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Thread | Phoebe Schecter
at 21:19 12 Jan 2025
Sky sports NFL. She’s the best female pundit of mens sport by a mile. She’s very knowledgeable, is a great communicator, makes great observations and provides excellent insights. She shows how it should be done. |
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Thread | So many positives and so many improvements it’s a bit wrong to moan but
at 19:28 12 Jan 2025
Getting into the West Stand (and I’m guessing the North)is a shambles and it’s getting worse. Got there at 2.15pm today and didn’t get in to the ground until 2.55pm. No time to get a drink or a programme, just a 40 minute queue. At 2.40pm they’re asking hundreds of people to make a path for a car that was somehow allowed to drive through.
So much to be proud of about our club and in almost every respect it’s a better match day experience now than it was 3 years ago but getting in is more difficult that an any time in the past and is worse than I’ve experienced at any other league ground. So many obvious things they could to do make it smoother - more turnstiles, more stewards, barriers to make the queue less of a scrum, separate bag search area, closing the road, moving the food stalls further back towards the park etc. |
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Thread | 11 points from our last 10 games
at 09:30 31 Dec 2024
Only one defeat by more than a single goal (Newcastle), one draw that we should have won (Leicester) and another that we could have (Man U). We’re staying up. |
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Thread | “Tractor boys”
at 10:38 25 Nov 2024
Do any of you like the nickname or use the term when talking about our club? I’ve never liked it but it’s only now that we’re back in the premier league and feature more prominently in the national media that it’s really starting to grate. |
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Thread | Yet another fantastic goal for us yesterday
at 18:21 3 Nov 2024
I reckon at least half of the 20 best goals I’ve seen us score in almost 50 years as a supporter have been scored in the McKenna era.
For all the frustrations of VAR, defensive mistakes , individual errors costing usual, a long winless run etc this continues to be a great time to be a supporter. |
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Thread | Game management needs improving
at 17:42 26 Oct 2024
When we were on top against Villa just before half time, Martinez went down, their physio came on and Villa had 2-3 minutes to compose themselves, it took the sting out of the game and killed our momentum. We don’t seem capable of doing the same. Pressure builds, you can sense what’s coming but we just don’t seem capable of avoiding the inevitable. We should have been capable of getting to half time with a 2-1 lead and seeing it out for a draw at the end.
Wrong to be too negative after a much-improved display, 3 goals and a return to a team that bore at least some relationship to what we have been used to over the past 2 years. A long way to go yet, still not in the bottoms 3 and we’ll improve. |
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Thread | Some are making a lot of the £100m or so spent in the summer
at 08:55 20 Oct 2024
What was the value of the Everton starting 11 yesterday and any idea of the difference in salaries between our two starting line ups? I’ve not tried to work it out but with the calibre of players they had I’m guessing it was at least 3 times what our squad is worth. |
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Thread | I get the disappointment after a defeat
at 10:08 6 Oct 2024
but the level of negativity and criticism is cringeworthy and just plain wrong. Among the lowlights is a poll on whether we should drop our keeper who hasn’t cost us a point yet (the errors against City didn’t change what was a near-inevitable outcome), slagging off a new player who has played only a couple of games for us, digs at the quality of those who have been immense for us for 2 or more years, questioning the tactics of a manager who has been pretty much flawless since he joined etc . It’s ridiculous and embarrassing. If there is one fanbase in the country that should be united behind their club this season it’s ours. |
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Thread | 3 Premier League games unbeaten
at 19:17 21 Sep 2024
Sheffield United didn’t manage to do that all last season. Luton and Burnley only achieved it once each (Burnley had a 4 game unbeaten run). Three points from five games only tells part of the story. |
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Thread | The state of some of the comments posted on here during the second half
at 17:06 21 Sep 2024
Embarrassing.
Our manager is one of the best young managers in the world. He’s already delivered more than any of us could have ever hoped for when he was appointed. He rarely gets it wrong and his team never gives up. This group of players have either already given us more enjoyment and pride in the last two seasons than any of their predecessors have done for twenty years or they are new having played at most, a handful of games for us. Even without the late goal we matched or bettered Southampton in every key area.
