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Comment | Town Confirm McAteer Signing
at 14:48:18
I just did some in-depth research. My brother is a Leicester City fan and I texted the news.
Response - "He’s a good player. We must be in serious financial trouble…." |
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Comment | Ipswich Town 1-1 Southampton - Match Report
at 14:35:53
Glass half-full thoughts.
- Last season's start in the Premier League were against two 'top-four' teams in Liverpool and City. We always thought that the true test of our level would be the next ones. Feels similar with Preston and Derby coming up next, the meat and potatoes of the Championship.
- New name for Wrexham's show? 'Welcome to the Championship, Wrexham'
- That first match against Preston could see two new strikers ready to go and possibly Cajuste ready to start. And a Norwegian winger?
- The Ipswich bench could be the key to success, as it was in the two promotion seasons. Bring able to bring on players just as good as the starters in attack was huge.
- Felt Matusiwa started to get a feel for the speed, especially in the second half. |
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Comment | High-Profile Season Opener For Blues at Birmingham
at 17:19:47
Algarvefan
I definitely sympathize. I work a bit in TV rights business for sport, and it's probably tough for TownTV to know which matches can be broadcast in which country, as deals sometime go through at the last minute.
You also have to factor in which matches are being 'produced' by Sky for international distribution as well.
I am in the States where Paramount Plus have the rights to EFL, but not all the matches are made available by the host broadcaster. I can watch Birmingham vs. Ipswich tomorrow and probably a lot of the other big games, but I would need Town TV for the likes of Town vs. Oxford United.
Last year, all the games were on the main NBC network without fail (Sob) |
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Comment | High-Profile Season Opener For Blues at Birmingham
at 14:18:00
Taking a glass half-full approach, it's going to be nice going into games again thinking "we can / should win this" rather than last season which was a bit hiding-behind-the-sofa at times.
I'd even take a solid, opening point away against a team expected to be in the promotion places as well. |
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Comment | Town Closing in On Matusiwa With Fee Agreed
at 14:58:48
I have to watch quite a lot of French football (long story). I am not familiar with the player, however, if you can handle yourself in the centre of the park in Ligue 1 then you can do it in the Championship as well.
Rennes is a solid team and he made 29 appearances last season in the league, so not a bench warmer by any means.
Also, we are always better with some Dutch in the squad! |
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Comment | Town's Season to Start With Friday Trip to Birmingham
at 13:27:51
Nice. Birmingham will be on League 1 speed, like Ipswich were for the first half vs. Sunderland 2 years ago.
Ipswich will be in Premier League mode but quickly realising that Birmingham are not Liverpool. Clearly a 4-0 away win on the cards! And we may get the odd spectacle of Tom Brady sitting next to Ed Sheeran watching a Championship match. |
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Comment | Town Linked With US International Striker Agyemang
at 11:49:54
The US are playing in the Gold Cup on Sunday. I'll take one for the team and watch the match and offer a full scouting report back. He has a solid record for the national team at the moment and scoring key goals, so he's definitely not a donkey. |
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Comment | Delap's Chelsea Move Confirmed
at 23:11:23
BTW Town1Inter0 - I have a clanging, name-dropping anecdote about that.
I had the chance to work for a while with Christian Vieri, who scored the hat-trick against us, you may recall.
He asked me what team I supported. He claimed he had never heard of "Ipsweeech". I reminded him he once scored a hat-trick against us. He didn't recall that game. I showed him the video and it jogged a vague memory. At one point he remarked, "that's Sereni, why is he there?" We asked ourselves the same question back in the day.
Nice fella though, but disappointing he didn't remember this landmark moment in his career like it was yesterday. He did seem pretty pleased with his performance when watching it back, though.
Also, he wasn't very adept with photocopiers. But that's another story. |
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Comment | Delap's Chelsea Move Confirmed
at 22:23:39
In the end, it's the best out of a difficult situation. At least there could be a big bonus when he is flipped for 150 million to Real Madrid in two years. I like the look of a Marc Guiu loan deal though.
Very much the next big thing at Barcelona before he was pushed out of the running up front by some fairly decent players. To get to start for that team (and score in the Champions League) at 18 you have to have a lot of raw talent. Why not take a punt?
