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Reply | Race to 100 points Tracker
at 19:50 6 Mar 2024
Updated Tracker from Game 6 of the ‘Final 16 Run-in’
Millwall W 3-1, W 0-4. +0 points, 100 point target +0 points
Swansea W 3-2, W 1-2 + 0 points, 100 point target + 0 points
Rotherham D 2-2, W 4-3 + 2 points, 100 points target + 2 points
Birmingham D 2-2, W 3-1 + 2 points, 100 points target + 4 points
Plymouth W 3-2, W 0-2 + 0 points, 100 points target + 4 points
Bristol City W 0-1, W 3-2 + 0 points, 100 points target + 4 points
Which means we are currently on target for 104 points if we match the remaining 10 games results from earlier this season (W8,D2,L0)
Next game: Cardiff City need to match W 3-2. |
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Reply | Race to 100 points Tracker
at 21:54 3 Mar 2024
Updated Tracker from Game 5 of the ‘Final 16 Run-in’
Millwall W 3-1, W 0-4. +0 points, 100 point target +0 points
Swansea W 3-2, W 1-2 + 0 points, 100 point target + 0 points
Rotherham D 2-2, W 4-3 + 2 points, 100 points target + 2 points
Birmingham D 2-2, W 3-1 + 2 points, 100 points target + 4 points
Plymouth W 3-2, W 0-2 + 0 points, 100 points target + 4 points
Which means we are currently on target for 104 points if we match the remaining 11 games results from earlier this season (W9,D2,L0)
Next game: Bristol City need to match W 1-2. |
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Reply | Race to 100 points Tracker
at 09:26 25 Feb 2024
Updated Tracker from Game 4 of the ‘Final 16 Run-in’
Millwall W 3-1, W 0-4. +0 points, 100 point target +0 points
Swansea W 3-2, W 1-2 + 0 points, 100 point target + 0 points
Rotherham D 2-2, W 4-3 + 2 points, 100 points target + 2 points
Birmingham D 2-2, W 3-1 + 2 points, 100 points target + 2 points
Which means we are currently on target for 104 points if we match the remaining 12 games results from earlier this season (W10,D2,L0)
Next game: Plymouth, need to match W 3-2 . [Post edited 25 Feb 10:15]
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Reply | Race to 100 points Tracker
at 09:57 21 Feb 2024
Updated Tracker from Game 3 of the ‘Final 16 Run-in’
Millwall W 3-1, W 0-4. +0 points, 100 point target +0 points
Swansea W 3-2, W 1-2 + 0 points, 100 point target + 0 points
Rotherham D 2-2, W 4-3 + 2 points, 100 points target + 2 points
Which means we are currently on target for 102 points if we match the remaining 13 games results from earlier this season.
Next game: Birmingham, need to match D 2-2 to stay on target. |
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Thread | Race to 100 points Tracker
at 11:55 18 Feb 2024
If we look at Valentines Day as the start of our run-in, we had 60 points from 30 games before the Millwall game with 16 games to go. In the reverse 16 fixtures we harvested 40 points. If we matched that over the return games we would get 100 points.
We won 12 of those 16 games, drew 4 and lost 0. The draws were against Huddersfield (A), Rotherham (A), Birmingham (A), Norwich (H). If we match all 16 results and get 100 points we will be in the top 2.
So, adopting a method being used on other threads for comparison to previous seasons, comparing our progress against the reverse fixtures give us this so far:-
Millwall W 3-1, W 0-4. +0 points, 100 point target +0 points
Swansea W 3-2, W 1-2 + 0 points, 100 point target + 0 points
Which means we are still on target for 100 points if we match the remaining 14 games results from earlier this season.
Next game: Rotherham, need to match D 2-2 to stay on target.
I intend to update after each game.
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Reply | So what does the town need then..
at 17:04 14 Sep 2023
Something like this maybe??
The Sporting Quarter plans in full are for a sports and convention centre that will be a permanent home for the Bristol Flyers basketball team, and also create a flexible venue for conferences, events, concerts and shows that could house more than 5,000 people standing, or between 2,000 and 3,000 sitting.
Around this will be a hotel, a block of 125 flats, office accommodation, stores, a gym, a club museum and a large multi-storey car park |
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Reply | Conner Chaplin
at 23:11 3 Sep 2023
Absolute nonsense. There were a few boos from the Cardiff fans aimed at the lino who flagged their goal offside, and a few also aimed at the ref. Not coming from the home fans at all. |
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Reply | EU seeing public resistance to the AZ vaccine
at 09:37 25 Feb 2021
I read this and got a bit concerned. Then I looked up who the analysts are that are quoted extensively and form the basis for this article.
They are SVB Leerink who are US Investment Bankers specialising in BioPharma.
