| Thoughts on last night 07:36 - Nov 3 with 1462 views | Steve_M |
Well, yesterday was really busy for me. Any thoughts of having a few beers pre-match were gone by lunchtime and I was more concerned with getting to Wycombe in time. The thought even went through my head that I might just go home and pay another £10 for iFollow - fortunately I got out in time, as I'm not quite sure how pissed off I would have been had I missed that game.
Not that we started very well, the first 25 minutes we were pretty poor and allowed ourselves to get wound up by Wycombe's approach. Evans in particular giving a stupid foul away as we broke summed up that period. Keeping Coulson on when he was clearly injured was stupid, it left us a man down at a critical part of the game and will almost certainly have made his injury worse. I feel for him though, such a frustrating season that he clearly wants to play a bigger part of.
The goal felt inevitable, inviting pressure and not dealing with it. There may have been some pushing from the corner but our shouts for a foul were very optimistic. At least we kept it to a single goal deficit, Toto made a good block in particular.
It's an enormous cliche but goals change games and our first definitely did, Morsy did superbly to bring the ball out and Celian had dropped into space to give himself time for the shot. Stockdale should have done better but, hey, this is division three.
I don't think Wycombe ever looked comfortable again after that, they were always a threat and there were spells in the second half (70-80 minutes) when we could not keep the ball and kept inviting pressure but we dealt with most of that ok.
For us on the other hand, the confidence from the equaliser saw our play get quicker and
the quality of our attacking increase - Celina, Edwards and KVY fully justified their selections - and Morsy and Evans looked really assured in the middle. It wasn't just on the ball though, our work off the ball in midfield was very good, pressing well and early a lot of the time.
Burgess helped too, the extra physicality in defence more than compensated for any loss of attacking threat. He even played one lovely through the lines in the first half that I don't think anyone in the away end was excepting.
We still managed to make things hard for ourselves, the second half started with three largely unforced errors that put us under pressure. Morsy in particular was guilty of overplaying and, perhaps, trying to be a bit too cute for this division. The second goal was crucial, a really good move and a good cross from Edwards - his willingness to take defenders on on both sides was threat all night - before Bonne just did the sort of thing only an inform and very skilful striker can do. The composure to finish like that is so impressive. Who else could do that? Marcus Stewart obviously, McGoldrick, Jason Dozzell and probably Pablo in my time watching Town.
After that there was a 15 minute spell where we looked like we could score at will, one off the line from Bonne and then a lovely piece of play from KVY to set up Burns for a thunderous finish. Wycombe came back into it after that and we kept giving away soft free kicks that invited pressure (yes, some of them clearly weren't fouls but some were just stupid like going into the back of players).
I'm not entirely sure how they didn't get a second goal in the spell from 70 to 80 minutes, some good defending, a bit of luck and some awful finishing mainly. 2-3 with 10 minutes to go might not have been fun but we withstood it all and looked a bit more settled going into the last ten minutes. Harper after giving the ball away badly early on was really good, used the ball well and gave us an additional outlet at a time when other players were tiring.
I think it was his ball up to Celina for the fourth, and what a wonderful moment it was as he beat Stockdale and everyone knew he was going to score. A brilliant way to round off an excellent evening.
The sort of big win we need to make a habit of if we want to get out of this division and very much one to make other teams sit up and notice. We still have some catching up to do though, we haven't been good enough across the season so far - Cook said so himself yesterday - but there were some big things to come out of yesterday: most notably winning after being behind and dealing with physicality of Wycombe. Now to build on it.
