Ipswich Town away match thread

[Ronnie Sinclair]

SL, get off the golf course, step in and get rid of the three stooges please forthwith 

[TV Tom]

Just now, TonyTonyTony said:

Ok, but for balance are you giving him any credit for the starting team, the Conway substitution etc? 

You got no chance, he’d rather stick a red hot poker up his arse

[TonyTonyTony]

3 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

It’s not about tonight, it’s about realising the bloke has only taken a QUARTER of the available points on offer since 27th December and we’ve now lost four in a row. It’s an absolutely disastrous performance from him in this period.

I thought this thread was about tonights game. 

[Fuber]

3 minutes ago, Super said:

Sunday really feels like a massive game.

...Because it is?

[95red]

Raised  our game again against  a top team but still ended  up with nothing . Sunday  bloody  Sunday!!!!!!!

 

[Shauntaylor85]

10 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

Can’t believe people are suggesting it wasn’t a penalty. 100% a pen. 

Clear as day a penalty. 

[CosmosUK]

Weren’t we in the top 4 for miserly defences in the league before this clown popped up? Yes it’s been better in forward areas at times but I’d rather be grinding out 1-0s and picking up points than this. 

[steviestevieneville]

8 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Always going to be more of a game to get at them , so I didn't expect it to be a one sided drubbing .
Decent performance , but you have to question a few things .
He said Pring was carrying a knock , it looked like it . Why not switch to Roberts after they went 2-2 . At least he's fully fit.
Is Sykes fit ? Looked off the pace and I wonder if it's another throw of the dice getting him on.
Why wait so long to bring Conway on , could have used fresh legs earlier.

They are in a better place than us, had more impact from the bench and signed 2 strikers in Jan . Annoying because of what could have been , we had other chances , but probably better than many would have expected. 

Big game Sunday now. 

Only thing I would say re Sykes. Cornick was feeling his  hamstring & waving to the bench just before the change 

[Curr Avon]

7 minutes ago, JammyOne said:

I'll have to watch the highlights to see it again but I'm pretty sure he made contact with the ball.

He did and the Ipswich player falls away from Pring's trailing leg, but from the refs view goes over it.

[W-S-M Seagull]

2 minutes ago, TV Tom said:

Over the 90 we deserved a draw but there’s a reason why they are second in the league and above Leeds and Southampton 

Over the 100 minutes they deserved to win. They missed a pen and had another 2-3 great chances to score. 

[Numero Uno]

3 minutes ago, Fuber said:

Five games in hand within the teams below us. Yuck.

They all play tomorrow.

[S_C]

10 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

We deserved a draw up until their changes but after that they throughly deserved the win. 

They scored immediately after making their changes, then had a short spell with crowd behind them. We regained control, scored a fantastic goal, then gave away a ridiculous free kick within a minute.

People will rewrite the second half based on 10 minutes after they equalised, which includes chances when we were chasing the game.

We were the better team for large periods. Individual mistakes cost us.

Edited March 5 by S_C

[The Original OTIB]

4 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Some mental posts here tbh.

I dont think you can fault our endeavour, and a significant improvement over the Cardiff game. Unfortunately Ipswich dont ever give up and we made a few individual errors.

You would have to be very polarised to directly blame Manning tonight

I think that is fair but Sykes and Pring clearly not match fit, now Harry might not be either. Think the largely 4 4 2, well, 4 4 1 1 suited us, but poor game management at key times. Can't kill games, can't keep our heads.

Well done Anis, Harry did his bit, Tommy scoring a positive, Max did well, but can't carry injured players through 90 + mins.

[Street red]

That's how you win games and that's how you use subs to effect it.

[W-S-M Seagull]

4 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Ok, but for balance are you giving him any credit for the starting team, the Conway substitution etc? 

I give him credit for playing to the teams strengths, playing to what this team was built for. 

However he failed to react to the changes and that's why we lost. 

[Nugget]

[TV Tom]

4 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Would have made sense to get Roberts on. Maybe  to match them up . Pring into LCB and Robert WB .
Something should have been done , not just watch Cam get torn a new one.

Robert’s was poor on Sunday, it’s just as likely that Burns would of given him the same treatment imagine the reaction on here then

[kit]

Difference between manning and mckenna... mehmeti causing a lot of problems so Ipswich bring on a dedicated right back and we looked toothless from then on..... burns causing all manner of problems so we persist with a not fully fit and blowing pring to the bitter end.

We looked dead on our feet with fresh legs needed, sykes didn't look close to fit.

King, mebude would at least have offered us that even when 3.2 down to chase game for 10/15 minutes at the end.

We do look a lot less fit as a team now.

[Ecko]

Just now, TV Tom said:

Robert’s was poor on Sunday, it’s just as likely that Burns would of given him the same treatment imagine the reaction on here then

Get them both on and double up on Burns then. 

[Open End Numb Legs]

One of the most painful things on nights like this is the Sky love in with teams like Ipswich. The media have always treated us as the plucky losers. Ipswich looked nothing special tonight and their manager talked as though we came to spoil, forgetting mention we took the lead twice.

[Lennieb]

Cam was struggling late on and probably should've been subbed imo,I'm disappointed with sykes effort for the 3rd one and that pissed me off ,you've got to put yoir body on the line and block what you can in that position not wait and watch for a shot . You could see the effect it had. Its now a bit of a worry when we go behind  as our reaction over a period of time hasnt been brilliant, tactically or mentally .

Need to get ahead against Swansea  stay ahead and fight the bastard out till the end ,its that big for me.

 

 

Edited March 5 by Lennieb

[HOZDA]

2 points difference between 23rd and 16th. We are 4 pts above that. Crazy. Going to be a very tense and close end to the season

[E.G.Red]

2 minutes ago, reddoc said:

But you can't gamble on those challenges in the box any more.

Oh I totally agree. I was just disagreeing with the comment it was a blatant penalty.

[bexhill reds]

Just now, Ecko said:

Get them both on and double up on Burns then. 

Burns did the frightening but both goals conceded on the right as result of McCrorie going walkabout and Sykes not being fit.

[RedM]

14 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

Can’t believe people are suggesting it wasn’t a penalty. 100% a pen. 

Not sure if it had been the other way round we would have been awarded it?

[fixit]

1 minute ago, steviestevieneville said:

Only thing I would say re Sykes. Cornick was feeling his  hamstring & waving to the bench just before the change 

That's all we need. 

 

I wish some of our squad wouldn't be such mates with the opposition as soon as the final whistle blows. They need to be stronger, particularly as we don't see that when we do manage to grind out a result.....

[TV Tom]

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Over the 100 minutes they deserved to win. They missed a pen and had another 2-3 great chances to score. 

You don’t judge a whole game on the last ten minutes, of course we are going to come under pressure away from home against the team second in the league and unbeaten at home for six month’s, overall I thought we deserved a draw at least, we made Ipswich look very ordinary for the vast majority of the game

[bexhill reds]

Just now, RedM said:

Not sure if it had been the other way round we would have been awarded it?

Not with tonight’s referee. Loved playing to the crowd

[lenred]

3 minutes ago, kit said:

We do look a lot less fit as a team now.

One of the reasons we have our new man in charge was to improve the fitness wasn’t it.   What a joke that’s turned out to be!!  

[Fpcity]

5 minutes ago, Curr Avon said:

He did and the Ipswich player falls away from Pring's trailing leg, but from the refs view goes over it.

Yeah such a faint touch it was hard to tell in real time. 

If there was VAR it would've been overturned no doubt.