Blues boss Paul Cook hinted that right-back Kane Vincent-Young could return at Charlton tomorrow but gave few details regarding the fitness of his squad ahead of the trip to the Valley, and admitted it’s been a tough few days since the 3-0 defeat at AFC Wimbledon.
Cook has shown a reluctance to talk about players’ injuries in his pre-match press conferences since he came to Town and has said he’d prefer the club to release that information to the media.
"We can't be going from game to game speaking about individual players because results are bad in general or the results are not great,” he said.
"The reality is we speak about injured players more and more. You know, we've had a lot of injuries this year from game to game, we've been chopping and changing the team.
"So while Kane Vincent-Young has come through the U23s on Tuesday, he's come through it fine, the reality is he's been training now for nearly a couple of weeks and is very much to the fore of what we're thinking about doing tomorrow. But I don't want to go through every individual player if that's OK.”
Asked how the players have been since Tuesday, Cook responded: "I don't really care.”
But he needs a reaction from that performance? "Since the relegation two and a half years ago, Ipswich Town fans have probably had false dawns, players playing well for two games, the inconsistencies, people flattering to deceive, going on four-game runs and not scoring a goal and having clean sheets for three.
"I'm bored of it. Successful clubs sustain what they do. Successful clubs have high energy, big tempo, flair players, creative players that create chances and score goals.”
Keeper Tomas Holy has started all of Cook’s games so far, would he like to take a look at Dai Cornell in competitive action before the end of the campaign? "Again guys, I fully understand the questions you have. Since Wimbledon away, we've had a tough couple of days at the club, as you can imagine.
"Every player who is not playing should be wanting to play, every player who wasn't on the starting sheet at the start of the game at Wimbledon becomes a better player because we get beaten 3-0.
"But the brutal reality is they haven't become better players and they are the same players. What happens at clubs like ours when you go through periods that we go through, we're all clamouring for something that works.
"Sometimes the solution isn't in the building and the solution isn't around the club. The solution has to come from outside the building.
"This club now has had a period of non-success for too long. Whether it lasts another six games is not really to the fore of my mind. The downward spiral has to stop soon and an upward spiral has to begin.
"So I'm not going to carry on discussing players individually and who starts and who doesn't start. The brutal reality for us, and I'm the manager of the club and leader of the football team at the minute, is we’re not happy, we're licking our wounds, we're going to Charlton tomorrow desperate to make our supporters happy. But I'm sure our supporters fully understand what's going on.”
Josh Harrop will be unavailable for tomorrow's game and the following two for his red card at Wimbledon.