Any of your players injured or not that could do a job in the Championship next season?
Any of your players injured or not that could do a job in the Championship next season?Our players are completely done.
They know Lambert is going and they are not playing for him. They know the playoffs are effectively gone and they have given up for them. As the old cliché goes they are already on the beach.
I cannot overstate how bad we are. In the last 22 matches, only the bottom three have a worse points per game. In a game Lambert described as 'must win' Tuesday, we took 85 minutes to have a shot on target, only our second effort of the night.
With Jackson and Norwood injured we have no attacking threat. We have no midfielders that are capable of scoring regularly. We have no real identity and Lambert has pretty much upset every player this season. He has regularly dropped 5 or 6 players even after a good performance or a win and the atmosphere in the dressing room is really not good. The players aren't playing to impress this manager or even the next one. Nobody has any idea if they will be here next season, either from being out of favour, out of contract or wondering if the club will try and move them on due to their wages being too rich for a League One club.
To reach the playoffs we need two wins more than three in-form teams when we are 20th from 23 teams in the form table. I can honestly see you winning by four or five Saturday. I appreciate that some teams down the bottom put a performance in out of nowhere, but we are set for a disappointing mid-table finish, the most patient fans in the country have turned on the owner, manager and players and they simply do not want to be out on that pitch.
There's not even a semblance of pride. It's a team that has given up that, in the absence of a new manager being appointed, have nothing to play for. Very depressing times and the attendance Tuesday reflected that. 18000 - 20000 all season immediately dropped right down to 15000! Not even a small reduction but fans essentially giving up because they can see the players have.
Selling stuff to that horny bloke in the very hot basement.What was that?
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Any of your players injured or not that could do a job in the Championship next season?
Town, will you be going on Saturday?
If not, you are more than welcome to join us all here for the debacle on Saturday.
It can be lively.
Our players are completely done.
They know Lambert is going and they are not playing for him. They know the playoffs are effectively gone and they have given up for them. As the old cliché goes they are already on the beach.
I cannot overstate how bad we are. In the last 22 matches, only the bottom three have a worse points per game. In a game Lambert described as 'must win' Tuesday, we took 85 minutes to have a shot on target, only our second effort of the night.
With Jackson and Norwood injured we have no attacking threat. We have no midfielders that are capable of scoring regularly. We have no real identity and Lambert has pretty much upset every player this season. He has regularly dropped 5 or 6 players even after a good performance or a win and the atmosphere in the dressing room is really not good. The players aren't playing to impress this manager or even the next one. Nobody has any idea if they will be here next season, either from being out of favour, out of contract or wondering if the club will try and move them on due to their wages being too rich for a League One club.
To reach the playoffs we need two wins more than three in-form teams when we are 20th from 23 teams in the form table. I can honestly see you winning by four or five Saturday. I appreciate that some teams down the bottom put a performance in out of nowhere, but we are set for a disappointing mid-table finish, the most patient fans in the country have turned on the owner, manager and players and they simply do not want to be out on that pitch.
There's not even a semblance of pride. It's a team that has given up that, in the absence of a new manager being appointed, have nothing to play for. Very depressing times and the attendance Tuesday reflected that. 18000 - 20000 all season immediately dropped right down to 15000! Not even a small reduction but fans essentially giving up because they can see the players have.
I’d be happy to scrape a 1-0,2-1 win onwards and upwards PUSB
Still nearly 30 odd points to play for, anything can happen yet
Interesting thoughts. It just goes to show how quick a club environment can become toxic really if things aren't going the right way. I can understand the thought process behind Evans giving Lambert a long term contract, but you just can't do it these days as I personally think it causes a manager to take his foot off the peddle.
You say you have no attacking threat but I think Keane when used right is a big threat for you. Although at the minute it's clear you're attempting to pump balls up to him when he can't head a ball, so rendering him useless. Do that against our backline and he'll just be terrorised all afternoon come Saturday. Equally, you've got some threats in midfield. E.g. Sears, Dozzell. Judge worries me when on set pieces too as we struggle at times when trying to defend from them. Sunderland last week we nearly conceded 2-3 goals just from corners/free kicks so I think that will certainly be something Lambert will be looking to capitalise on if he's done his homework.
