| On the whole it was abysmal 17:41 - Nov 7 with 5840 views | Bluefish |
As per usual
It isnt the players because we had 9 changes, it is the system that just simply doesn't work. Not only is it not an effective way to win games, it is dire to watch
Get this clown out
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:42 - Nov 7 with 3753 views | Swansea_Blue |
Obviously the main problem is that we missed our main creative outlet and top scorer |  |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:44 - Nov 7 with 3727 views | Bluefish |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:42 - Nov 7 by Swansea_Blue |
Obviously the main problem is that we missed our main creative outlet and top scorer |
He supposedly played | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:45 - Nov 7 with 3698 views | Plums |
We showed up for 35 minutes out of 120. Nine changes disrespects the club and the competition. Simply not good enough for Ipswich Town Football Club. |  |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:46 - Nov 7 with 3661 views | Bluefish |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:45 - Nov 7 by Plums |
We showed up for 35 minutes out of 120. Nine changes disrespects the club and the competition. Simply not good enough for Ipswich Town Football Club. |
The changes don't really make the difference. Our style didn't change at all, we do not create anything because we pass around the defence and then hoof to isolated players. | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:47 - Nov 7 with 3659 views | Swansea_Blue |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:44 - Nov 7 by Bluefish |
He supposedly played |
Yes he did for a bit, but I wasn't being serious. | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:51 - Nov 7 with 3625 views | judespiveyg |
Second half was a pretty good watch imo after an awful first. Quite a few nice little passing moves.
Nolan and Huws don't run off the ball at all well (the most important part of playing midfield). Passing out from the back only works when your midfield players show for the ball, which they didn't do all of the first half. Meant we couldn't get the ball from the defence to the forwards very well.
Edwards, Bennets and Sears were all varying degrees of disappointing. Cornell should have saved the first.
I don't think it's unfair to criticise players individually as many individual performances weren't really very good. Yet we still very easily (and perhaps deserved to given some refereeing decisions), could have won. |  |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:55 - Nov 7 with 3581 views | Chrisd |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:46 - Nov 7 by Bluefish |
The changes don't really make the difference. Our style didn't change at all, we do not create anything because we pass around the defence and then hoof to isolated players. |
You could still do that with any formation. This myth our squad is the best in the league raises its head again. |  |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:56 - Nov 7 with 3561 views | Coco |
Truly dreadful apart from a 25/30 mon spell where we got on top and managed to claw it back. Threatened little. |  |
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| Exactly the same as Tuesday.... on 17:56 - Nov 7 with 3569 views | Bloots |
....sod around doing nothing for half the match, get back into it, but ultimately lose.
The only difference today was that there was an extra 30 mins of sodding around doing nothing.
At least Shambert can blame the ref again.
Lambert out. |  |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:59 - Nov 7 with 3518 views | King_ding_a_lin_g |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:45 - Nov 7 by Plums |
We showed up for 35 minutes out of 120. Nine changes disrespects the club and the competition. Simply not good enough for Ipswich Town Football Club. |
I think people need to get used to the fact that the FA Cup is not the competition it used to be and it has been 'discredited' in many many ways by many many clubs, as well as the governing body and the Premier League.
What is more important is the further knock to confidence from failing to beat a promotion rival again but I think there were more positives than negatives today. Portsmouth played a full team and we have got minutes into fringe players like McGavin, Donacian, Cornell, Kenlock, Bennetts... and got minutes into players' legs that have come back from injury; Norwood and Nolan. |  | | |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:03 - Nov 7 with 3481 views | Herbivore |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:55 - Nov 7 by Chrisd |
You could still do that with any formation. This myth our squad is the best in the league raises its head again. |
The manager is the problem rather than the squad. |  |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:03 - Nov 7 with 3477 views | Plums |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:59 - Nov 7 by King_ding_a_lin_g |
I think people need to get used to the fact that the FA Cup is not the competition it used to be and it has been 'discredited' in many many ways by many many clubs, as well as the governing body and the Premier League.
What is more important is the further knock to confidence from failing to beat a promotion rival again but I think there were more positives than negatives today. Portsmouth played a full team and we have got minutes into fringe players like McGavin, Donacian, Cornell, Kenlock, Bennetts... and got minutes into players' legs that have come back from injury; Norwood and Nolan. |
The FA Cup is not the competition it was if you’re Chelsea or Man City but to say it’s the same for L1 clubs is ludicrous. We have a U23 league for getting minutes into players and an international break where those players could play a friendly against a Championship side if they need a run out. This is a first team competition and should be treated as such. | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:05 - Nov 7 with 3453 views | pointofblue |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:03 - Nov 7 by Plums |
The FA Cup is not the competition it was if you’re Chelsea or Man City but to say it’s the same for L1 clubs is ludicrous. We have a U23 league for getting minutes into players and an international break where those players could play a friendly against a Championship side if they need a run out. This is a first team competition and should be treated as such. |
Not just the U23 League but the EFL Trophy as well. | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:05 - Nov 7 with 3451 views | Chrisd |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:03 - Nov 7 by Herbivore |
The manager is the problem rather than the squad. |
I know you keep saying, but there’s players in our squad that aren’t good enough and that’s clear as day. Until we start accepting that we won’t move forward. | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:06 - Nov 7 with 3442 views | Wickets |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:59 - Nov 7 by King_ding_a_lin_g |
I think people need to get used to the fact that the FA Cup is not the competition it used to be and it has been 'discredited' in many many ways by many many clubs, as well as the governing body and the Premier League.
