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oscillatewildly

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suffolkblue said:
I’m not from Ipswich so will happily tell you it’s a pretty average town, I’ll also admit that football aside Norwich is a really nice city. I just thought this cocky kid, egged on by his dad had it coming to him!
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Genuine question - Is there actually a bus stop in Ipswich that runs a service to Norwich? 😏
 
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suffolkblue

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oscillatewildly said:
Genuine question - Is there actually a bus stop in Ipswich that runs a service to Norwich? 😏
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I’m sure there will be just as there will be one in a Norwich to Ipswich. 40 miles apart a bit of a strange rivalry in some ways. I couldn’t care less about them unless we’re playing them. Different if your rivals are really local in my opinion.
 
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suffolkblue

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shmmeee said:
Thought you played us well today. Our attack wasn’t firing with an unfit Rudoni and a RB on the wing but you nullified us well and played our high line really well. Ultimately the quality you could bring on and the ability to rotate you’ve got were always going to tell at this point in the season.
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We’ve just beaten a team who miles clear at the top 3-0 so this will probably make me sound like an idiot and/or arrogant but I don’t think we were that great today. We have rarely played to anything like the level that a team that’s cost as much as ours did should be.

We took advantage of the one spell of pressure we had in the first half and played well for periods in the second half but there is still something missing. We’re nowhere near as cohesive as were 2 seasons ago. We have some talented players and as you say the strength in depth means we can bring on players that would start for almost every other other Championship club and for some would be their star player (Jack Clarke should not be on the bench for any team that’s not in the top half of the prem) but we’re really not convincing. If we go up it will be more about how average so many other teams are than us being a really good side.
 
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Adge

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suffolkblue said:
Maybe too soon and if you want me to I’ll quietly slope off. Yours is the only non-Ipswich forum I’ve ever posted on, I’m only back because you seem a really decent bunch.

Firstly, you’re definitely going up. Today’s result doesn’t change that. I’ve had a quick look at the posts on here and am surprised how scathing some are of the performance today. There’s a quality and rhythm to your play, even when you’re below par, that is going to carry you though. In a 46 game season you’ll lose some and it’s about how you respond, which your team seems to do well this season. We got hammered 4-0 by Leeds in December in the season we got promoted to the prem. It really was a hammering too, not like today. They took us apart and could have won by 6 or 7. We thought it would rock the team but it didn’t, they just put it behind them straight away and went on another good run.

I felt we deserved to win in the end today but it wasn’t a 3-0 game. It turned on fine margins - walton’s save onto the post, our goal and the ref deciding not to give Hirst a second yellow when he’s booked your player earlier for doing the same. I didn’t think either were really bookings (both were seconds after the whistle, they weren’t real dissent where a player just smashes the ball away when they know the game has stopped). If you’re booking one though, you book them both.

I also felt we were going to win today because unlike every other team to come to Portman Road this season with the possible exception of Southampton, you came to play football and try to win. You were the better team for the first 30 minutes and even at 2-0 you remained composed. If you’d got one back, I think you’s have got another. The consensus of the town fans around us was that you’re a good team, a lot of similarities with how we were 2 years ago.

You deserve a points deduction for that grim orange kit, the cocky 12 year old cov fan mouthing off before the game about Ipswich being a “bus stop in Norwich” got what he deserved and “is this a library” is the dullest song ever sung by away fans (we do it, I cringe then too). Aside from these small gripes, I wish you well for the rest of the season other than on 29th (my first trip on a march day to your current home, looking forward to it). Keep the faith and hopefully we’ll be playing each other in the Premier League next season.
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Good fair balanced post. What is it with the crowd though? Very quiet until you scored the first and quickly on the players backs up until that point?
 
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pusbccfc

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Adge said:
Off home we go……
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He's caught the ball outside the box. It's a ridiculous rule that he wasn't sent off.
 
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steveo1987

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A great post from Suffolkblue, a good game today , perversely , really enjoyed it although the refereeing was really poor. Nice vibe in the pub with Ipswich fans, you will certainly be top 3 as the resource on show was scary especially the bench. We go again on Tuesday , not a must win but a must "not lose"
 
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Johhny Blue

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suffolkblue said:
Maybe too soon and if you want me to I’ll quietly slope off. Yours is the only non-Ipswich forum I’ve ever posted on, I’m only back because you seem a really decent bunch.

