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Reply | That’s the 4th time this season MOTD have dug Leif out
at 09:14 21 Apr 2025
When we got promoted plenty on here were touting Davis for England, even the EADT were doing it; but every knowledgeable fan of any other PL club spent this summer telling me how Davis would get exposed at this level, and so it has proved to be. He is suspect at defending, the evidence is there to see, but I do see that he can improve. |
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Thread | We gambled on our signings, and most of them haven't paid off.
at 18:35 5 Apr 2025
It was an interesting model, seeing Forest spend big last year, take the points penalty, spending most of the early part of last season playing as a team of strangers, before doing enough to stay up. We spent big this year, and with the exception of Delap, I would struggle to find any other signings that have been worth the money in terms of contributions to the team. On can question McKenna in terms of tactics and how we've failed to close games out, but the bottom line for me is that we didn't recruit well enough. I understand we were fishing in a smaller pond but bloody hell, most of these players haven't turned up.
Muric, Clarke, Philogene, Hutchinson, Smods, Ogbene, Greaves, O'Shea, Phillips, Godfrey have all been nothing like the players we had hoped they would have been. In theory they should be great against the likes of Preston, Stoke and Cardiff. I'd be interested when the club review their scouting and recruitment methods!
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Thread | ePremier League
at 19:41 1 Mar 2025
Not being knowledgable about these things, I decided to watch the ePremier League on YouTube today and watched the two guys representing Ipswich smash the rest of their group, only to realise they have no affiliation with the club, and have been seemingly bought in to play for us, like a proper transfer? Anyone know how this works? |
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Reply | Next years squad
at 12:33 28 Feb 2025
Davis won't go anywhere until he can prove he's a better defender. |
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Reply | Uncle Alfred's WW1 Diaries
at 22:01 24 Feb 2025
My school have literally just come back from Ypres and I'd be interested to if you post a link to the notes! |
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Thread | Premier League or not...
at 21:59 24 Feb 2025
The Championship is far more entertaining. I know Leeds are always on the telly, but that was a really good game to watch. |
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Reply | 6-0 down at home and not a single booking for us..
at 19:31 19 Jan 2025
I disagree. We should have been in their faces and aggressive from the off. We weren't that at all. The only midfielder I saw put in a tackle was Luongo. We persevere playing it out from the back, but when quality teams press us, we haven't got the skill to beat the press like we did last year. Morsy and Cajuste were so far off it today, poor old Jack Clarke can't play himself into any sort of form, Hutchinson made terrible decisions today and didn't make a single tackle, Delap was ineffective, and Johnson/Godfrey were having their ar$es handed to them by Doku and De Bruyne.
Remember though that 5 years ago we got spanked 4-1 at home to Peterborough, so it's all relative, but it shows the level we have to improve by to compete in this league, and I'm a bit worried about how we are setting up for each game. |
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Reply | Fulham’s Neutral Fan Area
at 20:05 5 Jan 2025
I got the "Ipswich are a one-man team", which on recent form, I couldn't argue with. |
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Thread | Fulham’s Neutral Fan Area
at 18:02 5 Jan 2025
Went to the game today and although there are never any away tickets, we got some in what Fulham call the Neutral Area at the Putney End. Really interesting idea, obviously mostly Fulham fans there, but also a good number of Town fans. We didn’t out ourselves until our penalty when my emotions got the better of me, but we engaged in some decent chat with the home fans without any fear of being hassled. I noticed a few Town fans got removed from Fulham’s new stand, but I’ve never come across an area like this in English football. Do any other clubs have something similar? |
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Thread | Let's keep a bit of perspective about Walton
at 23:01 30 Dec 2024
I always felt that Walton was a better all round goalkeeper than Hladky, but Vaz had such good ability with the ball at his feet, it really helped us turn defence into attack at many key points last year. Once we'd settled on a style of play, Hladky grew into that position and it was nailed on. Somebody somewhere thought that Muric was an upgrade on Hladky, and whilst he has pulled off some great saves, he's also been involved in a lot of errors that have led to goals.
So against Liverpool, CW did no wrong, and tonight you can tell that he is not the most comfortable with the ball at his feet, but he claimed his crossed, made some good saves, one outstanding, and most importantly committed no major errors. If Walton is only in tonight because of KMc's tactical game plan, then so be it, and tonight's game in context shouldn't be the one where we judge him, even if we had to park the bus at times. I'm not sure he's the long term answer, but he probably causes fewer errors than Muric, which might be the difference between 17th and 18th place. |
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Reply | Depressing end to the weekend watching Troy Deeney hammer us
at 23:26 8 Dec 2024
He's bang on though. Just 8 of those 15 points from winning positions and it's a different picture. Leicester got outplayed in their last two games but have come away with 4 points. We haven't got PL players in any but about 4 positions. |
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Reply | Can we have a sensible debate about dropping Muric?
at 18:02 8 Dec 2024
I think 'overall' is doing heavy lifting here. Muric is proven now to be the most error prone keeper in the league, and his get out of jail saves I would expect most keepers to make a few of those. He's frankly not good enough at this level. |
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Reply | Exposed down the right. Again
at 17:57 8 Dec 2024
Johnson looked clumsy with the ball at his feet, and frankly was getting no help from Hutch down that right side. Tuanzebe is a huge miss for us! |
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Thread | We should be scouring the French league!
at 13:24 16 Nov 2024
My goodness, first Bordeaux, now Lyon. The Ligue 1 clubs are in financial turmoil and it looks like Lyon will have to have a fire sale in order to avoid compulsory relegation. If we are in the market for signings in January then surely that’s worth a look. |
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