Blues boss Mick McCarthy says he has no plans to speak to owner Marcus Evans about his future during the international break which follows Saturday's game at Bristol City and dismissed suggestions that his contract situation should have been resolved before now.
The under-fire Town manager is out of contract at the end of the season but with Evans having the option to keep him for two further campaigns.
Asked if he planned to use the international break to speak to Evans about the future, he said: "No, I’m not planning to have a chat with him about anything. I think I said the other night I had 10 games, I’ve got nine games now and I fully intend to continuing doing them and trying to get as many points as possible.”
After the events of Tuesday, is he looking forward to the break? "I don’t need it in relation to me, how I feel and having time off and getting away from people giving out stick to me, not at all.
"In fact, the more people give out stick to me the more belligerent I get, so be careful.”
McCarthy has said he’s sick of answering questions about his future and his contract. Could the situation have been avoided if an early decision had been taken? "Not really, no. You just all want to know, it’s like you all want that little snippet of information.
"I’m got no idea how many people would be glad to see the back of me after Tuesday night, and even before that.
"I’ve said before, be careful what you wish for. I think there’ll be a fair amount of people, and lots I’ve spoken to who have given me support and they would like me to stay.
"But that’s not been resolved and until it is, I’ll make sure you’re the first to hear.”
Might having his future already resolved have prevented the events of Tuesday evening?
"I guess so, I guess if they’d turned around and offered me a new five-year contract and said they wanted me to stay here and continue doing what I’m doing on the budget that we’ve got, getting the team to play however we play and do and getting the results we get over and above what would probably be expected, I wonder what people would say if he said that,” he reflected.
"I don’t think any message Marcus gives out, and he’s never been one to be speaking too often to you [the media] and, of course, the more you clamour for it, the less likely it’s going to come because he’s not going to be pressurised into it, as I’m not going to be pressurised into anything either.”
Does he feel it’s unfair he’s the one always answering the questions with Evans remaining taciturn with ME Ian Milne putting over the club’s position publicly.
"I don’t do fair and unfair really, I just keep coming out and doing my job,” the Blues manager added. "I don’t think you’ve heard me come in here and moan too much about anything, have you?
"And I keep doing it, and continue to keep doing it. And by speaking to me and asking me it’s not going provoke Marcus into coming to speak to you. And I’m actually comfortable with it, I’m cool with it.”
He says he fully understands why Evans hasn’t sought to make an early decision on his future: "It’s interesting, we had this discussion before Christmas and I said then that you’d have to wait and see.
"What if I decided I wasn’t going to stay, irrespective of [anything else]? There wouldn’t have been a change of manager then. My contract would have been seen out anyway.
"If I’d have turned round and said I wasn’t staying, I wonder how that would have affected the whole piece.
"I’m not going to compare myself to Sir Alex Ferguson, but the time he and told everybody he was [leaving at the end of the season], suddenly players looked like they’d downed tools and didn’t play any more.
"And the following season he stayed and, of course, they won the league. So, that would have been remiss of me and I think very unprofessional if I’d have decided that.
"And what happens if Marcus had come out and said, ‘No, I’m not keeping him’ and I’m going. I wonder how I would have felt about that, and everybody else.
"They might have been throwing their hats and knickers in the air, dancing on the table, I haven’t got a clue.
"But I’d have still been here, I wouldn’t have gone. I wouldn’t have said, ‘Well, I’m going to go then, if you’re not going to keep me, I’m going to go, I’m going to walk out’.
"No way, I said I’d got my 12 months at the end of last season and I was going to see my job and that’s what I intend to do, and if Marcus wants to extend that, I will consider that, certainly.
"And I might consider it even more now after all the people are trying to get me out, just to really annoy them.”