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Reply | Hutchinson
at 15:23 14 Apr 2024
I think coaches and even teachers probably ruined him when after he'd left 5 defenders floundering and the open goal gaped, they'd keep yelling for him to pass it before he found himself with no further alternative than to walk it into the goal.
An alternative theory might be that his fellow Town attackers become as entranced watching him as we do, and forget to keep up and take up credible positions. |
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Reply | Middlesbrough players
at 15:16 14 Apr 2024
Going from L1 also-rans to strong Prem contenders in two seasons. |
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Reply | Chirewa
at 20:36 8 Apr 2024
Not sure of our differences here - I was responding to suggestions that the club has not always maximised its youth capabilities by saying that some of those departed players instanced had yet to prove the Town wrong, and that springing Humphreys up from the bench did not currently seem to offer match-changing potential. You suggest that if he is not to be used, he should be loaned. That doesn't appear to me to be much different in terms of implying that McKenna hasn't quite got it right in Humphrey's case than my suggesting that he hadn't sufficient faith in him to use him at crucial moments. |
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Reply | Chirewa
at 13:55 8 Apr 2024
I like Humphries - compact, good left foot, reads game well, but you'd want something extra from the bench when things were drifting. This would include the pace that he doesn't seem to possess.
As to Gibbs and Simpson - the former still has it all to prove, and Simpson - 40 games, 3 goals for lowly Northampton - not sure that quoting him as an example shows our retention policy in a bad light. Anyway, both of these, plus Chirewa were keen to leave, and Town, even not so far back, were in no position to offer a glamorous prospect that might have detained them. |
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Reply | Interesting view on Martin from Loft for Words
at 13:12 3 Apr 2024
If he's not careful he's also in danger of a premature end to his own season here on Earth given that every miniscule turn of fate seems to be greeted by touchline agonies way in excess of whatever the original prompt was.
I don't know if anyone else has commented on this, but within and around the same incident where he screams for a red card for Morsy you can also see the hands on the chest shove that led to Moore's finishing the game. I'm not saying that that shove in and of itself was anything but a trifle with unlooked-for consequences. Nevertheless it triggered Moore's fall, which in turn, ended his afternoon.
Just imagine, Russell! Your central attacker felled by a "monstrous, unpunished foul" that might jeopardise not only your chance of winning the game, but an upcoming massive Derby, promotion, the league, and even possibly a Top 4 European berth next year. Best keep your shirt on, though. If not, that's another ridiculous, unfair, are-you-watching-cruel-world yellow! |
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Reply | ITFC Hall of Fame
at 14:27 15 Mar 2024
I think O'Callaghan was signed just before our 10 year bubble burst - with Bobby calling him "one for the future" and for the then, princely sum for us of £250k. Sadly, that future never really arrived.
Meanwhile, on the overlooked Colin Viljoen front, note that his teenage hat-trick v Canaries was actually at Carrow Road. Someone on this thread suggested that Mathie should be included, if only for his Derby hat-trick. Ace's feat was while still a teenager, followed by a 10 year dominance of our midfield, a Div 2 championship and two England caps. - all apart from being a Rolls-Royce of a player.
The EDP finish by saying that his career here ended after a fall-out over not being selected for the Cup Final. I hope that there isn't some pettiness lurking around the club that precludes him on account of such a thing. |
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Reply | ITFC Hall of Fame
at 13:51 15 Mar 2024
Seems crazy to be that Ace isn't in there whereas, decent player though he was, O'Callaghan wouldn't even get into my Lobby of Fame.
Incidentally, here's what the EDP has to say while reporting on derby games about a teenage Viljoen:
• February 1968 - Norwich 3 Ipswich 4
A sublime hat-trick from young South African midfielder Colin Viljoen sealed this Carrow Road thriller. The other goal was a collectors' item -- a free-kick from full-back Billy Houghton. Under Bill McGarry, Town were storming to the Second Division title. Viljoen was a key figure for Ipswich for many seasons and played twice for England in the mid-1970s. [Post edited 15 Mar 13:57]
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Reply | I have made a decision this weekend
at 12:47 12 Mar 2024
Serbian killed in battle and ushering in the Kingdom of Heaven, seen in light of promotion from English second tier - a tad overwrought, perhaps. |
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Reply | Miles Kenlock
at 16:08 8 Mar 2024
"No-one thinks its time and chooses Colchester. "
I think you well might if the alternative was only getting up off the bench when it wanted painting. |
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Reply | If you had a crystal ball
at 17:48 7 Mar 2024
Page 49: Al-Ahamadi stepped out to take the penalty - (look away now to page 54 or endure the drama?).
Page 54 - Leif coolly slotted it home to make it 3-2 (Stay with the match till the end, or turn back to page 50 to find out why it's only 3-2?) |
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Reply | Miles Kenlock
at 16:44 7 Mar 2024
Playing for Ebbsfleet, here's part of what he said to Kent Onlice:
“I enjoyed Ipswich, I joined as a kid and they grew me into who I am,” he said. “I learnt the majority of my stuff there and most of my experience on the pitch came from Ipswich.
“I was there for eight years and I still look out for their results. I still speak to a few of the boys and I’ve got friends there so I want them to do well at the end of the year. Hopefully they can keep it going but I know it’s tight up there.
“I just felt like it was time to move on. I didn’t feel any bad blood towards them or anything, I just thought it was time.” |
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Reply | First time we've got six in a row since 1992
at 13:36 7 Mar 2024
Did you also walk back through those allotments after the game, where there were several parked cars, and where several Town "hooligans", in their great delight and abandonment, walked across said cars via their bonnets and rooftops? [Post edited 7 Mar 16:31]
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Reply | Closed shop Premier League - interested tweet.
at 13:12 4 Mar 2024
Re the closed shop: even this season with Burnley and the Blades already getting the welcome mat out for perhaps Stevenage or Posh, there are still 5 teams, up to and including Palace, who could yet make the third relegation spot their own. Cut that lower third adfrift and the Prem bottom of table fixtures would become even less meaningful / saleable [Post edited 4 Mar 16:15]
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