Town boss Paul Jewell was given the backing of owner Marcus Evans after the Blues’ 2-1 home defeat to Cardiff City. Keeper Scott Loach was at fault on both goals as the Bluebirds came from behind after DJ Campbell’s controversial opener just before the break.

Jewell revealed that he spoke to Evans after the match: “I’ve just had 15 or 20 minutes in there with Marcus.

“He thinks we’ve played well, he knows what’s required and I’ve got his full support and I appreciate that.

“He sees the vast majority of games and I’ve got his full support. I’m very disappointed with our situation at the moment because I’m a proud man but I’m doing everything I possibly can.

“We could have been sat here and I know it’s ‘ifs, buts and maybes’, but we could have beaten Brighton, who were top of the league, and we could have beaten Cardiff today if we had just seen the game out for a little bit longer and not given such a daft goal away today.”

Once again much of Jewell’s post-match press conference was spent bemoaning individual howlers: “Mistakes are costly at the moment for us. They’re not just little mistakes they’re big errors. It’s cost us the game tonight.

“Let’s have it right, we got a bit of fortune with the goal as it was obviously seen to be handball afterwards.

“We had a great opportunity through JET to make it 2-0, then I thought we defended well and the goal’s just come out of the Blue. It was completely a gift.”

Loach himself apologised for his mistakes on Twitter: “Hold my hands up today. Let the lads and you fans down. Will bounce back and put it right against Hull.”

Told about Loach’s apology, Jewell added: “There’s not a lot he can say. I better read his Twitter page to see what explanation he gives.

“You don’t really want to single players out, but there’s no hiding, two goalkeeping errors have cost us the game.”

He admitted his side never really recovered from the first Cardiff goal: “It was such a devastating blow. If someone scores a good goal, fair enough, but it was the manner of the goal.

“They came into the ascendancy, there’s no doubt about that, they put lots of crosses in. They’ve got a good team and they’re a powerful unit, but I thought we defended all right without really looking like scoring the second goal when it was 1-1. At 1-1 we would have taken 1-1 the way we feel after the goal now.”

The Liverpudlian says that after nine games without a win, his team are lacking self-belief, despite having again performed well for much of the match: “We’re making errors. It’s a bit of confidence.

“In the first half we played really well, I thought. We passed the ball well and even at the start of the second half we had some good opportunities.

“We just can’t get that second goal to give us that bit of a cushion. We’re not getting outplayed by anybody. The only team that outplayed us for 45 minutes was Blackpool and that was a bit of a false scoreline anyway. It’s a devastating blow to concede the two goals we did anyway.”

He admits Town never look secure at 1-0: “I think until we that level where we can see games out at 1-0 you don’t really get that feeling. We needed that second goal.

“I don’t think anyone complained when that goal went in, certainly they didn’t. We had a little bit of fortune but I thought we played well in the first half, had good possession, passed it well, hit the post. I thought the two lads that came in — Richie and DJ Campbell - will be better for the game.”

Jewell confirmed that Michael Chopra had been left out due to this week’s race-fixing charges: “With the situation he’s found himself in, I didn’t think his mind would be in the right place, so that’s why he was left out. He’ll be at training tomorrow.”

Midfielder Guirane N’Daw was left out of the 18 and was spotted outside the ground an hour before the match but Jewell says he remained at Portman Road: “He was in the dressing room after the game. He lives in town and he had probably gone to get his wife.”

Cardiff boss Malky Mackay: “It was an horrendous error by both the officials. Campbell punched the ball in with both his hands and I told the ref at half-time what a mistake he had made. It was an awful error and if the linesman had been where he should have been, he would have seen it.

“Ipswich deserved to be in front at half-time and we showed real character, determination and energy in the second half to get back at them.”

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wrightyblue added 19:16 - Oct 7 Taxi for meekreech!!! And another muppet!! JEWELL OUT!!!!
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marcus139 added 19:22 - Oct 7 Hawks vs Doves. The time for being a dove is OVER. Too many excuses, too much backtracking, too much spin...NOT ENOUGH POINTS. Yes we played Ok in first half. But this has happened for months, it is poor management pure and simple. I expect the players going in at half time were met by a Manager who has just filled them with the same negative thoughts and self pity and whining tht we see every week in interviews. At what point will some of you say that we need to change? When we are in the conference? I am also sick of being told he is a decent fella. I dont care. If that was what we want lets get Rolf Harris in (only in the Sunday papers for right reasons ;-))

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pabloc added 19:37 - Oct 7 Bring in billy Davies or bring back burley.
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gibbo added 19:44 - Oct 7 This is from the Marcus Evans website. Marcus Evans employees come in many shapes and forms, but they all share one thing in common: ambition. Very few organisations offer you such an exciting variety of ways to fulfil your career ambition, whether it be international travel, earning competitive rewards, flexing your managerial skills... or something else entirely. At Marcus Evans, you write the script: we give you the training, the facilities and the encouragement go as far as you can. Our kaleidoscope of clients are depending on Marcus Evans to react quickly, with insight and intelligence and always with absolute professionalism. Marcus Evans demands the same characteristics of our people. Now we want to hear what you, our next potential employee, demand from us. As a paying Town supporter that makes me a client so If this is him acting quickly I hate to see him acting slowly.

