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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.
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Attendance last night announced at 28,001
at 14:39 6 Mar 2024

I could hardly see an empty seat other than what I’d estimate as maybe 3-400 or so in and below the Bristol City fans.
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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.
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Apologies to those offended by me and others clapping an opponent
at 11:07 28 Jan 2024

Of course I didn’t want them to beat us, nor am I ok with it. It was horrible. Paul Power scoring at Villa Park is my worst FA cup moment, yesterday comes a close second.
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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.
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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.
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albums of the early 1990s that you haven’t listened to in a while
at 17:04 24 Jan 2024

Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Most enjoyable calendar year as an Ipswich supporter
at 12:20 31 Dec 2023

Most enjoyable calendar year as an Ipswich supporter


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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.
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"Champions Of England, You'll never sing that"
at 00:19 27 Dec 2023

They didn’t sing that. It was about their previous owner who died in a helicopter crash. The line was “champions of England, you made us sing that”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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