Could of been a worse draw!!

Like every other team this weekend we have to play our strongest, most talented and experienced team and go for it, Our match at Forest was very close in league and we have nothing to lose.

This is not an opportunity for League 1 players to have a day out, the same players who got turned over by Maidstone, it is an opportunity for our strongest 11 to have a game together to hopefully win and build momentum for Palace but more importantly it is a chance for Ipswich Town to get to a Quarter Final of the FA Cup.

We are at the business end of season now, let's see what the players we signed with talent and the experience loaned can do and if you can make the tough choices KMK.

COYB

Well, to Win the FA Cup, or avoid Relegation, we have to WIN games - starting tomorrow evening - as we are in both Last Chance Saloons NOW !!
Are we up for either, both, or neither ?

It’s good playing the in the last match technically we’ve made it to the last 9!

This week is a big crossroads for the owners, the board and supporters of Ipswich Town with some big decisions to be made at the top in deciding the best way forward.

There is no doubt the manager and players who did the unthinkable and got back to back promotions are firmly part of the clubs history and rightly deserved their shot in the Prem but the reality is the Prem is a step too far for those players, only4 have made the step up as squad players Woolf, Burgess, Davis (just) and Broadhead and H , Clarke has time, aside of that results don't lie and nor do the selections.

Kmk is the only manager to escape the sack when all bottom clubs and underperforming clubs made a change, for Wolves, Everton, West Ham it has worked.

We owed Mckenna a chance.

Unless as I have thought all season Mckenna is still in his job because they believed relegation was almost inevitable and made signings with that in mind that have bought not only assets but players more than capable of excelling in the top half of Championship with the best prospects for Prem stability once we are promoted ahain if relegated then great and makes sense.

BUT there is still a quarter of the season to go 11 games and 33 points still and only 5 points behind a team we are still to play and a place in the FA Cup quarter finals a possibility.

With an international break coming up will they stick with Mckenna regardless of results or go for new manager bounce who has experience and not as much affinity to the players that achieved in last 2 seasons.

No manager or player is bigger than our club so do they keep supporting Mckenna relegation or not or do we go all out to stay up with the players we spent millions on and loaned with big wages? It's an interesting debate and I think Mckennas team selection tomorrow and on Saturday will be season defining l, if we lose both with 10 games to go and 30 points still to be played for I think a change will be inevitable unless as I say they are prepared for relegation.

Mckenna needs to make the right choices now.

Difficult game but a game we can win on our day. Similar with Forest tomorrow. I hope we put out a strong team.

Unfortunately I now can't make match so anyone who wants a good seat can purchase

Aston Villa getting all the easy ties...

If someone right now offered me guaranteed safety in the Premier League this season in return for going out of the cup tomorrow night, I'd bite their hand off before they got to the end of the sentence!

However I tend to agree with those here, who think we should play at least a reasonably strong side. There is nothing left that isn't winable by almost any of the teams left in the competition, and I've not forgotten one of those left in has hit us for 10 in total this season! Cup matches are one offs, anything can happen, might not get another chance to reach a quarter final for some time.

For me, the league is far more important, but let's give this a proper go as well.

Why are supporters blaming the “League One” players for the relegation this season? They’ve rarely featured bar Davis. Walton, Clarke, Wolfenden, Burgess, Mass, Morsy, Chaplin, Broadhead and Hirst all routinely dropped in favour of “star” signings from Hull, Burnley, Blackburn and Sunderland but they’re taking more of the blame than the multi million pound signings and yet we’ve played far better with them in the team this season.

It’s not their fault.

Saffronwaldronblue
First of all we aren't relegated there are still 33 points to play for and a quarter of season left so all to play for.
Morsy and Davis are up there with Delap and Hutchinson having played the most games.
Walton hammered our goal difference, Morsy out of his league and Davis is not defending as he should be, they give away fouls and pens for fun, Broadhead shows glimpses, Hirst 1 goal and 1 SOT in 15 appearences is diabolical for a 2nd striker, I could go on.
We will have a very good chance of survival by playing the players we signed and experienced loans bought in for millions and show their worth not players who cost peanuts for league 1, they had a go. Burgess, Woolfeden, H Clarke all done well in places, the Premiership is a league too far unfortunately for the Burns and Chaplins of this world and the fear is if we do go down these players will ride out contracts and hinder our progress to become a stable Premiership club.
Kmk is to blame he picks the players and has shown too much sentiment now, it's tge business end now and as a business the owners will want to see the players they invested in show their talent and worth and try and get above Wolves and stay there and it just won't happen if he continues playing Morsy as loved as he is.

A disappointing draw. If we'd got Preston I'd have been quite excited about the possibility of us upsetting Forest. However, our away from this season has been marginally better than our home form, so who knows? Still hard to see us beating two top 8 PL clubs.

So basically, Man City are winning the FA cup.

Leejames, you keep on about McKenna leaving. You do realise it would cost us around £20m to sack him right? Hes on a 5 year deal with a salary amongst the best in the PL. On another thread I read you wanted to replace him with Manning or Bloomfield. Have you been on the whack baccy all weekend fella because I suspect you are in a huge minority...

If we put out our best team and try to attack unlike our Man Utd performance, we stand a chance...anything else we might as well stay at home...come on you Blues...go for it..fortune favours the brave !

As a completely different view to Armchaircritic59, I would snap your hand off if we were offered an FA Cup final & Relegation. We are currently a best priced 2/13 to get relegated, so as much as we should keep the faith, the reality suggests otherwise and we would go down with a stronger squad than we came up with (plus a few more non season ticket holders might get to see them at home every so often!) I suspect that unlike the other Prem clubs this weekend, we will NOT field our strongest starting 11 tonight, with the likes of Delap giving way?