Some other random thoughts:
- Toto fouled their player just before our third goal, it looked really clear but wasn't given which made the goal all the sweeter after the ridiculously disallowed goal at PR two years ago. Have that you cheats;
- Celina took so long to score the fourth that another couple of thousand home fans seemed to leave during the course of his run;
- A packed away end celebrating a good away win is one of the joys of being a football fan, the kind of thing that makes up for all the crap days. Can we sing more songs about Ipswich than Norwich though please;
- Wycombe's such a weird ground to get back from for me, 45 minute walk to the station and yet about the same time from the train leaving to getting home. |  |
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| Thoughts on last night on 08:04 - Nov 3 with 1350 views | IpswichKnight |
You may have known but the 4th official was the infamous red from that Wycombe home game and he also managed to signal 4 minutes of first half injury time on Saturday and then blew up dead on 45mins, bizarre sight of teams coming out for 2nd half but first having to play the added on 4 mins then switching ends to start the 2nd half! |  | | |
| Thoughts on last night on 08:14 - Nov 3 with 1300 views | Steve_M |
| Thoughts on last night on 08:04 - Nov 3 by IpswichKnight |
You may have known but the 4th official was the infamous red from that Wycombe home game and he also managed to signal 4 minutes of first half injury time on Saturday and then blew up dead on 45mins, bizarre sight of teams coming out for 2nd half but first having to play the added on 4 mins then switching ends to start the 2nd half! |
I only realised he was fourth official when I read Phil's report on the train home but had seen his error at the weekend.
Actually, that was going to be one of my additional points: I'm amazed there were only four minutes injury time at the end of the second half. Happy with that, thought it might be six. | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 08:30 - Nov 3 with 1219 views | Radlett_blue |
Adams Park is also a weird ground to get to. I took the "advice" to try to park on the industrial estate by the ground, left in very good time but spent 45 minutes in horrific traffic near the ground & was then turned away be a steward as parking was for pass holders or pre reserved bookings only. Luckily managed to find a spot in a side street 10 minutes walk away so got there just before kick off. |  |
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| Thoughts on last night on 08:31 - Nov 3 with 1206 views | blueysbackside |
| Thoughts on last night on 08:30 - Nov 3 by Radlett_blue |
Adams Park is also a weird ground to get to. I took the "advice" to try to park on the industrial estate by the ground, left in very good time but spent 45 minutes in horrific traffic near the ground & was then turned away be a steward as parking was for pass holders or pre reserved bookings only. Luckily managed to find a spot in a side street 10 minutes walk away so got there just before kick off. |
Hello, Mr B. There were plenty of spaces in the 'car park' next to the ground. I arrived there at 7.43pm, having been about two miles from the ground at about 7pm! The car park was just a field. | | | |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:04 - Nov 3 with 1110 views | Radlett_blue |
| Thoughts on last night on 08:31 - Nov 3 by blueysbackside |
Hello, Mr B. There were plenty of spaces in the 'car park' next to the ground. I arrived there at 7.43pm, having been about two miles from the ground at about 7pm! The car park was just a field. |
Should I presume you had pre-booked, or else weren't turned away by a steward? | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:07 - Nov 3 with 1094 views | blueysbackside |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:04 - Nov 3 by Radlett_blue |
Should I presume you had pre-booked, or else weren't turned away by a steward? |
yes sir, I did. 10 of your Engleesh pounds. No one bothered to check my confirmation etc. I actually thought I'd be parking in a car park. But then again I am a bit thick. I did see cars being turned away but I don't know why if they had plenty of spaces in the aforementioned field. Incidentally, I couldn't find my bloody car after the game. It was so dark up there. I just ran around with my key fob. Lovely job. | | | |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:16 - Nov 3 with 1044 views | pennblue |
Thought Edwards had his best game for the club last night, absolute quality all night. | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:22 - Nov 3 with 989 views | cooperd5 |
agree with that, thoroughly enjoyed the match, well, from minute 20 onwards.
We parked 25 mins walk away and were passed on the M40 by a car we'd walked past in the car park queue so definitely a long wait!
Nice ground I thought, good screens around the perimeter build the atmosphere and the audio is 100x better than at PR.
