The Championship Thread 2023/2024

[Dahnsouff]

Let’s not pretend being negative (or pessimistic)is in anyway insightful, it’s not, but yes we are in a bad spot of that there is no doubt. Our competitors are currently in good form, we are not.

 

Ricky is back after the break, Wilf will be fitter, hopefully Jamie will be back. These are the people who got us where we are. I will hope the return of Ricky and Wilf will power us home.

 

If this makes me a happy clapper, so be it.

Edited 16 March by Dahnsouff

[Tom12345]

Ipswich smashed 6 past Sheffield Wednesday.

 

Something we can only dream of doing this season given the weak mentality we have created of always wanting to game manage after we are in the lead.

Edited 16 March by Tom12345

[weller54]

Coventry in the playoffs it is then?😂

[sbfox]

2 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Mad prediction but with their trajectory, I bet you could get good money on Lincoln being higher than us next season 

Go on then. Find those odds. 

[Mike Oxlong]

[JonnyBoy]

4 minutes ago, chapero82 said:

@SebbyFlyteFox89 @sbfox Laughing at everybody's posts but if we do not gain promotion then our club is in a bigger mess than ever and this time no new owner can fix it! We could be in serious trouble. And this is all because of the bad decisions of the board. I'm glad you can find it all so funny1

 

unfortunately we have a lot of fans who "think we will be fine" and the same ones who backed Rodgers last season and clapped players off who didn't want to be here 

[weller54]

4 minutes ago, sbfox said:

Go on then. Find those odds. 

1/5000

[Dahnsouff]

6 minutes ago, chapero82 said:

Well nothing is really positive at the minute is it?

Whisper it - still top...and our form is better than Ipswich over my arbitrary "last 2 games" form

[Fox92]

13 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Lost our top scorer status now, after losing our fewest conceded status a couple of weeks back.

Wonder what people are going to cling to now.

[KP Fox]

16 minutes ago, Fox85 said:

It's the Brendan Rodgers affect all over again.

 

Some leicester fans prefer us to play in the lower leagues. Go blind when it's clear we are on a decline then the come backs are but we are top of the league look at what Enzo has done.

 

Imagine having a manager with experience and knows multiple tactics to get the best out of the litterally the best players in the league.

 

A decent manger would of had the league wrapped up by now 

Which decent manager would you like? Neil Warnock? 😂

[Bert]

We’ve not even played and everyone’s in meltdown. 
 

Did anyone really expect Ipswich to not win? 

[Claridge]

4 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Wonder what people are going to cling to now.

Playing football the Enzo way

[Twitcher]

8 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Thought it's depressing on here when we play. 

 

Bloody hell, even worse when we don't. 

Yes many on here saying about us bottling it. My god there's some bottlers on here. An expected win for Ipswich.

I've said before, after the mess of last season, where we are is hugely impressive. We'd no right to come straight back up. What Enzo has done is superb.

Reading this I'd do one if I was him. Wheel Rooney in. Ffs. 

[st albans fox]

5 minutes ago, Bert said:

We’ve not even played and everyone’s in meltdown. 
 

Did anyone really expect Ipswich to not win? 

Wait till Leeds win tomorrow and we lose 

 

[FrankieADZ]

19 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Thought it's depressing on here when we play. 

 

Bloody hell, even worse when we don't. 

i know, the way some of our fans are reacting to Ipswich winning and potentially Leeds tomorrow, my word; 

 

you easily think they'd get depressed if they had a shit and they got smash back on their arse

be worse next season if we go up

4 minutes ago, Bert said:

We’ve not even played and everyone’s in meltdown. 
 

Did anyone really expect Ipswich to not win? 

please dont talk sense, some people wouldnt understand 

[KP Fox]

5 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Wait till Leeds win tomorrow and we lose 

 

Mr. Optimistic 😂

[Super_horns]

Quiet day for goals apart from the 2 East East Anglia clubs. 
 

There was a clean sheet kept in every championship game played today.

Edited 16 March by Super_horns

[cjslcfc]

Well, this is cheery...

 

Both Leeds and Ipswich on excellent runs of form. Both very very unlikely to continue in exactly the same vein right the way through to the end of the season. We've hit our worst run at a bad time but it's not unsalvageable, not even close to being over as much as many on here seem to think.

