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Post by MetaShrew on Nov 21, 2020 18:49:27 GMT 1
Relax, Spider-Man will be buying us out any day now.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 21, 2020 18:49:43 GMT 1
Sleepwalking to relegation. What the hell are the defenders doing during training? They were all over the place again. our defence could not defend against a pub team
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Post by Stowmarket Shrew on Nov 21, 2020 18:49:44 GMT 1
Three pens! Nonsense. Offside for the winner! Nonsense. Didn't realise Ipswich hadn't conceded at home so far this season. Nice to know he's done his research. We go again on Tuesday! Yeah, hopefully we will, and hopefully you won't! We looked very dangerous! Nonsense! Apparently that was a 98% performance! Nonsense!
p**s off Sam!
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Post by RBA on Nov 21, 2020 18:50:32 GMT 1
just listened to SR didn't pay for game so question should we have had 3 penaly=ties or not SR sounded like he has run out of ideas
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Post by darkshrew on Nov 21, 2020 18:50:36 GMT 1
I'm wondering who will spin this result the best - Ricketts or Pilch....... 😉 Ricketts just said it was the refs fault because we should have had more penalties.
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Post by camdenshrew on Nov 21, 2020 18:51:57 GMT 1
His ability to spin the truth is incredible. He wouldn't be out of place working in Number 10.
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Post by belfastshrew on Nov 21, 2020 18:54:09 GMT 1
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 21, 2020 18:54:51 GMT 1
we lose against teams at the bottom of the league, we lose against teams just above us and we lose to a team near the top but are not playing well the only consistent things town seem to do is mess things up in the defence, conceed a goal in extra time, throw away a lead and lose. we have not got a winning mind set we have a self destruct mind set, lets stuff it up mind set.
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Post by South Stand Salopian on Nov 21, 2020 19:00:22 GMT 1
I heard B&A members texts read out Pilch & Scarecrow. well it wasnt me, what did i say ? i had a decent afternoon popped a spare £25.80 i had on ipswich @evens, paid for my ifollow game and an indian later had my first beer during lockdown and now on my 3rd shot of nikka japanese pure red malt, so smooth, when the missus stops nattering to my neighbour i'll oder the indian, town unlucky again, thought we should have made subs a little earlier, centre backs and bergoyne lets us down as usual, thats life, got to win tuesday or i think hes off ps watching spurs v city at the mo, will be back to upset the usual suspects later ;-) Something along the lines of not Sam Ricketts fault the players are letting him down.
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Post by blamber on Nov 21, 2020 19:02:58 GMT 1
I wasn't expecting much from the game. But we played so well for so long. And we really should have taken a point. The players get so tense towards the end of games now, probably not helped by the bench being so fearful too. We almost expect to concede late on now. That defeat must have knocked the stuffing out of them. And Sam's confidence must be shot to bits too so not at all convinced he's best placed to get them thinking positively. Time for a change.
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Post by londonshrew75 on Nov 21, 2020 19:04:57 GMT 1
His post match comments are staggering and the players must wonder what he's on about? I've seen him literally lost for words, but I've never seen him angry? You can't imagine him giving any of the players a short swift telling off. IE. The plain simple truth. We have a huge squad and two players he bought in can't make it, including a right back. But we have no right back in that squad..... Getting Ricketts out isn't the problem, it's we get in (everything concidered). Cook won't be coming here before we start on names.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2020 19:05:30 GMT 1
I was laughing at that, he did said 3 pens 6 times , I saw 1 and we got given it.
The best thing he could of said that we played well and lost to two individual errors, we will be looking at the errors and they will be sorted for Tuesday.
He can't get sacked for this game but for the performances in October. We played well all game people saying that we played rubbish or SR could of changed anything on this game are deluded and think we are a team that can finish in the top 6.
I feel the time had come 3 weeks ago and did change my mind last week, but I have to say a change may do us good and give us a kick up the ass we need
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Post by ssshrew on Nov 21, 2020 19:18:22 GMT 1
I just feel it’s like Ratcliffe all over again. We are walking into League 2 and it seems no one gives a damn.
I said before the interview that he would say we should have had at least one penalty and so it proved and I know nothing.
In any case we shouldn’t be relying on penalties. We need to be scoring from open play and defending a if our lives depended on it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2020 19:21:57 GMT 1
So we are at the magic 12 league games into the season and our record is:
P 12 W 1 D 5 L 6
PTS 8
So that's a win ratio of 8%.
