Town boss Mick McCarthy says he’d love the Blues to play “play nicer, more attractive football”, however, not at the expense of another season spent towards the wrong end of the table. He admits that the second half of the last campaign became about avoiding relegation.
McCarthy, whose side finished 16th in 2016/17, has said the Blues are "trying to play more and certainly on the floor”, something which has been evident in pre-season matches.
Does he believe fans need to be patient as this new style is bedded in during the early stages of 2017/18?
"It became a means to an end last year, it was about staying up from Christmas onwards,” McCarthy told BBC Radio Suffolk.
"I was never going to say it then, although I did say it privately, I wouldn’t have said it publicly because that’s not going to impress anybody.
"But that’s what it was about and it was about being hard to beat, pretty much most of the time. That didn’t always happen. We had a lot of draws, of course.
"I'd love to play nicer, more attractive football, but I’d always say not at the cost of being at the bottom of the league, of course.
"But I’m not asking anybody to be patient, I think they’ve run out of patience, we’ll have to get them back on my side.”
Reflecting further on the second half of last season, he added: "We were always going to be in the bottom half of the league from Christmas and beyond there, I thought.
"Being in the bottom half of the league, it was that close that you’re always going to be threatened with relegation, which was the case.
"We were never in the bottom three or anywhere near that for a while, but I knew from Christmas it was just going to be a scrap to be in the top half of the table and anybody from halfway down to the bottom at one stage could have gone, there weren’t that many points between us.”