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We can definitely agree on that 👍

Made the account a while ago and was quite complimentary about you lot, but you've really got a bee in your bonnet now 😂 Honestly, reading all the other forums about us is incredibly fun. Enjoy the run-in, chaps

Don't be silly. We were booing the ref, not the players. I know you lot were fixated on Morsy but you seem to have missed the fact that Saints were getting away with constant, niggly fouls while Morsy was the only one (at that point) to get any kind of punishment. Second half, Hutchinson got hauled back by his collar when we were 2-on-2 and neither the ref nor the Lino noticed. It doesn't fit your 'lucky Ipswich' narrative, but we definitely weren't booing off our players.

I did, yeah. It was great, don't get me wrong! And I have a few West Ham supporting friends who obviously loved their recent wins there, but the speed at which they're back to hating life in the Premier League is incredible 😂

I dunno, I'm inclined to agree with this, to be honest. It's the same for most clubs. You're probably different because you've experienced what was - let's be honest - an absolutely ridiculous and impossible season that should never have happened on paper (and will probably never happen again), but the reality is that breaking into the Premier League is getting more difficult every year. I've said it before (and been roundly dismissed for it), but if we could take the other positives - massive cash injection, parachute payments and the increased worldwide fanbase/influx of the 'next generation' of local fans - and stay playing in the Championship, I'd love that. It's a great league and the Premier League, for all its hype about being the best in the world, really isn't. Maybe we'll go up and consolidate, become a mid-table team and 'do a West Ham', but is that really more fun than being a club competing at the top end of the Champ? I don't think so. The odd cup run and maybe a Euro Conference jaunt gloss over it a bit, but the Prem is a closed shop.

'ello. Another Ipswich fan here (I spend way too much time browsing other fans' forums instead of working, cos ours is full of weirdos, tbh) I dunno about overconfidence, but we're pretty happy with where things are going. You say that we'll be found out in the Premiership and you're right about that as it stands, I think. But isn't that *exactly* why we think we've got the best manager around? You look at Leicester, Leeds and Southampton's squads and they're a world away from ours - so much so, that you'd all be way better placed than us if we were all to go up to the Prem today. But KM has us keeping pace with Leeds, beating Southampton and hanging on to your coat tails. It's pretty amazing. You can call it luck that we get deflections or last minute goals, but our stats for most games (even the ones we lose) have us with the lion's share of possession, more shots on goal and more time in the opponent's half. If that results in a dodgy deflection or an OG or whatever, it's not really luck as much as us putting on the pressure. Anyways, the main reason I come on here to see what's happening is that I always had a soft spot for you lot and I hope you go up with us cos Leeds are unbearable . This thread makes for pretty gloomy reading. You're top by 6 points, for God's sake! That's a lovely place to be at this stage of the season. Good luck for the run-in