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Style of Play
at 16:23 7 Aug 2022

Obviously only a sample size of two for this season but we are currently moving the ball forward more quickly and making fewer passes in build up play. Will be interesting to see how this develops over the season.

Passes per sequence

21/22 - 3.38
22/23 - 2.46

Sequence Length
21/22 - 8.92
22/23 - 5.75

Direct Speed
21/22 - 1.32
22/23 - 1.62

Stats for the Opta Data Hub.

https://theanalyst.com/eu/2022/06/english-league-one-2021-22-stats

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U18 - Northern Ireland Super Cup Link
at 19:20 29 Jul 2022

The U18s are playing Co Asntrim at 8pm and it can be watched online via BBC at this link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/62311470

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Kevin Mincher Interview
at 14:54 6 Jul 2022

Enjoyed the Kevin Mincher interview this morning. Interesting background and good to see he is involved with helping everyone at the club, not just the first team.

🎥 Kevin Mincher, the Club's Performance Coach, sat down with us to talk about his role with the Blues, his time at Town so far, and his involvement in this week's Loughborough training camp.

👇 #itfc pic.twitter.com/0Lo09SWH6A
— Ipswich Town FC (@IpswichTown) July 6, 2022

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Lots of new posts at the Foundation
at 13:41 5 Jul 2022

To go along with the EADT post about 'taking back our territory from Norwich' the Ipswich Foundation has just put out job adverts for another 11 roles.

Club is clearly putting at least some of its money where its mouth is.

https://www.itfcfoundation.co.uk/2022/07/05/work-for-us-4/

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Adem Atay Interview
at 20:50 1 Jul 2022

Excellent interview here with our newly departed Academy Coach. Seems like a thoroughly good guy and clearly loves Town.

A different perspective on some of our former managers/staff. Hope he does well and comes back to us eventually!

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Who is your marquee signing?
at 11:56 28 Jun 2022

Lots of talk about needing a marquee signing. Not needing a marquee signing. What on earth is a marquee signing.

Interested in who people think meets the following criteria:

1) Is a big enough name to warrant the term 'marquee'.
2) Would fit into our current set up?
3) Would want to join us?
4) Is feasible for us to sign based on wages/budget etc.

Personally not convinced there's a huge number that meet all of those criteria but interested to see who people do think fits the bill.

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Cam Humphreys
at 11:02 26 Jun 2022

Cam Humphreys

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New Dom Ball Podcast
at 15:16 16 Jun 2022

A QPR podcast has done a new interview with Dom Ball. The whole thing is worth a listen but at the beginning he talks about McKenna being a key reason he wanted to come and join us.

The more I listen to him the more I think he'll be a great character to have around the club. Hopefully he does some mentoring for some of our Academy players.

https://play.acast.com/s/6242ee1ac41ec300122f9562/62a8b95c5509f40013dbd66c

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Next Season Up Front We'll See....
at 21:04 30 May 2022

Next Season Up Front We'll See....

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First Game of the Season
at 18:17 28 May 2022

Now we know who is going to be in the League what's the first fixture everyone would like?

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What's Your 24/7 Portman Road Feature?
at 15:22 11 May 2022

On the TT podcast yesterday Mark Ashton said he wanted to see Portman Road used 365 days a year, 24/7.

Apart from a pub/restaurant open more than match days what would you open at Portman Road to get it used more?

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Planning Application - Approval with Conditions
at 11:58 4 May 2022

The Decision Notice for the planning application for the work has gone through. The conditions only appear to be that they stick to the construction management plan and drawings that they submitted.

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Team Goal of the Season
at 12:38 27 Apr 2022

Celina's chip unsurprisingly won the vote at the end of season dinner for goal of the season.
Amazing goal but largely dependent on an individual effort (as were all of contenders for the EFL award).

What is everyone's team goal of the season?

Our third against Gillingham Away would be my pick

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League One Style of Play
at 09:53 14 Apr 2022

The Analyst website has a season review page including League One. One of the tabs lets you look at style of play. There's often talk of our style not being suited to League One so I plotted the current League position against each club on their chart.

All it really shows it that there isn't one style that works well in this league - you just have to execute your chosen style well.

https://imgbox.com/1J6dY7tu

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Town TV - What shows do we want?
at 21:49 29 Mar 2022

I'm guessing we won't be asking Delia to do a cooking show

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Sam Morsy Podcast Interview from The Athletic
at 20:31 28 Mar 2022

Great interview with Sam here (from 21 mins in). Talks about how much he's learning from McKenna along with other insights into the dressing room

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzQ5MjY

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Next Season - U23 Opportunities
at 12:22 23 Mar 2022

One observation on opportunities for younger players is that with McKenna wanting to work with a smaller squad size then opportunities next season are likely to come in the EFL League Cup and assuming we don't promoted the Papa John's trophy.

Hopefully McKenna's approach will be about integrating a few promising younger players into the first team squad rather than a wholesale rotation.

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Attacking Midfielder Stats
at 17:40 13 Mar 2022

Interesting tweet here showing how highly Celina is placed for both progressive passing and progressive dribbling in League One. Chaplin/Aluko also score highly.

Did an update of Attacking Midfielders in the AWRSS

This is how the L1 AMs look in the roles of Progressive Passers vs Progressive Dribblers.

Obviously a lot of crossover in the data which produces the correlation, but still a good way of finding some interesting talents pic.twitter.com/L4BXQ6tbqU
— Andy Watson (@andywatsonsport) March 13, 2022

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Planning Permission Submitted For Big Screen At Portman Road
at 13:40 9 Mar 2022

Looks like the club have submitted the planning permission that Mark Ashton talked about in the last fan forum. The documents aren't available online yet but probably will be in the next few days to see what the plans are but the details shown on the online platform are:

1. Partial demolition and alteration to South East corner
2. Alteration to Home & Away Dugouts
3. New 'Big Screen' over South East corner

The planning ref is 22/00206/FUL and you should be able to view and comment on the application at https://ppc.ipswich.gov.uk/searchselect.asp once the documents are live.

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