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Episode 71 - Late carnage at Molineux!
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Join Rob and Tom to reflect on the MASSIVE three points Ipswich picked up on Saturday courtesy of Jack Taylor's last-gasp winner. The lads pick the bones out of the game, discuss what all this means for the relegation battle going forward and dissect the scenes that boiled over following the final whistle as well as Gary O'Neil's sacking.
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Ipswich Town's Dramatic Win
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Rob Bins and joining me to go through the sort of pick the bones out of town second win of the season and all the late drama that followed as a result of it is Tom Crack. How you doing mate?
00:00:28
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Very good, Rob. Very good, thank you. Yeah, as you said, late drama there. We've been on the receiving end a fair few times already this season, even last week with Bournemouth, so it's nice to be on the other end of it for a change.
00:00:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. And we've got a lot to go through. but And to be honest, a lot of it's happened sort of, like I said, stoppage time. And then after the full-time whistle, there's a lot of where the big talking points have come from following this game. So we'll start off, we'll give our sort of general thoughts on the game first. So Tom, and I know you watched more of it than I did. I've once again but been a highlights merchant this week, as I am most weeks on these reviews. But why don't you run me through how you thought of the game when some of the bits you saw
00:01:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
That's because, Rob, you have a life and you don't lose the TV 3pm on a Saturday during Christmas, unlike me.
Quality Disparity: Ipswich vs Wolves
00:01:15
Tom Crack - Ipswich
You know what? I mean, yeah, obviously, this going into this game, it was, you know, we we called it a must-win last week, given where both clubs are on the table. And obviously, this is one of the games where both sides thought we could get a win. And obviously, that's how I felt going into it. But my main takeaway, especially at the start of the game, was just how poor wolves are. I know on paper, we've had the same amount of points this season, but you can really see but you could really see the disparity between the two sides, not just the quality of football, but the sort of camaraderie there. You definitely saw that break apart towards after this game and also against West Ham last Monday as well. And yeah, just ive I just thought we were on top of them. It's like, this is a game, like I said, we have to win, but we should win really. They were really, really poor. I know they came into the game in the latter stages as we tried to hold them to the 1-0 lead that we had, but overall I just, you could see but
00:02:01
Tom Crack - Ipswich
difference in quality that we have. And, you know, we we've said many times this season how we've been close against top teams and so many draws and all that sort of stuff. So it was really good to get against a win against a team that we were ah ah the better side and we obviously did it in the latter, latter stages, but we deserved that win yesterday and we got it. So very, very good. Very happy.
00:02:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so I think it was about 10 minutes into the game, you text our chat saying, wolves look really bad or something like that. I'm thinking that we got a good chance here to go and get something.
00:02:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And about five minutes later, we went one that up. And yeah, so we, once again, we found ourselves in that position of being ahead and not holding on to it, which has become a very, it's been a reoccurring problem in many games.
00:02:33
Tom Crack - Ipswich
There you go.
00:02:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think literally Spurs, I think is the only time we haven't given up a lead we've had, and but For once, we've actually managed to restore a lead after. Normally, once we we let that one in, that's either the end of the game, it finishes the draw, or we end up going on to lose. But we today we'll talk about the goals in more detail. But what do you think of the fight shown right till the end
Injuries and Tactical Adjustments
00:03:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
again? We said it after the Southampton game, and we got that late equalizer. But walls are on top after they equalize, weren't they? So to dig in, weather that storm, and then go up the other end and snatch it late on is a really, really big step forward, you feel?
00:03:20
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Definitely. We will go touch on individuals in a moment, but i was very after va after we conceded for equalizer, obviously it's so demoralizing. You think, oh, not again, like having a lead. And I think we've conceded the most for winning positions in the league as well. This all sacrificed most points to our company, exact stat. But it was just, yeah, you're just so demoralized. And then also the fact of the subs we brought on we had a few injuries this week as well and the the the amount of quality we had coming off the bench I was a bit like oh with the lap going off and a few others us like that Chaplin had a great game again so you're just like where is this goal going to come from if we are going to get a winner and you know it came from a likely source in Jack Taylor but and also a first set piece goal but it was great to see that fight back and like I said and like you said sorry Wolves were very much on the front foot for the majority of the game after they scored
00:04:04
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So I was just thinking we're going to have to hold them for one draw here, which is really not what either of us wanted. And we didn't get any end. Like I said, we definitely deserve to win, but you didn't expect, I didn't expect us to get a late goal because you know, just the world's been against us a lot this season. So to get it was, was a great thing to be honest and really puts in such good stead moving forward. I mean, I don't, I haven't checked the odds or anything yet, but we're obviously going to be much more likely to step the walls now, not just because of that wind, but the way both cups are being run right now.
00:04:32
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So whoever won that game yesterday on saturdays sorry actually should so whoever won that game on Saturday was going to be more likely to stay up and I think that is very much us. That is very much the case now moving forward.
