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Reply | Away fans at PR before segregation
at 17:16 4 Sep 2025
I can remember those days but right from the first game I went to in ‘77 there was a separate section for away fans. The North Stand was in 3 sections. Right hand side (if you’re in the stand looking at the pitch) was always away fans, middle section varied depending on away support (sometimes it was empty) and left hand side was Ipswich. The fence separating fans was made bigger at some point in the late 70s. I just wondered what it was like before there was any segregation at all. |
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Thread | Away fans at PR before segregation
at 15:03 4 Sep 2025
I’ve just been watching highlights of a 1974 game against Spurs at Portman Road. No obvious signs of fences or a pen for away supporters but most of the North Stand were not celebrating our goals so presumably they were Spurs fans. What used to happen? Did away fans just congregate wherever they wanted or was the North Stand the area for away fans? |
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Reply | When an egomaniac is running a business....
at 18:15 1 Sep 2025
That’s a great point. If we’d stayed up there would be a bit of sadness around the departures but nobody would be questioning them on footballing grounds. Unfortunately those we replaced established first team players haven’t (yet) shown themselves to be better than those they replaced, other than the two who have moved to other Premier League teams. |
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Thread | Chaplin’s debut
at 18:07 1 Sep 2025
Southampton away. As disappointed as I am to see him go, I’m glad he’s gone there. He’s going to be loved. |
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Reply | Can anyone explain why Chaplin started on Saturday ?
at 17:53 1 Sep 2025
They are - a down vote in response to an explanation that didn’t make stack up has led to this reply. You’re a good man, I enjoy your posts, no offence intended, I’ll cancel it out. |
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Reply | We need reset now. We have a very good squad on paper.
at 17:48 1 Sep 2025
You’re completely right but I think that will come in a couple of days time. Chaplin and Woolfy leaving today when we’ve made a poor start to the season is bound to lead to some negativity.
The one positive is that at least we’re now losing players who mean something to the supporters, who have given us great memories and for whom there is genuine affection. When Chaplin. woolfy, Morsy, Broadhead, Massimo etc make a half time appearance at PR in 2045 they’ll get a great reception. For years and years before that team came together I hardly gave a toss when anyone left to be honest. |
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Reply | Can anyone explain why Chaplin started on Saturday ?
at 17:31 1 Sep 2025
In what way? A last chance to prove himself? Ridiculous if that was the reason given he’s been here longer than McKenna and anyway he did ok in a very average team performance on Saturday . A chance to say goodbye? In which case why not as a late sub and why no announcement beforehand ?
As others have pointed out, football is now a business with no place for sentimentality. He played on Saturday because McKenna thought he was our best option in that position. Two days later, he’s gone. Time to take the blinkers off, there is no master plan to this. He’s still the right manager for us but he needs to bring some continuity to the team pretty quickly or the season will pass us by. |
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Thread | Can anyone explain why Chaplin started on Saturday ?
at 17:11 1 Sep 2025
If he wasn’t in the squad, wasn’t close to a starting place then it would be easier to understand the decision today. Yes we’ve got new signings who could potentially play that role but equally we had Szmodics sitting on the bench. |
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Reply | Our Promotion Team
at 17:06 1 Sep 2025
And evidently nor were those who replaced them. |
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Reply | Pathetic Budgie support….
at 13:03 31 Aug 2025
I remember being there for a 0-0 draw a few years ago. Pretty sure we had less than that. |
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Thread | I want McKenna to be here for years to come
at 10:36 31 Aug 2025
Even if we do what we did in Keane’s first full season and go until the end of October before we win a game that won’t change.
I never rated Lambert, Jewell was a busted flush years before he joined, I wasn’t convinced by Cook (good eye for a player but we needed more), I made up my mind about Hurst as soon as he started throwing players under the bus when we lost a league cup game and as much as I thought Keane was a good appointment had to accept after a few months we’d got that one wrong too. McCarthy got results but the football was unwatchable at times. I’ve probably missed a couple but that’s my overview of our managers over the last 15 years. KM has done more for this club in less than 4 years than the rest of them did between them. He has to be a much better manager now than when he joined, like all of us , he’ll learn from experience. If the club were to do what a small
minority seem to be angling for and get rid of him, who comes in and improves us long term? I can’t think of anyone.
Despite all I’ve said though, I maintain that he’s got more wrong than right over the past 18
months. His tactics have been questionable on multiple occasions, recruitment (both in terms of who the club have bought in and for how much), the speed with which he dismantled a successful team etc.
I don’t see every comment made on here that in any way questions any aspect of what we’re seeing as being from a “div”, “budgie”, someone who should “crawl back under their rock” or whatever other witty response a poster wants to leave, safe in the knowledge that dozens of others will like. There are a handful of posters who clearly look to agitate, get a response and stir things up. Most of those who who are questioning things now though don’t fall into that category. They love the club, want the best for Ipswich Town at all times and maybe just want to discuss what they’re watching. Football is the game it is because it gives us something to talk about. It’s becoming increasing clear at the moment that a section of those who regularly post on here, don’t want that, they’d rather use it as a platform to show that they’re “real” supporters by trying to ridicule anyone who questions any aspect of what’s happened since May 2024. |
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