| Ipswich Reflection 17:53 - Nov 1 with 17198 views | bluenwhite10 |
A fair result and list to a side with an embarrassment of talent.
Ipswich going into the match are a team in a false position and it was going to click for them at some stage and unfortunately for us it was today..
Squirting hopelessly beaten on the wing for the 1st goal.
In fairness we responded well attacking Ipswich right quite a bit as Chair was getting lots of success against Furlong and good following up by Butr |  | | |  |
| Ipswich Reflection on 09:49 - Nov 2 with 2616 views | Northolt_Rs |
| Ipswich Reflection on 22:23 - Nov 1 by Hunterhoop |
We’ve been through this before on here, Ted. Clive posted the link to the JD the club issued when advertising the role earlier this year. I’m not making it up.
The set piece coach reports to the CEO. As does the Head of Methodology, the Head of Player Development, the Head of Sporting Operation, and the Head of Recruitment. Stephan is amongst that group reporting to the CEO.
I’ve been told that you/we need to think of it as “Stephan is their client”, “they need to work collaboratively and keep him happy”, and “by reporting to the CEO he can ensure they’re doing their job right”.
Make of that what you will. |
It’s a load of bollox because it’s plainly not working! |  |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 09:58 - Nov 2 with 2560 views | bosh67 |
I'm more concerned as to what Steve Bould is actually doing on the training pitch. We've shipped 7 goals away and 4 now at home in the first 12 games. The defence looks very unsure as to how to defend set pieces. It may be the chop and changes to the back 4 but I was very happy that Bould had come in during the summer but we're really not seeing much cohesion or consistency in the way we defend. The two walls for the free kicks yesterday had some of our shorter players in them. There didn't appear to be any policy to jump, stay together or anything. I know Bould isn't at the matches but you do wonder what is going on during the training sessions because to ship this many goals kind of points more to the way the defence is being set up and the cover ahead of it. |  |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 10:07 - Nov 2 with 2511 views | rbee |
I thought we ended the first half the better team.
We would of come out for the second half raring to go but conceding after two minutes took the wind out of our sails.
Esquerdinha and Vale should have been hooked at half time. |  | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 10:27 - Nov 2 with 2417 views | Northolt_Rs |
| Ipswich Reflection on 10:07 - Nov 2 by rbee |
I thought we ended the first half the better team.
We would of come out for the second half raring to go but conceding after two minutes took the wind out of our sails.
Esquerdinha and Vale should have been hooked at half time. |
Esquerdinha cannot start again and needs to back off with his dumb social media posts. WTF has happened to Vale? His form has dramatically nosedived and with it so has the team’s. | |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 10:29 - Nov 2 with 2395 views | eastside_r |
| Ipswich Reflection on 10:07 - Nov 2 by rbee |
I thought we ended the first half the better team.
We would of come out for the second half raring to go but conceding after two minutes took the wind out of our sails.
Esquerdinha and Vale should have been hooked at half time. |
Absolutely right. Slightly the better team just before and after we equalised in the first half.
The clusterf*ck of the second goal (see Nardi thread) really killed us. [Post edited 2 Nov 10:34]
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| Ipswich Reflection on 10:34 - Nov 2 with 2377 views | dmm |
What is Equerdinho posting on SM? |  | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 10:37 - Nov 2 with 2363 views | francisbowles |
| Ipswich Reflection on 18:54 - Nov 1 by Rangers67 |
Very poor referee today. Plenty of shoves in the back by them in the first half nothing given. We do one and he blows up. Not the reason we lost but he was crap |
Not the reason we lost but we had been on top for the last twenty minutes of the first half and this decision leading to the goal they subsequently scored, in the second minute of the half, was the game changing moment.
It was a huge inconsistency from the ref. |  | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 10:37 - Nov 2 with 2360 views | rbee |
It's almost as if the substitutions are pre planned and we can't deviate from that plan. When the substitutions were eventually made, on the hour of course, they were pointless.
Vale on a yellow card should never have come back on for the second half. | | | |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 11:01 - Nov 2 with 2285 views | TK1 |
The game was almost identical to Middlesbrough at home a year ago this week, with Esquerdinha in the Santos role. Lost that 1-4 too and I hope it delivers a similar reality check to a complacent coaching staff.
