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Comment | Hutchinson Exit Looking Closer as Brentford Agree Mbeumo Fee
at 22:15:37
I don't understand these comments as I've not seen anywhere that Omari has said he wants to go to Brentford, let alone leave.
A club fancies signing him, they made a bid and it wasn't good enough for it to be considered, end of.....unless Brentford or a.n.other try again.
Am sure that is no different to what we are doing with these signings everybody is waiting for ITFC to announce.
We were poor last season in the Prem, it was always going to be tough and we knew it, we made loads of signings and had an incredible amount of injuries that seriously damaged our chances. All of the other reasons for our demise have been put on here hundreds of times.
Our two best players in the latter half of the season were O'Shea and Palmer, for me, and they are still at Town. We've at least 6 others who spent most of last season injured, so they will be in the mix to start.
Philigene and Burns I guess are not going to be ready, the former being the weakest and weediest excuse for a footballer I've ever seen (I think only Grealish falls over more), whilst I'm really hoping that when Wes is back we start using him as we did before i.e. cross field balls into the space behind for him to get onto (we all saw him in space in the early stages in the Prem but for some unknown reason the ball was rarely played out for him like we did in League 1 and the Championship.
I still have hope for the new season, but I was really surprised, pleasantly, that we kept going and got promoted despite a very poor defence 15 months ago. That for me will be key. Fingers crossed we get in a half decent right back, and a robust front man to lead the line along with Hirst. |
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Comment | Luton Eyeing Al-Hamadi
at 15:39:38
I must be honest and say I haven't yet worked out why we signed him in the first place.
Not sure I've seen him make any intelligent forward runs, he does seem to run around a lot, usually whoever the ball isn't, and he always appears to be struggling for breath, looking leggy at best, even when only just having come onto the pitch.
So for me he hasn't ever looked fit enough to play at championship level, hasn't a strong left or right foot (most of his efforts are scuffs, certainly not achieving clean contact with the ball), he doesn't really head the ball anywhere intentionally and that penalty, OMG, dreadful!
There are no redeeming features for me, I do feel we should move him on. Please. |
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Comment | Clarke: Slicker Thrown Into Situation He Perhaps Wasn't Ready For
at 08:40:24
WestSussexBlue......the article says the second choice keeper (i.e. the sub due to sit on the bench) was injured in the warmup, hence 3rd choice Slicker ended up being involved, and on the pitch when Gunn was injured.
He did look pretty unconvincing with what I saw of the game, sadly, very much like Muric in many games this past season....casual, a bit slow to react to everything and almost spaced out.....interesting that both of them were at Man City. |
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Comment | Cajuste Among Nominees for Goal of the Season Award
at 14:13:41
For me the goal of the season was that Mitoma goal, where he controlled the high ball on the run with two defenders around him, went inside and then buried it. Ball played from the keeper. Against Chelsea in February.
If that had been Mo Salah, or Son, Saka, it would have been shown and talked about every day of the week (and weekend!).
As it isn't on the shortlist (incredibly), Cajuste for me then. |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-3 West Ham United - Match Report
at 22:29:43
And apologies for a duplicate post....was getting pretty worked up typing it and a double hit of my phone and whoops.
Probably an age thing, what with supporting Town for over 50+ years, and going to games for 40 of them, on and off.
But at least we've the Chelsea win (at home!!!) to remember........ |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-3 West Ham United - Match Report
at 22:09:45
Well at £200 a game for three of us to 'enjoy' matches at Portman Road this season, nine matches that we successfully obtained them for....factoring in trains and/or car travel. That's approaching £2k spent this season.....for no more than 200 minutes of what could be called football and associated effort.
The rest has been, drab, inconsistent dirge, weak, ineffective, half-hearted and in the main just one plan/tactic.
The ride to the promised land was superb, decisions or lack of was coped with because it would be better in the Prem what with VAR and better quality officials.....yeah, right. Has been quite the let-down in so many ways.
Fingers crossed we sort the transfer ins and outs asap, well before pre season.
Fans though, all of you, have been superb, the support on match day immense! |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-3 West Ham United - Match Report
at 22:09:44
Well at £200 a game for three of us to 'enjoy' matches at Portman Road this season, nine matches that we successfully obtained them for....factoring in trains and/or car travel. That's approaching £2k spent this season.....for no more than 200 minutes of what could be called football and associated effort.
The rest has been, drab, inconsistent dirge, weak, ineffective, half-hearted and in the main just one plan/tactic.
