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Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 24-10-2025
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Wobbling their respective ways into Saturday's early match, both Albion and Ipswich have blown hot and cold in recent weeks, as the former have alternated between victory and defeat so far this month and the latter have been left in 14th by back-to-back losses. Despite that blip, the Tractor Boys have had a very respectable home record so far this season and will be eager to restore it this weekend, with 23-year-old Jaden Philogene their main goal threat. In contrast, Albion seem to have lost the plot a bit on our last couple of awaydays, but with the likes of Price and Johnston currently shining, there's still hope that we can claw our form back with a decent performance.
We can't expect miracles, but an improvement isn't too much to ask, and if it yields us a point then all the better.
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - Baggievicar - 25-10-2025
Ipswich look like a retirement home for ex-Baggies. I want to see David Button in goal, please.
Cracking picture, Ska'd.
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - valpayne - 25-10-2025
And ex baggies usually come back to haunt us. I’m predicting 0-5 with all ex baggies including Button scoring as well. That way my pessimism might yield a less painful outcome! On Wednesday for 4 mins we were 3rd and now we’re 11th
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - Salopbaggie - 25-10-2025
Half hour in and I was starting to think unless Ipswich players use a baseball bat on our players this ref is not giving anything, on the other hand fall over from the wind of an Albion player running past and its a foul. It is starting to get a bit better though in the last 5 minutes.
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - talkSAFT - 25-10-2025
Oh Bo**ox! 1-0 Ipswich 82'
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - BaggieSteve - 25-10-2025
Is it too early and am I being unfair to question not just the coach’s selections and tactics but his actual fitness for the job?
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - baggietrousers - 25-10-2025
We need to accept that as a team we’re just not very good. The players we sold have been replaced by inferior quality, and those we kept are those that no one else really wanted, because they are not up to it.
It’s just schoolboy error after schoolboy error.
No point in making a couple of good saves only to gift the opposition a goal with what can be best described as comical and brain dead passing from the back!!!! Our forwards don’t look like scoring and don’t seem to pose any threat at all. This is getting really worrying now.
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - Salopbaggie - 26-10-2025
What we are lacking is someone who can put the ball in the net, if only we had a striker who, at this level could score 9 in 12 with 3 assists. I guess if we did many fans would say he was not good enough.
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - Slick_Footwork - 27-10-2025
Given what has happened in the last couple of years - being in a financial mess, losing our best players on frees (Yokuslu and Kipre), the owners having to sell anyone with value and replace them for a fraction of the cost - mid table obscurity could actually be seen as a success this year, on paper at least.
However, it does feel that this squad should be capable of more...
I've seen a lot of criticism aimed at Heggebo. People saying we haven't got a striker. But for me, the problem is down to a lack of creation rather than the striker himself.
I could be wrong, but I don't think there's a striker in the land would score much in our side.
I mean, is there a team in the division who has a better trio of strikers than Heggebo, Maja and Dike? I'm not sure there is...
Admittedly, Heggebo was poor yesterday, but in other games I think he's looked good. I've seen us lump useless balls forward and he's bullied defenders, gathered and kept the ball. The lad is strong, passes well and looks good technically. But he's a target man who needs people to link up with. How many times has he had a 10 yard ball played into his feet for a one-two or link up? I can't think of it happening even once.
I've seen him make runs but the player on the ball has chosen to pass backwards. Often that has been Issac Price, a player who is supposed to be our number 10 and playmaker...
We seem to constantly want to play all of our football on the edge of our own box rather than in the opposition half. Our midfield are 20 yards too deep and as a result the wingers and constantly doubled up on and the forward is totally isolated.
That was the frustration for me yesterday, the fact we lost by a single goal that we'd handed to the opposition on a silver platter tip tapping around in our own final 3rd. Not for the first time.
What's the point? Is that supposed to be attractive football? Personally I find it attractive when a team attacks, shows flair and tries to score. I don't get anything out of watching the goalkeeper role balls into the midfielder who is on the edge of his own box. We're not Man City or Barcelona. There's no game plan to do it to bring the opposition on and break the press. We just seem to do it because it's the "in thing".
Is it Mason's fault or are we just lacking quality? I'm torn. It's probably somewhere in the middle. But the balance of the team doesn't look as good as it should with the squad we have IMO.
My gut feeling is that with the personnel we have, we might suit a 3-5-2 like what Darren Moore played to accomodate both Jay Rodriguez and Gayle.
I think if you had Heggebo up top with either one of Dike or Maja, I think we would pose far more threat.
Plus we haven't really got any decent full backs...
Phillips and Mepham both look good and the ball and could suit a 3 man defence. Bielik is a good ball playing centre half and could play between them.
Illing Junior has played left wing back before, and in my opinion, the best I've seen Issac Price play was when Tony Mowbray used him at right wing back. He's got the legs to play the role, crosses well. Plus he's never a number 10, frankly.
Alex Mowatt could then move a bit higher up the pitch and actually try to start passing forward, rather than constantly looking for safe possession football. Mikey Johnston would be effective in the 10.
Will the coach try a different system or persist with what he's been doing just changing individuals (the predictable Johnston or Illing Junior for Grant swap)?
Probably the latter, but I do think we should try something to get two forwards in the side.
The aforementioned Thomas-Asante is a case in point. Yes, he's doing well for Coventry this season, but is he a better player than what we have? Would he have scored those goals for us? We will never know, but I'd highly doubt it.
But what we do know for sure if that he's doing well for Coventry playing up front alongside another striker, whether that's Ellis Simms or Haji Wright. We only ever play 2 up top if we're chasing the game. Maybe we could look at his improvement in form and actually learn something.
RE: Ipswich vs WBA - Match Thread - Stairs - 27-10-2025
It was my fault.
I had to leave the house with 10 mins left to watch a local rugger match and I confidently said “Well that’s a draw in a game we should have won”.
So confident I did not check again until my Ipswich fan friend messaged me to ask what I thought of the game.
Even then I said we should have won but the draw was acceptable, stunned.