Town manager Paul Jewell says the squad he has inherited from Roy Keane is strong enough to secure their position in the Championship, but feels new additions would give everyone at Portman Road a lift.
Jewell said: "I think if you said to me that I couldn’t sign anybody between now and the end of the season, there’s enough here. But I think, like everyone, sometimes you need the impetus provided by new players.
"I have to say though, I’ve been really impressed with the players already here, even though we lost last week. I’m impressed with their effort, we just need to get them to settle down a little bit on the ball. But when you’ve lost nine of the last 11, that happens.
"If we managed to win two or three on the spin, you’d see a different team, and that’s the same anywhere you go.
"At the start of the season, when we were winning matches, the game probably looked easy, now all of a sudden, you lose a few games, lose a bit of confidence and everything looks hard. We just need a few results, but I’ve got faith in the players we’ve got here.”
With loanee Rory Fallon returning to Plymouth last week, a frontman looks to be on the new manager’s wish-list, although he’s not 100% certain that he will be adding to his attacking options: "I’m not saying we’re definitely going to sign a striker, I’m thinking that the more good quality players you have trying to get in your team - without being ridiculous like Manchester City - helps everybody.
"We’ll try and improve the squad obviously, but if players walk through the door, we want the players already here to rise to the challenge, not think ‘That’s me out the door’, because that isn’t the case.
"There might well be players leaving, I don’t know, but from what I’ve seen so far, I’m not in a rush to move anybody on.”
The Town boss says his first full week at Playford Road has gone well: "The effort of the players has been terrific, it’s been a good week’s training.
"Hopefully, the result on Saturday will reflect that, that’s the main thing. The players’ effort has been unstinting and we’ve been working extremely hard on lots of things.
"Let’s hope we’ll see the benefits over the rest of the season. It’s going to take time, things do take time, but hopefully we’ll given them some more ideas and hopefully we can put them into practice.
"It’s definitely a long-term project we’ve got here. That was one of the draws for me; it was a project not just about winning on Saturday.
"I’m not daft, I know we’re in a bit of a dog fight, but I’m more than confident that we can get out of it and we’re looking forward to happier times and looking up rather than down. But at the moment we are in the mire and we’ve got to fight to get out of it.”