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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: February 2015
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. Reading an all too familiar story at Portman Road. The fairy tale season for Ipswich Town has taken a further turn of worry this week, with the feeling of disappointment and slight despair becoming a little too familiar. It’s virtually the same players, so what has changed for us to go from beating promotion favourites Boro, to losing to fourteenth placed Reading? Ipswich Towns tra...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: March 2013
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Thursday, 7 March 2013. Town adapt and very nearly overcome at Forest . Guts and determination and we will get the wins we need'. Ipswich defender Tommy Smith after their defeat to Nottingham. I think we surprised them: In recent games we have opted to play defensively, to protect the draw and to avoid defeat at all costs. (See our goalless draw at Huddersfield as a perfect example.). I said at half time I d...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: October 2012
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Saturday, 20 October 2012. Will it be third time lucky for Town at Hull? They say good things come in threes and this weekend Ipswich Town travel to the KC stadium for the third time in 2012. Could this be the same again? Then, as now, we were suffering from a terrible fall in confidence that was seeing us throw away leads and stupid individual errors leading to us conceding goals (I distinctly remember Sonk...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: July 2014
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Tuesday, 29 July 2014. Can the Championship be 'easily navigated by throwing millions of quid at a club'. The Ipswich Town website. Currently display a SkyBet competition, fans can enter for the chance to win their club £250 thousand pounds to spend on transfers. The title of this blog is a quote from a recent post on website TWTD. The catalyst for the article is the recent £11 million sale of big Ross ...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: May 2012
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Sunday, 27 May 2012. Take a gamble, trust Jewell, back ITFC. On Thursday, Part 1 of Mark's blog looked at off-the field factors that influenced Town's 10th year in the second tier of English Football League. To the management, coaching, player selection, tactics, and player performances; I am biased. There I have declared. I wanted PJ above all the rest of the available options. The manager has made and admi...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: August 2012
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Thursday, 23 August 2012. The rollercoaster ride from Blackpool to Blackpool: my year supporting Ipswich. This weekend marks almost a year since my life as an Ipswich Town fan changed forever. The travelling faithful have an amazing weekend ahead of them as the Blues face Blackpool, no matter what happens on the pitch. After the match we went to the Wetherspoon's pub and were happy to discover a line of youn...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: April 2012
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Tuesday, 3 April 2012. GUEST BLOG: 'George Best ran us ragged and the crowd were baying for Bobby Robson's head'. When my sister and I were travelling to Vicarage Road last weekend we bumped into some Newcastle United fans spending the day in London. They asked who we were playing that day and we chatted a little about how well our respective teams were doing recently. Doesn't it make you proud? You've proba...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: June 2012
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Tuesday, 12 June 2012. Band of Hope and Glory. Euro 2012 finally kicked of for. Fans last night with their team's first game of the campaign against. The one all draw seems to have satisfied most fans, though there will always be those who believe that isn't a good enough result: usually the same people who decided months ago that. Weren't even going to get past the group stages. But it seems there are some ...
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl: November 2012
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The Diary of a Tractor Girl. Weekly comments on Ipswich Town and the life of a long distance fan. Monday, 5 November 2012. Come the final whistle, I felt like we had won promotion": a fans eye view of ITFC's trip to Birmingham. At 16:54 on Saturday afternoon I received a phone call, it was one I'd recently come to dread - but this time it was different. Trying to capture the emotion, happiness and pure rush of Saturday is one of the most difficult things I think I've had to do. Even after all these years...