Firstly, you’re definitely going up. Today’s result doesn’t change that. I’ve had a quick look at the posts on here and am surprised how scathing some are of the performance today. There’s a quality and rhythm to your play, even when you’re below par, that is going to carry you though. In a 46 game season you’ll lose some and it’s about how you respond, which your team seems to do well this season. We got hammered 4-0 by Leeds in December in the season we got promoted to the prem. It really was a hammering too, not like today. They took us apart and could have won by 6 or 7. We thought it would rock the team but it didn’t, they just put it behind them straight away and went on another good run.

I felt we deserved to win in the end today but it wasn’t a 3-0 game. It turned on fine margins - walton’s save onto the post, our goal and the ref deciding not to give Hirst a second yellow when he’s booked your player earlier for doing the same. I didn’t think either were really bookings (both were seconds after the whistle, they weren’t real dissent where a player just smashes the ball away when they know the game has stopped). If you’re booking one though, you book them both.

I also felt we were going to win today because unlike every other team to come to Portman Road this season with the possible exception of Southampton, you came to play football and try to win. You were the better team for the first 30 minutes and even at 2-0 you remained composed. If you’d got one back, I think you’s have got another. The consensus of the town fans around us was that you’re a good team, a lot of similarities with how we were 2 years ago.

You deserve a points deduction for that grim orange kit, the cocky 12 year old cov fan mouthing off before the game about Ipswich being a “bus stop in Norwich” got what he deserved and “is this a library” is the dullest song ever sung by away fans (we do it, I cringe then too). Aside from these small gripes, I wish you well for the rest of the season other than on 29th (my first trip on a march day to your current home, looking forward to it). Keep the faith and hopefully we’ll be playing each other in the Premier League next season.
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Agree with pretty much all of that except after 7 great yrs with Mark Robins at the helm I’d like to see Stoke come up behind us. You can try again next year.
 
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suffolkblue

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Adge said:
Good fair balanced post. What is it with the crowd though? Very quiet until you scored the first and quickly on the players backs up until that point?
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I’ve said on another post, some of it is the acoustics. You can’t hear the away fans from the north stand and visa versa. The atmosphere has been very flat this season -entitled fans, 2 years of success after 20 of nothing to cheer and now too many of our supporters turn up expecting to be entertained and win. Short memories.
 
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pusbccfc

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suffolkblue said:
I’ve said on another post, some of it is the acoustics. You can’t hear the away fans from the north stand and visa versa. The atmosphere has been very flat this season -entitled fans, 2 years of success after 20 of nothing to cheer and now too many of our supporters turn up expecting to be entertained and win. Short memories.
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The night you beat us just before promotion was probably the loudest away support I've heard in a League match.

Then when you returned 8 months later in the cup with 5000, there was barely a peep despite the 4-1 win.
 
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suffolkblue

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Context. We could have filled your ground that night in the league as a win meant we were 1 point from promotion. This will sound a bit salty but your support when you beat us at PR just before Covid seemed much more lively than it was today. Decent enough today but not as vocal as I was expecting for a
team that’s top of the league and with one foot in the prem.
 
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pusbccfc

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suffolkblue said:
Context. We could have filled your ground that night in the league as a win meant we were 1 point from promotion. This will sound a bit salty but your support when you beat us at PR just before Covid seemed much more lively than it was today. Decent enough today but not as vocal as I was expecting for a
team that’s top of the league and with one foot in the prem.
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Yeah definitely. Was the peak of our away support that era.

Very little to shout about today, not even any banter from the Ipswich to liven us up.
 
Hobo

Hobo

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suffolkblue said:
Maybe too soon and if you want me to I’ll quietly slope off. Yours is the only non-Ipswich forum I’ve ever posted on, I’m only back because you seem a really decent bunch.

Firstly, you’re definitely going up. Today’s result doesn’t change that. I’ve had a quick look at the posts on here and am surprised how scathing some are of the performance today. There’s a quality and rhythm to your play, even when you’re below par, that is going to carry you though. In a 46 game season you’ll lose some and it’s about how you respond, which your team seems to do well this season. We got hammered 4-0 by Leeds in December in the season we got promoted to the prem. It really was a hammering too, not like today. They took us apart and could have won by 6 or 7. We thought it would rock the team but it didn’t, they just put it behind them straight away and went on another good run.

