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Reply | That was a really good game
at 19:27 13 Apr 2024
Would absolutely love it if he was that player.
Would have been Donacien had he been involved. But would love nothing more currently than Chaplin or Jackson to be the one that seals it. |
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Reply | That was a really good game
at 19:19 13 Apr 2024
I don’t get downvoted on here very often but got a shed load of them the other day for saying the same thing.
Chaplin since Norwich at home has been almost invisible in so many games, desperate to do something magic when he does get it so avoiding the simple or right option and he’s been very fortunate to stay in the side so often.
He’s got a couple of vital goals since December but has been so poor in many games it’s been like having 10 men at times. Just completely uninvolved in play, not pressing, it’s been frustrating to say the least.
He was, going into this season, my favourite player. His dad is in the seat behind me most weeks and that’s only made me love Chaplin even more seeing how much it means to him. Class player. But he’s been really poor for so long and I actually thought he worked really hard today but made so many bad choices of pass to try and do something special. [Post edited 13 Apr 19:22]
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Thread | Vaz’s dad was behind me today I believe.
at 18:22 13 Apr 2024
Never seen a man look more stressed in my life when he made those two quick wonder saves.
The second was possibly the best save I’ve seen since Alexander at West Ham. Hope it was actually as good as it seemed to be from our angle. He looked beaten. |
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Thread | Football is so ridiculous
at 22:01 12 Apr 2024
That I wouldn’t even be surprised if Maresca was sacked whilst top of the league with 4 games to play.
Is that 6 defeats from 9 now? After being statistically the greatest Championship team at ever at many checkpoints over the season.
Could see them determining that another manager could get them over the line where this guy won’t. It sounds utterly utterly ridiculous but I wouldn’t even rule it out. Such is football and such are the sort of clubs that come down from the Premier League. |
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Reply | Biggest defeat whilst playing?
at 17:55 11 Apr 2024
Played in an 18-0 defeat as a 17 year old playing men's football.
A couple of years ago my Veterans team won 15-2 and 16-1 in the same season. Neither were fun to be honest, even the latter which I scored 5 in. Much rather a hard fought match edged by the odd goal.
I played up Goals on a Monday many years ago and we lost 16-0 and Jack Marriott was playing around the time he was in and around the Town first team. I can't remember now exactly when but I think it was shortly after he'd come back from a loan at Woking.
Absolutely no way Mick would have been happy with that! Marriott must have scored all but one or two of their goals. Way out of our league. Some pretty hefty challenges on both sides too so a bit risky for a young pro. [Post edited 11 Apr 17:56]
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Reply | There is something really amusing about Norwich City
at 13:01 7 Apr 2024
I should have walked out of their feeling sick as had been the case before but found myself laughing at how tin pot it was.
No idea who fatty was that took his top off as they entered the 73rd minute of celebrating in front of the pit of 50 year old men now living back with mother or whatever they were called by their own sporting director.
But it was genuinely more than Maidstone and their team of postmen and plasterers celebrated the greatest giant killing of all time. |
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Reply | Phil can you ask the club to clarify this ticket situation?
at 12:58 7 Apr 2024
Might be the first big own goal under the new regime.
As an away regular you seem the same old faces every week. Some of them had told me they couldn’t get a ticket for this one which seemed odd as they have been there for every other 2,000 or so allocation.
I have no evidence that this suggestion is correct. I did see Wardley. I did see Dyer. First time this season. But club officials I know that are there every week, suddenly had partners with them, quite a few of them that were enough to start to wonder how they’d got tickets. So my assumption is there’s definitely something in this.
Not buying that 400 friends and family would be the reason the away end wasn’t rocking. That was on the fans and the players.
But if this turns out to be true then the only way the club don’t get criticised is if Norwich only gave us 1,600 and we got them to give us another 400 as long as they were not sold. I doubt that’s happened and if it hasn’t then the club has potentially denied potential fans a massive game by giving out freebies to staff which really isn’t the way the club now runs things so very curious to see what has gone on here. |
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Reply | There is something really amusing about Norwich City
at 12:53 7 Apr 2024
Every single time.
Any Man City fans not celebrating a title because Wolves doubled them?
Any Town fans not celebrating as we go 5-0 up against Exeter because we just took a point off Lincoln?
