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Episode 84 - Fulham 2-2 Ipswich Match Reaction
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Join Richard, Tom and Rob as they reflect on yesterday's 2-2 draw at Craven Cottage. The lads share their thoughts on the game, discuss whether we should see it as a point gained or two points dropped and react to the arrival of Town's January addition Ben Godfrey.
The Daily Ipswich Podcast, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, is the home of all your ITFC. Join us every weekday for the latest news, build-up and reaction in the club's first season back in the Premier League.
Host: Richard Popple
Guests: Rob Binns & Tom Crack
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Introduction and Holiday Greetings
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everybody. Welcome back after Christmas and New Year.
Ipswich Town's Premier League Update
00:00:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is 2025. Ipswich Town are in the Premier League and we are picking up points in the Premier League. First game of the New Year is a 2-2 draw at Fulham.
Guest Introductions and Holiday Chat
00:00:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
To dissect the result we have Mr Rob Binns and Mr Tom Crack. How are we gentlemen?
00:00:30
Rob Binns
I'm doing a good mate. I'm glad to be back recording with people again. It's been quite, quite lonely Christmas on my own, but nice to have friends again.
00:00:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, Rob, I appreciate you holding down the fort during Christmas there, mate. Yeah, it's nice of us back together post Christmas break and gloomy weather outside, but nice warm comfort inside, isn't it?
00:00:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is gloomy weather. I flew back into the UK yesterday and it's just been grey ever
Fulham Match Analysis
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
since.
00:00:54
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:00:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
But anyway, something something to cheer us up is a decent town result. And I mean, I think you have to say ah ah a point at Fulham this season with the season that they're having has to be seen as a good result.
00:01:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
and We're going to dissect the game. We'll go through it in. Well, first of all, how did you guys see it? You both watched the game. We were live on the sky obviously today with the two o'clock kickoff on a Sunday afternoon.
00:01:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Rob, how did how did you see the game when you saw the team sheet go out? were you Were you optimistic beforehand or were you were you thinking this may be back a bump back to reality for us?
00:01:27
Rob Binns
I've been, I was optimistic about it. I thought this was, I sort of coming into the week leading up to the game, I wasn't that optimistic, but it was actually after I recorded the crossover with the guys from Fulham and they spoke about how they feel coming to the game and how they saw games as what you would class as run of the mill home games, if you're up the table, like Fulham are, that the games are struggling. I sort of ah got more and more optimistic as the weeks played out. And So when I saw the team, it was quite similar to what I was expecting, really, that this setup has done very well in the last two games. And it's interesting to see, would we stick with it for a game like this? Or would we mix it up a bit? Because obviously Fulham not in the same category as Arsenal and Chelsea as good of a season they are having. But it does, fit it filled you with confidence when I saw the team. Only a couple of changes, same setup again, it's been working really, really well. And it was matched by the performance. winner We were brilliant. for It was too
00:02:20
Rob Binns
clumsy, sloppy challenges away from being a fantastic performance that and getting all three points, really. That was two blemishes and they've cost us two goals, as is the way in the Premier League. You can't make any sort of mistake and you end up conceding. Unfortunately, we've done it to ourselves again, but so it is you have there twin you can look at it different ways. ah ah Ultimately, it is two points dropped when you're winning position late on. Silly mistakes with two goals. But like you said, Rich, that if you'd offer us the point coming into the game,
00:02:50
Rob Binns
would have taken it and ultimately, especially with the results where they've gone this week, but any time down the bottom, any point you get, especially away from home, when you're down the bottom of the table has to be a good point. So yes, it probably shouldn't, it could have and probably should have been three, but with the position we're in in the table that you absolutely cannot knock a good point away from home like this against someone like Fulham who are strong, just strong generally, but particularly at home.
Impressive Performances Against Top Teams
00:03:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, yeah yeah as you said, we we would 100% taken the result before the game. And it's is a decent result to get four points from Chelsea and Fulham in the same week is is a very good week for us.
00:03:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tom, what about you? when when When you were coming into the game, were you thinking there was a bit of confidence, would it look more solid in the last two games? Certainly the Chelsea game, obviously we restricted them to very few clear cut chances. You could probably say the same for Arsenal as well. and Even though we never really looked like scoring in that Arsenal game, we obviously found a bit of a cutting edge in the Chelsea one. Were you were you thinking we were we were going to have a similar kind of outlook on this one or were you were you a little worried because Fulham had been in good form?
