Town boss Mick McCarthy accepted “a big part of the responsibility” for the Blues' 1-0 home defeat to Rotherham United, Leon Best having scored the winning goal for the Millers a minute before the break.
Unusually, McCarthy made his way straight down the tunnel after the final whistle signalled boos and chants of ‘What a load of rubbish’ from the home support.
"We deserved to get booed but I don’t have to listen to it,” he said. "We’re going for the EPPP in the academy, well that summed it up because it was a ‘piss poor performance’.
"I take a big part of the responsibility because I left the team as it was from Tuesday night having played.
"Whether we hadn’t got the legs or the energy in them for some reason. I watched the game back on Thursday and I thought we played well enough in the game.
"And in hindsight, which is 20:20 vision, maybe I should have changed it. Liam Feeney livened it up. I take a large part of the responsibility.
"In hindsight I wish I’d played a different team, we’d played better and we’d won. Hindsight is 20:20 vision.
"I left the team as it was because we won the game, consistency, leave it as it is. And you know what, if I change it and we play badly and we get beat, it’s the other way around. I have to take responsibility for my actions, which quite clearly I have.”
Regarding the boos and ironic cheers earlier in the game, McCarthy added: "I said the other day, I think people are maybe getting tired of me. Happens, doesn’t it?
"We all want to win, don’t we? And when fans have paid good money to see us play well and win, which we haven’t done, of course I accept them.
"I’m not claiming to be a victim of my own success at all. I just think that it starts, I think people are a bit more tolerant, then you have a couple of bad performances and it doesn’t start going right and they just get tired of seeing us play that way, which I would if we played like that, but we haven’t played that way all the time.
"And I just think people start to get a bit more intolerant of results and performances, but I get being intolerant of that today, because I’ve already said it was ‘EPPP’.”
He says he picked the side he did because of the way he anticipated the game going: "I could see what was coming. As it turned out, we were one down from our own freekick, which we shouldn’t be.
"I sensed the way it was going to be. It wasn’t going to be thrilling or pretty or wide open and expansive and I didn’t want to be in that position where we’ve conceded because we’ve had to defend against long throws, freekicks, corner kicks and we’ve done all of that. And then we’ve conceded a really poor goal.
"A very good goal on their part, I might add, because [it is] if they catch you on the break and do you.
"What I didn’t want to do was be 1-0 down with a nice, pretty team on the field. You can always add and try and create something later in the game, but it’s just not worked out. I’ve had the plaudits in the past, I’m now getting the brickbats, so be it.”
Do fans’ reactions like the one on the final whistle put him off doing the job? "No, not at all.”
What disappointed him most about the performance? "I’m going out for a bite to eat about half-past eight, I might still be here then if I start telling you that.
"All-round, I don’t think any of us, and that stems from me picking the team and how we played and how we’ve set up, to the players, I think none of us have really come out with any glory.”
He added: "[I’ve seen the highs and the lows] and I’m sure I’ve got loads more to come, both of them. Let’s hope more highs than lows.”
Millers' boss Neil Warnock was delighted with the win which took his side out of the bottom three and up to 20th.
"They’ve done ever-so well," he said. "We are limited. The Championship is my cup of tea really. We’re getting out of the lads probably what they didn’t think they could do, and it’s lovely to see them.
"I said to them that I’m going to come in for 14 games and I’m going to enjoy all my time here. There’s no pressure on me because we’re enjoying it.
"I asked them to give me their best and their all and you saw today that you can’t ask any more than that, can you? The tackles and headers, trying to keep the goal intact.
"And really the goalkeeper, Lee Camp, didn’t really have a shot to save, aside from one or two difficult balls into his body.”