I came home from a really good holiday in South East Asia not very enthusiastic for football, which is very unlike me.
Since Christmas Ipswich haven't been playing that well or picking up many points, we didn't add to the squad during the January transfer window and lost to Portsmouth in the FA cup after a replay at Fratton Park, so not too much to get excited about.
It was three weeks to the day that I attended my last Town match, the 2-1 home win against Reading, since then we have lost away at both QPR and Bristol City.
High flying Hull City were our visitors, for yet another Tuesday night game. We were more than a match for them in the first half and were unlucky not to go in at halftime with the lead, after Daryl Murphy’s shot had hit the post.
It was City who took the lead though, three minutes after the restart, with a cool finish from Mohamed Diamé, past Bartoz Bialkowski and from that point on they completely controlled the game, in a similar style to what Middlesbrough had done earlier in the season.
As much as we tried the visitors held strong and took all three points back ‘up north’, and remained at the top of the table, bringing our sixteen game winning run on a Tuesday night, to an end in the process.
The defeat, (our fourth in five matches, including the FA Cup loss), dropped us down to tenth place, six points off the play-off places.
When the fixtures were released back in June I picked out next Saturday's away game at Huddersfield, as one to go to, but such is my lack of enthusiasm at the moment, I'm not going to bother! I figure out I'll have another chance to go there next season!
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