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Burton Albion v Ipswich Town


Saturday 28th October 2017 – 15:00

Pirelli Stadium






Pre-Match Thoughts - Mike



The dust may have settled on yet another East Anglian Derby defeat but the fallout from it seems certain to rumble on and on for some considerable time yet. Already much is being said regarding the need for change at the top but as I have already said elsewhere I feel it is purely based on the events of Sunday, had we have won the game it would be as you were, it is a rsults driven business and a win under any circumstances would have the majority happy, for another week at least. So where exactly did it go wrong this time, well for me had the knudsen effort been a couple of inches to the Left we would have been 1-0 up in the early stages and with a very loud crowd behind the boys I firmly believe we would have comfortably won the game, we also contrived to miss by far the best chance of the half just before HT when Didsy somehow failed to convert the free header with the goal at his mercy, had it have fallen to Joe Garner it would have been in, no question it was a terrible miss. Trying to understand what went wrong in the second half is not so staightforward, we again had a great chance to go ahead, again Didsy with a header that just cleared the post seeing us go so close, of course not long after we pay the price for standing off Norwich and letting them play right through us with Two or Three good passes before my MOTM Maddison stroked the ball home. I didn't feel our heads went down, instead our heads just went, long and often hopeless balls pumped forward were Bread and Butter to the Norwich defence and chances in the final Third of the game were at a premium, Waghorn had one other decent effort that just flew over the bar but apart from that we didn't create too muh more. Of course it is disappointing to lose to them again but it wasn't the disaster portrayed in some quarters although I must be honest and say we did let ourselves down in that second half with our approach after going behind.

One thing that was hard to understand for me was the performance of David McGoldrick, he has been flying this campaign and been our best player several times, this time however I felt he was woeful, I am not accepting this out of position nonsense because he was still played as a Striker in a front Three and if we are to look at the tactics then Mick must have got something right as Didsy had Two great chances to score with headers so he was getting into the right positions, no for me his whole demeanour looked poor, his passing was awful and time after time he lost the ball all too easily, the body language looked laboured and half hearted, just when we needed him most he failed to deliver, I accept you can't be on your game every week but in the derby you should be up for it and he didn't look like he was. What really put the tin hat on it for me was not much longer than an hour after the game Didsy decides to come out with comments regarding his future and how important this
year is for him !! Really ? We've just been defeated by Norwich and he is concerned that his contract is up at the end of the season and that Ireland play Denmark in a play off qualifier, personally I could not give a stuff mate, especially with the timing of the comments, have a little bit of thought for the fans please. Reading his comments it would not surprise me if he is off in the Summer though, approaching 30 and concerned about his family in the Midlands, it could well be time for change, time will tell.

Next up we have a trip to Burton which really does look like a game we really need to win, for one it will keep us in the right area of the table but possibly more importantly than that end this poor run of results and in doing so stop the rapid decline of the mind set of Town fans, it gathers pace all too easily and we don't want to go back to where we were last season in that area. Worryingly I see that Burton have failed to score in their last Five League games and that has to end at some point, we know we can score goals and I bet we will need more than One to win this game, last seasons corresponding fixture was One we had to win and we did it, it may be for different reasons this time around but a defeat here will not be good, 7 in 9 would be a dire statistic, while Burton are no mugs at home and are scrapping for every point in their quest for survival I think Town will have enough about them to get a positive result and in doing so bag the points, a win can do wonders for our confidence again which must have taken a bit of a knock in recent games, we have some tough games coming up so we need to start to get back to winning ways, I think we will. COYB'S





The Opposition – Burton Albion





Burton Albion can claim lineage from four now defunct clubs: Burton Swifts, Burton Town, Burton United and Burton Wanderers.

Burton Albion were formed in 1950, and joined the Birmingham & District League. They finished the 1953–54 season as runners-up, and in 1958–59 joined the Southern League North Western zone. In 1965–66, Burton missed out on the runners-up place on goal difference, but were still promoted to the Southern League Premier Division.

They avoided relegation in 1968, thanks to Stevenage Town folding, but were relegated to Division One after an unsuccessful 1969–70 season. Burton missed out on promotion on goal average in 1970–71, but finished as runners-up the following season and were promoted back to the Premier Division.

The next two seasons saw them relegated and then promoted back to the Premier Division again. They stayed in the same division until being relegated once more at the end of 1976–77.

League rearrangements saw Burton moved to the Northern Premier League, because of their location in the central Midlands, and then back to the Southern League in 1987–88, the season after losing in a replayed FA Trophy final to Kidderminster Harriers.

In October 1998, Nigel Clough was appointed as player-manager and he led the club to two successive runners-up spots, in 1999–2000 and 2000–01.

Burton were again moved to the Northern Premier League Premier Division in 2001–02, which they won by a margin of 15 points, and the club was promoted to the Football Conference for the first time.

