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1. Why you
were looking forward to going to the ground (or not as the case may
be):
I was looking forward to my trip to Portman Road, as it was my
last Championship ground to tick off, plus I was interested to
see how the the team would play in their first game since Ian Baraclough's
sacking.
2. How easy was your journey/finding the ground/car
parking?
I went by Club supporters coach, leaving Scunthorpe at
9am. We had a stop in Peterborough and then arrived at a car park 2
minuites away from Portman Road at 1:40pm. It was a decent journey with my
mates, and went fairly quickly.
3. What you did before the game
pub/chippy.... home fans friendly?
I didn't go for a drink of grub
before the game, however, Ipswich fans seemed like a friendly
bunch. I helped out an Ipswich fan by changing a £5 note into
coins as he needed change for car parking.
4. What you thought on
seeing the ground, first impressions of away end then other sides of the
ground?
After the comments that I had heard about the
ground being poor, then ironicaly I loved it. Ut looked very
tidy from the outside. Inside, we were housed in one half on the
Cobbold Stand, the view was one of the best I've had all season, except,
if you sat on the last 4 rows, there were pillars to block your view.
Right next to us, was a very big, two tiered stand, whilst facing us
was the Brittania Stand, which looked pretty identical to the stand we
were in, if not maybe a bit bigger, and the furthest stand, was the
Bobby Robson Stand, in my opinion, the best looking stand in the
ground, a two tiered stand, with a tidy flat white cover on top of it,
which seemed to house the more vocal Ipswich fans.
5. Comment on
the game itself, atmosphere, stewards, pies, toilets etc..
It was
the first game of Tony Daws caretaker reign, and, just by the starting
line up, I could sense we would try play football for the first time
in 7 months. We was under the cosh straight from the first whistle, we
could have been dead and buried by the time we could have took the lead,
through Michael O'Conners free kick, which was well saved by Ipswich's
keeper. Ipswich took the lead around the half hour mark, through one of
the goals of the season. Carlos Edwards picked up the ball up on the
half way line, before striding forward to unleash a long range rocket into
Lillis' goal.
At half time, I tried out the Chicken Balti pie,
made by Wrights. Not the best pie I've ever tasted,
but I still ate it as I was starving! The Iron made a good
start to the second half, and could have been level, but were hit with a
sucker punch about 10 minuites in, Jimmy Bullard scoring a peach of a free
kick. From then on, I knew it would be a difficult task to even get a
point. It finished 2-0 to Ipswich.
We tried to make an atmosphere,
but it was hard with only 165 irons there, and Ipswich fans only seemed to
chirp up when the ball hit the net. The stewards seemed a freindly bunch
and had a laugh with us.
6. Comment on getting away from the ground
after the game:
Didnt take long at all, 2 minuite walk to the
coach, and we were back on the road home in about 5-10
minuites.
7. Summary of overall thoughts of the day out:
A
decent away day, 3 points would have been a bonus, but I can't see us
stopping up now, Ipswich is a certainly a ground I would like to
return to, sometime in the future.
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