 

International break is perfectly timed for us in getting back key injured players, resting the team and resetting for the final gruelling push.

 

There are plenty of twists, turns and dropped points to come yet for all the promotion hopefuls.

 

Just try and enjoy the fact we are at the top and in a strong position. A much stronger position than many of us thought we would be at the start of the season!

[Lionator]

14 minutes ago, Bert said:

We’ve not even played and everyone’s in meltdown. 
 

Did anyone really expect Ipswich to not win? 

I think it’s more that they look incredibly free flowing. They can turn it on at the drop of a hat. We look fatigued, tethered and empty. 

[Ric Flair]

There's precious little we can do about Leeds and Ipswich's form, we had a chance when we played them to go further clear and we blew it. Our lead was going to be cut based on what both of them have done but we've been too cheap recently and dropped way too many points. They aren't going to do us any favours, we cannot scrabble about with anything other than top 2 form for the rest of the season.

 

6-7 wins and anything less and we run the risk of finishing 3rd or 4th. 

 

Both their runs are now as good/better than anything we've strung together this season. We no longer can hide behind being the best team in the league, it's much closer than that. Now it's a shoot out to the end and let's pray to God that Enzo can mastermind a change over the next two weeks because there's precious sign of any bottle since the turn of the year.

 

 

[Matt]

I'm not sure anyone was expecting Ipswich to lose or has been moaning about Ipswich winning, infact i've seen a few posts crediting them and saying fair play.

 

What I have seen people posting (myself included) is more "look at them", why are they making a fist off and we're not, e.t.c.

 

I've said a couple of times after both Leeds and Ipswich slipping up people are too concerned about what they're doing rather than what we're actually doing, it matters not what they do if we don't follow it up, capitalise and do the job ourselves....of which we've not of late.

 

Edited 16 March by Matt

[Paninistickers]

I wouldn't mind as much but Ipswich are crap. Crap players, playing crap, winning crap. It's hugely annoying. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

47 minutes ago, sishades said:

The most idiotic post of all time.

 

52 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Because if we didn’t win the PL dropping a 14 point (for the third time)  to 1 point would’ve been more acceptable ?

 

55 minutes ago, sbfox said:

**** me, this thread is, recently at least, one of the most pathetic on FT. 

 

"Oooh big daddy Ipswich are going to dominate us so hard. Look at them pressing with such conviction. Big powerful strokes into the box". 

 

In one very minor, specific way, winning the Premiership was the worst thing that happened to us. 

Learn how to use this forum properly you moron.. You’ve quoted me with something I havent said but some other idiot has. Now that’s idiotic.

Edited 16 March by Mickyblueeyes

[sbfox]

7 minutes ago, Matt said:

I'm not sure anyone was expecting Ipswich to lose or has been moaning about Ipswich winning, infact i've seen a few posts crediting them and saying fair play.

 

What I have seen people posting (myself included) is more "look at them", why are they making a fist off and we're not, e.t.c.

 

I've said a couple of times after both Leeds and Ipswich slipping up people are too concerned about what they're doing rather than what we're actually doing, it matters not what they do if we don't follow it up, capitalise and do the job ourselves....of which we've not of late.

 

Yeah, we're not making a fist of it, being the top of the league. No way at all. 

[FrankieADZ]

9 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

There's precious little we can do about Leeds and Ipswich's form, we had a chance when we played them to go further clear and we blew it. Our lead was going to be cut based on what both of them have done but we've been too cheap recently and dropped way too many points. They aren't going to do us any favours, we cannot scrabble about with anything other than top 2 form for the rest of the season.

 

6-7 wins and anything less and we run the risk of finishing 3rd or 4th. 

 

Both their runs are now as good/better than anything we've strung together this season. We no longer can hide behind being the best team in the league, it's much closer than that. Now it's a shoot out to the end and let's pray to God that Enzo can mastermind a change over the next two weeks because there's precious sign of any bottle since the turn of the year.

 

 

thing is, think both leeds and Ipswich fans will admit they havent played great of late(ipswich did today) and kinda edged teams; but both do have some pretty tricky games coming up, against the likes of Coventry, Hull, Southampton Norwich

 

and as we know with this league anything can happen on any given matchday