Premier League - Ipswich Town vs Tottenham Hotspur Preview & Matchday Thread

[Cabanas Blue]

Palmer Godfrey O'Shea Greaves Davis
Phillips Cajuste Philogene
Hutch Clarke Delap.

Subs.
Muric Wolfie Townsend Johnson Morsey Taylor Sammy Broady Hirst.

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[Bluemike]

He is on the bench

[JamessB]

According to the BBC "Ipswich could have had three by now and we're only six minutes in"

COYBs

[Charnwood]

Brilliant news our hotel at Rathambhore Safari Park in India has the match on live in our hotel room. Having been successful in seeing tigers today my day will be made up with a win against Spurs.

Unfortunately we now need at least two goals to make that happen, but that would be even better as my prediction was a 2-1 win.

[Cabanas Blue]

Our old number 44 JD would have been better than Godfrey, after such a good start what a pity.

[Cabanas Blue]

Lovely goal game on.

[ashfordblue]

Both goals come from down our left with Davis at left back, make the change take him off and put Townsend on Hutch makes it 1-2 COYB

[AzzurroMark]

Brilliant news our hotel at Rathambhore Safari Park in India has the match on live in our hotel room. Having been successful in seeing tigers today my day will be made up with a win against Spurs.

Unfortunately we now need at least two goals to make that happen, but that would be even better as my prediction was a 2-1 win.

I'm very envious of you, we went to Ranthambore last March and did the safari on two separate days, but didn't see any tigers sadly.

[Charnwood]

Both goals come from down our left with Davis at left back, make the change take him off and put Townsend on Hutch makes it 1-2 COYB

I think you’ll find it’s Godfrey getting the run around not Davis.

[AzzurroMark]

Both goals come from down our left with Davis at left back, make the change take him off and put Townsend on Hutch makes it 1-2 COYB

There seems to be a bit of a thing against Leif Davis at the minute, just for the record, both goals came down Spurs left (our right) and it was Godfrey beaten on both occasions!

[ashfordblue]

Both goals come from down our left with Davis at left back, make the change take him off and put Townsend on Hutch makes it 1-2 COYB

There seems to be a bit of a thing against Leif Davis at the minute, just for the record, both goals came down Spurs left (our right) and it was Godfrey beaten on both occasions!

my mistake

[AzzurroMark]

Both goals come from down our left with Davis at left back, make the change take him off and put Townsend on Hutch makes it 1-2 COYB

There seems to be a bit of a thing against Leif Davis at the minute, just for the record, both goals came down Spurs left (our right) and it was Godfrey beaten on both occasions!

my mistake

A bit worrying though is that Godfrey is on a yellow! Maybe a wise idea to consider bringing Johnson on?

[Cabanas Blue]

Wolfie on in his place thank goodness, well O'Shea at right back

[arana peligrosa]

How many games we won at PR this season, two, three, it's just not good enough. All those opportunities of a home advantage and we fail to take more from it. The opposition aren't even nowhere near as strong as seasons before and we won the first game in London. This is for lack of better words frustrating. Why the f*ck can't we do more with home advantage over teams we really should be taking points from.

You look at the bench, we got say Szmodics, Morsy, Hirst etc not even involved. McKenna needs to act quick while there's still time remaining. Put an extra forward on the field, introduce someone who can make a difference. You can see the opportunities there to turn it around, so frustrating when you can't do a damn thing about it.

[ashfordblue]

How many games we won at PR this season, two, three, it's just not good enough. All those opportunities of a home advantage and we fail to take more from it. The opposition aren't even nowhere near as strong as seasons before and we won the first game in London. This is for lack of better words frustrating. Why the f*ck can't we do more with home advantage over teams we really should be taking points from.

You look at the bench, we got say Szmodics, Morsy, Hirst etc not even involved. McKenna needs to act quick while there's still time remaining. Put an extra forward on the field, introduce someone who can make a difference. You can see the opportunities there to turn it around, so frustrating when you can't do a damn thing about it.

The trouble is we haven't got any impact players on the bench all ours are crocked so we won't come back from this dia situation

[ashfordblue]

It gets worse 1-4 now

[AzzurroMark]

1-4 Phillips and Cajuste both off injured today. Injuries have really not helped our cause.

