IRELAND STRIKER DARYL Murphy has been named Championship player of the month for November while his Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy collecting the manger’s award.
Murphy has enjoyed an upturn in fortunes over the last few weeks have struggled to replicate his prolific form of last season in the early stages of this campaign.
The Waterford-born forward ended his 13-game drought with a hat-trick at Rotherham at the start of the month and finished November with six goals to his name.
His own personal form mirrored that of his team as the Tractor Boys picked up 10 points from a possible 12.
It was Murphy’s first career treble while he also found the back of the net with headers against Wolves and Charlton.
“He had to wait a while for the goals to come this season,” McCarthy said of his striker.
“He wasn’t doing anything different to last year, it just wasn’t happening for him. There were signs it was all coming back though and he certainly had a great November.
“Six goals for us and he played his part in Ireland getting to the European Championships.
“Hopefully he will have the Finals to look forward to next summer, what an incentive that is for him.”
McCarthy was also recognised this month as he saw his side climb to ninth in the standings, just a point outside the play-off berths.
Ipswich face MK Dons tomorrow at 12.30pm.
Egg chasing is so fecking boring. Who likes this rubbish bar a few wasps ??
Ah Ed, surely you can do better than that. That line has been used over and over again by many different trolls. Be a bit original please.
So why bother watching ir commenting?
His Ashton style diving could have cost his team the game. He could easily have made some yards towards the posts for both his tries and given his kicker a much better chance of nailing the conversion. Awesome step and acceleration for that second try though.
Thought the exact same thing. Talented but classless.
It’s just silly. You get your biggest lad to come crash into us then we do the same with our biggest lad. Backward and archaic with little or no skill involved. Guess that’s why it’s mainly a colonial game with little worldwide appeal
Most games are silly and most world wide games are English imported to keep stupid natives distracted while they raped and pillaged their lands. Distracted by playing, watching or commenting on the stupid games. Damn those tricky Brits
Ed what’s ur sport of choice?
Not many comments on your article. Wonder why?
Not many comments on any of the articles on TheScore.ie. Ever since they split the sections into different apps, people don’t seem to bother switching between them.
Coz the Rugby crowd is out on the town