Ipswich Town last chance saloon matchday thread

We’re so lucky to have him and his brilliant decision making qualities. He’s spent 20 million+ and he’s got the club relegated. Pure genius.

speaking of genius Barton playing Tutonda at centre back and giving Ipswich a two goal head start was a great opportunity to see what we are going to get next season. i’m really excited for the future with these two footballing intellectual heavyweights at the club. We could even be back in the conference soon if we’re lucky. Dover was an amazing day out and I’d love to go back.

I'm genuinely worried about where the club is heading.

L2 is a tough place, if Wael thinks for 1 second that we can just take this same squad there and it'll somehow be easier then he's even more deluded than all of the evidence so far suggests. This squad will get flattened by the musclebound oafs in the 4th tier.

Omg! Amazingly awful defending for first 11 mins, some good approach play for the next 50-60 mins and then after flurry of subs made, the game was lost and irretrievable.

Tutunda starts!.....oh yea, but in true Bristol Rovers fashion, he appeared to start in 3 centre back position! Wtf!(?) ....I thought prior to the start, a Tutunda pushed forward on the left side was a good move....nope, pop him in unfamiliar position and watch him struggle instead!? Poor decision. The move was made too late, game was already lost. 2-0 down.

Nice work by Zain Walker first half.
So take him off second half and put in pedestrian Westbrooke.....? Wtf!(?)

Barrett on in last chance saloon instead of Daly....you need a goal out of nothing, or anything and you put on Mr Blobby instead of a nimble Daly.... Wtf!(?)

Hare and Little on the bench? Two similar positioned defenders taking up same space on bench? Wtf!(?) What is wrong with Hargreaves? Tom Mehew? Let alone recalling Warwick or Tomlinson?

I think JAB made some poor decisions today. Unless there is something we don't know? All the Wtf makes for opportunities lost....I don't understand the back work which could have provided anything more than what we've received tonight.

And after all that, we've played ok in large parts of the match. Ok in everything but first and final third of the pitch...

Baldwin coped admirably today.

Zain Walker provided first half what we've been yearning for this whole season....a right sided midfielder, like a winger (remember them?) prepared to go past his man, prepared to inject a big of pace down flank.

Jaaks looking better, some of his punches should be aimed out, instead of in play....but far more confident with his contribution.

McCormick looking decent form, everywhere in first half. Took his goal well, should have had an easier opportunity on target.... something we came to regret at the end.

Upson ok...getting stuck in. Even a shot from distance. Helped break up their moves between mid and forward.



Conclusion..... Another huff and puff match where our performance didn't warrant a defeat. But we were defeated. Quite easily. Here, we are underperforming and losing by the odd goal.....in other times we have overperformed and won by the odd goal.


We're doomed as we can't create our own luck and even though the ref agenda is being pushed we are victim of our own inadequacies.... we're unlucky losers and that's the story of our season.

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Hadn’t realised O2 finally seeing the lights about Barton.  There’s a reason Wigan and Swindon and out of form muff etc have done so well against us in recent weeks, the way Joey set us up made it easy for them to look better than they really are. 

You haven't read my posts!?

But that doesn't matter..... because you haven't answered the questions!?

All you've done is deflected the question, so:
Whom?
Who would you have started?

Sadly in some ways it was and will for a long time yet be the “good old days”, when we had a bunch of players and a manager everyone could get behind, run by a Bristolian (albeit one of not much competence). Everyone in it together against adversity.

We might be two divisions higher (but that’s going to change) but we’re a rich man’s play thing now, with no sort of standards or moral fibre, a rabble of a team that inspires nothing but anger and a manager who is better at starting arguments than winning games.

I honestly don’t recognise Bristol Rovers any more compared to what we were. It’s a dead husk of a club that sold it’s soul for what it thought was gold...but turned out to be just chocolate coins.

Re Tutonda it’s interesting how post match Barton condemned the players for their start when he was the one who chose a right back at CB, not only that a right back who has hardly played (and probably isn’t up to it) and that’s cost the team the goals that lost it the game. He’s made absolutely no mention of this, just blamed the players for the poor start followed by mealy mouthed praise for showing some fight for the remaining 80 minutes. This is the same guy criticising previous managers for negligence. The man is an utter w*** stain and to see the boorish morons comparing him to D.C. sticks in the throat.

I’d also like to know more about the claim doing the rounds that the players, with their first Tuesday game-less week in months only trained for two days this week especially with Barton planning to play a virtual stranger at CB.

He isn’t challenged on anything. Reporters just let him use the interview like it’s his own personal podcast. And when you give Barton that much air time all you’re going to get is how it’s every else’s fault.

Seriously, listen to everything he says carefully and you’ll see that every interview is filled with slight comments that you could almost miss where he subtly (or not so subtly) tells the audience that something wasn’t right and it wasn’t his fault, he just found it like that. He hasn’t taken ownership of anything in all the time he has been here, he’s just constantly laundering his reputation. Example today is the five match losing run “I’ve never been on a run like that before, even in amateur football”. No course you haven’t Joey because you’re a winner aren’t you? That cabinet of medals is bursting at the seams isn’t it?

His file at the local nick is bigger than his trophy cabinet. Possibly not as big as his gob though, to be fair.

A leader takes responsibility even when others can see it’s not his fault. It earns respect and creates a positive environment. Wael did that in his letter and in my view deserves respect for that.

Has anyone else ever worked with anyone who constantly disses their predecessors and those around them? Banging on about a bad working environment without the realisation they are fulfilling their own prophecy? In my experience they themselves tend to be the ones least competent at their job