Ipswich All Over The Plaice by ChevBlue

Town’s one-match unbeaten league run was brought to an abrupt halt at Blundell Park by 21st placed Grimsby who, up until tonight, had failed to register a single home win this season.

Fired-up by an early goal from forward Steve Kabba, on loan from Crystal Palace, the Mariner’s quadrupled their home goal tally for the season with further goals from Alan Pouton (penalty) and Kabba’s second of the night after the half-time interval, to run out deserved winners against a hapless Ipswich.

Football folklore is littered with tales of woe from midweek away fixtures at Cleethorpe’s so excuse me while I add mine own to the list:

Plans to enjoy a Fish and Chip dinner before the game at one of the area’s fine purveyor’s of such delights were scuppered by tail backs on the A1 which meant we made it to the away turnstiles with 15 minutes already played. The young lady who took my ticket gleefully announced that the home side were already one-up and we had just found our seats and sat down when Wayne Brown brought down the pacey Kabba to concede the penalty which was duly converted by Pouton to make it two.

Pre-season seems like a distant memory now, and if you’ve sat through the seemingly endless series of dross that Town have served up under the guise of football since then you’ll know what I mean.

But still fresh in the memory is the August spin from Sheepshank’s “We’re going back to the Premiership as Champions” and Burley “100 goals is our target for the season”.

Quite frankly we are more likely to get relegated on this form than anywhere close to a play-off spot and are not capable of scoring in a Cuban Hump-Hump Bar, with a number of players (Bent, Wright, Counago) continuing the awful finishing trend of recent games again last night.

Do the players train with each other? On last nights evidence it didn’t even look like they had ever played together as a team before.

Now I’m not a great fan of Finidi George but he gets my Man of The Match award for no other reason than the fact he was the only player last night capable of passing the ball to another blue shirt, with any consistency, and supplying the only crosses in the game of any note.

He also had the last decent chance of the game which he fired into the side netting, but it was to late to make any difference by then.

The PA announcement that four minutes of injury time would be added at the end of the ninety minutes was greeted with boo’s by the 600 or so Ipswich fans. Not because they wanted more time but just wanted the agony to be over with so they could begin the long journey home.

Anyway, on the bright side, there’s always next season for the missed fish & chips.