| It is our signings that have 09:15 - Mar 15 with 4573 views | onceablue |
Cost us this season
Music - worst keeper to have played for Ipswich. Palmer starts season we are 10pts better off
O’ Shea - is he 10M better than Wolfe
Greaves - is he 18M better than Burgess
Clarke- is he 18M better than Broadhead
Philogene - 18M really
Obegne - jury out
The above signings have also meant McKenna does not have a clue what his best side is
I would have preferred we played our Championship side all season and least there was a togetherness that the fans bought into
Injuries to Chaplin Smozdics and Burns have also had a massive impact
Having said all of the above I will be there today singing my heart out and praying for miracle |  | | |  |
| It is our signings that have on 09:23 - Mar 15 with 3313 views | DrissaDiallo |
McKenna just couldn't get a tune out of him. |  | | |
| It is our signings that have on 09:28 - Mar 15 with 3294 views | King_of_Portman_Rd |
I sort of agree with a couple of those, particularly O’Shea as I didn’t think we needed him(especially for that money) but you have to say is he better than Edmundson as Wolf has still played and Edmundson left to allow the squad place, so the answer is yes
Greaves is a top player, we can have 2 top players for that role as Burgess hasn’t ever really let us down.
Clarke & Phil O’Jean are players bought for the future, not the here and now.
I do think (and thought at the time) we’ve overspent on those players, particularly O’Shea & Muric mainly because I’m not accustomed to Ipswich spending any money but the sad reality is that is probably the going rate. Muric has been the standout failure, but there are redeeming factors and long term potential on pretty much every other signing |  | | |
| It is our signings that have on 09:31 - Mar 15 with 3273 views | Blue_Heath |
You neglect to include Delap who probably gains us 10 points and without him we'd likely be below Saints but equally Cajuste, Phillips attacking contributions have been very poor too. For me Godfrey one of the worst - just why?
One thing is clear we must try to get seasoned premier league players if we get promoted again and add to the team rather than potential future profiteering.
We need to rebuild our style of play and upgrade players rather than having two teams of equal quality.
We need a commitment from McKenna, once relegation is finally confirmed rather than a summer of will he won't he stay and start planning who to shift out who to get in. | | | |
| It is our signings that have on 09:50 - Mar 15 with 3182 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
In Murics defence, Will Norris is the worse keeper to have ever played for Ipswich. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 09:57 - Mar 15 with 3149 views | AVJones |
“ Worst keeper to play for Ipswich “ … you can’t have been watching us for very long!
I’d say he’s actually a good keeper: great on crosses, dominates in the box, as well as being a good shot stopper. And he’s also made a number of mistakes. And mistakes are pretty likely when you are on the defensive like we are most of the time.
I understand why we signed him. It just hasn’t quite worked out, but I could see him coming again. | | | |
| It is our signings that have on 10:00 - Mar 15 with 3122 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
| It is our signings that have on 09:57 - Mar 15 by AVJones |
“ Worst keeper to play for Ipswich “ … you can’t have been watching us for very long!
I’d say he’s actually a good keeper: great on crosses, dominates in the box, as well as being a good shot stopper. And he’s also made a number of mistakes. And mistakes are pretty likely when you are on the defensive like we are most of the time.
I understand why we signed him. It just hasn’t quite worked out, but I could see him coming again. |
I think statistically speaking, Muric is our top performing keeper this season, and the keeper to have played during the Spurs win. [Post edited 15 Mar 10:01]
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| It is our signings that have on 10:01 - Mar 15 with 3106 views | Keno |
Can you just confirm if this is all Starmer and the new Governments fault? |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:01 - Mar 15 with 3107 views | MattinLondon |
| It is our signings that have on 09:31 - Mar 15 by Blue_Heath |
You neglect to include Delap who probably gains us 10 points and without him we'd likely be below Saints but equally Cajuste, Phillips attacking contributions have been very poor too. For me Godfrey one of the worst - just why?
One thing is clear we must try to get seasoned premier league players if we get promoted again and add to the team rather than potential future profiteering.