00:04:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think, obviously, it's not enough to drag us out of the relegation zone this week, but ah ah certainly it certainly, it cuts that gap down again, and I'd say some of the results, at the time of the record, and we hope we don't know all the results yet, but we we do know that the ones from Saturday that Leicester got beat fairly comprehensively, takes their goal difference and knock, dampens their spirits after they got a couple of good results since van Nistroy came in, and Hermanson is injured, we don't know how long for yet, but
00:04:47
Tom Crack - Ipswich
no
00:05:03
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:05:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know what Danny Ward's like. We saw it last time he was in goal for Leicester in the league and what happened during the first 10 minutes of him being in goal on Saturday, he let three in.
00:05:13
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:05:20
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:05:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's a big swing towards our favorite. Everton got a good point, but again, they still, they basically didn't try to attack all games. So they're probably cause they knew that their attack isn't good enough. So we'll see how it plays out, but certainly a boost we needed, but potentially we may have shot ourselves in the foot on that front because by winning that game,
00:05:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
obviously three points on the day, fantastic, but we've caused the sacking of Gary O'Neill, so a
Ipswich's Set-Piece Strategy
00:05:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
potential walls new manager bounce like the one Lester have had, and those sort of little runs where you pick up those points can be massive, but it wasn't like we could go and tactically not get a result, keep Gary O'Neill in the job in case he threw more points, had to go and win on the day, and so it was a corner header, which we said on the crossover, didn't we?
00:05:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:05:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:06:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
well Well, Will from Daily Wools told us, well, you're going to score a corner at minimum, so we might as well start every game 1-0 down. We know what's happening. We didn't believe him. We said, some some it's got to give one way or another. Will's a terrible set-piece record, or us not scoring a set-piece goal yet.
00:06:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And luckily, the thing that gave was, we got our first set-piece goal, which is what we'll say. If there was a team we were going to get it against, it was Wools. I saw the stats before the game, I think.
00:06:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was our 16th they conceded from set-pieces now.
00:06:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, crazy.
00:06:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the next side's eight, I think.
00:06:32
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, it is.
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
which is, and Jack Taylor's, while I'm throwing stats at you, Jack Taylor as well, now scoring all four divisions, which means, I saw this the other day, that there is 11 people in history to have scored in the four top divisions, and four of them are in our current squad, which is a more, yeah, yeah, so, Schmollyx, Chaplin, Morsy, and now Taylor, but I think such a,
00:06:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:06:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think that's going to be a growing stat this season, isn't it? To be honest, I think we're going to join those ranks as the season goes on.
00:07:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
small club in the history of football has done that achievement we've got four of them in the same squad currently and room for that to grow as well which is a lovely stat to see but how does this sort of set us up going forward we mentioned about the relegation battle the difference we've got another win we we spoke about what it could mean after Spurs and then we went on to get a good result against Man United afterwards as well and the benefit this time is we haven't got an international break straight after it so how do we sort of kick on with the games we've got coming up because the fixtures do get a lot tougher now.
00:07:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:07:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
We had those three, we felt we should have got results in and now we need to pull some surprises again, don't we?
00:07:35
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yep Yeah, definitely. I mean, like you said, you know I think not having an international break is is massive because halting that momentum after such an impressive performance at Tottenham proved to be quite disheartening for the squad moving forward.
Premier League Survival Hopes
00:07:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But yeah, we haven't got the case now. Newcastle obviously looks really good against Leicester over the weekend as well, but traveling down for them is always going to be a tough one. And we just got capitalised. Yeah, like you said, we've got some tough games now, especially around Chris, as with Arsenal and Chelsea as well. It doesn't get any any and easier.
00:08:06
Tom Crack - Ipswich
but we've, I've always been surprised and weirdly confident in those games, given the performance we've made them. So we just got to try and take a point where we can here and there. I think one draw against Eva Chelsea-Rasta will be a fantastic result and a loss. there I'd take that any day to be honest. And you know, we we're starting to see other teams slip up and that momentum that we had slightly disappear. and Momentum is such a big thing as well. If we can string something together and other teams can't, it's it's going to be a real, real nail bite. And the thing for me as well, like I've said, like, I think I would have been had a very different opinion of this if the result didn't go away on Saturday, but obviously it didn't. thanks jack taylor But we are, we are in this, we're in this like, we're we're in this relegation race. Like we are, we are one of the teams who can stay up. I don't think our obituary has been written like it has for Southampton yet. We are very much a team who could be in the Premier next season, which is good. I'm not going into each game thinking, oh, let's enjoy the next five or six months, whatever it is. and
00:08:59
Tom Crack - Ipswich
be back in the championship next year. I really think we have a great chance to stand up results of this help massively. but And there's going to be more like them as the season goes on. We've got to play wolves again at our place. We've got to play like Southampton at home as well. There's games which which we are going to capitalize on and games that are going to surprise us as well. So I'm really confident moving forward because you can't not be off through a win. Come on. like We've only had two. Let's let's just ride this wave as much as we can.
00:09:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. We do seem to be very reactionary. It's only last week, I was saying, ah ah or after the Palace and Bournemouth games, that you felt start to lose hope and think, oh, a couple of bad results in a week, then one win just turns you right around.
00:09:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:09:34
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:09:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
and I say think the teams have talked about the teams below.
00:09:38
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Definitely. Yeah.
00:09:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's a lot to take because, obviously, I threw some stats out on the crossover, didn't I, that history suggests Southampton and Wolves will both go down. that
00:09:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:09:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
They already, we talk about our us closing the gap down. Southampton especially, even Wolves now will have everything going on behind the scenes there clearly. It does feel like they've got a lot to overcome now, but especially in Wolves' case.
