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ITFC. Play offs or better?

Dare we even think about it… automatic promotion?? Yikes, now there IS a thought. I for one would have never thought that we’d be in contention for the play offs, but there we are… fact! It just goes to show … Continue reading

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Dieting and diabetes

I was diagnosed with  type 2 diabetes some eight months ago. This came as a bit of a shock, as I didn’t think that I had any of the recognised symptoms and here lies the cautionary tale of self-deception… There’s a VERY … Continue reading

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Ipswich – 10 points in each direction

Here we are, eleven games in, in eleventh place and we are ten points clear of the drop zone and ten points clear of a promotion place. Sadly we haven’t won away yet… fingers crossed that this changes, as despite my … Continue reading

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Mick McCarthy idiot or simply Evans’s puppet?

Four games into the new season and we have three miserable points. Seeing Mick McCarthy on Sky before the Leeds game praising himself and the Board for their ‘shrewd’ signings… in other words ‘cheap’ or ‘free’ signings, and how much … Continue reading

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Another season of riveting mediocrity at The Town?

Two games in and we have three points. Hmmmm… fingers crossed this isn’t going to be the pattern for the season. Yes, we have made some signings and yes we have the same (yawn!) manager and yes we are all … Continue reading

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Ipswich Town FC – another season of zilch

So that was the season… we missed the dropzone by six points, the playoffs by eight and promotion by a massive nineteen points. Managers and players came and went and the faithful turned up week-after-week to witness football not of standard … Continue reading

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Touch and go and The Town

We have six games left and we are but three slim points away from the drop zone. I am not sure that we’ll survive as it’s touch and go right now. I have NO faith in either the manager or … Continue reading

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Ipswich Town FC – are we going down?

It is now clear that the Directors made yet another disastrous error of judgement when they appointed Mick McCarthy. Here we are with another nine games to play hovering just above the drop-zone. McCarthy, like his predecessor is clearly not up to … Continue reading

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Ipswich – Not out of the woods yet

The Town are but four points off the drop zone and we are far from out of the woods. We face three tough league games and then (yawn!) Villa in the Cup. I’m sure the bean counters are rubbing their … Continue reading

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Not a great start

Mick McCarthy’s reign as the new manager hasn’t got off to the best of starts. Thrashed today six nothing at Leicester leaving us one point off the bottom of the table and with a goal difference of minus 25. If … Continue reading

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