The big difference in that game is that we had injuries, so Santos played out of position at LB and Field played CB.
No such excuse yesterday. Fully fit squad. We won't play against midfielders as good as Nunez and Egeli again (combined cost £27 million) who were both superb, but the plan for them was *suicidal*.
Against some of the best midfielders in the division we just handed them the midfield and said, 'go on, have that the middle of the pitch and we'll throw in the full backs too'. Really dumb.
I hate 442. It got us out of a hole in an emergency after Coventry but it's going to drag us right back into the hole. With a fully fit squad it's madness to pick 442 with this squad of players who have been enlisted to play either 433 or 4231.
We can't keep handing over the midfield to the opposition, especially now teams have seen us do it. We've signed a squad of good technical footballers to play in triangles and now we're just launching long balls for Burrell to chase. We need to pick the team the squad has been designed for and that means picking one of Burrell, Kone or Frey to start and either adding to Varane/Field to solidify the middle or adding Saito to play with Chair behind the striker (which would've worked better against Ipswich I feel).
Hopefully we can put it down to it experience and it delivers as much of a lesson for Stephan as Coventry did. | | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 11:11 - Nov 2 with 2236 views | NorthantsHoop |
| Ipswich Reflection on 11:01 - Nov 2 by TK1 |
The game was almost identical to Middlesbrough at home a year ago this week, with Esquerdinha in the Santos role. Lost that 1-4 too and I hope it delivers a similar reality check to a complacent coaching staff.
The big difference in that game is that we had injuries, so Santos played out of position at LB and Field played CB.
No such excuse yesterday. Fully fit squad. We won't play against midfielders as good as Nunez and Egeli again (combined cost £27 million) who were both superb, but the plan for them was *suicidal*.
Against some of the best midfielders in the division we just handed them the midfield and said, 'go on, have that the middle of the pitch and we'll throw in the full backs too'. Really dumb.
I hate 442. It got us out of a hole in an emergency after Coventry but it's going to drag us right back into the hole. With a fully fit squad it's madness to pick 442 with this squad of players who have been enlisted to play either 433 or 4231.
We can't keep handing over the midfield to the opposition, especially now teams have seen us do it. We've signed a squad of good technical footballers to play in triangles and now we're just launching long balls for Burrell to chase. We need to pick the team the squad has been designed for and that means picking one of Burrell, Kone or Frey to start and either adding to Varane/Field to solidify the middle or adding Saito to play with Chair behind the striker (which would've worked better against Ipswich I feel).
Hopefully we can put it down to it experience and it delivers as much of a lesson for Stephan as Coventry did. |
Excellent post, got it in a nutshell. Ipswich were a class above and we let them get an easy victory , vey much on par with Boro last season. Norrington-Davies is a starter for me, was concerned when saw young Brazilian lad in his place. Nunes very good player and he was able to command it a bit. |  | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 12:39 - Nov 2 with 2052 views | NW5Hoop |
| Ipswich Reflection on 08:40 - Nov 2 by Monkey_Roots |
I agree with all of this.
I do understand that we now have 2 very good players available following injuries, and we need to try and fit them back in, it’s a nice problem to have, but it is a problem.
I think the middle of the park is an issue - constantly switching out Madsen’s partner - Varane is just not playing well, so Hayden does seem like the right choice, but he’s in, he’s out - no consistency.
Cook shouldn’t be starting IMO, and Esquerdinha - needs a L1 loan - not a start, we missed RND today. |
Yeah, I don't understand why Cook starts when there are two fit centre backs. Yes, he could beat blokes who challenge him on Twitter in a 100m race. But, sadly, that's not who he's up against in the Championship. I presume he's there for knowledge and experience – maybe Stephan just doesn't trust Morrison and Mbengue together – but his slowness is a real problem. | | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 15:32 - Nov 2 with 1842 views | mart_Goblin |
Apologies. I know I’m a bit late with this but I’ve not had chance since the game finished yesterday .
Probably better as I could calm down a bit but my general thoughts haven’t really changed.
The head coach got it disastrously wrong yesterday.