We are absolutely all that they have. Even two divisions above us they were obsessed. |
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Reply | There is something really amusing about Norwich City
at 12:51 7 Apr 2024
Exactly. I bloody hate them.
But we are Ipswich. We’ve won stuff. We have ambitions. We want to beat them along the way but we absolutely define them. That’s really quite amusing to me.
They are a big enough club that’s been in the top division long enough to have dreams and hopes and some proper achievements. But they squander every opportunity whilst having this relationship with us that you’d expect of Colchester but not a similarly sized club with similar top flight seasons and a similar fan base and bigger city.
They really cease to exist without us bless them. |
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Thread | There is something really amusing about Norwich City
at 12:43 7 Apr 2024
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t enjoy standing in Carrow Road with hundreds of them screaming c*** at me whilst celebrating a win over us. But yesterday actually hurt a little less than usual.
All this 15 years stuff is hilarious. Obviously I wanted us to annihilate them every time we’ve played them. But I’m actually at the point of almost cringing for them.
For so long there were better than us. Two divisions better than us at times. We didn’t have a player that would get into their squad. We were told history didn’t matter. It’s all about the now.
Then it was attendances. Then it was this. And that. Now we find ourselves with a better history still, actual honours, bigger stadium, bigger crowds and a team that was top of league much better than theirs.
All they have is this record. Like the one we have against Real Madrid. Like the one Cheltenham have against us. Absolutely meaningless really in the context of a season but they celebrating a draw away to us like we celebrated promotion.
I hate them. And yes they could still go instead of us. But I was once jealous a tiny bit of them. Not much. But now I just laugh their whole existence is about us. |
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Thread | I know he’s got some vital goals
at 19:05 6 Apr 2024
The Sunderland winner, a goal at Swansea and a wonderful bit of skill at Blackburn leading to another winner. Plus the ball to Burns against Bristol City.
Now that’s led to a fair few points of course. But since Norwich at home Chaplin has been almost anonymous for 3-4 months now. At times it’s been like playing with 10 men.
Broadhead can be the same. Sarmiento has had games like that. Far too much lately we’ve had three players behind the striker that can be completely ineffectual. Moore today didn’t look right either so make that a front four.
Before Norwich at home it felt like Chaplin and Broadhead were so involved in the play. Getting into pockets, making things happen. It’s not Hirst or Burns or anybody else missing. But 1-2 players doing one or two nice bits of skill over 90 minutes is a massive issue. [Post edited 6 Apr 19:14]
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Reply | Was the away end as bad as it came across on the television?
at 17:07 6 Apr 2024
Atmosphere was terrific downstairs in the bar and beforehand and was pretty decent in the away end at kick off.
Was unfortunately the loudest I’ve heard Carrow Road. We then started poorly and it went pretty quiet and rarely recovered. If we’d have gone ahead, played well or equalised it would have been jumping but just a day to forget in all aspects really. |
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Reply | We looked better as soon as Hutchinson moved to the right side
at 10:59 2 Apr 2024
I love Jackson's attitude and he's had some great games for us this season, Leeds and Leicester especially, so no reason not to think he can't cause a top side problems.
But it was obvious from the outset than he was giving them too much space to get balls out wide and him and Axel especially looked weak. Omari did nothing on the left and once Moore went down I was expecting Broadhead to come on, Omari to move right and him to move Jackson through the middle given how ineffectual Jackson was.
Thought it was one of the few cases where McKenna got it wrong from the off but my goodness did he make up for it.
Also think that we probably now see Clarke in from the start for Norwich. Axel had a torrid time last night after some decent performances. Seems to really struggle with consistency. He's either a rock or looks the weak link. |
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Thread | Kieran McKenna I f***ing love you
at 09:50 2 Apr 2024
I'm 44 years old. Have been to pretty much every home game since the age of 3. Been going away since I was 7, regularly as an adult, and if I had to compile my greatest 50 moments ever following Town, half of them would have come in the last 2 years of that 40 plus years.
I cannot even begin to describe how much I'd love to add another on Saturday. Just beyond any logic or comprehension what he has this squad of players doing week after week.
Last night was up there with anything I have seen at Portman Road. Comfortably since Bolton in 2000. That was better than anything against Norwich, the last minute Wigan winner, the Sheffield United comeback, the Exeter first half, Bent putting us ahead against West Ham in the playoffs. Topped the lot.