00:03:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I mean, we'll probably touch this on Tuesday's pod as well with regards to the formation, it seems to be there to stay now. And when I saw that, again, I think that immediately, immediately filming of confidence considering result against Chelsea, as well as the, you know, not the like,
00:04:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
murder from Arsenal, shall we say. yeah It was like all things considered a good result. I think, yeah, it' to be honest, as Rob said, ahead of today's game, Sunday's game, I should say sorry, was the fact that, you know, a lot of results went our way on Saturday as well. So heading in into today, I think a draw, I would take a draw.
00:04:26
Tom Crack - Ipswich
anyway but I especially would have taken one considering how everyone went. A point is good considering how everyone else had obviously got Wolves to play tonight as well but for the most part I thought it was good. Yeah from a losing position it's you know from a winning position then to concede later on we are kind of used to it unfortunately.
00:04:41
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But you know as you as you guys have both stated, considering the form form of a bin-in to get a point at their place is really good. I don't know if we're going to touch on today's one, guys. But talking about playing away from home, that was like a home game for us, wasn't it? I mean, flipping heck. I
Ipswich Fans' Enthusiasm
00:04:55
Tom Crack - Ipswich
said to you guys, look we don't want to wake their fans up because they've been all snoozing whilst we've been cheering. But yeah, poor atmosphere from the Fulham fans. good Good point for us, though.
00:05:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was a poor atmosphere. And and our fans, again, were were fantastic in the away. And they were singing about the whole match, really.
00:05:07
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:05:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they obviously had plenty to sing about, which was great. So the first half, even though we took the lead in it, we took it, took the lead around the 30 minute mark-ish. I think somewhere around there, midway through the the half, it was a, it was quite a hard watch.
00:05:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I have to say there wasn't a great deal of quality from full or more from ourselves, really. It was a bit of cat and mouse stuff. They were trying to feel it out. And and then obviously we kind of like broke away and got a pretty scrappy goal.
00:05:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
We were talking on the chat, all of us, James included on the on the chat throughout the game, and we were all commenting on how well Ben Johnson was playing and has played the last few games, actually. And it was him that got up there for that header, which I think actually was the Fulham defender it came off. It kind of crashed against the crossbar, came out, and then Schmodix, somehow it falls to him. He he but slams it home via Bassi, who had given it to him in the first place. It was a very scrappy goal, but we'll take it. Schmodix, in pink, away from Portman Road,
00:06:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
seems to be effective. what's What's going on there, Rob? Why why can't he recreate that at home and why is he so good away?
00:06:10
Rob Binns
I think it's a strange one to see really isn't it like you can always there's much more plausible reasons the other way around to say why people play better at home than they do away like something we've said about Wes Burns a few times that which I think is probably the reason but Johnson came back in for Burns despite how well he played against Chelsea's because he's a bit of a home player he doesn't he reached the same level away but so Smodix you probably weren't expecting to see his name on the team sheet either really in credit despite what he's away from home was obviously we We, none of us were familiar to the, to Amari having a groin injury until we saw the team news come out today that caught most of us out. He does, to I don't know what, I can't put my finger on why, but he definitely does play better away from home. And in this case, it was just, it was just in the right place at the right time, weren't he? Cause it's a bit, it's a big mistake from Bassi that we, we owe him a favor there somewhere. Cause they, not only is he sliced the clearance straight to Smollett's in the first place, he then has managed to
00:07:07
Rob Binns
He's mostly to to deflect the ball over the line rather than back out. So he's done us a couple of favors there to make sure we got over the line. But it's just good positioning from Smodix because he hasn't been playing off the right as well. so to So he's obviously done a lot of off the left. So he's you' been asked to swap sides. He's probably been brought in fairly short notice because I don't know how many days of the training and Amari's missed with this little knock he got after Chelsea. But he's probably been swapped into the team fairly last minute, Smodix.
00:07:34
Rob Binns
I thought he had a good game and that he's still a 70-minute player. He doesn't he know never looks like he's going to finish 90 minutes without tiring, which at the moment is fine because we have options on the bench. We get a couple more injuries. That may start to be a problem that because he did fade out and faded out of the game, especially in the second half. But it's just a little bundle of energy in either. I think that he suits the almost the the way it is. The only thing I can possibly think of if away from home is that there's sort of less pressure on you away.
00:08:04
Rob Binns
You'll sort of go there and just, you have to work hard, run around and sort of get
Smodix's Away Game Performance
00:08:10
Rob Binns
yourself in the game. Whereas is at home you're meant to be the team that serves and set the temper and stuff. I think maybe he suits that role better of just being so a little bit less of lesser pressure and he just gets to run around, gets himself into good sort of positions.
00:08:20
Rob Binns
And I don't know, it I suppose only he will know the answer ultimately to that question, but I'm not going to complain.