Do finally get the feeling we are on the up and yes, lets not sing about Norwich! |  | | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:22 - Nov 3 with 985 views | SomethingBlue |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:16 - Nov 3 by pennblue |
Thought Edwards had his best game for the club last night, absolute quality all night. |
Yep I was going to say something similar. Couple of wayward final balls in first half but thought his defensive application and decision making in difficult areas were excellent and he was a persistent threat going forward. Great to see. | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:35 - Nov 3 with 919 views | Steve_M |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:22 - Nov 3 by SomethingBlue |
Yep I was going to say something similar. Couple of wayward final balls in first half but thought his defensive application and decision making in difficult areas were excellent and he was a persistent threat going forward. Great to see. |
I said to my friend early on yesterday that Edwards had lost the confidence of his first few games but would probably get it back once he does a few good things. I didn't expect it to happen quite so promptly - the piece of control in the first half as he broke, that lead to a poor cross was, superb. Him and Celina linked up superbly at times too. | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:37 - Nov 3 with 907 views | SomethingBlue |
Yep, well said and glad you didn't miss out!
Last night really set the standard I think. Can't identify an iffy performance in the side, we managed to dig in and create a platform for our quality to tell, which is did in real style. When the teams were announced I thought that might, possibly, be our best XI football-wise — obviously we had to make the early change but there was so much movement, pace and creativity in there.
Burgess change ended up being massively important — they'd been murdering us with the diagonal towards LB/LCB and once he arrived it wasn't on, meaning we could get on with things a bit. Meant Plan A was no longer going to be productive for them and I was slightly surprised Ainsworth took so long to make his subs.
Will hopefully do us a lot of good to ride out a period like that 70-80 spell. Edmundson was excellent in there, I thought, and Walton looks super-confident & assured in goal.
Pleased to see Celina put in 90 minutes like that — wasn't just the goals, his workrate was superb and his continuity play was lovely & smooth too. He's a class above, it's very clear. As is Edwards on that form — as I said above, his defensive work and decision making were great last night, on top of anything else.
You watch that last night and wonder why we've struggled. But you also look at it and think what an awesome, frightening set of options we have for this level. No minutes last night for Fraser, Chaplin, Pigott — all players we were very excited about signing and who we will need this season. Feels like things could start to turn in our favour, wish we were playing Oxford on Saturday really.
Loved that away end last night too — great numbers, great noise, it all feels so ready to go if the team can keep putting in performances like that. [Post edited 3 Nov 2021 9:38]
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:38 - Nov 3 with 879 views | Guthrum |
| Thoughts on last night on 08:30 - Nov 3 by Radlett_blue |
Adams Park is also a weird ground to get to. I took the "advice" to try to park on the industrial estate by the ground, left in very good time but spent 45 minutes in horrific traffic near the ground & was then turned away be a steward as parking was for pass holders or pre reserved bookings only. Luckily managed to find a spot in a side street 10 minutes walk away so got there just before kick off. |
We had the same experience. The chap driving very kindly dropped us off and found a space about a mile and a half away, missing the first 20 minutes (and arriving just in time to see Town begin the turnaround). |  |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:45 - Nov 3 with 822 views | Herbivore |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:35 - Nov 3 by Steve_M |
I said to my friend early on yesterday that Edwards had lost the confidence of his first few games but would probably get it back once he does a few good things. I didn't expect it to happen quite so promptly - the piece of control in the first half as he broke, that lead to a poor cross was, superb. Him and Celina linked up superbly at times too. |
Agreed, thought he was very good and put a real shift in as well as contributing well where he's paid to do his work. He had a bit of a tough gig on that flank as well as Burgess wasn't going to be bombing on regularly and creating the overlap in the way KVY was on the right, though he did push up at times, but he adjusted to that well with his link up play with Celina creating lots of overlaps for us on that side. Really good ball in for Bonne's goal, if Stockdale didn't claw it away it was either drifting in or a one yard tap in for Bonne. |  |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:45 - Nov 3 with 817 views | Guthrum |
You say 'everyone knew he was going to score', but a lot of us were convinced that, this being Ipswich Town, he would somehow miss.
Thought you might be there, shame I didn't get a chance to say hello. But that's the problem with Tuesday evening games, struggling to get there in time, then having to head home straight after. | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 09:47 - Nov 3 with 789 views | bluefunk |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:37 - Nov 3 by SomethingBlue |
Yep, well said and glad you didn't miss out!
