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Thread | Booing Saka
at 18:21 20 Apr 2025
WHAT HAPPENS AT FOOTBALL MATCHES. |
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Thread | Cheeky Ødegaard bid, perhaps?
at 17:57 20 Apr 2025
Not a bad player.
Fuuck me, Arsenal were good. By far the best team at PL this season.
What can you say? I didn’t see the Leif challenge, so can’t comment on that. I feel we did well with 10 men to keep it to 4 and it may well have ended up like that anyway.
I’m only going to list the positives… Morsy had a lot better second half. Tuanzebe looks a good PL player, as does Cajuste (who does always however seem to tire). Dara O’Shea is solid.
We did end up with a left side of Burgess and Greaves, which was quite amusing.
Crowd had some fun, and KM got a nice song after the match. |
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Thread | Hang on, I thought Brighton played super attractive
at 09:19 17 Jan 2025
progressive football.
Worse than fůcking Lincoln. At least Everton were well organised and actually just played well. Ugliest, dirtiest team I’ve seen at PR for a long time. Hope they’re relegated as soon as possible. Twåts. |
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Thread | Still buzzing from last night?
at 15:31 31 Dec 2024
It’s OK, perfectly natural. Me too. What a great way to end the year.
Few thoughts:
I think Muric is a really good ‘keeper and our longterm number 1, but wasn’t it wonderful to see Walton so stoked at us winning, despite everything he’s been through?
Luke Woolfenden. We only play him against world class teams because he’s that classy.
The word “barrelling” was invented for Liam Delap.
I can only marvel at KM and how he draws something from every player that contributes to the whole. Like how Cajuste can smuggle the ball from the edge of our penalty area into midfield like he’s playing some sort of card trick. Magical stuff.
Here’s to us staying up. We can do it. |
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Thread | We’re not Wolverhampton Wanderers, we’re Ipswich FC
at 17:41 15 Dec 2024
Gary O’Neill’s sacking got me thinking how identikit most middling PL teams are.
Basically: a collection of very good, very expensive, interchangeable players. Is there essentially any difference between Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton and Wolves beyond the quality of their coaching? Any of them can beat each other.
And when it goes wrong it’s pretty horrible. It seems that Wolves fans really don’t like their club. And to be honest, what’s there to like about a more or less random assortment of underperforming top level players?
Then you have us. Burgess, Clarke, Davis, Morsy, Chaplin and Burns have played in our League One campaign. Taylor, Burns, Al Hamadi and Chaplin have played in League Two and below.
Delap and Hutchinson are promising youngsters with next to zero top level experience, yet here they are, starting match-in match-out, tearing up defences.
Wouldn’t it be great if Kalvin Phillips ended up resurrecting his career at Town?
I guess we could end up like Wolves if we stayed up and had a few seasons in the PL. But as it stands, is there any better team to support and get behind? |
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Thread | Thought I’d clear up a few things
at 09:31 12 Dec 2024
1. Kieran McKenna is the best manager we’ve had since Bobby Robson and has done, and is doing, an incredible job
2. Jack Clarke, Ben Johnson, Amir Muric et al are not the worst midfielders/goalkeepers/defenders we’ve ever seen at the club and shouldn’t be sent straight back to whence they came
3. We get to watch super-exciting, attacking football week-in-week-out, even with some of the squad that was playing against Forest Green Rovers two years ago, and a bunch of raw, untested at this level young players who are developing at astonishingly quick rates
4. We are somehow competing in a league where all the other teams have had hundreds of times more income than us for years
If you don’t agree with any of these points you are either i) jaded or spoilt beyond belief or ii) a Norwich City fan. You are welcome. |
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Thread | Bit of a weakness (or risk) in our shape
at 10:17 9 Dec 2024
And this goes back to Harry Clark even in League One.
Leif gets right forward so we have a sort of 3 man defence when in possession, but it seems a bit lopsided/under-protected on the right, and teams occasionally target that space.
Bournemouth doubled up really wide on their left and Tavernier (I think it was him) kept playing inside which meant Johnson sometimes had 3 jobs at once.
Now, Tuanzebe is our best defender full-stop, and may have dealt with it a bit better, but I thought Johnson had a hell of a job on his hands, especially in the first half.
