Creedence Clearwater Couto

When do they come to Carrow Road? 🤢

Yeah.. many have been saying that all year. But the fact is, their record for the calendar year is phenomenal and they haven’t shown any signs of hitting any sort of bad form. I knew one day the tide would turn, but I never thought I’d see them perform better than us with Farke at this level. But that’s just what they’re doing.

They’re going up, probably as champions. And they’re going to batter us on Saturday. Horrible times…

No it’s not. They’re top of the league after 21 games because they are the best side in this division. As galling as it is to admit.

Come on, how long are some fans going to carry on spouting this?! Watford have had better chances through pacy counter attacks.. but Ipswich have held the ball better and defended very well.

Watford have had chances… but you just always had the feeling Ipswich could score at any point.

Watford should be in front!

Williams was clearly a weak link. He got hooked at HT.

Jamal Lewis is bang average.

Preston 2 up.. can’t believe how bad they were on Saturday, but currently sit in 6th!

It’s horrible to say, but they’re very good. Especially going forward and in possession. Morsy looks exactly the type of player we’re missing. The lad on loan from Chelsea is a live wire.

Good. Players need to know what they’re walking into. Should fire them up.

Lets hope he fares better than his dad.....

I think Southall and Seaman are quite balanced tbh. But Davitt is definitely more to the point. They’re an Ok listen, but Micheal Bailey, Dave Freezer and Paddy Davitt were levels above.

Exactly. Why aren’t we? PUP PPU

Until the end of the season? I think he’d get a better tune out of the squad than Wagner. Had a mix bag management career to dates, but Bar Stoke, he’s been successful at every other club if not over a sustained period.

Yet back in August you were sure you had your football club back..

I’m afraid that’s complete delusion.

Clearly a change of tactic at half time to have Nunez spilt the centre half’s, and take the ball from deeper, allowing the full backs to turn into wingbacks in attempt to overcome Preston’s low block, but doesn’t surprise me some fans couldn’t understand what Nunez was being asked to do. He did it very well too. I actually thought Wagner showed some decent in game tactical nous there. The Barclay and Snakepit woke up after about 20 minutes and it was ok.. and again last 10-15 tried to ramp it up. But it’s a world away from 2019.

There was no intensity to our play, except the last 10-15 minute where we raised it a bit and the crowd responded. First 30 minutes was dire, on and off the pitch. I don’t think Preston particularly defended well. It was very easy for them. The biggest issue were the 3 attacking midfielders. They offered next to nothing, and weren’t able to take possession between the lines, from Kenny, Sara or McLean, who saw plenty of the ball, Duffy too tbf. Preston were never made to panic. Rowe and Gibbs came on, and followed suit. We’re recycling possession really well with Nunez and Sara, aided with Kenny at the back. It’s the 4 in front we can’t get right. Sargent will improve it.. but you can make an argument for needing to sign 3 new players to slot in behind. Fass and Barnes are decent squad players. But you can’t start both of them together in a three. It’s one or the other. We also rely heavily on the full backs. Dimi was decent, but suffered from having Hernandez in front of him. There’s just no understanding there… as for Stacy, he’s really gone off the boil. Don’t think he beat his man once when attacking, and his deliveries were poor. The positive for me, is that I left thinking that there is a nucleus here and it just needs pulling together with 2 or 3 players. But those players need brining in. That’s assuming Sainz is another Webber dud.

She’s definitely said she hates the Derby and prefers it when we don’t play each other. Tbf, it’s sentiment I agree with this season!

Needs to play centrally, number 10 or off the striker. Wide left or right in a 3 doesn’t work, he’s too slow. Similar in that respect to Steiperman.

Like a lot of infrastructure around Carrow Road, knackered.

Agree re Nunez, Kenny, and Sara. Said the same in the match thread, I want to see Nunez stay in the side of an extended period now. There was a clear purpose to his play second half, where he’d split the centre half’s and recycle the ball forward effectively. Picked up lots of second balls. My MOM.

Preston were awful today. We’ve actually had a decent run against poor teams and yielded respectable points haul. Sheff Wed is must win, though. Than the Derby. There’s nothing in the above run that gives me any ounce of confidence we’ll get close to anything from them. I honestly don’t think I can watch it…