Town boss Paul Jewell admitted that it was difficult to see too many pluses - other than there being plenty of the season still to go and another game at Burnley on Tuesday - after the Blues’ 3-2 defeat to Reading at Portman Road on Saturday, with the club in what he called “a dark place”.
Jewell said: "The pluses I can take are that there are 29 games left and we’ve got a game on Tuesday.
"It’s very difficult at the moment for Ipswich Town people to see any pluses, it’s a dark place we’re in at the minute.
"We have to get out of it, no one’s going to help us out, we have to fight and scrap and try and get a result from somewhere that turns us around.
"It’s not going to be a vintage performance from us at the moment, we’re going to have to nick a win. We should have nicked two wins out of the last two games and the whole table would have looked rosy. We know we’re making it difficult for ourselves.”
The increasingly under pressure boss told his players to start preparing for Tuesday’s trip to Turf Moor straight after the game: "What I’ve said to them is that we’ve got to go again on Sunday.
"Everybody’s culpable, people have got jobs to do, ie picking up people from set plays, and in the last two games they haven’t done them.
"There’s not too much to say other than we’re frustrated, we’ve got to start again on Sunday and look forward to the game on Tuesday because in football there’s no hiding place. You can’t run away from it, it’s there, it’s life and as low as I feel at the moment, I’ll face the music.”