Huddersfield vs Ipswich Town Preview & Matchday Thread

[derick_ipsw]

Caption : Can you smell garlic?

[arana peligrosa]

Starting squad for today

Gerken
Chambers
Berra
Digby
Spence
Skuse
Bru
Dozzell
Knudsen
Lawrence
Sears

Subs Pitman, Douglas, Ward, Emmanuel, Moore, Nydam, Crowe

[Charnwood]

Town line up;

Town: Gerken, Spence, Digby, Chambers (c), Berra, Skuse, Knudsen, Bru, Dozzell, Lawrence, Sears.
Subs: Crowe, Emmanuel, Douglas, Nydam, Ward, Moore, Pitman.

[Tangfastic]

The one thing that sticks out.... Emanuell dropped.

That boy has been patient and has had to wait for ages to get a run .... and then dropped like a stone.

Spence straight into the team.

[shamm]

41 minutes
1 nil down.

[shamm]

Douglas may be coming on ...........1 nil down.
A management solution of NOTE.

We are going to WIN.

[bluejacko]

Thats it i was listening on the radio not any more with Donkey on!!

[Charnwood]

2-0

[Charnwood]

Only one shot on target and 0 corners in the first half suggests we're deep in defence?

[shamm]

GOAL: Huddersfield double their lead as Schindler fires the ball past Gerken, after the #itfc stopper had initially saved Billing's effort

[shamm]

Thanks me out!!!!!

[ipswichtownNo1]

The one thing that sticks out.... Emanuell dropped.

That boy has been patient and has had to wait for ages to get a run .... and then dropped like a stone.

Spence straight into the team.

MM is a TW@T. Poor Emanuell, mick always harps on about not giving his failing old pros stick but never give the young ones support ot time. By the way, what happened to Bart??

[Tangfastic]

Is MM trying to defend a 1-0 or 2-0 loss?

Just stick on some subs . Don't care if it's 5-0 or 2-0 .... try something new.

[Tangfastic]

The one thing that sticks out.... Emanuell dropped.

That boy has been patient and has had to wait for ages to get a run .... and then dropped like a stone.

Spence straight into the team.

MM is a TW@T. Poor Emanuell, mick always harps on about not giving his failing old pros stick but never give the young ones support ot time. By the way, what happened to Bart??

He's unwell officially .... or is being lined up for transfer. Or Mick is trying to shoehorn Gerks back into the team as he was the 'best' player against Lincoln.

[phily bon bon]

Absolutely ridiculous. Still my biggest problem is Evans and the arse kissing Milne. I'm all for giving the manager support and patience but their total inaction and absence is very frustrating. Millions bought in from player sales not reinvested in the team.

[ipswichtownNo1]

The one thing that sticks out.... Emanuell dropped.

That boy has been patient and has had to wait for ages to get a run .... and then dropped like a stone.

Spence straight into the team.

MM is a TW@T. Poor Emanuell, mick always harps on about not giving his failing old pros stick but never give the young ones support ot time. By the way, what happened to Bart??

He's unwell officially .... or is being lined up for transfer. Or Mick is trying to shoehorn Gerks back into the team as he was the 'best' player against Lincoln.

If bart is sold we will be relegated

[Tangfastic]

OK.... we'll wait and see what Mick says.

A 2-0 away loss against Huddersfield ( now) is no real embarrassment. So I guess that's a positive in reference to Lincoln.

I have no idea where this club is going?

Milnes 5 point plan looks as shabby as he does.

[marko69]

The positive to take away is thinking it'd be 4-0. Was only half that.

[Shed on tour]

OK.... we'll wait and see what Mick says.

A 2-0 away loss against Huddersfield ( now) is no real embarrassment. So I guess that's a positive in reference to Lincoln.

I have no idea where this club is going?

Milnes 5 point plan looks as shabby as he does.

Somebody should tell him that means we will need to get a win and 2 draws from the remainder of this season and at the moment that looks doubtful.

[hallamblue]

This season can't end soon enough for me . What a bloody disaster it's been.
Never known.do many injuries- most of them seem to occur in training rather than games.


Two more dead beats coming in on loan
Just WTF is Evans playing at???

[len]

MM comments after the game...He will put on his funny hat and red nose
on Monday morning to get the lads motivated!!!
My thinking... he has lost the plot and lost his way in management!!!

