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Thread | First hour good, last half hour bad.
at 08:45 17 Jan 2025
Struggled to get into the game for the first 20 minutes but whilst they had all the ball we kept them pretty easily at arms length and by half time had easily become the more dangerous team in the game.
3 presentable chances with the Broadhead, Delap and Omari shots....Burns away 3-4 times down the right and putting good balls into the box with no luck (or Chaplin/Szmodics to sniff one out) and generally were causing them problems.
You could see they tweaked it a bit at half time and Joao Pedro (boooooo) was tasked to drop in deep and drag Woolfie around so that we couldn't settle defensively and that's an assignment he struggled with physically as gave Pedro room to run off him.
First goal a frustration, we were messing about in the corner with the ball, Cajuste turning back into trouble when it had to go and reset and ended up giving away the throw (was it btw? not checked) and then Greaves doesn't quite make the clearance and the ball goes through Walton (who may still have been dazed).
But from then on they totally suffocated us, and we just could not play out through the press at all, and if we tried to go long it came straight back. Was really impressive from them but it killed us. Delap was on a yellow and being careful, Omari looked knackered and Broadhead just drifted so far out of the game which isn't unusual.
With O'Shea at RB, as good a defender as he is, he isn't going to help you play through the press - could maybe have put Godfrey or Johnson on for Woolf and switched O'Shea to centre as felt he'd have dealt with Pedro better and it would have offered us more on the ball
Overall I think the last half hour will cloud the judgement and make it out to be a poor performance, when for the first hour it wasn't at all. We'd totally limited them and looked dangerous - but when we go behind it's hard to get back in to it currently.
A few random thoughts in no particular order
- GK. It was worrying how Walton looked in short passing game, and at set pieces they were all over him and he didn't get near any. For me overall he's a downgrade from Muric, but if people don't want Muric, do we need to go to the market?
- Phillips. Just not sure he does enough to disrupt and subsequently dictate things. Am desperate for him to find old self but don't think he will.
- Ref. Same one at Forest away, consistent but lets way too much go for us as we can't compete with these established PL sides without a bit of help. Webster should have been booked early for foul on Omari, Veltman should have been booked earlier, it changes the game if they are on yellows when Delap is rampaging at them as they can't commit like they continued to. Not a biased ref, but one who doesn't suit us.
- Subs. Not quite sure we got them right, don't understand why we put Taylor into 10 first rather than just getting Clarke on and then felt last 2 were a bit late. |
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Thread | Pete O'Rourke reporting Ipswich have rejected...
at 15:02 14 Jan 2025
...an offer from Boro to turn George Edmundson's loan move into a permanent one
Seems surprising when he is out of contract in the summer, think we'd take what we can get
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Thread | Matt Bloomfield is the new Luton boss
at 12:49 14 Jan 2025
Great move for him after doing a fantastic job in seemingly trying circumstances at Wycombe.
I wonder what this means for Cameron Humphreys too |
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Thread | Transfer window predictions...
at 11:53 2 Jan 2025
In
- Young GK (U21)
- RB/RCB in similar profile to Tuanzebe
- Right Winger to replace Ogbene
- Versatile attacker - another number 10, KM loves his options
- Striker
Out
- Slicker - Loan to free up a space
- H.Clarke - Loan as he's not quite ready for me and we should be well covered with above signings
- Al-Hamadi - Loan
- Ogbene to be deregistered if he is definitely out for the season
That would keep us within the squad limits.
Other question to answer is over Central Midfield, can we return Phillips with no financial penalty and replace with cheaper if all they are is a back up to Morsy and utilise that money elsewhere? |
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Thread | Team tonight then….
at 11:30 30 Dec 2024
Muric
O’Shea
Woolf
Greaves/Burgess
Davis
Morsy
Phillips/Cajuste
Johnson/Burns
Omari
Szmodics/Clarke
Delap
Those are my 4 calls but I’d go with Greaves, Phillips, Johnson and Szmodics
Obviously some fitness queries in there - imagine the second CM and Greaves the main ones effected |
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Thread | Travel plans tonight…
at 07:51 27 Dec 2024
My match day travel plans have had to change. So now need easiest/quickest way to drive and tube/train in.
