| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview 20:48 - Jun 9 with 2084 views | UbiFides |
Hi all,
Tranmere fan here in peace.
As newly minted league members, I'm looking to put together a fan-sourced and fan-made division wide round-up and was hoping I could find one or two of you willing to write something in the following format for Ipswich:
**Club Name**
Manager (or likely candidates)
Tenure (of current manager if applicable)
Ownership Situation: (appreciate this may run long for some in the division)
Main Fan Forum:
Star Player:
Underappreciated Gem:
Top Prospect:
Potential 19/20 Breakout Year:
Fan Scapegoat:
Waste of Space:
Dream Transfer Target:
Season Review: (< 200 words)
Tactical Overview: (< 200 words)
Plans & Priorities for Preseason: (< 200 words)
If people are interested I'll post the full round-up here once I've got the responses.
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Our Example Version below:
**Tranmere Rovers**
Manager: Micky Mellon
Tenure: 2 1/2 seasons
Ownership Situation: Very positive, no wealthy benefactor though.
Fan Forum: thecowsheds.co.uk
Star Player: James Norwood (CF, 28yo)
Underappreciated Gem: Connor Jennings (n10, 27yo)
Top Prospect: Harvey Gilmour (CM, 20yo)
Potential 19/20 Breakout Year: Sid Nelson (CB, 24yo) or Paul Mullin (CF, 24yo)
Fan Scapegoat: Liam Ridehalgh (LB, 28yo)
Waste of Space: Chris Dagnall (CF, 32yo)
Dream Transfer Target: Rhian Brewster on loan would be lovely
**Season Review:**
After a great initial start to life back in the football league Tranmere's form sagged heading into the Xmas period. January additions at center mid and on both wings in Perkins, Morris and Pringle helped bolster the team's fortunes and a 7 game winning run pushed us from Mid-table back up in to the Playoffs of League Two where we remained until the end of the season. After beating Forest Green in the semi final we had to go to the final minute of extra time for Connor Jennings to head home the goal that put us back in the third tier. James Norwood finished the season on 32 goals, in the FL Team of the Year and of course with the Golden Boot, while our reliable shot stopper Scott Davies bagged the L2 Golden Gloves for 19 (21 including play-offs) league clean sheets.
**Tactical Overview:**
Micky has never been afraid to change our shape in his time in charge, nor our style of play. After losing Andy Cook to Walsall (the large of our classic 442 little n large) we switched to playing more to the strength of our other 20 goal a season man, James Norwood, whose pace allows him to play off the shoulder of the final defender. For much of the season we opted for a 433 where both wingers looked to cut inside onto their stronger foot to play Nors in or shoot. This setup allowed Ollie Banks to act as a deep lying playmaker in the middle, while paired with two of our three more industrious midfield options in Luke McCollough, Jay Harris and later Dave Perkins. Manny Monthe was our rock at the back, paired with a rogues gallery of partners due to terrible luck with injuries and the decline of the once mighty Steve McNulty. When we were overwhelmed or outmatched Mellon tended to switch to 3ATB, allowing our full backs Caprice and Ridehalgh to get further up the pitch and whip balls in from wider areas. However we line up Micky insists the frontmen press hard, we aren't often pretty but we're definitely effective.
**Plans for Preseason:**
The elephant in the room is that Norwood's contract is expired, and his exit for a pay rise well outside Tranmere's budgetary constraints appears inevitable. So the main thing to be keeping your ear out for is news of potential striker signings. Rumours have attached us to bringing back the now relegated and supposedly unsettled Cook from Walsall, paying out to Flyde for Danny Rowe or taking Callum Lang on loan. The club will want to wrap up new deals for CB pairing Monthe and Nelson, both 24, who showed enough to make fans confident they would handle the step up to L1. While much of the squad seems likely to stay we will also need to find some new wide-men, as Ben Pringle, Keiron Morris & Johnny Smith were only here on loan deals last season. The squad looks a little thin for the moment but if we can stave off supposed approaches for manager Mellon and key assists maker Connor Jennings, and of course find a way to replace some of Lord Norwood's goals members of the SWA will be confident we can do enough on our resources to target mid-table safety. |  | | |  |
| I can help.... on 21:09 - Jun 9 with 2001 views | Bloots |
….just put "James Norwood" down as the answer to everything.