Last night really set the standard I think. Can't identify an iffy performance in the side, we managed to dig in and create a platform for our quality to tell, which is did in real style. When the teams were announced I thought that might, possibly, be our best XI football-wise — obviously we had to make the early change but there was so much movement, pace and creativity in there.
Burgess change ended up being massively important — they'd been murdering us with the diagonal towards LB/LCB and once he arrived it wasn't on, meaning we could get on with things a bit. Meant Plan A was no longer going to be productive for them and I was slightly surprised Ainsworth took so long to make his subs.
Will hopefully do us a lot of good to ride out a period like that 70-80 spell. Edmundson was excellent in there, I thought, and Walton looks super-confident & assured in goal.
Pleased to see Celina put in 90 minutes like that — wasn't just the goals, his workrate was superb and his continuity play was lovely & smooth too. He's a class above, it's very clear. As is Edwards on that form — as I said above, his defensive work and decision making were great last night, on top of anything else.
You watch that last night and wonder why we've struggled. But you also look at it and think what an awesome, frightening set of options we have for this level. No minutes last night for Fraser, Chaplin, Pigott — all players we were very excited about signing and who we will need this season. Feels like things could start to turn in our favour, wish we were playing Oxford on Saturday really.
Loved that away end last night too — great numbers, great noise, it all feels so ready to go if the team can keep putting in performances like that. [Post edited 3 Nov 2021 9:38]
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Regarding Edwards, I watched on IFollow and there were a couple of occasions when the camera caught him looking frustrated and as he went off for half time Cook put his arm round him and was obviously encouraging him. Well that worked didn’t it!!
As for why we struggled, I think the obvious answer is the right one - it takes time for a team to gel, for partnerships to build and for players to understand their team mates and the playing style. Add to that the late additions of Morsy and Walton to the spine of the team. |  | | |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:48 - Nov 3 with 778 views | PhilTWTD |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:45 - Nov 3 by Guthrum |
You say 'everyone knew he was going to score', but a lot of us were convinced that, this being Ipswich Town, he would somehow miss.
Thought you might be there, shame I didn't get a chance to say hello. But that's the problem with Tuesday evening games, struggling to get there in time, then having to head home straight after. |
Or with the refereeing in League One that he'd have been flagged offside! |  | | |
| Thoughts on last night on 10:28 - Nov 3 with 659 views | Steve_M |
| Thoughts on last night on 09:45 - Nov 3 by Guthrum |
You say 'everyone knew he was going to score', but a lot of us were convinced that, this being Ipswich Town, he would somehow miss.
Thought you might be there, shame I didn't get a chance to say hello. But that's the problem with Tuesday evening games, struggling to get there in time, then having to head home straight after. |
Yes, it was all a bit rushed yesterday. Other than the friends I had tickets with, only saw one other person I know which is unusual in a crowd that big.
The lack of Midlands and Bristol away games must be a bit of a pain, no doubt catch up at some point this season though. | |
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| Thoughts on last night on 10:31 - Nov 3 with 643 views | unbelievablue |
| Thoughts on last night on 10:28 - Nov 3 by Steve_M |
Yes, it was all a bit rushed yesterday. Other than the friends I had tickets with, only saw one other person I know which is unusual in a crowd that big.
The lack of Midlands and Bristol away games must be a bit of a pain, no doubt catch up at some point this season though. |
I had a similar experience. Only bumped into one or two familiar faces. |  |
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| Thoughts on last night on 10:47 - Nov 3 with 608 views | Guthrum |
| Thoughts on last night on 10:28 - Nov 3 by Steve_M |
Yes, it was all a bit rushed yesterday. Other than the friends I had tickets with, only saw one other person I know which is unusual in a crowd that big.
The lack of Midlands and Bristol away games must be a bit of a pain, no doubt catch up at some point this season though. |
It is a problem (tho Cheltenham was convenient). Games like Oxford and MK are all next year. Look forward to it. | |
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