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His post match presser is bonkers. He goes on a 4-5 minute rant about referees and produces a list he has been keeping of decisions that went against us. Hopefully he gets banned for Saturdays game, so we can start the same XI and he can't change it if we score. I don't really know what he expects to happen as a result of his list and rant. Is he hoping to be invited to St George's Park to devise a new reffing course? I thought it was embarrassing. You never see successful managers on bitter rants like that, was Kevin Keegan stuff.

Pre player trading loss £21.6 million, post player trading loss £7.7 million. It’s been asked a million times but why won’t they sell? As an aside, staff costs up £1.7 million…

Who do you bring on upfront if not Gueye ? We literally have no one else.

AI has missed a festive trick there. Surely ‘Val’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, Gueye and De Neve are naughty not nice….’

That was class how he completely lost his marker and got into the perfect position to nod that one in. You can’t teach that, it’s a sixth sense.

omwards and upwards,i`ll be extremely disapointed if we don`t get 6 points from our next two games

The lads played well tonight, with confirmation, if needed, that Gudjonson is now our most important player. Don't you just love these linesmen getting involved one minute and not the next.

I'm all for criticising the appalling officials and credit Ismael for doing it in public. I've never understood the concept of why the officials should be protected from any criticism whilst players, managers, even fans get slated left right and centre when they conduct themselves poorly. But I do fear that rather than this having any positive impact the clique will now have his card marked and he will be made an example of in games to come.

Andri Gudjohnsen is starting to give me Jordan Rhodes vibes. Wasn’t really in the game today but popped up with a goal. 6 goals in his last 8 and in 14 appearances in his first season in the championship, is excellent.

We were quite solid tonight, and Cantwell is a different class. However, we lost our shape a bit; Miller returned to his usual passing style, and Tavares and De Neve didn’t seem to care much about what happened after that poor last-minute pass. What I'll give Ismael is that we are performing better than the sum of our parts, the less said about our parts the better...

Thankyou for linking that. You know what fair play to him fair play for actually calling the officials out in black and white. About time someone did. Probably made me like him a little bit.

Very impressed with Pratt tonight, looked like he'd been playing in that back line for years

Should be talking about a Rovers's win and 3 points. Good performance by us, deserved 3 points. Gudjohnsen will the poacher goal at the back post. Great to see Captain Cantwell back. Ipswich,'s tactics of time was a pisstake. The referee's decisions not to clear penalty, red card or not to punish Davis late challenge. The standards of referring at this level is a shit Gueye shouldn't have come on. Bloody awful..

Fighter, not a victim, you mean? The knight of honesty takes on the whole Football Association. They all work in the shadows to get Ipswich promoted, and someone must hold them accountable 😅

Someone needs to break out a chant about Ismael’s list on Saturday. Here’s an AI take: 🎵 To the tune of “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” 🎵 He’s got a big ol’ list in his hands, Yeah, he’s wagging that list in the stands, Every dodgy call gets scribbled in his hands, Valerian’s got a liiiist… oh yes he has! He’s got a “What was THAT?!” on the list, He’s got a “Surely not!” on the list, He’s got a “Ref, behave!” on the list, Valerian’s got a liiiist… and it’s long!

Fair play to him. He’s livid and he’s going to get a fine but I like to see his anger and passion. We have been on the wrong side of so many decisions this season not least the full replay 11v11 we had to play tonight. We are several points down from where we should be. Granted a lot of that is of our own making (why sit back and why bring Gueye and De Neve on AGAIN!!?), but shocking refereeing and bad luck has also played its part. He needs to use the perceived injustice and heartbreak to breathe fire into their bellies! 🔥

I'll send him a list of all the poor substitutions he has made so far this season. If I feel generous, I might also include a list of all the terrible transfer dealings.

After reading his post match comments. I do agree with the decisions that have gone against us all season. He just needs to sort his game management out. I understand he has to rotate the players, give them a rest etc and I do feel sorry for him a little bit with the subs we have at the moment as we are down to the bare bones of our squad. He just needs to do better on seeing games out which I think he can, as we’ve seen against Watford away, Bristol city away etc.

I think i prefer the Rovers one but here are both bbc & rovers. TBH has made me warm to him a bit https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/ckgy74nv12et https://x.com/Rovers/status/1995984553769378097?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

We’ll have Montgomery pencilled in for his replacement.

Tell you what Ismael and @Exiled_Rover would get on like a house on fire. Love the list!

Can you link it 🙏

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val has been in england long enough to know the standard of officiating is shocking across the board,you can`t blame the ref for us conceding late goals

Did notice this too carrying some timber