Boss Paul Jewell says he will think over his Town position over the weekend after the Blues stretched their run of games without a win to 10 at Hull City. Jewell will consult with club owner Marcus Evans and other people close to him as he assesses what he feels is best not just for himself but for the club.

With banners calling for his exit again on show amongst the Town support, he says he empathises with where those supporters are coming from: “The fans of this football club, more than most, travel every other week huge distances and they’re not happy. I fully understand that and I accept the criticism that comes my way. I’ve had it before.

“What I want to do is what’s best for the club. I don’t want to quit but at the same time I have to realise what the best thing is for Ipswich, not just Ipswich, me as well, and the team. I have a lot of thinking to do over the weekend and we’ll see where it takes us.”

He says he considers where things are after each match, not just at the difficult times: “I think every game, whether we win a game or lose the game.

“It isn’t just one occasion. We have to look at the bigger picture for Ipswich and think ‘Am I the man to take them forward?’ and if I decide when I speak to Marcus and one or two other people who are close to me, if I decide the best thing for Ipswich is not to be here, then I’ll do that.

“I don’t want to do that, I’ve got to be honest and I hope the answers I come up with are positive answers but I’ve got to be honest with myself and honest with Marcus and honest with people close to me.”

As regards the game itself, he said: “Losing a late goal has been the bane of us really, but I think Hull deserved to win. I don’t think anyone who was at the game can say they didn’t deserve to win it.

“They put 31 crosses into the box and we didn’t stop any and they deservedly won the game. I’m not hiding behind anything.

“Late goals are very difficult to take, but the reason we concede late goals is because we allow crosses to come into the box.”

Hull boss Steve Bruce was relieved but felt his side deserved their victory: “For me it was the right result, we were the only ones who were trying to win it.

"I can understand Ipswich trying to hang on with the position they were in and scoring in the last couple of minutes is always great.”

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LordMamu added 09:46 - Oct 21 I honestly think we should go for Terry Butcher with Matt Holland as assistant...
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opinionscount4nothin added 09:49 - Oct 21 These boys have gone back in time - when I were a boy, Div 1 was the place to be!! Unfortuneately they renamed it all!!
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Lombokblue added 09:52 - Oct 21 We've got 3 winnable games coming up . Half of me wants him to stay as he says he has a decent squad and he could turn it around but realistically this season has been an absolute shambles. When you're 10 games in and you've got 5 new loanees on the pitch who have little match practice. One of whom is just getting fit to play for Leicester another is from Southend . Apart from Tommy Smith none of our young players have made any progress and the only reason Smith has progressed is because PJ couldn't get a loanee cenre half. His desperation is affecting the team ( if you can call it a team). Time to go

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TractorRoyNo1 added 09:53 - Oct 21 Is it me? Why all this guff about feeling sorry for him, nice guy, etc. He has been rubbish from day one, should have been sacked after norwich or Peterborough debacles. He probaby gets 1 million a year and is now hanging on for a pay off. Even bankers get the sack.
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Len_Brennan added 10:05 - Oct 21 Although Curbishley has been out of the game for a bit longer than I'd like, he may well be the best option available to us right now. i would also like the idea of Matt Holland as his number 2, if he has gotten his coaching badges. He may be happy enough with his media work, but it would be an ideal way for him to serve an apprenticeship. Redknapp is not the man for this type of job. McCarthy or Coyle would probably do a decent job in sorting us out into a decent Championship side to be fair. The big problem though, as many have said, is Simon Clegg. Both Keane & Jewell have made dreadful decisions & have equal responsibility in taking the club into the worst crisis of my lifetime, but they both did it on his watch, under his strategy & his stipulations. The story of the time, opportunity & money that has been wasted under Clegg's inept stewardship is a tale that stands out even in this age of unprecedented global economic crisis. Jewell's fingertip hold on his job before yesterday's match, was severely loosened by the performance & result and has become utterly untenable after his own subsequent comments.

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Eeyore added 10:06 - Oct 21 Though our position is very upsetting, PJ has now put a new team together and this was their first game. PJ now needs another month. I fear worse to come and possibly relegation if he goes, and yet another team is put together. PJ's team is definitely not relegation material and I can even see a top ten finish. Just look at the quality players we have now! Once this thing starts rolling there will be no stopping them. Hold on a bit longer. Remember previous managers who started badly.

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BlueBadger added 10:07 - Oct 21 Don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.
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bugledog123 added 10:11 - Oct 21 I like PJ but the results are just not happening. Give him a couple more games and see if the loanees will make a difference and if not then give him his P45.
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hairbear added 10:11 - Oct 21 Good to hear about the banners, hopefully the clown goes but if not more banners & protests on tues please. CLOWN OUT!!!
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gibbo added 10:18 - Oct 21 Does sounds like he's hoping for the sack so he still gets paid, As I dont understand what Monday will tell him that yesterday didn't. Don't care who we get as a cardboard cut out could do a better half time team talk.
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Morgan added 10:20 - Oct 21 Enough is enough. No offence pj I still think you are a personable and decent guy but your just not doing the business and it would be better to leave now whilst we have a chance of getting out of it than waiting until its too late an things turning nasty. I've got my tickets to B'ham away would be nice to be watching with hope for a fresh future. Lets be honest though we are going to enter a rebuilding period again that could take years when you look at our team of loanees and mercs