I felt we deserved to win in the end today but it wasn’t a 3-0 game. It turned on fine margins - walton’s save onto the post, our goal and the ref deciding not to give Hirst a second yellow when he’s booked your player earlier for doing the same. I didn’t think either were really bookings (both were seconds after the whistle, they weren’t real dissent where a player just smashes the ball away when they know the game has stopped). If you’re booking one though, you book them both.

I also felt we were going to win today because unlike every other team to come to Portman Road this season with the possible exception of Southampton, you came to play football and try to win. You were the better team for the first 30 minutes and even at 2-0 you remained composed. If you’d got one back, I think you’s have got another. The consensus of the town fans around us was that you’re a good team, a lot of similarities with how we were 2 years ago.

You deserve a points deduction for that grim orange kit, the cocky 12 year old cov fan mouthing off before the game about Ipswich being a “bus stop in Norwich” got what he deserved and “is this a library” is the dullest song ever sung by away fans (we do it, I cringe then too). Aside from these small gripes, I wish you well for the rest of the season other than on 29th (my first trip on a march day to your current home, looking forward to it). Keep the faith and hopefully we’ll be playing each other in the Premier League next season.
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.A decent post. Now you need to trip up some of our opposition. I still think it will be a close finish between three or four teams for automatics.
 
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suffolkblue

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Hobo said:
.A decent post. Now you need to trip up some of our opposition. I still think it will be a close finish between three or four teams for automatics.
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In my view that’s why you won’t need much better than mid-table form to go up. There aren’t many good teams in the league and those with potential are too far behind. If we go on a great run we’ll take points off of the teams chasing you. The teams below you will take points off each other and that will keep you up there.
 
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suffolkblue

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pusbccfc said:
Yeah definitely. Was the peak of our away support that era.

Very little to shout about today, not even any banter from the Ipswich to liven us up.
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The away fans stuck in the corner next to a stand full of old men and kids isn’t ideal for creating an atmosphere. The Cobbold stand you would have been in today is 55 years old, it’s has it. Tired, outdated, awful facilities, lots of restricted views, minimal leg room etc. there’s a lot of talk about it being replaced. Hopefully when they do they’ll put the away fans at the other end of that stand.
 
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pusbccfc

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suffolkblue said:
The away fans stuck in the corner next to a stand full of old men and kids isn’t ideal for creating an atmosphere. The Cobbold stand you would have been in today is 55 years old, it’s has it. Tired, outdated, awful facilities, lots of restricted views, minimal leg room etc. there’s a lot of talk about it being replaced. Hopefully when they do they’ll put the away fans at the other end of that stand.
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I really like the ground though. The away end is very dated by modern health and safety standards but the overall stadium is excellent.
 
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suffolkblue

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pusbccfc said:
I really like the ground though. The away end is very dated by modern health and safety standards but the overall stadium is excellent.
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I love it, I can’t imagine anywhere else as home. The Cobbold Stand is great to look at but horrible to sit in. whatever they do they need to keep the “Ipswich Town Football club” that runs across the top of the stand in the same font it’s in now. It’s been there, unchanged since my first game in 1977.
 
Hobo

Hobo

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suffolkblue said:
In my view that’s why you won’t need much better than mid-table form to go up. There aren’t many good teams in the league and those with potential are too far behind. If we go on a great run we’ll take points off of the teams chasing you. The teams below you will take points off each other and that will keep you up there.
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What if we lose to Preston and Bristol City with over half a season left?

The idea we can't be reeled in at this stage of the season is naive and complacent.
We are not invincible and at times very vulnerable.

Form changes, it is not constant and can turn on it's head.
 
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Hobo said:
What if we lose to Preston and Bristol City with over half a season left?

The idea we can't be reeled in at this stage of the season is naive and complacent.
We are not invincible and at times very vulnerable.

Form changes, it is not constant and can turn on its head.
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The PPG theory I keep seeing is also complacent nonsense.
 
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suffolkblue

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Hobo said:
What if we lose to Preston and Bristol City with over half a season left?

The idea we can't be reeled in at this stage of the season is naive and complacent.
We are not invincible and at times very vulnerable.

Form changes, it is not constant and can turn on its head.
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The league is too mediocre for two teams to overtake you as long as you maintain any sort of form. I’m assuming you’ve named your next two games. Even if you lose them both (you won’t), you’d be 6 points clear of third with the best GD in the league. I’d love to think you could be caught but the gap is too big now unless you completely fall apart.
 
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