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Post by bluey69 on Sept 25, 2007 14:43:20 GMT -1
Hey all, made an interesting start lets have a bit of a debate on where this seasons going ! Be interested to read all of your views.
myself -
well so far its a story of winning at home and poor away !
which is good / annoying ! happy at last that i don't feel worried that we're gonna lose every home game, but away i feel we're going to.
Personnel -
The odd one for me is y on earths Legwinski, our player of the season last year a sub !?!?! id remove tommy miller n put in leggy myself
the youth -
progressing nicely ! Garvans had a quality start, and Walters on the right wing is a touch of genius. Great thinking Jimmo, like it. Reckon Walters will gain interested from other clubs.
Loan signings -
now if you notice, so far we've signed NONE and we're doing alright
which = BRILLIANT !!!!! Noble / Macken / Bates / Walton
so shows we will be able 2 add to the squad when Magilton sees an opportunity.
Verdict and where we will finish -
Well BASED on this early run, i know its a bit too early to make assessments of our season based on 6 games. HOWEVER, i think we will definitely improve upon last season and think we can be in the shake up - maybe 9th i'll say
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Post by NoCanariesAllowed (Ipswich'02) on Sept 25, 2007 16:14:07 GMT -1
Here's my view.
At Portman Road, we can beat absolutely anyone. I firmly believe that. Even Charlton when it comes round to it. Watford would be a struggle, but I could easily imagine a similar situation to the Birmingham game last year.
Away from Portman Road, we are shockingly shite. So we aren't going to achieve anything this year unless we can actually pick up more than just 4 wins on the road.
Best performers so far - Walters has been outstanding, which I'm really pleased to see. I was never convinced in his ability as a goalscorer (hence why I was so pissed off when we first got him in January before the club went a month without scoring), but ever since the last couple of months of last season, I felt he was more of a midfielder, a CREATOR of goals rather than a scorer. And that's exactly what he's done this season now he's been put in the midfield role, so credit to Jim for that one. Counago - brilliant. What an inspired signing, even though I'm fairly convinced that he was just a cheap backup when the Franny Jeffers thing fell through! Lol! He's shown himself to have grown as a player since he left us, and I'm stunned by his consistently good performances. Lee started off incredibly well and although he could've had more in recent games, I get the feeling he's just having one of those bad patches where he'll have no luck before whacking in 4 in 4 games next month... Lol!
The other signings - Well... I'm not sure what's happened to Alexander because he's not really been all that wonderful up to now. But hey, neither was Kelvin Davis in his first season. Tommy Miller's been quiet in comparison to the man he has returned to the club with but I'm sure he'll be solid this season.
SO...
...how do I think we'll do? Well at the start of the season I thought 12th. Now having seen our home performances, I feel we could be as devastating at home this year as we were in 2004/05. It's the away form that's the big concern. Unless we improve on that, 10th is the highest we can hope for in my opinion, and that would be a big fat waste of a great home campaign.
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Post by kjonson on Sept 26, 2007 12:30:39 GMT -1
I pretty much agree with NCA, having seen all our home games and watford/MK Dons away...BUT! im not as confident (surprise) on our home form. coventry had god knows how many shots on saturday, and it was only 4-1 because we could shoot and they couldn't. Dowie said that only one team could defend, but the Ipswich defence still looks pretty fragile to me at home AND away so im not confident this home form will continue, though im hopeful and optimistic.
Away- what the hell is going on. I went to Leicester away last season, and the MK dons match last month was as bad as that.i hope we're under performing away as opposed to over performing at home.
I'll think we'll finish slightly above last season. I still think the defence needs proper sorting out, preferably with a perm signing in Jan not loans. I don't know who the weak link is but he needs to go.
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Sept 26, 2007 15:02:52 GMT -1
I also pretty much agree with NCA. Missed one home game, and went to the West Brom away - yes the one where our defence went kaput. Now, the problem there was we started off incredibly poorly, then got back into it second half. The last five minutes... Well yeah...
I really am worried about the away form though. In the league we've scored 1 and conceded 7. At home, I'm relatively pleased. Both the games I went to (Wednesday and Coventry, couldn't make the Palace one due to another commitment) I've seen 4 goals scored by Town and concede 1.
And I agree with KJ when she says our defence is still looking fragile. I've not been impressed with David Wright. Where I was sitting against West Brom you could see him getting too far into the centre, and not staying in position.
Like NCA said, I've also been incredibly pleased with Walters. He's settled into that position with incredible ease.
Where do I think we'll finish? I think we're going to improve on our position last season. Reackon the upper half of the table, but it'll still be mid.
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Post by kjonson on Sept 27, 2007 12:06:15 GMT -1
we beat coventry by four goals...they beat man utd by two goals...so we're better than man utd.
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Post by bluey69 on Sept 27, 2007 13:43:34 GMT -1
haha o dear maths for k johnson ! 4 - 1 = 3  |
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Post by kjonson on Sept 28, 2007 7:00:55 GMT -1
you're right bluey, my bad.
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Post by NoCanariesAllowed (Ipswich'02) on Oct 1, 2007 14:14:13 GMT -1
Well now we're 7 games in and the rot continues...  Dunno what it is about our away form. I've been so confused by it that I've written an article about it stating my own personal theory that our players must be victims to some sort of bizarre phenomenon once they step on the bus... (Hopefully it will be published in TWTD Issue 89 - for those who don't know my real name already, the words "NoCanariesAllowed" do appear in my article... well, they do in its current unedited form at least. If they don't, blame Phil. ;D Lol!) Even though I have also tried to come up with some proper theories in that article, I'm still lost to explain it. Never mind. We've got another away loss... whoops, away game at Burnley tomorrow night, so with any luck we'll turn it around and start getting some points on the road... ...just as my article gets printed. D'oh!! |
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