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thechangingman added 10:24 - Oct 21 Assuming that PJ's days at Town are over (which now seems inevitable: the only issue being WHEN?) then I am afraid to say that another painful problem presents itself... I.e. who in their right mind would want to come and manage Town??!!??? For us fans it's a dream job, but in the Real World I can't really see who'd want it. ITFC is a now a footballing back-water in every sense of the word - miles from anywhere both geographically and in terms of aspiration and success. On a weekend in which Naaridge beat Arsenal the chasm between 1st and 2nd in East Anglian couldn't be any more stark. These are truly very, very dark days for Town, by far the worst I've experienced in over four decades. This being the state of play - who do we really think will be queuing up to come here? It won't be so much a case of us drawing up a short-list as us scraping the dregs from the bottom of the barrel of those inept or inexperienced enough to have Town on their radar. I take NO pleasure at all in making these observations - the situation, however, is far too dire to go into the euphoria of denial and start spouting names the like of Redknapp et al. I have the hideous déjà vu feeling that we're about to get back on exactly the kind of soul-destroying managerial merry-go-round that we've been trying to get off for the past five years.... Please God, let me be wrong - I suspect that many other mature, non-emotive and reflective Town fans will, with great reluctance, agree with these painful sentiments.

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brittaniaman added 10:32 - Oct 21 We all know that Jewellio is no Bobby Robson !!So why is
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levington added 10:33 - Oct 21 If he wimped off home to Bradford last night he ain't coming back. No fight and a cowards way out.
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linesyrules added 10:40 - Oct 21 We are heading to league one, simples. Poor management, rubbish team full of loan players who dont care. Sad times at Portman Road, walk Jewell before we are completely screwed.
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brittaniaman added 10:41 - Oct 21 So why is Evans hanging on to him (finishing my comment) This is the only part of Evans Empire that does not make money ???? even Bob Shelley on the radio this morning says he is not bothered whether he goes on Tues. and he has been a very ardent supporter through thick and thin, the trouble is that is how a lot of fans feel ??? DIV 1 IS UNTHINKABLE !!!!!!
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StuartBrett8 added 10:42 - Oct 21 On a positive note... JET's goal was class
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BYRNE_16 added 10:44 - Oct 21 This is the best he has said since being at the club
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Millsey added 10:56 - Oct 21 Sat up till midnight to get the game updates on TWTD forum and actually thought we had a point. Moved over to see how Lowestoft were getting on only to see they lost 3-2. Went back to read the forum again and find we'd pissing well been beaten. Totally gutted.....again.
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skankerman added 10:57 - Oct 21 Curbs with Matt Holland would get my vote
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blues1 added 11:00 - Oct 21 i actually told myself i wouldnt comment in defence of clegg again but yey again people on here blqming him for things that are not his fault. tractastic, a good post ,however you say you dont blame M.E. but blame clegg for 2 bad managerial appointments. M.E. is the man who appoints managers, not clegg. people are blaming him for results on the pitch now. again, nothing to do with him. as far as signing of players, he signs the players the manager asks him for, within the financial guidelines set by M.E. dont get me wrong, im not saying hes a good ceo, or a bad 1, i dont know, as i dont see what he does from day to day. but then, nor does ne1 on here. just i dont use him as the scapegoat for everything thats going wrong at this moment in time. all i do know is that the problems we have on the pitch, which to me is the thing of main importance to me, is down to poor management & coaching, so much as id have liked him to succeed, its time for pj to throw in the towel and go. of ciurse M.E. needs to get the mext appointment right. i believe we should be going for some1 such as robinson at mk, giving him a 5 year contract with a clear plan for the length of that contract. i for 1 would accept there may still be some bad times ahead if i knew there was a long term objective in place for the club. of course it would mean fans would have to be patient, which lets face it we havent been the last few years(understandably), me included. but of course for this to happen pj needs to go 1st. for the guy saying give him 5 more games with these players hes just brought in. sorry, but if things didnt change by then, we'd have no chance of avoiding relegation at all, as wed be too far adrift.

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blue78 added 11:02 - Oct 21 Enough is enough time for Jewell to do the right thing he can no longer get anything from the players. Time for Evans to do the right thing and pay Jewell his contract up. Then go get Owen Coyle in fast. TODAY.
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blue78 added 11:08 - Oct 21 Terry Butcher is a hero of mine but as manager of ITFC no Tks track record in England as a boss is not good. Like the idea of Matt Holland in as a coach.
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Bergholtblue added 11:14 - Oct 21 Whilst Matt Holland was a fantastic servant of the club, he has made to moves to become a coach or manager, so why would anyone think he would be inetrested in a role here? His burgeoning medai career will certainly be less strassful! Patrick Kluivert was in the news by saying he wants to manage a top Premiership club. Why not start with us?
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truthhurts added 11:20 - Oct 21 Difficult one in terms of who we get in if Jewell does go. Any ideas? Basically don't kid yourselves that a Redknapp type will come in. No chance. That means maybe an up and coming manager. Looks good on paper but maybe a risk given our current position? I like the idea of an experienced head with Holland as a no.2 to ultimately take over. He is Town through and through. Would like to think our supporters would give him fair chance? Wouldn't guarentee that though!!

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