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Reply | I'm gonna say this
at 22:18 1 Sep 2025
Had you heard of Egeli or seen him play either? Plenty of smart people outside ITFC have and will tell you it's a hugely exciting deal.
Totally understand the overriding sentiment. There's a lot for this new team to prove, and for the management now as well, and they need to do it pretty quickly.
Couple of good wins in the next few games and things will look a lot brighter; new memories and fan-player relationships will be forged. Who had Chaplin down as an all-time Ipswich hero a month into 2021-22? Certainly not you or me. |
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Reply | I’m feeling sad 😔
at 22:11 1 Sep 2025
Yes, this one upsets me. It felt to me that he still had a big role to play. Probably along with Morsy and Burns, the heartbeat of everything we have achieved since the takeover. We will never see an Ipswich team like it again.
Only thing for it now, though, is to move on and hope a very talented team for the level can discover the spirit and backbone it is going to need. [Post edited 1 Sep 22:11]
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Reply | Utterly strange to me that we seem to have moved away from
at 17:41 1 Sep 2025
There is a large extent to which what worked then cannot be expected to work now – it's a very different context. But it's definitely one hell of a high wire act and let's hope the current bunch get themselves in the groove quickly. |
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Reply | Times change…
at 16:26 1 Sep 2025
We do. Let's see if we have the right players to do that with. In some cases the signs are good; in others the jury is very much out. McKenna needs to somehow get this all together and forge a new identity very quickly indeed. |
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Reply | No more incomings according to Alex Jones (n/t)
at 12:37 1 Sep 2025
I'm ok about Baggott. The boy is almost 23 and has looked good when fit. It'd take two or three significant injuries for him to be needed in any case. Am very much with you on the cover for Matusiwa's position though, and let's see how hard Azon can push Hirst up top. |
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Reply | Woolfie for £4m
at 12:20 1 Sep 2025
If that's the fee it's a brilliant deal for them. |
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Reply | This 'Raise the Colours' movement...
at 10:53 1 Sep 2025
Would you be at all interested in digging out the people who are *actually* stealing your money? The ones who make sure you are being distracted with all this nonsense yet wouldn't p7ss you out if you were on fire?
Didn't think so. |
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Reply | Cajuste, Matusiwa, Nunez
at 09:35 1 Sep 2025
Matusiwa is nailed on, he's the midfield's defensive conscience, in fact I'd argue we still really need some specialist cover/competition for him. Then I guess the other two fight it out and/or share the minutes. |
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Reply | Busy transfer deadline day expected?
at 08:23 1 Sep 2025
He definitely didn't make it sound as if he thought we were done. I suspect if certain target/s become available at the last we'll be moving. An upgrade in CM and top addition at CF are both obvious places to look. |
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Reply | Related point….
at 12:44 31 Aug 2025
I agree with this, broadly. Certainly doesn’t seem to have something in him of the standard Norwich’s new keeper pulled out yesterday. Or if he does, he’s kept it in his locker ever since Villa away. |
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Reply | Was the Championship this attritional last time round?
at 10:22 31 Aug 2025
It's very poor and it will turn people off the game. A worst case scenario is that football erodes beneath elite level and becomes as hollowed out as club rugby. This will happen in a generation's time if the authorities do not wake up. In a huge percentage of matches I watch, the final half hour simply does not happen.
Expanding to five substitutes has been the trigger for all these ills to be exacerbated, I'd argue, but that genie isn't going back into the bottle. |
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Reply | Egeli replacement en route
at 15:13 26 Aug 2025
I mean, for all the anxiety in this window the one thing nobody can accuse Ashton of in the last four years is a lack of action – let's not be silly. |
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