That's very poor really - but still I don't think we will beat you by 4/5 as we haven't won by such a margin all season. Not sure what it is but we just struggle to score lots of goals - and is probably why we've drawn so many games.
Yeah unfortunately I don't think you'll make the play-offs - especially if we do end up winning tomorrow as there'll just be too much work to do. The top 6 don't seem to be slipping up much (bar the odd result) so you'd have to go on a pretty impressive run to even come close really.
The issue is, they'd have to turn around their near-on relegation form into automatic place form pretty much now. That's a huge ask for a team that is completely shot of confidence, a manager that doesn't seem to know who his best side is, and a lengthy injury list.
Equally, to rub salt into the wounds they have played 2 more games than Fleetwood, Portsmouth and us and 1 more than the rest of those in the play-offs. It'll be quite a turnaround if they managed it.
The playoffs are gone.
We need to catch three teams that are a couple of wins ahead of us and statistically speaking, on past seasons, we'd need to win 7 or 8.
To catch Fleetwood alone, who have 11 games left, we'd need to win 7 of 9, if they won 5 and lost 6 of their games and that's assuming we could overtake Oxford and Peterborough as well.
The issue with Lambert is that he doesn't use Keane properly. He is great with the ball at his feet when he can turn and play the likes of Jackson and Norwood in. We don't use him like that.
Judge has been absolutely awful since we signed him a year ago, bar his first few games and a couple this season. As for set pieces, Garbutt has been atrocious lately having been a threat all season. After every poor game he's had he has then been great for the next few, so hopefully he does provide some modicum of danger tomorrow.
As for Dozzell I wouldn't worry about him. It's hard to explain but he's absolutely terrible in our side. He would be brilliant in a Championship side with quality, perhaps even a Premier League team. His footballing brain is phenominal, he sees things other don't but he's made to look terrible because nobody else is on his wavelength.
Three times on Tuesday he played 30 yard, eye of the needle, no look, defence splitting passes than our forwards didn't even think was likely to come their way so watched them go out for goal kicks. He's the best player I have ever seen made look awful if that makes sense. It would be like having Usain Bolt in the last leg of a primary school relay race where every other team has finished before he gets the baton. He's just completely wasted but he does little defensive work so doesn't help himself either, because it's then very easy to justify not playing him.
The biggest cock up this season (there have been many) was postponing games for internationals - just ahead of the needless rotation.
We were 7 points clear of 3rd with 2 games in hand at one point and we cancelled Rochdale, Oxford, Fleetwood amongst others. Oxford were on a shocking run when we would have played them, but by the time we faced them they had won 5 out of 6.
The ridiculous thing was when the games were rearranged we didn't use any of the players who had been called up!
We had Judge (Ireland), Georgiou (Cyprus), Dobra (Albania), El Mizouni (Tunisia), Dozzell (England) and when we played the rearranged matches none started and a couple were unused subs!
We should have just played the matches (especially as Lambert was rotating 5 or 6 players per match anyway - so postponing them made no sense unless it was a settled side getting tired) and we'd have probably opened up a big enough lead that we'd have kept winning as a result of confidence and other teams playing into our hands by being less offensive.
Instead, we allowed games in hand to build up and others caught us. By the time we played our games in hand we were out of form, others had caught us and we squandered them all.
The biggest cock up this season (there have been many) was postponing games for internationals - just ahead of the needless rotation.
We were 7 points clear of 3rd with 2 games in hand at one point and we cancelled Rochdale, Oxford, Fleetwood amongst others. Oxford were on a shocking run when we would have played them, but by the time we faced them they had won 5 out of 6.
The ridiculous thing was when the games were rearranged we didn't use any of the players who had been called up!
