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Town v Ipswich match thread - Lord Snooty - 25-02-2016

Huddersfield Town v Ipswich Town 
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday February 27th - 15:00 ko
at The John Smith's Stadium

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David Wagner's Barmy Army welcome Mick McCarthy's Ploughmen to the John Smith's Stadium on Saturday afternoon. 

It will be dour! All games where Irish Mick's involved always are. Dull! Dull! Dullety dull!

Let's hope this time it's not.


A brief history of Ipswich Town: They were only elected to the Football League in 1938 and played in Division 3 (South) until gaining promotion in 1954. They were relegated back the next year, but that heralded the start of their glory years and by the end of the 1961/62 season they were the Football League champions.
This was under the management of a certain Alf Ramsey.


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Portman Road's full of statues


Of course, he left Ipswich the next year to go on and mastermind England's World Cup campaign of 1966. They must've done alright because in 1967 Her Majesty The Queen made him Sir Alf.
Meanwhile Ipswich Town had been relegated back down to Div 2. Not for long though as they were promoted back again in 68 under the leadership of Huddersfield Town legend Bill McGarry. And when he left them in the lurch a year later to go to Wolves, the board of directors made the bold decision of appointing the rookie manager, recently sacked by Fulham, Bobby Robson. He must've done alright. Her Maj made him a Sir as well. Is old Liz a secret Tractorz Fan?

Aye, he did alright. He led them to victory in the prestigious Texaco Cup in 1973, beating local rivals Norwich 4-2 on aggregate in the final. They won the FA Cup in 78, beating the Arsenal 1-0 at Wemberley and then in 81 they won the UEFA Cup beating AZ Alkmaar 5-4 on aggregate.

Not much since though they did have a brief journey into Europe again in the early 2000s after they stole Marcus Stewart from us and his goals took them from the (now called) Championship to 5th in the Premier League.


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Sir Bob impersonating the Dickie Bird statue


Head to head

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Ipswich lead in the overall head to head with 21 wins to Town's 12, with 9 draws. 


The last one of course was another dull goalless draw earlier this season, memorable  only for the last minute red card for James Vaughan after he playfully bounced the ball off the forehead of big strapping defender Jonas Knudsen, who rather disgustingly fell to the floor as if he'd been punched by Frank Bruno or whoever's the latest heavyweight boxing champ. Wanker!
Last season we took 4 points off this lot, beating them 2-1 at ours on Easter Monday with goals from Nahki Wells and Vaughaney. And it was another 2 Nahki goals down at theirs in a 2-2 draw back in October.
The most memorable match between the both of us was a Town defeat back in February 2000 and still rankles with Town fans to this day. It was of course the week after the club had controversially sold the aforementioned village idiot, Marcus Stewart, to the Tractor Boyz, for a fee which was quite frankly laughable.
Dean Gorre had equalised for us after James Scowcroft had given Ipswich a 1-0 half time lead. Then in the 73rd minute came the inevitable Stewart winner. We all knew it would happen and it did. They went on that season to steal our promotion and we went down the following year.


So what's new at Portman Road? 

Still managed by the dour Mick McCarthy the former Republic of Ireland boss. Born in Barnsley, he qualified to play for Ireland due to his dad being proper Irish. Despite all his years as an Irishman he never lost his strong Yorkshire accent, which caused friction with teammate Roy "Chubby" Keane. So much so that when Mick was the national team's manager, he sent Keane home from the 2002 World Cup without a ball being kicked for criticising the team's preparation.
He has also managed Millwall, Sunderland and Wolves.

Notable players in their squad are:- strikers Daryl Murphy and David McGoldrick (though he's injured at the moment), Leeds reject Luke Varney, ex Bournemouth Brett Pittman and star signing from Colchester Freddie Sears.
The midfield includes another Leeds reject in Jonathan Douglas, Luke Hyam who came through the club's academy and Ben Pringle, a player linked with a move to Town not so long back. He's on loan from Fulham.
The defence has that cheat Jonas Knudsen, Scottish international Christophe Berra, some lad called Tommy Smith and club captain Luke Chambers.
The current keeper is Polish lad Bartosz Bialowski, with Dean Gerken on the bench.





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Barnsley's own Mick McCarthy



Recent Form: Town are 16th in the league with 39 points and Ipswich are 10th with 48. Town are on a three match unbeaten run. The Tractorz are on a losing streak, losing three on the spin against Hull, Bristol City and QPR. Also recently, an embarrassing 2-1 FA Cup defeat at 4th division Portsmouth.

(Last 6 matches)
MK Dons 1-1 Town
Town 1-0 Wolves
Forest 0-2 Town
PNE 2-1 Town
Town 2-3 Cardiff
Brighton 2-1Town


Ipswich 0-1 Hull
Bristol C 2-1 Ipswich
QPR 1-0 Ipswich
Ipswich 2-1 Reading
Birmingham 3-0 Ipswich
Portsmouth 2-1 Ipswich (FA Cup)




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RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - Jeebers - 25-02-2016

Thought they were on a poor run but not that she-ite Snoots, top thread old boy, don't think Ipswich will know what hit them - Town win 1-0 because Ipswich will park the tractor in front of goal

RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - WakeyTerrier - 25-02-2016

Looking forward to this one, Towns passing versus Ipswich long ball. It won't be a tonking Charlton style but if we can get in front early doors and then I can see a comfortable win 2/3-1

RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - SHEP_HTAFC - 25-02-2016

Great thread Snoots....
Got me doubts about this one...mainly because of the style Ipswich play. They will frustrate us and can we pass around 10 defenders?
Got a dour 1-1 draw all over this

RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - sloppyattheback - 26-02-2016

We murdered them away from home in october but couldnt stick it in the onion bag.

Their big physical style on the break and our slick passing ( along our own back line) will be a feast to watch

I predict 0-0 !

RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - theo_luddite - 26-02-2016

Top thread that Snoots Thumb up.

I'm doing this at the foot-of-ooer-stairs as the Chief Blind Mouse at MK Dons was given the benefit of the doubt and Billing's red card was confirmed. I'm guessing we were in the afternoon session and they'd used up their weekly allocation of rescinded cards by the time the morning session had finished. No Billing on Saturday then, a three match ban for stretching your leg out to try and control the ball.

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RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - Lord Snooty - 27-02-2016

Some no Billing. Do we start with Patso in there again or bring in Whitehead? If Powell ever played Hogg and Whitehead together he got labeled negative. Would that be said of Herr Vagner?

RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - Lord Snooty - 27-02-2016

Well how bloody frustrating was that! Should've been three or four up by the time they had their one and only shot on target.

RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - theo_luddite - 27-02-2016

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RE: Town v Ipswich match thread - Lord Snooty - 27-02-2016

Hogg out for 8 weeks.  Angry