Oppos View – Ipswich

A bit about you:

Name: Jonathan

Current home town: Bearwood

Birthplace: Ipswich

How long have you supported your team? Since I was 3 – 1975 (Happy 40th B-day to me 3 days before our match!)

Overview of your club:

Favourite thing about your home ground:  Fantastic pitch, consistently one of the best in all the divisions

Favourite match played by your team & why:  Recently, 5-3 at Barnsley.  2-0 down by half-time, heading for our eight-straight loss.  Fantastic comeback in the second half, saving Paul Jewell's job I'm quite sure.  And play-off win at Wembley in 2000, 4-2 against same opposition!

Favourite player of all time who played for your club:  Johnny Walk – striker, midfielder, defender, prolific scorer over 3 decades.

About our forthcoming match against you:

Your favourite current player in your squad and why?  JET – Jay Emmanuel Thomas.  Arrogance personified on a football pitch.  Languid and long, can tie any opposition defence in knots, and scores quite spectacular 35 yard goals.  A truly mercurial talent.

Player in your squad we should most fear and why?  Apart from the above, Martin, possibly Chopra, although on present form Leadbitter.

Player in our squad you most fear and why?  Nugent.  He nearly always scores against us, and from his goal-celebrations back in 2005 at Portman Rd (we lost 4-0 at home to Preston on a hot day in August), Ipswich fans truly can't stand him.

Up and coming prospect in your squad?  Josh Carson.  Hands-off!

Where do you think you’ll finish this season?  Mid-table (again).

How do you think you’ll do against us?  Grind-out a narrow loss.

Any other comments?  On our day, we play beautiful football and can score plenty of goals.  BUT we haven't had two decent central defenders at the club for a long time, and our right-back is a right-winger.  Play us and even if you're 3-0 down, you know you still have a chance.  Entertaining football though!