| Forum Reply | Not looking forward to Blackburn as much as I was… at 22:43 25 Mar 2024
“Tinpot” to who and why do you care what others think anyway? We’re a club on the up, with so much to enjoy at the moment. I love the fact that we take thousands everywhere these days and Portman Road is sold out for every game. Inflatables or no inflatables, supporters of almost every other team in the EFL would love to swap places with us at the moment. I can’t believe anyone will look at 5,000 fans travelling that far on a bank holiday for a a game live on tv and be anything other than envious or impressed. |
| Forum Reply | Anyone else still feeling pissed off? (n/t) at 11:14 28 Jan 2024
Very disappointed but not p1ssed off as I don’t think blame can be laid for yesterday. We’d have won the game 99 times out of 100. Yesterday was the 1. There was no lack of effort or quality from the team. |
| Forum Reply | Apologies to those offended by me and others clapping an opponent at 10:29 28 Jan 2024
Not at all, couldn’t be further from the truth. I was just surprised that nobody had responded to the vocal minority who think that the way to deal with a once in a lifetime defeat is to to slag off your fellow fans who show a bit of sportsmanship. |
| Forum Thread | Apologies to those offended by me and others clapping an opponent at 10:03 28 Jan 2024
I’ve never applauded a team that’s beaten us before and doubt I will do again. Hopefully we’ll never be in that position again. I clapped Maidstone after the game yesterday though. It was an embarrassing defeat and it hurt but recognising what they had achieved felt right. I hated sitting through it and it felt horrible when the final whistle blew but seeing what it meant to Maidstone resonated with me. Over the years I’ve known several people who have played at or around the level Maidstone play at. I also know a couple of people involved on the admin side of non-league clubs. The sacrifices they make and the dedication needed to do it are huge. For most of the Maidstone squad and officials yesterday will be the highlight of their career, maybe their life. The other reason I gave them polite applause (I didn’t stand there hands above my head cheering them) was in recognition of their fans - not the 4,000 glory hunters but the 500 or so have been there through thick and thin. Sorry to those of you that consider my actions and those of quite a lot of those around me to be so deeply offensive and disloyal. In future, if we’re drawn against non-league opponents I’ll make sure I patronise them before the game, spout off about how we’ll beat them by 10, laugh at their support, mock them for it being their “cup final”, already look ahead to the next round and then walk away all bitter and twisted, looking for scapegoats if it doesn’t work out how i had planned. |
| Forum Reply | Best home game of 2023 at 09:20 31 Dec 2023
It’s been a great year at Portman Road, certainly the most entertaining since I was a child in the glory years, maybe ever. Looking back now I’d say Sheffield Wednesday. Their fans were celebrating after half an hour as if they had confirmed promotion. At that point 90% of the supporters in the ground thought we were done. The great goal before half time and the second half performance were the springboard for the 10 months we’ve had since. Without that comeback we’d still be in league one. [Post edited 31 Dec 2023 9:21]
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| Forum Reply | I did not know half and half scarves are an official product now at 08:38 31 Dec 2023
I loved a pennant when I was a kid and the tradition of exchanging them before European games. One of my favourite programme covers growing up was a photo of Mick Mills exchanging pennant with an opposition captain prior to a European game at Portman Road (pretty sure it was Barcelona and Johan Cruyff). You don’t see many pennants these days. I’d never buy a half and half scalf but a half and half pennant - definitely! |
| Forum Reply | FFP restrictions at 10:19 30 Dec 2023
Thanks. I know the purpose of them and what it means in general terms, just interested if anyone has any idea what it means for us as in what the “cap” is likely to be for us this year. For example Can we spend £5m on a striker and wages that a £5m striker would expect to receive? |
| Forum Reply | New year.. old problem at 10:16 30 Dec 2023
Completely irrelevant. The current manager and owners managed a very similar position last year very well. The way the club is run now bears no relation to the shambles we had to endure under Evans. |
| Forum Thread | FFP restrictions at 10:05 30 Dec 2023
I’ve read a lot of comments about how it is likely to restrict us next month but can anyone summarise what this means in practice for this window i.e . What the ceiling is for us in terms of transfer fees and salaries assuming we don’t sell any of our key players? Thanks |
| Forum Thread | 12 points from 7 games and only 1 defeat in December at 00:14 30 Dec 2023
is decent. We got 8 points from 5 games last December, with results including a draw at home to Fleetwood and losing at Wycombe. The progress our club has made in a year is incredible. |
| Forum Reply | That was worse than Leeds in my opinion. at 23:41 29 Dec 2023
It was our third game in 6 days. Injuries, suspension, illness and fatigue were significant factors. The team we had out tonight would not have been good enough to get us out of league one. It was a point gained, they did ok. |
| Forum Reply | Heard in the family section last night... at 18:22 27 Dec 2023
If you heard it, others must have done too. Please report it to the club. It helps the club identify who it was and adds to the evidence in support of a ban if you are one of several who have reported it. We don’t need scum like that. The most shocking thing about what you have said is that in my experience youngsters are far less racist than their parents, grandparents etc. |
| Forum Reply | Wasn’t expecting much from today but this is embarrassing! at 15:36 23 Dec 2023
Our manager and our team have instilled a pride in our club that we’ve not had for decades. Every team has off days, nothing embarrassing about that. Losing 7-1 at Peterborough was embarrassing, losing a league game to Accrington Stanley was embarrassing, not even making the league one play offs for 3 years was embarrassing. Today was disappointing , no more and no less. |
| Forum Thread | It’s time to drop the imposter syndrome at 11:44 17 Dec 2023
We’re half way through the season, playing great football and breaking records along the way. We deserve to be where we are. The disappointment at only drawing yesterday underlines how far we’ve come in 2023. We’re not where we are by some fluke, it’s because we’ve got a great team and a fantastic manager. Leeds drew at home to Coventry yesterday. A couple of weeks ago we beat them more comfortably than the 2-1 scoreline suggested. After so many years in the doldrums, I completely get the cautiousness and not wanting to get carried away but by any objective measure we are more than capable of getting at least a draw on Saturday and beating Leicester on Boxing Day. For all the general positivity among supporters, far too many seem to have written off the next two games and will treat any points gained as a bonus. I’m sure the team and management are confident of at least 4 points from the 2 games and 7 more points before New Year. |
| Forum Thread | Any minor disappointment from yesterday’s result has gone for me already at 08:47 17 Dec 2023
If we’d been in the top ten and pushing for play offs it would have meant more. As it is we’re 10 points clear of third with 2 massive games to look forward to. We’ll be in an automatic promotion place at the start of 2024 even if we lost all remaining games this year (we wont’t of course, not a chance). We’re so far ahead of them I haven’t even checked the gap. We battered them even if we didn’t win. In a way them celebrating a point how they did is more satisfying than us narrowly winning and celebrating in a way that made them feel more important to us than they are right now. As for Norwich fans calling it our cup final etc. They’ve missed the point. The coach welcome, banners and atmosphere weren’t really about the game yesterday. It was a celebration that we had caught up with them, overtaken them and that we’re on the up, they’re going in the other direction. We know it, they know it and so does the rest of the football world. [Post edited 17 Dec 2023 8:48]
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