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This isn’t anything new unfortunately. As strange as it seems, they’ve been coming into the away end in league one regularly, especially when the away team has a low following. There is always trouble afterwards sadly as well.
It’s strange when you prefer to watch your rivals (hopefully) get beat, than see your own team win…
Wembley won’t matter so much as they’ll be lost in a huge crowd but they will be there to cause trouble and spoil family days out. Sad
We could have played another 90 minutes and you wouldn’t have scored. Having lots of possession with zero threat does not constitute you being robbed. If you don’t buy a goalscorer next season then you should be expecting a lot of ‘pure robberies’ again next year then..
It would have been a huge injustice if we never won today mind, we were by far the better team. These are the games we normally struggle in though, against clubs with not much to play for or near the bottom.
Despite not being ‘very good’ our record against the top sides in the league gives us a fighting chance if we do make the playoffs: Wigan P2 W2 MK Dons P1 W1 L1 Rotherham P1 L1 Plymouth P1 W1 Wednesday P2 W1 L1 Wycombe P2 W1 D1 Oxford P2 W2 Ipswich P2 W1 D1 Portsmouth P2 W1 L1.
32/45 points against the better teams, is not an awful return. We’d have a chance if we are lucky enough to finish top 6. If Wycombe don’t make the top 6 I’d have us as favourites to win this year. There’s really no good side in this list above, Wigan aside (who we have thrashed twice this year).
Gillingham against us on Saturday literally time wasted from the off. Feigning head injuries, switching throw in takers, 1 minute goal kicks etc.
The only way to combat this is with an early goal. Which we never seem to get.
Ironically if these sides showed any ambition they’d have a much better chance of beating us. But so many teams are happy with a point away from home in this league that it just perpetuates spoiling tactics. We got a 95th minute winner on Saturday so I guess you could say that Gillingham got what they deserved through the added time, but it rarely works out that way.
Pleased to see this - just over a week ago we were only winning 1 game and losing the other 9, finishing in 11th place… All while playing just 3 teams in the top half. 83 points to finish 6th is incredible and probably accurate sadly
The biggest teams in theory will have the biggest pulling power in the transfer window. Not just from a wage’s perspective but players are more likely to want to go to the larger clubs than a Plymouth or MK Dons.
That aside, I’d always like the best footballing sides to go up, which is definitely not my team. Mk dons or Oxford would be good choices this season assuming Wigan and Rotherham are automatic. We won’t deserve it (and I think will finish outside playoffs anyway) and I still don’t think Wednesday are good enough despite their recent good run.
Agreed. Whatever the consensus seems to be on this forum that we’re a poor team, we are effective. The below link gives the PPG league table for all of 2021, where we placed 5th. Interesting that the top 4 clubs are all premiership teams, Man City’s PPG is incredible.
Also (IMO) shows how badly Cook has managed Ipswich. To be placed 47th over a full year in this terrible league with the players at your disposal is criminal. Appreciate he took over in March, but I think if you took away Lamberts results in January and February then your PPG goes down again. Far too much acceptance of “squad gelling” has allowed average teams like ourselves to stretch clear from you, and you’d need a ridiculous amount of luck to pull that back.
We will definitely go on another bad run at some point. Every team will. But we are not your rabbit - Plymouth, Oxford, Portsmouth, MK Dons and Wednesday are the teams you need to slip up. The others should run out of gas once injuries and fixture pile ups begin in spring.
I think Rotherham, Wigan, ourselves and Wycombe will finish in the top 6 leaving a mini league that you need to go on a phenomenal run just to compete in. We did you a big favour tonight both confidence-wise and goal difference-wise to one of your competitors, you should be happy!
Embarrassed to have beaten you 2-0? You really weren’t that good at the SOL but obviously your welcome to your opinion. Our forum had a post about how poor you were that day: https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/ipswich.1565152/
I don’t share that opinion mind, but I do believe you were completely toothless because we were organized. I’d fancy any hardworking team to take something off you under Cook, there’s a reason why you’re 18 points off the pace at the halfway point, and thinking you’ve been mugged by the likes of Sunderland, Accrington Stanley and Barrow. You shouldn’t be where you are with your players but you are where you deserve to be right now
I like him actually although he does come out with a lot of David Brentisms in his interviews. But our fans have little patience, and a lot sadly think we’re too big a club to be in this league, so of course when we’re not 10 points clear at the top, they lash out. It think the pressure they’ve put on the club in previous years was the reason we haven’t got out this league to be honest, especially in Jack Ross’s season. We have no stand out players and no right to win any game, but our fans don’t accept that.
