On occasion I have been in the White Elephant when they've had football on some TV's and rugby on others, other than that it's dodgy links I'm afraid.
its not i don't have faith carra, I do, but as I have said many times that this is the championship and anything can happen. Im just not going to get drawn into the 'we are going to do this and that garbage' that normally gets somebody eating humble pie.
if I supported Ipswich I wouldn't either. I wouldn't say what I do about Norwich or Ipswich if I didn't think it was true. I genuinely think your football stinks and is the lowest of the low. Your team remains crap because of it and I see no happy long term future for Ipswich Town whilst you carry on with this nonsense.
Pickering and the Old Bank are usually good for football, but you occasionally get the odd scally or Green Street wannabe in attendance.
It's not just the Championship anything can happen, it's anywhere. Just look at Bradford in the FA Cup for example, no game in any league or cup is set in stone or predictable. I'd like to think especially at home we'll beat Ipswich, but as you say, anything can happen so I'm not getting too far ahead of myself.
You have never done **** all and never will. Your miserable little club has achieved nothing of any real note so you do not have the authority to lecture those who have achieved things. My advice is to stop being so bloody bitter and just enjoy your brief moment in the sunshine while it lasts.
JWM, the gift that keeps on giving! There are very few people still alive that remember any of your distant history!
That's how I know it's true, even I struggle to remember when Ipswich had a decent, competitive team! About eighteen hundred and frozen to death!
I think our club is far happier than your own, the supporters still follow whilst your own slowly drift away, despite your history, Perhaps Dave is correct? they no longer go because they are no longer old enough to remember.
The stewards certainly don't look like they're enjoying your football either. please log in to view this image
If per chance you did get relegated to League One, would you have the stature to return first time of asking. Y The opposition must have the ball. The arms are ready to direct though when they win it back.
I will admit that once upon a time Town had a great side under Bobby Robson and certainly 'punched above their' weight for several years. I can remember vividly where I was on that fateful day when Ipswich won the FA Cup, I didn't watch the match because I was a schoolboy and had a Saturday job, I was butchering half a pig when Roger Osbourne scored that goal ! Town winning the UEFA Cup was also a great achievement. At 52 (53 on Saturday), I'm far too young to remember Town's Division One title win but once again a great acheivement, well done. I also agree that the chance of City ever winning the title has long gone, we nearly did it a couple of times, once in '89 and again in '93 but football is a completely different game now as we all know with only 3 or 4 clubs competing for the top prizes. We may one day win the Cup and it's not out of the realms of possibilty that we may also win the UEFA Cup in the future, but the League ? No. But here's the rub, this is what sticks in the craw of Town fans, Ipswich is the smaller of our two clubs and the fact that Ipswich are not as 'big' as City and never will be is what really irks them. No matter what they have done in the past, no matter what they might win in the future (unlikely as that is), Norwich City football club who represent East Anglia's Capital City will ALWAYS be the region's Premier club regardless. Now where did I put my fishing rods ?
I'll take a nibble! quite strange how all the facts are in paragraph 1, and none in paragraph 2. and we all know how you guys like not to debate about opinions but cast iron facts. surely if I remember rightly that's a warning about being banned?
Well said KIO! Unfortunitely in this unromantic modern day footbal world, money is god, we are in a group of clubs that will likely be bottom end PL or top end Champ. The binners, barring some outrageously wealthy backer are doomed to midtable champ. The difference between us at the moment is that they seem in a long slow painful decline. OK this season they are having a day in the sun, but with their financial position it is mearly a blip, most seasons I would expect them to more likely be looking down with fear than up with optomism. As you say I think they know this and whilst they can rightly be proud that their club had some success in the past, I and many of them have no recollection of it as it was so long ago. I'm under 40 (Just!) and for the last 25-30 years of following football there has been little between the two clubs. The last 5 years on the pitch we have been in accendancy, off the pitch too. But it is now harder than ever before to see how they might get back on top? A change of owner at the very least! A change of style would help a bit, but how do you reverse the large decline in attendances and cash in flow? This season and getting some PL money is a chance in a decade or more for a club of their size and limited finances and you can sense the nerves and feeling now that they are going to blow it and return to midtable obsurity for another decade or more. But don't you worry, they won some stuff before most of them could read or write (perhaps that's pretty much all of them!) We may have had limited success in the past but, I'll enjoy the now, when I can get a ticket, whilst they continue to bleed fans and get a stiff neck watching McHoofball! Bah!
Hey Guru, there's a Leeds fan waiting to talk to you Town fans on YOUR BOARD, if you could take the time to piss off over there and respond
Preston, Burnley, Huddersfield, Wolves, Forest and lots of others who have won nothing for 40 years + have all had wonderful histories too - so feckin' what?