Not just in the picking of the side , which I’ll come on to but from minute 1 to minute 97 we were outnumbered in midfield .
It was plain to see for all of us that Madsen and Hayden couldn’t cope either moving forward or moving back. The number 5 dropped deep , Nunez, who we made look like the best player on the planet dropped in the hole in front of our back 4 and we failed to adjust, change , adapt …nothing .
Now of course the players on the pitch must find a way to sort situations out to a point , but some help from the sideline would help?
Stéphan stayed rigid to the 442 despite us all seeing what needed to change .
Mr Stéphan , I like you a lot . You’ve impressed me in many ways .
But we’ve been found out mate.
What worked 6 weeks ago has now been sussed .
I said it last Saturday and I’ll say it again , it’s time to tweak this formation again now .
2 managers in 2 matches have out manoeuvred and out thought Stéphan with very little effort.
We needed to drop an extra body into the midfield . Maybe Kone off who looks completely out of confidence , Poku on and Vale onto midfield …AFTER 10 minutes that should have been done or something similar . No we put Frey on with more of the same . 😩
But it goes back to something else I said last week that if you keep making double or treble subs at half time then you are getting the starting IX wrong .
No subs this time , unbelievably, but more of the same .
Now I know we did pretty well for the last part of the first half but only really because Ipswich became nervous of their own shadow …or moreso their own goalkeeper and back 4 p*sing about with it at the back .
We didn’t look comfortable at any point and yesterday was a real failure for the head coach .
The team selection was weird . So Esquerdinha comes in from god knows where . Such a strange choice .
Bloke in front of me yesterday said he had it on good authority that Sheffield United are trying everything they can to recall Norrington - Davies , so that why Esq was thrown in.
Now if that’s the case , and I don’t know that it is , then it’s an explanation. But it’s not really acceptable as that’s surely can’t be done until January , unless they are trying to find a loophole of some sort . Probably has more to do with RND’s injury issues but that’s more excuses.
I like Esquerdinha . I’ve backed him before when others were on his back and in general I think he might become a good player . But yesterday he had a real shocker .
I love his confidence but at times it’s over confidence bordering on stupidity. his decision making is horrific . Constantly wants to jump in and nick the ball and you just can’t do that . For that 3rd goal he has to just back off . If you go charging in then you are out of the game . That’s basic first page stuff from the defensive rule book. Not learning quick enough …but probably because he is mucked about by the team selections .
And as for ‘first page stuff’…what in gods name is Nardi doing for the free kicks .
The last goal is beyond Sunday league stuff .
I saw it replayed in the blue and white bar and couldn’t believe my eyes.
The wall is lined up the wrong side of the post . Take another look!
It’s Poku who should have been heading that ball because Nardi has the wall out of position.
It’s criminal. Beyond belief really .
We’ve managed to destroy our main striker who is just playing in no man’s land with no impact and no self belief.
So it now need to change .
Either play Kone up front where he can be the main man ala Charlton , when he was fantastic , or give him a breather . Burrell probably deserves to start anyway but let’s change it up now . Extra man in midfield and support Burrell with players who CAN play 10!!
Because this is now not working at all .
It was great whilst it lasted , but I can’t sit through another 90 minutes of Kone in no man’s land , the midfield 2 pulled apart and us now looking weak as p*ss again.
Time to once again to earn your corn JS. [Post edited 2 Nov 15:38]
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| Ipswich Reflection on 15:41 - Nov 2 with 1791 views | mart_Goblin |
| Ipswich Reflection on 11:01 - Nov 2 by TK1 |
The game was almost identical to Middlesbrough at home a year ago this week, with Esquerdinha in the Santos role. Lost that 1-4 too and I hope it delivers a similar reality check to a complacent coaching staff.
The big difference in that game is that we had injuries, so Santos played out of position at LB and Field played CB.
No such excuse yesterday. Fully fit squad. We won't play against midfielders as good as Nunez and Egeli again (combined cost £27 million) who were both superb, but the plan for them was *suicidal*.
Against some of the best midfielders in the division we just handed them the midfield and said, 'go on, have that the middle of the pitch and we'll throw in the full backs too'. Really dumb.
