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If it aint broke, break it! This sums up Rasmus who is clearly not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

RM is in charge of a quality squad at this level. He has them playing some great football and we've scored many very well-worked goals this season. Unfortunately, where he comes unstuck is in his stubborn and somewhat arrogant mantra that we will never change the way we play - to give him his due we don't and therein lies the big problem which is in-game management. He has no plans or alternatives during games when we come under the cosh which will inevitably happen in most matches whatever the standard of the opposition. No team can hope to dominate for 90 minutes which makes it clear that, during the times when trying to stem the tide, you need to do something different rather than arrogantly and vainly hoping that your one and only system will somehow keep your goal in tact - it won't and it hasn't on many occasions as we've all seen. This is his major flaw that has cost us the chance of automatic promotion because it results in throwing away precious points and also gives opponents and their managers hope they can get something from us in every game we play.

Who would be your two holding midfielders?

It's his get out of jail free card that fools absolutely no one. He drops KWP amid a furore from disgruntled fans and seeks to justify his decision by claiming that Bree played really well when clearly, to most watching, he didn't. It's a character flaw and not a great trait for someone managing a football club.

It does defy all logic that we search for a new keeper as cover because the number 1 is not a great shot-stopper and sits rock bottom of the Championship stats for this season whilst the number 2 is being paid £50k weekly to go through the motions at training and the best we can come up with is someone who sat rock bottom of the Championship stats for the previous season. Is the tea lady in charge of recruiting goalkeepers?

Have to disagree - I don't think many would have let in the first.

The numbers are pretty damning to be fair. Even with some leeway for data error it's hard to defend Baz.

Agree. He looked decent and was always very quick off his line as the sweeper keeper. Deserves a chance after more errors from Baz last night.

The ref clearly allowed himself to be influenced by the baying Ipswich fans who'd howled their derision every time a free-kick rightly went to us for the multiple bad fouls committed by their dirty players. We were basically kicked off the park and the ref should have sent off Morsy for numerous thuggish assaults.

Clearly we are conceding far too many goals this season leading to dropping crucial points and finding ourselves cut adrift from the automatic promotion positions. We play some great football and score some superb goals but, as was the case last night, it's often not enough. RM is never shy of stating that we will never change our possession based style whatever happens. It is this arrogant attitude that leads to us conceding so many goals and throwing away good positions. No team can expect to dominate an opponent for 90 minutes and there will always be times when you need to batten down the hatches and ride out a temporary storm. Good coaches spot the danger signs and use in game management but not RM. If he wasn't so obsessed with keep ball he'd have in place a tactical reset to deal with the sticky periods we face in every game. He could then get a message to the players to go into survival mode and set up a low block with less risky play from the back, a bit of old fashioned shit-housery and more direct football until the tide turns. There are always trigger points when such alternative tactics could be introduced - as examples last night the obvious signs were when Ipswich hit the post or when Bednarek was injured. These two incidents led to Ipswich getting on top for the first time in the game. Instead of reacting RM continued with his gung-ho approach and we inevitably conceded crucial goals. The other elephant in the room regarding conceding too many goals is the goalkeeper. Baz simply does not make anything like enough saves and lets in too many soft goals. Maybe RM has been loyal to him for too long and perhaps Lumley should have been given more opportunities. It is probably time to take Baz out of the firing line for the next few games and let's see what Lumley can do. If he shows he can cope he'll be a better option for the play-offs.

Yes, these photos for the third goal are quite damning. The route to the right side of the goal is blocked by a cluster of players so clearly he needs to be anticipating and moving left much earlier and quicker than he does. Had he used his instincts and gambled he'd surely save the shot. He just seems to lack many of the basic requisites needed to play in goal including awareness, agility, smelling danger and the ability to push hard off one foot when diving. He's only really good with the ball at his feet.

Agree with much of this summary.

There's some truth in this. For example watch Adam Armstrong for the Ipswich equaliser which was a pivotal goal. He is the nearest player to the goalscorer yet takes no responsibility in going to mark him. Had he done such a fundamental basic thing Ipswich would not have scored. I get that he's not a defender but, as an attacker, you'd think he'd be far more aware of the danger but he seemed completely oblivious. I would hope that sort of dereliction to duty is highlighted in no uncertain terms during the post match debrief.

I get what you say but these games are still very important. We need to win as many as possible to breed confidence going into the play-offs. We can't afford to coast through them just because the auto spots are out of reach.

Any keeper worth his salt should be comfortably stopping their first goal tonight. It was a real howler.

Yes, would be karma to beat these dirty cheats at Wembley.

Leicester fans absolutely slating Baz tonight and saying he saves nothing. He's been given a fair crack of the whip but it's clear he is very poor at shot stopping and rarely pulls off saves that keep us in matches. RM was wrong to give him such unequivocal backing at the Fan's Forum. I'm afraid he is a liability and seems to lack any kind of sharp reflexes or the ability to explode off either foot and make saves.

Ipswich were shite and we outclassed them for most of the game. They kicked lumps out of us for which the ref rightly gave us free kicks and booked some of their players. Their crowd got more and more incensed at the ref and he began to favour them culminating in the red card awarded when their player clearly wasn't getting the ball so threw himself to the ground and rolled over an over. Their continual fouling actually worked in their favour thanks to the weakness of the ref. We were clearly the better side.

He should save the first one - nobody can convince me that wasn't a big error by Baz. Then he should have held on to the ball at the end rather than launch it - I get we needed the win but that was a tad naive.

I would love it if we beat them at Wembley in the Play-Off Final, fucking love it. Cheating bunch of farmers.,

Spot on. They cheated by conning the weak ref with a blatant dive.

Fair play Ipswich! They kicked us off the park and dived to get Bree sent off. We were by far the better footballing side and I know it counts for nothing. RM needs to coach some defensive stability because yet again we folded like a house of cards.

Embarrassing refereeing!

You are fucking kidding me. Just knew they'd do that to us after we outplayed them and wrongly had a man sent off. Pissed with that even though it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Hate Ipswich - jammy bastards.

Not even a foul let alone a red card. Ridiculous. Cheating twat dived when he knew he'd lost the ball.