Wednesday, 28 November 2012

"Luke Hyam! He's one of our own"

Tuesday 27 November 2012, Ipswich Town 3 Nottingham Forest 1 - Championship, Portman Road




How can we play like that Tuesday after being so poor Saturday?

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Will Mick keep us up?

Saturday 24 November 2012 - Ipswich Town 1 Peterborough United 1, Championship, Portman Road
I think Mick will keep us up - but and it is a big but! This is a very poor team and we need fresh faces in January plus we need to get rid of some dead wood

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

From the train

Tuesday 20th November 2012, Witham Town 2 Bury Town 4, Ryam League Cup, Round 3 - Spa Road Witham




The ground you can see on the train from or to London, always thought it would be easy to catch a game there - and it was.




Not only was it easy to get to, I managed to see a good game of football, it seemed no team wanted to go to the dreaded penalty’s - so the last 15 minutes were end to end football with Bury getting two goals in last few minutes.

The ground is basic but a roof on all 4 stands is a luxury at this level. Witham also have the noisiest fans- well three of them who you would have thought they were in a crowd of a few thousand rather than about 50!

Saturday, 17 November 2012

Embarrassing

Tuesday 13 November 2012 - Walsham Le Willows 1 Ipswich Town Reserves 5, Suffolk Premier Cup - Summer lane
Saturday 17 November 2012 - Leicester City 6 Ipswich Town 0, Championship, King Power Stadium

On Tuesday we saw our club in a good light, taking a strong team to play a village side and Big Mick charming the locals then today we were a joke - or as Mick said on Radio 5 - 'embarrassing'



Saturday, 10 November 2012

Pride back

Saturday 10 November 2012, Ipswich Town 2 Burnley 1 - Portman Road, Championship



Before the game the players shook hands with soldiers from 1 Royal Anglians - the soldiers had just returned from Afghanistan - the fighting spirit rubbed off on the players as like our British soldiers, they showed pride, determination and fighting spirit- pride is back.


Friday, 9 November 2012

Murder in Saf London

Tuesday 6 November 2012 – Crystal Palace 5 Ipswich Town 0, Selhurst Park – Championship
Wednesday 7 November 2012 – Ipswich Town Under 21’s 0 Swansea City Under 21’s 1 – Training Ground

Tuesday – a disgrace and will have shown Mick that he has some job just to keep us up.



Wednesday – Now the turn of the Reserves and another defeat – Mick would not have seen much to encourage him – but I was please as Mick and Terry watched the whole game and Mick even contributed to the half time team talk.



Mick will keep us up!

Sun then mud!


Weekend 3/4 November 2012, Euro Cyclo-Cross Championships and British Competition


Saturday saw the Euro Cyclo- Cross Championships arrive at Chantry Park – a dry, sunny but cold days saw some fantastic racing – with 3 very different races – the Junior Men’s race was a display of total domination by the Dutch rider (son of a former Tour De France rider) the next race, the Men’s Under 23 had a very tactical race with the Belgians and Dutch fighting each other and then the end race of the day saw a GB win in the women’s race – which needed a photo finish to decide that the Gold would stay in the UK.



Sunday Saw a British race event – but still saw Belgium win the Elite race – but rain all day saw mud, mud and more mud- but yet again fantastic racing.



Now let’s get the World championship in Ipswich.