What is more important is the further knock to confidence from failing to beat a promotion rival again but I think there were more positives than negatives today. Portsmouth played a full team and we have got minutes into fringe players like McGavin, Donacian, Cornell, Kenlock, Bennetts... and got minutes into players' legs that have come back from injury; Norwood and Nolan. |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:09 - Nov 7 with 3425 views | Herbivore |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:05 - Nov 7 by Chrisd |
I know you keep saying, but there’s players in our squad that aren’t good enough and that’s clear as day. Until we start accepting that we won’t move forward. |
Aren't good enough for what? No squad at this level has 22 players that are all top 2 standard. We have ridiculous strength in depth for this level but we have a manager that, in 2 years here, has failed to mould that squad into something greater than the sum of its parts. That is the manager's job.
You keep saying the squad isn't all that and yet our reserve team just matched Portsmouth's first team over 120 minutes and would have at least drawn if not for some horrendous officiating. If the squad isn't up to much, how did we manage to put out a reserve side that could compete with the first team of one of the better sides in this league? | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:09 - Nov 7 with 3422 views | TheTrueBlue1878 |
Have no issue with Lambert leaving.
But why do the players play at such a slow tempo? Take too many touches, and then just pick the safe option? Why do the players never want to take the opposition on? - if anyone can answer this it is surely you.
Thank god Edwards came on to add a bit of spark, quality and entertainment to the performance in the second half.
Won’t be going anywhere for a long time mind you Lambert, 2nd in the league, ridiculously expensive to pay off, economic impact of COVID. Here to stay for a long time yet. |  |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:12 - Nov 7 with 3386 views | jayessess |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:05 - Nov 7 by Chrisd |
I know you keep saying, but there’s players in our squad that aren’t good enough and that’s clear as day. Until we start accepting that we won’t move forward. |
Tell Lambert that -
First XI today = 5 x Lambert signings, 4 x Lambert contract extensions.
Subs = 2 x Lambert signings, 2 x Lambert contract extensions. [Post edited 7 Nov 2020 18:12]
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:17 - Nov 7 with 3356 views | backwaywhen |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:03 - Nov 7 by Herbivore |
The manager is the problem rather than the squad. |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:17 - Nov 7 with 3355 views | Chrisd |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:09 - Nov 7 by Herbivore |
Aren't good enough for what? No squad at this level has 22 players that are all top 2 standard. We have ridiculous strength in depth for this level but we have a manager that, in 2 years here, has failed to mould that squad into something greater than the sum of its parts. That is the manager's job.
You keep saying the squad isn't all that and yet our reserve team just matched Portsmouth's first team over 120 minutes and would have at least drawn if not for some horrendous officiating. If the squad isn't up to much, how did we manage to put out a reserve side that could compete with the first team of one of the better sides in this league? |
Our reserve squad had a good 30 minutes, that is all. Out of our ‘reserves’ we’ve got a lot of them that have got considerable first team experience too - Nsiala, Kenlock, Huws, Nolan to name a few, but let’s call them reserves because that works well for your argument. I know you’re not PL’s biggest fan and nor am I to be honest and I do accept that he will carry the can ultimately of our failings, but equally I’m not fooled either that we have this incredible depth of pool of players to select from. There’s some that would struggle to play regularly in a L2 side. [Post edited 7 Nov 2020 18:27]
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:36 - Nov 7 with 3277 views | Herbivore |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:17 - Nov 7 by Chrisd |
Our reserve squad had a good 30 minutes, that is all. Out of our ‘reserves’ we’ve got a lot of them that have got considerable first team experience too - Nsiala, Kenlock, Huws, Nolan to name a few, but let’s call them reserves because that works well for your argument. I know you’re not PL’s biggest fan and nor am I to be honest and I do accept that he will carry the can ultimately of our failings, but equally I’m not fooled either that we have this incredible depth of pool of players to select from. There’s some that would struggle to play regularly in a L2 side. [Post edited 7 Nov 2020 18:27]
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Nsiala, Kenlock, Huws, and Nolan have played a bit but they're not first choice players. It was very much a reserve side today. And we were unfortunate to lose in extra time against one of the better sides in the league who put out their best XI.
Which of our first team squad would struggle to get regular playing time in League 2? | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:59 - Nov 7 with 3198 views | southnorfolkblue |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 17:51 - Nov 7 by judespiveyg |
Second half was a pretty good watch imo after an awful first. Quite a few nice little passing moves.
Nolan and Huws don't run off the ball at all well (the most important part of playing midfield). Passing out from the back only works when your midfield players show for the ball, which they didn't do all of the first half. Meant we couldn't get the ball from the defence to the forwards very well.
Edwards, Bennets and Sears were all varying degrees of disappointing. Cornell should have saved the first.
I don't think it's unfair to criticise players individually as many individual performances weren't really very good. Yet we still very easily (and perhaps deserved to given some refereeing decisions), could have won. |
Harsh to say Edwards was disappointing | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 20:44 - Nov 7 with 3088 views | Chrisd |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 18:36 - Nov 7 by Herbivore |
Nsiala, Kenlock, Huws, and Nolan have played a bit but they're not first choice players. It was very much a reserve side today. And we were unfortunate to lose in extra time against one of the better sides in the league who put out their best XI.
Which of our first team squad would struggle to get regular playing time in League 2? |
The fact you have to ask is more a concern. | |
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 21:15 - Nov 7 with 3022 views | TJS |
Last time we lost in round one of the FA Cup was 1955.
That’s right - 65 years ago.
Hope Evans and Lambert are proud of themselves. [Post edited 7 Nov 2020 21:19]
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| On the whole it was abysmal on 23:41 - Nov 7 with 2903 views | Herbivore |
| On the whole it was abysmal on 20:44 - Nov 7 by Chrisd |
The fact you have to ask is more a concern. |
Lame. | |
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