LeeJames......there's only 24 points to play for I'm afraid, as you can forget about getting any points from Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle.

@Bazza8564 (why put pi number I your name?)
No I have been on Wacky Backy, I do not take drugs but thanks for the insult.

First of all Premier league contracts have 'break points' but even if Mckenna had one his contract is until 2028 at 6 million a year so that's £18 million the cost of a player, but the money they would get from staying in the Premier League, with 33 points still to play for, far outweighs 18 million compensation and furthermore if we were relegated we would double our fee on Delap so tgat covers it and we get money back, and yes I did suggest Bloomfield and Manning if relegated as they are considered 2 of the best young managers in the country, have Ipswich connections and fit the Ashton mould who with the signings we have made do well in the Championship in a promotion push and if we stay up getting a mew manager would be no problem.
All the top managers get sacked at some point and players leave, it's football.
Just because Mckenna got back to back promotions doesn't give him the right to keep his job forever.

If Ipswich Town have invested with relegation in mind and are not bothered if we go down, then fine, I personally think they have but with 33 points to play for, only 5 points behind Wolves who we have to play at home and have lost their best player then we do have a chance to stay up, maybe right up to the last day but to do that we have to win games

If Mckenna does not pick our strongest 11 tonight and fills the team with league 1 players, which Woolfeden has alluded too now, then yes I do think we need to start questioning Kmk management at this level especially with a quarter final at stake and if we are turned over then yes I think the board will seriously look at replacing him after Palace game with International break.

He talks all these fine margins but the fine margins has been his inability to know best team and struggle to drop players of lower league standard.

Next time please reply with and opinion not an insult. Its a discussion forum.

@carberry
Why? We beat Chelsea, Arsenal was only 1-0 away and Newcastle are indifferent (although I do agree a really tough game)
I think if he picks the same, strongest, most talented team every game and gets momentum we can beat anyone on the day its football, fact is we don't know where we can get points and there is 33 points to play for, how many do we get, who knows, what we do know is we only need to win 2 and Wolves lose 2 and we go a point in front of them, we have to play them at home, go a point ahead and match their results and we stay up by a point like Forest did, if Kmk had bought on Szmodicks instead of Hirst at Man Utd it may of been different.
New manager bounce might be worth looking at all things considered.

Question but what happens if Kieran does play the league one players and they win against forest

@Euantown
You will wake up, all a dream

Saffron Walden blues Players who have been at the club for a long while and have been a reason for their success tend to get criticised more by the wally's on here because after doing so well they then feel let down. New players who have performed poorly for example Godfrey against Tottenham get let off lightly and other players blamed for their deficiencies. Fans have very short memories Sam Morsy who started the season well but is now struggling is another one who according to fans never was Premier league standard.

Well, only a wise person can actually say what our strongest team is. One person’s strongest team is another person’s weakest. Opinions matter but results matter most.

Leejames, you seem to think that changing the manager (Bloomfield or Manning) would give us a bounce? Well yes, wed be back in league one in two years.
McKenna picked us up when we were in league one, 11th. Why don't you have a think about whether you'd like to be in that position now, because thats where those two would have you. Constantly whingeing about McKenna will get you nowhere. The club is two to three years ahead of it's 7 year plan for challenging for a PL place. If we go down so be it, but leave the manager to do his job, just because you have a keyboard doesnt make you qualified to tell the board what it should do. McKenna has been given a 5 year contract to be here for 5 years. Yes I do think we have recruited with the possibility that we might go back down again. But the time to judge him will be on his ability in 2-3 years time to get us back up again.
And frankly, if anybody else on here thinks otherwise I would be most surprised

@Bazza8564
Do you have inside knowledge that we all don't? Well let's all calm down then, you have given us all the answers my bad, Mckenna is a modern day genius and used all his tactical knowledge from Man Utd where he was first team coach for THREE managers that all got sacked for poor performances.
Claudio Ranieri won the league with Leicester and was sacked the next season, I can names 100's but you know best we can all relax, thanks for update.

All is good everyone Mckenna stays whether up or down with all his superstar, premier league quality players so don't panic, I don't know why I had a different opinion of course a 33 year old league one player is prem standard, of course a striker who scored 1 goal and not much more in 3 seasons is Prem standard my bad.

I will sleep better to night knowing that Mckenna has to stay at Ipswich with his merry men for the next 4 seasons and is entitled too for coming second in league 1 and runner up in Championship fair play 20 million in bank and job satisfaction for the gaffer comes first, i didnt think.
Oh well, the new signings can learn something, I hope he plays our brave league 1 warriors tonight and these useless players bought in watch Chaplin, Hirst, Broadhead, Taylor and see how it should be done. Hopefully Walton is fit so he can start in goal too.

Thankyou for letting us know, I didn't realise any other managers guarantee us relegation back to league, have you told the Evening Star? Better call Lee Carsley tell him Phillogene, Hutchinson, Delap are no good.
Great times ahead, back to the good old days.
Blue Army Sooner H Clarke back doing fist pumps the better, who needs progression when we got the band of brothers, thanks for allowing Axel in, Fingers crossed team tonight is 4-3-3
Walton
Tunazabe
Woolfeden
Burgess
Davis
Morsy C
Luongo
J Taylor
Broadhead
Chaplin
Hirst

Can't wait, such a relief we now know direction of club.
#ridiculous