Agreed.
They made some excellent signings over the summer to give them extra momentum after promotion.
That said, we gifted them 4 goals today.
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Agreed.
They made some excellent signings over the summer to give them extra momentum after promotion.
That said, we gifted them 4 goals today.
We were no better at Rotherham a game we could have won had RL got the setup right.
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Said this on the other thread, but a lot of Ipswich squad are good players because McKenna has turned them into that through coaching. If you go back through their squad, the vast majority have spent their whole careers in League 1 and a few in the middle or bottom of the Championship
I’d love to know what McKenna would do with our players
Too Ledson obsessed against any top 6-7 teams I'm afraid. That selection alone sets the tone and mindset for me. It wasn't good enough v Burnley away last season and certainly not today.
I get that perhaps after a long period of inactivity it was perhaps deemed too much for Whiteman to start two games in less than 72 hours but you really shouldn't be benching Holmes aswell as I thought he was pretty good v Leicester, certainly the biggest scoring threat.
Starting Ledson and Brady in midfield against high energetic team like Ipswich is only going to cause endless issues.
Can't keep starting below par teams and then quickly going a couple of goals down and then having to rectify things at half time.
When Ipswich and Leicester come to Deepdale the best 11 needs to be out there from the start if they can run.
I get that perhaps after a long period of inactivity it was perhaps deemed too much for Whiteman to start two games in less than 72 hours but you really shouldn't be benching Holmes aswell as I thought he was pretty good v Leicester, certainly the biggest scoring threat.
Starting Ledson and Brady in midfield against high energetic team like Ipswich is only going to cause endless issues.
Can't keep starting below par teams and then quickly going a couple of goals down and then having to rectify things at half time.
When Ipswich and Leicester come to Deepdale the best 11 needs to be out there from the start if they can run.
Millwall is a really key game now. Everyone knows Rowett has the hex over this club for some reason and Flemming really was Bergkamp in the Deepdale game but ultimately they've had a very average start to the season so need to be getting on the front foot early in that game rather than just be content to be 0-0 by hour mark.
Ipswich finished runners up in L1 last year. The gulf between Championship & L1 is supposed to be enormous. Yet they, like Luton, seem to have built better and progressed past us. We all know we need pace so handing new contracts to Lindsey, Cunningham & Brady probably wasnt the answer.
Dissolving not evolving. Got a stronger mid and attack but same old Div2 defence.
The Prediction League threads for both Leicester and Ipswich show the realistic views of the fans.
To be slating the manager when I'd guess over 80% expected us to lose both is baffling.
Leicester and Ipswich are two bloody good teams who'll wipe the floor with the majority of this division.
Lets see where we are after 23 games when everyone has faced both Leicester and Ipswich once.
To be slating the manager when I'd guess over 80% expected us to lose both is baffling.
Leicester and Ipswich are two bloody good teams who'll wipe the floor with the majority of this division.
Lets see where we are after 23 games when everyone has faced both Leicester and Ipswich once.
True but it’s the manner of the defeats that is frustrating..most other clubs will give it s go and get after them and put their best players on the pitch.
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Why are newly promoted Ipswich classed as a bloody good team yet Championship established PNE are punching above their weight trying to get into the play offs? Seems like one club is progressive and one is toddling along
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Exactly this. They finished the game with Freddie Ladapo and Kayden Jackson up top...both scream league one striker.
Burns and Woolfenden never played above league one, and the likes of Broadhead and Hirst were bandied about on here as realistic striker signings within our budget but largely ridiculed by posters who couldn't see past Cameron Archer.
McKenna has clearly done a terrific job. I do however think they are riding the crest of a wave at the minute...be interesting to see how they come back from an inevitable sticky spell.
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Fuck all this.
Utter garbage, apologist shite. West Brom this, Leicester, that. Ipswich Champions League.
We’ve shipped 11 goals in three games.
ELEVEN. FUCKING. GOALS. IN. A. WEEK.
Some idiot earlier said it’s not Lowe’s fault players can’t pass to each other…!
Were through the looking glass now folks.
Lowe out.
Simple. I’ll see you all in six months and see who’s wrong
Utter garbage, apologist shite. West Brom this, Leicester, that. Ipswich Champions League.
We’ve shipped 11 goals in three games.
ELEVEN. FUCKING. GOALS. IN. A. WEEK.
Some idiot earlier said it’s not Lowe’s fault players can’t pass to each other…!
Were through the looking glass now folks.
Lowe out.
Simple. I’ll see you all in six months and see who’s wrong
Hopefully with 56 but more realistically about 36. At least we’d know the wheels hadn’t come off completely.
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6 months is another 30 or so games - at Lowes current rate of 17% of games were we let in 3 or more, expect another 5 or 6 drubbings.
15 games out of Lowes 88 games where we have let in more than 3 is diabolical.
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Rowatt is still at Millwall isn't he?
It just had to be him coming up next!!
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Is Lowe evolving?
