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BBC News
28-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Recruitment, tactics or quality? Your reasons behind relegation
We asked for you to tell us the key reasons behind Ipswich's relegation from the Premier are some of your comments:Matt: Overall, the quality of the squad was not good enough for the Premier League. There was not enough depth. Our five subtitutes were good League One and Championship players while our opponents had internationals. Injuries to proven playmakers like Wes Burns, Omari Hutchinson, Jaden Philogene, Nathan Broadhead and Chiedozie Ogbene also meant we did not create Too much too soon. A fantastic side with a fantastic leader in Kieran McKenna, but all a year or two too soon. Incredibly proud of the team and manager for performing as well as they have. Finishing 17th was the target, and whie we have fallen short, anyone who has watched the games (and not just the highlights) will see that we have given a good account of Really inept recruitment is what has sunk us. There were a few bright spots in Dara O'Shea and Liam Delap, but we bought a calamitous goalkeeper in Arijanet Muric and then stacked our attack with youngsters from the Championship, while relying on a collection of the old, the sick and the lame in centre The manager decided that we could play like we did in the Championship and it would be all right! Instead we should have been defending for our Essentially, recruitment and an unsettled team. The boys who won two promotions were not really given a chance to prove or to develop themselves. How must some of them have felt having done all the hard work only to be almost sidelined by untested and untried players?
BBC News
04-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'The ever-growing injury list'
Ipswich Town's unwanted membership in a select group of four sides who have never played at the 'new' Wembley Stadium will continue for at least another 12 months. Along with Accrington Stanley, Blackburn Rovers and Colchester United, Ipswich are the only Premier League and Football League clubs to never feature at the new stadium since it opened in defeat on penalties at Nottingham Forest was the story of the season so far - spirited at times, rarely being outplayed by stronger opponents but lacking quality at key moments. The performance will give Town fans both concerns and concerns will be the ever-growing injury list the squad now faces. A double enforced substitution at half-time now takes the injured player list to 10. Very few Premier League squads could cope with this level of player absence, let alone one which was in League One two years ago and has had to spend over £120m to try to catch injuries to Wes Burns and Chieo Ogbene, along with several months out for George Hirst and Axel Tuanzebe, have severely disrupted Kieran McKenna's ability to field a familiar starting XI each week in the hope of building some on-pitch overriding positive element from Monday was the defensive display. Restricting Forest to four shots on target across 120 minutes is a testament to their defensive solidity, with academy graduate Luke Woolfenden in particular a real attributes on show were a stark contrast to recent defeats by Tottenham and Manchester only two games now left in March, Ipswich will hope to get some players back, especially in the attacking third to provide some creativity, goals and offensive they can combine this with the defensive display at the City Ground, then they will have half a chance in their Premier League more from Seb Brown at the Blue Monday Podcast, external
BBC News
31-01-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Ipswich winger Burns to miss rest of season with torn ACL
Ipswich winger Wes Burns is out for the rest of the season after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament during last weekend's defeat at 30-year-old Wales international will have surgery next has featured in 18 of Ipswich's 23 Premier League games so far this season."He's seeing the very best people," said Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna."It's not a very complicated tear, I believe. You can never call an ACL straightforward, but it's an orthodox procedure and everyone is really positive about the prognosis."Of course he'll miss the rest of the season, and we'll miss him, but he'll be well looked after."Burns is the second Tractor Boys winger to suffer a season-ending injury after Chiedozie Ogbene sustained a torn Achilles in October."Wes and Chieo Ogbene are pretty unique profiles for us, so to lose both of them in the course of one season, and with the qualities that they have being so important to our system, it is a blow. That is what it is," added whether the injury will change his transfer plans before Monday's deadline, the Northern Irishman added: "We have good depth in the squad and we have other players who can fill the role in different ways and with different qualities. "We're not going to make any late panicked decisions in the transfer market. If there are players that could really help us and improve us, then we'd like to do so, but we're not going to add numbers just for the sake of cover. We're pretty strong in terms of cover."
