | DinnernotTea |
| We are too lightweight on 10:56 - Mar 9 by Smoresy |
We're digging in hard on the pitch though, that's pretty obvious. |
Are we? Tottenham at home and Man U away tells us different.
Winning 3 league games in 7 months also tells us different. | |
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| We are too lightweight on 11:28 - Mar 9 with 1058 views | DJR |
| We are too lightweight on 09:20 - Mar 9 by textbackup |
So that’s clearly an issue isn’t it. |
I did say the following in my earlier post.
But our Achilles heel all season has been the attacking players behind the Delap which means that we just don't create enough chances. |  | | |
| We are too lightweight on 11:34 - Mar 9 with 1034 views | Smoresy |
| We are too lightweight on 11:21 - Mar 9 by DinnernotTea |
Are we? Tottenham at home and Man U away tells us different.
Winning 3 league games in 7 months also tells us different. |
Not IMO. It tells us that the team isn't good enough.
People applauded the grit and determination against Villa, against Forest, and then they bemoan the lack of it when we lose. It's the same players, always giving up more opportunities than we create because of the obvious quality and power deficit. That's the problem and team spirit doesn't solve it, but I've repeated my opinion too much now aha so will quieten myself. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 11:35 - Mar 9 with 1023 views | TractorWood |
| We are too lightweight on 07:41 - Mar 9 by textbackup |
I think we’ll flop next year. 10/12th
This lot haven’t got it |
I wish I didn't but I agree.
We've ripped the spine out, make 5 changes every week and bought exclusively small buzzy decoration players.
This narrative that we are going to walk the championship next year is so naive. |  |
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| We are too lightweight on 12:00 - Mar 9 with 966 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| We are too lightweight on 10:51 - Mar 9 by algy |
TownTV is just PR spin orchestrated by the ITFC media department. Such segments are as reliable and objective as an article in the Matchday Programme. |
There is such a thing as reading body language. It's a life skill that is worth developing, and anyone with this skill can see for themselves that there is plenty camaraderie within the team. [Post edited 9 Mar 19:35]
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| We are too lightweight on 12:11 - Mar 9 with 940 views | backwaywhen |
| We are too lightweight on 09:17 - Mar 9 by DJR |
Goals from midfield or assists only really come if we have much more of an attacking threat and get into the box more. |
We had more shots on target than Palace yesterday ! …..quality of finishing . | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 12:15 - Mar 9 with 927 views | Denny32 |
Precisely..Clarke. billy Jean. Enciso. Chaplain..morsy .szmodics..hutch..all so light and frail..a gust of wind blow them over... may have technical abilities but no good if you been bullied all over the pitch
Does mckenna still think he's coaching at under age levels !!.we have no chance | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 12:23 - Mar 9 with 908 views | strikalite |
| We are too lightweight on 11:35 - Mar 9 by TractorWood |
I wish I didn't but I agree.
We've ripped the spine out, make 5 changes every week and bought exclusively small buzzy decoration players.
This narrative that we are going to walk the championship next year is so naive. |
The scary thing is we're a stronger squad now than last season, that shows the massive gulf in the divisions.. |  | | |
| We are too lightweight on 12:30 - Mar 9 with 882 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
| We are too lightweight on 07:35 - Mar 9 by bluesym |
Yeah,but the championship all stars will be awesome next season!
Personally,I'd have liked us to have got in 1 or 2 more grizzled pros with top flight experience, but what do I know? |
Based on what? Clarke, Philogene, Greaves, Palmer , Szmodics and Co were not even in sides that finished above us last season. Muric and O’Shea might be okay in the Championship but they’re nowhere near good enough to play in the top flight. It’s going to be another season of adjustments. We bought poorly, we won’t have Phillips, Cajuste or Delap either, and those are the three along with Hutchinson that are actually good enough to play in the league above.
