Town boss Mick McCarthy says he has no intention of walking away from his Blues contract as things stand, despite admitting that he’d hate to come back to Portman Road at the start of 2017/18 with season ticket sales well down.
Despite having been undefeated in seven games - six draws and one win - Town were booed at the end of Tuesday’s 0-0 draw with Wolves but McCarthy wasn’t too annoyed or surprised by the reaction.
"Not really, we didn’t play [well in] the second half,” he said. "I thought we were the better team in the first half, they may have had more passes, but we had the better chances in the first half.
"Josh crossed one, Tom did, we had a chance just before half-time with Tom and Didz, and Bart hadn’t made a save at that point.
"We started the second half really well and it just went away from us. To be fair, they’re a good side and their away record is better than their home record.
"I kind of get used to that, I’ve said before I’m a bit ambivalent towards it. If it’s directed at me I’m not that bothered about it any more.
"But I’m bothered about it being about it being at the players and I’m bothered about how supporters feel about their club because players and managers and coaches come and go but the club will always be here.
"And I think it’s sad when people start to feel ambivalent about the club. There wasn’t a good crowd there and I understand it, we’re not doing as well as they’d like us to be. So no, I’m not angry or upset about it at all.”
McCarthy, who is contracted to the Blues until the summer of 2018 with the club having an option for a further two seasons, said in January that he would consider his future in the summer. Will that kind of reaction from fans have a bearing on what he decides to do?
"I’m not walking away from my contract, I’ve no intention of doing that, not at this moment anyway,” he said.
"But, as I said before, I’d also hate to be coming in here with 12,000 or 10,000 season tickets or something when we’ve been used to far better if that’s down to me.
"But having said that, you can start that way and you win two or three games at the very start and people come back. It’s generating that.
"What we’ve got to try and generate is that feelgood factor now before the end of the season if we can do it.”