DonDon Valiant

Jun 8 2008, 03:12 PM

Fucking hell, you're a lucky charm.

Ben

Jun 9 2008, 12:09 AM

DonDon Valiant

Jun 8 2008, 03:12 PM

Fucking hell, you're a lucky charm.

Not really.

They won pretty much every home game in the first half of the season

Aesthetic Relic

Jun 9 2008, 12:13 AM

I understand you are intereested in Linfields keeper Alan Mannus.

Very good keeper btw, he just broke into the Northern Ireland team recently. a list of Championship sides have been over watching his progress and is almost certain to make the move this summer.

Tractor Girl

Jun 13 2008, 12:05 PM

Aesthetic Relic

Jun 9 2008, 12:13 AM

I understand you are intereested in Linfields keeper Alan Mannus.

Very good keeper btw, he just broke into the Northern Ireland team recently. a list of Championship sides have been over watching his progress and is almost certain to make the move this summer.

Ok, well we seem to have a thing for Irishmen at Portman Road at the moment. I think we've got 10 or 12 from either the North or the Republic. :lol3:

Something to do with Jim Magilton I should think :lol3:

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Ipswich 0-2 Wolves

Goals from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Dave Edwards gave Wolves victory at Ipswich.

Ebanks-Blake headed home Matt Jarvis's cross to open the scoring but Town came back well and Kevin Lisbie and Jonathan Walters both came close to equalising.

Danny Haynes also fired over for Ipswich but their hopes of a fightback ended when Alex Bruce was sent off for a two-footed challenge on David Jones.

Edwards made it 2-0 after Richard Wright had parried Jarvis's shot, while Jarvis also hit the post late on.

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Ipswich 2-1 Colchester

Ipswich won the East Anglian derby and booked their place in the Carling Cup third round thanks to goals from strike duo Pablo Counago and Kevin Lisbie.

An experimental home side reverted to their usual 4-4-2 formation midway through the first half and Counago soon fired a 25-yarder under Dean Gerken.

The visitors, buoyed by a 2,500-strong following, were 2-0 down on 56 minutes when Lisbie shot into the top corner.

But the Us got a late consolation when Steven Gillespie beat Richard Wright.

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Watford 2-1 Ipswich

Watford's John-Joe O'Toole scored in the dying minutes to secure a come-from-behind win over Ipswich.

Pablo Counago put the visitors in front in the second minute with a tidy finish after a poor clearance from Mart Poom.

Watford were furious when they were denied a penalty when Tamas Priskin was bundled over by Gareth McAuley.

John Eustace headed the equaliser from a Lee Williamson corner and O'Toole headed in the winner after Richard Wright parried Jobi McAnuff's shot.

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Jim Magilton said Town had the chances to have put the game out of Watford's reach before a second-half revival saw the Hornets score twice to take the points.

Pablo Counago gave Blues a second minute lead but goals from John Eustace and John-Joe O'Toole gave the home side the points.

"We got the perfect start and played well for 20 minutes," said the Town boss.

"If Kevin Lisbie or Jon Walters had scored then it makes things very difficult for them and we had other chances as well.

"But we didn't have enough bravery on the ball, and I include the senior players in that. That was very disappointing.

"We've got to regroup now. We have two weeks to pull ourselves together and get going.

"I don't think we have got going from the first game of the season. We have got players who are sitting back and waiting for things to happen and that's not good enough."

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Town have been drawn at home to Wigan in the Carling Cup Third Round.

The tie, which is likely to be played at Portman Road on Tuesday, September 23, will see Alex Bruce up against his dad Steve, manager of Wigan.

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Ipswich have signed Jon Stead on loan from Sheffield United until January.

Town have also agreed a fee with the Blades for the 25-year-old striker should the move become permanent.

The former England Under-21 international started his career at Huddersfield and scored 22 goals in 68 games before a Premier League move.

Blackburn Rovers signed him for £1.25m in 2004 and he scored eight goals in 42 games before moving on to Sunderland and then Sheffield United.

Stead spent 18 months at the Stadium of Light, before switching to Bramall Lane in a £750,000 deal in January 2007.

He scored five goals in 14 appearances for the Blades that season, but could not stop them being relegated from the Premier League.

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Ipswich Town manager Jim Magilton is confident deadline-day loan signing Jon Stead will make an impact at Portman Road this season.

The 25-year-old Sheffield United striker could make his loan move permanent in January.

Magilton told the club website: "He has played and scored goals at Premier League level. I'm sure if we give him the ammunition, he will score goals.

"Jon coming in will add to the competition for places in attack."

He added: "We need that all over the park if we are to progress."

Ipswich were able to resist interest in last season's player of the year Jon Walters.

The club rejected a late bid for the forward from an unnamed Premier League club which is not thought to have been Stoke City, who had been linked with Walters throughout the transfer window.

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Ipswich Town have admitted loan striker Jon Stead should have been joined by another new face at Portman Road on transfer deadline day.

Chief executive Derek Bowden said a deal for a second player collapsed just hours before the window closed.

He told the club's website: "We had been tracking a player for some time and it looked like there would be some movement at his club."

Bowden remains optimistic that a loan signing can be made next week.

He added: "It's about bringing in the right players for the right money, both in terms of fees and wages, so we're quite careful about about how we spend the money."

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Ipswich boss Jim Magilton says critics of his team have "overreacted" to the club's poor start and he believes Town will begin to climb the table soon.

The club have won just one game out of the opening four in the Championship and some fans have called for the former Town midfielder to be sacked.

He said: "When you're backed into a corner there are people who find the negatives but you come out fighting.

"I know that I am the man to take the club forward."

Opinion has been divided among supporters who have been calling BBC Radio Suffolk in larger than usual numbers following games this season.

Some say Magilton is too inexperienced and should be replaced if results do not improve while others believe the former Town skipper should be given more time.

Magilton told the club website: "Outside the small cocoon of our dressing room there is huge expectation simply because we have a new owner, who has backed my judgement in the transfer market and willingly given me money to go into the transfer market to spend.

"We've had a disappointing start but I think you find out more about yourself when you're losing games.

"I have great belief in the players that I've brought to the football club and great belief we can turn things around."