And Its Smith

Ipswich’s manager shows a good manager can produce better than the sum of its parts. Not many expected Ipswich to be top 6

Would I want the team I support to lose 7-0? No thanks

If you take the emotion out of it, it is very improbable

Course they will.

If we got 8 points from the last 11 games like they did we would finish on 52 points which would be safety. So we’d need a worse run than them. Also a crucial difference is they didn’t have 9 teams between them and relegation with 11 games to go.

250/1

Last 5 games we are 13th. 6 points yes but lots of teams. Do you not accept that 6 points where we are and 6 points if we were 21st are completely different?

This is the championship and anything can happen. There’s no point in guessing results. So many times on here over the years posts of “i don’t know where the next win is coming from” have been followed up by a win.

My point is we have a situation now where people are saying we are in a relegation battle when we aren’t in order use it against a manager they don’t like. If we then employed another manager and we didn’t go down, it stands to reason they would say that the manager saved us from relegation. Except if that was ANOTHER manager they didn’t like who did it! By all means criticise Manning but faux relegation battles are ridiculous

I didn’t say it was 150/1 on to go down. I said it was 150/1 on paddy power

For those who don’t know. 150/1 on paddy power. Shows how unlikely it is but still worth a tenner!

Couldn’t agree more

If Lee Johnson is as appointed till the end of the season and we didn’t go down, I assume that those who believe we are in a relegation battle would credit him with saving our season!

It links to the Pearson fanboys that he talked about. I don’t think there are fanboys so to speak but some could be accused of inconsistent criticism

The only times where people lose credibility is when they criticise Manning for something that they didn’t criticise Pearson for. Not filling the subs bench is one.

This will be my first ever live viewing. It’s like a soap opera and Ian is Nasty Nick

If you look across the last 35 we are 13th. We could do this all day!

If you are losing sleep over a 66/1 relegation shot then I’d learn some coping techniques

If you look across the last 5 games we are 13th.

Is there any point in predicting results? It’s the championship.

66/1 if anyone wants it

All these people worrying about relegation for attention. 66/1. If you think it’s possible then lump on!

That’s not true. If our form over the last five games continues then we will be more than fine

So many times we have had threads like this over the years and it’s not been close in the end.

How is it 11 cup finals if the season is over ?