| Can’t stand watching us. 13:19 - Apr 25 with 2984 views | ipswichtillidie |
I’m astounded we are where we are in the league and I’m praying for us to get promoted so we can sign some actual football players.. |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:21 - Apr 25 with 2348 views | BuffaloBill |
Terrible, again |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:22 - Apr 25 with 2307 views | SWLondonBlue93 |
Just a little bit over the top! |  | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:23 - Apr 25 with 2241 views | SE1blue |
Hoping this doesn’t age well . |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:23 - Apr 25 with 2237 views | iamatractorboy |
Nowhere near as exciting as 23/24 is it? We really were spoiled with that team. But still, this is where we are and still very likely to go up. | | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:24 - Apr 25 with 2211 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
Some fans will claim there are premier league players in this team.
Mental. |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:25 - Apr 25 with 2184 views | Swansea_Blue |
I’m not enjoying it this season. Every match is the same - I get sucked in with the pre-match build up, the excitement builds, I think ‘could this be the one where it all comes together?’, and then we huff and puff our way through an utterly unconvincing performance. Not always, but it seems to be our default setting.
We’re where we are because we can be effective rather than attractive. I suppose that’s fine if the only goal is promotion, but it’s a hard watch for anyone who enjoys watching exciting football. Without the individual quality that money has bought we’d be Donald Ducked, as there isn’t a cohesive team out there. |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:28 - Apr 25 with 2117 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:23 - Apr 25 by SE1blue |
Hoping this doesn’t age well . |
100% with a bit of luck we’ll have an individual moment of magic, go one up and then see out a squeaky bum time late bombardment from WBA. Everyone will go home happy and well all forget that our play for most of the game was as smooth as a Morris Minor with a blown cylinder.
Uppa Towen! | |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:29 - Apr 25 with 2079 views | ipswichtillidie |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:23 - Apr 25 by iamatractorboy |
Nowhere near as exciting as 23/24 is it? We really were spoiled with that team. But still, this is where we are and still very likely to go up. |
Fair assessment | |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:30 - Apr 25 with 2027 views | Dubtractor |
I love watching us at home, I find our away performances pretty stodgy stuff. |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:30 - Apr 25 with 2036 views | ipswichtillidie |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:25 - Apr 25 by Swansea_Blue |
I’m not enjoying it this season. Every match is the same - I get sucked in with the pre-match build up, the excitement builds, I think ‘could this be the one where it all comes together?’, and then we huff and puff our way through an utterly unconvincing performance. Not always, but it seems to be our default setting.
We’re where we are because we can be effective rather than attractive. I suppose that’s fine if the only goal is promotion, but it’s a hard watch for anyone who enjoys watching exciting football. Without the individual quality that money has bought we’d be Donald Ducked, as there isn’t a cohesive team out there. |
This is a diplomatic assessment of how I feel. | |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:32 - Apr 25 with 2001 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
Rest assured we would need 11 new players if we get promoted. I thought 8 but realistically none of these players could play a full season and a full 90+ mins at that level.
It's like we will have a Premier League team and a Championship team in one squad.
As a business we are laughing all the way to the bank, get loads of money to go up, get loads of money to go down, rinse and repeat.
Loyal customer base.... | | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:46 - Apr 25 with 1877 views | Ryorry |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:25 - Apr 25 by Swansea_Blue |
I’m not enjoying it this season. Every match is the same - I get sucked in with the pre-match build up, the excitement builds, I think ‘could this be the one where it all comes together?’, and then we huff and puff our way through an utterly unconvincing performance. Not always, but it seems to be our default setting.
We’re where we are because we can be effective rather than attractive. I suppose that’s fine if the only goal is promotion, but it’s a hard watch for anyone who enjoys watching exciting football. Without the individual quality that money has bought we’d be Donald Ducked, as there isn’t a cohesive team out there. |
This is why I won't be hugely disappointed if we don't go up. Without a mass squad rebuild on a super-competent scale, with some good luck thrown in, I fear we'd be even more embarrassed every week than we were in our last season in the Prem. |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:48 - Apr 25 with 1828 views | boysof1981 |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:46 - Apr 25 by Ryorry |
This is why I won't be hugely disappointed if we don't go up. Without a mass squad rebuild on a super-competent scale, with some good luck thrown in, I fear we'd be even more embarrassed every week than we were in our last season in the Prem. |
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Go up and we’d be embarrassed every single match, stay in this league and we’d have to rebuild with th player departures (which to be fair wouldn’t be a bad thing, judging by the performances they’ve put in all season) | | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:49 - Apr 25 with 1802 views | Ryorry |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:48 - Apr 25 by boysof1981 |
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Go up and we’d be embarrassed every single match, stay in this league and we’d have to rebuild with th player departures (which to be fair wouldn’t be a bad thing, judging by the performances they’ve put in all season) |
Good point. | |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:51 - Apr 25 with 1777 views | Vaughan8 |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:25 - Apr 25 by Swansea_Blue |
I’m not enjoying it this season. Every match is the same - I get sucked in with the pre-match build up, the excitement builds, I think ‘could this be the one where it all comes together?’, and then we huff and puff our way through an utterly unconvincing performance. Not always, but it seems to be our default setting.