I hate 442. It got us out of a hole in an emergency after Coventry but it's going to drag us right back into the hole. With a fully fit squad it's madness to pick 442 with this squad of players who have been enlisted to play either 433 or 4231.
We can't keep handing over the midfield to the opposition, especially now teams have seen us do it. We've signed a squad of good technical footballers to play in triangles and now we're just launching long balls for Burrell to chase. We need to pick the team the squad has been designed for and that means picking one of Burrell, Kone or Frey to start and either adding to Varane/Field to solidify the middle or adding Saito to play with Chair behind the striker (which would've worked better against Ipswich I feel).
Hopefully we can put it down to it experience and it delivers as much of a lesson for Stephan as Coventry did. |
Spot on | | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 16:39 - Nov 2 with 1640 views | Paddyhoops |
| Ipswich Reflection on 15:32 - Nov 2 by mart_Goblin |
Apologies. I know I’m a bit late with this but I’ve not had chance since the game finished yesterday .
Probably better as I could calm down a bit but my general thoughts haven’t really changed.
The head coach got it disastrously wrong yesterday.
Not just in the picking of the side , which I’ll come on to but from minute 1 to minute 97 we were outnumbered in midfield .
It was plain to see for all of us that Madsen and Hayden couldn’t cope either moving forward or moving back. The number 5 dropped deep , Nunez, who we made look like the best player on the planet dropped in the hole in front of our back 4 and we failed to adjust, change , adapt …nothing .
Now of course the players on the pitch must find a way to sort situations out to a point , but some help from the sideline would help?
Stéphan stayed rigid to the 442 despite us all seeing what needed to change .
Mr Stéphan , I like you a lot . You’ve impressed me in many ways .
But we’ve been found out mate.
What worked 6 weeks ago has now been sussed .
I said it last Saturday and I’ll say it again , it’s time to tweak this formation again now .
2 managers in 2 matches have out manoeuvred and out thought Stéphan with very little effort.
We needed to drop an extra body into the midfield . Maybe Kone off who looks completely out of confidence , Poku on and Vale onto midfield …AFTER 10 minutes that should have been done or something similar . No we put Frey on with more of the same . 😩
But it goes back to something else I said last week that if you keep making double or treble subs at half time then you are getting the starting IX wrong .
No subs this time , unbelievably, but more of the same .
Now I know we did pretty well for the last part of the first half but only really because Ipswich became nervous of their own shadow …or moreso their own goalkeeper and back 4 p*sing about with it at the back .
We didn’t look comfortable at any point and yesterday was a real failure for the head coach .
The team selection was weird . So Esquerdinha comes in from god knows where . Such a strange choice .
Bloke in front of me yesterday said he had it on good authority that Sheffield United are trying everything they can to recall Norrington - Davies , so that why Esq was thrown in.
Now if that’s the case , and I don’t know that it is , then it’s an explanation. But it’s not really acceptable as that’s surely can’t be done until January , unless they are trying to find a loophole of some sort . Probably has more to do with RND’s injury issues but that’s more excuses.
I like Esquerdinha . I’ve backed him before when others were on his back and in general I think he might become a good player . But yesterday he had a real shocker .
I love his confidence but at times it’s over confidence bordering on stupidity. his decision making is horrific . Constantly wants to jump in and nick the ball and you just can’t do that . For that 3rd goal he has to just back off . If you go charging in then you are out of the game . That’s basic first page stuff from the defensive rule book. Not learning quick enough …but probably because he is mucked about by the team selections .
And as for ‘first page stuff’…what in gods name is Nardi doing for the free kicks .
The last goal is beyond Sunday league stuff .
I saw it replayed in the blue and white bar and couldn’t believe my eyes.
The wall is lined up the wrong side of the post . Take another look!
It’s Poku who should have been heading that ball because Nardi has the wall out of position.
It’s criminal. Beyond belief really .
We’ve managed to destroy our main striker who is just playing in no man’s land with no impact and no self belief.
So it now need to change .
Either play Kone up front where he can be the main man ala Charlton , when he was fantastic , or give him a breather . Burrell probably deserves to start anyway but let’s change it up now . Extra man in midfield and support Burrell with players who CAN play 10!!
