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Post by NorwichStokie on Mar 8, 2004 13:58:57 GMT
I really have to laugh about Royle's comments following his last two league defeats (against us and then Norwich)....
Joe Royle's dominating team......
"We have lost after totally dominating. It is very frustrating. I thought we played them off the park.
Ipswich are the best team in the division.....
"At our best we have got more quality that the top two, but we don't have the resilience and defensive nous."
Joe Royal on how Ipswich can't score...
"We can pass the ball as well as anyone in this division – but that is not winning us games at the moment."
Automatic promotion.....
"Automatic promotion is going to be very difficult now - we'd probably have to win all our remaining matches - but we'll keep battling away."
Joe Royle on how playing well for 45 minutes means you're the best.....
Royle saw his side outplay their East Anglian neighbours in the opening 45 minutes.
Joe Royle blames the thickness of paint.....
He said: "We would have been 2-0 up at the break had there been one less coat of paint on the woodwork.
Joe Royle blames luck....
"That sums up the sort of luck we've been having recently but we can't afford to feel sorry for ourselves.
Joe Royle plays Millwall next....
"We've just got to pick ourselves up and move on to the next game."
Joe Royle thinks Ipswich battered Stoke...
"It's the second time in a week that we have comprehensively outplayed a side and lost the game by two goals," said the Town boss, whose team are now 14 points behind their Norfolk neighbours in the Division One table.
And finally, a comment on Ipswich's defensc, showing how they have been "totally dominating" and how they have "got more quality that the top two", and why "Automatic promotion is going to be very difficult now", and of course why he's relying on such desperate words...
Division One Defensive Table...
Pos/ Team/ Goals conceded
1 Norwich 28
2 West Brom 30
3 Sunderland 31
4 West Ham 32
5 Millwall 33
6 Wigan 35
7 Coventry 39
8 Sheff Utd 41
9 Preston 43
10 Cardiff 43
11 Nottm Forest 45
12 Stoke 46
13 Crewe 46
14 Gillingham 46
15 Reading 47
16 Rotherham 47
17 Watford 47
18 Walsall 47
19 Crystal Palace 50
20 Bradford 52
21 Derby 54
22 Burnley 56
23 Ipswich 57
24 Wimbledon 66
Says it all really.
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Post by dude on Mar 8, 2004 14:13:13 GMT
Interesting reading. Ipswich have scored shed loads though as well but with a defence like that you will lose games.
Royle moaning that they should have won the last two games. Conceded 5 and managed 1 penalty...mmm....got what they deserved IMHO..nothing.
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Post by Robo10 on Mar 8, 2004 15:30:16 GMT
Abolute pisser NS!
;D
It should be known as 'Ferguson-Syndrome'!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2004 17:28:41 GMT
outplayed us? they weren't a patch on the way Norwich battered us in the second half at home, or how Wigan started off at the Brit a couple of weeks ago. They had possession outside the box but we soaked up everything they had comfortably, de Goey made a couple of saves but he was hardly peppered with difficult shots, was he?
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Post by A-teen_six_T3 on Mar 8, 2004 17:33:10 GMT
the top 4 weve all got this month
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Post by alfredson on Mar 8, 2004 17:46:41 GMT
I heard Royle say how disappointed he was because for the second time a week they'd 'passed a team to death'.
Goals Joe, that's what it's all about.
Joe Royle, more like Jim Royle.
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Post by spiderpuss on Mar 8, 2004 20:13:06 GMT
In cases like this the following applies:
That scoreline again Stoke City 2 Ipswich Town 0.
No argument Joe Peasant!
Spider
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