A US investment bank advising on whether or not to buy stocks in a non US based pharmaceutical company isn’t likely to be very balanced, and possibly indicates how much of a commercial threat the likes of Pfizer view their rival. |
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Reply | Classic Ipswich Town team
at 14:57 6 Oct 2018
Muhren was LM. Thijssen was RM with John Work as CM and Eric Gates as CAM |
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Thread | The Elephant in the Room
at 22:26 24 Jan 2018
There's so much divided opinion on here as to whether its MM or ME who is turning this club into one that has no ambition, not enough funding etc.
But you're all missing the elephant in the room.
Its us, the fanbase. We're not pulling our weight.
Our role is not only to air our grievances and opinions. Its to put our hands in our pockets and pay into the club by actually buying tickets and going to games. By filling our own stadium. Its quite simple. We have an average gate of around 15000 in a stadium of 30000. If Easyjet ran with their planes half full every flight, they'd soon get to the point where they would have to downsize to suit their income.
For every additional 1000 bums on seats at him games, our contribution to our club would increase by about £30,000. 23 times a season. Which is £700,000 per season. Do, average home gates of 24000 (remember those days?) would provide support of £7M per season. I imagine that would enable the club to start shopping fir a different class of player if it had an additional £7M a season. And if we could somehow get to an average of 90% full (27000), we would have about £9M more per season than we do now.
Yes, the football is turgid and boring.
However, removing our financial support harms our club. A number of us seem to think that ME should increase his financial support. Why don't we? We like to talk about the club belonging to the fans, but we have become apathetic and, worse, many of us have stopped supporting the club. There's a fundamental difference between a fan and a supporter. A supporter buys tickets, programmes, has a beer and a pie, buys stuff in the shop etc. That's meant to be us, folks!!
When some say things like Derby's owner supports the club more, we forget that their fans buy twice as many tickets as we do which pays the wages of a lot of those exotic players. In fact, we could have afforded to buy Tom Lawrence if more of us fans were also supporters.
Also, when some of us bemoan ME not making funds available to the manager, we misstge point that its us the fans who are nit making funds available to the manager.
In fact, our collective decision to withdraw 40% of our financial support during the past 10 years is the biggest single contributor to our change from a club with ambition to one that is stuck in a rut of mediocrity.
So, lets wake up. If you pay for sky sports and don't go to Ipswich him games, you are supporting our rivals, and not your own football club.
The way out of this mess is in our hands, not in ME or MM. We need to break out of our apathy and put our hands in our pockets, or stop criticizing those who are actually doing so.
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Reply | New Orwell Bridge
at 12:31 19 Jun 2017
Interesting. Is there a link to that gov't paper by any chance? |
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Reply | Got to get the train to London in a couple of hours and half the trains...
at 10:24 19 Jun 2017
I think you'll find that the laws of physics apply to all countries and their railways. We just like to blame people for anything and everything.
Rails are prestressed to take account of the normal temperature ranges experienced in the local climate. Hotter countries have a different normal range of temperatures, so they are prestressed accordingly. The problems come when extraordinary temperatures for that local climate are experienced.
Most of the expansion forces are absorbed by the fastenings from the rail to the sleepers, but there is a limit. Beyond that limit, the rails will try to move laterally, i.e. buckle, which presents a threat of derailment unless speed restrictions are introduced.
If trains are travelling more slowly, the line capacity is reduced which is why timetabled trains get cancelled. |
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Reply | New Orwell Bridge
at 10:14 19 Jun 2017
Anyone who has had to commute regularly across Ipswich either west to eat or East to west should welcome additional cross-town Road capacity. This is a project that is already approved, having gone through the necessary cost-benefit studies that are required in order to get funding. A world class architect has won a competition to get the best solution. Now a politician who most of us had never even heard of until a couple of weeks ago thinks he can scupper the lot if it presumably because neither he nor his political party thought of it.
As far as I am aware, this man has no academic qualifications in planning or in traffic engineering, but hey what does that matter it seems.
For those of you who don't like cars or roads, stop buying food and clothing before getting on your soap boxes. That chicken you ate last week didn't walk into Tesco's and give itself up you know! |
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Reply | New Orwell Bridge
at 20:16 18 Jun 2017
Fact: we all use the roads, even if you don't own or drive a car. Most of the food we eat and the clothes we wear have come by Road. Of course building roads creates more traffic eventually, it's how the modern world works. This is a project that will be a catalyst for regeneration of brownfield sites around the docks creating jobs. It will also provide an alternative route to Stoke Bridge/ Star Lane gyratory without having to take a detour of 3 miles to the Orwell Bridge. Ipswich has 3 major barriers to cross town traffic.. the River Orwell to the south, the pedestrianised town centre, and Christchurch Park to the north.
We need these bridges. We also need a northern bypass to link the northern fringe to the employment areas in Martlesham, Nacton, Claydon and Felixstowe. But no MP should be turning around to the government and saying "£100m? No thanks, that was a Tory idea and we don't want it because we are Labour". |
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