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Reply | Liam Delap World Champion
at 07:30 14 Jul 2025
Did not have a Delap/Trump encounter on my 2025 bingo card, I must admit.
Perhaps this is how it's going to be - recently departed Town players hanging out with world leaders. It's Bastille Day today, so needless to say, I'm expecting Macron to be sitting atop the Arc de Triomphe shooting the breeze with Cameron Burgess. |
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Reply | Is there anything in the world worse than grass court tennis? (n/t)
at 17:20 6 Jul 2025
Boxing.
The only sport where you can spend hundreds of pounds for a ticket, and it could all be over in under thirty seconds. Even a thumping at football has to last ninety minutes for example.
The only situation that I can think of that would come close is on a one day cricket match where a team has to score a single run to win, having only taken ten balls to get the other team out. |
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Reply | Cwms.
at 00:02 6 Jul 2025
Think you Gwent a bit too far with that one. |
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Reply | Kit drop official
at 14:30 5 Jul 2025
I mean, each to their own and that, but seeing the latest pics on the club Instagram account of the queue stretching down Portman Road, I'm curious why the two chaps at the moment he front are brandishing an ITFC England flag. You're buying a football shirt, not off to a match.
I mean I'm pretty sure Planet Blue will prefer currency than appropriated flags for payment.
Still, to be fair, for all I know, they might have been given it by the photographer. |
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Reply | Kit drop official
at 11:41 5 Jul 2025
So, by my reckoning, the late 80s shirt it's a homage to, we actually wore for FOUR seasons - last one of the Ferguson era and the entire stint of John Duncan. That seemed a long time even for then and unimaginable now.
Still, you can now pop it on and pretend you're Graham Harbey. Do not try to pretend you're Tony Humes as you'll probably pull a hamstring or destroy your ACL putting if on. |
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Reply | Someone much more controversial than Kneecap or Bob Vylan playing Glarsto today
at 16:39 29 Jun 2025
The crowd seems *very* muted, but his voice has gone. Having difficulty holding a tune.
Didn't he recently have a pop at Elton for giving up performing live? I mean apart from the fact that poor old Reg is not a well man, and slowly going blind, he knew when the time was up because he couldn't do it anymore.
Oh no, I've just heard the words "We're bringing Mick Hucknall out later." May God have mercy. |
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Reply | Omari-watch 🏆
at 22:52 28 Jun 2025
"Sorry Omari, no medal for you, you useless knacker. May as well stay at Ipswich and con a wage out of them, the saps" |
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Reply | Omari-watch 🏆
at 22:09 28 Jun 2025
And that's the end of this thread as Hopeless Hutchinson gets hauled off - can't even survive 120 minutes in stifling heat of a high pressure game.
Forget it, other teams, don't waste your money. We'll just have to reluctantly keep him. Oh, woe is us. [Post edited 28 Jun 22:12]
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Reply | Omari-watch 🏆
at 20:30 28 Jun 2025
Other clubs take note - he's just a poor man's Trevor Putney. |
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Reply | Nodge at home …..
at 12:25 26 Jun 2025
Probably. You never see derby matches for the first (or indeed) last games for example. I can remember us playing Nodge in the fourth game of 93/94 when we'd won the first three and were top of the Prem, but nothing earlier than that. |
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Reply | Pitch invasion 94-95
at 19:12 24 Jun 2025
Yep, I was there. 1-0 defeat to Everton, and on the pitch we went like we often did for the last game. I don't remember it being ill tempered though as by then we'd long accepted our situation.
The main protest was Lyalls last game when we lost at home against Man City in December, I think?
We went over to the Everton fans in the Cobbold and sang songs at each other in one of those mutual respect moments, wished them luck in the Cup Final, they sang back at us how we'd be back soon, lots of applauding, cut to Town fans skipping down Princes Street with their new Scouse chums. (That last bit might be a bit of exaggeration).
I do remember there being the promise of a "lap of honour", but as soon as the pitch was invaded, there was a somewhat haughty announcement that this was now cancelled.
I can't see what such a lap of honour would have achieved tbh. Too many of the players in that team just couldn't be bothered, and we knew it. It wasn't like the season just gone where, yes, we were rubbish, but by and large you can't fault the effort. [Post edited 24 Jun 19:13]
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Reply | Phil… what other possible names were there for TWTD when you launched?
at 16:54 23 Jun 2025
This has got me wondering if there's many of the old original batch of fanzines are still around in one form or another - Wiki says that the magnificently titled Brian Moore's Head Looks Uncannily Like London Planetarium (Gillingham) has bitten the dust, whereas King Of The Kippax (Man City) and War Of The Monster Trucks (Sheff Wed) are still going.
As for that lot up the road, I remember there being Liverpool Are On The Telly Again and I'm sure there was one that had the Wensum in the title, but was WOTB ever a paper 'zine? I mean, considering the horrific website design it hasn't moved far from about 1997.
I know there were compilations floating around at the end of the nineties as well - big thick things with bits from a variety of fanzines which was always interesting - seem to recall there being a match report from one (Sure it was one of the Yorkshire clubs - Rotherham seems to ring a bell) which had comprehensive reports for all the other matches, but a thumping at home just had the sentence "The useless useless b*stards" and that was it. That made me guffaw solidly for a good ten minutes.
There was also a series of books called (I think) Survival Of The Fattest in the late 90s, which had fanzine editors review the season just gone. In fact I've got a feeling that the Town reviews were written by a certain P Ham Esq, but I might have misremembered that. |
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Reply | The table doesn't lie
at 15:52 22 Jun 2025
Quite right. Why we haven't changed our name to Aardvark Ipswich is beyond me. |
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Reply | Town players as eponymous film titles, and a brief synopsis of the plot.
at 17:28 20 Jun 2025
Romeo Is Reading
Harrowing tale of how innocent little Dutch boy Ulrich Wilson is stopped at the customs check at Parkeston Quay in 1988. Following a search, publications of eye spinning depravity is discovered, the like of which hadn't been seen before, and indeed wouldn't be until the Internet became a thing.
Ulrichs only defence is that he was bringing it to a work colleague in his new job, a suave moustachioed cove with a penchant for this kind of literature. Allegedly.
Will Ulrich escape and make his dreams cone true? Or will his new employers replace him with Andy Bernal? [Post edited 20 Jun 17:32]
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