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Thread | What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road?
at 23:49 25 Jul 2024
I’m not talking about standing on milk crates in the 60s, I’m talking the last 15 years or so, before the old girl got a long overdue facelift….
A couple to get us started:
The lack of traffic and being and being able to get from the edge of town to the town centre in about 10 minutes even at 2pm on a saturday
The wheel out tunnel with the track covers
Queues for the bars / kiosks being non existent 10 minutes into half time
Being able to move seats easily if you had an idiot near you or just fancied a better view
Seagulls flying over the pitch and threatening to land
The death trap photographer pits
The stadium having about 8,000 people in ten minutes before kick off, leavjng ha wondering if it would fill up any more
Never running out of pies.
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Thread | Seeing lots of people say we’ll comfortably stay up….
at 11:29 18 Jul 2024
Is this a bit naive? Feel like some people are in for a bit of a nasty surprise at the big step up in quality this year.
We’ve had an incredible two years and we are strengthening very sensibly, but for me I still think it’ll be one hell of an achievement to stay up. I’ll take 17th place on goal difference right now.
I applaud the courage and optimism, but I just hope that doesn’t lead to blind complacency and the whole atmosphere around the club turning a bit sour if we got off to a bad start - which is very very possible.
Look at Sheff Utd last season. Went up with a similar number of points to us, spent a fair bit of money and then got ripped to shreds. I think our league cup game against Fulham last year shows there’s still a huge gap between the championship and mid table prem teams.
I fully trust in the process and know Kieran will have us incredibly well prepared, but I just hope there’s no sense of complacency and entitlement when the season kicks off.
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Thread | I love Sam Morsy but….
at 12:35 1 Jul 2024
I’m ready for the down votes…
Is he going to be strong enough to be a nailed on starter every game next year? I want him to be and I want him to seize his chance, but I do have some question marks…
1. The press from PL teams will be much faster and much more intense. I don’t think we’ll see him getting the ball from goalkicks on the edge of our D and turning g his man quite so often. We were caught out a few times last season when the press was really intense so won’t be able to afford that next year.
2. Will any of his yellows turn to red with VAR? We all know he’s fantastic at treading a fine line, but there’s been a few times in the last three seasons where VAR woukd have had him walking.
3. PL central midfielders have an incredible engine on them. Morsy is no slouch, but he does lack a bit of pace which coukd lead to us being overrun if not careful. Maybe a more athletic partner for him will cover for this?
He’s our captain and I want him to thrive. But I don’t think we should be blind to the fact he might not start every game again….
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Thread | About time we had a decent new chant….
at 11:26 14 Jun 2024
Here’s one sorted for August, inspired by summer 2018….
Looking back on when we first met
I cannot escape and I cannot forget
Kieran you’re the one
Straight up from league one
Tractor boys are home again |
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Thread | Tingly Teds front of shirt sponsor?
at 07:43 6 Jun 2024
Heard a couple of people now suggest that Ed’s hot sauce brand could be the front of shirt sponsor next season, given his current tour is due to end just after the season starts, and the fact he’s been heavily pushing and marketing the sauce.
Anyone heard anything along these lines and think it could be feasible?
https://www.tinglyteds.co.uk/ |
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Thread | Wembley 2000: “Reuser….. offside!”
at 10:58 29 May 2024
Would VAR have ruled this out in the current day?
Would we have never gone up that day? Would we have ever gone up? Would we ever make Europe? Would we go into administration? Would the banter era ever happen? ITFC butterfly effect.
This image has it frozen at 6 seconds, as the ball leaves Naylors foot. Put it this way…. I’m glad there was no VAR!!
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Thread | “We’ve been used…. We’ve had our pants pulled down!”
at 23:39 23 May 2024
People can’t be naive enough to actually believe this - heard on a town fans Twitter chat thing earlier.
Yes it’ll be absolutely gutting if he goes, but he’s the hottest property in football management right now, so were we expecting there to be no news at all (regarding some of the biggest clubs in world football) until an announcement out of the blue that he’s signed somewhere else?
Having our pants pulled down would have been leaving half way through our season to go to palace (an established PL team), but leaving now at the very start of the summer, after giving us our two best season for two decades certainly doesn’t count as using us.
Football is a cruel game, but we can’t let disappointment turn to bitterness.
Also just think, he came close to the Palace job in Feb so Ashton has had a solid four months of succession planning under his belt.
I’ll be gutted to see him go (if he does), but this is modern footbal. [Post edited 23 May 23:50]
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Thread | Rank these close season events in order of preference….
at 16:42 7 May 2024
My order would be:
Fixture release day
Kit release day
First pre season friendly
Opening of the transfer window
Players reporting back for pre season training
Clubs’ retained lists released
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Thread | Just seen it’s the awards dinner tonight…
at 17:19 6 May 2024
Genuinely think some of the players might report for pre season with liver damage.
Good on em.
Chances of Clarke rocking up in the ITFC Hawaiian combo? |
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Thread | SBRU Upper incident just after HT…
at 09:01 5 May 2024
Does anyone have any concrete info on how the guy is? Was a really scary moment in amongst the celebrations of the second goal. Stewards seemed to indicate a fairly positive outcome - hope the bloke is ok.
Massive hats off and respect to the fans and stewards who jumped into action straight away without a second of hesitation.
(@Phil - please delete this thread if deemed insensitive to ask the question here!) |
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