[Bluemike]

Great performance, all hail the messiah

[Charnwood]

Not convinced the result reflected the performance on the pitch. Maybe we should have done more with our early chances to have given ourselves a chance. Their 4th goal looked a little suspect too. The battle for survival continues not helped by Wolves win at Bournemouth.

[Bluemike]

Charny, there is no battle for survival, today was a defining day with Wolves winning. We missed chances when on top in the opening 15 minutes and then basically couldn't defend for the entire game. Godfrey was embarrassing and cost us the opening Two goals, he wasn't helped by Davis who failed to defend the back post after Godfrey had been made to look like a school boy.

Again we made Four changes, no continuity at all, Clarke and philogene are just woeful signings, Townsend dropped after an excellent showing last week. At 1-2 down at half time we needed positive changes, we got Woolfenden, Hirst needed to come on alongside Delap, the f**king one trick pony needed to try something different, instead we got the same old crap, I expect his hoards of adoring admirers are ok with that. Relegation confirmed, I should actually thank McKenna for that though as I currently hate my Saturday's and this awful league.

[Shed on tour]

For me today was the final nail in the coffin. Just can’t see us catching Wolves now especially as we can’t buy a home win. Time to start thinking about next season and how we are going to attack the Championship.

[hallamblue]

Once again we are left ruing our gilt edged chances. Town should have been 3-0 up in those fist 5 mins, make no mistake. But we squandered these chances.

The scoreline totally flatters Spurs. But yet again we are suckered on the transition/ break. We missed Axel so much today. Godfrey to slow and was beaten all ends up every time Spurs attacked down that flank.

Fir me, Town are effective down now. I'm disappointed but al.ostlooking forward to next season niw. This squad isn't PL level. It's a very young developing squad tbh. But I think this is a conscious recruitment strategy by the club, regardless of us being in the PL. So for me, this season was always a free hit because we hadn't expected to be in the PL.

Tactics:

Once again, I feel McKenna has got it wrong.
Why was Broadhead on the bench, and Philogene and Clarke on from the start? They're lightweight and i can't honestly see what they offer at this level.

Why was Townsend dropped? He play really well in the last game. He defends far better than Davis for sure.

The striker conundrum:

Delap will always get picked first. But even though he's our top score I'd challenge this. He burns fiercely fir the 30 mins of a game, and Spurs certainly couldn't cope with him, but he didn't put the ball in thd net from dead cert goal scoring positions. Spurs then catch their breath and re group. They put at least 2 players on Delap, and that's him finished as a threat. This happens in games a lot.

Delap as a striker is totally different to Hirst. He likes to run at players and is power, but he doesn't blend as well with the other front me for me. Hirst i feel should start, as should Broadhead.....for me, Delap should come on later in the game with his power running and play him wide, alongside Hirst, not INSTEAD of. But McKenna will never do this.

Of became come out of the blocks at Man Utd like we today, and we actually take our chances, I think we will win. But the resurgence of Wolves frankly makes it irrelevant.

[arana peligrosa]

If and say again, If, the team goes down by final game then the majority reason behind it will a whole mass of dropped points at Portman Road. Time and time again the opportunity will have been there to take more - far more - from respective fixtures we've encountered and played but the results have been thus far abysmal. That's where we're going to fall short, that's where the eventual problem will kill off the season.

I look at the bench and names available that either weren't used or introduced too late to make a difference. Is Szmodics unfit to play or something, why didn't the player even feature. Hirst should have begun from the start, not when the opposition hold a 3 - 1 lead with little to no time remaining. Disappointed for Palmer, done great first few games and now four goals conceded to his name. Guess the defense directly in front isn't as robust as would like.

It's futile blaming McKenna for another mess. Some won't have a bad word against the manager, it's sacrilege to castigate the individual involved many would argue, but you look at the bigger picture in that the home form has been abysmal, absolute sub-standard, and too often the players we need on the field when available aren't featured when ideally should be involved. Yes there's been injuries and suspensions to hold the team back this season and prohibit a certain progression but on the grand scale of things can't really use that as an excuse as to why we've fallen short or find ourselves in the position we're at, discussing another poor home loss or unsatisfactory result etc. The opportunities have been there and we've wasted too many, that's the realism or truth of the matter really. Spurs are far from a truly remarkable team for fucks sake, at least we won the first game at their stadium, guess that should count for something.

