Match Day Thread Ipswich v Hull City

Tough one this but they all are, unfortunately with our last four draws at home it means we have to get points on the road. We’ve coped so far so let’s hope it continues. Plus of course it would be nice to start winning at home but that’s for another day. Draw for me would give us a good point.

 

That's football, all about opinions - Rosie's firdt job was to tighten our very leaky defence, part of that was shipping Greaves out and putting Macca in the middle and hey presto, leaky defence gone - if you analyse the goals we let in , a high proportion come down to Greaves not cutting out a cross out, being way out of position missing a header or missing a tackle, the Stoke goal being a good example - I agree he has been better this season but he's still prone to bloopers which is why I'd choose Macca over him - having said all of that I really think we need a quality centre back to marshall the defence because none of the ones we have seem capable of doing that

 

The thing is these seasoned CB's are around 28?... AJ is just 25 , JG is 23 and SMc is just 26... they're still all learning on the job really... and getting better at it..

 

Macca is the tougher of the two and his upper body strength means he gets up and can challenge bigger guys without being bullied, however he’s well short of the ball control Greaves has - and I’d trust Greaves to make passes under pressure before him - but I like them both !

 

It's a bit contrived to suggest that Greaves was the reason for the leaky defence, as he wasn't dropped, Fleming/Elder more often than not were with Greaves being moved out wide. So he was still a key part of a defence that under rosenior was the best outside of the promoted sides last season and is far from leaky this season with him at the heart of it either.

The fact that Elder and Fleming are no longer at the club and Greaves is the preferred option at left centre half again when available tells you all you need to know.

 

Some may say the same for us, but anyway, Ipswich are playing out of their minds so far this season and has to be stopped at some point, yeah? Not gonna be easy to go into Portman Road and get a result no, but I think we can. 2-1 Tigers with a late winner.

And hey American fan here!Been one since the Tigers had Jozy Altidore on loan.Wish he had done better here mind! Looks like new owner imo is doing things right way so far.

Thanks.

 

I'm taking the 4/1 for us to win.

 

is Sono Aluko still there?

 

Be interesting this one as they play a similar style to us. Can imagine it will be back and forth at points. They do seem to concede goals but are basically free scoring as well so hopefully we can go there and nab something.

 

Another tough one, be happy with a point, they'll push on and give us space to exploit, just need to be more clinical in front of goal.

 

They say it's on the red button but it's not. You select the main game, go to "On this week" and each match is available for selection.

 

It might still be on the red button but I'm not going to wait until a few minutes before kick-off to find out
I have already selected the game using the method I explained.

 

I think it's still the case that red button (or 'on this week') matches are not available via a NowTV day pass.

 

My red button didnt seem to work in the past
Sky said they knew some people were having problems and they were trying to fix it
It took Sky about a year to fix it
I much prefer the system they have introduced now in which you can select the match more than 24 hours prior to ko rather than waiting for the option of using the red button a few minutes before ko

 

When I press the red button the telly goes off.

 

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too many red buttons!