00:08:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:08:27
Rob Binns
If he keeps popping up and scoring goals away from home, we get results from it. Then we can't complain really. if you but we have got options who can come in and do the job at Portland Road if he these struggles at home.
00:08:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, i think I think his game suits being on the break, maybe a little bit. I mean, I know we play on the break sometimes at home, depending depending on who we're playing against as well. But yeah, I think his game suits that. He's not like, he's not physically imposing, so he doesn't retain the ball quite as well, maybe as some other forwards, but he's good at kind of like popping up in areas that, you know, obviously can hurt opposition, particularly on the break and stuff. So yeah, Tom, we went in half time 1-0 up. How did you see that first half? Was it, was it the perfect away performance is what they were saying on Sky Sports?
00:09:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
It's very much smash and grab, wasn't it? you know I think seeing how the way the guy's been playing with you know kind of sitting further back, you you're inviting that pressure of an extra defender now, as is our supposed new formation. So it's kind of expected, I think. you know I think if we were playing our usual 4-2-3-1, we'd become so accustomed to it. And we then you absorb that much pressure. It's kind of like, hey, we're kind of tit for tat here formation-wise. Why aren't we and maybe having a bit more of a go? But when you have that sort of formation, you kind of do expect it slightly. And again, away from home, I think it's a bit more to be expected even more. so Yeah, I think going into the half time of 1-0 lead, very little to the ball, very few chances, to be honest. I think it obviously will touch it later on, but it kind of balanced out a bit more in the second half,
First-Half Review of the Fulham Game
00:09:47
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think. But that's what you want from waveformers, isn't it? Rattle the crowd and score a goal and go in happy.
00:09:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolutely. All right, and when we come back after a little break of our own, when we hear a word from one of our sponsors, we will talk about a very eventful second half.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are back here on the daily Ipswich. So we are going in one now at halftime at Craven Cottage. Second half, we'll make a couple of changes at halftime, which we will again talk about a little bit more in the in the tactics piece that we're going to do tomorrow and on Tuesday. We were unchanged at halftime, which is very unsurprising. And then the second half kind of follows the same pattern as the first really for the first kind of 15 minutes of it. And then all of a sudden it springs into life.
00:10:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
We have three penalties in the game, which is very rare to see see three penalties in the same game. and All of them were slightly bizarre in their own way. And there was a lot of antics going on on the sideline with Marco Silva getting unbelievably upset about things, even though the decisions kind of all worked themselves out. So I think he needs to sort of explain precisely why he was behaving in that kind of way. It just seemed really, really erratic to me. And and you look at McKenna on the other side, who's kind of like just going with the flow a little bit.
00:11:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
First one happened. So we Morsy trips. I think it's Harry Wilson is now on the edge of, well, inside the box, but on the towards the edge of the box.
Controversial VAR Decisions
00:11:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
How did you see that one, Rob? Was it a fairly clear penalty to you? Ref didn't give it straight away, but obviously it went to VAR and got overturned.
00:11:41
Rob Binns
Yeah, I thought as soon as he done it, I thought we're in big trouble there. It's just like I said it to rather start as clumsy as what it was that it's not something we normally see from him and especially inside the penalty area.
00:11:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:53
Rob Binns
He's normally a lot more composed and and that is those sort of areas, but say it's just He's dangled a leg, he's caused a contact, and he can't really have any complaints about it. like The fact that it's probably part of the reason why Silver's getting certain. I think what really happened with Silver is he he never got over the red card decision. that a He obviously was adamant that Davis should have gone in the first half, but he never really got over that. and then I think the fact that this pretty clear penalty was missed by the rest of referee just got him. At that point, he just decided those two decisions that the referee was against him on that day. But that's the only thing I was just hoping that when he didn't give it, I was hoping I'd see a replay and it wouldn't be as bad as I thought. And it was going to be one of those that's like, it's basically you you always go what the referee says. Well, it doesn't change the decision. I was hoping it's going to be one of them. But it's so you watched a replay once and you did what you were in trouble with that one. Really? It's just.
00:12:47
Rob Binns
and So just so about sort switching off in moments that cost us goals. Sometimes that's what it was. We switched off slowly. Ralston's got wrong side and it's a clumsy challenge and cost us c a goal in the end.
00:12:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it is a poor challenge. How how how did you see it? He didn't even seem like he was actually going for the ball more. He was kind of going in the opposite direction from where Wilson was kind of running. It was pretty poor all round.
00:13:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, no, totally. I think the biggest takeaway for me from the whole that that first penalty incident, the first of three, as you said, Richard, was I think that, you know, the the complete vitriol towards the referee. I know obviously that first it was a decision that went against them. But as you said, Marcus Silva's reaction on on the bench as well. The way he feels about that decision, you can tell he's kind of pumped that into his players as well, because it was echoed on the pitch as well and really sort of Obviously I can't lip read, but I can't imagine what Harry Wilson said.