To see every single fan still in their seats 10 minutes after the game, to hear deafening chants outside the stadium post match, to see 70 and 80 year old women in front of me (I kid you not!) with limbs reminiscent of Barnsley away last season absolutely blew my mind.
Whatever happens between now and the end of the season, whether we lose McKenna or Davis, whether Morsy's legs go in a year or two and whatever crappy fate may one day befall us again in the decades to come, this manager, team, staff, ownership group and supporter base have something right now than other clubs will never experience in their entire existence.
I genuinely feel sorry for people who don't like or understand football when moments like this come along as outside of the birth of my children and my wedding day, no other feeling remotely comes close to the sort of thing that I witnessed last night.
One other thing of note - we sit directly in front of the players families. The reaction of their children, some of them really tiny, and their partners when that last goal went in was hard to begin to describe. Just added another emotional layer on top of what was already breathtaking. The only thing missing was Chaplin's dad who is usually in the seat behind me. Can't imagine how much he'd have enjoyed that!
UNREAL. [Post edited 2 Apr 11:40]
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Thread | Regardless of what happens now
at 11:17 17 Mar 2024
Continuously in a state of what is actually happening.
Every month watching ITFC feels like a compilation of the greatest performances / matches or scorelines from the previous decade. It is quite simply mad.
Regardless of budget, teams don't really do what we did last season in any division. 100 goals and one winning goal away from 100 points. To go and do it a level higher, with almost the same starting XI is beyond comprehension.
To then do it in a season full of 4-3 and 3-2 wins with last minute winners, amongst the odd 6-0 demolition of an old foe from last season or to play the football we did in a 3-0 win over one of the other team up there with us (Hull) just incredible.
Almost starting to believe now. 7 wins from 8 right around time we started a run of 13 in 14 last season. Norwich, Hull and Coventry feel like Bolton, Derby, Posh, Bolton.
Obviously still expecting Norwich to undo us in the league or even playoffs because no matter how much of a fairytale two seasons it I still can't find it in me to believe we could beat that lot. But I'm starting to think we are just destined to because the mentality is this squad is just beyond anything any other side in the league has. |
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Reply | Southampton V Preston postponed due to a fire near the ground
at 18:54 6 Mar 2024
Most important thing is of course that it seems nobody was hurt as far as I’m aware.
From our perspective now this has happened it’s potentially massive psychologically as it’s a period where Saints could be 5/8/11 behind rather than 2/5/8 as the case could have been over the coming weeks.
One bad result whilst us or Leeds win would put them 9-11 off. Even with a game in hand you wonder if that would be enough for them to overcome. They’d need to average nearly a point a game more over the top 3 who are already averaging 2-3 points per game of late.
Plus it’s an extra game to cram in. Lots will come into play over these final weeks but the chance of them not to immediately close the gap is likely a good thing. |
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Reply | Foxes forum is comedy gold
at 12:43 25 Feb 2024
I try to be as fair and balanced as I can in these types of situations.
Over the two years in which we’ve lost just 8 matches I can remember very few where they’ve been settled in our favour because of a bit of luck or decision going in our favour.
By contrast I can reel you off a list about 20 matches long where we’ve not been given a clear penalty (Huddersfield away), been robbed by a bad decision (twice at Preston recently, Sheffield Wednesday away, Plymouth away, Barnsley home), had shocking decisions given against us etc.
I think the amount of lucky points we’ve won has probably been a quarter of the points we’ve unluckily lost and the amounts we’ve won off referring decisions that have been wrong probably a tenth of those we’ve lost!
Imagine a world where we got all the decisions we should have got. We’d be a hell of a lot of points better off.
Even if you look at Leicester and the deflected Morsy goal, look at how many times we drew last season with Plymouth, Lincoln or Cheltenham who got a deflected goal that looped into the very top corner, sometimes with their only shot.
Even the derby was a draw because Rowe was able to be offside, handle the ball, foul people.
Astonishingly to outsiders we are lucky. The reality is we are bloody hard done by but make very little fuss of the insane amount of decisions that we’ve been on the wrong side of. |
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Reply | Just seen a replay of the penalty
at 08:43 21 Feb 2024
Fair enough. That makes sense with what I saw live which looks like Jackson playing Kioso’s foot. Not surprising if it was on his own foot already! |
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