| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone 16:36 - Feb 2 with 3473 views | jasondozzell |
Else and that we do it with Hirsty and Azon. Will mean more.
Thought it before but even more having seen some of the drivel online. Hirst memes with him on a cereal packet with 'win a football contract' on it... Disgraceful. We're only where we are as a club because of players like George. A really important and likeable player.
And the usual nasty rubbish about Al Hamadi too.
Bring back the end of the Evans years. At least the crowd supported the team.
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| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:09 - Feb 2 with 582 views | Churchman |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 16:56 - Feb 2 by portmanking |
O'Shea - decent defender, but to my mind doesn't remotely fit as a progressive ball-playing CB that he was replacing (Woolfy)
Kipre - desperation signing in fear that our £16m on Greaves has been majorly spunked away?
Furlong - decent defender, but offers much less than Harry Clarke going forward, so to my mind he makes us *worse* especially in home games like Preston where onus is on us to dictate and create.
Philogene and Clarke for one position... did we really need both? Could another £15m-£20m have gone towards a legit replacement for Delap this summer had we not bought both?
Matusiwa - Signing of the summer, for sure, but way, way more bloopers than successes. |
Have you actually seen these players? Are you seriously suggesting O’Shea isn’t as good as Woolfenden??
I can’t be bothered with the rest of it.
You come across to me as loathing the players, management and club in its present form. I assume yearn for the days of Cokey, Knudson, Hawkins and Norwood (‘our Nors’). People were much happier then and much less abusive toward the players.
Each to their own. |  | | |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:11 - Feb 2 with 556 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:01 - Feb 2 by jasondozzell |
It's what I think. |
Why didn't you let everyone know this on Jan 2nd rather than an hour before the deadline then?
Literally every fan watching the team this season would be wanting to see us do some business in that position with the striker short comings. |  |
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| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:18 - Feb 2 with 500 views | jasondozzell |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:11 - Feb 2 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Why didn't you let everyone know this on Jan 2nd rather than an hour before the deadline then?
Literally every fan watching the team this season would be wanting to see us do some business in that position with the striker short comings. |
I did. I said we needed a 10 and CM more than anything.
We've got them now. | | | |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:20 - Feb 2 with 491 views | Guthrum |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:07 - Feb 2 by Funge |
I mean, if this was the case for one window in isolation, there would be a reasonably compelling argument that we'd suffered the misfortune you listed below, and were simply unlucky.... but we have form here.
We spent 2 months last season with AAH playing first reserve in a Prem team - I've no real beef with AAH, but he very clearly wasn't Prem quality. How did that come to pass?
Ashton trumpets his own brilliance from the rooftops regularly; that's all well and good (if highly tiresome), but, honestly, he has form here. He deserves scrutiny here. There's plenty of wringing of hands within this very thread about how awful society is, and how appalling football fans are, and so forth; the insinuation being that this will be a key factor in McK departing in the summer.
Who knows what McK will do - I'd wager, however, that the inability of the back-office to secure adequate striker coverage - again - is far more likely to prompt McK to look elsewhere in the summer, than some dickheads posting tripe on Twitter.
Like I say, maybe Hirst and Azon fire, maybe we go on a long unbeaten run now, akin to 3 years ago, maybe we confirm promotion at Carrow Rd, maybe we shall all be in clover.
Maybe. |
For me, the lack of being able to find strikers to sign season after season, even before Ashton arrived, is indicative of how hard it is to sign them - for anybody at at any time. I do think Ashton gives hostages to fortune with the bullish statements he sometimes makes. Which in turn makes it harder for the fans to handle when that isn't followed by delivery.
What keeps my optimism up is that we are doing pretty well already this season, with the CFs scoring not being crucial to our ability to get goals and win games. It would be extra icing and make life a lot easier should we get someone who can bang them in - or Hirst comes into form. But it isn't an absolute essential (in my view). |  |
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| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:26 - Feb 2 with 449 views | itfcsuth |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 17:48 - Feb 2 by _CliveBaker_ |
I do feel a little for him, when he's played its generally been in the 10 which isn't really his natural position. He did get a rare start up front against Oxford and scored, the sort of smart finish you don't really see Hirst or Azon getting. I'd give him a run up there, as you say he's scored goals before at this level. With Burns, Clarke, Philogene, Nunez, Mehmeti behind and wide of him you do get the feeling there could be chances. |
I don’t know where the 10 tag even started for him, at Boro he played in a front 2 with Cameron Archer if I recall correctly, his best season.
He’s had a couple of outtings but that doesn’t suit him, nor does it suit us, the elements you need in that 10, that cuteness and creativity, that’s not his game at all.