00:13:38
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So it was very nice. And you know, talk about respecting their free and stuff. I know obviously it's harder to do when you're on a pitch and the emotions are running high, but awful stuff. And the reason VAL is in there is to correct these human mistakes that everyone does make.
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
And then you go to the side and it was quite rightfully given a penalty, obviously. don't want to save it because it went against town, but it was a Stonewall penalty though, let's be honest. And, you know, just the immediate, I imagine the immediate change of emotion internally from Harry Wilson and silvers be like, Oh great, it's going against us, but not apologizing.
00:14:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Cause you know, in their mind, I've been to apologize for the way they spoke to, I'm not sure which referee it was in that game, but really shocking stuff I thought from Fulham's staff and players in that scenario there for what was a Stonewall penalty and very well put away from Jimenez for the first one at least anyway, and a second one.
00:14:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree. I agree. it's the the The reaction is just totally disproportionate, really, because you're right.
00:14:26
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:14:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
you can You can understand in the moment Harry Wilson springs up and he's like, why didn't you give him the penalty? But you've seen all season that players are being booked for speaking to referees like that. He doesn't get a booking.
00:14:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
In fact, ifs two Ipswich players are booked in that incident, I think, and none none for Fulham, which is just, it's the wrong messaging to be sent out because you don't want to see, particularly when VAR literally does the job it's supposed to do in that circumstance.
00:14:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
You don't want the referee to be you know spoken to in that way and for the crowd to be whipped up, even though, as you rightly said earlier, they were asleep for most of the game.
00:14:49
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:14:57
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But he woke up.
00:14:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they woke up here. but yeah, it's just like, get a grip. You know, you've got the decision in the end. It doesn't really matter how we got there. That's the whole point of the system. You've you've got to kind of like go with that emotion and like retract a little bit from it. We we might not know. Maybe they did apologize or say something or whatever, but it it it doesn't look good. And I don't.
00:15:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Fulham should be spoken to about that, as and I'm not having to go to Fulham as any club who would have responded in such a way. It's just not what we want to see in the game, I don't think. Anyway, for us, yeah, you're right, him and Espitz depend on your way nicely, but I think less than a minute later, he he blows up again and this time gives it on the field.
00:15:36
Rob Binns
21 seconds it was.
00:15:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
What did you think to the... 21 seconds in play, right, okay, great.
00:15:41
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:15:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Who was 21 seconds? So solitary, wasn't it? Back in the day.
00:15:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I was in my head when you said that, yeah.
00:15:47
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:15:48
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Might be a bit full of time there, Robert, I don't know if you know that song, but, so sorry, crew.
00:15:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think that's one town we're last in the Premier League. and it think I don't think that's one for Rob. It was on the now CDs for anyone who's old enough to remember those.
00:15:56
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Google it.
00:16:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah, anyway, we get one. It looked quite soft to me at the time. I'm surprised he actually blew Marco Silva again, nearly blew a gasket on the sideline. I think it is a penalty, but it's not the biggest, you know, amount of contact in the world and Dilap goes down, make sure he gets it. That's for sure. How did you see that one, Rob? Was it, they you know, obviously we're going to take it, but it didn't look stonewalled to me.
00:16:27
Rob Binns
I think it is a penalty, but I think it's soft. It's in the same category as the one we got against Chelsea for me. in the It's in that grey area of yes, penalty, but but andi yeah but soft.
Penalty Discussions and Dilap's Style
00:16:39
Rob Binns
and But also in that grey area I mentioned earlier that there's that there's that little area in between where there's some challenges that VAR never overturns a referee decision because they go both ways ultimately. It purely depends on what the referee on the on the pitch says.
00:16:58
Rob Binns
VAR is never going to go to him and say, because there's clear this clear contact there, you can see that foot's been kicked by Kostanya. So VAR is never going to turn to him and say, no, that's not a penalty.
00:17:08
Rob Binns
But if he'd not given that and he'd played on, VAR is not going to go back and say there's enough there was enough contact to give the penalty. So it's the same for everyone, really.
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree.
00:17:18
Rob Binns
There are these 50-50 ones that you just have to hope that fall on your side with the referee on the pitch. and we've been We've managed to get two of these in a week on the way to a couple of positive results. So we take them when they come. But obviously, we've had a few go against us the other way. They all fairly evened itself out of the course of the season, don't at these sort of challenges, whether theyre whether you want them given or not against you. We see. But certainly, I think all three in the game were penalties. But the R1 was comfortably the softest and most most dodgy out of three. But it's still a foul for me.
