http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/22620/mccarthy-not-a-must-win-game Hmmmm, not sure I agree with Mick on this, it is just about as close to a must win game in the league as you can get. We certainly must not lose. For me it is a must win, if we draw others around us will pick up points, some still have a game on us also.....A loss is unthinkable...! COYBs....
Seems a bizarre thing to say given that there are not that many points between Town and 22nd place (Indeed 24th for that matter). An unlikely away win for Sheff Wed or Wolves (or both) today would have quite serious consequences if Town lose today. That will make the pack down there ridiculously tight
Nah a draw would do us in this one. A win would be huge but a defeat wouldn't be the end of the world. We're doing ok.
More of a 'must not lose' this one. Obviously we'd all love a win but this is gonna be a very tough test. I'll wait until the match is over before I decide what the result will mean to us but I think a defeat will certainly bring us back onto the brink of disaster
Looking at the other fixtures today I would agree a draw would be a pretty decent result, that is on the proviso there are no "shocks" elsewhere. I do not think for one minute Town are heading down but think it will be an uncomfortable few months for the fans.
It's one game, if we win, I'll be pretty confident that we will stay up but if we loose it will be a blow but it's far from curtains. Of course it's a big game but Mick is IMO just trying to take pressure off the players by not hyping it up.
Looks like I've got two of my wishes today...........starts for both Hewitt and Nouble, heres hoping they play a blinder. We really don't want to lose this one, we can ill afford to give points to other relegation rivals.
9 and a half games to hang in there and going into today there are 11 other teams who will not be certain of their safety yet.
Looks like we are heading for a draw...Why take off Nouble..playing well by all accounts! A point will keep our noses ahead...just.
Yea, I am not unhappy and several positives, Hewitt playing very well, Nouble, Tabb getting good run around, and even Mclean doing ok. Must win Home games now! Two in a row...CYOB
Decent enough result, shame about the other results. I'd say we should go for a 531 next match with this team: -----------Henderson ------Stearman, Chambers, Smith Hewitt------------------------Cresswell ----------Drury, Hyam, Tabb -----------Chopra, Murphy/Nouble Hewitt has to keep his place and for me N'Daw should be dropped, he gives the ball away far too much!
N'Daw has been guilty of more than a few misplaced passes lately but as I sadly can't attend matches I don't get to see what else he brings to the team in terms of defending etc. Maybe things would be worse without him playing, I'm not sure.
I am not N'daw's biggest fan but thought he played well at posh, broke their play up well and more often than not found a team mate. He can be a frustrating player to watch but he does make us stronger.
I think N'Daw would be good in a team with 5 in Midfield, with a few more creative/flair players. Not sure about a 4, defensively he's great and he offers us that muscle but he's a liability on the ball, needs to do better at this aspect of his game!!
AT 8.45pm on Tuesday night I am kinda thinking that Saturday was a must win game.......fingers crossed I don't feel the same in an hours time......Cmon Leeds......Urgh that hurt.!
If we go down we can blame any one of the games this season where we have failed to get the right number of points. It's just that the more recent ones stand out more.
The Posh match didn't rile me in the way the Uddersfrield game did. (I must point out that I was unable to make either) It seems from (all reports) that we had a go at Posh and found their keeper on red hot form, up at Uddersfield we were just hopeless and parked the bus. But like you say SD we are giving every game the sort of scrutiny that would make you believe that we're in a knock out competition but they do call this the 'business end' of the season and we need to be doing the business!
You can argue that we should have done the business at the start of the season so that we didn't find ourselves having to do it 'at the business end'