00:10:01
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:10:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
They've got Leicester this weekend. If they lose that game, then it sounds silly to say early doors, but history would suggest that them two would be gone already and then effectively you've got the rest of the season to play one place and we'd have a point gap to run with that.
00:10:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:10:15
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:10:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'd be interesting to see how it plays out. And I'd say the team's above.
00:10:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've been really looking into, after Leicester, and seeing that Hermanson injury, which I think is, if you talk about having one injury that can kill teams, I do think he's the one for Leicester.
00:10:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Massive.
00:10:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that the drop off, and you look at some of the games they've got coming up, obviously the big one against Wolves, but then the next three after that, a Liverpool away, City at home, and Villa away.
00:10:35
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm. Yeah, definitely.
00:10:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:10:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you do not want your sub goalkeeper who's not who doesn't tend to play very well in the Premier League, you do not want him in goal for those sort of games. That could be a huge potential hit to their goal difference.
00:10:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then obviously they're not that far ahead of us.
00:10:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:10:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And when you put it into perspective, really, are they sort of, was it two points now, I think, with that result?
00:11:01
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:11:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they've got three horrible, andm so we've got some dodgy fixtures, but they've also got some dodgy fixtures with their sub goalie in there.
00:11:06
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yes.
00:11:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we never know how that plays out.
00:11:13
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
and We're not even halfway through the season yet. I know I just say it.
00:11:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
No, exactly.
00:11:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sort of countering my own point of what I just said about Wolves and Southampton. That's going off historically. Obviously, it doesn't always work out that way.
00:11:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
It doesn't happen every season. But historically, them two are in massive trouble now.
00:11:32
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:11:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we say, from our case, that we've sort of pulled ourselves out of that bracket, getting that three-point gap over Wolves now.
00:11:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:11:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
we see how we've got to keep pushing on to there. It can't just be a result in isolation like Spurs sort of turned out to be in the end but you need to try and kick on this time and hopefully we will but as a big result and we'll have a quick break now from one of our sponsors and then when we come back we'll dive through how the game played out and how we got that big result.
00:11:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
Key Players and Game Highlights
00:12:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
and we are back on the second part of today's edition of the Daily Ipswich. So we're going to run through the game then, Tom. So we'll start ah ah so start the game, like we were saying, you've spotted straight away, walls looked quite poor, and and we sort we made the most of that. The lap, especially from minute one, was causing all sorts of problems for their back three, particularly Samado. And that's how that first goal came about, wasn't it? It was brilliant work from the lap. Hutchinson probably should have scored himself, but it worked out in the end.
00:13:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
from a comedy of errors, and we got the own goals going from sort of, where's your praise lie with that one?
00:13:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. I think with that, you have to look at the way in which to lap. bombed forward. it's one It's one of the things I've paid praise him a lot this season. you Obviously, we're thankful for his goals. He's gonna be he's been a bit dry recently. But this is something he does provide moving forward. And it was ah ah just a build up from I think Burgess just hoofed it forward. Anyway, it wasn't like some intricate playing that got us to that part of the field. But it's it's with the lab that he's proved so many times like against Fulham, he had a good run bright and there was one as well, where he just pick it up wherever the 20 school that great equalizer, but he can pick it up around a halfway line just
00:13:43
Tom Crack - Ipswich
bomb forward and like shrug people off. I saw Gary and Il saying after the game, I like i saw Liam Dilap doing that when he was in the academies and stuff. And it shouldn't be happening in the Premier League, obviously taking a shot at his players just before he got the boot 24 hours or so later. But yeah, that was a fantastic build up from Dilap and just shrugged people forward. And I always think that's something he can do. He had a great bit of hold up play.
00:14:04
Tom Crack - Ipswich
not to get too ahead, but in the second half as well, that almost led to a go. I think it was Wes Burns' chance that we almost scored from again in the second. And then, yeah, Hutch, like you said, really, really should have scored that. It was a bit of a dodgy, dodgy touch from him, bless him, and it was on his, it wasn't on his weaker foot, actually, because he scored a lot from his left.
00:14:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I just couldn't really take and try and I thought, oh, damn, we're not going to get this. And then the strangest of goals, like, you know, we were saying, like, you know, luck's not when you know luck is not on your side. Obviously, we we're in the same points position as was going into that game, but you could really see how they are just all over the place as a team. And when things aren't going your way, weird things have happened. And I know it's a doctor, your own goal, but I'm going to count as a chaplain while I'm ahead because i' really I'm really happy for him and he's put in some really good performances. I think he's one of those players we've seen this season who I think a lot of us said at the start that we weren't sure how many days he would have had wearing a ipswi shirt on on in the Premier League at least anyway.
00:15:01
Tom Crack - Ipswich
but injuries may be helping, maybe slightly obviously Schmolek was out yesterday. so But Chapman's really, really proving his worth. He did some great random through balls without even looking at some points in the game yesterday. And that's something you get from a confident number 10. It doesn't matter where you've really honed your trade and where you've played your best football throughout your career. If you have that sort of ability that as a number 10, which he does, that's not going to go away. And we've seen that a lot from, so yeah, great.
