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A fairly important game for us was next in sequence, as we welcomed Leeds United to Portman Road. The team from West Yorkshire are below us in the table, so a win could very well open the door for us to get one step closer to confirming survival. Mak...
While we've pootled along efficiently enough in our Premier League debut season, we have won all of just 4 games in the top flight so far. One of those was against Bournemouth, so repeating the feat to complete a home and away double over the Cherries fee...
Early on in the January window, we began to make some moves in the outbound direction. Connor Chaplin and Sam Morsy were out of contract in the summer, and we managed to get both out the door. Chaplin made a £225k move to Championship strugglers Cardiff C...
Boxing Day has arrived, fully in the busy Christmas period. We had a home contest against West Ham United, who had actually ended up below us in the table having struggled for form after David Moyes walked out to take the Poland national team Job. Wh...
After the last pre-Christmas international break, I wanted to respond with victories. Unfortunately for us, a trip to Anfield was next in the diary for us. Looking to make mission impossible a success would be this lot…Christensen - Lavinier, Woolfen...
Next up after the international break, we welcomed Leicester City to Suffolk. The Foxes were relegated from the PL alongside Ipswich in 2002, but while Leicester recovered in a rather famous manner (2016), it's taken us the long way round to get there.&nb...
So far we've faced 2 teams that we have faced in the cups and one side who have had recent spells in the EFL. Our first game back after the first international break of the season would however up the ante. This would be our first trip to the new Tottenha...
In the 1961/62 season, Alf Ramsey lead Ipswich Town to the top fight of English football for the first time and did pretty well for himself. By which I mean, he won the league for both himself in his first top flight season and Ipswich's first top flight...
So, let's begin the build-up to season 3 and our first in the Premier League by taking a look at our transfer business. There are two schools of thought here. One is we decide our squad is worthy of a crack at the PL and supplement it with a fe...
The ambition of this save was always to try to get Ipswich Town back into the Premier League. I just didn't expect to have such an opportunity so quickly. With just one season in the Championship done, we find ourselves in the play-offs and in striki...
I've left this for a while. Between poor WiFi, distractions, getting interested in a crazy FM mod where every player has their contract cancelled and is available as a free agent, and just life, I'd left this thread for a bit. Yesterday, however, was...
Contrary to my initial first thought, or maybe I read the dates wrong, no October international break is planned. Possibly as the November internationals will be a bit longer, in the form of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. So we have a burst of games in...
Some final transfer admin was being considered with the window about to shut. A new striker would've been liked, while I was also curious in seeing if we could bring in an upgrade for the wide right role and some depth at centre-back, as well as offloadin...
Before our next match, we would add a new signing to our fold. I wanted another striker and with the board being such hard-arses on signing anyone over 23 (they wouldn't allow it), we looked young for it. Enter Nikolaj Moller, a young Swedish s...
Our second season with Ipswich Town is upon us and it's safe to say preparing for the Championship required something of a graft in the transfer window. First, we have the question of what to do with our 4 loan players. Key roles last season were the...
Having secured our promotion to the Championship with a Good Friday win over Rotherham United in Yorkshire, and that we'd do so as champions, we arguably had little to play for in the final 3 games. However, breaking the 100 point marks would be an extrem...
Thanks. Yeah… I think as we proved some mettle in defeating Coventry and Stoke in the FA Cup that our squad is not a million miles away. How we replace our loan players is the key here.
With the Plymouth game postponed, the first match of the final month would see us host Cambridge United at Portman Road. All we need is a few more wins and we will have the job done, booking our return to the Championship at the first try. It's...
Making up for things I attempted to get into the last update but couldn't due to problems with my infuriatingly inconsistent WiFi, attention turns to our next game as part of this project. This is now the reverse of the opening game of the season. We...
February had started off well enough, by virtue of the win that maintains our position leading the way in the league and the FA Cup triumph against Stoke. Now it was a case of building momentum. In theory, we had some games to do just that coming up,...
Having come unstuck against Bolton on a long trip to Lancashire for no reward, we had to just take the loss, lick our wounds, and do better in our next assignment. In theory, this should've been a good game for doing just that. Accrington Stanley arr...
We've absolutely made a wonderful start to the campaign, getting Ipswich into top spot at Christmas time. That however might well be the easy bit, and the next step is about making sure we don't get caught up with. First step for the post-Christmas f...
