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epl reality has hit the fan and im covered in it. ok the expectacions were to stay up there and we are bravely battling against relegation or not so bravely as my squad morale level is appaling.
well i have changed my passing style of the team to simplify the game as it is obvious that they cant (have the ability) to rule the field as in the nationwide. im still confident we can stay up. the fight goes on tonight. will post the fixtures played so far tomorrow.
the season has been difficult as expected and here are matches played so far:
H Tottenham 4-3
A WBA 1-1
A Fulham 2-2
H Man Utd 0-0
A Leeds 1-3
H Portsmouth 0-1
A Blackburn 0-3
H Southampton 1-1
A Cambridge League Cup 1-2
A Middlesboro 0-3
H Leicester 1-0
H Charlton 1-1
A Chelsea 0-2
H Man City 0-0
A Ipswich 0-3
H Newcastle 2-0
A Tottenham 1-4 (assistant manager played with a really bad first eleven, my own fault as i just left the game without going on holiday and instructing the assistant)
the table at the bottom:
pld/points
12th man city 18/21
13th leeds 18/19
14th Aston Villa 18/19
15th Leicester 18/19
16th Millwall 17/18
17th Fulham 17/17
18th Portsmouth 17/17
19th Tottenham 18/14
20th Coventry 18/12
next up Liverpool home, let see what we can get out of it on thursday.
Rab, thanks for your help last night (and you OJ) and with the post on the thread, you can tinker with my team as much as you like so long as it starts winning away from home cos that's been me main problem.
There's a couple of players i would not put in positions you have, but we shall see what happens.
Did you go into the training or team tactics? does not matter if you did, it's just for me own peace of mind.
Once again thanks for your work.
And if anyone else has any little tips then please post.
Millwall was struggling, struggling really bad and the squads morale was appauling.
So i made some changes. In fact rather large changes. Threw my training&tactics into the trash bin and created new ones. The tactic i created aint that different on paper, but when u look deeper it is.
The set pieces setups has always been a strong point in my teams that i manage but now i think i took'em to a new level. well seemed that way anyway.
I had only 3 matches last night wich was a slight boredom-factor, but atleast the team had time to train properly before trying on the new tactics. And they went really well. I was 19th when the first game came up against leeds, wich we won 2-0 and dominated it really. Then we played against Blackburn wich we also dominated and won 3-1. A red card did aid us. Then we played portsmouth away and we did take the lead until the 85th minute when portsmouth managed to equalise. i must admit that i did a bad managing error which helped them to equalise. simply played to passively.
But anyway encouraging to play 3 matches without losing for a very, VERY long time. and the squads morale has sky rocketed.
if i remember right we are 17th at the moment and it is really tight. the teams from 12th down to 19th is in the relegation battle. i think they were all within 5 points.
PS. Hey gang. If you want to play tomorrow an extra night im in after all. so please shout if you still want one.
What can I say, Ipswich are the hottest team in England at the moment and there is no stopping us! Though that might change a bit in the future, as I have a very hectic fixture list coming up with both the Fa Cup and Uefa Cup games in addition to the EPL games, so in this period our strenght as a team will be tested to the limits, and also the level of my squad players because they will get chances to show their worth now. If I can stroll the next month with only a loss or two I feel like I am in an excellent position to challence for the Uefa Cup title and a CL spot in the EPL.
So, here are my results from the past months:
H Millwall 3-0
H Man Utd 0-1
A Dinamo Kiev 1-0 Uefa Cup 3rd round leg 2
H Blackburn 5-0
A Leeds 0-0
H Portsmouth 3-0
A Brentford 0-0 Fa Cup 3rd round
H Middlesbrough 2-0
H Brentford 6-0 Fa Cup 3rd round replay
A Southampton 7-3
H Arsenal 4-0
H AFC Wimbledon 1-0 Fa Cup 4th round
H Chelsea 1-0
A Leicester 3-0
So, as you can all see from my latest game I've been on stunning form and only lost and drawn once in the last 14 games and only conceded 4 times! And my team has really shined in the big games, away against Southampton, last year's EPL champion and FA Cup finalist, we won 7-3 despite being on 10 men after only some 30 minutes. In the next game I totally outclassed Arsenal and easily ran out 4-0 winners, who were at the moment on second place and finally, beating league leaders Chelsea 1-0 after a solid performance. I really couldn't ask more from my lads at the moment, they are fabulous!
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that in the 7-3 demolish of Southampton, Julio Arca scored the best goal since Maradona's against England. He got the ball in the halfway line and dribbled past the entire Southampton defence and after finishing his incredible run fooled Niemi in Southampton's goal and put the ball in the empty net! Needless to say that was an incredible goal and I've watched it over and over again and just sit infront my screen with a wide-open mouth and take deep breaths in order not to lose control totally! :eek:
That's all for now. After our next session you'll be hearing if our incredible form still continued...
Well in my opinion one more season would be ideal but I'm okay with two seasons.
Though, Rab, I wonder if it's any good discussing this matter here since me, you, Elite and Moncs are the only ones here. The other half of our clan haven't crawled in here for ages...
Let's play 1 more season then go over to 03/04.
Or play until xmas and whatever league you are in then that's where you start from in January 2004.
Either way i'm not bothered, i'll go with the majority.
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