00:15:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
build up for a goal for starting from the lap, but a weird finish, but a deserved lead for sure at that point of the game.
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree. I think especially Chaplin. He's made me sort of really. ah So there's a few things I've said at the start of the season. Some have sort of turned out quite well, but one of the worst things I said in the build up to this season is back what bow back when we did keep bench sale ahead of the season.
00:15:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think I was the only one that said I'd move Chaplin on. I'm cashing now because I didn't think he was cut out for the Premier League.
00:15:56
Tom Crack - Ipswich
It makes sense though.
00:15:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, and that's, well,
00:15:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:16:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of those things where I'm more than happy to be proved wrong in that situation and he absolutely has proved me wrong.
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've looked a lot better when he's been playing in all honesty in a lot of these games and another top performance again.
00:16:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm. Yep.
00:16:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
So the only reason he didn't score himself is the fact that you look at where he comes on to it. How he even managed to find a gap in the first place because all five walls players have just crowded one half of the goal after the initial save from Saar from Hutchinson's shot that
00:16:23
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:16:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
no one took the role of going to close him down, so they gave him time to try and pick a spot and he picked a good enough one that they all got on each other's way and it ended up in the back of the net. Brilliant from the lap as well, like you say. I'm sure he'll come up a couple more times that we can go on through the game, but we did sort of, we weren't 100% solid at the back, were we? We always had the chances to get back into it. They had a couple of ones, I don't know, I think Samado had one that he's fired well over the bar, I think.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
strand last and had another one mate that was well held but the big one was uh bella guard wasn't it he good really good opportunity for him and i forgot my hook i think it was lamina who put him through and he he should be he should have been hitting the target shouldn't he that was a big let off wasn't it
00:17:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm. Hmm.
00:17:12
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Yeah.
Defensive Concerns and Resilience
00:17:12
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I mean, this, these are things, you know, I think defensively, we're always going to be a bit shaky. We haven't, we haven't, we've only had one clean sheet, I believe this season. And, you know, this is these examples. Why were you you're going to have to just hope and pray that the player doesn't pull off a a decent effort? And like you said, Bella guard really should have scored and just skied over, but there are better moments really, you know, looking can back at a game where you just go. Every, every team is going to have those but weird chance, which we sort of should have scored and walls fans are like, okay, if you, we got away with that. And this is just one of those where we got away with it. I don't necessarily think defensively were poor in this game. But you're always going to have moments where things sneak through. And that was unfortunate, one of them. But we came away with it in that one, for sure.
00:17:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and obviously you mentioned the way Chaplin was picking the balls around, that we had it as a good chance of around the hour mark, weren't there, when you said that was the sort of one you almost played about looking straight through the burns, something we've seen that combination so many times.
00:18:06
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:18:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ball comes across the box and it was just slightly too high for Dalak when it came off his knee rather than letting him get clean contact.
00:18:13
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:18:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that was probably the biggest chance we had that didn't hit the back of the net on the day.
00:18:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, yeah. Big shout out to Wes Burns as well. Like I know we've kind of slated a bit this season. I think some of his performances haven't been up to standard and a lot of some his pace has kind of let him down. But I thought he had a really good performance. He got in a bit. He got into a bit of it both during the game and after the game, actually with Aint Norrie. That was a good battle between the two of them. They're kind of big physical match between the two of them. And he came out on top not all the time, but for a fair amount of occasions, obviously got the ball in there.
00:18:48
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, like you said, a bit too high for, the dilap difficult, uh, chance of initial, I think it's all brushed off his knee before going in, but, but we're about to burn today. I think that one of the reasons why he had pretty, his best maybe his best game of the season and was we were kind of playing a championship level team really in terms of the quality that was on the pitch. That's probably why he had his best performance, but.
00:19:07
Tom Crack - Ipswich
You know, if you can get like a performance of about every one or one or two games out of six, I don't know, but out of him, I'll be happy with that. That right side is still a bit flaky. Obviously, I think maybe he probably wouldn't have started if Schmodix wasn't fully fit. I don't think he was injured. I think he might just have a bug or something. I'm not entirely sure. But was that was, I thought that could have been a big miss heading into the game. But Burns, Burns did a great game. Unfortunately not to get assists there as well.
00:19:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think he's had one of a better of one of his better games, definitely. But I don't know. Like I said, I haven't heard an update on Smodix. I think it's a short term thing.
00:19:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
no
00:19:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
So oh I'd still expect him to come back in if he's fit for Newcastle next week. But Burns has felt he was a so very solid deputy. I thought he had a good guy. I think he was with with Burns.
00:19:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
What we've said, it's almost with Davis and Burgess. There's that relationship there that Davis played better when it's been Burgess next to him instead of Greaves.
00:19:59
Tom Crack - Ipswich
No.
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think the same's okay with Burns. Burns plays better when it's Connor Chaplin in the 10 instead of Amari.
