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Comment | Bromley 1-1 Ipswich Town (5-4 on Pens) - Match Report
at 12:31:02
@bangalore Blues. That's cr@p! Ferguson was the man who pioneered degrading the league cup by playing reserves in the mid-90s (remember their defeat to York in '95 anyone?). He's actually the main driving force behind why it's now treated as a reserve competition so we can all marvel at the 'Super League-by-any-other-name' we're expected to appreciate but never be allowed to compete in thanks to FFP stopping any chance of that... |
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Comment | Bromley 1-1 Ipswich Town (5-4 on Pens) - Match Report
at 22:39:55
Gosh - and the knives come out this quickly?! We picked up what might be a vital equaliser in a six pointer away come end of the season and our reserves have gone out of a cup against a very fired up Bromley side who've started well and were keen for their first ever league cup win...
Not saying i'm travelling home happy but this means nothing and actually I'm happier than last year when that meant no midweek games til December. This season we can do without it if we're serious about getting stuck in to the Championship.
Agree Al Hamadi and Clarke look shot, but Johnson continues to improve and Ashley Young looks a very good signing on his first two games... This often happens to relegated teams who take a while to adjust (see Newcastle 2017/8). Let's see where we are come October before all this crazy talk! |
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Comment | Safe Standing Removed From Block E
at 18:56:33
@Botesdale Blue Perhaps it's a gesture designed to encourage more of our peers to give us a larger away allocation? Although tickets are unlikely to be as at a premium as last year the Brum game shows we're well on the way to 2000 supporters on +30app. Like the usual trade in ticket pricing (I fully expect to get stung at Southampton big time this season...) it may mean we can push for a few more tickets for our fans?
Anyway - I'll also bet there will be several more games than last year where that 500 (and more?) will come back for home fans - Blackburn, Preston, Swansea, Hull just as a a starter. Sheff Weds and Leicester may be boycotting by then... |
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Comment | O'Shea Signs New Deal
at 16:15:57
Great stuff. Excellent player. That's made up a bit for losing Burgess, as if we'd lost O'Shea too then we would be in probs. He will be full-time captain well before the end of this contract I'm sure, and suspect that may be part of the deal. |
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Comment | Released Harness Joins Grant at Huddersfield
at 23:03:26
Really great and under-rated player. Well done McKenna and the club for not pushing for a fee and letting him make a quick move at a crucial point in his career, despite being a bit sad he isn't going to join us for the current campaign. Thanks for everything Marcus - in particular inspiring that comeback at St Andrews last season! |
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Comment | Tuchel: Delap on Radar But Will Need to Compete in the Premier League
at 17:03:42
You'd think getting into double figures for a team 15 points off safety in the Premier League suggests he's a much better striker than some of the ones he's picked?! Especially with Andorra as opposition. Back to the dead end route of picking 'big club' players on reputation and back to England's old performances I suspect.
Tuchel will be gone next summer anyway after a highly disappointing world cup and he'll fall out with the FA on the way anyway. |
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Comment | Town Game Vardy's Last For Leicester
at 15:48:50
Cheeky b*ggers. Clearly think this is going to be a roll over party cos "it's only Ipswich". Hope that fires up our lads to kep a clean sheet, score a couple amd then mysteriously see Leicester pick him for the last game after all... |
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Comment | Everton 2-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 18:35:35
Uh - Harness has had a stonking season for Derby, quite apart from a pretty decent showing in his early games for us?? Anyone who doesn't want him back next year must have rocks in their head?!
Good performance today in the end. Soft first goal from the defence after O'Shea had bad luck with his clearance that led to the cross. Their second was a good goal, but I was thinking how little we deserved it in a very even game. Nice to see us getting a result that was fair on the balance of the play.
Good to see the ground before it goes - proper old school. Spine tingling opening tho same old Premier League atmosphere (ie - none) for the rest of the game. Noticeably full into injury time tho so respect to them for that. |
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Comment | Newcastle United 3-0 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 19:02:58
Well - it's over. And thank goodness for that. Another good reason for why we're well put of this corrupt nonsense for those of us who prefer fair football.
That said full marks to Newcastle for being easily the best atmosphere and friendliest fans all season. Good for them.
As for the ref. I'll leave it to the new chant "Premier League. Corrupt as #&@£". Let's get a big banner in the North Stand for West Ham as a goodbye!! |
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Comment | Morsy: Ups and Downs on Way to Becoming Sustainable Premier League Club
at 15:05:28
We're clearly NOT the worst in the division by league position or pretty much any objective measure compared to Leicester and Southampton. Even if we there are far more mitigating circs.
