I appreciate the work you do and the atmosphere you create. I wonder if we should treat the Norwich match a little more like a usual match next season though. A better atmosphere is incredible, but I think the massive pre-match crowd meeting the bus on the way in added a bit too much pressure for the players.

BulgarianBlue - I'm sorry I can't agree with your point at all. We battered them that day and they got away with it! I'm not buying that players who aspire to play at the highest level face too much pressure at all, get used to it I say it'll stand you for the future if we go up again!

I don’t like these things, if they spoil one persons prematch then that’s one too many. People pay to watch games which include match build up! Before going ahead with this there should be a poll.

I wouldn’t be happy if one of these were ruining my prematch enjoyment!

Too much pressure. We need elite executives, elite players, and elite supporters. With a growth mentality, culture, and traits that are ‘the best in class’.

It’s about winning, it’s about being better than the rest, it’s about success, and creating a club and culture that reflects those values.

It’s not about a culture where failure is ok, normal, accepted, and where players and managers come to take the money, and have a lively time in sleepy Suffolk.

We’ve been there. Done that. We want a mindset that responds to adversity, the mi es towards it (hat happened to that) and thrives and responds to it by lifting each other up, and running through walls ‘together’

This weak as water, it’s ok to fail, ‘well at least you tried’ mentality, for the best paid professionals in our history, and some of the best laid in any sport, anywhere in the world. Is so poor.

We get the culture we build, we expect, and we normalise.

Normalising failure, accepting the EFL as where we should be, and big derby games as ‘just another game’ isn’t where our aspirations should be.

It’s an opportunity, for a club with significant financial leverage and parachute money, to dominate and make a statement against a club that did precisely that to us for over a decade.

We should want pressure, we should want a unique atmosphere, we should want to run rings around them like they’ve never experienced for decades against us.

We don’t want, need, or aspire to have highly paid people at the club, who don’t share those desires and aspirations .., because they likely aren’t going to make us successful if they crumble at the site of some blie pyro.

The players and staff we want, will be excited, motivated, and salivating at the prospect of such an atmosphere.

I don’t think Chaplin, Morsy, Hirst, O’Shea, Wolf, Leif etc will shrink.., we probably do need more of that mindset though .., not even less.

If we’re not careful, we’re heading towards being a seriously soft touch of a club (again) with expensive players (it’s too long a list to name) who are here for the wrong reasons.

We need to see ourselves as a top elite club, or how will anyone else, including the players.

Dissboyitfc. Totally agree. Know there were loads of disappointed fans at the Liverpool game, who wanted to be able to enjoy watching the team come out for our 1st pl game for many years. That was taken away from them, having that draped down blocking their view. I'm all for any displays of support and loyalty to the team. But not at the expense of other fans enjoyment of the moment.
So yer, by all means display something like that, but make it so its not so deep, blocking the view of other fans.

What an absolute waste of money - I was one of those who were really pissed off at the Liverpool match for having the moment spoilt. Perhaps buy some decent flags?

They need to stop these and get rid of the bl@@dy drummer too, so tinpot.

They are meant to improve the atmosphere but all they do is upset people with their stupid displays and flag flying the atmosphere was good before them and will be good without them

Please mark Ashton stop giving in to these cos their song we support the Ipswich if we up or down is total bull when things ain't going well they boo or even worse set the training ground alight during covid

Half these supports are fairweather when things are good they wanna support when things are bad they wont show up

BLUE ACTION CAUSE MORE HARM THAN GOOD

In case there are more of you out there like me who had no idea what TIFO means...

TIFO stands for:

"Tifosi" – an Italian word meaning "fans" or "supporters."

A TIFO is a large, coordinated visual display (often a banner, choreographed card display, or flags) used by sports fans—especially in football (soccer)—to support their team. It's typically held up just before or during a match, often covering entire sections of the stadium.

Key points:
Originates from Italian football culture.
Designed and executed by passionate fan groups (ultras or supporter clubs).
Usually features club colours, symbols, slogans, or depictions of players.
TIFOs can be static (banners) or dynamic (moving choreography).

So while "TIFO" isn't an acronym, it's shorthand for an impressive, fan-driven display of support.

@benfromkent

Thanks for the Wikipedia lesson

@benfromkent - Thank you!!! I was just about to ask that question.

It's like 'you go to bed and wake up and suddenly you're old and there's a whole new way of speaking going on'! :)

It really winds me up when people whine about Blue Action. Young, passionate fans encouraging other young fans and creating a great atmosphere. They are young and enthusiastic, obviously they'll make the odd mistake. I've got nothing but praise for them.

No thank you Blue Action, especially for the Norwich game.

Agree 100% with @gcon comments.
I really don’t get the moaning about Blue Action.
They really give an awful lot to improving the atmosphere and it seems take criticism on board and try to take other fans into consideration.
Without them the atmosphere would be considerably poorer.
To the youngsters coming to their first game the atmosphere is all part of it and the colour and noise and adrenaline are what can make people want to come back again and again to keep the fanbase regenerating

Take our share of the blame, but obviously not 100%.
We are sorry some supporters view was blocked, but we plan to do it again.
Great statement BA.

Give it up. Concentrate on actually making some noise during games rather than pointless displays. Oh, and donate the money to a worthwhile charity