00:20:07
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:20:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because that relationship, is there where we say like, Chaplin did that ball from this chance, Chaplin barely even had to look, he just knew Burns would be running, and stuck it in the right area and trusted Burns' his pace and sort of knew where he'd be and I think yeah that brings the best out of him, I think, having
00:20:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:20:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
having when Chaplin's in there with him, because like I say, that's an established relationship over a couple of seasons, they know where it, like Burns knows why where he wants the ball from Chaplin, and Chaplin knows how to find it, that you sort of feel, I think that's how we get the best out of Burns this year, really, is we make sure we play and when Chaplin's on the team sheet as well, whether that's even coming on on the pitch at the same, if Burns comes on there as a sub, make sure you leave Chaplin on, or if they're starting together, I think that seems to work a lot better.
00:20:43
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm. Hmm.
00:20:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then so the next opportunity was the equalizer, really, wasn't it? So what were your thoughts on that and how Wolves got themselves back into the game?
00:21:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think my biggest takeaway from that goal was, I can't recall if you said it, but I've heard from a few people who had this opinion that Murex really should have been saving it. Originally I thought it, because the camera quality is a bit shaky, I originally thought it was across the face, it was a bit more harder to save, but really near post and kind of just didn't really stretch across the face for a save. if You kind of just leaned back a bit and tried to palm it and it just didn't work. So really, really poor for Mureich in that one. Cunha was really the only bright spark for Wolves in that game, as he has been all season to be honest. He is getting sold next season, regardless if they stay up or not. He is too good for that team. I know he's obviously not covered himself in any glory after the game and he hasn't done himself any favors personality-wise there, but yeah, he was really
00:21:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sorry, we lost Tom halfway for his point there, so carry on mate.
00:21:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep, the Wolves are system trying to keep me down there, but I'm going to keep going. at No, I was talking about, can you can just go for, that yeah, their equalizer. he He really is like, again, apologies if I've already said this guys before I got cut out, but he really is the only bright spark for Wolves this season in the game and throughout most of the performances. And he he is getting sold regardless of if they stay up or not. He's really, really, he looks a really, really good player. Didn't cover himself in any glory.
00:22:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
post-match, to be honest, like a lot of the players, in fact, didn't do any favors. But yeah, Paul from Urich. And it was just, it seemed like it was going to be the usual suspects in terms how and turn of how most of our games have gone this season in terms of taking a lead that we have in a lot of our games, to be honest, which is one of the more deciding things about how some games have gone this season that we've taken the lead and then hold on to it. I thought it was really going to be the case. I think I was really thinking a 1-1 draw was going to be the best we could hope for. But Jack Taylor came on the pitch a few minutes later and changed everything.
00:22:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he did, didn't he? And I think, I agree with you, I think it's just poor goalkeeping again. I don't know what his position in it.
00:22:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:22:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just assumed it had to have taken a deflection to start whether it had gone in the near post and caught him out. But I don't think it did. It's just, you give a player, it's like you said, the player of quality of Kunya, who is too good for a relegation scrap, he should be playing much higher up in the table.
00:23:06
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:23:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
and You can't give a player of that quality that much space at the near post, where regardless of whether you think he's going to cross it or not. If you can't let a player of that quality, you give them a chance like that, they're going to take it more times than they don't.
00:23:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's exactly what Konya did, wasn't it? That's just such. His positioning was dreadful. It's a big, big mistake that he's got to be the most relieved man on the pitch when that Taylor header went in, because he he'll be knowing in his head the rest of that game that he dropped us two points again there if that had finished 1-1.
00:23:32
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah,
00:23:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
But in fairness to him,
00:23:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah definitely.
00:23:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a, he did then make a very, did make a very big save from Kunya later on. Then he put the rebound over, but again, that's just, he's got these errors in him. Burnley saw her last year.
00:23:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I said, again, was going back to say points in the start of the season. My opinion hasn't changed on the original start of the year. I thought, I said it then that he seems like a decent keeper all around, tickled together good with his feet and stuff, but he's got howlers in him, but let's put
00:23:57
Tom Crack - Ipswich
No.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
He lost firmly a lot of points last year and then they started clawing it back towards the back end of the year that maybe without those mistakes, they might have stayed up. that We've already seen already a lot of, I so i don't know whether this counts te as an error. Listen, let's say he's got four errors leading to goal. I don't know what counts really, because I'd say Brentford, the Brentford goal was his fault, but I don't think it was an error. And we lost four for it. I'd say this is his fault, but I don't know if that counts as an error on those stats. He causes a lot of mistakes. It and kind of makes us concede goals. And I do wonder,
00:24:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
another one consecutive games now where he's been at fault and you do wonder how long are we going to sign someone in January to come in and be the number one or is Walton going to take over or are we just going to stick with it
Securing Victory: Jack Taylor's Decisive Goal
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Global Sports Podcast Network
and hope he phases them out? I don't really know but he got away with it on this occasion didn't he? So talk me through match winning goal from Jack Taylor.
00:24:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Absolutely. Well, the big takeaway from all the subs coming on, so if you just go for the guys who came on, including Taylor, it was him, Al Hamadi, Johnson and Jack Clark, So no Calvin Phillips as well, like in that sort of simple position to where Taylor came on for KU stay as well. One of the things Richard said in our sort of summer signing rating episode we had last Wednesday, and he he'd like in this point to Ben Johnson, but I'm going to do it for Calvin Phillips here saying like,
00:25:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
as a Premier League quality player or haven't played in the Premier League before, you should be the one either being in the starting 11 or at least coming off the bench. And the fact that Taylor came on instead of Phillips really shows where Phillips is at as a player. I never kind of gave it a side two, but Phillips is at as a player right now. But yeah, i like I said at the top of the show, I really didn't expect us and to get a goal like this. but I didn't really expect the score after conceding. I really thought we're going to unfortunately hold on for one, one draw and have another disappointing week after taking the lead. But it was not to be.
