helmut_rooster Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horny owl Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Any neutral football fan knows Ipswich are a bigger club than Sunderland and Wednesday But seriously most plastic premier league supporters probably don’t know Ipswich, Sunderland and Wednesday even exist More bothered about buying a Ronaldo shirt from their local JD Sports shop in every town from Blythe to Brighton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEnchanter Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Why do a lot of our fans get annoyed by these sorts of comments? Who cares? It's a classic inferiority complex because we've been so poo for 20 years that all we have to hold onto is that we are 'bigger' than certain other clubs. Just remember how many so called smaller clubs consistently put us in our place in League 1. It's happened many times in our 3 spells down here. Its not the 90s anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southie_Owl Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 25 minutes ago, horny owl said: Any neutral football fan knows Ipswich are a bigger club than Sunderland and Wednesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etchesketch Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Ipswich have never been seen as a big club even back in the Bobby Robson days. Perhaps quite big for League One but not a Wednesday or Sunderland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando_Trustful Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Not even in the top 3 biggest. He’s living in a dreamworld. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel. Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Now we know why his voice is so bad. He drinks bleach doesn’t he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel. Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Wednesday and Sunderland are pretty similar. Ipswich have a good history and had that spell in the UEFA cup with Marcus Stewart/Finidi George more recently than we did. But still it was the story of a team really punching, like Bolton. Whereas the likes of Wednesday and Sunderland or Leeds have always been considered under achievers. The way things are going as we’ve hit iffy form and they are starting to put things together i wouldn’t be at all surprised if we lost in the usual manner. It won’t just be Paul cook needing the strepsils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffield_dave Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 There’s a reason other managers say things like this before playing us. He will probably make a similar comment in his press briefing before they play Sunderland. It is what it is. He knows the score. Something to get the fans going and build some sort of positivity ahead of 1 of the 2 biggest games of their season, which they need to win after an awful start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftpeg Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 He said his dad could take yours in a fight too... Big club is such a meaningless term, usually thrown around as though it were some sort of measurable trophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 In this league, they are a competitor because of what they've spent, but wouldn't class them as a big club, not in the same way as Sunderland, or dare I say it, us. Can understand why he made the comment, not got a problem with that as clearly made to get his own fans on side, probably helped that they won last week, otherwise after the start they had would have been a completely silly statement. That said, I hope we go there today and smash them, show them what a really big club looks like (but then I hope we do that every week, irrespective of the opposition) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRightSide Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 If you have to tell people you’re the biggest, then you’re not the biggest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatzooma Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Let’s see how many tractor shaggers turn up at Hillsborough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetherivelinowl Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 He's binned all his excuses right there. 'We're the biggest club with the best squad - so we should be top of the league but we're not because I'm the manager' Early days I know but when you come out with statements like that it means anything less than top of the league is under-performing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonstrix Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 7 minutes ago, davetherivelinowl said: He's binned all his excuses right there. 'We're the biggest club with the best squad - so we should be top of the league but we're not because I'm the manager' Early days I know but when you come out with statements like that it means anything less than top of the league is under-performing. Yep. Also puts quite a bit of pressure on his squad too. He’s not the cleverest as can be seen by the way he threw his entire squad under the bus after one performance last season, when he said they were non-league standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheff74 Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 This obsession with size is ridiculous, from all fanbases. All that matters to me is the level you are playing at and the football on offer. Sunderland, Wednesday, Ipswich, Pompey even Wigan all have a decent claim based on history and fanbase, but unless it puts points on the board, it's just a weeing contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 22 hours ago, @owlstalk said: If that's the case then he is letting them down in terms of results isn't he. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueOwl Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Being the biggest club in League One is like being the best looking guy in prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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