There’s going to be a lot of surprised people next season when they realise what a battle the Championship really is. |  |
| An East Anglian Town overtaken by Londoners |
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| We are too lightweight on 13:08 - Mar 9 with 841 views | ernie |
| We are too lightweight on 08:40 - Mar 9 by DinnernotTea |
McKenna's obsession with "British academy players" has killed us. They're by and large crap in the Prem hence every single line up we face is 75% overseas pretty much.
You also end up paying £62m for Hutch, Philogene & J.Clarke instead of £12.5m for a Sarr. |
In a nutshell. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 13:11 - Mar 9 with 835 views | ernie |
| We are too lightweight on 08:40 - Mar 9 by DinnernotTea |
McKenna's obsession with "British academy players" has killed us. They're by and large crap in the Prem hence every single line up we face is 75% overseas pretty much.
You also end up paying £62m for Hutch, Philogene & J.Clarke instead of £12.5m for a Sarr. |
More worrying is that halfway through the season (Jan window) the penny had not dropped and we were still doing the same thing. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 13:21 - Mar 9 with 790 views | tractordownsouth |
| We are too lightweight on 08:40 - Mar 9 by DinnernotTea |
McKenna's obsession with "British academy players" has killed us. They're by and large crap in the Prem hence every single line up we face is 75% overseas pretty much.
You also end up paying £62m for Hutch, Philogene & J.Clarke instead of £12.5m for a Sarr. |
One of the pitfalls of back to back promotions is that the infrastructure to search for bargains in other European leagues hasn’t been there because we didn’t have the scouting networks set up.. Until 2023, the rules were such that the only players who would have qualified for a visa were way out of our price range as a League One club, so there was no point scouting abroad.
Wherever we bought players from, we needed 60%+ of our signings to be clear successes in order to stay up. In future, I want us to cast the net wider but last summer it made more sense to take calculated risks on domestic players rather than blindly going into markets and offering fees for players we didn’t know enough about. |  |
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| We are too lightweight on 13:29 - Mar 9 with 756 views | TractorWood |
| We are too lightweight on 12:23 - Mar 9 by strikalite |
The scary thing is we're a stronger squad now than last season, that shows the massive gulf in the divisions.. |
Stronger on paper but last season we were massively better than the sum of our parts. This season we are a mix of expensive strangers and people playing at their absolute peak every week to just not get found out (and are doing well). | |
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| We are too lightweight on 14:20 - Mar 9 with 692 views | strikalite |
| We are too lightweight on 13:29 - Mar 9 by TractorWood |
Stronger on paper but last season we were massively better than the sum of our parts. This season we are a mix of expensive strangers and people playing at their absolute peak every week to just not get found out (and are doing well). |
Yeah i certainly don't think we move the ball as quickly, on the transition, that cross field ball to Burns is just one example how we used to stretch teams, Ogbene injury was a blow no doubt to back up Burns, pace and movement off the ball is huge and I think we're a little too safe this season, a mixture of new recruits and better opposition no doubt is a problem, but players like Philogene, Ogbene, Szmodics we know are top Championship players and would be next season no doubt.. | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 14:25 - Mar 9 with 673 views | DJR |
| We are too lightweight on 12:11 - Mar 9 by backwaywhen |
We had more shots on target than Palace yesterday ! …..quality of finishing . |
That is certainly true but even yesterday we didn't create the quality of chances that Palace did, with the BBC saying Palace's xG was 3.42, and ours was 1.17, | | | |
| We are too lightweight on 15:08 - Mar 9 with 616 views | Herbivore |
| We are too lightweight on 13:29 - Mar 9 by TractorWood |
Stronger on paper but last season we were massively better than the sum of our parts. This season we are a mix of expensive strangers and people playing at their absolute peak every week to just not get found out (and are doing well). |
Leicester and Saints both strengthened in the summer and we're ahead of both of them. That would support the idea that we are also stronger given we're ahead of them both in the table. Sheffield United were terrible last season and look likely to bounce straight back up, the Gulf between the two divisions is huge. We will rightly be one of the favourites to bounce back up it we go down. |  |
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