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Not sure it's a list he has kept, perhaps him scribbling down the decisions which came to mind when he lost his cool at the ref performance? I think he got the sub of hedges wrong, Yuri would more likely have sat in and helped the backline. I prefer him being honest and not biting his tongue tonight, at least it shows some passion, even if it may come from concern for his own position

I don't disagree that ST pricing is too high but I'm not convinced £300 is the mark to really move the needle on attendance. If it was, and I'm happy to be corrected if my recollection is wrong, the Riverside would be much fuller as that was the initial price. Make it £300 all around and we have an empty Riverside and possibly much lower revenue.

Was just coming in here to make the same comment about Gudjohnson. Jordan Rhodes 2.0, does absolutely nothing but put the ball in the net, when it arrives in the box. I don’t think I saw him win a header or a 50/50 anywhere outside of the box tonight, passing awful too. Better have a team of athletes behind him, but easy 20 goal a season finisher. I like that Val has made those comments, it is getting ridiculous now. You can handle a few but it’s every bloody week right now. I’m most upset about the corner kick, just ridiculous. Lads played well tonight against another strong squad. Having Cantwell back and hopefully Sonny soon changes this team. Baradji has much more to come too. I’m reasonably upbeat now, couple of wins are overdue.

I would have taken either off. Not one positive comment about how well we played tonight. Tonight was our best home league game performance. If the referee had made the correct decisions like Ipswich's player not getting clear red card or penalty decision. These decisions not being made cost us the game.

Exactly what I was thinking!

Well I've scratched my head enough as to why De Neve is picked as sub before Pickering or Riberio, I'd now confidently put them both up top ahead of Gueye too. He is absolutely atrocious. I'm usually one to dig out players for conceding late goals, but I'm genuinely gutted for the vast majority of them tonight who grafted for the shirt.

Shades of Ince and shoot

Poor form from a manager to complain about the officials. Leave that to the supporters on social. It sets a bad precedent to a team to focus on components out of your controls instead of the parts you can control. Wrong mentality.

Rewatched the equalizer again. While DeNeve is in the correct defensive position when the ball come to Egeli, it’s only because it took so long to find him. An earlier ball across after the lay off would have again seen him wrong side the winds player as the first man runs right by him. Mind you, like a week ago he should be fresh and be able to help cover. then when he does press the ball he closes out with his back to Egeli a poor way to block a shot. no idea why we don’t sub on proper defenders to see the game out instead of DeNeve. The lads complete dross

Off to Arsenal?

McKenna left his 2 best players on the bench tonight. philogene and Nunes. No idea why he did that as I can't see Ipswich going up any time soon. Referee was a shit tonight. Pathetic.

A great way to stop undercutting STHs is to not charge THEM quite so fucking much either. Then maybe we’d get more on the ground. Should be £300 anywhere in the ground, with ‘Twenty’s Plenty’ for per-game pricing.

Ismael's an absolute ham shanker. It's not referees' fault we can't defend. Or create enough chances. One win in nine home League games. None of it down to him or his appalling recruitment I don't suppose. The most unlikeable manager since Steve Kean by quite some distance.

My ‘other’ was Robbie Savage. Much as he was a complete dick, I loved how much he wound up the opposition. I also credit his legwork with extending Tugay’s playing days by an extra couple of years.

The tax fiddle continues.

Can anyone tell me which rule talks about red cards and last man?

It's a long season and a ridiculous run of fixtures - you saw with Travis and Tronstad in January last year, you simply can't run the same players out there for 90 minutes every week. Ohashi will break down pretty soon if he's not given a rest. Gudjohnsen has been targeted twice for a rest in the last two games (of the pair of them). We need another CF in January to rotate in if we're sticking with this system.

It's bizarre. We aren't trying to get a goal at that point.... We're trying to keep them out for the final 10 minutes and have solid defensive fullbacks sat on the bench. Ismael seems to prefer chaos. Despite his poor subs I was proud of the performance tonight. Ipswich should sack Kieran McKenna if that's the best he can do with those players at his disposal.

Tbf, he preached that mantra, but then did have a tendency to make lots of excuses. Here he is bemoaning a penalty decision, playing 3 games in a week, and only having 48hrs to prep for a game, all in one interview. And talking about being away, if I want to nitpick. All excuses if you think about it. If you're good enough, all those things shouldn't matter. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/october/26/eustace-frustrated-by--terrible--penalty-decision/ His actions didn't always match his proclamations.

I'm not sure what more they can do to put their thumb on the scale in our matches. Will be interesting to see.

he must have had some dust up with pickering and ribeiro to keep bringing deneve on,sure he`s quick but thats absolutely no use if the guy has no defensive capability at all,i mean he does`nt even know when to track back

Love that from Ismael. He'll be getting a fine next week from the EFL though.

Why would my default reaction be a positive one after yet again seeing my team chuck away a win in a way they seem to be making an art form? We did play pretty well, not quite the performance full of 8 and 9s out of 10 that the Lancashire Telegraph suggested, but its of no consolation and I am pretty pissed off this season and fearful of what the rest of the season holds.

Rather than writing lists about referees I’d much rather Ismael tried a bit of self reflection. Of course he won’t though, Ewood is an accountability free zone from the top down. And while everything always remains someone else’s fault, and beyond their control, the best we can hope for is muddling along in the Championship. Predictably we went to pieces late on. Why try and defend so deep with such a limited back 3? Was anyone expecting a blood and thunder performance from Tavares or Baradji to help solidify things? Why DeNeve and not a full back? Gueye was crap, but we didn’t give him much of a chance… it’s hard to close down 2 thirds of a pitch and half a team on your own. Miller spotting Cantwell’s smart run but kicking the ball like a 7 year old on a windy Blacksnape instead of sitting it up in the corner was the moment that killed us.

Just read what McKenna said about the clear red card. Pretty much said “it went our way tonight” even he knows it was a clear red. Just says a lot about the standards of these pathetic officials.