Tuna Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 1 minute ago, goose2010 said: They are at home but yeah it could be horrible. Just depends though as if Southampton can't go up and are in the playoffs then they are likely to rest players Ha ha forgot it was at Elland Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose2010 Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March Just now, Tuna said: Ha ha forgot it was at Elland Road Hopefully by the time we play Southampton they will be confirmed in the playoffs..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 5 March Author Share Posted 5 March Points total over the duration of the season. 10 games left! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevosevic Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 10 minutes ago, Tuna said: Southampton away on the last day is a horrible one for them Potentially a lovely game with Saints unable to get automatic promotion resting players for the play offs. And they’re at home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayfox26 Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March It is brutal this division. 8 more games than the Premier league, serie a and la liga. 12 more than bundesliga. With our injuries, small squad and the same players having to play every game, it's understandable why a few have looked jaded recently. Add in the cup run as well and it takes its toll. Another reason why it would be better if games were a little more comfortable than tonight as then we can take the likes of KDH off and give them a bit of a rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 7 minutes ago, Stevosevic said: Potentially a lovely game with Saints unable to get automatic promotion resting players for the play offs. And they’re at home But might still be close enough to 3rd that you'd want to get 6th in the semi's rather than have to play West Brom who'll likely get 5th. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Fresh Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 17 minutes ago, Stevosevic said: Potentially a lovely game with Saints unable to get automatic promotion resting players for the play offs. And they’re at home I think most try and go in to the playoffs in form and with some momentum. No point resting players then getting a spanking against Leeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post st albans fox Posted 5 March Popular Post Share Posted 5 March 19 minutes ago, jayfox26 said: It is brutal this division. 8 more games than the Premier league, serie an and la liga. 12 more than bundesliga. With our injuries, small squad and the same players having to play every game, it's understandable why a few have looked jaded recently. Add in the cup run as well and it takes its toll. Another reason why it would be better if games were a little more comfortable than tonight as then we can take the likes of KDH off and give them a bit of a rest. We don’t have a small squad we have a coach who only trusts about 15 players The vast majority of this league would give their right arms for our squad depth …. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March Just now, st albans fox said: We don’t have a small squad we have a coach who only trusts about 15 players The vast majority of this league would give their right arms for our squad depth …. We made many changes against Bournemouth and did well. I would say we do have more depth than most in this league 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzibee Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 1 hour ago, hackenbacker said: I want that feeling Ipswich supporters must have for their team.... pride Sorry for jumping on - you're right, the pride that runs through the fans is incredible. We never expected this this season having just come up. We may not have the most expensive squad, but we never give up even when the going is tough. We were not good today - the first half was one of the worst games I've seen for a long while but we brought on killer subs and changed the game and dug deep. Morsy is driving that belief through the team. I wouldn't say we are any luckier than other teams - we have lost just four games. Sometimes you get the rub other times you dont. Today we had an absolutely s***e ref and with a decent ref their first goal would't have stood. In short, we are just happy to be mixing it up with the bog boys - if we get up fantastic, if not - what a fantastic couple of years which we'll build on. But be prepared for a hard run in - we prepared for this last season and prepared to go again and make it a good battle 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March (edited) I only watch our games and recency bias comes into play, but how are teams like Southampton and Ipswich able to come back from behind so regularly and score so much? Is there just a difference when it comes to mentality or do they play differently? Edited 5 March by lgfualol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankieADZ Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 7 minutes ago, lgfualol said: I only watch our games and recency bias comes into play, but how are teams like Southampton and Ipswich able to come back from behind so regularly and score so much? Is there just a difference when it comes to mentality or do they play differently? wouldnt put them in that bracket lately, one game against Birmingham doenst change it for me, and they both play it differently to us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trugerkem Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March Ipswich have taken 28 points from losing positions this season… that must be some sort of record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudger63 Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 1 hour ago, trabuch said: They looked pretty fearless - even at 3-2 up. If they were psychologically suspect, the penalty miss would have done for them (same goes for their