| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons 16:42 - Apr 24 with 1479 views | STYG |
Bearing in mind we lost 3 in the opening 6 games.
Really aren’t far off. The start killed us. McKenna was never likely to do it given the crazy form of other teams and since Cambridge, when it was all over, levels have understandably dropped.
We’ve drawn 16. Only one team has drawn more. All about turning those draws into wins which I’m sure will be addressed with striker recruitment.
All we need is to avoid a disaster of a start to the season and I’m sure we will be up there all season. [Post edited 24 Apr 2022 16:44]
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 16:51 - Apr 24 with 1412 views | FrimleyBlue |
Another about the start
We've drawn 8 of the last 15 games. 16 points lost. Which would have us in the playoffs. |  |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 16:57 - Apr 24 with 1384 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 16:51 - Apr 24 by FrimleyBlue |
Another about the start
We've drawn 8 of the last 15 games. 16 points lost. Which would have us in the playoffs. |
Your washing machine must be going 24/7 with the amount of times you wet your pants each day. |  |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:00 - Apr 24 with 1367 views | FrimleyBlue |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 16:57 - Apr 24 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Your washing machine must be going 24/7 with the amount of times you wet your pants each day. |
Think you've wet yourself based on your reply tbh. I'm just responding to the OP who made a post about draws. | |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:16 - Apr 24 with 1337 views | Guthrum |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 16:51 - Apr 24 by FrimleyBlue |
Another about the start
We've drawn 8 of the last 15 games. 16 points lost. Which would have us in the playoffs. |
But that's only three more draws than Sunderland, two more than Wigan and Wycombe in the same 15.
To turn all but one of those eight draws into wins would have been an incrdible feat, would have required something like a ten-game winning run. You don't see that very often.
Which demonstrates that it really was the position we were in after the poor start which rendered us unable to catch up with the top teams in the last month of the season, given the rate with which they themselves were surging on. |  |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:19 - Apr 24 with 1313 views | FrimleyBlue |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:16 - Apr 24 by Guthrum |
But that's only three more draws than Sunderland, two more than Wigan and Wycombe in the same 15.
To turn all but one of those eight draws into wins would have been an incrdible feat, would have required something like a ten-game winning run. You don't see that very often.
Which demonstrates that it really was the position we were in after the poor start which rendered us unable to catch up with the top teams in the last month of the season, given the rate with which they themselves were surging on. |
Tbf you're probably right about a long run of wins.
But to still be unable to string even a 3 game winning run hasn't been great for what we have and some of the runs of games we've had in a row. | |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:29 - Apr 24 with 1290 views | Guthrum |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:19 - Apr 24 by FrimleyBlue |
Tbf you're probably right about a long run of wins.
But to still be unable to string even a 3 game winning run hasn't been great for what we have and some of the runs of games we've had in a row. |
Certainly things could have been better, Town should have finished closer to the play-offs. But, with purest hindsight, the task of catching and getting into the top six was beyond possible.
They were so far ahead that even Sunderland, Rotherham and Wycombe having poor runs (worse than anything we've had under McKenna) was not enough to drop them within our grasp. | |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:46 - Apr 24 with 1250 views | ParisBlue |
We've lost a few key players recently but initially McKenna seemed to be picking players and a team to outwit the opposition and win every game. That gives me hope. I also think he'll chance things in-game to turn draws into wins at the risk of a defeat - again this is good. Next year we should go out and just try to win every game, none of this settling for a draw.
A draw in this division is 2 points dropped. Draws don't get you promoted. Just look at Sunderland under Jack Ross. |  |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:56 - Apr 24 with 1223 views | HighgateBlue |
Sure. Or, we've only won 4 more than Lincoln, who are 18th.
Personally, I prefer not to seek out a particularly positive or negative spin. The bare truth is that there are 10 teams in this division who have done better than us. 7 of them will be in this division again next year, and the other three will be replaced by Peterborough, Derby and Barnsley.
Last season we were 9th. Yet this is a glorious new project, and Marcus Evans is the devil. I have confidence for next season because McKenna seems like a highly intelligent coach and he has improved our defence markedly overnight. However, we must start judging people on facts and nothing else, and with some degree of nuance. The head-in-the-sand nonsense about how good a job Cook was doing was embarrassing. He plainly did worse than Lambert with far greater resources. |  | | |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 18:47 - Apr 24 with 1159 views | ibbleobble |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:56 - Apr 24 by HighgateBlue |
Sure. Or, we've only won 4 more than Lincoln, who are 18th.
Personally, I prefer not to seek out a particularly positive or negative spin. The bare truth is that there are 10 teams in this division who have done better than us. 7 of them will be in this division again next year, and the other three will be replaced by Peterborough, Derby and Barnsley.
Last season we were 9th. Yet this is a glorious new project, and Marcus Evans is the devil. I have confidence for next season because McKenna seems like a highly intelligent coach and he has improved our defence markedly overnight. However, we must start judging people on facts and nothing else, and with some degree of nuance. The head-in-the-sand nonsense about how good a job Cook was doing was embarrassing. He plainly did worse than Lambert with far greater resources. |
I’m not sure the argument was about how good a job Cook was doing. It was more about whether he should have had more time to see if he could do a better job. Reality is, despite an inconsistent November, his ppg had improved to 1.71 ppg after those first 6 games, which, ironically is what McKenna’s has now dropped to (1.72 ppg).
Irrespective of whether you liked Cook or had strong feelings either way about his ability, we’ve gambled and another season has gone to waste. Now, we’re back where we were at the end of last season - hoping things will come good after a terrible and anti-climatic end. | | | |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 20:47 - Apr 24 with 1020 views | ElephantintheRoom |
A lot of IFs in there. IF town had been able to compete with the promoted sides there’s be higher in the table. Just as they would be if they had been capable of beating the teams above them. They are where they are because they are ordinary.
You can’t dismantle a team in the fringe of the play offs, recruit a bunch of strangers and expect to hit the ground running - it was complete and utter madness.
I’d like to point out that there were so many draws because the team couldn’t score more goals than the opposition - a piece of blinding reality that McKenna still doesn’t appreciate. There was a strange obsession on ‘clean sheets’ at the very moment games had to be won. A better cliché would have been ‘every game’s a cup tie’. | |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 21:39 - Apr 24 with 955 views | FrankMarshall |
How many years have we tried to draw positives from a poor season? The reality is that we are 11th spot in Division 3 (if we end up in 11th).
Like others, I am very hopeful that this is the beginning of better times for ITFC. It's not like it could get worse (there is no way we are going to go further down the football pyramid). We have a very good manager who, with time, will steer us out of these dark waters.
Only real positive of this season is that next season there will only be one division gap between us and Norwich. Hopefully we will get promoted, whilst their promotion plans stall. Potential derby games in Season 2023/2024. It has been a long time since we won a derby game and we need to put that record straight. |  |
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| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 08:28 - Apr 25 with 769 views | Leaky |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 17:00 - Apr 24 by FrimleyBlue |
Think you've wet yourself based on your reply tbh. I'm just responding to the OP who made a post about draws. |
Cheltenham also made a comment about draws, namely you wetting yours. |  | | |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 08:41 - Apr 25 with 748 views | Chrisd |
| We’ve only lost 2 more than Rotherham and 3 more than MK Dons on 16:51 - Apr 24 by FrimleyBlue |
Another about the start
We've drawn 8 of the last 15 games. 16 points lost. Which would have us in the playoffs. |
I agree. The start didn’t help, but when you look at how many games we’ve drawn that also holds a team back when they are trying to reach the top 6. That’s why finding a solution to scoring more than a goal game becomes so important over the summer. | |
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