Morsy can talk it up, but all those examples are in a 'pre-FFP' era. What we are seeing now are the natural consequences that this hobbling of teams ability to invest to catch up would achieve in time. On the plus side, hopefully the very blatant lack of competitiveness it will quicker hasten the super league and the departure of the greedy corporate brands who have ruined the game for the rest of us. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 0-4 Arsenal - Match Report
at 00:04:17
The most interesting thing about the Premier League next season will be whether Leeds can survive or n edot. If the biggest club currently not in the club is unable to break the stranglehold, then I fear it really will be looking like a total closed shop going forward. That's what the almost Orwellian-ly mistitled "Financial Fair Play" was always going tto do - shore up the haves and prevent the have-nots even getting a chance to challenge them... |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 0-4 Arsenal - Match Report
at 19:23:49
Agreed - I'll be renewing my season ticket next year and looking forward to being in now the 2nd most watched league in Europe and certainly the one that produces the most excitement to quality ratio by a long chalk. As for the following season - if we end DO up back in this farce of a league then the jury's out after decades...
I won't miss just about everything about the PL. But most of all I will be glad the home crowds at Blackburn, Stoke or Swansea won't be pointing and taking photos of fans in the away end supporting their team like we're some sort of rare animal specimen to show their friends!? All the time whilst zero atmosphere is created in the home end.
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Comment | Ipswich Town 0-4 Arsenal - Match Report
at 16:16:42
Joke game in a joke league. Glad I decided to boycott this on principle of being fed up of these foregone conclusions. No way that would have even been a card if it had been Trossard on Hirst or any other combo the other way.
V.decent performance 2nd half in the circs. |
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Comment | Johnson: We've Done the Club Proud
at 14:02:49
Ben Johnson is everything I want in an Ipswich player - he's working hard, keeping his head down and focussed, and improving every game. Can see him being a key part of our team next season hopefully! I was sceptical in the autumn but his performances this spring have now completely won me over (that pass out to Hutchinson to create the goal at Villa in particular).
He's on a similar trajectory as one of his predecessors, Mr Donacien, who after a shaky start went on to become Mr Ipswich and super servant of the club!. |
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Comment | Chelsea 2-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 17:27:13
Well done lads. Just as League Paper said in it's leader, we've not embarrassed ourselves this season, certainly compared to the other two. It's just football is well broken.
Pleased we started with a side that could plausibly be out in August bar Cajuste and Enciso. If we get an offer for Davis from Leeds then we now have a good replacement in Townsend, but we should put effort into keeping Tuanzebe, particularly as he and Johnson are becoming a decent partnership. Ben J would have been my MoM today bar Palmer's outstanding late saves. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers - Match Report
at 19:40:50
Well all I can say is thank goodness it's over. Least enjoyable season of my lifetime supporting Town. And that includes 1994-95 where, terrible as we were, you could still cling to the rationale it was our own fault and maybe we could bounce back to be Blackburn in a future season. No longer - this has felt about as fair a fight as Fabio going 38 rounds with a four year old.
Well done everyone at the club for making a good stab of it and not embarrassing us. And make sure we finish above at least Soton, if not Leicester too, as that is an achievement in itself given where we've come from. Altho the ten years of legal wrangling to get compensation from Man City if we do get 18th will be just as dispiriting as the knowledge that the best we are allowed to do in the modern game is maybe finish tenth one day if we're lucky.
Cannot wait to be back in a proper league with proper teams where the bottom three can still take points off the top 3 today, and Norwich can lose to the basement club! |
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Comment | McKenna to Make Late Judgements on Hutchinson and Davis Among Others
at 15:27:43
Start with Johnson. His pace to track back is way more useful in a tense game like this where we can't afford to lose the first goal. If we have to push forward nearer the end and forget about defending then Hutchinson or at worst Philogene if we have to but he's next to useless at doing anything defensive as far as I can see so far. |
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Comment | AFC Bournemouth 1-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 00:45:29
Everyone was immense tonight and felt like we finally had the spirit of the last two seasons back. Burgess exceptional particularly in the first half, Townsend is a hell of a player, Morsy relentless, Broadhead finally getting the goal he deserves, Delap and Enciso showing signs of a great partnership... But a special word for Ben Johnson who I thought was a really duff buy, particularly after West Ham, but he is getting better and better every game. Certainly in the right position now and his pace to track back way more useful for us in this league than the more flamboyant other options. Well done Ben. |
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Comment | Wolves Win to Open Up 12-Point Gap
at 09:57:07
Oh - and it might also mean we get a bye through the first round of the League Cup so we don't get turned over at home by Northampton or something... ;o) |
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