View From The Greene King Stand

Well apparently I was wrong about Tuesday night's match, plenty of people have told me we were alright actually (but others seemed to agree with my disappointment, so I'm not going completely mad). Whatever the case, this afternoon suggests that those who thought the Charlton game showed us to be coming along nicely had a point. Because this was much better. When it was goal-less after an hour, ... More...

Utter, utter garbage. It's hard to know where to start. Charlton fans spent much of the match mocking their own team's abject display, Ipswich fans spent it looking heavenwards in frustration, and the neutral supporter I brought with me said it was just the kind of game which makes you long for the warmth of your living room. Because it was freezing too. If you're here for the ... More...

Fourteen games, and fourteen different midfield starting lineups: and this one may be just about as bad as any we've suffered, as Jim flounders around searching for some semblance of solidity. At times you felt there might be a bunch of decent players in there struggling to work out what they were supposed to be doing, but it was fleeting. The fact is, we've played worse than this ... More...

Not sure what to make of this one. We got a far more sensible team selection than Saturday, and for periods of the match we tried to pass the ball around, so a big improvement in Jim's performance, for sure. Individually, the players' performances were unremarkable, but they were definitely better than the sum of their parts. The defence still looks worryingly shaky at times (and yet, as ... More...

Well, I'll say one thing for Jim, his recruitment policy, team selection and tactics are currently provoking more post-match discussion than I can recall having had for years. The simple and occasionally stylish display against Reading, and the semblance of a settled lineup over the past few league games, seemed to have arrested the declining support for his stewardship in the stands. But unfortunately, today's managerial display opened ... More...

Generally, a significant progression in the team's performance, which will have settled a lot of jitters around the club, I should think. Now we take our rightful place alongside the mighty Doncaster in the table, and there may be better to come. Reading were a decent enough team, but we were well worth the win. Both teams played the same sort of "pass-and-run it straight through the opposition" game: ... More...

Right, this nonsense has to stop. Home defeats in the league, an away victory in the league, and most unlikely of all, two League Cup wins. This is not my Ipswich at all! Having missed the first three games of the season at FPR, I was anxious to get my fix at last, and intrigued to see what another Summer Of Change had brought us. Compared to last ... More...

Brendan Holmes writes: Well beaten again at home. This time it was more that Wolves were too good than we were particularly poor, however it is worrying that we were found wanting against one of the teams we should be competing with for promotion. Eubanks-Blake's difficult header was a goal I don't think any of our strikers would have scored, and it was as much as Wolves deserved ... More...

Stanway TractorBoy Snr writes: With last season producing one of the best home records in our history, several new signings, lots of pre-season wins, a new owner, and a goal up within 2 minutes, this was going to be a stroll in the park. Wasn't it? Hmm, perhaps not. In the first ten minutes, we created several good chances, Garvan was bossing the midfield, Lisbie and Haynes were making mazy ... More...

Odd to leave the ground after a victory feeling rather deflated, while listening to the losers having a bit of a party. But good luck to Hull: in a season where their playoff opponents will be a horrible team (Watford), a "how on earth did they get there?" team (Palace) and a team with a disgraceful negative goal difference (Bristol), they're by far the best of an undeserving ... More...

Well, the scoreline may have only been one goal better than Wednesday night, but the performance was in a totally different class. Indeed, if it wasn't for the problem which has characterised the whole season - our inability to actually stick the ball in the net - we would have won this four-, five- or six-one, and we'd have deserved it too. Norwich were awful, and we played ... More...

As a home season ticket holder who hasn't been able to obtain the domestic pass-outs this season to be able to go to away games, I know I don't fully appreciate just how bad it's been for the away diehards this season. But I think I got a flavour of it in this match. To say we were rubbish was an understatement. The away regulars will nod sagely ... More...

Two points well and truly down the drain. We had the chances to win this one comfortably, even ignoring the ref denying us a clear "over the line" effort and an even clearer penalty. If we don't make the playoffs, the big regrets this season will be the chances squandered, rather than (as has been normal over the past ten years), mistakes at the back. It's a long ... More...

If anyone was wondering after the Barnsley debacle whether we're back to the old routine (invincible at home, awful away), the answer may well be that we are. Because this was a cracking display against a strong team let down only by their inability to create chances. Yet we controlled most of the game, missed several glorious chances, and looked comfortable even when Charlton had periods of pressure. We ... More...

My goodness, it was cold tonight. Still, with over twenty thousand in the ground and very mediocre opponents, Town really ought to have been able to have taken my mind off my freezing extremities. They didn't. Not even remotely. Jim said afterwards: "Overall it wasn't a game for the purists." I assume by 'purists' he means anyone who wants to see even a smattering of half-decent football. We ... More...