I mean, it went so well with Giovani dos Santos back in the day ... oh. |
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Comment | Moyes: We're Among Clubs to Have Spoken to Delap
at 11:48:39
I've been spending way too much time thinking about this. It's an interesting one. I'd go for Newcastle as number one pick - the team are (probably) in the Champions League next season, Eddie Howe is sound, Isak will not be able to play every minute of 60-70 games, and the fans will enjoy someone who plays very much on the edge of the rules.
I'd plump for Everton as no.2 pick. New stadium, rebooted club with a better future and he will be the no.1 pick for a manager that clearly wants him.
Stay well clear of Manchester United, as tempting as it must be. |
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Comment | McKenna to Make Late Judgements on Hutchinson and Davis Among Others
at 18:01:08
Vitor Pereira and his assistant are suspended for the Ipswich game. So is Cunha.
As we saw at the match at Molineux, Wolves are a very emotionally volatile team. Put them under some pressure with a win on Saturday, and an implosion could on the cards. Ipswich have to do their part by picking up points, though. |
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Comment | McKenna: We Have to Go to Old Trafford With Humility But Also Confidence
at 11:43:44
Going to go on a hippy, mindful theme here, but forget what happens tomorrow or the rest of the season and enjoy tonight.
20th Feb 2024, Ipswich snuck at 4-3 win against Rotherham to keep up an immensely stressful Championship promotion campaign that was ultimately successful. In 2023, we were in Milton Keynes on the 23rd Feb.
Now we get to go to Old Trafford, with a fairly decent chance of winning. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. But anyone of us after that Rotherham game would have been delighted to have a must-win match against Manchester United to get stressed over and then fight amongst ourselves on the internet.
Enjoy these moments. They may come again next season, or the season after next, or not for another 22 years.
Going back to my shed of peace and tranquility.
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Comment | Clarke Completes Blades Loan Move
at 15:42:56
The upcoming Jhon Duran move shows just how hard it is to find a good striker at a reasonable price, when it comes to the budgets that Ipswich have.
He's a fine player, a substitute at Villa, but would be a step up for us. And he's going to move for £65m, probably three times anything we could get close to in the winter window. |
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Comment | Town Confirm Godfrey Loan Signing
at 21:03:22
Kieran McKenna has had a pretty good hit rate this season with transfers especially when factoring the fees compared to other EPL clubs have been able to pay.
If the worst comes to the worst, then the 2025 resale money for Delap alone will pay for most of the 2024 summer expenditure.
Bang on successes - Delap, Cajuste, O'Shea, Greaves, Hutchinson.
Honorable mentions - Szmodics. B Johnson (free!)
Time will tell - Phillips, Clarke (so close, today), Ogbene
Mmm - Muric. |
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Comment | Fulham 2-2 Ipswich Town - Match Report
at 16:33:04
Trying not to be greedy here. After the exertions of those performances against Arsenal and Chelsea, I had a niggling feeling that this could have been a flat 3-0 defeat to a more-than-decent Fulham side. But it wasn't.
On another day, Leif Davis got a red, not a yellow and the penalty was not given for Delap. So it's a very useful 2-2 and I'm with the cliche that I would have taken that result before the match kicked off.
Best not to get obsessed with the league table at the moment. Relegation rivals all shed points over the past two rounds and Ipswich picked up four.
Ipswich are only going to be better in the 2nd half of the season and the project is stable. The same cannot be said for Leicester, Everton, West Ham ... even Wolves. We just need to be better than two of those teams. Beats having to be better than 22 other sides like the past two seasons.
Perfect time for two weeks off for the big players with the FA Cup coming up. And time to get Hirst, Tuanzebe back and give Godfrey a run out. Three 'new' signings right there.
Brighton and Southampton coming up at home in the next four games. Two wins there are very doable. And Man City? Maybe ....
Now it's time to watch Manchester United and the Schadenfreude of another team maybe joining the fun at the bottom.
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Comment | Ipswich Town 2-0 Chelsea - Match Report
at 12:16:45
- Looks like Walton is the number one for the rest of the season. Better late than never.
- If a solid defense is the way to stay up then Ipswich have four centre-backs who have found their feet in the Premier League. Throw in a fit Tuanzebe and that's a pretty solid back line.
- Getting Kalvin Phillips fully up and running, as well as Broadhead and eventually Hirst will be like 3 new signings. Can Jack Clarke make the grade as well?
- Need 5 wins and a scattering of draws to stay up: These look like the achievable wins - Fulham (A), Brighton (H), Southampton (H), Wolves (H), Brentford (H), West Ham (H), Leicester (A)
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