| The game tonight 22:02 - Jul 29 with 1280 views | cressi |
Can be a good thing shows O'Neil exactly what we need yes only a friendly
But we look so poor in different areas of the pitch. The recruitment team better get busy at getting players in and out. |  | | |  |
| The game tonight on 22:05 - Jul 29 with 1229 views | PrideOfTheEast |
As if he didn’t know that.
The team/squad tonight won’t be anything like what we go into the season with. | | | |
| The game tonight on 22:06 - Jul 29 with 1191 views | MVBlue |
| The game tonight on 22:05 - Jul 29 by PrideOfTheEast |
As if he didn’t know that.
The team/squad tonight won’t be anything like what we go into the season with. |
At some point he will need to test a side as an opportunity ahead of matches that will decide early on the direction of our Premiership course by starting 5 games with 2 points or 9 [Post edited 29 Jul 22:07]
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| The game tonight on 22:16 - Jul 29 with 1058 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
What were you expecting tonight - a well oiled machine?
- The starting 11 was nothing like we’ll see in 3 1/2 weeks.
- Unfamiliar partnership.
- Players in unfamiliar positions.
- Multiple changes throughout the game, to see as many players as possible.
This was about O’Neil seeing the players in a competitive match. Seeing how intended patterns of play were executed. Trying players in a different role.
Yes, it was far from slick, but there were promising signs. Lots of quick ball being played. Progressive transitions in evidence. Delicate balls - a number of back heels played into feet.
Far from where we need to be, but I wasn’t expecting that tonight. | | | |
| The game tonight on 22:29 - Jul 29 with 961 views | FrimleyBlue |
| The game tonight on 22:16 - Jul 29 by SuffolkPunchFC |
What were you expecting tonight - a well oiled machine?
- The starting 11 was nothing like we’ll see in 3 1/2 weeks.
- Unfamiliar partnership.
- Players in unfamiliar positions.
- Multiple changes throughout the game, to see as many players as possible.
This was about O’Neil seeing the players in a competitive match. Seeing how intended patterns of play were executed. Trying players in a different role.
Yes, it was far from slick, but there were promising signs. Lots of quick ball being played. Progressive transitions in evidence. Delicate balls - a number of back heels played into feet.
Far from where we need to be, but I wasn’t expecting that tonight. |
I dont feel anyone was watching with a view of how well the team looked.
What i think did show tho was against some talented opposition it was easy to see individually the differences of levels between the players in our squad.
Footwork. Turn on the ball. Their power. Acceleration. Positioning.
That final spell of the game. Ignoring the positions as they arent important in this..but the technical differences of those who went off to on was imo at least vastly different. A shock. No. But it does indeed show how much more spending is meeded to build a prem squad not a prem team.
Think people have somehow turned posts from tonight into a seeming moan about a result/performance overall which i dont think is the case. |  |
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| The game tonight on 22:42 - Jul 29 with 837 views | ITFC_Essex |
The problem GON has is that we're playing in the Premier League next season, and we are yet to have a Premier League team. I have no fear the club knows as much, but getting in Premier League standard players when your Ipswich in 2026 is easier said than done, which is why we'll need some of the existing players to step up massively alongside some of these imports turning out to be hidden gems.
I don't think either O'Neil or Ashton are fools and must know that as things stand, we're looking at relegation. There will be work done to ensure we don't fall as we did last time, I am sure of that. |  |
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| The game tonight on 23:45 - Jul 29 with 642 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| The game tonight on 22:29 - Jul 29 by FrimleyBlue |
I dont feel anyone was watching with a view of how well the team looked.
What i think did show tho was against some talented opposition it was easy to see individually the differences of levels between the players in our squad.
Footwork. Turn on the ball. Their power. Acceleration. Positioning.
That final spell of the game. Ignoring the positions as they arent important in this..but the technical differences of those who went off to on was imo at least vastly different. A shock. No. But it does indeed show how much more spending is meeded to build a prem squad not a prem team.
Think people have somehow turned posts from tonight into a seeming moan about a result/performance overall which i dont think is the case. |
” What i think did show tho was against some talented opposition it was easy to see individually the differences of levels between the players in our squad.
Footwork. Turn on the ball. Their power. Acceleration. Positioning.”
Yes, there were periods of the game that were like that. But there was equally times during the game that we did that to them, and ran rings around them. This was without Matusiwa or Maeda. Those two will completely change what goes on around them. We all know we need more signings - I’ve posted my view on that, but you can’t take much from tonight’s game with what will be the nucleus of our team missing for now.
Tonight we saw 4, maybe 5, play that might start for us against Sunderland. That is why drawing too many conclusions from it is futile. | | | |
| The game tonight on 05:25 - Jul 30 with 489 views | ITFCSG |
| The game tonight on 23:45 - Jul 29 by SuffolkPunchFC |
” What i think did show tho was against some talented opposition it was easy to see individually the differences of levels between the players in our squad.
Footwork. Turn on the ball. Their power. Acceleration. Positioning.”
Yes, there were periods of the game that were like that. But there was equally times during the game that we did that to them, and ran rings around them. This was without Matusiwa or Maeda. Those two will completely change what goes on around them. We all know we need more signings - I’ve posted my view on that, but you can’t take much from tonight’s game with what will be the nucleus of our team missing for now.
Tonight we saw 4, maybe 5, play that might start for us against Sunderland. That is why drawing too many conclusions from it is futile. |
Osasuna is hardly PL standard though, they just escaped relegation to the Segunda Division last season by the skin of their teeth.
Different story if we were played Villarreal, Atlético or Valencia
We still need improvements and new additions all over the pitch especially CM and ST | | | |
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