The club was brought to national attention when they were drawn at home against 11-time winners Manchester United in the third round of the 2005–06 FA Cup. The Brewers held the Premier League team to a 0–0 draw at home, but lost the reply 5–0 in front of over 11,000 Burton fans, setting a record for number of away fans at Old Trafford.

In January 2009, Burton went on to set a league record for the most consecutive wins and, in February 2009, when the team was 19 points clear at the top of the table, Conference sponsors Blue Square declared Burton the winners of the 2008–09 title in a PR stunt in which they paid out all bets. However, a bad run of form only saw this confirmation take place due to other results on the last day of the season.

Burton finished in 13th place in their first campaign in the Football League.

During the 2014–15 season, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink took over the managerial position at the Brewers and led them to the League Two title, which meant promotion to League One for the first time in their history. Hasselbaink left by mutual consent in December 2015 to join Queens Park Rangers as manager.

Nigel Clough returned to Burton to replace him for his second spell as manager and led the club to a second-place finish in the league, earning promotion to the Championship, another first for Burton, in the 2015/16 season.

Last season Burton managed to stay up by 1 point, finishing in 20th place on the table.



The Gaffer – Nigel Clough








Past Match - Video Highlights - Trev









Media Watch - K L Blue



Russell Qsman's View of Sunday


http://www.greenun24.co.uk/ipswich-town ... -1-5248309


McGoldrick on his future


http://www.greenun24.co.uk/ipswich-town ... -1-5247687


Stuart Watson's verdict


http://www.greenun24.co.uk/ipswich-town ... -1-5247256


Northstander's view


http://www.greenun24.co.uk/ipswich-town ... -1-5247106


Town Ladies win Again


http://www.greenun24.co.uk/ipswich-town ... -1-5248765



Form Guide




Burton Albion Last 5 Matches – Currently in place with points





Nottingham F. 2-0 Burton Albion

Bristol City 0-0 Burton Albion

Burton Albion 0-4 Wolverhampton

Burton Albion 0-4 Aston Villa

QPR 0-0 Burton Albion






Ipswich Last 5 Matches – Currently in place with points




Ipswich Town 0-1 Norwich City

Sheffield Utd 1-0 Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town 1-3 Bristol City

Ipswich Town 5-2 Sunderland

Leeds United 3-2 Ipswich Town





Fixtures of Interest




SHEFF. WEDNESDAY VS BARNSLEY


CARDIFF VS MILLWALL


NORWICH VS DERBY


READING VS MIDDLESBROUGH


HULL CITY VS NOTT. FOREST




Match Referee – Simon Hooper







BURTON ALBION 1 IPSWICH TOWN 2

Excellent preview,....., Burton Albion eh? 2nd tier of English football? Still can't quite get the head around that. But then Bournemouth in the EPL still confuses me!

Got to be the difficult away win here. One vote already for the defeat?! With a bit of luck that was evidently missing at PR on Sunday, should be taking this 0-3. A 0-1 will do.

Ref/Nigel Caption:

NIGEL: What's with all this yellow? It's fkn everywhere. Hey ref ya complete tit, look at all this feckin yellow!
REF: Yep. Here's some more.
NIGEL: Aw FFS, Reeeeefffffff?!

Got to keep positive on this one if he plays an attacking team we should come away with a win. Garner, Waghorn, Didsy up front with Celina wide we could do some damage. But that's my thinking. Burton 0 Ipswich 2

I honestly think we will take 3 points easily from this one.

I also wrongly predicted we wouldn't have a change of government down here a few weeks ago

Caption




did we lose against Ipswich


( why , why, why )

Burton haven't scored a goal in their last 5 matches! So, inevitably they will score against us!! If we can't beat Burton, we'll be a mess. Confidence will drop even more! I don't think Mick will let that happen.

Burton Albion 2 v 3 ITFC

No goals in 5? Bartoz......... don't be tinkering with that stat, boyo!

Yes I agree, it will be a total mess. Look at the pic of the ground up there, ^^^ ...., it's like Livingstons Almondvale. MUST win at 2nd Tier of English football, BURTON Albion. That's BURTON. Bee, you, are, tea, oh, N....... Burton.

Midfielder Tom Adeyemi is a big doubt ahead of Saturday’s trip to Burton Albion with a recurrence of his hamstring injury. Adeyemi, who returned to action during Sunday’s 1-0 defeat to Norwich City, looks certain to miss out at the Pirelli Stadium.

“Tom Adeyemi is very, very doubtful,” manager Mick McCarthy revealed. “Before the Norwich game he’d been off for three weeks, he came back and had three weeks’ training, was very good, but he’s felt his hamstring again, which is really sad because he did very well.