fans). I hope our win tonight will have given us a bit of a boost and we can start winning with confidence again . I still believe we are the best team in this division, but sometimes it looks like the players aren't so sure. Ipswich have the experience of having the pressure of last seasons promotion to call on too. So this isnt new to them. If its on pure quality of footballer, they would be no where near us or Leeds, but its about more than that. They actually only lost 4 games last season, the same as we did, when we were promoted from league one, so they have lost only 8 of their last 76 league games, thats pretty impressive, even if 46 of those were in league one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bear Posted 5 March Share Posted 5 March 1 hour ago, Langston said: @The Bear this is why I celebrated Ipswich conceding the other week when you said them winning would benefit us, FYI! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeg67 Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March Ipswich has shown incredible grit in saving all these wins from losing positions. But what I see is that over the last 11 matches, Leeds has taken 31 points and Ipswich 26. Fine. But Leeds has allowed 3 goals in that span, and Ipswich 14. If they keep shipping goals like this, I’m skeptical they can keep it up. There’s a certain luck factor involved in what they’ve been doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayfox26 Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March 4 hours ago, st albans fox said: We don’t have a small squad we have a coach who only trusts about 15 players The vast majority of this league would give their right arms for our squad depth …. In certain positions we don't have depth like wingers and centre mids. We have loads of strikers and centre backs but little options in other areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruzFOX Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March We should have enough experienced members of our team to grab the rest by the scruff of their necks and drag them over the finish line. The graft I saw from fatawa and yunus today showed me they care and didn’t want to lose today. That’s encouraging! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCFCJohn Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March 6 hours ago, FrankieADZ said: wouldnt put them in that bracket lately, one game against Birmingham doenst change it for me, and they both play it differently to us To be fair they did come from 2-0 then 3-2 down against Huddersfield a couple of weeks ago. Whereas when we go 2-0 to even the poorest of teams, we will only ever pull it back to 2-1. 2016 was it the last time we came from 2 goals down to get anything in a league game…(stats courtesy of @Dan LCFC) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCFCJohn Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March Makes you wonder what things would be like if we had gone for McKenna in the summer. Maybe he is just one of those who works at one club or maybe he wouldn’t have been the right guy to quickly lift the gloom at the start of the season. But if he could have done what he’s done at Ipswich with our players available, there’s a good chance we’d be out of sight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza M Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March Still think we need another 20 points from 10 now to be certain of automatic giving us 101. 6 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses. Or even better 7 wins 3 losses for 102. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March 5 hours ago, Deeg67 said: Ipswich has shown incredible grit in saving all these wins from losing positions. But what I see is that over the last 11 matches, Leeds has taken 31 points and Ipswich 26. Fine. But Leeds has allowed 3 goals in that span, and Ipswich 14. If they keep shipping goals like this, I’m skeptical they can keep it up. There’s a certain luck factor involved in what they’ve been doing. To be fair 14 goals conceded in 11 games isn’t horrendously bad, especially when you’re the leagues top scorers. I hate the calling of what Ipswich are doing lucky, they’re not lucky - lucky is a once off occurrence - like one game the opponent had a goal wrongfully disallowed and you got lucky. When the same thing happens over and over again it is certainly not luck. Over 36 games Ipswich are the second best team in the division, they’re where they are deservedly, we are deservingly Top and Leeds are 3rd. There is still 10 games to go and at the end of those 10 games everyone will be where they are on merit and merit alone 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March 6 minutes ago, Gazza M said: Still think we need another 20 points from 10 now to be certain of automatic giving us 101. 6 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses. Or even better 7 wins 3 losses for 102. After the international break we have a 100% record this season against the 9 teams we have left to play. Honestly, I think we’ll go close to that again and easily run home with it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paninistickers Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March 7 minutes ago, Gazza M said: Still think we need another 20 points from 10 now to be certain of automatic giving us 101. 6 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses. Or even better 7 wins 3 losses for 102. If Leeds get 7 wins and 2 draws they get 99. I think they'll get that. But I think we can stumble to six wins and a draw. Fwiw, I think the likeliest scenario is the wobbling top team sorted their act out and picks up form, even if it is the last 5 games, and sail away comfortably in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionator Posted 6 March Share Posted 6 March Yep 100 points is the holy grail I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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