Town boss Mick McCarthy says he’s been pleased with on-loan Fulham midfielder Ben Pringle's form since he joined the Blues in February. Pringle, 26, is ineligible for tonight's game at Portman Road against his parent club.
"He’s done well, he’s scored a couple of winners as well," McCarthy said. "He’s done more in his short spell than some of the midfield players have done in terms of scoring, certainly important goals.
"He can’t play when we’re playing against his parent club. I know when he came in and he scored a couple of goals early on, he was getting a bit of stick from the other [players there] saying ‘Stop it!’, they were having a tough time and he was scoring for us. He’s done all right Ben, I’ve been pleased for him."
Pringle has made nine starts and one sub appearances for the Blues, scoring twice.
Regarding the former Rotherham man joining the Blues permanently in the summer, McCarthy added: "He’s got another year a Fulham, so that’s not down to me. We’ll wait and see and talk about it when the season finishes.”
Meanwhile, the Town boss says a line has been drawn under Brett Pitman’s irate reaction to Jonas Knudsen choosing to shoot rather than pass to him in the closing stages of Saturday’s game at Hillsborough.
"I get that [he was frustrated],” McCarthy said. "I’ve spoken to him, it doesn’t have to be as publicly visible as what it was.
"I said to him today, ‘Have you seen the chance?’ and he said, ‘It wasn’t as clear-cut as I thought it was on the day’. I went ‘Really? Strange that!’.
"I said, ‘Had it been Kolarov coming into the box playing for Manchester City and it had been Aguero on the inside, maybe Kolarov might have hit it first time, he might have seen him and maybe Aguero would have controlled it and put it in the net’.
"That was the kind of chance it was, it wasn’t just, ‘Roll me in and I’ll sidefoot it in the net’. But, on the day, that’s just what he thought it was.
"We all see it differently. We all have a different perception on it. And by the way, I want him to be angry if he thinks that’s cost us and we could have won.
"But, as I said on Saturday, if we were all the best, I’d be doing something different and so would they.
"But Jonas took the vote for the yellow jersey [awarded to the worst player in training] today and Pitman got it, strangely enough, so he got his own back!
"It was never in doubt, was it? The 'old' team lost, so they took a vote. I’m sure it was fair and it was democratic, [whispers] ‘Pitman!’. So he’ll be wearing the yellow jersey on Thursday.”