[ashfordblue]

Says it all really Huddersfield never got out of 2nd gear, just cruised to victory, and it shows Micks definitely lost the plot by bringing on Douglas, I do f*****g despair, even if Taylor plays in defence we wont get anything from our next 6 matches, the dressing room has gone, there's no confidence whatsoever, they are shot, so Mick please just F*****g go and take Terry with you, God I hope Marcus see's some bloody sense and gives Mick the heave Ho

[BLUEBLOOD]

Caption Comp After game : Hey Mick HEY MICK HEY MICK Get a hearing Aid you might hear the fans calling for you to leave.

[herforder]

Post match caption (just for fun)1!

Vor sprung durch fuc*ing tecknik! Audis 2 Mondeos 0!

[Mach_Polish_Blue]

Downbeat and deflated albeit not surprised. The most appropriate summary of the game is : same old, same old. Fully expected that kind of performance given the apathy and can't be arsed attitude that surrounds this club.
You would have expected a manager of your club to instill a bit of motivation into the team given what happened on Tuesday. 'Come on lads, lets do something for the fans, cheer them up'. Did it happen today? No. Not even dab of that. Huddersfield goalkeeper Ward wasn't tested properly during whole match.

A kind of 'good' news prior to the game as we had found out that their main midfielder Aaron Mooy wasn't going to play. But it turned out to be not important at all as they had the game under control from first to final whistle.

Bit of joking after 3 minutes following free-kick from Lawrence. Even though it wouldn't trouble their goalie Ward at all we still joked it already was better than Tuesday.

Huddersfield started slowly but we offered nothing upfront. Once again midfield turned out to be the main issue. Skuse, Bru, Dozzell.

Skuse.... his fabulous Skusey and he'll keep saying that he's a Premier League player as will some hilarious 'experts' here. Oh and if you slate Skuse that you don't understand his role in the team. Honestly these 'experts' need their head checking. To put it nicely he was fookin sh1t. Absolute garbage and waste of space as he very often is. The only thing which he 'didn't do wrong' was his sideways and backward passes. No service whatsoever towards the strikers and nothing really in terms of his defensive duties. Slower than any Huddersfield midfielder, chasing shadows. But he knows he'll be in the team next week. He won't fight for his place. He knows he'll be pampered by McCarthy.
Skuse perfectly exemplifies what is wrong with midfield and this team in general. Doesn't care. Slow, dead slow and .... very comfortable.

Bru.....countless poor passes. Zero distribution. Another waste of place.

Dozzell..... though anonymous today I can hardly be critical of him. He needs to have good players in midfield around him not that garbage we have.

Huddersfield did fortify their dominance as the game grew. Couple of headers from Digby's side of defence where their forwards remained unmarked.
The manner in which we conceded first goal epitomised us perfectly. Brown ran with the ball unchallenged by 4-5 Ipswich useless spectators that stood and watched him. No-one was bothered to challenge or tackle him. Simple shot from 20 yards. Easy goal.

Half time substitution Douglas for Dozzell didn't make any difference at all. Huddersfield well on top whereas we were so dire. Very painful and very sad to watch.
After their second goal they took foot of the gas allowing us to get forward. Yes we were a bit quicker however completely devoid of any ideas how to create a serious opportunity let alone come back to the game. We could have played until midnight and we still wouldn't have scored. Huddersfield despite slowing down were more threatening in terms of goalscoring opportunities.

Lawrence perhaps not as brilliant as in the recent weeks but in fairness to him he was isolated with his efforts. No support whatsoever.
Bru's pointless cross on 65 minute underlined our bleakness too. A cross into their box where there was none Ipswich players.

Spence who himself hadn't played for a few months was still a stand-out player for us and that also tells a lot about the rest of this team. Lovely pass across the pitch towards Sears in Steven Gerrard's style caught the eye as did his chance in the second half where he was 'enforced' to launch a shot after breaking down the right. Enforced as there was no support in the box and his shot went past the far post.
Stand-out player so McCarthy 'had to replace' him. Typical !

The lack of attacking ability and ideas was frightening albeit not surprising at all given McCarthy's 'philosophy'. Any kind of flair and ability is being taken out of these players.

The lack of passion is unacceptable though. No-one cares about the club. Evans issues much vagued 5 points plan, Milne comes out with stupid statements most recently after the Lincoln debacle. McCarthy remains stubborn and doesn't intend to change anything to appease our disgruntled fanbase nor does he seem to motivate his gutless bunch. It's the fans only who care about Ipswich Town.