The ride to the promised land was superb, decisions or lack of was coped with because it would be better in the Prem what with VAR and better quality officials.....yeah, right. Has been quite the let-down in so many ways.
Fingers crossed we sort the transfer ins and outs asap, well before pre season.
Fans though, all of you, have been superb, the support on match day immense! |
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Comment | McKenna: Important to End the Season on a High
at 12:08:44
I just want the team to have a go today, actually have some attempts at goal, attack with pace......like we had been doing the previous couple of seasons.
The general half-hearted efforts of the last few months have kinda cheesed me off. I'm referring to the attacking side of our game, defensively we've given our all and more (not always good enough, of course, but that's because we are in the Premier League and most of the opposition have had world class players in their sides, sometimes a lot of them.
Try and find a plan B and C too, give us some hope for the future Mr McKenna. |
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Comment | Town Buy Former Owner Evans's Remaining Shares
at 15:46:49
naa....fair points well made.
Having been travelling to Portman Road for over 40 years now, I've seen some good, great, bad, ugly, rotten football in that time (I lived abroad as a child and young man, so only got to watch ITFC on week/two week old betamax recordings of Match of the Day from expats coming back and forth), but missed seeing live those fabulous years.
I did stop making the effort when Keane came in...I detest the man, and everything he touches. We definitely paid over the odds, by a lot, for some terrible players around that time.
I do find it amusing that opinions, and we all have them, get marked down on here....they are opinions, after all. |
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Comment | Town Buy Former Owner Evans's Remaining Shares
at 09:57:03
His biggest mistake was employing that absolute bell-end Keane and giving him a lot of money spent on dreadful players, Keane upsetting every man and their dog proving he couldn't manage or work with other human beings, removed the reserves team that had just been successful and ultimately Evans then either had none or was unwilling to risk a huge amount more so we slid into mediocrity, down further into being simply dire and existing.
I kinda feel sorry for how it turned out. I feel he just about deserves some positive thoughts as it has ultimately led us to a couple of seasons of excitement and now huge investment.
I do fear for what happens next with it all having happened too quickly, whether our best players will be poached and we struggle to replace them with promising players capable of development and most importantly hope we have incoming players adaptable to different styles and formations moving forward. But the manager KMc needs to develop some alternative styles and tactics, as we are predictable with the different personnel trying the exact same stuff the substituted players failed to be successful with.
In relation to the article, I wasn't the biggest fan of Evans, but I'm not prepared to slate him for his efforts, he did invest a lot of money over all of those years. We are where we are now, as a result of his original investment. |
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Comment | Palmer: We Need to Sustain Pressure For Longer Periods
at 09:49:07
I agree with the comments on here. Palmer is a cracking keeper, and it frustratingly leaves you wondering whether had he been out first choice keeper purchase instead of Muric, what might have been!
Water under the bridge now, I know, and but for that, injuries, dodgy ref and VAR decisions we might have survived. Lol.
Armchaircritic59, you've highlighted not finding fault for effort, I must admit to have been highly frustrated at the lack of intent V Southampton at home....that was very poor in my book. But I only managed to get tickets for 8 home games in all. Mixed feelings about some of them.....Chelsea being the highlight, versus Liverpool and Villa at the start gave me hope, but Leicester, Saints, Palace and even Everton really frustrated me. |
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Comment | Voting Open For Men's Player of the Year
at 14:33:01
Had we not had Liam Delap this season, we'd have been below Southampton!
He has been impressive, far better than we could have imagined, but the George Hurst injuries mean we probably didn't see him consistently do it throughout the season, as KM probably played him more minutes than he'd have liked.
Greaves started very well, but was poor after that initial injury, and is now looking like the player of those few weeks.
I really like Cajuste too, and hope we can persuade him to join ITFC permanently.
But for me, the man who has settled in well, improved throughout the season, performed at a consistent level even when others have fallen short, and showed the fight and desire and effort throughout our campaign (am not sure many others have), it has to be Dara O'Shea.
O'Shea has my vote! |
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Comment | Delap Release Clause £30m
at 17:34:45
I'm kinda of surprised by people's reactions and comments on here saying what terrible business Ashton and ITFC have done with the various scenarios and release clauses etc.
Nobody has mentioned the fact that it is just as likely that Liam Delap or Manchester City would not have entertained ITFC as a club for him to go to had we not agreed to those T&C's.
