Alf

For what seems like ages ‘individual errors’ seems to be part of the game-plan for the boys from IP1, but for pure comedy value this weekend’s defeat at Leeds United will take some beating…

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Suddenly it was pleasure watching Ipswich Town again… The key was the boys playing higher up the pitch and pressing their opponents into submission. Hardly rocket-science, but much of this season (and last), Town’s gears have been reverse.

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Having survived one tipping point earlier in the season, Paul Jewel’s tenure is looking precarious. Rightly or wrongly he’ll be given less time, simply because of Roy Keane’s failure to turn round Town’s fortunes…

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With Lee Bowyer doing his best to pull a few strings and Grant Leadbitter returning from injury to put in a steady rather than spectacular shift, Town looked and indeed deserved a point from a fairly stale end of year fare…

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The reliance on loanees over time has meant that young home-grown talent for which Ipswich Academy is famed have been given little opportunity to establish themselves as first-team players. The top two leagues are littered with youngsters that we should have hung on to and they are making a good reputation for themselves…

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A win’s a win and the three precious points will keep the vultures at bay for the time being. Paul Jewell will have brought some breathing space and the dreaded ‘relegation’ word will have receded from the lips of the patient punters who, by-and-large, have stuck with the Blues through thin and thinner in recent times.

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The Blue of Town faced up, manned-up and came out fighting. From the first whistle, Alf’s boys rocked the South Yorkshiremen back on their heels and went for the jugular like a wounded animal…

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For the straw clutching fans in blue-tinted glasses it was a praiseworthy effort but not a point was gained and the slide continues. Alf’s head was in his hands, Paul Jewell’s too judging from the Press photographs…

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The frustration for even the most patient of the Town faithful is that nearly a year on from a change of manager and 13 new arrivals, nothing seems to have changed since the darkest days of Roy Keane’s IP1 tenure. In the way of his predecessor, PJ’s reaction to ‘a sticky situation’ was a raft of team changes.

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With confidence at last creeping into the boots of Alf’s boys, the crowd began to believe again as first Cresswell and then Wright defied the Royals. For the moment Town looked ready for the fight. It didn’t last…

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