In the calendar year we've managed 3 league wins in 24 games, any rabbits in that hat Mr Ricketts or do you just save them for cup games?
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Post by Feedo Gnasher on Nov 21, 2020 19:22:25 GMT 1
We didn’t even play well bar the first 10 minutes. After that point it was all defending ridiculously deep and hoofing the ball up to Tracey or Whalley to chase lost causes. Ipswich had two clear cut chances that we were incredibly lucky to survive (the clearance off the line and the one that hit the post), it was clearly coming and yet with five subs on offer to change things up we did nothing. Comments afterwards about how well the game plan was executed are alarming as it was merely a quick start followed by setting up camp firmly in our own half.
Yes individual errors cost us but those two blokes have been making individual errors all season. Pathetic.
Ricketts out.
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Post by champagneprince on Nov 21, 2020 19:28:41 GMT 1
Sleepwalking to relegation. What the hell are the defenders doing during training? They were all over the place again. our defence could not defend against a pub team Yes, even Wrexham might score at least one. Actually, that's pushing it a bit, but Vale would!
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Post by rayh on Nov 21, 2020 19:30:54 GMT 1
Let's be honest the writing was on the wall last season.but town fans gave Ricketts benifit of doubt and hoped for the best...FALSE HOPE! Only one outcome now.
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Post by harboroughshrew on Nov 21, 2020 19:31:41 GMT 1
Don't think we deserved any penalty today - Whaley was clearly waiting for the contact and went down very easily - some might say he used his experience. Pugh was lucky not to get booked for a blatant dive and the challenge on Udoh was not a penalty either. Ipswich like to play across the back and we caught them out a few times and could have got another goal. We look reasonably well organised in midfield but we are deficient in both boxes and that is where games are decided. We did not even drop that deep today and Ipswich would not have scored without help from our defenders. I would like to see Iliev and Walker drafted into the defence on Tuesday - individuals cannot keep making bad errors and expect to keep their place. Time for the manager to read them the riot act and tell them to shape up or else.
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Post by Stowmarket Shrew on Nov 21, 2020 19:32:40 GMT 1
I just feel it’s like Ratcliffe all over again. We are walking into League 2 and it seems no one gives a damn. I said before the interview that he would say we should have had at least one penalty and so it proved and I know nothing. In any case we shouldn’t be relying on penalties. We need to be scoring from open play and defending a if our lives depended on it. I can only assume the board simply can't afford to sack him. There is no rational way they can have decided that he's doing a good or even an adequate job, because by any objective measure he's very clearly not. So, it seems, either he walks (he won't, yet more deluded crap after the match today), or we're stuck with him until the end of the season. I'm just so angry right now, and stressed and disappointed - I can honestly say that even under King, Ratcliffe, Simpson, Mellon (when it went bad), and Askey that I've never come close to feeling as angry as I do now in 32 seasons. I understand grudgingly why the board can't sack him - but they're taking a huge gamble with the future of this football club, hoping that we scrape survival this season and regroup with a new man in the close season, instead of biting the bullet and getting rid. If it backfires it will be catastrophic. For me, with the players we have, the biggest risk is in keeping him in my view, and we need a new man in this side of Christmas to give us any chance of staying up. Here's hoping he'll do the decent thing and walk away.
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Post by Exkeeper on Nov 21, 2020 19:33:49 GMT 1
Their goals came from exactly the areas that I expected them to score from - a centre back switching off and a keeper making a basic error that would see him dropped by a Sunday League side. He almost cost us when being slow off his line and flapping the ball against his own defender, only for the ball to narrowly trickle past the post. The winner? Oh God. A limp wristed push out into the danger zone from a weak shot, where the ball was catchable. The only decision to be made was that if wasn’t happy catching it, then make sure that you push it wide, away from the danger zone.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2020 19:36:01 GMT 1
I just feel it’s like Ratcliffe all over again. We are walking into League 2 and it seems no one gives a damn. I said before the interview that he would say we should have had at least one penalty and so it proved and I know nothing. In any case we shouldn’t be relying on penalties. We need to be scoring from open play and defending a if our lives depended on it. It's been coming since the beginning of the year so it's not as if it's just crept up on us. In this calendar year we have played 24 league games, won just 3 (1 so far this season) and picked up 17 points. We are going backwards that's for sure.
