Well, I am glad someone is feeling positive! I am feeling rather down about our Town. This evenings performance doesnt shout from the hill tops yet! Looking like a dimming of the lights and slinking into the shadows of the Also Rans!
There we go, fair play to Addicks. Another season in Championship. Nice to have McG and Bish on the pitch. Not surprised. Top 10 it will be, could be worse, but overall disappointing last month's play. We know the end of season analysis, but MM will be back in August!
Season over - white flag up from me after Derby and Wendy win. 6 to play - give some youngsters a go and we go again in August.
You wanna hope not scoggy! Clueless twat, can't see villa or anyone wanting to take the clown off our hands, still it don't matter, he is better than the last two clowns! So even if we are in a dog fight next season, westy will be happy coz Mick is better than Roy! Wake up sleepy heads, Mick needs to go and the only way that will happen is fan power! Mick Out!
Well he is Spanish. Anyway you've been going on and on from day one - said you'd never use the forum last season - then we go top of the league, then you reappear after the Brighton game and go on and on and on. Enjoy the season being over you've been determined all year for it to be a failure and it has.
Christ don't cry about it, am I glad we didn't get promoted..... Too ****ing true, we are an embarrassment in the championship under Mick, imagine it in the premiership! You mocked me and basically called me an idiot when I said we will end up mid table, we ain't that bloody far off and fail to score at home against sides at the foot of the table, how you can continue to back MM is beyond me. As I say, fan power is the only way to force MEs hand, let's hope most fans can see this, judging by this site, I'm not so sure, sadly!
Ive been an optimist up until this point but now sadly I think it's our season over. And I think we're kidding ourselves to think Mick will play youngsters, I hope I'm wrong but he usually comes up with an excuse not to
Guess that's a matter of opinion as I have just read comments from fans saying the quality of football is worse now than it was under RK and PJ. I have said the likes of Sizzle should be on the bench rather than Six atm, I mean didz has hardly played whereas Dozens is match fit and would be raring to go. One bright spot today, MM wants to sign Digby for next season!
On the basis of that performance, and our recent form as a whole, we've given up. This entire club has given up. Mick McCarthy with his overly-cautious, defensive, and restricted tactics, has given up. He's happy to grind out a point at home to relegation-threatened sides and persist with a not-quite-so-winning formula. Where are the young players? Why is he persisting with out-of-form favourites? Why is our form so bad at the business end of the season yet again? Why does this meek surrender feel like a loss? The players on the pitch look to have given up. They are capable of much better and our attacking players, in particular, have under-performed all season. Sears has the caveat that he's mostly been shunted out wide, and can't implement himself on games out there, but Murphy, McGoldrick, Varney, Bru, and Bishop have struggled with form and fitness all season, and it's hurt us. I thought the Mick to Villa rumours would have reinvigorated this lot, but their heads have dropped. The team spirit doesn't look all there. Blame McCarthy and other factors as much as you like, I'm in the camp that it's ultimately the players that make the biggest difference in a game of football and, with the exception of a few, a lot of those lads are playing well below their normal performance levels. They look limited! The fans have given up. We saw the team sheet and most the people around us were understandably frustrated at Skuse and Douglas being played together in the middle. We had no width. One positive was defensively, we looked solid, but we were at home against a side in the relegation zone! There were audible sighs of frustration and a scattering of boos throughout the game and at full-time. We know the play-offs are beyond us. Not mathematically impossible, of course, but we can rule ourselves out at this stage, I think. And of course the board have given up. In fact, they seemed to have given up before a ball was kicked this season when they gave Mick next to nothing as a transfer budget and then failed to back him in January and announced a hike in ticket prices. They've failed to upgrade the status of the Academy, when they said they would. Instead, this board takes the paying fans for mugs by offloading our best players for inflated fees, failing to reinvest that money into the club, and then continuing their absurd policy of pricing out fans from going to the game. They even gave McCarthy a very generous, long-term contract in the hope that he'll continue to get us punching above our weight while investing as little as possible into the club. We need a complete overhaul. I'm glad for what McCarthy has done for the club, he stabilised us and got us competing at the right end of the table, not forgetting last season's play-off finish, but we need somebody more progressive, more ambitious, who can implement a more attractive playing style, and pick a team based on form and potential and not on how many caps they have. I hope the board will then provide this manager with the financial resources required to make us more credible promotion contenders and offer fans an olive branch by lowering ticket prices and encouraging Portman Road to fill up again! Because, let's be honest, if we're going to consistently be outspent, and continue offloading our best players, then we're not going to finish in the top six, are we? I've not felt this angry about Ipswich Town since McCarthy has come to the club. Something needs changing, and if McCarthy isn't going to do it, then I hope somebody else will! We're a mid-table side, in stature, finances, and the quality out on the pitch. Our club should stop settling for this and start showing a bit of ambition, particularly considering the prices they charge! Rant over!
