| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point 18:15 - Aug 23 with 546 views | Garv |
Is a disaster.
And while today was bad, you'd be surprised if this season will require the same points tally as it did last time. Seeing some of the bigger teams struggling already suggests we can afford more dropped points. We only lost 6 games in that season.
Having said that, we feel a bit all over the place squad wise. It's incredible on paper, but not performing in reality. Needs a lot of fine tuning over the next few weeks so we can settle down.
Any talk or binning McKenna is nuts though.
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| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 18:28 - Aug 23 with 459 views | burnbudgiesburn |
Wonder if our start will have an effect on attracting players in the last week of the transfer window? Hope not, but it won't help.
I make you right, we might get away with a slow start and not need such a large total - I'm consoling myself with the fact that if it all goes pear shaped we could still be utter garbage a lot of the time, lose 15-16 games and still make the play offs comfortably. |  | | |
| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 18:28 - Aug 23 with 459 views | Funge |
We have been abject this calendar year.
Relegated with barely even a whimper; the majority of fans (myself included) prepared to give McK a pass last season...because the PL is so much harder than any of us thought....
... and here we are in the league below, looking, argulably, even more clueless.
We've Victoria Wood on the wing, playing with her hair, feeling sorry for herself - £15m we paid for this absolute clown, who you would conservatively assume is on £40k per week to do, almost literally, nothing.
It's not all on him, at all - but he is, sadly, a focal point for the mess we find ourself in.
Once again, for the 3rd summer running, Ashton is massively failing to perform in terms of sourcing strikers. But the ground has been painted black, and we've got industry-leading security searches when going into the North Stand, and he's not Marcus Evans, so that's all something, I suppose.. The decision to let Morsy go seems worse by the week. A week left in the transfer window; we need what, 5 players, perhaps?
It's a huge mess, and this collection of players are quite some distance way away from being a team.
One shot on goal in 3 games - what a diabolical statistic.
I don't really know what we do here. I really hope that someone pulls this post up in a month, and 12 points time, and tells me what a tart I am... |  | | |
| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 18:36 - Aug 23 with 410 views | homer_123 |
| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 18:28 - Aug 23 by Funge |
We have been abject this calendar year.
Relegated with barely even a whimper; the majority of fans (myself included) prepared to give McK a pass last season...because the PL is so much harder than any of us thought....
... and here we are in the league below, looking, argulably, even more clueless.
We've Victoria Wood on the wing, playing with her hair, feeling sorry for herself - £15m we paid for this absolute clown, who you would conservatively assume is on £40k per week to do, almost literally, nothing.
It's not all on him, at all - but he is, sadly, a focal point for the mess we find ourself in.
Once again, for the 3rd summer running, Ashton is massively failing to perform in terms of sourcing strikers. But the ground has been painted black, and we've got industry-leading security searches when going into the North Stand, and he's not Marcus Evans, so that's all something, I suppose.. The decision to let Morsy go seems worse by the week. A week left in the transfer window; we need what, 5 players, perhaps?
It's a huge mess, and this collection of players are quite some distance way away from being a team.
One shot on goal in 3 games - what a diabolical statistic.
I don't really know what we do here. I really hope that someone pulls this post up in a month, and 12 points time, and tells me what a tart I am... |
I don't think any of what you've posted is untrue and, I suspect, even the most hardened, positive fan is worried by what we are seeing.
I posted both of these observations recently/ today.
1. We are rebuilding the team, not strengthen it - rightly or wrongly. A lot of the players that made up our first 2 seasons are now neither not here or on the periphery of the squad. Rebuilding what we had isn't easy and will take time.
2. This leads to the sort of performance we saw today, I posted at HT - we are making the runs, playing the passes and passing patterns but with nowhere near the conviction we did. I said earlier this is down to confidence and belief but also a consequence of different players, still learning about each other.
I still believe we'll get there and under KM, he's still learning (in fact always will).
The one thing I will say is that if we don't bring in a few really quality players, including a striker - then Ashton (more than KM) needs to be asked some serious questions. |  |
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| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 18:41 - Aug 23 with 360 views | carlo88 |
I really think our biggest problem is thinking a new signing will solve problems. KM seems to have given more emphasis to buying over coaching. Probably encouraged by the board and Ashton too. |  | | |
| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 19:04 - Aug 23 with 310 views | bluestandard |
Even in 23/24 we lost to Preston away and drew with Birmingham away. We're only 2 points behind on achieving the 23/24 points haul. Granted, we don't look like getting as many points on current performances, but this often happens to relegated teams. Look at Southampton in 23/24. After the transfer window shut, they lost 4 games on the spin (including against us), but by the end of the season they were the ones who had all the momentum and ended up getting promoted. I think we could be going down a similar path here. Whilst all the possession today doesn't seem like it counted for much, in the grand scheme of things, I think it will have been priceless in order to get the 'connections' going as KMck has said post match. | | | |
| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 19:11 - Aug 23 with 285 views | Bent_double |
I'm still trying to get over this one, usually only takes a short while. Probably not so annoyed at a result since, well the last time we lost there!
I guess a lot of us just remember how relentless we were 2 seasons ago, even going into the last 10 mins of a match 1-0 down, you kind of 'knew' we would win 2-1.
Not quite the same now, we are a relegated PL team, the favourites for promotion, there to be taken down a peg or two.
Bit of a weird feeling to be honest, as an Ipswich fan - having this expectation of winning every game - but I'm sure things will turn around very, very soon and we can all forget this poor start. |  |
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| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 19:18 - Aug 23 with 261 views | mellowblue |
We just need that first win. The confidence that would give would bring more wins. Hopefully. A slow start was always likely. Adjustment was always going to take time. I don't see Stoke and Boro maintaining their start so our gap to the top 6 is manageable at the moment. | | | |
| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 19:28 - Aug 23 with 221 views | iamatractorboy |
3 league games is a pretty small sample size. I think performances and results at the start of the season always get magnified because there's nothing else to go on (to state the obvious). Think back to the brilliant 23/24 season and that dodgy patch around Christmas/NY. Was it something like one win in 7? Maybe this is the equivalent, just coming earlier, and things will click. I'll remind people that Leeds had a similarly ropey start in 23/24 and ended up with 90 points. | | | |
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| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 19:40 - Aug 23 with 168 views | Churchman |
| After the 23/24 season it feels like every dropped point on 19:28 - Aug 23 by iamatractorboy |
3 league games is a pretty small sample size. I think performances and results at the start of the season always get magnified because there's nothing else to go on (to state the obvious). Think back to the brilliant 23/24 season and that dodgy patch around Christmas/NY. Was it something like one win in 7? Maybe this is the equivalent, just coming earlier, and things will click. I'll remind people that Leeds had a similarly ropey start in 23/24 and ended up with 90 points. |
Sorry, comparisons with Leeds are not right. They had a far better team than the rest of the division bar three. We do not have a team at all. Just individuals who look lost. No cohesion, weaknesses in playing personnel and basically few attempts on goal.
If you can’t score goals, you won’t win games. That’s us. The opposition need one goal and they’ll probably win. That’s how it is. All know how a McKenna team plays and when done well, it’s pretty unstoppable. But we no longer have that - at the moment!
Maybe it’ll click, the players will start playing for each other and we will then kick on. The quality of the individuals says that we should batter most teams and maybe thatll happen. But it seems a long way off. Keep going, never stop.
Tbh, after the 10 days I’ve had, I cannot get too worked up over it. |  | | |
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