Town boss Paul Jewell will feel happier about Saturday’s draw at Cardiff if his side win their home games against Portsmouth on Tuesday and Crystal Palace next Saturday. The Blues were denied their third successive win in Cardiff by a controversial penalty during Saturday’s 2-2 draw.
Jewell said: "We’re disappointed because of the manner in which it happened. We all have to take defeat on the chin and we have to take knocks and setbacks. But we felt it was a little bit unfair.
"Up until the penalty incident we were in control of the game, we should have gone 3-1 up, the keeper’s made a couple of good saves, but there you go.
"If we win our home games, it’s a good point, but we’re still disappointed in the manner [of Cardiff’s penalty] and we feel a little bit hard done by.”
Striker Jason Scotland, scorer of the Blues’ first goal, said the team also believed they ought to have won: "The boys are disappointed as we felt we dominated the game and we should have got the points.
"We went to West Ham and got three points, so we are disappointed just to get one here. It shows how confident we are.”
The former Swansea man feels that if he’d taken his chance just before Cardiff’s penalty Town would have gone on to claim the victory: "I’m thinking it's two points dropped, we had chances to kill the game off. When the keeper made the save from me, I think that gave them confidence to come back into the game.
"But if I had scored that opportunity, it would have been game over and another three points. I take responsibility that I didn’t put it away — it was a turning point.”
Bluebirds boss Malky Mackay remains unbeaten against Town both as a player and a manager but believes not too much can to be read into that stat: "It’s a Norfolk-Suffolk thing! Ipswich are a team I know well, having been in East Anglia for so long. I know a lot of people who have been through that football club, good people.
"At the moment they’re a very, very experienced team. There’s a lot of investment which has been put into that team.
"They are someone I’ve come up against an awful lot and it’s nice to have periods where you feel you always do OK against a club.
"But there’s no rhyme nor reason for that, obviously, with different managers and players, it’s just nice for it to happen.”
Meanwhile, former Town academy striker Charlie Sheringham, 23, is set to join League One Bournemouth after the Cherries agreed a £25,000 fee with Blue Square Bet South side Dartford. Sheringham, the son of former England frontman Teddy, was a sub in the Town side which won the 2005 FA Youth Cup.
Bournemouth boss Lee Bradbury says he has talked to Blues boss Paul Jewell about extending Jaime Peters’s loan: "I spoke to Paul Jewell on Friday and we are going to speak again today about the possibility of trying to keep him.
"He has worked really hard for the team. He is an explosive player. He needs to isolate himself a little bit more in one against one situations, but we are working on that with him.
"He does a really good shift for the team and is a team player, as well as an individual that can change a game.”
On Friday, Canadian international Peters, who joined the Cherries on September 22nd, said he would be keen on a longer stay in Dorset.