Former Blues skipper and coach Tony Mowbray has, perhaps unsurprisingly, ruled himself out of the running for the Town job. As reported last week, Mowbray’s assistant at Middlesbrough, another ex-Blue Mark Venus, has applied for the job, but appears to be very much an outsider.
Boro boss Mowbray said: "Ipswich is a lovely club, I met my wife in Ipswich, I love the area and it’s a fabulous football club. It’s sad to see where they are at the moment.
"But I have no interest in the job and have had no thoughts about it. I’m quite happy to be ruled out of the reckoning.
"Football management is not necessarily a job you enjoy all the time because of the highs and lows.
"But we’re trying to build something here, it’s something that the chairman is supportive of and I hope the supporters are also behind us in what we are trying to do.
Meanwhile, another ex-Town captain and former manager, Jim Magilton, who is currently in Qatar with his former Blues team-mate Chris Makin and others, appears to expect Mick McCarthy to be appointed to his old job, tweeting: "Mick will sort things out quickly - you are in safe hands!”