We’re where we are because we can be effective rather than attractive. I suppose that’s fine if the only goal is promotion, but it’s a hard watch for anyone who enjoys watching exciting football. Without the individual quality that money has bought we’d be Donald Ducked, as there isn’t a cohesive team out there. |
Agrees. Just said to my dad. We just seem to plod through games sometimes.
We've not had many games were you've thought, wow this team is really good. We just seem effective. | | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:52 - Apr 25 with 1765 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:46 - Apr 25 by Ryorry |
This is why I won't be hugely disappointed if we don't go up. Without a mass squad rebuild on a super-competent scale, with some good luck thrown in, I fear we'd be even more embarrassed every week than we were in our last season in the Prem. |
I’d be disappointed based on how close we are to promotion, but I know what you mean. This lot would get destroyed. I’ve not got much confidence in our ability to recruit and KM is worrying me now as he can’t get a tune out of decent players in this league. [Post edited 25 Apr 13:53]
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:52 - Apr 25 with 1753 views | TractorWood |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:24 - Apr 25 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
Some fans will claim there are premier league players in this team.
Mental. |
Philogene could play 10 mins for lower mid table side.
O'Shea will get there in time.
The rest are at or beyond their level. |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 14:07 - Apr 25 with 1670 views | Smoresy |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:48 - Apr 25 by boysof1981 |
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Go up and we’d be embarrassed every single match, stay in this league and we’d have to rebuild with th player departures (which to be fair wouldn’t be a bad thing, judging by the performances they’ve put in all season) |
My concern if we stay put would be, haven't we already committed a lot of 26/27 spending on players currently in the building? Those transfers are paid in chunks across players' contracts. Unless we're able to sell some of our more serious "assets" for their book value, the opportunity to build a much more cohesive team will be limited by that. And if we find ourselves here in 26/27 with Spurs, Wolves and Burnley alongside, maybe a resurgent Southampton and Norwich, if neither succeeds themselves this year, the standard required to exit the right way is only going to increase. Don't do it next year and we lose the majority of our income in 27/28 (discounting the volatility of player sales in any given year).
So for the long-term financial health and success of the club, I'm very much in favour of being bashed by the PL rock repeatedly, even if a good outcome next season would be to find more harmony and win a couple more home games than in 24/25! We could at least afford to make more losses on players if intent on clearing books somewhat.
What a downbeat post this is when we find ourselves on the cusp of another huge promotion lol. | | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 14:28 - Apr 25 with 1486 views | nrb1985 |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 13:52 - Apr 25 by TractorWood |
Philogene could play 10 mins for lower mid table side.
O'Shea will get there in time.
The rest are at or beyond their level. |
I actually think your last point is spot on. Some of these guys just aren’t very good and wouldn’t be anywhere near starting in 23/24.
This will actually be KM’s biggest achievement if he gets these lot up imo.
Frightening how much we’ve spent on some of the guys. | | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 14:54 - Apr 25 with 1358 views | Ryorry |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 14:07 - Apr 25 by Smoresy |
My concern if we stay put would be, haven't we already committed a lot of 26/27 spending on players currently in the building? Those transfers are paid in chunks across players' contracts. Unless we're able to sell some of our more serious "assets" for their book value, the opportunity to build a much more cohesive team will be limited by that. And if we find ourselves here in 26/27 with Spurs, Wolves and Burnley alongside, maybe a resurgent Southampton and Norwich, if neither succeeds themselves this year, the standard required to exit the right way is only going to increase. Don't do it next year and we lose the majority of our income in 27/28 (discounting the volatility of player sales in any given year).
So for the long-term financial health and success of the club, I'm very much in favour of being bashed by the PL rock repeatedly, even if a good outcome next season would be to find more harmony and win a couple more home games than in 24/25! We could at least afford to make more losses on players if intent on clearing books somewhat.
What a downbeat post this is when we find ourselves on the cusp of another huge promotion lol. |
Yes downbeat post, but perfectly reasonably so, with good points made ✅ | |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 14:55 - Apr 25 with 1350 views | blueoutlook |
Awful again. The money we spent on these players is mental. Not one is really a PL player. |  | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 15:01 - Apr 25 with 1286 views | FrimleyBlue |
Its prem prep work
No where near as gungho this season as we were in 23
Much more of our attacks are slow calculated phases of play learned on the training ground. Thats fine thats modern football its just a hard watch when the passes you are trying to make to go through a certain pattern of play gets cut off and youre back to square one and you go again time and time again. |  |
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| Can’t stand watching us. on 15:05 - Apr 25 with 1263 views | waveneyblue |
This thread makes me sad to be an Ipswich fan.
Anyone would think we are scraping into the play offs on the back of 3 defeats.
Another reason modern football is sh1t, moronic "fans" |  | | |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 15:05 - Apr 25 with 1265 views | Ryorry |
| Can’t stand watching us. on 15:01 - Apr 25 by FrimleyBlue |
Its prem prep work
No where near as gungho this season as we were in 23
Much more of our attacks are slow calculated phases of play learned on the training ground. Thats fine thats modern football its just a hard watch when the passes you are trying to make to go through a certain pattern of play gets cut off and youre back to square one and you go again time and time again. |
I remember seeing comments on that calling it "over-coached", not enough freedom for players to express themselves, etc. | |
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