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

[supernuk]

I cling on to the thought that they played last night and might be tired. Then I remember that we have the least fit squad in the championship. 

 

Ipswich 3 Leicester 1 

[Gazza M]

I'm sure Hughes will be drilling up some set piece ideas this week to help our attacking and defensive woes at crosses.....

[Freddy]

On 28/02/2026 at 17:34, Blueman1967 said:

Don't understand how we get draws at Stoke, and Middleboro, then play crap at home

It's the fans at fault for our poor home form, for poor away form, for the steady decline of this once great club. And they're somehow at the bottom of our financial crises.  And that I'm crap at polo. Ain't that right John? Course it is Top.  

[ClaphamFox]

 

[lanefox]

9 hours ago, Gazza M said:

I'm sure Hughes will be drilling up some set piece ideas this week to help our attacking and defensive woes at crosses.....

I wish we'd abandon the 11 men in the box , will never understand not having one player up for an easy counter

[STEVIE B]

10 minutes ago, lanefox said:

I wish we'd abandon the 11 men in the box , will never understand not having one player up for an easy counter

Plus it takes 2 attackers out of our box.

Edited 4 March by STEVIE B

[Death by Football]

57 minutes ago, lanefox said:

I wish we'd abandon the 11 men in the box , will never understand not having one player up for an easy counter

Just go back to Claudio’s 3 on the half way line 😁 Give them something to worry about. 
Although I suppose if we did that these days the forwards would just pass the ball back into our box anyway. 

[WorcesterBlue]

47 minutes ago, Death by Football said:

Just go back to Claudio’s 3 on the half way line 😁 Give them something to worry about. 
Although I suppose if we did that these days the forwards would just pass the ball back into our box anyway. 

I can never understand teams that just play 11 in the box defending for corners etc. Leave your trickiest, fastest bloke by the half way line. At the very least it makes them keep two players back.

[lanefox]

8 hours ago, WorcesterBlue said:

I can never understand teams that just play 11 in the box defending for corners etc. Leave your trickiest, fastest bloke by the half way line. At the very least it makes them keep two players back.

Norwich had 2/3 corners in the first half where we've cleared the ball upfield and the balls come straight back at us because no one is by the halfway line

[TonyN11]

We'll get a positive result here to keep our unbeaten away record going. 1-3  

[CrazyKopCorner]

20 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

 

Just about the only bright spot and he's not even our player. 

 

Says it all 

[ScotFox1]

Any Leicester fan going to the game has simply no regard for their mental health!

[CrazyKopCorner]

13 hours ago, ScotFox1 said:

Any Leicester fan going to the game has simply no regard for their mental health!

Either Mary Poppins or going to top themselves in any case 

Edited 6 March by CrazyKopCorner

[AjcW]

Interesting that this is on sale to booking history.

 

First in a LONG time. They've been happy to take the hit all season.

 

First move from our new commercial director? 

[Paninistickers]

It's Thursday afternoon. And the weekly Bob Reid dread begins. And the weekly battle to discover new nouns and adjectives. This week's:

 

Tohu wa-bohu: A biblical Hebrew phrase (Genesis 1:2) meaning "waste and void" or "formless and empty".

[Dan]

McKenna's still not beaten us in five games. We've definitely been a bit of a bogey team for him.

 

You would think surely that ends Saturday.

[RizLCFC]

I remember when they beat us 6-1 back in 2002. Same again on Saturday.

[Lambert09]

On 04/03/2026 at 12:52, lanefox said:

I wish we'd abandon the 11 men in the box , will never understand not having one player up for an easy counter

Haahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahah 

 

sorry just thought about ayew being an effective counter, or effective anything tbh! 

[dmayne7]

On 04/03/2026 at 12:52, lanefox said:

I wish we'd abandon the 11 men in the box , will never understand not having one player up for an easy counter

It is the one bit of modern tactics that I just cannot understand in almost any context. If your team is so good in the air you may think that having every in there means you win the first ball and anything else that comes in, but equally, you could so that with 1 extra man out. Invites more pressure, creates less counter attacking opportunities and causes more confusion/mayhem from a defensive point of view. Stupid tactic.

[ceebeefox]

On 04/03/2026 at 17:52, lanefox said:

I wish we'd abandon the 11 men in the box , will never understand not having one player up for an easy counter

Yes, and they call themselves coaches!

[LichesterRedSoxSoccerBall]

It's Friday, I want to have football to look forward to but the games gone. Any sort of entertainment has been drained out by sideways tactics, mixed with my toss pot club running around the pitch like an under 6s match with their laces tied together. Football can fvck off. Rudkin can fvck off. Okoli can fvck off. And yet I'll go out my way to get match updates,  heads gone 

Edited 6 March by LichesterRedSoxSoccerBall

[ParkerPen]

McAteer hasn't scored for Ipswich yet...

[LcFc_Smiv]

https://x.com/i/status/2029225563206922435

5 hours ago, dmayne7 said:

It is the one bit of modern tactics that I just cannot understand in almost any context. If your team is so good in the air you may think that having every in there means you win the first ball and anything else that comes in, but equally, you could so that with 1 extra man out. Invites more pressure, creates less counter attacking opportunities and causes more confusion/mayhem from a defensive point of view. Stupid tactic.

It has become such a data driven game. I was at a conference a few years ago where the coach explained that the chance of scoring leaving one man up was so statistically low, you would need to leave two men up for it to be viable. However, leaving 2 players up impacts the chance that you are likely to concede more significantly. I remember thinking at the time surely the more men you leave up the more the opposition will keep back to defend so it would balance out.

 

I think I remember seeing Kidderminster left 4 up at a corner last weekend, thats the kind of craziness I want to see in the game.

Edited 6 March by LcFc_Smiv

[daddylonglegs]

Can see us keeping a clean sheet here. 

[Tomo260]

The misery will pile on. 4-1 Ipswich