He’s a number 9, and I think KMc has pinned him as that now, he spoke about our 10’s recently and didn’t include Akpom in that conversation.
I’d love for him to have a run, and injury free period, it is also of course a gamble though to bet on Akpom, with Azon and Hirst also not really firing. |  | | |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:28 - Feb 2 with 437 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:20 - Feb 2 by Guthrum |
For me, the lack of being able to find strikers to sign season after season, even before Ashton arrived, is indicative of how hard it is to sign them - for anybody at at any time. I do think Ashton gives hostages to fortune with the bullish statements he sometimes makes. Which in turn makes it harder for the fans to handle when that isn't followed by delivery.
What keeps my optimism up is that we are doing pretty well already this season, with the CFs scoring not being crucial to our ability to get goals and win games. It would be extra icing and make life a lot easier should we get someone who can bang them in - or Hirst comes into form. But it isn't an absolute essential (in my view). |
Come on, that's nonsense!
We were linked with about 3 or 4 in the summer that we could have outbid and have gone on to have really decent Championship seasons in weaker teams!
We obviously were shooting for the moon so to speak but didn't just take the Plan B and stuck with Hirst.
How we were looking at Agyemang and didn't throw 5M at him I will new know. (Isn't hindsight by the way). | |
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| So just to clarify..... on 18:29 - Feb 2 with 431 views | Funge |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:20 - Feb 2 by Guthrum |
For me, the lack of being able to find strikers to sign season after season, even before Ashton arrived, is indicative of how hard it is to sign them - for anybody at at any time. I do think Ashton gives hostages to fortune with the bullish statements he sometimes makes. Which in turn makes it harder for the fans to handle when that isn't followed by delivery.
What keeps my optimism up is that we are doing pretty well already this season, with the CFs scoring not being crucial to our ability to get goals and win games. It would be extra icing and make life a lot easier should we get someone who can bang them in - or Hirst comes into form. But it isn't an absolute essential (in my view). |
Yeah, I mean I'm a fair bit happier now than at the start of December.
From a footballing perspective, my gripes at present are defensive teams at PR, and our inability to break them down (thus has it ever been); Cajuste the friendly ghost; the continuing weirdness of our right wing, and the bloody stupid light show we do before every night game.
We're in a good spot, of course. When we click, we are far too good for this league. Wish we'd click more often, though. |  | | |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:30 - Feb 2 with 418 views | FrimleyBlue |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:28 - Feb 2 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Come on, that's nonsense!
We were linked with about 3 or 4 in the summer that we could have outbid and have gone on to have really decent Championship seasons in weaker teams!
We obviously were shooting for the moon so to speak but didn't just take the Plan B and stuck with Hirst.
How we were looking at Agyemang and didn't throw 5M at him I will new know. (Isn't hindsight by the way). |
Like Kone, He was desperate for us to move our enquiry into a bid, it never happened. |  |
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| So just to clarify..... on 18:36 - Feb 2 with 395 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:30 - Feb 2 by FrimleyBlue |
Like Kone, He was desperate for us to move our enquiry into a bid, it never happened. |
Agyemang is going to go to the World Cup with the states likely ahead of Sargent he can also do the same hard stuff that Hirst does back to goal.
He has 9 in 27 and 3 assists. Looking at him during the Gold Cup he looked perfect for us. It was going to be such a low fee as well. Will probably get a Prem move this summer.
Kone would have been a decent punt but wasn't as set on him with only a League 1 CV. Looked very good on Saturday though. [Post edited 2 Feb 18:37]
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| So just to clarify..... on 18:36 - Feb 2 with 398 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:30 - Feb 2 by FrimleyBlue |
Like Kone, He was desperate for us to move our enquiry into a bid, it never happened. |
I think this is answered in the EADT, don’t you.
And I suspect many of these ‘linked with’ that Joey refers are nothing more than an initial enquiry, that gets linked, but never taken further by us as they don’t tick KM’s boxes. |  | | |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:37 - Feb 2 with 383 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:26 - Feb 2 by itfcsuth |
I don’t know where the 10 tag even started for him, at Boro he played in a front 2 with Cameron Archer if I recall correctly, his best season.
He’s had a couple of outtings but that doesn’t suit him, nor does it suit us, the elements you need in that 10, that cuteness and creativity, that’s not his game at all.
He’s a number 9, and I think KMc has pinned him as that now, he spoke about our 10’s recently and didn’t include Akpom in that conversation.
