Recent content by TownFan81

I've thought of Coventry the same as us. Smaller town / city that had a lot of seasons in the top flight, picked up the odd trophy. We've obviously had the better of it with a UEFA Cup and sustained European football over a decade or so, but by and large we are similar sized clubs that have...

Garbutt has taken most corners and scored a few direct from free kicks. Judge is the other one that takes set pieces, usually when Garbutt is having a mare like he did on Tuesday. Judge did put some decent balls in on Tuesday but his delivery this season has largely been a lot worse than he's...

Combination of things. He actually broke his leg at Portman Road for Brentford and arguably has not been the same since. He's also had a huge amount of personal issues, with his young daughter back and forward for operations. He almost moved back to QPR and Warburton in the summer, which never...

The biggest cock up this season (there have been many) was postponing games for internationals - just ahead of the needless rotation. We were 7 points clear of 3rd with 2 games in hand at one point and we cancelled Rochdale, Oxford, Fleetwood amongst others. Oxford were on a shocking run when...

The playoffs are gone. We need to catch three teams that are a couple of wins ahead of us and statistically speaking, on past seasons, we'd need to win 7 or 8. To catch Fleetwood alone, who have 11 games left, we'd need to win 7 of 9, if they won 5 and lost 6 of their games and that's assuming...

I have a few friends that work at the club, my wife is good mates with the groundsman's wife and one of the junior physios is someone I play 5 a side with. The whole club is underfunded and everyone has one hand tied behind their back. In recent seasons, we have not had more injuries that...

I can happily reiterate this. Lambert was awful last season in going down without any fight and has been incredibly poor this season. We were top in spite of him rather than because of him off the back of a brilliant start where teams feared us, sat back and we won many of the early games 1-0...

Thanks. People outside the club believe the media hype that we forced out Mick and were ungrateful. Mick has a lot of mates in the media and is actually a really decent bloke. What is telling is that we had 8,000 people inside the ground bored to tears when we were 12th in the Championship...

Coventry were my second team on the basis that they were the first Subbuteo team I ever owned and in fact, when Ipswich were in the second tier, around the late 90's, as a teenager I briefly 'supported' Coventry as well. Back in the Dublin, Huckerby, Whelan, Hadji, Telfer days, before I realised...

I was born the year after we won the FA Cup. What I recall from growing up is how much of a plucky underdog we were deemed to be going into that final. It was talked about in Manchester City v Wigan terms in all the media building up to it that my dad had kept hold of. The reality is though we...

Roger is an absolutely lovely bloke and one of the nicest, most mild-mannered blokes you will ever wish to meet. If there was anyone less equipped to be famous I am yet to meet them. If you asked a neutral to name an Ipswich side of the 70's, one that was in Europe 8 years out of 9 and beat...

The key thing for people to understand, as clearly you do as a fellow Town fan, is that Mick took over a team that had 7 points in November and was going down. He made us difficult to score against and difficult to beat and the football was awful but we didn't care because we got results. After...

Lambert cannot count himself unlucky. We have an enormous squad for this level. We have had injuries but the depth to cover them is embarrassing. Andre Dozzell is constantly linked to Premier League clubs and he's not even been on the bench at times and when he has he's barely come on. We have...

Unfortunately I will suffer through it. Barely missed a home game in 40 years. I only miss a game every couple of seasons I'd guess. Last time I missed back to back games in 1995-96. We won 5-1 (can't recall who against) and 5-2 (Oxford) as part of three games where we hit five (the other being...

We have been missing Norwood in the last few games (likely out for the season now) and Jackson stupidly got sent off for a stamp so has two more games to serve. Flynn Downes, has been our best player this season, and he also picked up a ban as well. Luke Woofenden, the only other player in...