Boss Paul Jewell admitted that the Blues’ 1-1 draw at Barnsley felt like a defeat with the Tykes grabbing a late equaliser through Jacob Mellis after Jason Scotland had put Town in front.
Jewell said: "It feels like a defeat when you concede a goal so late and in the manner that it was conceded, with a deflection. It’s difficult to come out and be positive because you feel so sick.
"It wasn’t a great game in the first half, the pitch wasn’t conducive to getting the ball down and passing. It was always going to be a game where mistakes were going to be punished.
"I thought we had a few chances second half on the break and we defended really well, got great blocks in, Márton made a couple of saves and just when you think you’ve got three points, that happens. But that’s football.”
The Town manager was pleased to see striker Scotland making the headlines for scoring rather than because of his proposed loan move back to Swansea, on which front Jewell says there has been no further progress: "There’s nothing going on there as far as I’m concerned. They came back with an offer which wasn’t good enough and I’m quite happy to keep Jason here.”
Skipper David Norris was replaced after 15 minutes after suffering an injury and Jewell says the extent of the midfielder’s knock should be known on Sunday: "He’s twisted both his ankle and his knee, which is a bit of a blow, but these things happen in football and we’ll have to assess him in the morning.”
Tykes manager Mark Robins felt his team were under par: "it was lacklustre today and Ipswich came for a point and made it difficult for us.
"We had plenty of chances, more than Ipswich did, but I couldn't see either team scoring. We stood off them too much and looked like we hadn't played with each other for a while. The positive is we came back from a goal down and ground out a result.
"We got a decent goal at the end of it. I thought Jacob's shot was going to break the back of the net, he hit it that well.
"The pitch was very difficult and beat both teams. Too many of our players had quiet afternoons. I ended up throwing Jason Shackell forward and caused havoc and won some headers and thankfully Jacob has stuck it in the back of the net at the end.
"I think it would have been harsh on us to lose the game. They have broken away against us, had a decent shot, we didn't close him down well enough and the rebound goes into the empty net. It was disappointing, very disappointing, but we stuck at it and got an equaliser."