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Gazelle added 19:48 - Oct 7 Bring in anybody but unless our owner comes up with some serious money to buy some decent players the results will always be the same so let nobody think that a change of manager will bring about a change of fortune because it won't.
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bennyitfc added 19:54 - Oct 7 Don't agree with the last comment... We have decent players! A fair few of them. DJ Campbell and Higginbotham are players we would have welcomed with open arms during the Summer window. This repeated failure is psychological I think. We have a very decent Championship side now and we just need to find some confidence from somewhere. Let's hope for a win that could lead to a decent run.

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Danfootie added 20:22 - Oct 7 There's a circus in the town in the town Paul Jewell is a clown is a clown And simon clegg well he's a fing tw## Our beloved town are going down going down :( Billy Davies sos
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stoofer added 20:27 - Oct 7 bennyitfc i agree partly with you about the squad,but i honestly think with pj in charge we will not progress,i do believe with the right manager we could see some much improved performances, i live in hope.
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hairbear added 20:44 - Oct 7 Bring Back Burley BBB Brin Back Burley BBB oh i almost forgot JEWELL OUT!!!
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marcus139 added 20:57 - Oct 7 We need a scotsman. Is there a successful scouse manager? They are all blinking scottish. I guess because they sound like they are being aggressive even when they are not. Witness Alex Mathie.
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Lightningboy added 21:01 - Oct 7 Jewell,you need to take a long look at yourself... You seem deluded into thinking that you're doing our club some sort of huge favour by sticking with the job - I can assure you you're not. We know you're frightened that you'll never get a manager's job again but that's your own fault i'm afraid. Now stop hiding behind Marcus's apron strings (it's really pathetic) and do us all a big favour by resigning tomorrow.

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marcus139 added 21:08 - Oct 7 Who put a negative on my comment? I am scottish....
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levington added 21:11 - Oct 7 evans backs jewell's way to the bottom
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wrightyblue added 21:28 - Oct 7 JEWELL OUT
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whiskey added 21:29 - Oct 7 Girls, girls, girls, how many of you actually believe you know how to run itfc? There are many facets to this business and I would chance a guess that 90% of the whining babies on this site could effectively run none of them. Paul Jewel is not to blame for the ineptness of you lot, but you don't hear him or Evans or any of the ambassadors at the club telling you to stick your dummy back in. So listen, you monkeys, when Evans, the rightful owner of the club, decides that the club would be better off with a new manager, I'm sure he will deign to inform you. Until then, how about breathing and resting your little feet from all the stomping? Chow.

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marcus139 added 21:34 - Oct 7 Whiskey, you are indeed a tw*t. Clearly feel some kind of intellectual superiority. Over what?
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marcus139 added 21:36 - Oct 7 I would suggest if you want to be "superior", chow should indeed be ciao.
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roytheboy added 21:48 - Oct 7 Team that seldom scores more than one goal per match, together with Goalkeeper who finds it difficult to hold the ball and smother it, equals division one next season to me. It is my sincere hope that this does not happen and am keeping my fingers crossed for a few significant changes, I was delighted by the way we played in the first half yesterday and generally felt that our defenders were quite solid throughout the match, I was dismayed at times that there were no players in the box to accept a cross and cannot understand how the team is coached when this happens, Scotland didn't offer much and I thought he had put some weight back on, once Campbell was taken off I could not see us scoring and indeed the game changed very soon after. Score at least two goals per match and get a really decent keeper and we'll win a few games, it seems so simple and yet the management do not appear to be thinking along the same lines, maybe it's just me, perhaps I'm old fashioned !

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TractorRoyNo1 added 21:54 - Oct 7 just do the honourable thing and GO NOW while we still have a chance of finding someone who can motivate this gaggle of loanees, has beens and wanabees so we can end up at least one above the relegation places
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scooterblue added 22:40 - Oct 7 to be honest the club are paying for the mistake of spending £4.5m on an italian goalkeeper, £3+m on a nigerian winger and the like. Evan's has fritted away the last 5 years and now we're paying the price for no clear plan. We have an owner we don't know , a CEO who admit's he doesn't know about football and now a manager who doesn't know what to do next. ps anyone who want's to know want our owner looks like look on youtube . he is on a sky sports golf day with harry redknapp.

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cjmchippie added 06:57 - Oct 8 How ever comes in can not possibly do any worse. Last season lost 7 in a row this season have only won 1 game And that was a last minute goal. I personally can't remember in previous managers ever Getting so heavily beaten by oppositions at the same standard So frequarently and go out to lower league opposition in the cups. Jewell worse manager in clubs history please resign So you don't get any more money out of our club for The terrible job you have done

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Premiertown added 11:11 - Oct 8 I watched the game on Sky, was going until I realised the time switch for tv. Thank God i didnt. It was a poor game played out by a team with little confidence and a team that thought it would lose again to its bogey side. Cardiff were dire in the first half and could only get better. The ref gave us a start which we never looked like getting and when Cardiff woke up in the second half and we made the usual game changing substitutions (for the worse as usual) we fell away. Loach was never the standard of keeper we need and young players like Cresswell getting battered every week will lose form and confidence. Most of the players we accumulate are not wanted by their clubs, so how can they change to world beaters coming to us with little tactics and a failed coaching staff. It is the coaching that will save us and that is not coming from the current shower.

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bluemingood added 14:44 - Oct 8 Onwards and upwards. This squad will overcome the wobblies. I thought that about the young early season squad but I was wrong. I dont think I am wrong this time.
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yorksblue added 18:47 - Oct 8 Red card day required at next home match, towards the board as well as manager
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