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Thread | Yesterday...
at 08:43 21 Apr 2025
... weird, weird game.
Walking in, someone in our lot mentioned that we've basically got 6 pre-season friendlies between now and the end of the season, and it very much felt like that.
All the silly razzamatazz before the game felt pretty forced, from that overly cheery DJ on the PA happily braying out BLOO ARMY, to those daft fireworks and the silly little plinth the ref picks the football up off. After 18 home games and a pretty dismal season.... Lads, we are here to play a little football, that's it.
That Arse team are one of the best I've ever seen at Portman Rd, along with Man City and Newcastle, again, both from this season. We are miles off them - there's no shame in that, but it makes for a strange spectacle. Odegaard was absolutely sensational, and Rice is some player.
The Davis tackle has been torn to pieces here already, but his brief, gloomy cameo was a sad summary of his season - he's had next to no chance to do what he's best at this year, and ample opportunity to do what he's not, frankly, all that good at.
His decision to jump in, needlessly, on the halfway line just before Arse got their 2nd gave an insight into the frustration that perhaps he must have experienced all season. The loud debate around me regarding whether he deserved a red card or not raged; regardless of the fact that he really shouldn't even have given the ref a decision to make.
There was no lack of effort in that performance yesterday, which, in my opinion, gives a little less weight to the idea that this team is lacking in confidence, and gives me a decent amount of confidence that next year may see us more likely to do a Burnley than a Luton. Greaves, oddly, looked as comfortable in that LB/CB hybrid role, filling in for Davis, than he has done at perhaps any other time this season.
Very little enthusiasm in the crowd, almost no noise from the travelling Arse fans, a 2 pm Easter Sunday kick-off..... yeah, it was fully weird.
5 games left this year, all of which are pretty meaningless. We get a decent amount of cash for finishing 18th rather than 19th, which Ashton will no doubt focus upon - but as a spectacle, it's all a bit hollow. |
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Thread | Points tallies - Champ vs Prem
at 10:42 18 Mar 2025
I am quite a dull man, and, looking at the cumulative points tallies for the 3 promoted teams last year, note the following:-
Leicester - 97
Us - 96
Saints - 87
That's 280 points (notwithstanding Leeds too, who ended up on 90)
With 9 games to go, these same three teams currently have 43...
Us - 17
Leicester - 17
Saints - 9
That's an absolutely berserk difference, even allowing for a quarter of the season to go, and noting that we're going to play 8 fewer games this season.
In summary - the Prem is very, very difficult. |
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Thread | Yowser...
at 19:40 19 Jan 2025
... that was savage.
Turns out Man City are quite good. Doku and KDB on that *left* hand side, bloody hell - Johnson and Godfrey's only real comfort is that it won't ever be quite as bad as that, ever again... oh, Anfield next week, lovely.
Ignoring the usual attention seeking sh1te speckled about elsewhere on the board, majority opinion here is that we weren't perfect (duh...) but also that Man City took out about 2 months worth of frustration on us today. I agree with this.
For the second game in a row, Hutch's decision making was pretty poor, and, again, I really struggle to see where Jack Clarke adds value to this team. Obviously his horror ball for the 4th was what it was, but, from a wider perspective, he just doesn't seem to fit.
I adore Morsy - but he looked slow today - and Cajuste was getting battered by their press.
Genuinely hard to take a balanced view when the opposition are worth £1 billion, and were fully in the mood. Haaland runs like he's trying to break into Isengard - perhaps there's £380m inside there.
In unsurprising news, strong teams will sometimes dick the weaker teams in this league - Spurs and Wolves have also let in 6 at home this year, and West Ham have let 5 in twice. It's no fun at all to watch, but, like VAR, Bournemouth's money-laundering and Jim White faux-sqauwking on Talksport, these occasional bummings are, grimly, part of the modern Premier League.
Today won't decide the season, and it seems like the vast majority of those who attend games are still with McK, as, indeed, they should be.
Mr Ashton, we appear to need a little more support. Get to it, please. [Post edited 19 Jan 19:42]
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Thread | Jack Clarke....
at 08:20 17 Jan 2025
... well, not sure what to make of him, at all.
A Mackem mate of mine says that we're playing him out of position - I hear that he should be out on the touchline, proverbial chalk on boots, cutting in and providing assists/ shots as per his efforts at Fulham.
As it stands, I'd argue he's had the least impact of any signing - but struggling to see where he fits into the line-up at present, or, indeed, where he offers anything different.
Proper weird one; after almost 6 months here you'd be hoping for a little more. |
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Thread | Muric/ Slicker sub...
at 18:17 12 Jan 2025
... what was all that about?
Would simply seem to cup-tie Slicker; not a massive issue, I suppose, but a genuinely weird sub. |
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Thread | Another away day in the home end....
at 16:23 11 Nov 2024
... with an old mate in the Lower East yesterday.
Quite a few other Towun about, had a couple pints beforehand with a father and son; obviously plenty of Spurs around us who were genial enough.
4 Towun in front of us went mental when Szmod scored, and immediately drew the ire of about 20 Spurs; stewards subsequently took them all down at HT, and only one old boy came out for the 2nd half. Must confess I fully struggled to keep a lid on things for both goals.
Towun contingent away to our right were in sublime voice throughout; it looked like absolute pandemonium in there for both goals, and at FT. Wish I'd been in there.
Spurs fans pretty much silent yesterday, seemed to be an overriding feeling that they only needed to turn up to beat us.