Thinking head to Stratford (park at Westfield) then overground from there to H&I.
Anyone with better options? Or aware of any flaws in my plan?! [Post edited 27 Dec 2024 7:51]
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Thread | Important not to overreact
at 12:50 22 Dec 2024
Bad day at the office, but it’s the first game for 2-3 months which we’ve just not been in from start to finish and that will happen.
Missed Delap big time, with no out ball we had to keep playing out and they could cheat and press the life out of us.
Absolute masterclass from Tonali and Bruno, as good as I’ve seen this season.
Too many players had an off day, from the first second of the game - Burgess, Morsy and Chaplin right through the spine didn’t have good games, lost nearly all their one v ones and can’t do that in the PL.
Tough couple of games coming up, need to get some players back fit and a couple of fresh additions - we only need to finish 1 spot higher than we currently are
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Thread | Looks like Delap not suspended
at 07:34 15 Dec 2024
https://www.premierleague.com/news/4110053
I remember something previously in penalty shoot outs where GKs getting yellow cards don’t actually count towards suspensions as it isn’t in the game.
I wonder if that is the case for post game yellows as well? It isn’t for post game reds but may be for yellows |
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Thread | YYYYYYEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
at 18:19 14 Dec 2024
What a moment, what a win, what a team of lions and never seen an Ipswich team with such spirit.
We’ll be fine |
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Thread | Day of the Jackal....***SPOILERS IN HERE****
at 15:13 6 Dec 2024
...absolutely loved episode 9 last night, was about as intense a piece of TV drama that I can remember and is building to an almighty crescendo next week
Going to be a long 6 days waiting to watch that! [Post edited 13 Dec 2024 7:18]
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Thread | Has anyone got Sky Broadband?
at 16:00 2 Dec 2024
If so, and they offer you a chance to move to Sky Max Broadband just do not do it, wait as long as you can.
We've recently had to do it, and it's been an absolute s**tshow, I'll go through a couple of bits here, just so people know the issue (which Sky are aware of but won't tell you)
New router sent, install it, and then Sky Q just basically doesn't work, none of the boxes talk to each other, have to have a Sky Q engineer out.
They basically say it is because the new Router's aren't 'Sky' so they don't talk to Q boxes in the same language, and the solution is for me to have my old router plugged directly into this new Max router so that it sends a Sky signal around my house for them to pick up.
We then get a Broadband engineer out, who confirms that this is acceptable, and adds boosters to the system, but now we end up with deadspots as it moves between boosters (the Sky Q box no longer acts as a booster like it used to). This is apparently all fine, and just user choice now to as what we want to do with it as the engineer has broadband throughout the house and has done his job.
Which means that where previously we just had a router in the office, and everything throughout whole house worked fine, with a cable run down to my garden room for another box we now have a new router, with the old router plugged directly into it, 5 boosters and a further (old) router down in the garden room. SO we now need 8 items to do a worse job than 1 was doing, of course we can't go back to the old router now.
So, does anyone have any broadband recommendations?! I always stuck with Sky because it worked so well with the Q boxes and the whole set up - so may as well shop around now! |
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Thread | Quick review
at 19:17 30 Nov 2024
Thought we were ok today, was always going to be one of those fine margin games and just silly errors compounded - bad pass Chaplin, bad pass Morsy, silly foul Szmod and then when they sit in and it’s not in transition then we don’t have enough guile (quality?) to break teams down so just huff and puff.
Going to be a number of tough days like that |
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Thread | Current state of things for international break
at 14:36 11 Nov 2024
Home:
GK - Walton
FB - H.Clarke, Davis, Johnson, Townsend, Tuanzebe
CB - Woolfenden, Greaves
CM - Morsy, Phillips, Cajuste, Taylor, Luongo
W/10 - Burns, Chaplin, J.Clarke
CF - Hirst
Away:
GK - Muric, Slicker
FB -
CB - Burgess, O'Shea
CM -
W/10 - Hutchinson, Szmodics, Broadhead
CF - Al-Hamadi, Delap
Injured:
Ogbene
Would it be greedy to suggest that O'Shea, and one of Delap or Hutchinson at least could pull out as well?! [Post edited 11 Nov 2024 14:46]
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