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Your Barrow v Ipswich Town Match Reports

TractorFrog added 21:49 - Dec 15 You s**t b*stard.
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rickw added 21:55 - Dec 15 First half we played like a Sunday league team, second half we improved to a L2 team level! I don't think any outfield players deserved more than a 1 for their first half performance....
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silkcutblue added 21:56 - Dec 15 No morsey
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DifferentGravy added 22:04 - Dec 15 Both players and JM have to hold their hands up on this. Two up front first half but never turned their defence or found feet. Mcgreal recognizes the pitch is bad and we need to win the battle....then plays a midfield of Aluko(luxury wide player) playing narrow - hardly received the ball. Carroll(lightweight) - only passed backwards and sideways, putting our back four under unnecessary pressure. Fraser (ineffective) - has done nothing all season. On top of this Toto gave the ball away EVERY single time. So, without feeding the forwards.....we were essentially playing with 5 men. What a surprise we got well and truly stuffed first half. Second half Once we began to turn their defence and Morsey came on to get a grip of midfield....we were at least in the game.....and Ok, Mcgreal made the required changes.....but it was TOO LATE! Carroll not good enough. Toto tries but is an accident waiting to happen and surrenders the ball far too often. Jackson is an athlete but not a footballer. Regardless of formation you have to win the battle first. Stay solid and impose yourselves Mcgreals narrow tactics with lightweight fair players was completely the wrong thing and a home win was easy money an hour before kick off. But the desire from 7/8 of the players was beyond a joke.

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chopra777 added 22:07 - Dec 15 A much change side again, but with the Nowood/Jackson front two . The team did not look too bad. The first was no better than last season. Wrong tactics, no spirit and we let a 4th division side make us look like pub players. A second half with some changes appeared to work, but once again we looked second best. Is the team doctor available we need major surgery.
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DerryfromBury added 22:11 - Dec 15 What a shower. Absolute disgrace
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Billysherlockblue added 22:18 - Dec 15 Im 58 yrs old and luv the town but thats the worst i have ever witnessed. Kvy only one out there. And they didnt even look dissopointed. 1st time in my life im actually ashamed of my greatest passion thats IPSWICH TOWN FC
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Glossopippies added 22:24 - Dec 15 Too little continuity of players and formation. Better in the second half but the horse had bolted.
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VanDusen added 22:26 - Dec 15 I actually would have given Morsy the highest rating - at least he showed some fight and nearly managed to get a red card for it...
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Chocorange added 22:43 - Dec 15 Moray missing and should be our best player tonight… sort it out!
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itfchorry added 22:49 - Dec 15 Well done Barrow
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Eeyore added 00:36 - Dec 16 There was more than 202 of us. I was the 203rd, sitting in the main stand in with the locals. I had no qualms About standing and politely applauding the two goals in the first half. Thoroughly deserved! The funniest moment might have been poor Idris really having no idea what he was doing for the entire first half. But this was eclipsed by Tom Carroll’s one contribution to the match. He sprinted back towards his centre half who duly rolled the ball a few metres towards him. Carrol theatrically touched the ball straight back the centre half, turned and sprinted back in the direction he had come from. A player rating of 1.9 richly deserved!

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NormEmerges added 08:03 - Dec 16 I've seen Sunday league teams as good as Ipswich in that first half. Can't blame Walton, who was not given a chance by either goal, and Norwood and Jackson tried their best but I don't recall anyone ever passing to them near goal. The midfield and the defence were just amaterurish. If we performed like this every week we'd be in a relegation scrap in L2. Barrow were winning all the second balls. When they broke, they had men in space all the time. When we got the ball, every man was marked. Utterly clueless. Sadly I'm beginning to think our much hyped summer recruits aren't actually all that good.

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Barty added 08:17 - Dec 16 There should be scope for a minus rating. What a shower of sh*t
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Linkboy13 added 10:25 - Dec 16 It was very noticeable on TV how lightweight we looked. Barrow just brushed us aside why do we keep buying these lightweight ball players Chaplin, Fraser, Aluko, Edwards, Celina, Carroll. At times last night i thought Barrow were playing a under fifteens side.
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Robert_Garrett added 16:04 - Dec 16 Abyssmal and embarrassing. Put out the youths U-19 on Saturday that really care for the shirt that they wear!
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