Hutch immense yesterday, closely followed by Delap - although let's face it, they were all bloody good, including the much-maligned Muric - his best game for us so far.
New WHL is, in my eyes, the best stadium in the country. Bloody brilliant place to watch sport.
In summary, a pleasant afternoon. |
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Thread | The Amex, Jonny WIlliams and such...
at 09:31 13 Sep 2024
... last time I went here we won 2-0, in the 'good' season under Mick - Tommy Smith with a messy goal, close-in, and Daryl Murphy finish after very good work from Jonny Williams.
Both right in front of Towun, and Williams gave it very big licks in front of all the Brighton fans when we made it 2-0, what with the Palace connection and all that.
Well good day.
Pretty nice away day, really; from recollection they put a 'guest' beer behind the bar from wherever they're playing - hopefully it will be Adnams as opposed to Greene King.
There was also the bannergate game which I think we lost either 2 or 3 nil, we were hot piss that day. |
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Thread | Perfect end to a perfect season...
at 21:59 16 May 2024
... stay down forever, budgie vermin.
The only reason you even exist is to have a rivalry with us.
Hope you're hurting tonight, Norfolk. |
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Thread | Moment of the season...
at 11:08 6 May 2024
... honestly, I've never celebrated a goal like Sarmiento vs Saints, and I include any goal vs the budgies in that.
Absolutely seismic goal, I didn't sleep that night... eventually, after the impact had sunk in, maybe 48 hours later, came the realisation that we might, actually, go up.
Even the subsequent no-show at Carrot Rd failed to diminish it, not least cos Cov beat Leeds 2 hours later.
Everyone in PR lost their minds for a good 5 minutes after that goal. |
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Thread | Chico, mon ami...
at 22:00 4 May 2024
.... had you called it over prior to today? |
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Thread | Lads & Lasses
at 21:43 4 May 2024
Ipswich are back, Ipswich are back
Hello, hello
I am smashed.
I love this club, and I love you all. |
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Thread | Derby games/ policing/ load of old crap about nothing really
at 19:58 16 Apr 2024
So I see Southampton are at home tonight against Preston, in a pretty-much 'must-win' game to keep their automatic hopes alive.
20 miles down the M27, Pompey need a point against Barnsley at home to get promoted (currently losing 1-0, eeek)
Two pretty big games on the South coast.
So that's 30k at St Marys, perhaps 23k at Fratton Park - Hampshire plod presumably fairly happy with all that. Midweek evening games too.
Imagine us and the Norfolk dickheads playing at home on the same day, much less of an evening - East Anglian plod really aren't much good, are they.
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Thread | Aynsley Pears....
at 07:41 30 Mar 2024
... responsible for 3, perhaps all 4, of our goals vs Blackburn at PR, and kind enough to gift us ours yesterday.
Lovely old job. |
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Thread | So, farewell to the Christmas period....
at 17:44 1 Jan 2024
.... that was, in all honesty, carnage. My brief take on it, if anyone cares....
Leeds - horrid game, at a horrid ground, full of horrid people. Yep, ref didn't help, and perhaps if those early Chaplin/ Broad chances go in.... in all honesty, though, a stinking day at the office, akin to the WBA game. Not too many positives, other than McK will take the experience and learn from it.
Leicester - Hirst injury highly unfortunate, and highlighted how important he is to this team. Possibly a little intimidated by the Winks/ Ndidi/ KD-H midfield first half, but we looked fine second half, and a draw was fully justified. Our full-strength 1st XI can compete with the best in this league....
QPR ..... whereas our 2nd XI struggle to compete with the worst. Yes, QPR were quite a lot better than I expected them to be, and Begovic had a blinder - but Ladapo and Ball are big steps down from Hirst and Morsy. As discussed previously, no idea what is going on with Williams - I can't recall such a dramatic tail-off in form from a Towun player. Humphries looked good 2nd half, out of position - but a hugely frustrating night.
Stoke - annoying not to do more with a man advantage for 25 minutes, but Schumacher is a very different (for which read, better) manager than Alex Neil, and I'd wager that Stoke will become difficult to beat at home, as with Plymouth before. Broad not quite at it, nor Burns - but this small squad of players have excelled for 4 months now, and they need some help....
.... and so I guess now its over to Ashton, to mirror KMcKs achievements on the pitch. Time for him to step up.
I thought we fell short in the summer - Scarlett in as a replacement striker on the last day of the window cannot have been the plan, and obviously the pursuits of Ellis Simms and Auston Trusty were unsuccessful - and, of course, FFP is geared towards seeing Saints and the Yorkshire grime promoted alongside Leicester. That said, you would expect that backing will be there if needed; can we replicate the success of last January's window?
If so, then the 2nd half of the season will be a sensation.
Uppa fckin Towun. [Post edited 1 Jan 2024 17:46]
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Thread | Williams....
at 23:06 29 Dec 2023
... goodness me, that was some performance.
Been wondering for a while now why he hasn't been pushing Clarke harder; tonight showed us why.
Something doesn't look right, there, at all - absolutely miles away from Preston, where he looked sublime.
Anyway, onwards |
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Thread | Marcus Harness
at 23:46 3 Oct 2023
I've had more than a few doubts about him - but holy hell, he was sensational tonight.
I mean, they all were - but Harness, big up, you made me look stupid (again).
Just a berserk good performance. First 60 tonight as good as it's been since the Burley years.
It's starting to get interesting.... |
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