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yunus on for dennis

another shocking miss

dennis praet is a one-paced schlub, pass it on

no changes

great shot and save

cut off the passing lanes to winks and ricky and we quickly run out of ideas. need to be less shy about mixing up our play a bit if that's the case

our ability to play the ball out from the back has regressed

how long has pat been back from afcon?

how've you missed pat!

Swansea look like they haven't warmed up... maybe they've put their missing fans out on the pitch?

haha easy as you like

I'd like to see him given more time playing from the wing. That's always been his position prior to joining us. He wont beat a man for pace like Abdul or Stephy, but he's clearly got great dribbling skills and can pass, so I think we could do a lot worse - especially during Abdul's ban.

Excellent second half after an abysmal first half. Well done citeh. And it’s taken me two full games against them to realise who Jay Stansfield reminds me of, but I’ve finally worked it out - it’s this fella:

That was a steaming pile of shit

I felt at the time something about his answer seemed very unserious when he said it - he had a twinkle in his eye and a big grin which sort of suggested maybe he was being flippant, or taking a kind of positive/downplaying approach. Perhaps he didn't appreciate the implications of giving that sort of answer in a televised interview.

Burns was their biggest threat going forward, beating hamza in the air several times. In his defence, he’s not a full back. But you’ve highlighted the big issue with Hamza and that’s his use of the ball, especially when under a bit of pressure. We don’t play a system where you can accommodate those sort of players in my opinion.

First time I’ve lost my temper at us this season this evening. I thought that was terrible game management. We look rattled when teams have the temerity to come out and play a bit. We love it when they are all passive like Ipswich were in that first half, and that would be all well and good if we actually put teams to the sword and built up a 2 or 3 goal lead during those periods of dominance. But you can’t expect a high flying team to stay passive in that way for a full 90 minutes, and we somehow forgot how to play football when the pressure was on. Aimless pumps combined with playing backwards or running out of ideas when we did manage to break the press in that second half. Not only that - we have already seen this play out more or less exactly at Portman Road at Christmas and not learned our lesson. These players are not seasoned Italian pros well blooded in playing Catenaccio style football. We’ve got to play with a little more blood and thunder at times, especially when we’re on top. Now that rant is out of me, I can reflect on our league position and say obviously I’ve been very happy with how this season has gone. And yet somehow, this evening I’m left with a feeling of what we haven’t done, and not for the first time this season… And those leaving on 85 minutes with the game poised like that should be ashamed of themselves. Onwards and upwards.

Entirely of our own making this. Played like utter gumps this half. how did we not learn from boxing day and our fans streaming out on 85 minutes when the game is poised like this is an absolute embarrassment

Shit *****

Ipswich have woken up

Comfortable - we’ve kept Ipswich in a strangle hold for the most part. We just need a to turn our dominance into more goals now. I will never feel safe sitting on a one goal lead!

Dominant, but not creating enough chances for my liking

Swansea are shite aren’t they

Hladky is crap inhe. Need to be testing him regularly next week.

Gwan sunlun. Great hit