With Ipswich unbeatable at home (and unstoppable until Barnsley arrived), it throws up an interesting question. Would a season ticket holder be happy for Ipswich to go the entire season unbeaten at home, but not make the play-offs?
The obvious answer to such a question seems, on the face of it, to be no. What self respecting Ipswich fan wouldnt want their team to win promotion?
What fan wouldnt want to see us competing at the top end of the division?
Yet the premise of football is to provide entertainment. Those purchasing a season ticket are doing so to be entertained in every home match during a season.
So, if we are able to average 3 goals a game, win every single one (excepting Barnsley, spoiling it for all of us) and play fantastic open football, shouldnt we be happy that we have been given everything that we paid for?
Then consider the old, and probably quite valid, cliche that you cant voice an opinion on the match and the performance of the team if you havent attended the game in question. If the team are to win every home game (bar pesky Barnsley, ruining the entire concept), but drop enough points away from home to lose out on a play-off place, does a season ticket holder, paying for home games only, have a right to complain?
The answer, of course, lies in the fact that supporting a football team is about more than just the product in front of you at any given time. It is about many other external factors that all impact upon that organisation that are so vital to all of us.
And that is the reason why those complaining about disappointing home attendances in the midst of the clubs best home form in years, should acknowledge that stay-away fans might just be doing so because everything is not right away from Portman Road.
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