I’d love for him to have a run, and injury free period, it is also of course a gamble though to bet on Akpom, with Azon and Hirst also not really firing. |
Being bemused by his performances in the 10 I looked back at that season and if the site (can’t remember which one now) I looked at was accurate in its formations, he scored the vast majority playing at 10 in a 4231. |  |
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| So just to clarify..... on 18:49 - Feb 2 with 327 views | Guthrum |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:29 - Feb 2 by Funge |
Yeah, I mean I'm a fair bit happier now than at the start of December.
From a footballing perspective, my gripes at present are defensive teams at PR, and our inability to break them down (thus has it ever been); Cajuste the friendly ghost; the continuing weirdness of our right wing, and the bloody stupid light show we do before every night game.
We're in a good spot, of course. When we click, we are far too good for this league. Wish we'd click more often, though. |
Agree on Cajuste (hence the signing of Neil) and our fear of sending the ball down the right. It's not going to help Egeli's development if everyone keeps ignoring him.
If there were any solutions to the compact defensive block, teams far higher up the food chain than Ipswich would have come up with them. But it causes issues to almost everyone - which is why teams use it. | |
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| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 19:09 - Feb 2 with 298 views | Smoresy |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 18:26 - Feb 2 by itfcsuth |
I don’t know where the 10 tag even started for him, at Boro he played in a front 2 with Cameron Archer if I recall correctly, his best season.
He’s had a couple of outtings but that doesn’t suit him, nor does it suit us, the elements you need in that 10, that cuteness and creativity, that’s not his game at all.
He’s a number 9, and I think KMc has pinned him as that now, he spoke about our 10’s recently and didn’t include Akpom in that conversation.
I’d love for him to have a run, and injury free period, it is also of course a gamble though to bet on Akpom, with Azon and Hirst also not really firing. |
It may have started before he joined. Hirst's new 4-year deal and prior performances, Azón's loan signature.. you don't fork out on Akpom without intending for a clear pathway into the XI, but you don't wish to relegate one of the other two to "redundant third striker" either. People may have glanced at his previous positions on Transfermarkt.
Otherwise, it will have gained traction after his first Town interview:
Phil Ham
When Akpom signed, there were many questions surrounding the role that he would play, having played as a centre-forward as well as in deeper roles throughout his career.
While claiming he is happy to play wherever McKenna feels best, Akpom believes playing in a supporting role behind the main forward is his preferred position.
He said: "I think the gaffer sees me as quite a versatile player. At Ajax, I played left-wing, right-wing, but I think my best position is probably as a second striker behind the striker.
"I can also play as a nine, I can also play on the side, but I’d say behind the striker, linking up the play, arriving deep in the box and just sniffing out good spaces and opportunities to cause some damage.”
And afterwards, his first ten or so appearances for us were all in roughly that role. | | | |
| To be honest, I hope we don't sign anyone on 19:21 - Feb 2 with 246 views | SWLondonBlue93 |
Regardless of what anyone on here thinks, the fact we spoke to Bamford and possibly Wilson speaks for itself. And even if you think Hirst and Azon are good enough, we are one injury away for being majorly hamstrung. It is not controversial in the slightest to stay we need and should be able to find three adequate striking options.
And on the other point - obviously the stick Hirst is getting is not right, but if you go searching for idiots online, you will find them. | | | |
| So just to clarify..... on 19:31 - Feb 2 with 217 views | Churchman |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:30 - Feb 2 by FrimleyBlue |
Like Kone, He was desperate for us to move our enquiry into a bid, it never happened. |
You’ve obviously not seen Kone playing for QPR after his initial good impression there. He’s a 1 in 5 striker and hardly the answer to our prayers. | | | |
| People being annoyed.... on 19:38 - Feb 2 with 201 views | brushhand |
| People being annoyed.... on 17:13 - Feb 2 by Bloots |
....that we haven't signed a decent striker is not a reflection of society and people have been moaning about footballers for decades and decades, it's not a new thing. |
Should of seen Robin Turner and Mich D'vray, They make Hirst look prolific. | | | |
| So just to clarify..... on 19:54 - Feb 2 with 174 views | brushhand |
| So just to clarify..... on 18:20 - Feb 2 by Guthrum |
For me, the lack of being able to find strikers to sign season after season, even before Ashton arrived, is indicative of how hard it is to sign them - for anybody at at any time. I do think Ashton gives hostages to fortune with the bullish statements he sometimes makes. Which in turn makes it harder for the fans to handle when that isn't followed by delivery.
What keeps my optimism up is that we are doing pretty well already this season, with the CFs scoring not being crucial to our ability to get goals and win games. It would be extra icing and make life a lot easier should we get someone who can bang them in - or Hirst comes into form. But it isn't an absolute essential (in my view). |
If our CFs had taken there chances in just our last 2 games, We may have won at Sheffield. And would of beaten Preston. | | | |
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