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My take is we won't stay up this season, but we'll give it a much better shot in the 2026/27 season, when the player recruitment will be more targeted in terms of bigger individual fees for fewer players - but players who can really make a difference (including more recruitment from abroad).
Next season, assuming it's in the Championship, will be great for developing some of the newer players who aren't quite ready for the Premier League yet. And I reckon we'll be top two all the way.
The biggest regret we'll have is conceding a late consolation goal in a 5-1 whupping of the Canaries at Carrow Road.
Has anyone mentioned that heroic fan (who posts on here and announced his endeavours on this forum, to deserved cheers of adulation) who got an "assisted assist" by throwing the ball to a player who I can't remember against a club that I also can't remember, back in the mournful days of "League Three"?
Ipswich beat Man Utd 3-2 in the reverse fixture at Portman Road earlier that same season. It'd be interesting to compare the Town lineups between the two matches. Everyone was a few weeks younger anyway, for whatever difference that makes!
Roy Keane scored the winner for Town, arguably his most significant contribution to the club!
It's horrible news for sure. She was a young woman who was seemingly very well loved in her job as a nurse in Cork University Hospital. My next door neighbour Alice also works there, I'll ask her if she knew Kelly, next time I see her.
There wasn't any notion of you taking the mick out of him in the OP (I liked what you wrote, and the mystery-quote is as tantalising as it is true!), and even if there had been, it'd just be harmless footy banter stuff anyway.
I had high hopes for Colin when he made his debut for Ireland - for some reason I have it stuck in my head that he scored on his debut and got Man of the Match in that game (he played 13 times for the senior Ireland team and scored once, against Finland on 21st August 2002).
He's originally a Ballincollig lad I'm pretty sure, so only a ten minute cycle from my home town in Bishopstown.
I was delighted when he joined Ipswich, since I always remembered his good showings for Ireland, and I was thinking he might do well for the Town. I could be confusing some old stories, but I think he suffered a pretty bad leg injury which put his career on hold for quite some time, not long after making his debut for Ireland.
In any case, thank you for your reply and it is good of you to send your thoughts to all impacted by Kelly's untimely passing.
It's probably not the ideal place to post this, and I don't know if the news reached the TWTD forum over the past couple of days, but Colin's wife Kelly sadly died last Thursday.
Colin and Kelly (RIP) are the parents of Arran, who is currently a player at Cork City FC, where Colin was manager until last season.
Keep Colin in your thoughts, and take care of yourselves.
Yes, and not only would I send the keeper up, I'd substitute him first for the spare goalie. Just as an extra psych-bonus. Someone would HAVE to mark him then, leaving an outfield player free.
Or...last minute you say...so maybe substitute him for an unused defender who's handy in the air.
Why don't we just get promoted to the top flight and do the job ourselves?
All this sitting around hoping someone else fixes our problems for us!
Let's get promoted again! Let's crack some heads! Let's score ten! Let's keep a clean sheet!
The only question should be, who should be on the receiving end of our incandescent wrath? Little yellow birds, perhaps? Because there's a deeper moral question in there too, if that's to be the case!
What if everyone ran onto the pitch pushing along a "Spear & Jackson 40cm Hand Push Cylinder Lawnmower" (currently on special offer in Argos)?
It could be seen as contributing to ground maintenance in an environmentally friendly manner, and would save the club a few quid in grass-mowing fees in the early weeks of the summer.
Would that help placate the situation for you at all?
45 seconds - Matt Healy's right-footed goal from a well worked corner, 40 yards out if you believe the delirious commentator, for 1-0
2 minutes - Matt Healy with a nice free kick into the box...some cube-headed lad nods it over the bar.
3 minutes 25 secs - Matt Healy with the corner into a phone-box full of players and eventually a Cork shirt boots it into the net, for 2-0
5 minutes 50 secs - Matt Healy with the interception, plays a quick one-two, legs it down to the byline then swings a delicious pass in..."does he have a left leg?...of course he does!..." for an assist to make it 4-0
ps: I don't want to hear any mockery of the Cork accent. We sing when we speak. In some silly octave. But we make a mean pig-bladder and cow-belly stew. So mean I could never eat it [turns greener than the grass, then heaves].
The premier division in Ireland kicks off on the 17th February for Cork City FC, first game will be at home to the mighty Bohemians, so he won't have much thumb twiddling time on his hands!
We'll finish third, eliminate Bolton in the semi final of the playoffs over two games that'll have almost as many red cards as goals, steamroller our way past Barnsley at Wembley ("Chaplin...Championship!"), then surpass all expectations (except our own) next season as we swashbuckle our way to fifth place in the Championship.
What happens in the 2023-24 playoffs is a question for next season's crystal ball.
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