| Watching Arsenal Palace 21:54 - Apr 23 with 3142 views | bsw72 |
And thinking to myself back in Autumn/Winter when we were talking about how it was about finishing above the likes of Palace etc who were our targets to better. Seems a long time ago and quite naive now to me. How did so many of us misjudge how good most PL teams are? [Post edited 23 Apr 21:55]
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| Watching Arsenal Palace on 13:12 - Apr 24 with 351 views | bsw72 |
| Watching Arsenal Palace on 11:43 - Apr 24 by ArnieM |
All the talk about the Plastic League being so athletic and physical and were not able to compete makes me smile. Ipswich Town have never a side that has copious amounts of physicality about it. We were often out muscled in the Championship and League One. We're largely powder power in any challenges. Our players either don't know how to tackle effectively or we just recruit really lightweight players. I can vividly recal the derby games v scum where our players were just woeful in any challenge. It's been like it at this club gor years in my view, do it's not just the PL. |
I agree we have often found ourselves outmuscled, but our superior skill / pace gave us an edge, where I think the difference is is that in the lower leagues you tend to get physicality or skill in players, in the Premier League you get them in one package. | | | |
| Watching Arsenal Palace on 16:56 - Apr 24 with 290 views | BlueOura |
Plenty of us were realistic on this thread before the season started.
Seeing lots of people say we’ll comfortably stay up…. by Matt_Netherlands 18 Jul 2024 11:29Is this a bit naive? Feel like some people are in for a bit of a nasty surprise at the big step up in quality this year.
We’ve had an incredible two years and we are strengthening very sensibly, but for me I still think it’ll be one hell of an achievement to stay up. I’ll take 17th place on goal difference right now.
I applaud the courage and optimism, but I just hope that doesn’t lead to blind complacency and the whole atmosphere around the club turning a bit sour if we got off to a bad start - which is very very possible.
Look at Sheff Utd last season. Went up with a similar number of points to us, spent a fair bit of money and then got ripped to shreds. I think our league cup game against Fulham last year shows there’s still a huge gap between the championship and mid table prem teams.
I fully trust in the process and know Kieran will have us incredibly well prepared, but I just hope there’s no sense of complacency and entitlement when the season kicks off.
Sensible Simon, over and out.
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| Watching Arsenal Palace on 21:04 - Apr 24 with 245 views | Stenvict |
| Watching Arsenal Palace on 22:12 - Apr 23 by DavoIPB |
We basically played league 1 and mid championship players against premier league players for most of the season. |
This has received a lot of down votes, but half of our squad was in our L1 promotion winning side, as well as the Championship where the majority expected us to finish mid table. Then our signings were from teams that finished mid to top of the Championship last season, or players relegated from the PL last season. |  |
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| Watching Arsenal Palace on 21:20 - Apr 24 with 237 views | BlueOura |
| Watching Arsenal Palace on 21:04 - Apr 24 by Stenvict |
This has received a lot of down votes, but half of our squad was in our L1 promotion winning side, as well as the Championship where the majority expected us to finish mid table. Then our signings were from teams that finished mid to top of the Championship last season, or players relegated from the PL last season. |
Probably because we didn't field "League One players" in the PL this season as certain people keep oddy claiming.
Most of our signings when we were in L1 were already established Champ players such as Chaplin, Morsy, walton etc. and those that were from L1 more than proved themselves as capable champ players last season, Burns, Burgess etc.. | | | |
| Watching Arsenal Palace on 21:25 - Apr 24 with 232 views | TheBoyBlue |
| Watching Arsenal Palace on 09:42 - Apr 24 by norfsufblue |
Standards for players are just rising year on year.... ?
Emi Buendia left our rivals as probably their best player for £33m after their last attempt to stay up.... hes been loaned out after signing a new contract as hes been overtaken by others in their squad.... hes probably not quite good enough now!.... we have to be looking for our " Premier League ready" players now and the scouting network is the only way to do it.... maybe that should be the priority even sbove the training facilities? |
If Wolves or Everton had made a mess of their managerial appointments or Palace had got an itchy trigger finger after that bad start and fine margins gone our way then it wasn't beyond the realms of possibility that we might have snuck into 17th.
I also what might have happened if we'd had Palace or Wolves at home in the first couple of games before they'd sorted themselves out. Rather than the Liverpool & Man City games that were an exciting welcome back but instantly put us on the back foot. On its own an opening day win wouldn't be the difference between us surviving or not, but the confidence it would've given us and a continuation of our momentum, rather than all that "Ipswich still searching for their first Premier League win in 22 years" nonsense that continued for months.
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| Watching Arsenal Palace on 21:30 - Apr 24 with 225 views | Melford |
I think football has changed/evolved and we've been caught out a bit, it's not about tricky slight wing players that we have invested in anymore. It's more about having big units with pace, Palace are a perfect example of that. Big, fast and physical and decent with the ball at their feet.
We have no big units outside of Delap and Burgess. Morsy has the agression but he's a midget, it's like getting barked at by a Jack Russell. We haven't got any proper sh!thousers, anyone conversant with the dark arts, we're too nice. |  |
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