For all those of you wishing you could have been there to witness the second half fightback, you can think yourselves lucky you missed the first half.
We were awful and lucky to be only two down.
Rarely did we string two passes together and when we managed to cross the half way line an offside flag would soon follow.
Ipswich cut through the midfield at will and we looked totally off the pace.
Even the likes of Grezza and Carlo looked out of sorts. Sedge and Pugh looked slow and Dichio was dire. Lee was causing all sorts of problems for us at the back and Macken was linking play well.
No one could have predicted what happened in the second half as, whilst Ipswich could have been expected to be nervy if they let one in, we simply didn't look like scoring.
Enter Nuge who decided not to bother challenging for yet another long ball, anticipated the header back to the keeper, nipped in and stabbed a volley home. Minutes later, McKenna knocked a belter of a ball in the box and Chilvers dived full length to head a looping, yet firm, equaliser.
The rest of the game was fairly end to end but Whaley's winner was different class. He legged it 50 yards down the left wing, heard me urging him to cut inside past Wilnis and blasted it inside the near post.
Brett nearly sealed it on the break - he was tremendous after coming on - and we resorted to a bit of time wasting towards the end as Ipswich threw caution to the wind. The Saint stood out at the death with a couple of calm pieces of defending.
Simmo must take credit for whatever he said at half time and for swapping the midfield around. There's clearly a great spirit in the camp. Could this be our year ?
We were awful and lucky to be only two down.
Rarely did we string two passes together and when we managed to cross the half way line an offside flag would soon follow.
Ipswich cut through the midfield at will and we looked totally off the pace.
Even the likes of Grezza and Carlo looked out of sorts. Sedge and Pugh looked slow and Dichio was dire. Lee was causing all sorts of problems for us at the back and Macken was linking play well.
No one could have predicted what happened in the second half as, whilst Ipswich could have been expected to be nervy if they let one in, we simply didn't look like scoring.
Enter Nuge who decided not to bother challenging for yet another long ball, anticipated the header back to the keeper, nipped in and stabbed a volley home. Minutes later, McKenna knocked a belter of a ball in the box and Chilvers dived full length to head a looping, yet firm, equaliser.
The rest of the game was fairly end to end but Whaley's winner was different class. He legged it 50 yards down the left wing, heard me urging him to cut inside past Wilnis and blasted it inside the near post.
Brett nearly sealed it on the break - he was tremendous after coming on - and we resorted to a bit of time wasting towards the end as Ipswich threw caution to the wind. The Saint stood out at the death with a couple of calm pieces of defending.
Simmo must take credit for whatever he said at half time and for swapping the midfield around. There's clearly a great spirit in the camp. Could this be our year ?