A great and much needed away win for Town today against Blackpool.
WELL DONE TOWN!
Match summary: Blackpool 2 ITFC 3
Well, Town won with a last minute winner at Blackpool to give Town their first away win of the season.
Again Town did it the hard way. First Town went behind with a goal on 23 minutes from Dobbie of Blackpool and Town had a mediocre first half.
There were several changes to Town with Tommy Smith away on World Cup duty with New Zealand & Cresswell suspended following his red card last week giving Mings and Tabb starts.Town also had new signing Stephen Hunt on the bench following his mid-week arrival at ITFC. Manager Mick McCarthy made some positive changes in the second half & took off Higham & Tabb replacing them with Nouble and Taylor. It was Nouble who got the Town equaliser and he played well. Taylor then gave Town a great boost by scoring a good goal and the win was on for Town who had only to see out four minutes of extra time. Of course they didn’t manage that and Blackpool hit what I thought was a certain equaliser as there were just two minutes of time left. Amazingly though Town pressed forward and Hunt made a good shot on goal and from the resulting corner Daryl Murphy scored with just seconds left of the match to complete a great second half turn around and secure Town’s first away win! WELL DONE TEAM….oh what fun it is when Town win away!
This is a great tonic for the team and supporters. It was quite weird as it was almost the opposite of last week when Town were fine in the first half and bad in the second when they were leading and yet today Town were average in the first half when losing but were good in the second half and got the win. This is more like the character the team need and was a definite improvement from last week…..
One final word of good Town news from last week is Ireland’s manager is fixed now and it is NOT Mick MacCarthy, so Mick stays with Town as he said he thought he would and now Town can keep pushing on and up the table with Mick still in charge!
COYB! GO TOWN…..