00:25:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
as Will said from the Wolves team, you're going to score from a set piece. And we did. I was so, you can see why they've conceded so many. It's not just the physical parts of Wolves and how they defend set pieces. You can tell mentally and emotionally, they are terrified anytime a team gets a free kick or a corner. We had a few free kicks in the early stage of the game and a couple of corners that Leif Davis put in the box, but they're quite torrid.
00:26:16
Tom Crack - Ipswich
delivery. So we kind of got off luckier. But you could see even then that they would just look all over the place. And I was thinking to myself, if we get a decent ball in, from one of these set pieces, we can have a chance to because they are all over the place. And we did like, Jack Taylor wasn't even marked completely route to a sport. The only time he really moved was he just jumped in the air and headed it in the goal. So yeah, fantastic. And as I said, we really did deserve the win. Like wolves were shocking. I thought they they just looked like a side who just don't know what their best 11 is. And they don't seem to be getting on and it's just not going well. Like you said about Southampton and wolves, I think the difference between them and us, not just, okay, we haven't got the results we wanted, but
00:26:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Our only problems, if we do have any, is just performances, I think, and on the pitch stuff, which we can fix with those two clubs and maybe a few others in the Premier League, there's off the pitch issues as well, which is why sometimes these teams go down. We we not we don't have we don't seem to have any off the pitch issues, I think, front room, back room, like that's all going great, which is something that could maybe carry us through.
00:27:14
Tom Crack - Ipswich
get excited. There's a lot to take away from this win, isn't there? it's There's so many factors that this win gives us, but yeah, really happy for Jack Taylor. Like you said, one of the few guys to now score in a lot of the leagues, including him and a few other like guys and teams are really happy for him. My brother texted me after the game saying, how is Jack Taylor scoring in the Premier League? But that's the sort of team we are. We have to get goals where we can and he did fantastic. They're great celebrations from him. Shut off, kneeside, jump over the barrier with the crowd as as close as you could get to them. And that really strange wolves away. And I don't know what you think about that, but it's like,
00:27:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:27:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I don't see how, as a home as a home crowd, you would like that at all because you you the home sometimes you're supposed to stick the away fans of it in a corner and not give them the best view and the best sort of experience match day when you come to their place.
00:27:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:56
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But that whole lower tier is for the away end. It's really weird, isn't it? like But yeah, happy for Taylor at that whim.
00:28:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah so Yeah, I mean, it's perfect for the away team when you score last minute winners, so I don't really...
00:28:06
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:28:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a straight... So that's quite a nice ground, Molyneux, I think. It's one of those, another older ground, really, that's a sort of like sort of a bit like Portland Road, that you can quite clearly not be modernized by for a while, and quite like it for that reason, but so it helped but certainly helped our celebrations, having the away end on the lower tier, that let Taylor jump in there and get involved, rather than look somewhere like Newcastle, where you'll barely be able to hear the celebrations as hard as everyone's trying.
00:28:14
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:28:33
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Up the goats.
00:28:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But away support was fantastic again.
00:28:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:28:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
We have to shout that out. As I'm pretty sure every single or what game we've had away from home, I've gone on Twitter the next day and seen people say, if Switch fans the best we've had at our ground in years or something like that has been a tweet along those lines after every game. And that's probably part of the reason why we do tend to look a bit better away from home at the moment that eating than we do, because the away fans are making it seem like a home game.
00:29:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
which is a big credit to them as well. And also just quickly shout out to Jack Clark as well, because as poor as wolves were defensively, you've got to get the ball right. And he did. And say someone we've given a fair bit of stick to and to put the delivery on the money like that.
00:29:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, a lot of pressure on him. Hmm.
00:29:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the 94th minute does deserve some credit to him. And obviously that it made a difference, didn't it?
00:29:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:29:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
As a massive result, spirits are high, but there's a lot to go. That was sort of up to the final whistle. There's a lot to go through. after immediately after the final whistle and then in on into Sunday morning as well which we will cover after a quick break from another one of our sponsors.
00:30:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. And we are back for the final part of today's episode of the daily Ipswich. So let's give a rundown. We saw it all boil over at the full time works for the second time this week.
Post-Match Consequences and Managerial Changes
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Wolves have lost ah ah read a big game in the bottom half of the table, two, one, and started loads, started all sorts of fights after the game. So the big talking point or two big talking points, one from each team is.
00:30:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yellow card for Ray and Nate Norrie, which means he got was his second of the game. He sent off and misses Wolves as big game of Leicester, which is a big pain for them. But more importantly for an Ipswich Town podcast, another yellow card was shown in that scuffle to Liam Dalat, who was on his fifth booking, which means he misses the Newcastle game.
00:30:38
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:30:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
How big is that for us looking into next week?
