Luke Chambers believes Town’s recent record of just one win in seven outings is not a true reflection of the team’s displays since the turn of the year.

Having ended 2012 on a high note, with successive away wins at Charlton and Wolves, their recent run has seen them slip to within one point of the Championship drop zone.

Chambers said: “Obviously, the points tally hasn’t been what we would have wanted it to be, but performance-wise I think we’ve been pretty happy with the way things have gone.

“It’s just that the results haven’t mirrored what we feel we have deserved. We just need to focus on why we’ve conceded goals and why we’re not picking up the points. We’re doing that every day in training.

“The gaffer’s not changed anything really. We know what brings success and what got us on a decent run when the gaffer first came in so we’re not panicking by any means. We’re just concentrating on the game on Saturday.”

Blackpool are the visitors to Portman Road and despite last weekend’s 1-0 defeat at Blackburn there will be no complaints if Town can make it two wins on the trot in front of their own fans.

Chambers added: “I wouldn’t say anything has gone wrong but we’ve conceded some sloppy goals. You can see that when things come together for us we end up beating a team like Middlesbrough 4-0.

“I think there is such a small margin for error in games in the Championship — anything can happen at any given moment.

“It seems at the minute that we are giving teams two or three chances in a game and they are managing to score from one or two of them. On the flip side of things, we’re not taking our chances as well as we would like and that seems to be coming back to bite us a little bit.”

Town, along with Huddersfield, remain bottom of the Championship’s scoring chart with 33 goals in 31 league games and Chambers does not believe the blame lies with the forwards.

He said: “We can’t just single out the strikers. I think it’s everyone — we need goals from all over the team. That’s been a theme from the start of the season. We need goals from every department.

“Thankfully Tommy [Smith] and I have managed to come up with a few lately. We’re just hoping to add to the team as we can. We definitely need goals from our midfield and the strikers up front are paid to score goals. It’s not singling anyone out — we just need to put the ball in the back of the net.”

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andys_legg added 06:29 - Feb 15 I like Chambers he wears guy liner you have to respect a man for that!
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Radlett_blue added 07:18 - Feb 15 Does anyone today, apart from footballers, still refer to their boss as "gaffer"?
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Keaneish added 08:38 - Feb 15 Ipswich Town Skipper next season no question. When was the last time Edwards interviewed!?
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gazmangaz added 08:40 - Feb 15 How can letting in sloppy goals and missing the few chances we create equate to a decent performance. It seems the town players don't know what a decent performance means let alone produce one. Yes we beat Middlesborough but every team is beating them at the moment. To avoid any doubt a decent performance involves scoring more than the opposition and this rarely happens !

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Brazils_Hair added 09:35 - Feb 15 Does he really wear Guy Liner? I have just had to look that up on Google as I have never heard of it before now. If it is true and it transpires that he does wear Guy Liner, then I am very very disappointed indeed. Very disappointed.
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goat_man added 09:58 - Feb 15 What a lot of nonsense. Performances over the course of the season have been, by and large, very poor. Hence why we are two places above the drop zone!
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BillBlue added 10:20 - Feb 15 Strikes me the comments about Guy Liner are more to the point than those relating to the performances. By the way Brazils Hair, you could have told us the answer because I had to Google it too!
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portmanteau added 11:41 - Feb 15 funny how the MM story about it going to the last match has been removed.
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ernie added 13:08 - Feb 15 utter, utter drivel. Why have they brought him out to trot out such rubbish? Where were the 'good' performances in the Barnsley, Bristol C and Blackburn games?
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Keaneish added 13:56 - Feb 15 If those -3's were from people who think Edwards should be skipper...
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Garv added 14:45 - Feb 15 Keaneish I think the negatives were more for your 'when was Edwards last interviewed' comment. Captaincy isn't really about giving interviews is it?
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ernie added 18:10 - Feb 15 Edwards interviews all the time and tends to talk rubbish when he is
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