What's next? Nothing, literally nothing is going to change for the next 15 weeks until the end of season. Painful chore to watch, 3-4 wins along the way to keep some of people smiled.

Huddersfield..... decent team playing the kind of football I'd like us to play that is attacking and keeping an opposition under control and on the back foot. Remember that place from my previous visits and it's a huge difference today. Big, noisy crowd. The place where their chairman and board don't treat fans like idiots and that is a different world to Ipswich Town nowadays. Maybe one day for us in the future under the board that will want us to be successful.

Oh and Cole Skuse please fook off and produce your 'goods' for the different club ! That applies for Kevin Bru too !

[ipswichtownNo1]

Downbeat and deflated albeit not surprised. The most appropriate summary of the game is : same old, same old. Fully expected that kind of performance given the apathy and can't be arsed attitude that surrounds this club.
You would have expected a manager of your club to instill a bit of motivation into the team given what happened on Tuesday. 'Come on lads, lets do something for the fans, cheer them up'. Did it happen today? No. Not even dab of that. Huddersfield goalkeeper Ward wasn't tested properly during whole match.

A kind of 'good' news prior to the game as we had found out that their main midfielder Aaron Mooy wasn't going to play. But it turned out to be not important at all as they had the game under control from first to final whistle.

Bit of joking after 3 minutes following free-kick from Lawrence. Even though it wouldn't trouble their goalie Ward at all we still joked it already was better than Tuesday.

Huddersfield started slowly but we offered nothing upfront. Once again midfield turned out to be the main issue. Skuse, Bru, Dozzell.

Skuse.... his fabulous Skusey and he'll keep saying that he's a Premier League player as will some hilarious 'experts' here. Oh and if you slate Skuse that you don't understand his role in the team. Honestly these 'experts' need their head checking. To put it nicely he was fookin sh1t. Absolute garbage and waste of space as he very often is. The only thing which he 'didn't do wrong' was his sideways and backward passes. No service whatsoever towards the strikers and nothing really in terms of his defensive duties. Slower than any Huddersfield midfielder, chasing shadows. But he knows he'll be in the team next week. He won't fight for his place. He knows he'll be pampered by McCarthy.
Skuse perfectly exemplifies what is wrong with midfield and this team in general. Doesn't care. Slow, dead slow and .... very comfortable.

Bru.....countless poor passes. Zero distribution. Another waste of place.

Dozzell..... though anonymous today I can hardly be critical of him. He needs to have good players in midfield around him not that garbage we have.

Huddersfield did fortify their dominance as the game grew. Couple of headers from Digby's side of defence where their forwards remained unmarked.
The manner in which we conceded first goal epitomised us perfectly. Brown ran with the ball unchallenged by 4-5 Ipswich useless spectators that stood and watched him. No-one was bothered to challenge or tackle him. Simple shot from 20 yards. Easy goal.

Half time substitution Douglas for Dozzell didn't make any difference at all. Huddersfield well on top whereas we were so dire. Very painful and very sad to watch.
After their second goal they took foot of the gas allowing us to get forward. Yes we were a bit quicker however completely devoid of any ideas how to create a serious opportunity let alone come back to the game. We could have played until midnight and we still wouldn't have scored. Huddersfield despite slowing down were more threatening in terms of goalscoring opportunities.

Lawrence perhaps not as brilliant as in the recent weeks but in fairness to him he was isolated with his efforts. No support whatsoever.
Bru's pointless cross on 65 minute underlined our bleakness too. A cross into their box where there was none Ipswich players.

Spence who himself hadn't played for a few months was still a stand-out player for us and that also tells a lot about the rest of this team. Lovely pass across the pitch towards Sears in Steven Gerrard's style caught the eye as did his chance in the second half where he was 'enforced' to launch a shot after breaking down the right. Enforced as there was no support in the box and his shot went past the far post.
Stand-out player so McCarthy 'had to replace' him. Typical !

The lack of attacking ability and ideas was frightening albeit not surprising at all given McCarthy's 'philosophy'. Any kind of flair and ability is being taken out of these players.

The lack of passion is unacceptable though. No-one cares about the club. Evans issues much vagued 5 points plan, Milne comes out with stupid statements most recently after the Lincoln debacle. McCarthy remains stubborn and doesn't intend to change anything to appease our disgruntled fanbase nor does he seem to motivate his gutless bunch. It's the fans only who care about Ipswich Town.