"He does make a difference and the lads think he makes a difference. We’ll have to wait and see.”

McCarthy says it’s been a frustrating first few months of the season for Adeyemi and also Emyr Huws, who is yet to play a minute during the campaign due to an achilles problem, but is set to feature for the U23s on Monday when they face Colchester United at Playford Road (1pm).

“He and Emyr Huws, although Emyr’s been training this week and he’s just been caught smiling, so that’s a good sign. I think they got it on camera,” the Town boss added.

“And Tom’s been the same. I had thoughts of playing a midfield three of Tom Adeyemi, Emyr and Skusey, which would be a formidable threesome.

“Thankfully though, we’ve had Tristan and Flynn who have come through and done really well. It’s really tough on the lads when they’re injured all the time.

“[But Tom is] an experienced player and, as I said, I thought he played really well, certainly in the first half on Sunday, and in the second half he started reasonably well but he just ran out of gas.

“If he’d felt his hamstring I wish he’d just said, but obviously he wasn’t injured because he continued playing, it’s just tightened up.”

Tommy Smith wasn’t among the subs on Saturday but McCarthy says the New Zealand international is fit, despite having a back spasm ahead of the Norwich match having recently returned from a hamstring injury.

“Tommy’s fine, he’d had the back problem, he’d had the hamstring so sitting on the bench for 60 minutes minutes and me saying, ‘Come on then Tom, get warmed up, go and get on the pitch’ is not always the best thing to be doing. He’d be better from the start, Tommy.”

Still sidelined are Teddy Bishop (groin), Andre Dozzell (cruciate) and Luke Hyam (knee).

Jesus Christ !!!! How many bloody more are we going to have injured ? It's a joke.

Mick quote:
I had thoughts of playing a midfield three of Tom Adeyemi, Emyr and Skusey, which would be a formidable threesome.

Sure to please the "Skusey" lovers!

He's at the wind-up and can't be serious, surely?

Looking forward to this game.....see you their and all that......Town to scrape it

Nigel caption....."My garden shed"......"Is bigger than this".......

Are we doing the gaffer pic for caption?

marko69 wrote:Mick quote:
I had thoughts of playing a midfield three of Tom Adeyemi, Emyr and Skusey, which would be a formidable threesome.

Sure to please the "Skusey" lovers!

He's at the wind-up and can't be serious, surely?

How about playing Celine Dione from the start at Burton Micky boy, Celina needs full game time,
Oh and re your TWTD comments, rather than possibly leaving next summer, how about a nice Christmas present for the fans and going in December, ready for a new manager to operate in the New Year window, what ever you decide do not sign a new contract, as that will be Curtains for Ipswich attendances

Ohiotractorboy wrote:Are we doing the gaffer pic for caption?

Hi Ho O Hi Oh.

The Don Cup has it's own thread on that main page, above that red borderline thing. Have a go please as it's quite empty this week. Think biscuits dude.

marko69 wrote:

Well done Marko nice to have a backing group

If we have any aspirations to finish the season in the top half of the table this is a game that has to be won.

Yes definitely, the points are the most important thing today although a good solid performance would also go down well with fans too but a negative result today could be a tipping point for many. I think if we go with a front three of Garner, Waghorn & Didsy again we will score so hopefully Burton continue to struggle in this area.

The Beech Inn before the game if anyone is travelling.

Figured I'd post it here aswell...

I've dropped the ball and not purchased a ticket and have just been informed no away ticket sales are available today.

Before I accept having to the sit/stand in the home end, does anyone have a spare ticket I could purchase? Long shot, but it's a shot!

Thanks,

Those of you going to The Beech Inn before the game, where are you parking? (Never been before).

Didnt go to the Beech in the end, but there is parking there i believe or somewhere close anyway. Ground is only 10 min walk.

Only one change. Really cant see the point in us having Celina.... Cant even play against one of worst teams, think he could have caused all sorts of problems today. They have conceded 4 in their last 2 home games

Sounds pretty dire so far, seems like a midfield with a complete inability to get a toehold in a game, let alone control it, but what do you expect if the two of them are strikers, one is very short on experience and stature and the last, well, it's Cole Skuse...

Absolutely woeful first half, 2nd best throughout, players just dont seem up for it or interested at all, if Mick cant motivate them better than this we have problems and equally if this is playing for your manager they must want him gone. Can ONLY improve 2nd half.

What is this.
1-0 down to Burton. Certainly the low point
with little signs of improvement.

No Downes, No Celina, its KEVIN f**king BRU !!!! He's lost it big time.

1 down and Bru on. Excellent tactics. Will help us prevent any more Burton goals so we only lose 1-0. Good team that Burton.

Come on Town. Get another.

Wag horn 1-1

No offence to Ward, but who would've brought him on ahead of Celina?

Strange substitutions!