I was delighted to be at Portman Road today, because a) I don’t get to Town matches very often and b) I saw today something at once exciting and comfortably familiar. And that was the team starting to click into gear. The work done with the performances/results over Christmas is starting to really come through. We’re starting to look like a team that knows what it has to do and knows how to do it. Had we put five or six past Blackburn today, they couldn’t have complained. A pattern is starting to emerge. If you’re a team at the top of the table, we’ll take something off you, either 1 point or all 3, but we’re taking something; if you’re a team at the bottom of the table, we’ll overwhelm you amd wear you down.
Why does it look familiar? Well it’s a reminder of Robson’s late 70s or Burley’s late 90s teams who could spend the first 3 or 4 months of a season looking solid one week and then anaemic the next, but once it clicked, they looked unstoppable. McKenna’s already produced a couple of variations of that over the last few years. What usually happens is there will be some hard earned wins followed suddenly by free-flowing football that sweeps teams aside. Look at the match reports/results from the second halves of 1979/80, 1997/98 and 2022/23. Today, was the first sign that we’re looking ready to kick on after the results gained over the Christmas period. And if we keep it happening, nobody will stop us. |  |
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