Alf

Revenge might be sweet, but for Town this weekend it was limited and was a long time in coming.
In truth it could have been worse with the visitors doing the decent thing and passing up a shed-full of chances before Alf’s finest finally found the right gears.
On a day when football was rightly put [...]

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There is one common theme – every supporter in the Championship is disillusioned with the running of their club in one respect or another and football supporters in general respect the effort away supporters have made to visit their grounds of which they are intensely proud.

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Town’s weakness is known to everyone – the gaps in the defence. Brighton exposed this on Town’s last visit to the south coast and Southampton had clearly done their homework as Alf’s finest were rocked back on their heels from the opening minute….

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The simple truth is that with games fast running out the sides at the top of league will not drop enough points for Alf’s finest to overhaul them. Seemingly safe barring a plummet downwards of Peterborough proportions, Town’s season looks to be on of consolidation and re-building to stage a realistic campaign next time round…

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Whether or not complacency had followed the Town down the M23, something was missing from both the team and the terraces. On the pitch Town never got to grips with the Brighton flanks, off it in all honesty the travelling faithful were quiet and subdued for a packed away end.

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Would you Adam and Eve and pinch me? Town’s fourth win on the spin left Alf whistling a happy tune as the mood music at Portman Road has lightened and those dark clouds have lifted leaving IP1 wondering where a season sponsored by Lazarus will end up.
All that was missing, only a short torrid while [...]

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Town’s 550 travelling fans breathed a collective sigh of relief at the half-time whistle glad that their team had clung on to their lead but in equal measure mystified as to why they hadn’t managed to extend it…

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Town took a deserved lead on 23 minutes after the home side failed to clear their lines. Emmanuel-Thomas at last in a rich vein of form blasted home. Clearly the ‘Jet’ from Forest Gate doesn’t do tap-ins. Having taken the lead, old habits die hard…

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Alf has had a feeling all season that if Town got it right someone would take a right hammering. This was something of a local derby and Town haven’t done local derbies of late so little did he think that West Ham would be on the end of it…

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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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