We need to rebuild our style of play and upgrade players rather than having two teams of equal quality.
We need a commitment from McKenna, once relegation is finally confirmed rather than a summer of will he won't he stay and start planning who to shift out who to get in. |
The trouble being that the cost of buying a seasoned PL player has shot up remarkably in the last few seasons. If Will Hughes was say 25/26 and had a few years PL experience he would be worth at least £30 million plus. And then there’s his wages.
Until the club becomes established on the PL then we’ll have to look at the Championship or abroad (which takes a while to establish a good scouting network). |  | | |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:09 - Mar 15 with 3036 views | WeirdFishes |
I’m not just saying this for effect, I genuinely think Muric is the worst signing in this clubs entire history.
£8m - £10m and he has contributed so heavily to our likely relegation, if we’d have the c.10 points he has cost us we’d have much more of a chance. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:09 - Mar 15 with 3028 views | Keno |
| It is our signings that have on 10:01 - Mar 15 by MattinLondon |
The trouble being that the cost of buying a seasoned PL player has shot up remarkably in the last few seasons. If Will Hughes was say 25/26 and had a few years PL experience he would be worth at least £30 million plus. And then there’s his wages.
Until the club becomes established on the PL then we’ll have to look at the Championship or abroad (which takes a while to establish a good scouting network). |
Sorry Matt let me edit that for you .....
Because of the corrupt inept Labour government Until the club becomes established on the PL then we’ll have to look at the Championship or abroad (which takes a while to establish a good scouting network). | |
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| Statistically Muric…. on 10:12 - Mar 15 with 3004 views | Bloots |
….is the best of our keepers this season.
Highest average points gained and lowest average goals conceded. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:22 - Mar 15 with 2943 views | SE1blue |
What’s worse is that ABBA wanted to thank him!
Games gone. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:23 - Mar 15 with 2931 views | MaySixth |
"McKenna does not have a clue" |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:29 - Mar 15 with 2880 views | OldFart71 |
Whichever player you buy you are going on what they are doing at their current club. There are so many teams in this league with players who cost considerably more than the one's we have purchased and so far they have flopped. Take Hojlund at Man Utd, inclusive of add on's £72 million and he has scored 7 goals this season. That's three less than Delap at £20 million. Phillips and Grealish cost Man City £142 million, Phillips on loan to us and Grealish can't get a regular place. Many of these bigger clubs just throw money at it and see if it sticks. They are established and have much bigger crowds and revenue coming in. Town didn't have any choice but to go for established Championship players with potential. I do not believe had we kept all of the squad from Division One through to playing in the Premier League we would have had any chance whatsoever to survive and if the inevitable happens that we are relegated we have a decent squad even if Delap goes which means also the chance to get our hands on another striker and possibly bag a bit of cash as well. | | | |
| It is our signings that have on 10:33 - Mar 15 with 2832 views | Horsham |
| It is our signings that have on 09:50 - Mar 15 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
In Murics defence, Will Norris is the worse keeper to have ever played for Ipswich. |
Tom Carson has something to say about that. |  | | |
| It is our signings that have on 10:38 - Mar 15 with 2798 views | Scuzzer |
Music was my first love...and it will be my last.
Music of the future ...and music of the past. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:46 - Mar 15 with 2758 views | Guthrum |
Not sure the Championship team without Burns, Chaplin, Broadhead or Hirst (extended injuries), Hutchinson (didn't sign), or Hladky (left) would have done all that well, really. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 10:52 - Mar 15 with 2731 views | Blue_Heath |
| It is our signings that have on 10:01 - Mar 15 by MattinLondon |
The trouble being that the cost of buying a seasoned PL player has shot up remarkably in the last few seasons. If Will Hughes was say 25/26 and had a few years PL experience he would be worth at least £30 million plus. And then there’s his wages.
