Match Day Thread Ipswich Town FC v Sunderland AFC – Saturday 13th January 2024 - KO 17:30

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Your Prediction:


  • Total voters
    69
  • Poll closed .
Status
Not open for further replies.
What am I wrong about?

You are a champion for our recruitment and were happy with Beale. But again you could state your position instead of playing on words. You're clever enough and better than that.
 
4 cfs in the building, but we lack a focal point.

Cf a priority this window.

Great
 
We aren't buying an experienced striker. Pritchard has one foot out the door because he is probably seen as an old timer. The "modle" from Smyths dictates buy young and "cheap" and sell for more, simple as that and thats ok with me. Too many dark days behind us in the recent past. But, we'll not be signing "old heads" that know the leauge. So the club need to decide, are we looking for promotion, or a constant play off team with a buy to sell attitude. Beale coming in spouting "Premier League" isn't washing and buzz words like that are going to piss fans off because that's what we're told, but we can all see with our eyeballs that thats not the case. We had the same situation in..... Shudder,League one. Always there or there abouts for 3 years (not that covid season).
 
You are a champion for our recruitment and were happy with Beale. But again you could state your position instead of playing on words. You're clever enough and better than that.
to be fair i think on a whole are requirement has been good and its got us from 11th in league 1 when speakman come in to be fighting for top 6 again with squad worth 80m according to outlets so the has been massive improvements since he's come in , need 2 players this window to make sure we are giving it a good go again

but are recruitment is no where as bad as people make out
 
Slow, ponderous, negative, unorganised, lacking quality.
The summer window has been a disaster, Mowbray paid with his job, speakman needs to pull 4 or 5 rabbits out of his hat or he might be out the door
 
  • Like
Reactions: FellTop and vic9
You are a champion for our recruitment and were happy with Beale. But again you could state your position instead of playing on words. You're clever enough and better than that.
Happy with Beale? Where have you got that from?! Was willing to give him a chance and still am rather than writing him off and calling for his head after a handful of games. I have already been critical of some of his decisions (mainly frustration that he’s repeating all the things I thought Mowbray was doing ****e).

I think our recruitment has been superb (obviously not flawless but whose is?). Such a huge leap from where we were such a short time ago. We’ve now got a squad chock full of exciting, talented players that I enjoy watching and who give their all for the lads, there’s not much more I ask for. A load of credit goes to Speakman for that.
 
to be fair i think on a whole are requirement has been good and its got us from 11th in league 1 when speakman come in to be fighting for top 6 again with squad worth 80m according to outlets so the has been massive improvements since he's come in , need 2 players this window to make sure we are giving it a good go again

but are recruitment is no where as bad as people make out

There has been some positives but it's fair to say there has been way more errors and it's making us weaker in the starting 11. The summer window this year being the worst we have had in some time. No forwards to 4 then 3 coaches not wanting to play any of them.

Says it all
 
  • Like
Reactions: LBW
Terrible second half. They were there for the taking. We could of course have been saying what a substitution if Adil hadn’t blown his lines but we could also be saying well done for picking Ba if he’d rightly been on the field. Our most productive attacking player, forcing back a very good left back - taken off.
Big questions to be asked.
Jobe. Why did Pritchard leave ahead of him. This needs sorting. You can’t have preferential treatment.
Ba- I wouldn’t have picked him but he proved me wrong so why this change ?
CDM. Ekwah stylish on the ball but leaves us vulnerable. Why didn’t we sign one.
Defence. A mess today. Why the sudden indecision.
They need to get busy this week and the first game where I think Beale looked out of his depth.

Most of these points would have been addressed with the right team selection , we did it against Leeds then binned the plan. Also Jobe has been hopeless last 4 games yet plays every minute every game , does he know were he should be playing , he looks lost most of the time to me. We are shapeless and clueless and unless these coaches change tack soon, we will be looking down not up and that worries me greatly.
 
Happy with Beale? Where have you got that from?! Was willing to give him a chance and still am rather than writing him off and calling for his head after a handful of games. I have already been critical of some of his decisions (mainly frustration that he’s repeating all the things I thought Mowbray was doing ****e).

I think our recruitment has been superb (obviously not flawless but whose is?). Such a huge leap from where we were such a short time ago. We’ve now got a squad chock full of exciting, talented players that I enjoy watching and who give their all for the lads, there’s not much more I ask for. A load of credit goes to Speakman for that.

Happy with the summer recruitment window mate ?
 
It’ll be toxic Friday night at the SoL. Hull will really fancy their chances.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.