Mr Hankey

Can we hook Roberts back off and play the last 6 minutes with 10 men? Might hold on to the point like that.

Can see why Pearson said he was tempted to walk away due to the officiating….i feel more and more tempted to give up watching it! it really does ruin it.

Ask Ipswich fans what they would currently want, pretty sure it would be a unanimous 100% answer of “yes, we want promotion”. Probably much easier to say when we are a club in our position that promotion to the prem isn’t what we want. I for one would love to see nothing more than us in the top flight, & if we were currently top i’m sure everyone would agree on that.

Considering our other results so far, a point here isn’t a bad result at all……however, Southgate starting Henderson (i can understand Maguire to an extent) & flogging Saka, then bringing on the absolute fraud that is Gallagher probably shows that he is an extremely limited coach. Can’t make a case for him being dismissed, but i dont think he has the tactical nous to make the changes required to win a final.

Cracking result and performance, i did feel rather confident we would get at least a point. Dont think Duff will last very long at Swansea mind you, thought it was an odd choice to begin with.

Fella is called David Brent with Harry Hill as his picture, absolutely off his rocker that one, get him in the looney bin. Donkey brains.

I posted something, but “couldn’t be assed” with any arguments on a Friday eve, so deleted it & just typed “cba” instead ?……..but yes to Alex coming back, very much yes.

Cba

Interesting that people are saying O’leary is a better keeper than Bentley……what Prem club would consider signing Max, even as a backup? 0 out of 20 i would imagine.

The biggest joke of that squad is the fact that Kalvin Phillips gets picked without kicking a ball.

Two out of however many thousands isn’t exactly a large pool to garner a proper opinion. My point is that people are terrified of foreign ownership & use Cardiff as some sort of example, but they have been a much more successful club than us since we have had Lansdown and they have had Tan - not saying that i want Vincent Tan at all & i don’t actively want SL gone (but if he decides to boot Pearson out then i certainly will be) but you can’t deny he has had more success than what Lansdown has. Based on their recent Premier league exposure, once Tan is actually serious about selling the club they will find a buyer quite quickly & not end up extinct.

Of course bigger clubs have had poor owners, but it seems as though people think we will go the way of Bury ect and end up extinct! Such an odd way of thinking. As someone earlier mentioned, we always mock and praise the almighty that we aren’t Cardiff with their owners……but do you honestly think Cardiff would swap thier current situation and history for ours? Not a fooking chance they would! People mention other clubs owners sailing close to FFP & sanctions ect…….ummm hello, were we not in this same position a year or so ago!?!?! At least the likes of West Brom, Bournemouth & Cardiff ect actually managed to get some success with thier owners. I’m not anti-Lansdown & i do think he has done well for the club and his heart is in the right place, but i am absolutely convinced this club is in need of some fresh ownership if we are to become successful.

Please don’t say that…….the nightmarish thought of LJ returning once Pearson has gone has terrorised my thoughts on a few occasions!

Why does everybody assume this!?!? Such a wierd mentality to live by. We will be fine. Extremely attractive proposition for any future owner, we aren’t some tinpot backwater club like Bury and Southend ffs.

If the rumour is true that he is out for the season, & that’s a big if as it isn’t confirmed yet, you would have to think there is something pretty serious going on with this infection, particularly around the quietness regarding it at the club. Hopefully he gets well soon & we can look forward to seeing him on the pitch.

He also seems genuinely very happy to be here & not as if he has just been forced out of West Brom, think this could end up being a very smart signing.

Looking at their squad, there isn’t many players that teams would be happy to fork out on, if they can get a couple of million out of us for a player that cost them nothing it could help them balance the books a bit.

West Brom are financially in the shit, so a loan for a young player who probably isn’t on huge wages is a bit odd from their point of view - perhaps we want a loan, but they may reject that approach and hold out for a permanent move.

Im guessing that we may have not been told just how serious the issue (surgery on a bacterial issue?) McCrorie has really is. Tanner certainly needs some proper competition so this one could make sense.

I honestly can’t recall a single game of his in a City shirt at right back.

I understand what you are saying & i do agree to an extent (think you are also right that we made a bit of profit on Magnússon) but i would say based on the injuries that the other 2 had along with the high wages would not of meant they would be classed as successful bits of business. I think you also have to then factor in the likes of Gieffer, Hegeler, Perreira and even Diony to then make you think that the club would no longer want to scout the European market - of course there are class players that would be value for money out there that other clubs will/have been picking up & we have missed out on, but i can also understand if the club were wanting to steer clear for the time being.

You would really call Magnússon, Djuric & Pisano “successful” transfers??? I would say they were all part of an extremely expensive failed Mark Ashton/Lee Johnson experiment which was part of the reason we ended up in a financial mess! All 3 signed for big wages & transfer fees (apart from Pisano, but im sure he had a wedge of a signing on fee) & 2 had pretty big injuries throughout thier time with us. Edit: actually could be wrong on the transfer fee’s being high as i can’t remember, but i still wouldnt class them as successful transfers.

Lansdown won’t back Pearson from here on, i hope i am wrong, but i feel as if he will be looking forward to seeing the back of him. He has sorted the mess and should be fully backed, but as NP seems to call it as he see’s it, then it is completley against what Lansdown likes in a manager (we all know it’s his club and his money so he will do what he wants & no one can question it blah blah blah). Think this time next year our manager will be the one that is currently at Plymouth.

What a keeper, wish we could have him in between the sticks, 1000% better than what we currently have.