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Reply | For those more ITK…
at 15:10 26 Jun 2025
Home games, without a membership, perhaps the odd mid-week game, or dead rubbers (hopefully) at the end of the season.
Away games, without a membership, no chance. |
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Reply | Our Left 10 and Right 10 system.
at 10:20 26 Jun 2025
A lot will hinge on what Axel decides to do.
If he leaves, we'll be playing Johnson/Clarke at RB and they are very different players who like to get forward similarly to Davis.
You could end up with three 10s with both FBs bombing on outside them, i.e. Hutch cutting on from the right in the same way the left 10 cuts in from the left. Essentially five behind the striker (FB - L10 - 10 - R10 - FB). |
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Reply | Delap, Omari and player trading.
at 10:14 26 Jun 2025
This is bang on.
It's why you should never manage Ipswich on FM; you become too attached to players because of real life nostalgia and refuse to replace them with better players.
I was less upset about Delap leaving as it was so inevitable and he did down tools somewhat towards the end of the season. Would hate to see Omari go but, again, head over heart, we have seven other incredible players fighting for those three attackers behind the striker so we could cover him leaving. |
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Reply | Cricket
at 16:05 24 Jun 2025
Did someone say collapse? |
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Reply | New kit and sponsor
at 10:12 24 Jun 2025
Seems a lot of effort to get Batistuta to finally join us. |
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Reply | Relegation release clauses
at 14:38 19 Jun 2025
Unless an expiry date is specified in the clause wording, they will stay in force until the contract runs out or we get promoted again. |
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Reply | And now, the glass half empty
at 12:23 19 Jun 2025
Absolutely.
And even if Omari does go, we still have Clarke, Philogene, Broadhead, Szmodics, Chaplin, Burns and Ogbene fighting for three positions. Which is ridiculous. All seven would walk into every other team in the league. |
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Reply | Oldest youngest player
at 13:29 5 Jun 2025
That's literally the context I was going for, that we were middle of the pack. Your OP suggests we were the worst in the league at giving youth a chance.
Edit: just re-read your OP and you did say "we have a young squad overall" so fair play. [Post edited 5 Jun 13:32]
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Reply | Oldest youngest player
at 13:20 5 Jun 2025
For a bit of context, the average age of our squad was the 9th youngest in the league this season. |
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Reply | Apologies Jaden But
at 21:47 26 Feb 2025
Has anyone ever scored twice and been our worst rated player? |
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Reply | A few thoughts in light of day
at 13:58 4 Dec 2024
The atmosphere started flat because 10k were still stuck outside at kick-off, queuing up for the airport-style security. Ridiculous and totally OTT. [Post edited 4 Dec 2024 13:59]
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Reply | The bizarre case of penalties
at 12:39 2 Dec 2024
I like the comparisons with other sports. The key for me is that, in rugby, cricket and tennis, the best team/player on the day usually wins because so many points/runs are available and attainable. Whereas in football, the best team on the day doesn’t always win. For me, that’s why it’s the best sport in the world. Underdogs have a chance in every game, purely because the act of scoring a goal is much harder than scoring points in rugby or runs in cricket. And in tennis, one player has to win every point which again favours the better player on the day. |
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Reply | The bizarre case of penalties
at 12:26 2 Dec 2024
A rare huge one in our favour was at home to Leicester last season when KDH was clearly wiped out for a penalty when they were already 1-0 up. Ref somehow didn’t see it. Then Morsy scored his quintuple deflected equaliser late on.
You’re right overall though; we are, without question, in a net deficit. |
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Reply | The bizarre case of penalties
at 08:08 2 Dec 2024
The devil’s advocate, which many players and former players use, is that, if you’re fouled but you don’t go to ground, the refs don’t give it. Unfortunately the stats support this. It’s just annoying when the simulation is so ridiculous like today.
But I agree with your overall point. We’ve only had one call go for us this season and it was the handball at Spurs which doesn’t offset anything for me given it was a binary decision, no opinion required. |
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Reply | Tottenham Ticket Sales 'Profile'
at 10:47 17 Oct 2024
Thanks for the analysis. Frustrating for me and my friends who are all on 19 because we couldn’t get that magical 5th away point for the smaller Brentford allocation (to take us to 20).
The highly frustrating thing this morning was the queue system being brought in out of no where for the 15+ release at 10am. It’s the first time the queue system has come in for an away game. For previous away games, we had checked the status of tickets the night before, planned the seats we’d aim for and been efficient with refreshing the page at 10am. Been successful every time. But now with the queue system, that goes out the window and it’s a complete lottery.
I just spoke to the ticket office and they said it wasn’t a conscious decision to engage the queue system this morning. Apparently it was due to higher website traffic due to the Everton resale tickets going live at the same time. Fingers crossed this is just a one-off, otherwise we’ll be stuck at 19 for the rest of the season, as OP suggests. |
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Reply | West Ham Ticket Sales 'Profile'
at 12:10 13 Sep 2024
It is definitely a closed shop for away games this season except for the handful that go into the ballot but the main cause is not the club’s system; it’s all away tickets now being capped at £30. An unfortunate consequence of this is that clubs with the largest stadiums are now selling the bare minimum allocation to away teams (3,000). So whereas before, people in lower brackets would be able to have a shot at Arsenal, Spurs, Utd, etc… now it’s purely the same 3,000 going to each game (or less for <30k stadiums). |
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Reply | jayden oosterwolde
at 17:28 22 Jun 2024
As you can probably guess from my username, I’m a part time Parma fan as well as a full time Ipswich fan so I watched a lot Ooster at the Ennio Tardini before he moved to Turkey (which, I can assure you, Parma fans were gutted about, which says a lot since he wasn’t there much longer than a year).
First off, he is absolutely a left-back rather than a centre half. Whilst he is big enough to play at centre half, he was often moved up to left wing when needed rather than into central defence.
The guy is a beast. Imagine a slightly smaller Tyrone Mings but rapid and extremely athletic. He’s also a very good dribbler. Needed more work on his final ball and crossing but he’s still young. His marking wasn’t amazing but his phenomenal tackling ability and pace often got him out of sticky situations.
I’m not sure where he’d fit in a team with Davis in it though. I expect just to provide Leif some competition. |
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Reply | How can we stop Mark Murphy
at 16:14 21 Feb 2024
Rotherham striker "Huggle" going off in the second half was a particular highlight. |
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