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Thread | Burns
at 17:46 1 Jun 2022
Playing well. Just a shame he's being used as a left back. |
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Thread | Ladapo
at 11:12 31 May 2022
Interesting (or maybe not) to see he scored in every month of the season bar March and April. Not any particularly lean spells and goals nicely spread out.
If that habit carries on it'll be a nice change from last season where our main strikers Norwood and Bonne ended up being very streaky. [Post edited 31 May 11:13]
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Thread | Ultimately it's academic
at 18:01 22 May 2022
And I've raised this on here before and been shot down, but why are referees cheating teams and fans out of stoppage time?
City Villa had +4 minutes (which is low anyway). They spend a minute or more checking on the injured Ederson and another minute or so preparing to take throw ins and corners, and the referee blows on 94:25.
It's nonsense. |
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Thread | Bakinson
at 12:46 20 May 2022
What do people think?
When mentioned on various podcasts people seem to be indifferent on him, take him or leave him.
I'm surprised there's not more folk wanting us to snap him up. I think he got gradually better over the season - which he finished with a belter - and unless Harper is going to come back into the fold and suddenly be a different player, I think we should be taking the option on Bakinson. |
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Thread | Watching Brighton vs Man Utd
at 18:09 7 May 2022
Reminds me of several of our McKenna ball performances over the last few months*.
They're all over them, keeping possession for fun and creating half chances all the time. United are basically kicking for touch every time they get the ball.
*Specifically the Wigan game where I thought we were so far and away the better team it was ridiculous.
Trouble is, us and Brighton are quite similar in the sense that you could easily see it ending 1-1. |
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Thread | KDB
at 20:09 26 Apr 2022
Best/most talented midfielder to have graced the Premier League? |
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Thread | People going early on Baggott I see
at 18:57 16 Apr 2022
I'm not knocking him, that was good for a debut so fair play to him. He lost Smith for the goal though, unfortunately.
My main point is it's no wonder so few youngsters have the mettle to come through at Ipswich. They seem to be overrated from day one.
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Thread | Love that from Celina
at 13:25 16 Apr 2022
Same reason Norwood took issue with their CB, because they're just fouling us and getting away with it.
Bizarrely Sky are refusing to pick Rotherham up on it. Almost as if they're allowed to do it because they're known for being physical so you have to expect and accept it. |
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Thread | Celina
at 11:18 8 Apr 2022
He's class and our most talented player. We'd be mad not to try and sign him permanently.
But does anyone else feel he's still only playing at 80%? Not effort wise necessarily, because he does a lot of good work defensively these days. But he was incredibly passive last Saturday. Even accounting for the number of key passes and 'assists of assists' he's laid on recently, I still want him to do more.
I'm assuming, if he does return next season, that he's going to burst into life and be the league's best player, because he probably should be. [Post edited 8 Apr 11:19]
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Thread | Biggest takeaway from yesterday
at 10:50 3 Apr 2022
which Burns pointed out post match... we're trying to score the perfect goal.
Until we start scoring from set pieces, crosses from wide (not just from the byline), and shots from outside the box, we're going nowhere. |
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Thread | It is what it is
at 17:08 19 Mar 2022
They've done what we can't and that's score from a corner. |
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Thread | Not that anyone didn't have a good game yesterday
at 20:06 13 Mar 2022
But are we agreed Chaplin was one of the better performers?
This season has shown him to be quite a frustrating player because a lot of things he does don't come off. There's a lot of flicks and attempted first time passes and lay offs, but he's so off the cuff that when things come off he's a joy.
The reverse pass for Jackson's chance first half which ended up injuring him was so clever, and Celina's chance second half came from Chaplin not playing the easy ball out wide and instead firing it into the area.
I would probably have Aluko over him most weeks based on their overall games, but sadly we've got Sone at 33 instead of 23. |
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Thread | Carroll
at 11:14 13 Mar 2022
Deserves a fair bit of credit for yesterday.
He must have felt the pressure of replacing Morsy, probably not helped by us keeping him on the pitch for 12 minutes because we were desperate for him to stay on.
Really kept us ticking second half and was better in the attacking areas than I've seen him before. I really felt it was likely that he or Celina was going to create a good chance or two. Just didn't quite happen.
I don't remember another performance against a promotion rival and supposedly a good team, that we were so superior in. Horribly unlucky not to win but bodes well for the rest of the season and perhaps more crucially, next.
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Thread | Celina
at 11:42 2 Mar 2022
Anyone else puzzled that he doesn't start every game? Even accounting for the rotation tactic applied by McKenna, which I understand, he should be the first attacking player on the team sheet.
I'd almost go as far to say he should play every minute when fit, but not quite. Having watched back the game on Saturday the difference after he came on was ridiculous. Did we bother trying to down the right side after he came on? We basically gave him the ball at every opportunity, rightly so. A better wing back going on the outside might have won us that game (this is as big an issue as anything else at the moment).
He hasn't lit up the league like we all expected, probably for various reasons. He should score more goals and have more shots on target, but in terms of assists if strikers aren't putting away chances he's creating, there isn't a whole lot he can do. He would have had 4/5 assists across the last few games had Jackson, Bonne and Norwood been able to finish properly. |
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