00:30:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, it's massive. You know, we've, we've, we've talked a lot set the apart on various shows after Hearst went down, especially like what are we going to do when the lap either goes out injured or in this case get suspended and you knew it it was going to happen eventually.
00:31:06
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So, yeah, it will be interesting. I was saying to people after the game, I think, I don't think we'll see how how many start regardless of the lap being away. I think you probably see a ah strange sort of false name made from Schmodec with the the usual suspects who were behind the lap yesterday. I think that's probably what we're going to see. So I'm actually fairly confident in that scenario, but yeah, it's a big loss for him. I think, you know, it just shows that sort of maybe that immaturity ah ah as some young players do.
00:31:32
Tom Crack - Ipswich
When it kind of get involved with ain't nori was very much a wind up match for most of that 90 and after the game him and burns had a few things to say post match as well but burns quite right didn't get involved physically I like to that did that huge old mainly us again sometimes you just got you can't rise to those things but emotions are running high with the win and then Wolves being really petty about the loss and Dilap obviously looking to defend his team and also looking to defend some of our backroom style because I think Cunha took the glasses off. I'm not sure what member of our coaching staff or team it was there, whoever does let us know. But yeah, that was not good. It just shows where how Wolves are and they are falling apart and going after the opposition like this. I know it's a really heartbreaking way to lose, but it's not really how you should handle yourself and really, really disappointing. But yeah, like I said, we knew Dilap was going to
00:32:17
Tom Crack - Ipswich
There were going to be a few games without him and obviously with her syndrome, it's not ideal, but we're going to have to manage it and see how it goes next Sunday. What did, what did you think of where's your head out of the lap not being around for the megapies next Saturday?
00:32:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
i think it's gonna be a big loss but for that and but in terms of that game it's a huge hit obviously but i think in terms of the long term it may actually work out for us because i do think he needs a break with the way the way these games are coming at the moment so thick and fast i thought i thought bottom of series coming instantly proved me wrong with ah this sort of performance at walls but i thought he looked shattered against bournemouth i thought that was probably one of his weaker games just because he just looks so tired
00:32:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yes, definitely.
00:33:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
And like you could tell, he really needs a break, but we don't really trust Al Hamid to do more than a sort of late stint off the bench. Hurst is injured. We haven't tried Smodik's there yet. It's sort of like, we just have to stick with Dalat because we know the threat he's got. We're not 100% sure on the backup. So I do think him getting a week off should, because again, we've got two games in a week, two difficult games in a short space of time as well with Chelsea and Arsenal afterwards that we're going to need players like Dalat on full form. so So in the longer term, it might well work out that he gets a rest and brings him back up, firing like we want, and say more performances like he's put in this weekend, but it's massive in Newcastle.
00:33:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you're always, you're on a tightrope on four bookings. I mean, Morsy's doing incredibly well. I don't know how he's not been suspended yet.
00:33:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I know. Just waiting for it, aren't you?
00:33:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sam Mors. So he's doing incredibly well to go as long as he does. Cause we know he got, was it three suspensions he got last year? and ah ah something like that so he's doing really well to keep hanging on in there but there's the lapse now it's the way you get that fifth it like to go to get the fifth yellow card from getting involved in um after match sort of handbags and stuff that you just don't need to, especially when you know there's potential for cards.
00:34:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
that Such a silly way to get a fifth booking and get suspended for a big game.
00:34:21
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:34:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously, I mean, every game is big, but new cards, a game important like Newcastle, and especially when we get we are lacking backup options, really, it's just such a silly way to get a booking, but it's not really done much else wrong, is it?
00:34:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:34:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
The thing is, its most of his bookings have come in the most recent.
00:34:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:34:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's been booked like four games in a row as well. He's come out of nowhere on his suspension list.
00:34:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:34:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good thing he got one against Man United and that popped up. That was his second of the season or something. then were And then three or four games later, he's suspended for five. He seems to be getting one every week recently and has caught up with him now. And we're going to have to get on with it, aren't we?
00:34:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
But just touch him back to walls then. As obviously we've mentioned, and so we're not a walls podcast we don't know the details but obviously has an impact on us in terms of the relegation race doesn't it what's going on there there's clearly something but behind the scenes because we've had scrap after the game against West Ham there's seen Lemina stripped of the captaincy and giving it to Samedo number one after the game this time where it looked like for a little while I knew he was going towards his own players as well as the likes of Burns and that's I'm not sure what's happening there so there's all sorts going on
00:35:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:35:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then obviously we knew it was coming. We thought it was going to happen before this game against us, but it's happened afterwards. Sunday morning, we get the news come through. Gary O'Neill has been dismissed.
00:35:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you've seen it coming, haven't you? Like you mentioned earlier, his press conference after the game, he sort of dug out his own players, didn't he?
00:35:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Hmm.