[Blue Wilf]

Sadly, thats us down for me. First 2 goals were Godfrey totally out of his depth and our old issue of no pace. Ref poor all day but typically for the third one he stopped the game when it was out throw and then gave them a drop ball - why?? And then for the fourth he didn't stop play when clearly we had a head injury. He was a tw*t but thats not why we lost. That was poor finishing and poor defending.

McKenna changed out Townsend - why?? He was great last week - oh and why go 4 at the back? More unnecessary changes. We also never seem to come out fighting in a second half. Morsy looked totally pedestrian when he came on so I hope we have ideas for a change sooner rather than later. Also. Don't start me on Philogene and Clarke. I have seen few less effective signings in all my years of watching Town. At this level, they are abjectly poor - bad recruitment I fear.

So lets go down, keep what quality (champ level) we can keep and build again. It has been an interesting season but not enjoyable at all. If KM goes, I am fine with it and if anyone else wants to ask who could have done better, just look at David Moyes.. right face, lots of experience and gets the job done. That was KM for us for 3 years but now he is not the man in my opinion.

[ipswichtownNo1]

Godfrey c9st us first half, never want to see him in a town shirt again. He's been crap since we signed him

[ipswichtownNo1]

Sadly, thats us down for me. First 2 goals were Godfrey totally out of his depth and our old issue of no pace. Ref poor all day but typically for the third one he stopped the game when it was out throw and then gave them a drop ball - why?? And then for the fourth he didn't stop play when clearly we had a head injury. He was a tw*t but thats not why we lost. That was poor finishing and poor defending.

McKenna changed out Townsend - why?? He was great last week - oh and why go 4 at the back? More unnecessary changes. We also never seem to come out fighting in a second half. Morsy looked totally pedestrian when he came on so I hope we have ideas for a change sooner rather than later. Also. Don't start me on Philogene and Clarke. I have seen few less effective signings in all my years of watching Town. At this level, they are abjectly poor - bad recruitment I fear.

So lets go down, keep what quality (champ level) we can keep and build again. It has been an interesting season but not enjoyable at all. If KM goes, I am fine with it and if anyone else wants to ask who could have done better, just look at David Moyes.. right face, lots of experience and gets the job done. That was KM for us for 3 years but now he is not the man in my opinion.

That was KM for us for 3 years but now he is not the man in my opinion. Do get a grip , gotta keep mckenna.

[Blue Wilf]

Why? What do you see that says we HAVE to keep him? If anyone needs to get grip pal, its the face you see in the mirror.

[Cabanas Blue]

We are as good as down IMO, we would have been better getting promoted a season or two later, saying that we have not had any luck from the start had we played our first two games against Everton and Southampton we would have got points and like today playing Spurs a few weeks ago would have been much easier without Johnson and Vicario back in the team, as well as all the injuries we have had and another two today, I agree with a lot of what Mike says about KMc but us fans will always find fault with our managers and quite possibly we will have someone else next season but who?.
But anyway I'm looking forward to next season giving the Scum a good bashing home and away.

[MasseyFerguson]

Apart from the first ten or so minutes, the difference in squad quality was pretty stark. They still have a lot of first choice players injured. Solanke, Van Der Ven, Romero, Dragusin etc, and yet their available squad is miles ahead of ours.

Unfortunately, with Wolves winning today, the chances of staying up have virtually disappeared.

Although I am clearly a minority view on this board, I remain utterly convinced that KMcK is the best manager we have had in over 20 years. We should get to keep him no matter what.

[marko69]

Bournemouth were in 5th and cruising. Today though? Unreal. And fkd an accumulator bet. Useless gits. Home to shitty Wolves FFS.

"Get a grip, Marko,... say something about Ipswich." ...., will hang fire until I'm not a tad pished after the Hibs game.

Get it RRRRRRRIGHT up ye, Saint.