Cheers. |  |
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| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 21:12 - Jun 9 with 1997 views | Superblue95 |
Club Name: Ipswich Town Football Club
Manager: Paul Lambert
Tenure: About 8 months
Ownership Situation: Stable but clueless and tight
Main Fan Forum: TWTD
Star Player: James Norwood
Underappreciated Gem: We will let you know when we find one
Top Prospect: Jack Lankester, Andre Dozzell and Flynn Downes to name a few
Potential 19/20 Breakout Year: Josh Emmanuel potentially
Fan Scapegoat: Luke Chambers, Cole Skuse
Waste of Space: Most of them
Dream Transfer Target: Lionel Messi
Season Review: Sh1te
Tactical Overview: Sh1te
Plans & Priorities for Preseason: Stop being Sh1te |  |
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| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 21:22 - Jun 9 with 1961 views | J2BLUE |
Ipswich Town
Manager: Paul Lambert
Tenure: He's worth more than that
Ownership Situation: Owned by a man not rich enough for modern football and not stupid enough to bankrupt himself to please Dave in Lowestoft who bought a ticket offer ticket for a tenner in 1983 and REALLY THINKS EVANS SHOULD SHOW MORE AMBITION!!!!!!!!!1!!!11
Main Fan Forum: Blues Web
Star Player: James Norwood
Underappreciated Gem: Cole Skuse
Top Prospect: Luke Woolfenden
Potential 19/20 Breakout Year: Luke Woolfenden
Fan Scapegoat: Marcus Evans (owner)
Waste of Space: Norwich's trophy cabinet
Dream Transfer Target: Tommy McNamara
Season Review: (< 200 words) It was sh1t.
Tactical Overview: (< 200 words) They were sh1t.
Plans & Priorities for Preseason: (< 200 words) Learn not to be so sh1t.
Main Fan Forum: I joke, of course it's the mighty TWTD. [Post edited 9 Jun 2019 21:24]
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| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 21:53 - Jun 9 with 1883 views | MrTown |
IPSWICH TOWN
Manager - Paul Lambert.
Tenure - 8 months to date.
Ownership Situation - Marcus Evans. Consistently kept the purse strings very tight in the Championship. With the financial impacts of relegation they will be tightened even further. No big transfer fees, but will still be seen as a big fish in the wages department and probably rightly so.
Main Fan Forum - TWTD
Star Player: Alan Judge
Underappreciated Gem: Jon Nolan
Top Prospect: Jack Lankester
Potential 19/20 Breakout Year: Jack Lankester, Andre Dozzell, Flynn Downes
Fan Scapegoat: Cole Skuse, Luke Chambers
Waste of Space: Paul Hurst
Dream Transfer Target: James Norwood
Season Review: An abysmal summer transfer saga saw too many goals leave the squad (McGoldrick, Waghorn & Garner) and be replaced with average strikers who had proven average returns in L1 and L2. Paul Hurst walked into a very good dressing room, dropped a grenade and walked out again.
Tactical Overview: There is no doubt Paul Lambert is getting the Blues to play a lot better football but performances dipped after relegation was confirmed. Summer break will do everybody good, allow Paul Lambert to plan and prepare his season approach because whilst the fans were Exocet ion always throughout last season, the same won’t be said if results remain the same.
Plans & Priorities for Preseason: Will be Paul Lambert’s first pre season at any club for a fair amount of time. Hope he drills in a plan and approach to the squad, a winning mentality that we know Lambert has has to likewise be taken on by the players or he must show them a meaner side to his persona. Dare I say it, hope he can replicate the work he produced up the road. |  |
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| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 22:05 - Jun 9 with 1843 views | hector_clifford |
I think we should ask Harry | |
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| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 04:35 - Jun 10 with 1668 views | UbiFides |
| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 21:53 - Jun 9 by MrTown |
IPSWICH TOWN
Manager - Paul Lambert.
Tenure - 8 months to date.