We had Judge (Ireland), Georgiou (Cyprus), Dobra (Albania), El Mizouni (Tunisia), Dozzell (England) and when we played the rearranged matches none started and a couple were unused subs!
We should have just played the matches (especially as Lambert was rotating 5 or 6 players per match anyway - so postponing them made no sense unless it was a settled side getting tired) and we'd have probably opened up a big enough lead that we'd have kept winning as a result of confidence and other teams playing into our hands by being less offensive.
Instead, we allowed games in hand to build up and others caught us. By the time we played our games in hand we were out of form, others had caught us and we squandered them all.
Judge was ace at Brentford. What happened?
Yeah like I said above that would be a pretty impressive turnaround from what can probably be labelled as near-on relegation form. It's just more than likely not going to happen given the amount of time left and certain teams (E.g. Fleetwood) hitting serious form.
Oh is it Garbutt that takes your set pieces? I thought Judge took a few against Fleetwood on Tuesday...whoever it was they looked a threat in dead ball situations.
I suppose he's another that's rendered useless if he doesn't have the right players around him then as now he more or less has no one to lay off balls to/bring into play.
That was a little bit like a player we had last season - Tom Bayliss. He wasn't awful last season in League One by any stretch but I personally thought he struggled initially with the step up and didn't have the effect on games the fans knew he could have. Fantastic footballing brain though and had bags of talent. He's at Preston now and despite not having any game time was getting quite a bit of praise from Alex Neil until he picked up a season ending injury.
I’d be happy to scrape a 1-0,2-1 win onwards and upwards PUSB
Agreed I’ve gone for a 1-1 hereI think we need to be careful. I can't see Ipswich losing two home games in a row.
Agreed I’ve gone for a 1-1 here
after that, if we score early it will be 4 or 5 - he has lost it totally
It would be like having Usain Bolt in the last leg of a primary school relay race where every other team has finished before he gets the baton...is a great lineThe playoffs are gone.
We need to catch three teams that are a couple of wins ahead of us and statistically speaking, on past seasons, we'd need to win 7 or 8.
To catch Fleetwood alone, who have 11 games left, we'd need to win 7 of 9, if they won 5 and lost 6 of their games and that's assuming we could overtake Oxford and Peterborough as well.
The issue with Lambert is that he doesn't use Keane properly. He is great with the ball at his feet when he can turn and play the likes of Jackson and Norwood in. We don't use him like that.
Judge has been absolutely awful since we signed him a year ago, bar his first few games and a couple this season. As for set pieces, Garbutt has been atrocious lately having been a threat all season. After every poor game he's had he has then been great for the next few, so hopefully he does provide some modicum of danger tomorrow.
As for Dozzell I wouldn't worry about him. It's hard to explain but he's absolutely terrible in our side. He would be brilliant in a Championship side with quality, perhaps even a Premier League team. His footballing brain is phenominal, he sees things other don't but he's made to look terrible because nobody else is on his wavelength.
Three times on Tuesday he played 30 yard, eye of the needle, no look, defence splitting passes than our forwards didn't even think was likely to come their way so watched them go out for goal kicks. He's the best player I have ever seen made look awful if that makes sense. It would be like having Usain Bolt in the last leg of a primary school relay race where every other team has finished before he gets the baton. He's just completely wasted but he does little defensive work so doesn't help himself either, because it's then very easy to justify not playing him.
28/1 for an even better 0-3 to Cov. Pipe dream perhaps, but the last time I made a silly bet it went very well for me!11-1 for a cheeky 0-2 to cov...worth a dabble.
Lost 3 in 33Have a terrible feeling, 2-1 Ipswich but let's hope im wrong as I normally am .
I had a feelling we would lose 0-1 to PortsmouthHave a terrible feeling, 2-1 Ipswich but let's hope im wrong as I normally am .
I’m not so sure early goal and then kill the game is the plan isn’t it?
Im more nervous about this one than the Sunderland or rotherham match.
This has banana skin written all over it. Portman road isn't a happy hunting ground for us. But hopefully we keep focused and get the job done
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