Because this is now not working at all .
It was great whilst it lasted , but I can’t sit through another 90 minutes of Kone in no man’s land , the midfield 2 pulled apart and us now looking weak as p*ss again.
Time to once again to earn your corn JS. [Post edited 2 Nov 15:38]
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I thought it was a 50/ 50 game until the first free kick .
Did piss me off that we allowed Nunez the freedom of the park from minute one.
Someone should have stuck a reducer on him in the first 5 minutes . Let him know you’re there .
Nobody did .
We were totally outplayed second half though . | | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:00 - Nov 2 with 1572 views | Rsole |
Mart
Didn’t reply direct because it chews up space but it feels like:
1) we wasted pre-season completely - trying to play a system that didn’t suit the players
2) we used what we didn’t learn in pre-season to start badly, with the same system
3) picked a team of kids in the cup - not really expecting to progress when we could have done so with a minimal amount of planning and a different set of subs/more seasoned players.
4) got thumped by Cov - keeper ‘injured’
5) switched systems to suit the players and had some success - looked good at times
6) got bullied by the usual suspects - dropped points we could/should have picked up
7) got found out by a few better coaches with better prep/planning
8) got tired in three game weeks
9) got thumped by Ipswich - at home. Worse than Cov for me
10) now need to adjust again to find a way to get results
Stop me, oh oh oh stop me, stop me if you heard this one before…. rinse and frickin repeat bitches.
I know we were told that Jules blows hot and cold in spells but this is a whole season of more or less what we did last year in summary - before November really began, and with better players, in theory at least.
I know it’s QPR and I am not that surprised, but yesterday was just a complete and utter piss take at times.
At least Cov scored some decent goals against us and we were away from home but what the flying fcuk was that defensive shit show yesterday ? |  |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 17:04 - Nov 2 with 1542 views | Rsole |
As for Bould, I expect he’ll be working every Saturday in the near future as the replacement for JS.
Feels like he’s always been the insurance policy for that scenario. | |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 17:33 - Nov 2 with 1434 views | dutch |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:04 - Nov 2 by Rsole |
As for Bould, I expect he’ll be working every Saturday in the near future as the replacement for JS.
Feels like he’s always been the insurance policy for that scenario. |
This is silly. Sack the manager two weeks after we all thought he was the messiah. We aint that bad and we weren't that good. He made mistakes yesterday, but also half a dozen players were sub parr against a good side. | | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:36 - Nov 2 with 1413 views | Northernr |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:00 - Nov 2 by Rsole |
Mart
Didn’t reply direct because it chews up space but it feels like:
1) we wasted pre-season completely - trying to play a system that didn’t suit the players
2) we used what we didn’t learn in pre-season to start badly, with the same system
3) picked a team of kids in the cup - not really expecting to progress when we could have done so with a minimal amount of planning and a different set of subs/more seasoned players.
4) got thumped by Cov - keeper ‘injured’
5) switched systems to suit the players and had some success - looked good at times
6) got bullied by the usual suspects - dropped points we could/should have picked up
7) got found out by a few better coaches with better prep/planning
8) got tired in three game weeks
9) got thumped by Ipswich - at home. Worse than Cov for me
10) now need to adjust again to find a way to get results
Stop me, oh oh oh stop me, stop me if you heard this one before…. rinse and frickin repeat bitches.
I know we were told that Jules blows hot and cold in spells but this is a whole season of more or less what we did last year in summary - before November really began, and with better players, in theory at least.
I know it’s QPR and I am not that surprised, but yesterday was just a complete and utter piss take at times.
At least Cov scored some decent goals against us and we were away from home but what the flying fcuk was that defensive shit show yesterday ? |
Word for word how I'm feeling. |  | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:49 - Nov 2 with 1351 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:04 - Nov 2 by Rsole |
As for Bould, I expect he’ll be working every Saturday in the near future as the replacement for JS.
Feels like he’s always been the insurance policy for that scenario. |
I wouldn't rule it out, Rsole.
