Blues boss Paul Jewell has dismissed claims that his players don’t care whether they bring success back to Portman Road. While the Town manager was unhappy with their recent display at Burnley, he felt that last week’s performance against Watford showed that they are very much fighting for the cause.
Jewell says the players were down after losing 2-1 to the Hornets having been a goal in front: "The players were distraught, believe it or not.
"I felt the players on Saturday owed that performance to themselves as well as the supporters. They didn’t win the game but it wasn’t through the lack of trying.
"Everybody loses and we all hate losing but as much as it hurt on Saturday, I can take that defeat because we lost the right way. I know I can’t take the Burnley one."
He says he would have been somewhat downcast if the Turf Moor display had been replicated against Watford: "If we’d had a repeat of the Burnley performance against Watford I would have had some serious thinking to do because if you see that you think the players have given up, but I don’t think I saw that on Saturday.”