00:17:51
Rob Binns
but and say really poor from full and 20 odd seconds. Like I say, just put yourself in the back and going restart. It's just take kick off, lump the ball forward and then that he's bought it well to lap. He's done the same thing against Chelsea. He's very good at making challenges look a lot worse than they are in real time because I just thought I was less convinced when I saw a replay compared to what I saw in real time, which obviously the way the referee has gone with it. And he's, he sold it well to be fair to him, but still foul. I would say.
00:18:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, what do you reckon, Tom? Similar kind of view?
00:18:25
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I completely agree with Rob. Out of the three, it definitely was the one you maybe couldn't contend and say maybe it wasn't because it was a bit of a 50-50 challenge. Certain angles it looked like it was, certain angles not, and luckily it went in our favour.
00:18:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
All the penalty, he took it fantastically. I was a bit nervous, you know, obviously back-to-back penalty sometimes you can just immediately think just go to where he took it last time because I think Jorgensen almost got on the end of it at Portland Road on the 30th.
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
know
00:18:49
Tom Crack - Ipswich
And Leno, I think even before, tried to sort of get in his head and spoke so that you saw a bit of a smile on the laps face, close up on camera before he took the penalty and they obviously going back and forth verbally. So again, my sort of doubt was even more, excuse me, was even like more heightened because of that factor as well, but smashed it in. What a penalty. like
00:19:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
but bolted straight back out, great celebration and two and up. And I thought it could have been one, you know, as you said, wearing pink in London against team wearing white, Schmonic score and dilapse scoring. was It was there, wasn't it? But sadly, sadly, not as we got to the next day to the game.
00:19:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was. Yeah, he did thump it in and I like you. I was feeling a little bit nervous beforehand. like There's something about, I don't know really what I mean by this, to be honest, but maybe we can flesh it out. He doesn't look like a penalty taker to me like because because he's kind of he normally thrashes the ball a little bit.
00:19:35
Tom Crack - Ipswich
No, yeah, I think the same.
00:19:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's He's not particularly known for finesse finishing.
00:19:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:19:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
And good penalty takers, generally speaking, are technically very strong players who kind of like caress the ball in. But for some reason, 2 out of 2, obviously, it's it's it's been effective so far.
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, in my mind, when he steps up, I'm a bit like this could kind of go anywhere. Rob, I don't know who else it would be though. Is there anyone else in the world that would take it? I mean, for me, like Broadhead may be a better player, but most of it's probably between the ears, isn't it? Rather than the kind of like physical technique. And as we know, Dilap's a very confident and positive player. So, you know, maybe maybe he is the right person for it, seemingly so far he is anyway.
00:20:23
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think, I think it's a bit of both, because like you say, you sure tend to think of those more technical players in the penalty spot but also so sometimes just put your foot through it and that makes it difficult to save if you if you stroke the ball well enough it doesn't necessarily have to be in the corner like i mean look at the example we've had today like outside the game on after us on tv little poor man united it's not a brilliant penalty from salah he scored there he just hit it hard enough that the ball's passed a nine up before he's dived that sometimes you do want someone to just come on but then obviously then you risk
00:20:56
Rob Binns
that ah then comes the risk of obviously missing the target if you're just coming up and levering it about rather jump rather than trying to place it. But do yeah you need a bit of both, really. That's that's my worry with Dilap. Him and this deserves credit for this game, because like you said about having consecutive penalties with Dilap, having two in one game is the next step above that. And he took them very well, both of them very well. That's my worry with Dilap, really, is that he hasn't really got much. I don't think he'd have variation in his penalties that maybe if we won a second one,
00:21:25
Rob Binns
if we were full of this position would someone else have taken it because once you because he's he's took it well but he when you when you just come up smash the ball like he does that if the keeper goes the right way you are sort of you have to have hit it well enough as well I don't know it can work what when it when it goes in the back of the net like it did today I'm saying it's a good idea because and said like that Salah one that sometimes to keep it goes the right way and you get away with it but So if Leno had gone the right way and parried it out, I'd be saying, well, you should you should pick a corner.
00:21:55
Rob Binns
Why'd you just put his foot through it? it But like you said, I don't know who else takes them in all honesty that I'm not sure where, where who else would like, who I'd have confidence in putting that ball down on the spot and going and taking it really, because were we are struggling for goals.
00:21:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah
00:22:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep. True. True. But two games in a row with with two goals, not too shabby if we can keep that up for the rest of the season. We'll give ourselves a chance for sure. and All right, that will do for ah part two. So in the final part of the show, we'll come back and we'll discuss the end of the game, disappointing end of the game for us, and a little bit of transfer news.
