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Re: EFLT - Ipswich Town vs West Ham Under 21's Preview & Matchday Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:33 pm
by arana peligrosa
Read the game report from a rival site, no prizes, and while gave the event a complete miss some of the fan reaction seemed extreme. While would not wish for the club to lose any fixture can't look beyond it were essentially an immaterial game in a piece of crap "competition", don't always understand the need to be involved in these futile endeavors.

The nature in which we were beaten i.e. a spot kick with seconds remaining will have grated and it provided a chance for Cook to experiment and deploy a much changed squad from the Bolton debacle. Holy seems to gather a number of detractors and it's arguable if Walton should have featured again after the horrendous debut last weekend. Not sure what goalkeeper will start for Lincoln but someone's going to have a task that day and then some.

I judge the manager on proper games, something with substance, can't look beyond last night was somethng apathetic. The reaction from some quarters was standard procedure for many. Best course of action move on quick from yesterday and focus on greater objectives ahead. West Ham at one time had one of the greatest youth academies you could find, guess some of the kids they got are useful and it were a top level club name we played last night. Can understand certain disappointments but the Lincoln game is primary focus here as was Bolton before it.

Re: EFLT - Ipswich Town vs West Ham Under 21's Preview & Matchday Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:54 pm
by Dazzz67
Going to throw it out there, I know the defence is a shambles at present but with Morsy coming in that should hopefully add abit of steel in DM...

Hladky
KVY Burgess Coulson
Morsy
Burns Harper Evans Edwards
Fraser
Bonne

or

Hladky

KVY Burgess Coulson
Morsy Harper
Burns Edwards
Fraser Norwood/Celina/Chaplin
Bonne

Or play Fraser and Norwood as CAM's and support for Bonne. Yet to see Celina or Chaplin as yet so he could be an option for Norwood.

Re: EFLT - Ipswich Town vs West Ham Under 21's Preview & Matchday Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:04 pm
by Bluemike
No Edmundson anywhere?

Re: EFLT - Ipswich Town vs West Ham Under 21's Preview & Matchday Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:11 pm
by Charnwood
I think Edmundson will come good. I think Cookie will too although I feel a little more uncomfortable than I expected to be this soon.
I can’t believe how many fans want more disruption and start again, that would be madness so soon into the new season.
Unlike with Paul Hurst I still believe this Paul will come good although even he may have under estimated the size of the job and made a few mistakes.

Re: EFLT - Ipswich Town vs West Ham Under 21's Preview & Matchday Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:45 pm
by AzzurroMark
Charnwood wrote:
Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:11 pm
I think Edmundson will come good. I think Cookie will too although I feel a little more uncomfortable than I expected to be this soon.
I can’t believe how many fans want more disruption and start again, that would be madness so soon into the new season.
Unlike with Paul Hurst I still believe this Paul will come good although even he may have under estimated the size of the job and made a few mistakes.
Totally agree with the above. It has been excruciatingly painful to accept at times and reading back to PC's comments (EADT) on 20th August does not help...

"Cook continued: “I don’t mind saying this, we will look to after Wimbledon at home, when everyone will hopefully be fit and available. We will then be training a first full week together and going to Wycombe. So I think probably post Wycombe you’ll see us up and running.

“Whatever the results are until there we’ll see. The more positive the better. But the more time we get together will only see us improve as a team. "


They had a full 2 weeks together and while not having everybody fit, the numbers of injuries we are talking about should not be an issue to a club with a squad and resources like ours. Sadly the performance level and confidence seem to have taken a downward turn.

I still believe PC should be given more time. When Morsy comes in in 3 games time things need to take (or have taken) a dramatic turn for the better.

Re: EFLT - Ipswich Town vs West Ham Under 21's Preview & Matchday Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:15 pm
by Charnwood
If only it was that easy to rebuild a football team we’d have 64 teams in the Premier League.

Re: EFLT - Ipswich Town vs West Ham Under 21's Preview & Matchday Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:19 pm
by ashfordblue
marko69 wrote:
Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:20 am
ashfordblue wrote:
Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:10 pm
…..The countdown begins PC your on a 10 game judgement programme, the clock is ticking the fans are getting restless you've got 10 league games to improve the results….

Ash??? 10 game programme? Ten games from now? Starting at Lincoln? That doesnt make ONE OUNCE of any sense? So if the next three are defeats, (certainly not confident about Lincoln) and the club are 24th, then someone in the club will say,
“NO, not yet……. Still 7 to go!” 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

It could be a heavy 4-0 @ Sincil, i reckon next Monday could be significant if that happens.
Marco our owners are a very patient lot, they knew it would take time to get our strongest team out and gelling together, and PC was very confident he was going to hit the ground running, BUT, we know that you need to keep your mouth shut as actions speak louder than words, and our owners didn't expect these results with 19 new players coming in, as I stated earlier PC needs an experienced assistant beside him like he had at Chesterfield, Wigan, and Portsmouth, he is absolutely lost on his own and the results are proving me right, I remember a certain Roy Keane saying promotion would be easy and proved he's an absolute gobby tosser.
Saturday against Lincoln away I'm sure we will lose as our defence is crap, and cookie has done little or nothing of note to improve the leaky defence. so after Lincolns game there's maybe 8 matches to go, which should take us into November, and if we haven't got a win by then and the leading pack getting well ahead on points, it would take a near miracle to get promoted, I might be wrong and they say goodbye earlier.
But I can only see one result at the moment and that's Cookie going, and we seeking yet another incumbent to take up the reins, also he needs to make our squad smaller and more manageable as we still have far too many players on our books, and he's always worked with small squads in the past.