(Posted in defence of him, partly because of the twæt two rows down who wouldn’t stop shouting at him the whole of the first half.) |
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Thread | Steve Cooper is a bit of a twªt
at 17:33 23 Nov 2024
Moaning about the ref, implying (well, stating) he’s got something against Leicester City. Rather than saying “We think he had a bad game…” he makes it seems that there were factually bad decisions against Leicester in the Chelsea game.
Apart from the fact Leicester benefited from some poor decisions against us, it’s pretty low to weaponise the Coote story.
Won’t be sad to see Leicester relegated. |
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Thread | We’re such a weird team
at 09:06 27 Oct 2024
And that’s why we love us.
What other team would go to Brentford and sweep them off the park with half a team that was starting a League one season just two years ago? To the extent we should have been 4-0 up at half-time.
And then collapse to the degree we did, only to keep pushing and nearly grab a 4-4 draw?
I’m still optimistic. There’s enough spirit, drive and nous there to keep us up. |
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Thread | We’re struggling
at 10:11 20 Oct 2024
Hardly surprising, but still difficult to adjust to after 2 brilliant seasons.
Everton were good. Not hoofball, but different from a lot of other teams. No attacking fullbacks but plenty of skill. Really tough, and their set up meant we never got any what I believe are termed “overloads”.
I think we’ll do better against teams that are willing to go toe-to-toe, like Villa.
They just had better players in key positions. Doucore, DCL and Ndiaye especially. Fantastic bit of skill turning Burns inside out.
The basic Town attacking patterns are there still, so we do get the ball forward at least. But we seem to be tinkering all the time in an effort to find some combination that works, which means we then lack a bit of cohesion.
Was a bit odd ending up with our L1 back 4. Cam and Woolfie did OK while Clark made a bit of a difference. We’ve spent a lot, but really that’s just to give us the depth we need. We’re starting so far behind everyone else.
Bit annoying to hear the return of a couple of NS moaners, and the negative stuff I listened to after the match in Beattie’s was quite something.
Would have been different if Clark had scored or the penalty stood, but pretty comfortable for Everton.
Everton fans make more noise than Liverpool.
Need a win, obviously, and to hit on some formula that just works. |
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Thread | Don’t really get the “we should be beating teams like Southampton” thing
at 08:28 22 Sep 2024
And tut-tutting over yesterday’s performance.
In terms of resources, long term spending and wages we are starting miles behind everyone else, including Southampton.
There are no Lutons or Sheffield Uniteds this time round. Everyone strengthened this season and has a history of Premier League squad building.
It was similar last season, but we won by being more tactically astute, fitter and more together than anyone else. We had to fight more, and for longer.
I also read someone saying “Sorry, but Wes Burns just isn’t good enough for this league”, when a) he’s actually looked dangerous whenever he’s played and b) he’s played 2 and a bit games.
How short are people’s memories? We were playing Forest Green Rovers a couple of seasons ago. |
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Thread | I thought we sounded good all match
at 17:40 21 Sep 2024
Bit disappointing to see a few grumbles on here.
We have by far the cheapest squad and the lowest wage bill in this league. We’ve played Manchester City and Liverpool, a good Fulham team at home and an excellent Brighton away, along with one of our fellow promoted teams away. Getting 3 points from that is absolutely brilliant.
We kept going and, yet again, got an injury time goal. We’ll get a win and start flying.
And Sam Morsy? Fuuucking legend. |
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Thread | My son sent me a clip of *that* Muric save
at 17:37 14 Sep 2024
Does he actually make 3 saves!?
Going to be a fan favourite very soon.
Also: let’s just hear it for Tuanzebe. Quietly becoming a Town legend. |
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Thread | If Broja’s better than Delap
at 18:35 31 Aug 2024
then Everton got an absolute bargain.
That was fun, wasn’t it? Like watching us last season: relentless, lots of pressure, some good chances, only against a slicker team than we’re used to. We deserved a win.
We’ll adjust to the general PL level and having to defend more, and be fine, I think. Don’t really care what happens if we play like that every week.
Omari plays every position on the pitch. His defensive work is breathtaking.
Kalvin Phillips looked classy – his passing is a bit quicker than everyone else’s. He seemed to enjoy the atmosphere and will fit right in at Town, rather than playing in front of 50,000 moaning Hammers fans or silence at the etihad.
Woolfie is stepping up effortlessly. Jack Clarke has fine shorts. The Morsy turn works in any league, anywhere.
Only gripe is that **every** tackle in the PL is a foul. [Post edited 31 Aug 2024 18:47]
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