The Official Ipswich Town v Bristol City Match Day Thread

[Lanterne Rouge]

He was diagnosed with it at Plymouth and carried on for a while but I believe the pressure got to him in the end and he moved on. He was always up front about it - no problem with being interviewed about it on the local news - and I think he tried to bring home to people that you can carry on in a high profile job with a condition like that which perhaps helped others who have it. He popped up again at Southend (?) for a while but thought he had retired after that. Really surprised when he took the Yeovil job so I suppose he doesn`t want to let it beat him. Takes some courage to do the interviews I think - it would be easy to pass it on to someone else.

 

[BigTone]

He was diagnosed with it at Plymouth and carried on for a while but I believe the pressure got to him in the end and he moved on. He was always up front about it - no problem with being interviewed about it on the local news - and I think he tried to bring home to people that you can carry on in a high profile job with a condition like that which perhaps helped others who have it. He popped up again at Southend (?) for a while but thought he had retired after that. Really surprised when he took the Yeovil job so I suppose he doesn`t want to let it beat him. Takes some courage to do the interviews I think - it would be easy to pass it on to someone else.

 

Reading Ralph Milnes book at the moment and never realised Sturrock played with him at Dundee Utd

[BS4 on Tour...]

Reading Ralph Milnes book at the moment and never realised Sturrock played with him at Dundee Utd

Oh yes, that was a great Arabs team, McAlpine, Hegarty, Narey, Milne, Sturrock, Dodds, Ray Stewart... etc etc.

Not a very well known fact but Dundee Utd are the only team to have played Barcelona in Europe and never lost to them, played 4 won 4 !!

They played them in the 1966/67 Fairs Cup and the 1987 UEFA Cup.

Now, people who know me on here are aware that I'm also a pretty big Jags fan (Partick Thistle) for very good reasons.

Anyway, I've been to Tannadice a few times to watch Dundee U vs Jags and the Utd fans I've encountered are horrible types, real big chip on their shoulders because they aren't from Glasgow - but you can never deny that team they had in the late eighties was top notch...

[Major Isewater]

I'd have been happy with a point pre-game, so that's a good start to what hopefully is an improvement in our fortunes.

Still concerned at our inability to keep out goals, and quite what is going on with our bench; fancy it might be a sign to the board that SC needs some backing, perhaps?

As regards the bench , perhaps it's just a way to avoid paying another hotel room and meals .

[samo II]

As regards the bench , perhaps it's just a way to avoid paying another hotel room and meals .

Good point.

Keep slimming down the subs, and by January we can finally afford Mr Gayle's wage demanded!

Major; you're a genius.

[Major Isewater]

He was diagnosed with it at Plymouth and carried on for a while but I believe the pressure got to him in the end and he moved on. He was always up front about it - no problem with being interviewed about it on the local news - and I think he tried to bring home to people that you can carry on in a high profile job with a condition like that which perhaps helped others who have it. He popped up again at Southend (?) for a while but thought he had retired after that. Really surprised when he took the Yeovil job so I suppose he doesn`t want to let it beat him. Takes some courage to do the interviews I think - it would be easy to pass it on to someone else.

 

It's not contagious .

 

 

seriously though it's an evil barstard of a disease. Good luck to the man In his fight to preserve the quality of his life.

[Numero Uno]

As regards the bench , perhaps it's just a way to avoid paying another hotel room and meals .

In that case we ought to name just the three subs then !! But in all seriousness you can't use a saving of probably £200 as reasoning when you take into account we have been bidding £7m for players (it would take us 35,000 away matches or 1,522 seasons to balance one off against the other !!).

Edited September 28, 2015 by Numero Uno

[22A]

Just out of curiosity after reading the full Ipswich squad listed in the programme.

We knew about Gerken, Skuse & Pitman, but they also had; Emmanuel, Parr & Crowe.

Just on the off chance, are any of them related to the former City players with those surnames?