Until the club becomes established on the PL then we’ll have to look at the Championship or abroad (which takes a while to establish a good scouting network). |
This is true but buying 4/5 players of quality rather than 11 with marginal improvement may have been a better way to go? There must be Bournemouth/Brentford/Brighton/Forest players etc who aren't first choice we could get? | | | |
| It is our signings that have on 10:59 - Mar 15 with 2706 views | Vic |
It’s all ifs, buts and maybes because the truth is we don’t actually known if the team from last year would have been better. There’s a part of me that understands where you’re coming but, but just imagine what would have happened had we not strengthened and then got injuries to Burns, Morsy, Wolf and Hirst?
We’d have been murdered because our ressies were no where near Prem level.
So it was essential to strengthen - which by definition means getting better players, which means players with Prem experience or estimated quality, and they cost money.
So I understand why we bought as we did. It was a gamble not to buy any experienced Prem players, one that looking back hasn’t paid off. Philips was clearly meant to be our Ross Barclay but sadly due to fitness and form to start with hasn’t been able to impact things as hoped.
I disagree with the claims that Muric has cost us - yes he’s made mistakes, but in reality how many points has he cost us? Let’s be honest, Whilst Palmer seems to be an upgrade at the moment, the results haven’t actually improved! The bigger problem has been that all over the pitch, bar Delap, we’ve just been not quite good enough. It seems to me that the decision was made to assemble a Championship all stars team, reckoning they would improve and be good enough to hold their own. That they haven’t just shows the gulf between the Prem and the Championship. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 11:05 - Mar 15 with 2669 views | Guthrum |
| It is our signings that have on 10:52 - Mar 15 by Blue_Heath |
This is true but buying 4/5 players of quality rather than 11 with marginal improvement may have been a better way to go? There must be Bournemouth/Brentford/Brighton/Forest players etc who aren't first choice we could get? |
Another issue is which players are going to want to come to a promoted team tipped to go straight back down? Do already established, if fringe, players want to risk having a relegation on their CV (or even finding themselves stuck down in the Champ).
The thing about other middling Prem teams' non-first-choice players is the reason they are in that position - not being good enough to hold down a starting place at this level. Would their subs do any better job at keeping us up than the brightest propects from the Champ? | |
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| Statistically Muric…. on 11:07 - Mar 15 with 2649 views | Guthrum |
| Statistically Muric…. on 10:12 - Mar 15 by Bloots |
….is the best of our keepers this season.
Highest average points gained and lowest average goals conceded. |
He's had a few ricks, but also made a number of excellent saves. | |
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| It is our signings that have on 11:10 - Mar 15 with 2626 views | waveneyblue |
Did you forget we signed Delap or does that not fit your whinging narrative? |  | | |
| I think the reality may be a bit like this… on 11:19 - Mar 15 with 2583 views | unstableblue |
Muric - was brought in as a shot stopper and to dominate crosses… and his double save at Brighton and the save at Spurs were key, he’s been excellent at crosses… but he’s been error strewn and his confidence is shot
OShea - he’s a good signing and defender, he’s an Irish international, he’s better than Wolfie by some way - good signing
Greaves - have we got amnesia? He was our best player for the start of the season, he’s not come back well from injury and his confidence is not there, but he’s a good player, young and is our future - back him
Clarke - he’s hasn’t managed to raise his game to the higher quality of premier league defences, but he’s improving, learning. He’s had moments this season. If he scores the goal at Fulham we’d all have a different view
Philogene - I’m struggling with all this negativity towards him - he’s barely played, he’s in the England U21 squad and you can see McKenna is improving him. Back him, he’s our future
You don’t talk about Phillips - he hasn’t been good and consistent enough for us and that’s huge… Villa and Palace you saw him really playing and it improved us
Axels fitness has killed us and Godfrey is a left sided centre back rather than full back
Both Ogbene and Bryn’s being out has efffected us big time.
In short we’ve improved our squad - but some players weren’t premier ready and a few have failed [Post edited 15 Mar 11:20]
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| It is our signings that have on 11:25 - Mar 15 with 2530 views | Swailsey |
Surprised at the downvotes for what is a very sensible post. |  |
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| It is our signings that have on 11:26 - Mar 15 with 2505 views | Herbivore |
Glad to see you're branching out to include football hot takes as well as your political ones. |  |
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