Thanks very much. I'm more concerned by Portsmouth, given they inflicted on us one of our worst and indeed only defeats thus far. Beating Sunderland home & away does give us a psychological advantage if nowt else. The jump to the Championship is...
Our odyssey with Ipswich still had one final November commitment to play, in the form of the Papa John's Trophy. Playing for the coveted glory of a trophy named after Pizza Hut and Domino's main competitor was a clash with the Spurs academy. I don't...
November has come, and with it, a fairly quiet schedule as far as the league front goes after we got our home game with Oxford pushed back due to another international break. Still got the FA Cup and Papa John's to ensure we're not short changed though.&n...
After opening October with our trip to our Accrington, our league programme was subject to a reshuffle. We had over 10 players called up for internationals - admittedly some from our youth team but still a good few first teamers - so had just cause to pos...
With our trip to Wycombe pushed back by 10 days, Bolton was the de facto start of a fairly intense September including several sides forecast by pundits to be promotion challengers. After the relative disappointment that was failing to beat Bolton, we now...
For all that I found Fulham away to be an underwhelming Carabao Cup tie, at the end of the day, it's worth trying to have a go anyway. Beating a side with Premier League worthy players would absolutely be proof we're beginning to do stuff that would put u...
Good to know that I was able to meet the board ambition early on, although in fairness, just reaching the Carabao Cup Second Round isn't the most difficult to fulfil and we did the bare minimum at fulfilling it. Also worth noting this is more than the rea...
According to the transfer window screen, Ipswich's combined transfer work on this update (I'm using the new update with the post-Jan database) amounts to 21 new players in and 30 out. So merging all of this into a new system is something that I may have t...
Upon taking the gig, I of course had to meet and consider the club vision. Image isn't uploading, so I'll just say the opening season expectation is to make the play-offs, as well reaching the FA Cup Third Round and Carabao Cup Second Round. The Papa John...
So I began my FM22 experience with a go at Newcastle United, given my favourite team had that high profile highly controversial takeover in real life to see how I could do. 4 years and £750million+ in transfers got me a PL title, a Carabao Cup, an F...
Good to know that the game has a great sense of comic timing by invoking that mayhem. Also fair play on keeping this up.
Somewhat by surprise, Newcastle are now under new ownership. Thought it would take a lot longer...
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If nothing else I admire the absolute madness of last night's Group F conclusion. Could've gone so m...
I'm surprised at how unprepared the ESL people appeared to be and really that the idea did not look...
What a surprise that Newcastle channelled the generosity they afforded Derby in 2007/08 and were bea...
Man City game off, Fulham and Southampton's managers having to do their jobs from home, Sheffie...
... new website re-design?
I've only been out the way for a few weeks and missed the world, cl...
The 2022 World Cup certainly proved to be full of surprises. Uruguay upset France in the final in Qatar to win the World Cup for the first time since 1950, with Holland beating the other shock package Norway in the 3rd place play-offs. England were beaten...
Cheers.
I'm not sure where we'll end up yet given that January and February are going to be stupidly busy and will push us. A top half finish is certainly possible given things are pretty tight at present, but its not going to be the easiest t...
The victory over Southampton has certainly stabilised things for us after a few iffy recent results, but its up to us now to try and build momentum. Certainly, however, going into the October international break with back-to-back wins would be a good thin...
The September international break has been and gone and first out the gate is a Yorkshire Derby against Leeds United at Elland Road, which will be an intriguing test. Leeds have a new manager and brought a lot of players in the summer, with their manager...
With no win in our opening 3 Premier League games, what we could use is a nice easy test against a side we could reasonably expect rewards against. Liverpool at home is not one of those such contests. Filled with superstars and still on a high from winnin...
Thanks for the praise and hope. The strange irony is that 14th in our first year up was actually a downgrade as we spent most of it in 11th-13th. It'll be a toughie though.
I looked at a few goalkeepers but as Dawson was voted fans player of the ye...
Barely any time after last season's over, and still behind closed doors (for now), looks like the Premier League is set to come around for another year.
Be great if a Leicester 2016-esque random winner comes along. Though judging by most people�...
Our first few games in the 2022-23 season weren't really ideal. Leicester beat us home and away last season, Watford have lots of decent players, Spurs are looking to rebuild under new manager Thomas Tuchel and Liverpool won last season's Champi...