What's next? Nothing, literally nothing is going to change for the next 15 weeks until the end of season. Painful chore to watch, 3-4 wins along the way to keep some of people smiled.

Huddersfield..... decent team playing the kind of football I'd like us to play that is attacking and keeping an opposition under control and on the back foot. Remember that place from my previous visits and it's a huge difference today. Big, noisy crowd. The place where their chairman and board don't treat fans like idiots and that is a different world to Ipswich Town nowadays. Maybe one day for us in the future under the board that will want us to be successful.

Oh and Cole Skuse please fook off and produce your 'goods' for the different club ! That applies for Kevin Bru too !

All in all a sh*t day out then? And still people will say we should turn up and pay money or ee are not real supporters.

[Mr.Punch]

Don't expect things to change too much.
MM clearly feels relegation is possible.
He seems unlikely to use too many youngsters.

“Developing players is great, but we need to pick up points and we need to be hard-nosed. That’s what we’ll have to be for the rest of the season.”

That'll get the fans flocking back!

[Bluemike]

Pretty much everything I expected from todays trip to The John Smith's stadium although I actually expected to be beaten more comprehensively. While the win ended up being comfortable for the home side for the opening 40 minutes up until they scored there was very little in the game, but as in true Town tradition we gift them a goal by failing to get our blocks and tackles in as Brown waltzed his way through 4 or 5 Town players who really gifted him all the time he needed, it was a crucial part of the game as to get through to HT level would ahve given us something to fight for but as it was it changed the second half completely. Despite being well in the game for most of the half we still fail to look dangerous in the final third, again very little created from Midfield for the strikers to feed off and apart from a couple of half chances it was all too comfortable for Huddersfield.

The second half was bitterly disappointing albeit not as bad as Lincoln by any stretch but we still look bereft of confidence and knowhow, the body language is still of great concern. Town of a year to Eighteen months ago may have lacked real top quality but it made up for it with a really good workrate, we were known for getting in oppositions faces, for closing down quickly, we used to stop teams playing and were generally hard to play against, that all seems to have gone and we just stand off and let teams play. Early in the second half it was pretty much game over as Gerken saved a loong range shot but failed to push it away and Huddesrfield reacted quicker to the loose balll to make it 2-0. No way on earth are we capable of turning round a two goal deficit.

Town's only real bright spot of the afternoon was the performance of Jordan Spence who I thought grew into the game the longer it went on and was actually our best hope going forward while also showing his passing skills with very good cross fiedl ball to set up an attack, not much to be positive about today but he was a bright spot. On the other hand you have to feel for Josh Emmanuel who was relegated to the subs bench after being one of our better performers recently. We also got our first glimpse of Keiffer Moore who came on for the final Quarter of the game and aside from One or two neat touches it was hard to gauge an opinion on him from this few minutes. The remainder of the game saw Huddersfield more likely to add to the scoreline than us and they saw it out with minimal effort.

It was defintely better than Tuesday because it could only be but still pretty poor in truth, Spence aside nobody really stood out, the Midfield was p*ss poor today while at the back Digby had a mare and Berra was not much better, Chambers was OK again while Knudsen did at least get a couple of really good crosses into the box today, unfortunately we had nobody in there to win them., up fron the attacking players were totally anonymous although supply and service to them was also non existent. Seven really tough games coming up and I would suggest performances like today will glean very few points from those games.

Gerken (6) Digby (4) Chambers (6) Berra (5) Knudsen (6) Spence (7) Bru (5) Skuse (5) Dozzell (4) Sears (5) Lawrence (5)
SUBS :- Douglas (4) Pitman (5) Moore (5)

[Charnwood]

I always appreciate reading reports from you guys who went to the match but it is getting pretty depressing and repetitive, so much so I guess you guys could write most of the script before kick off.

I think if I were you I'd take a break for a few weeks cos these players and our management don't really deserve your support.

I'm not sure how poor we have to get before anything will change, however things are looking pretty grim at the moment and don't look like improving anytime soon.

[Tangfastic]

Post Match Caption:

DW: " I VANT A 10 MAN DEFENCE .... DOUGIE's COMING ON FOR DOZZER !!!! ZE ARE BRINGING OUT ZE BIG GUNS. MCCARTHY ... YOU CUNNING FOX !!!! "