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Post by suttonfarmsalopian on Nov 21, 2020 19:40:11 GMT 1
I just feel it’s like Ratcliffe all over again. We are walking into League 2 and it seems no one gives a damn. I said before the interview that he would say we should have had at least one penalty and so it proved and I know nothing. In any case we shouldn’t be relying on penalties. We need to be scoring from open play and defending a if our lives depended on it. I can only assume the board simply can't afford to sack him. There is no rational way they can have decided that he's doing a good or even an adequate job, because by any objective measure he's very clearly not. So, it seems, either he walks (he won't, yet more deluded cr@p after the match today), or we're stuck with him until the end of the season. I'm just so angry right now, and stressed and disappointed - I can honestly say that even under King, Ratcliffe, Simpson, Mellon (when it went bad), and Askey that I've never come close to feeling as angry as I do now in 32 seasons. I understand grudgingly why the board can't sack him - but they're taking a huge gamble with the future of this football club, hoping that we scr@pe survival this season and regroup with a new man in the close season, instead of biting the bullet and getting rid. If it backfires it will be catastrophic. For me, with the players we have, the biggest risk is in keeping him in my view, and we need a new man in this side of Christmas to give us any chance of staying up. Here's hoping he'll do the decent thing and walk away. Completely agree but judging by that interview he just gave there’s zero chance of him walking away. Surely paying up the last 6/7 months of his contract can’t be as costly as relegation
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Post by Northwest Shrew on Nov 21, 2020 19:41:40 GMT 1
I just feel it’s like Ratcliffe all over again. We are walking into League 2 and it seems no one gives a damn. I said before the interview that he would say we should have had at least one penalty and so it proved and I know nothing. In any case we shouldn’t be relying on penalties. We need to be scoring from open play and defending a if our lives depended on it. It's been coming since the beginning of the year so it's not as if it's just crept up on us. In this calendar year we have played 24 league games, won just 3 (1 so far this season) and picked up 17 points. We are going backwards that's for sure. 3 wins in 11 months... Christ! That’s grim
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Post by Exkeeper on Nov 21, 2020 19:43:49 GMT 1
It's been coming since the beginning of the year so it's not as if it's just crept up on us. In this calendar year we have played 24 league games, won just 3 (1 so far this season) and picked up 17 points. We are going backwards that's for sure. 3 wins in 11 months... Christ! That’s grim 5 months. We didn’t play from late February until mid August.
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Post by R6ix on Nov 21, 2020 19:44:53 GMT 1
the pens cost us excuse got me.bit like me saying "im broke cos i didnt win the lottery"we shouldnt rely on pens to score goals, we all know ricketts football is goal shy, always has been.
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Post by champagneprince on Nov 21, 2020 19:50:20 GMT 1
We can't see games out. When we do 'finally' work it out, then it will either be too late.... or we will actually do quite well.
Any faith in Ricketts at the moment surely revolves around whether he can work it out or not. Is it fitness, is it his own tactics, are the players ignoring him and adopting their own tactics, is it confidence, are the players lacking know-how etc?
At the moment, the evidence seems to point to whatever Ricketts is doing to combat this, just isn't working.
Tough time for him, he must be banging his head on the table in frustration.
Or he's cool about the situation and truly believes that whatever he's telling them will come good, in which case he's deluded.
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Post by chameleon on Nov 21, 2020 19:53:45 GMT 1
3 wins in 26 from last season and this season in the league. Must be one of our worst runs in the history of the club.
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Post by socrates1974 on Nov 21, 2020 19:56:09 GMT 1
3 wins in 11 months... Christ! That’s grim 5 months. We didn’t play from late February until mid August. Exactly. What are people moaning about!
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Post by horse01 on Nov 21, 2020 20:01:27 GMT 1
Very arrogant demeanour in that post match interview. Not a good sign snapping at reporters - especially the mild-mannered Stu Dunn.
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Post by Pilch on Nov 21, 2020 20:20:11 GMT 1
shrewsbury have never won at ipswich, and only once about 70 years ago did we avoid defeat, in fact the clubs have met 19 times and town have only ever beaten them once, and i know cos i was there ;-) my prediction for saturday so Ipswich narrowly win and grown men are throwing toys out of the pram Who’d have thought that ? Well I did 😜
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