Ownership Situation - Marcus Evans. Consistently kept the purse strings very tight in the Championship. With the financial impacts of relegation they will be tightened even further. No big transfer fees, but will still be seen as a big fish in the wages department and probably rightly so.
Main Fan Forum - TWTD
Star Player: Alan Judge
Underappreciated Gem: Jon Nolan
Top Prospect: Jack Lankester
Potential 19/20 Breakout Year: Jack Lankester, Andre Dozzell, Flynn Downes
Fan Scapegoat: Cole Skuse, Luke Chambers
Waste of Space: Paul Hurst
Dream Transfer Target: James Norwood
Season Review: An abysmal summer transfer saga saw too many goals leave the squad (McGoldrick, Waghorn & Garner) and be replaced with average strikers who had proven average returns in L1 and L2. Paul Hurst walked into a very good dressing room, dropped a grenade and walked out again.
Tactical Overview: There is no doubt Paul Lambert is getting the Blues to play a lot better football but performances dipped after relegation was confirmed. Summer break will do everybody good, allow Paul Lambert to plan and prepare his season approach because whilst the fans were Exocet ion always throughout last season, the same won’t be said if results remain the same.
Plans & Priorities for Preseason: Will be Paul Lambert’s first pre season at any club for a fair amount of time. Hope he drills in a plan and approach to the squad, a winning mentality that we know Lambert has has to likewise be taken on by the players or he must show them a meaner side to his persona. Dare I say it, hope he can replicate the work he produced up the road. |
Top stuff MrTown, thanks for taking the time and effort. Really appreciate it.
I've put your round up in the first part of the Preview, which is here:
https://ubifides.com/2019/06/09/the-league-one-summer-preview/
As for the rest of you, I sincerely hope if Nors does choose you lot he bangs, except when he comes to Prenton Park of course. | | | |
| I can help.... on 09:32 - Jun 10 with 1449 views | BlueBadger |
| I can help.... on 21:09 - Jun 9 by Bloots |
….just put "James Norwood" down as the answer to everything.
Cheers. |
Surely we're not to abandon our tried-and-tested tactic of 'tap it around in midfield for 20 minutes then lose'. |  |
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| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 12:20 - Jun 10 with 1365 views | ronnyd |
Sounds like you,re going to be in for a very busy summer mate. Good luck with it and hope it goes ok.  | | | |
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| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 12:31 - Jun 10 with 1333 views | blockb_steward |
| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 04:35 - Jun 10 by UbiFides |
Top stuff MrTown, thanks for taking the time and effort. Really appreciate it.
I've put your round up in the first part of the Preview, which is here:
https://ubifides.com/2019/06/09/the-league-one-summer-preview/
As for the rest of you, I sincerely hope if Nors does choose you lot he bangs, except when he comes to Prenton Park of course. |
Absolute top read for all L1 fans that
Recommended |  | | |
| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 12:35 - Jun 10 with 1329 views | BiGDonnie |
| Seeking help for L1 18/19 Season Review / Summer Preview on 21:22 - Jun 9 by J2BLUE |
Ipswich Town
Manager: Paul Lambert
Tenure: He's worth more than that
Ownership Situation: Owned by a man not rich enough for modern football and not stupid enough to bankrupt himself to please Dave in Lowestoft who bought a ticket offer ticket for a tenner in 1983 and REALLY THINKS EVANS SHOULD SHOW MORE AMBITION!!!!!!!!!1!!!11
Main Fan Forum: Blues Web
Star Player: James Norwood
Underappreciated Gem: Cole Skuse
Top Prospect: Luke Woolfenden
Potential 19/20 Breakout Year: Luke Woolfenden
Fan Scapegoat: Marcus Evans (owner)
Waste of Space: Norwich's trophy cabinet
Dream Transfer Target: Tommy McNamara
Season Review: (< 200 words) It was sh1t.
Tactical Overview: (< 200 words) They were sh1t.
Plans & Priorities for Preseason: (< 200 words) Learn not to be so sh1t.
Main Fan Forum: I joke, of course it's the mighty TWTD. [Post edited 9 Jun 2019 21:24]
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Underappreciated gem - Sole Skuse.
Erm....................... what? |  |
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