00:23:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Welcome back to the daily Ipswich for the final part of today's show. So we go to one up thanks to Dilap's thumping penalty. And then for 15 minutes, we looked fairly comfortable, to be perfectly honest. Fulham created a couple of opportunities. I mean, Smithrow had a good chance actually, but I think that was actually before the two first penalties. He had a really good chance to to get them level at one point. know But we didn't concede too much in terms of golden opportunities for Fulham. And then, obviously, in the final minute of the game, before seven minutes of injury time, we concede our second penalty of the game. Leif Davis had just charged upfield of his marauding runs, which the commentator was questioning afterwards whether he needs to be doing that in the 90th minute. Jack Clark obviously has a chance to to win the game for us, but clips it against the post. and They got the other end. Davis runs back, trying to defend, having run up the pitch and back.
00:23:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Jimenez does him and he trips him up. I think this was the clearest of all the penalties. Davis gets done basically, whether he's tired or not from running back, he just gets done by a good piece of skill from Jimenez, who's a very good player. Um, and then he slams the penalty home. And I don't think we hang on for seven minutes, but you know, certainly for him with the, in in the ascendancy for the injury time period as well, where you kind of feared the worst based on kind of, you know, Brentford away and all that kind of stuff.
00:24:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
How did you see that as kind of like managing, quote unquote, those those final kind of 10 minutes of the game, Tom?
00:24:26
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Well, you touched on it there before the penalty. I don't want to dice it every single moment here in complete detail. But just before the penalty, like you talked about Davis going forward there and Clark shot against the post.
00:24:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Obviously, it could have been his first goal for the club and what a goal it would have been.
00:24:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:24:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But before, when he was like on on the on the left side there, I was thinking, pass it to Davis. like Run towards the corner. Don't cut in and shoot, which is exactly what I did. That's not the right thing to do. we've We've talked about game management a lot.
00:24:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
And some players have matured. You saw it against Spurs when there's moments when we were two and up and charging forward and Amari Hutchison kind of drifted to the corner and held on it and became a bit of a nuisance I think before that he may have tried to go for a ridiculous solo goal. And you saw a player in Jack Clark who's maybe not been a big part of the team so much and tried to get his glory moment, fair play to him, and he did. But I was like, don't do that. And then he immediately went up and Davis was out of position. He could have maybe been on the ball a bit more.
00:25:16
Tom Crack - Ipswich
And yeah, Stonewall penalty, I'm just yeah a bit frustrated of we could have maybe suppress the stop going forward so much and just held on to it. Just try and be a bit more of a nuisance. And yeah, Stonewall penalty, great finish from him and it as well.
00:25:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Like when it went almost slightly high, I thought it's going to rocket over the over the over the goal, but it went in the roof.
00:25:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:25:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
That is really great finish to to, you know, we set the top of the show that draws really good. But in this fashion, it did feel a bit heartbreaking, not as heartbreaking as you said about Brentford there as well. But Yeah, difficult not to walk away of all three points, I think, but you can't really take away everything from the penalty because they were very, very well put away.
00:25:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
They were. I agree with you. I had hoped for a second that he'd kind of got underneath it a bit and it it was going to sail over, but alas, not. And Walton, unfortunately, was was nowhere near either of them, really. They were both well taken. and Rob, the game management that that saw tom you know touched upon their I agree with him for the most part, but you know if if if it's a few inches the other side and Jack Clark has scored his first goal for the club, you know you've you've ended the game there and there.
00:26:19
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:26:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's It's always a difficult one. when Sometimes when you see players running into the corner still with like seven or eight minutes left, you're thinking it's a bit early for that. But at the same time, you have a chance to you know maybe kill the game at that point with a third goal.
00:26:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you can understand why, but again, it's this thing with Davis where you take the good and the bad, right? He is our most effective offensive weapon. defensively he has been caught out a few times this year and it's not a great tackle. I would give more credit to Jimenez personally there than I would you know heap on Davis, but I don't know how you see it in terms of the whole context of that moment.
Defensive Challenges and Penalty Consequences
00:26:56
Rob Binns
Well, there's a risk and reward to trying to be on the front foot and be positive, isn't there? That's the way, especially in the set up wooden plan at the moment, it's set up to be sort of spring the counter attack, isn't it? so Trying to keep solid defensively that there's the there is there's like I say, there's the risk to it that the effect we've had, we then get done on the break and David said to run the length of the pitch. and But then like you said, if that clarkshot is three inches further to the right,
00:27:24
Rob Binns
clips the posts and nettles into the bottom corner, and you think game over and know this whole conversation isn't happening. So it is the finest of margins, but we know what we know what what the game management's been like. It's not been very good. I agree that, say, there's only just ended stoppage time with seven minutes out of the line. It's too early for the corner, but I'll talk more than the opposite. What do you say about should Clark give it back to Davis? Mine's more the opposite of He does really well to nip in and take the ball off trial.
