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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 | West Brom Sack Mowbray After Three Months
at 13:53:11
@LeeJames. Check your maths. If Sheff U don't get promoted then it's highly possible there will be FOUR teams with Parachute Payments as Luton are on a real rescue mission to stay in the Championship with Bloomfield that it looks increasingly like they'll win. I doubt they'll be down there again next season if they do stay up even if Top 2 may be beyond them. |
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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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Comment | Wolves Win to Open Up 12-Point Gap
at 23:22:03
What are you talking about Bluenomad? Southampton aren't relegated yet either. Or if you were being ironic they've basically been relegated since November?!
Can't wait to get out of this rubbish rigged league and back to exciting games like many of those in Leagues 1 and 2 tonight (Crawley v Peterboro looked the pick tho Swindon v Wimbledon must have been pretty crazy). Let's prepare by throwing off the shackles and having a bash at Bournemouth tomorrow - quite looking forward to going down there now there's zero pressure on it. |
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Comment | Town Accounts Show £39.3m Loss and Turnover Increase By 71 Per Cent
at 00:49:05
@nigelglos I guess it's about the sell-on value? Considering just over 30 years ago Michael Knighton nearly picked up Man Utd for about £20m, it's been a pretty good investment. I suspect many of these American investors are waiting for the day they can get that voting bloc that gets a 39th game and all the other mad ideas that they will want to sell to an American audience to milk the cash cow further... i expect they're all hoping to be one of the clubs established at the right time to be taken for the ride with the mega-brands for mega-dollars? |
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Comment | McKenna: Squad Has Bounced Back and Taken Positives From Forest Performance
at 20:22:43
Come on - what do you expect him to say. There WERE lots of positives the other night - unlike some previous games recently perhaps. But if the alternative is Kieran to say "actually after Monday we decided we're not good e enough and the luck's against us anyway so we're basically just going through the motions for the last two months" I know what I'd prefer?? |
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Comment | Nottingham Forest 1-1 (AET, 5-4 on Pens) Ipswich Town
at 22:49:33
All the luck we had last season coming back this season. A damn good effort but just not quite there. But last season was the bottleneck - we are.in very good nick for the Championship and a chance to build a team that needs less luck in two years time.
Gutting as it is tonight, must remember best FA Cup run in 20 years and it really does feel like we're at the start of a new era not the end of one. I wonder if in a decade's time this will be seen as the blip... |
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Comment | Arsenal Game Moves For Sky
at 12:18:34
Yawn. So predictable. Surely the Wolves game would be far more exciting to show for a neutral. But hey - it's not about sport but the number of people you have to sell things to isn't it... |
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Comment | Manchester United 3-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 01:01:44
Put in perspective this just underlines how big the gap now is. No excuses tonight for all the obvious reasons people have rightly already covered above. Sadly I'm pleased this is the first ticket I've passed up this season (mainly due to work) and I didn't miss a once in a lifetime night. Much respect to all who went.
But really - what are clubs our size meant to do? FFP has had completely the opposite effect it was meant to have. We can't spend enough to pick up the sort of players we need, whilst each season those established shore up their resources to stretch ahead ever further.
Worth noting last year was only the second time since PL was established the three up went straight back down and first time since 1998. Now it's two on the spin and difficult not to see at least Burnley and Sheff Utd or a play off winner not coming straight back down next season too. Can even a club the size of Leeds do it?
The fact it's seeped into the Championship too tho is scary. The parachute payments now really bite for that top two race for several seasons now. At least next season we are in that bracket and I'd say unlikely to do a Luton given our size and not needing to focus on a new ground etc. As I've said on here before - I'm sure the original plan was to get up next season. And we're in a much better position to do that now than we were before last season. Plus I'd think KMc will be less attractive now, particularly given his buy out clause and salary etc. I also think he will be learning massively and may find a way to have a better crack at it with more time to gel a capable squad in the Championship first just like he did in League One, and look what happened with that jump... |
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