Anything is possible under Nourry, and we have to allow for the possibility that Stéphan refusing to adhere to the game model will not have gone down well. |  |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 18:08 - Nov 2 with 1262 views | mart_Goblin |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:00 - Nov 2 by Rsole |
Mart
Didn’t reply direct because it chews up space but it feels like:
1) we wasted pre-season completely - trying to play a system that didn’t suit the players
2) we used what we didn’t learn in pre-season to start badly, with the same system
3) picked a team of kids in the cup - not really expecting to progress when we could have done so with a minimal amount of planning and a different set of subs/more seasoned players.
4) got thumped by Cov - keeper ‘injured’
5) switched systems to suit the players and had some success - looked good at times
6) got bullied by the usual suspects - dropped points we could/should have picked up
7) got found out by a few better coaches with better prep/planning
8) got tired in three game weeks
9) got thumped by Ipswich - at home. Worse than Cov for me
10) now need to adjust again to find a way to get results
Stop me, oh oh oh stop me, stop me if you heard this one before…. rinse and frickin repeat bitches.
I know we were told that Jules blows hot and cold in spells but this is a whole season of more or less what we did last year in summary - before November really began, and with better players, in theory at least.
I know it’s QPR and I am not that surprised, but yesterday was just a complete and utter piss take at times.
At least Cov scored some decent goals against us and we were away from home but what the flying fcuk was that defensive shit show yesterday ? |
Yeah I can’t really disagree with much of that .
I was thinking more of what can be done by the head coach in the next couple of games, rather than the bigger picture, admittedly . | | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 18:15 - Nov 2 with 1231 views | WestonsuperR |
The underlying data for the season so far has shown we should be about 15th so we are roughly about where we should be so far, maybe a little high. The quality of the squad player-for-player is about mid-table and budget very much lower mid so I expect us to be around 14th-18th, that is our ‘par for the course’.
We of course should aspire to be higher and we all want to be achieving more,other teams are fairing better (others worse, look at our opponents on Wednesday) but this is the reality (unfortunately). |  | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 18:22 - Nov 2 with 1199 views | Northernr |
| Ipswich Reflection on 18:15 - Nov 2 by WestonsuperR |
The underlying data for the season so far has shown we should be about 15th so we are roughly about where we should be so far, maybe a little high. The quality of the squad player-for-player is about mid-table and budget very much lower mid so I expect us to be around 14th-18th, that is our ‘par for the course’.
We of course should aspire to be higher and we all want to be achieving more,other teams are fairing better (others worse, look at our opponents on Wednesday) but this is the reality (unfortunately). |
We did also say right at the start our first 12 games looked friendlier than our second 12. | | | |
| Ipswich Reflection on 18:23 - Nov 2 with 1188 views | Rsole |
| Ipswich Reflection on 17:33 - Nov 2 by dutch |
This is silly. Sack the manager two weeks after we all thought he was the messiah. We aint that bad and we weren't that good. He made mistakes yesterday, but also half a dozen players were sub parr against a good side. |
Dutch - maybe I should qualify what I wrote more clearly.
I don’t want to fire JS or replace him with Bould, I just think that’s why we hired Bould - just in case we need him to step in.
He’s the insurance policy that prevents another gardening accident/incident and I think we may be filling in the claim forms based on dashcam footage shortly. | |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 18:25 - Nov 2 with 1178 views | Rsole |
| Ipswich Reflection on 18:22 - Nov 2 by Northernr |
We did also say right at the start our first 12 games looked friendlier than our second 12. |
Shut up - back at you ! | |
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| Ipswich Reflection on 19:46 - Nov 2 with 1027 views | Hunterhoop |
| Ipswich Reflection on 18:15 - Nov 2 by WestonsuperR |
The underlying data for the season so far has shown we should be about 15th so we are roughly about where we should be so far, maybe a little high. The quality of the squad player-for-player is about mid-table and budget very much lower mid so I expect us to be around 14th-18th, that is our ‘par for the course’.
We of course should aspire to be higher and we all want to be achieving more,other teams are fairing better (others worse, look at our opponents on Wednesday) but this is the reality (unfortunately). |
Just for clarity, I was told the expectation (from the top) is top half this season. Our budget isn’t perhaps quite as low as some think, and the Eze cash gave us room to play. |  | | |
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