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Comment | Newcastle United 3-0 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 17:14:07
Johnson first yellow: falling when hurdling at that speed isn't simulation. Doesn't have to be contact for there to be a foul.
Johnson second yellow: total idiot.
Pen: Ref was consistent in having high-bar for foul. VAR effectively overturning was an absolute travesty of justice. Clear and obvious!? Not in the context of the refereeing in this game.
The rest pales into insignificance. Game was ruined. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 0-4 Arsenal - Match Report
at 18:01:37
LJ99, you're a caricature of yourself now. Muric is still top mistake maker in the PL. He has only played half a season: https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/error_lead_to_goal
No distractions for McK this summer. Need to get our business done early, let players have the gel-time they lacked last summer. No last minute panic buys in August. I agree this summer will be just as challenging as last given who we'll lose. We'll need:
1. Striker to replace Delap
2. 2 x CMs. Replace Cajuste and cover for Morsy.
3. Right wing-back. Ogbene is a speedster who snapped his achilles. Can't bank on him recapturing his athleticism. Burns is old for a pacy winger, and I'm unconvinced by even the recent improved form of Johnson.
4. CB: McK and Burgess aren't best buddies, and I can see one side or other calling it quits. Greaves unconvincing.
That's five new first teamers needed to bounce back up. And that's if we only lose Cajuste and Delap. Crucial summer. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers - Match Report
at 17:35:21
Game of two halves. Feel McK was spooked by the tinker-man criticism. He's made unnecessary changes this season, but with two games in 2.5 days, we had to rotate or at least make early subs. Dead on our feet in the second half. Shouldn't have waited for players to cramp-up. Everything geared for August now. Luton, Norwich, West Brom and maybe Leeds show how difficult it is to spring back. Summer deals done earlier this time. |
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Comment | McKenna: Arguments Both Ways on Delap Senior England Call-Up
at 16:55:50
"good, logical order why a player who has stepped up this season and has already had some massive experiences could be better served by remaining the main striker in the U21s" - this "order" is the same as its always been: big club bias. One of the main reasons England hasn't won a trophy in 60 years. Matt Le Tissier (Southampton): 8 caps. Phil Neville (Man Utd): 59 caps. History is littered with other examples. |
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Comment | McKenna: Get Through This Round and People Start to Dream
at 15:46:33
Many here calling for "the strongest team". That Coventry performance was so much better than the "first" team's in the last two games, that resting them can't have too much effect. I make an exception for Axel. The two right-backs McK has signed are so far below Prem quality, that Callum Hudson-Odoi will have a field day with them, as many other Prem left-wingers have this season. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-4 Tottenham Hotspur - Match Report
at 17:18:36
Love McK, but keeper and right-back this season have been among his very few mistakes since arriving. Dodgy sending-off last week cost us today. If Harry Clarke was still here, I think he'd be second choice. |
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Comment | Ex-Referees' Chief: Jones Too Quick to Issue Tuanzebe's First Yellow Card
at 11:46:27
Yeh first one was never a yellow. Even if you take the (extreme IMO) view that the ball-touch didn't divert it enough to prevent the subsequent contact being a foul, it's inarguable that the ball was diverted sufficiently to disrupt Villa's break. Morgan Rogers would have had to stop, change direction, and retrieve the ball that had been diverted. Break would not have carried the same threat. Hence cannot be more than a free-kick. Cannot be a yellow. Axel didn't go to ground.
In that circumstance, when VAR knows, because everyone who's has seen the replay knows it wasn't a yellow, then at the point of the dismissal decision (which I think was a legitimate yellow), the first yellow must be retracted IMO. VAR was intended to prevent blatant, game-changing injustices: goals, penalties, and dismissals. It currently cannot intervene for two yellows, the rationale being: reviewing every booking would disrupt the flow of the game.
Two possible solutions:
1. After he awards the second yellow, VAR can call the ref over to review the first booking _only_.
2. Captains have limited referrals for whatever they want. Say one or two per half. If they waste them, and there's a Maradona hand-of-god, then tough titties.