00:27:52
Rob Binns
Does he need to keep going? That's where my question mark is there.
00:27:56
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:27:57
Rob Binns
I know that we say that we have to take both ways a bit because we know how effective he is at getting up the pitch. But that's what I think that when we talk about individual errors or just slipping off at certain points, cost us points, and then just look at today.
00:28:14
Rob Binns
we see we could it could still change. If wolves get thumped tonight by Forrest, we could still be out of it. But that is the difference between inside the bottom three and outside the bottom three. where So i had he just not forward carried on his run, just let Clark do what he's going to do? Or had he not dived in and dangled the leg like that? It's there's a fine so these fine margins or like individual errors in these two challenges today. and It's still 18 games to go, but we could be in the same situation on the last day of the season where it's the way we go with these.
00:28:46
Rob Binns
We sat there looking at a result, ruin a individual mistake late on in the game, and then misplayed goal difference being outside, the but in the bottom three on goal difference. that just it's free I found it more frustrating and heartbreaking is what I'm trying to say, really, that it just felt so unnecessary.
00:29:05
Rob Binns
Again, I wouldn't be saying any of it if Clarke had scored, but
00:29:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well.
00:29:07
Rob Binns
could be committing that, committing up a pitch like that as a defender late on. And then just, as I love to say, whether it's tiredness or just, I don't know, say it was credit to him and there's obviously for, and I thought he had a good game altogether, but he's a good bit of work on the ball.
00:29:23
Rob Binns
It's just so sloppy, that challenge that it's, it's just, you know, you don't want to give the referee a decision to make in those sorts of situations. And he's not sold it well at all as he's just,
00:29:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
like
00:29:36
Rob Binns
He's made a poor challenge and he's not even hidden that he's made a poor challenge. he know He knows he's done it as soon as he's done it as well. That doesn't get makes it easy for the referee. And like I say, it's cost us two points on the day. There's still a point you take on the end. But like I say, it' literally if he doesn't make that challenge, we're we're since 17th now and we're saying great couple of results, back to back wins outside the bottom three, can we kick on from here? So fine margins.
00:30:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, fine margins. And it was disappointing. I mean, I think I'm with you as more kind of like frustration, really, because I think there are times and not just in this game, because I i i kind of think that, you know, the few minutes before that as well, we look like we can concede a penalty at that any moment when teams are really passing the ball quickly around between our midfield and defence. We can sometimes look quite static and quite slow, and which is probably why we are where we are. Right. But You kind of think, oh, got, you know, Wolf and then a couple of those went very close to his arm and stuff where he was moving towards it. You could have, you know, on another day, maybe be given the first one that does feel like.
00:30:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
the last ditch defending, which we sort of end up having to do towards the end of games, maybe partly down to the to the game management stuff, partly down to the quality of subs we're able to bring on and stuff. And maybe I was dropping a level towards the end of games. It just looks like there's there's mistakes potentially to happen. You know, there's one point where someone went past Dara O'Shea and he was kind of lunging in and I was like watching behind my hands, you know, trying to, you know, wondering if he was going to clip him down and stuff. And it just looks a bit like that towards the end of games sometimes with us, which is,
00:31:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
frustrating. And you know obviously this time, Davis does make a poor challenging and he gets called for it. Anyway, we go away with with a point on our first game of 2025. And as I say, backing up the Chelsea result with a good result is good is good for us. you know We're level on points with with Wolves. and Hopefully they get a tonking tonight at Nottingham Forest who seem to be really good and no one really understands quite why necessarily. and But we hope Forest continue their form tonight. Tomorrow we'll go into much more detail in the game about how we set up some of the players involved. and We need to talk about Nathan Broadhead as I'm sure all the listeners want to hear because he was absolutely superb. but And Ben Johnson also had a fantastic
Ipswich's Strategic Signing
00:31:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
game as well.
00:31:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
so we'll go into the game in much more detail but the final bit of the show today is Ipswich have made our first and the and the club put this in in kind of bold first signing of the transfer window. Ben Godfrey we've brought in a centre back slash right back former England international he's come in from Atlanta on loan till the end of the season I'm not sure actually if the contract situation has been kind of given out, whether that's a kind of like stay up and it will be permanent, option to buy, etc. and How do you guys see that? Tom, are you excited by this first piece of business?