00:35:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
that He dug out the owners on Monday after the West Ham game, about say 200 million worth of talent being going and not being replaced. and then think he described the first goal was it's quite some I think he said it's quite simply a goal no other team in the league would concede so it's all there's all sorts going on there isn't there and do you think it was I imagine this going to change with a new man coming in or I mean for our part we probably would have preferred it to carry on and keep them down there but he had to go didn't he really oh no
00:36:17
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:36:21
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, definitely. I don't think in terms of the turning around, because and obviously, Leicester got battered at Newcastle over the weekend, but if you compare their situation with, Cooper leaving a Venice Roy coming in and a time record. We don't know who's going to take her nil spot, but you look at various two situations, Lester, obviously I weren't performing that well for what they would like to. And they brought in someone else and they had a decent bounce afterwards with those two results. But you look at the difference in Lester and va from ah from ah from a, from a neutral perspective and from what I can ascertain from both clubs, you look at Lester and there seems to be at least a decent team spirit. I know they kind of.
00:36:57
Tom Crack - Ipswich
went partied and took the mick out of Cooper after he lost to Chelsea, but I think the squad seems relatively close. But then you look at Wolves and it's going to be a complete opposite. It's not just the manager coming to a club and kind of unifying a team that's already relatively unify. Obviously, Leicester had a great season last year and you kind of, that morale kind of stays there, doesn't it? But but of Wolves, it's the complete opposite and no one looks like they're enjoying themselves. like And it's a great point Garenil made about talent not being replaced. Look at Neto, who was such a big loss for them. He's like one of Chelsea's top players this season. They didn't even spend any of that money, really, that I can see on a decent replacement. And that seems to be the growing thing of all those in recent years. They're top players like, you know, Jota and Ruben Neves and other great players that and none of them really getting properly replaced over the years. And it's just over time, this is this is something that happens when you don't replace good players. You are going to start to struggle. And if you don't sort of
00:37:49
Tom Crack - Ipswich
keep the door sort of revolving and this eventually seems to be catching up with them. Looking at in terms of replacements, I'm not too well versed in the guy, but David Orton in the athletics said that Vito Pereira, who is most likely going to be Wolves new boss, he's currently coaching in Saudi Arabia for Al Shabab, but looking at the guy, doesn't just looking at his managerial record, it doesn't necessarily look the guy who's going to be able to steady a ship anytime soon because he's been at almost 20 clubs in the past four years. He's been at about five clubs. He was
00:38:20
Tom Crack - Ipswich
moved to Saudi this year, was at Flamingo last year, current fiends in 2022, Fenabachi in 2021, so he doesn't really seem to stick around anywhere. So that's not a real sort of guy you want coming into steady with ship. I don't think it's quite funny as well on, I don't know why he's there to most, but are he going to Soul Showers in the stands before the game? I think everyone was kind of assuming he was going to be taking his spot. So poor guy, go you fuck, and he moved to Wolverhampton if I'm being right to state him, and he's even got the job.
00:38:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I think he's probably there to support McKenna, I assume, because they obviously worked together at United, didn't they?
00:38:47
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I assume he's just looking after his mate and maybe with a slight interest that there might be a job available.
00:38:49
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, that's a good point.
00:38:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But so it looks like Pereira's the front runner, never really, he's done, he's had Champions League games with the likes of Porto and Olympiarchos, but he's never really reached the quality of the Premier League and so in his other jobs.
00:39:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's an interesting in one, but he's got a very difficult
00:39:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
No.
00:39:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
situation to come in and take over that with ah ah clearly stuff going on behind the scenes there and like you said i went to uni with a couple of walls fans and like you said it's it's been coming this they've known it there like i've known a lot so i from speaking to them over the years i've known a fair bit about situations going on at walls and it is a case of selling your best players and slowly downgrading the squad as these players leave over the years and it has been coming it's something that
00:39:23
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Bloody hell. Yeah, definitely.
00:39:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:39:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought I was going to mention that on the crossover, I thought it would make me very popular with the Daily Wolves listener, so I'll save it till the reaction on the Monday. But it has been coming.
00:39:51
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:39:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like you say, I've let their best centre back go to effectively to West Ham, who has turned out to be and a direct rival in a relegation scrap. Obviously thought it was going to be an upgrade with their window and everything, but you've let your best centre back go there and then not replace him with any quality.
00:40:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you have the worst defense in the league as a result, 40 goals in 16 games. So it's a big problems there, but obviously to the benefit of us is that there are another, I thought we got to do, we've got to try and keep three teams below us regardless of how we're doing.
00:40:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the way we don't, the rules don't look like they're going to jump past us anytime soon with all these issues going on. And hopefully we got, so obviously we went there, we took advantage of it when we played them directly.
00:40:33
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Definitely.
00:40:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And now we've got to keep pushing on and try and build on from this, starting with Newcastle, we do have a tough run of games over the festive period, but we said that before about previous runner games and we went to beat Spurs and drew the Man United and back-to-back games.
00:40:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we will see, we will see.
00:40:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But that brings us to the end. Yeah, that brings us to the end of today's episode. Lovely 40 minute one. you can tell what You can tell when we've got good results, can't you? Because these reviews are about 10 minutes longer than when we lose.
00:40:55
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Good time to bang Arsenal as well.
00:41:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Waffle on mode.
00:41:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're in a good mood. That is the end of today's episode. We'll be back tomorrow. We've got some fun little wildcard episodes. I'm not quite sure what our schedule is going to be like over the Christmas period, but we've got some fun ideas we're going to bring to you over the next couple of weeks. But we should be back tomorrow with a tactics Tuesday. So but until then from me and Tom, we will catch you later.