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Reply | Cov one up (n/t)
at 15:17 6 Apr 2024
Blow the whistle ref!
(Might be being a tad optimistic here) |
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Reply | How much does a football stand cost?
at 21:06 25 Mar 2024
Might need to dust off The Men Who Made The Town, but I think I'm right in saying originally the pitch was east/west - it was a cricket pitch in the summer.
Suspect that it was shifted around sharpish because as there would have been no Constantine Road bus/tram garage at that time, and obviously no stand at the western end, there would have been quite big problems dealing with the sun as nothing would be blocking it. |
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Reply | New Cobbold stand photos
at 16:50 12 Mar 2024
Nah, not Oregon, but Dorset.
Get ready for those local derbies with Weymouth. |
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Reply | Swimming pool Portman Road
at 16:47 12 Mar 2024
I've said this several times, but I do suspect Portman Road itself will be pedestrianised anyway between the Sir Alf statue and the access to Churchmans Lofts. Even before they stuck the planters at the Princes Street end, not that many people used it.
Before Barrack Corner was blocked off, you'd have used it to get from Norwich Road to the station and Chantry, but obviously these days you'd use Chevallier Street/Yarmouth Road/West End Road or Civic Drive.
Unless there's a huge demand from people wanting to visit Benezet Street or something. |
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Reply | Now our season is over and obviously the slide has set in
at 11:29 10 Mar 2024
As I was discussing with another member of this august forum yesterday, I shudder to think what this place would have been like if it had been around at the end of the 1980/81 season when the league form went pear shaped.
"FFS!!!! JANKOVIC HAS SCORED AGAIN! WE'RE RUBBISH!" |
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Reply | We want ten
at 21:30 4 Mar 2024
I mean, hopefully the belief that football only started in 1992 will help as well, otherwise they'll just say that it's the first time a team has got double figures since Fulham stuck 10 past us in 1963.
We can't win! |
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Reply | Quarter past 12 and the floodlights seem to be still on
at 06:37 21 Feb 2024
Of course the other extreme was at Barnsley in the Cup in 1990. Game finishes, 2-0 defeat, blizzard on an open terrace, kept in after the match, floodlights off within five minutes.
We all stood there in darkness yelling "Oi! We are still here, you know!" |
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Reply | The most embarrassing result in ITFC history.
at 19:17 27 Jan 2024
As many others have rightly said, we'd be more annoyed if the Town team clearly couldn't be bothered and didn't put a shift in.
I can think of numerous matches in the past where we've lost and it's obvious the team couldn't care less.
Port Vale 0-5
Bolton 1-4
Norwich 1-5
Man Utd 0-9
Peterborough 1-7
Lincoln 0-1
Barrow 0-2
Liverpool 0-6
To name but a few
Is this a bit embarrassing? Yep, but it's a freak result, and highlights our need for a striker or two.
And I say that as someone who lives and works in Norwich, so we know what my Monday is going to be like. Gulp.
Ever onwards. [Post edited 27 Jan 19:18]
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Reply | Entitlement again - the sort of thing that McKenna isn't impressed by
at 18:45 30 Dec 2023
Festive day trippers as well, I suspect. Was talking about this sort of thing with a friend, who, for their sins, is a season ticket holder at Carrow Road for many many years (Look, I live up here, I'm surrounded by them whether I like it or not!)
He said that one Boxing Day they stuttered to a 0-0 against Spurs, and he was hearing several moans and groans around him in the Barclay along the lines of "We ain't got a hope with this lot! They're pathetic!" coming from people he hadn't seen at any point in the previous games.
The thing is, this was Boxing Day 1992. You know, that season that gave them the chance to be participants the following one. I've just had a look at the Prem table at that point. They went into it FOUR points clear at the top.
TL;DR It's nothing new, this sort of attitude, especially at this time of year. |
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Reply | Pablo Counago
at 18:27 29 Dec 2023
"Dear Ted Phillips, appreciate you died nearly six years ago, but fancy a run out against Stoke?" |
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Reply | Town players as roads in Ipswich
at 13:32 25 Nov 2023
Andy Nelson Road
The great thing about this thread is that if people aren't looking at a map with a magnifying glass, they're dusting of their copies of The Men Who Made The Town on the off chance someone called Lawrence Lovetofts or Miles Humber-Doucy played a single game for Town in 1911. |
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Reply | 23 wins from our last 26 games
at 22:17 26 Sep 2023
Frankly, I've got to the stage now where I'm half expecting Graham Chapman to turn up in a Colonel's uniform telling us to stop as it's all getting silly.
Absolutely bonkers. |
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Reply | The days of deciding to come to PR at 10am on a Saturday gone
at 11:40 23 Sep 2023
This is the thing. In terms of the nearest other teams getting a 20k plus attendance regularly, you have to south to West Ham, west to Leicester, or north to you know who, and it seems ridiculous to say they're the closest when they're over 40 miles away.
Haven't gone eastwards, because unless I haven't been paying attention and Woodbridge Town now play in the 70k Grundisburgh Megadome, you're going to get a bit wet before you find another suitably sized stadium.
Massive dormant untapped potential - and of course other teams have the same - Plymouth tap into Cornwall, Carlisle have most of the Lake District, and up north Ross County or Inverness Caley have the whole of the very top part of Scotland. (Although I appreciate it is going to be a tad tricky to travel) |
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