#2 is more revolutionary, but I see no reason #1 can't be introduced. There's almost always plenty of time after an unjust first booking for VAR to be ready to _instantly_ trigger the ref-review by the time of a second yellow. So unlike other VAR interventions, this would not delay the game. The only time it would is when someone picks up two yellows in quick succession, then VAR would have to stop the game to consult footage of the first booking, but this will be for a tiny minority of second-yellow dismissals. Since it would be very unlikely to disrupt the flow of the game, I think this is a valid rule change. It would prevent game-ruining injustices like yesterday, at low game-spectacle cost. |
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Comment | Delap: I Knew I Could Score in the Premier League
at 15:34:24
Winning > scoring. Hirst is one behind Delap in assists this season having played a fraction of the minutes. I'd like to see Delap's hold up play improve in this half of the season. Too often, he gambles for the turn and dribble, rather than plays the higher percentage simple layoff. The latter won't show in a Liam Delap YouTube montage, but is more likely to see ITFC remain a Premier League club. The anti-assist that he took off Chaplin's toe at Forest wasn't a good look. Don't get me wrong, Delap should remain our first choice striker, but he needs to remember the aim of the game is to play effective, winning football, not look good. |
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Comment | McKenna: Painful Loss But Lots of Positives in Display Against Saints
at 18:27:56
I think many here are conflating the Saints result (awful) with the performance: 1.84 vs
0.91 xG. 21 vs 13 shots. It was an objective decent performance. The reason we lost has hopefully now been solved. Let's all get back on the tractor McK is driving. |
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Comment | McKenna: Painful Loss But Lots of Positives in Display Against Saints
at 18:23:09
Agreed, good performance by us vs Southampton. Deserved to win. Calamitous goalkeeping performance, as has been the case for most of the season with Muric. Glad McK has swallowed his pride. Many managers would have flogged a dead horse to vainly prove they were right. Hopefully fixed now. CoYB! |
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Comment | McKenna: Changing the Team in Cups Has Been an Important Part of Our Success
at 18:21:38
Agreed, good performance by us vs Southampton. Deserved to win. Calamitous goalkeeping performance, as has been the case for most of the season with Muric. Glad McK has swallowed his pride. Many managers would have flogged a dead horse to vainly prove they were right. Hopefully fixed now. CoYB! |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-2 Southampton - Match Report
at 17:16:54
12m? McK is a great manager, and should remain relegation or not. But he failed to replace Hladky. As a lesser mistake, he failed to improve right wing-back. Unlucky with Ogbene injury, but Johnson wasn't an improvement. We now need the bottom four to be historically bad this season. |
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Comment | Liverpool 3-0 Ipswich Town - Half-Time
at 16:09:25
Goal 1: Phillips positional play not great, Walton: a top Prem keeper saves that.
Goal 2: Not much pressure on the crosser, but a very good finish by Salah
Goal 3: Axel playing everyone on. Defensive line was blancmange. The worst of the three from our PoV.
We need to buy a new right wing-back in the next week. Johnson inadequate. Is there a slower outfield player in the Prem? |
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Comment | McKenna: Donacien Said Emotional Goodbyes
at 08:26:23
Janoi was immense in our L1 promotion season. I've never seen such an attacking centre-back. It was ridiculous how much of the pitch he covered. Like a CB crossed with a right-winger. His assists and corners won must have been off the chart for a centre-back. Burns and him were telepathic. Could easily have won PotY. |
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Comment | FA Publish Cunha Ban Written Reasons
at 11:53:49
Pathetic slap on the wrists. Zero deterrent. Forget football, Cunha's elbow to the back of the head was borderline criminal, up there with the Cantona kung-fu kick, which was punished by a nine-month ban and community service. |
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Comment | Town in Godfrey Talks
at 17:59:26
Johnson is great on the ball, but he runs like he's on a treadmill covered in quicksand. Oppo wingers target him because they know they can breeze past. Can certainly never play Johnson at RB in a four IMO. Clarke is better defensively, but neither as good as Axel. Loan makes sense. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 0-4 Newcastle United - Match Report
at 17:26:31
I've been a critic of Muric this season, but none of the goals were his fault today. The third was 100% on Cajuste, who Muric had every right to expect would play a simple bounce pass to a full-back. This is McKennaball.
Muric didn't have a great game, and the toon header that bounced over the bar would have been on him, because Burgess was screaming at him to come off his line and collect it moments before. But I feel some fans are on a witch hunt for Muric every goal we concede at the moment.
AAH should have started. First game in > 3 years we've not started with a target man up front. Toon knew we'd always play short, and swarmed us every time. No second dimension, and we looked clueless.
But many players also had shockers today. Bad day at the office all round. Onwards and upwards. |
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