Also, he has hit the ground running and looks more than a prospect, he looks like the real deal with further improvement yet to come too. But he could just as easily have not been able to cope with the Prem (yet) and may hardly have played for us and everybody would be shouting that he's been a waste of money, worth less, and we've not had anyone up top at all for the season......hindsight is a wonderful thing.
At the end of the day, we took a chance on him, and he's turned out to be an absolute star. There haven't been too many forwards that we've had over the years that have been so far of anything else we've had through the door. Marcus Stewart probably the last to surprise us so pleasantly, with the rest of our top strikers being home grown (Scowcroft, Darren Bent would be two I can think of). |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers - Highlights
at 12:14:31
I'm sure I will get marked down again for having an opinion (I've been a Town fan since 1972, been to games since Xmas 1984 having lived abroad as a youngster).....and I was at the game on Saturday too (having only managed to get tickets for 8 of the 16 home league games this season).
Why do we stop doing what gets us ahead in a game, once we score?
Why does every opposition defender look twice as determined and aggressive in their effort to win the ball (O'Shea being the exception.....after a slow start to his Town career he has been far and away our best defender, if not our player of the season)?
Why do we not attack any and every ball that comes into our box (in the air, not allowing it to bounce...again, O'Shea apart)?
Why do we allow the opposition to cross the ball into our box, in so much space, when we are so rubbish at defending it?
Why when we are losing and need a goal, do we persist with tippy tappy slow build up play with our defence.....why not get bodies in their box, bombard the penalty area with the potential to create panic, favourable deflections and opportunities to shoot on sight. Geez....it seems we are thinking we are still in League 1 & need to simply stay calm, believe in the process, be patient, we will score late blah blah.....but the opposition are far better, technically and organisationally, so that just won't work, especially if we don't even bother to put the ball into the final third!!!
All season I've watched countless ricochets off knees, hips, shins and earphones bounce to an opposing player and not to an ITFC one....what is that all about.
At least I may be able to get more tickets next season, as the excited new fans wander off to experience their next excitement or fad.
I've enjoyed the ride, I think the vast majority of us accepted that the second promotion was going to make life very difficult for us, as we hadn't yet reshaped the squad for the Championship. I would like us to retain most of the squad, retire a couple, and come up with a Plan B and C for games moving forward. Sign Cajuste please, and give Humphreys a spot in the match day squad next season....much as I enjoyed how we played against Man It'd, Chelsea and Tottenham (we lost heavily but to my mind we were by far the better team), we simply didn't bother and try to win v Everton, Palace and Southampton. |
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Comment | AFC Bournemouth 1-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 08:53:45
I'm not sure just how much stick Morsy is getting.
I feel he did a cracking job in League 1, and in the Championship, but in the Prem he has only had a one in five decent game at best. The vast majority of teams play it around him when we defend, harass him into giving the ball away or he simply gets tackled when we play out of defence, or (in the main) he plays a ball backwards or sideways when we are looking to break.
At this level we need more pace and dynamism..... |
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Comment | AFC Bournemouth 1-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 08:05:01
Great result, and some very good performances from some (O'Shea, Townsend and Cajuste in particular, and solid from Broadhead, Burgess and Tuanzebe whilst Enciso and Johnson did some good stuff) but that is yet another goal conceded after a cross that flicks off the defender half attempting a block....and everybody watches as the alert attacker takes a shot.
I'd love to know how many we've conceded in that manner. Are the players bodies facing the wrong way in readiness for the ball coming in, that means they aren't ready or quick enough to react?
Delap goal was a great move, a lovely ball by Cajuste, Delap Townsend combo. Excellent.
But Morsy and ? (Johnson, or Tuanzebe?), claiming offside when stood watching & playing everyone on.....Sunday league.
Thought the game passed Morsy by, almost feels like he isn't quick enough to get a challenge in, never mind a yellow card, this season. |
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Comment | McKenna: Philogene a Strong Option on the Right
at 12:06:58
Town1Inter0
My thoughts entirely. Davis and Muric have been our two biggest weaknesses throughout the season.
Others have had the odd poor game. And the team as a whole has completely underperformed on occasion too (sadly, apart from the Chelsea home game, the lack lustre 'going through the motions' performances have coincided with when I was successful in getting hold of tickets!).
Philogene, like J Clarke need to start getting shots away rather than lose the ball and promising attacks fizzle out 95% of the times they have the ball in the final third..... |
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