00:32:26
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I'm not going to pretend I'm the biggest Ben Godfrey aficionado and what you can exactly bring to the team.
00:32:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you not? That's why I went to you first.
00:32:33
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But I will say that it's very much a position that we've all said needs bolstering this transfer window and it's been addressed like on day one almost. So that's really good to see.
00:32:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think adding some healthy competition there, obviously you said how great Johnson was, but it's an area of the field where he does play. Might make him improve, might kick him out of the team, but if that's the case, it should be a best player in there.
00:32:56
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Big thing, obviously, is his previous allegiances to a certain team in Norfolk who will show my name or some of his podcasts, of course. And, you know, people online saying, Oh, he's going to be like an inside man, a double agent and cost us the season goes on. But I'd like to think not, of course. And yeah, as I said, at the top of this now, just a position we need bolstering Premier League experience. You can't really ask some more and not much game time this season. So hopefully he's motivated to prove himself on the pitch and at the training ground as well.
00:33:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolutely. Rob, what what what are your thoughts on Godfrey?
00:33:30
Rob Binns
I think it's a fairly smart addition. It looks like say it's only a loan if it doesn't work out say six for six months, but was very it looked very, very impressive towards the latter stages when say when that club in Norfolk got relegated either and he got that move to Everton. He and it was, like you say, flirting with the England set up, wasn't he, at the time. He's a bit Phillips-esque that through various little injuries and just poor form has dropped down, that the can't really get a game ever and they've moved him on to Atlanta who are having a very good season lately but he's found himself not part of the team as a result of that.
00:34:11
Rob Binns
the that's That's my concern of it really is my worry is he hasn't played many minutes in the last few years.
00:34:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
was.
00:34:20
Rob Binns
And when he has played, they haven't been particularly standout performances either. But he suits us very well in that Trans-Avy role of like predominantly right back and a bit of a centre back hybrid sort of role with how much Davis goes up. He suits that very well. and that sort of gives us more options because that's why I worry that the system we've got at the moment, brilliant, when we're three center halves and wing backs, and he maybe he could come in for one of the center backs, even whether it's on a rotation or, and in that best 11 in that role, but it's more so that when we play a four, that's where my worry is it right back while Tonsabe's injured, whereas he can slot in and be a full back. Whereas I don't like Johnson as a full back. I think as a wing back, he's superb. I don't like him as a full back.
00:35:04
Rob Binns
clark's not look convinced and when he's played that that's all present. I was sort of. Almost if this five back set set up gets figured out and we switch back to a four that's that before the ones I always fit again, that would be my concern, whereas now I think Godfrey would come in and made that position is over and he suits that a lot better than the options we have got, I'd say.
00:35:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, it'd be interesting when we get the fans can also get out the he hates an orange chant or whatever it is where they would
00:35:31
Rob Binns
Mhm.
00:35:32
Tom Crack - Ipswich
You said that name.
00:35:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, sorry, sorry. I don't really go in for all that, Tom, hopefully honest. Like I would happily say it. This isn't Harry Potter land. He who must not be named.
00:35:41
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:35:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But yeah, who was it?
00:35:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
and
00:35:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
They were singing that about the right back from Man United. I can't remember his name now.
00:35:49
Rob Binns
brandon williams he what he does he forced his way out of there when he
00:35:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Random Williams. That's right. He hates.
00:35:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
All right.
00:35:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
nor And he really got into that.
00:35:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, of course.
00:35:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
He does. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:02
Rob Binns
allegiances aren't as strong as they are as i used to be in football that way, especially when the player was rubbish as Norwich were.
00:36:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:36:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
never
00:36:10
Rob Binns
ah
00:36:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're professional footballers. I'm sure he doesn't he doesn't think about that time particularly at all anymore.
00:36:14
Rob Binns
you
00:36:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
So and I'm sure that that won't come into it. But yeah, I agree with both of you. that That was definitely part of the squad that needed filling, the first part of the squad that needs filling. The town have got 10 days I think until their next Premier League game, which is at home to Brighton on a Thursday night, weirdly.
00:36:33
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:36:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that should be fun. But I would expect by then we would have more signings in place. Later in the week, we will be discussing that because I'm sure the news is going to come in fairly quickly as we go through the transfer window. So that's going to do it for today's show. Thank you very much to Rob and to Tom. Thank you all for listening. Please go to the GSPN network online, have a look around, not just us, Daily Ipswich Daily Fulham, of course, you can have a look, see what those guys are doing.
00:37:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
and the whole network on there at GSPN network. And we will see you all tomorrow for a deeper dive into the Fulham draw. Thanks, everyone. See you later. yeah