If you can’t get fully behind the club at the moment, we really aren’t the club for you. Maybe consider switching your support to Man City. [Post edited 21 Sep 2024 17:09]
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Thread | I thought we may have over-committed financially in the last transfer window
at 19:09 15 Sep 2024
but 4 games in and it’s clear already that we’ve done the right thing. By the end of this season Delap , Greaves and Clarke will be worth multiples of what we signed them for, the other new signings will, at worst have retained their value. Philips is worth every penny of whatever it is we’re paying to have him for the season. |
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Thread | Our captain
at 15:24 16 Aug 2024
Nearly 33 years old, 17 years as a professional footballer, 500 or so games and tomorrow he finally gets to make his premier league debut playing for the team he has led from mid-table in league one. I don’t know how many thousands of players have played a premier league game but there’s never been one who deserved it more.
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Thread | “We’re too nicey nicey”
at 10:45 3 Aug 2024
“….maybe we’re too polite here. Overall I think we’re too nice”. Roy Keane didn’t get much right in his time here but this summed the club up well.
We’ve now got a set up that has delivered success beyond what most of us thought possible . We are lucky to have a Chief Exec who will do what needs to be done to keep us moving forward, a manager who is always calm and objective and a captain with a bit of a nasty streak to him that has been pivotal in all we’ve achieved in two years.
Those who are worried about reputational damage because we changed our plans in respect of a friendly need to toughen up. We’re about to compete in the most demanding, ruthless, league we’ll ever play in. Ipswich first, Ipswich in the middle and Ipswich last for me now. I couldn’t care less what anyone else thinks of us. |
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Thread | Some supporters need to be more honest with themselves
at 13:45 20 Jul 2024
I love our club and wish we had a 60,000 capacity for home games and got 10,000 tickets for every away game to satisfy current demand. I can understand why thousands of supporters had enough of watching the club they loved fall into decline and so didn’t renew season tickets, went to games less frequently and in many cases stopped going completely. Administration, wasted opportunities, awful football, a decaying stadium, poor atmosphere in a half empty ground etc were hard to take especially for those lucky enough to remember us as one of the best teams in the country and arguably Europe. For years there wasn’t much to enjoy, most of those who kept going were doing so out of blind loyalty and habit rather than wanting to be considered “super fans” or having any real conviction that things would turn around (well certainly not to the extent they have).
What is really starting to grate though is that those who have rekindled their love for the club (and let’s face it anyone who has ever so much as had a soft spot for us let alone supported us has been moved by what’s been achieved) aiming digs at the owners and those who make the decisions regarding ticket allocation.
There will be very few home supporters at Portman Road against Liverpool who don’t deserve to be there. There won’t be many who miss out who could look themselves in the mirror and feel genuinely aggrieved not to have a ticket. The same applies to the away end at the Etihad a week later. I’d love to be there but accept that I wasn’t committed enough to go to Accrington, Fleetwood etc etc. I’m pleased that those who were are now being rewarded.
Stop whinging and take pride in your club and what’s been achieved in the last couple of years. They’re your club whether you can get tickets or not so get behind them and enjoy what’s ahead. [Post edited 20 Jul 2024 14:04]
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Thread | He hasn’t signed a new deal yet or said he’s staying
at 18:36 27 May 2024
So why is it that those who for the past week were saying ignore the reports are now convinced that the latest reports by the same media outlets are accurate?
It could be a negotiating tactics by KM’s representatives to tease a better deal from someone else or to get a club who haven’t got rid of their manager yet to do so quickly.
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Thread | The irony of it based on conversations I’ve had with supporters this week
at 10:56 24 May 2024
Is that those who have shown most loyalty to the club, continuing to go to matches regularly through the bleak seasons that preceded McKenna are more appreciative of what he has done and wouldn’t bear a grudge if he left. Those that abandoned the club or at least attended games a lot less frequently during the Evans era are the ones talking about him lacking loyalty etc if he leaves. |
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