If we had your seasons results, there’s no way we’d have kept Cook past September. That’s one thing I’ve been really impressed with your support, still backing Cook for so long when things really didn’t seem to be improving results wise at all. I think that you sacked cook around 6 weeks too late, but how your club is still so divided on whether he should have had a full season or not really stands your fans out. That loyalty (IMO) has probably ruined your season though.
How were we not well organized? I think you could have played another 90 against us at the SOL and not had a shot on target! Possession is great but you had zero threat, and that was down to discipline from our team. If you played the same game against most other clubs then you win that game easily. Not sure on your definition of well organized - don’t mistake that for good team, which I have already said we are not!
At PR, in front of a full house, the new owners and new manager lined up, you started great. As would most teams. I’m pleased you gave us a break in the second half. Why do you think you didn’t win that game against such an inferior team?
We’re a very organized team, and but for having a horrendous November where we lost 3 on the bounce, we’d right now be around 8 points clear at the top of the table. This despite being forced to play kids and having no fit fullbacks since August. If we spend in January, we might finally finish top 2. We’re 1 point behind Rotherham having played the same games, but they have to come to the SOL.
Are we a good team - no. But I don’t think there’s a single good team in this league this year, yourselves definitely included. If your well drilled at this level you’ve got a decent shot. Hope you guys have a great second half of the season and take points from the top teams!
The Newcastle fans tried to get the game abandoned after we had scored the second right near the end. The game was stopped for I think about 20 minutes, before coming back to play the last few minutes. I don't think any Newcastle fans even considered they would lose that day, especially after getting a good result in the first leg at Roker (0-0).
Gates and Gabbiadini were a potent strikeforce back in the day though, we always had a good chance. Mags arrogance though.
Sunderland fans show more respect to Bobby Robson than any other club hands down. We raised hundreds of thousands for his foundation. Similarly Newcastle fans did the same with Bradley Lowry. We continue to support Newcastle charities and vice versa.
Maybe we thought you were employing sh!thousery tactics and trying to slow things down?
On a serious note if that happened, and I would believe it did, it’s unacceptable. There’s too many of our away support that believe the knee taking has gone on for too long now and don’t know where or when it will end, or what it is achieving. I think Southgate did a really great job uniting people in the Summer over continuing the knee bend. We stopped doing it this season as a club, I think about 50% of clubs have, but to boo those that continue is despicable.
To the extent that Sunderland or Newcastle would boo a player who couldn’t walk? I’m not convinced. Besides, when did Ipswich-Sunderland become the acceptable line for people not being shocked by booing someone who had just been crippled? Two clubs with zero previous relative hostility..??
mind you if someone was feigning injury which has been suggested earlier in this post, that would be acceptable/expected even. Once that player is on a stretcher or cart off the pitch because they can’t walk - not acceptable. Obviously IMO.
He was very clearly booed. Not sure on your definition of ‘we battered them’ but at the time it was still 0-0, and I don’t recall too many saves (if any) our keeper had to make before that. If that first half was considered a battering then you’ve surely handed out some absolute hammerings to teams this season, which defies your league position of being 10 points from the playoffs having played an extra game.
You were the better team across the 90 without creating chances or being clinical, similar to the game at the SOL. Good atmosphere though hopefully your new owners were impressed and get the buzz to keep investing.
Pleased you posted this. We were shocked by this yesterday, like you say fair enough when someone is feigning injury but the lad was clearly very injured, on another day that tackle could easily have been a red card. But to boo the lad being driven off the pitch as he couldn't walk - that's a new level of low, and not one we expected from Ipswich.
He's thankfully been given a timeline of just 3-4 weeks out, but will be a miss for us over the Christmas games for sure.
Not really - if things don’t change soon in terms of performances we won’t be getting automatic. My point was just that we were close now, and could go joint top with our game in hand. We are playing horrific football right now, and the good teams are going to spank us. We will buy in January though. I think we’ll finish top 6 still on account of our home form won 7/8
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