Ipswich Town (A) Saturday, March 7 = 3, and I do mean 3, pm

[Gazza M]

Rowett apparently is prepared to be pragmatic and rip up the plan A and try different things formation wise. Must be time in an attempt to keep a clean sheet. 

 

                      Begovic

     Okoli      Lascelles    Nelson

Aluko            Skipp                 Thomas

              Mukasa    James

           Daka          Richards

[Bert]

On 28/02/2026 at 18:30, Gazza M said:

Lets at least put 4-2-3-1 in the bin. Think we can safely say doesn't work. They slipped back in to Marti ball today. The speed evaporated away and back to chess again. Maybe try 3-4-3? 

 

                       Jakob

         Aluko  Lascelles  Nelson

Ricardo   James   Skipp   Thomas

      Fatawu   Mukasa    Monga

 

3-4-3 is the Btec way of trying to make 5 at the back sound cool. 

[worthosoriginals]

Why has the game now been put back 5 hours, rain forecast?

[J. James]

On 28/02/2026 at 15:40, FoxesTez said:

Maybe we’re good at 10am kick offs? 

Guessing you should have added a preamble to this joke, it's a bit subtle for many on here.🤣

[Gamble92]

Can see us smashing these 

[fox_favourite]

1 hour ago, Gamble92 said:

Can see us smashing these 

How? 

[CrazyKopCorner]

3 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Can see us smashing these 

I predict a riot too - 1991 revisited 

[adejo92]

Ipswich have their obligatory deflected goal and 98th minute goal which means we need atleast 3 goals to win.

 

No chance.

[Sunbury Fox]

Think Rowett will go for a 541 packed with defensive minded players and then we'll concede in the first 2 minutes. 

[pmcla26]

Stolarczyk 

 

Okoli

Lascelles 

Nelson 

 

Aluko 

Skipp 

Winks 

Thomas 

 

Fatawu

James

 

Daka

[marketharboroughfox]

They generally do much better against teams who try to take them on than those who sit in deep and try to counter. I'd go for a similar line up and approach to what we tried at Boro.

[Clever Fox]

Winks and Skippy can't really play together. I suspect Skipp suffers from some form of inferiority complex when together.

His best games have been when playing the anchor role in midfield. Where he's not afraid to make a challenge without fouling unlike Winks.

To get anything we're going to have to run and graft harder than they showed on Saturday.

 

I'd go 5 at the Back

3 in the middle

3 up top

 

 

[FoxinNotts]

Daka and/or Ayew bring nothing to the party, unfortunately. Genuinely no point having them on the pitch

 

                             Stolarczyk 

     
      Aluko    Lascelles    Nelson   Thomas

 

                James   Skipp   Winks

 

              Fatawu  Mukasa  Monga

[CornwallFox]

22 hours ago, Gazza M said:

Rowett apparently is prepared to be pragmatic and rip up the plan A and try different things formation wise. Must be time in an attempt to keep a clean sheet. 

 

                      Begovic

     Okoli      Lascelles    Nelson

Aluko            Skipp                 Thomas

              Mukasa    James

           Daka          Richards

Please no. Why do Leicester fans always hark back to 3-5-2.

We don't have the players for it. 

Those wing backs would offer nothing and we'd end up with a flat back 5. Just need to play one defensive midfielder with two ahead and then push somebody new up front - maybe see if mukasa could play the role, if not find literally anybody else from within the squad

[Sunbury Fox]

1 hour ago, Clever Fox said:

Winks and Skippy can't really play together. I suspect Skipp suffers from some form of inferiority complex when together.

His best games have been when playing the anchor role in midfield. Where he's not afraid to make a challenge without fouling unlike Winks.

To get anything we're going to have to run and graft harder than they showed on Saturday.

 

I'd go 5 at the Back

3 in the middle

3 up top

 

 

Have you dispensed with a keeper or are we fielding 12 men? Hopefully, the latter so we can at least keep the score down a bit. 

Edited 2 March by Sunbury Fox

[Clever Fox]

7 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Have you dispensed with a keeper or are we fielding 12 men? Hopefully, the latter so we can at least keep the score down a bit. 

No, Keeper and 2 FBs and 2 CBs

Skipp behind Winks and James 

Mav and Fats on the Wings and Musaka. Who I feel will contribute a lot more than Daka does.

 

A wild choice would be to move Okoli up top if Lasalles is fit. He's Big and strong and Quick.

He'd win a lot of Balls and feed others more so than scoring himself from play. 

[BDW-11]

Comprehensive 3-0 for Ipswich, they wont have to get out of 2nd gear against us.

 

Hirst and/or McAteer to bag as well, naturally.

 

Instagram posts from the club with a player in quotes "We are really disappointed with the result, we need to keep trying to turn this around" kinda jargon.

 

Groundhog day.

[tickler28]

Loss....next

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Routine loss.

[Pita]

Can’t see us getting close to them.  Another embarrassing defeat 

[ClaphamFox]

Maybe their game with Hull tonight will be an ill-tempered clog-fest with loads of injuries and red cards?

Actually come to think of it, that still won't stop us from losing on Saturday...

[jayfox26]

2 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Maybe their game with Hull tonight will be an ill-tempered clog-fest with loads of injuries and red cards?

Actually come to think of it, that still won't stop us from losing on Saturday...

Yeh we got an extra 24 hours rest on Norwich before that game and they didnt even get out of 2nd gear to beat us comfortably. No matter what advantages we may get in a game, we wont make the most of it. 

[-sodapop]

These are gonna get automatics I reckon and this will be a routine win for them on that path 

[SystonFox]

They’ve just beat hull 1-0 in a rearranged game. They won 3-0 at home at the weekend.

 

5-0 Ipswich to keep up the theme of odd numbered goals only

[funkyrobot]

Stolly 

 

Riccy

Jams

Nello

Lukey

 

Winksy

JJ

Aribo’s

 

Jezzer

Divi

Fats

 

Ipswich 2 (Hirsty 4mins, K-Mac 90+5mins - deflected in)

 

Leicester 1 (Divi 87 mins)