Boss Roy Keane was frustrated that the Blues recorded yet another draw - their 15th in the league this season - as the home game with Middlesbrough ended 1-1. However, the Town manager conceded that it was a fair result.

Keane said: "Our performances generally haven't been too bad but it's another draw and draws don't get you anywhere fast.

"When you look back at all the draws we've had we might have been better to lose half and win the other half.

"Somebody must be making money out of us by predicting draws every week and we shouldn't begrudge them that.

"But this was a typical Championship game. Both teams had chances, it finished 1-1 and we all go home. Boring."

The Blues boss felt his side needed a better final ball: "Scoring goals has been a problem for us all season.

"In the second half we got in some really good positions but we just needed the final ball. The final ball is the most important one in football.

"If you look at what happens between the two boxes we do reasonably well. But what goes on in the boxes is what life's all about.”

Keane was pleased with his two new loanees: "It was a great start for us, the perfect start and we looked comfortable for the first half.

"It was a good ball in from David and Murph did well to get on the end of it. But we needed a second goal, particularly in the Championship where teams can score from set-pieces and we saw that again today.

"Middlesbrough gave us a few scares in the second half and, after they scored, they had the momentum, so the result was probably about right.

"I was fairly pleased with our performance generally. It was a disappointing goal to concede but we defended fairly well against a decent side.

"It was a risk putting David and Murph in because they've not had a lot of football and Jon Walters, who has been out with a hamstring injury and hasn't trained much, but they came through well.

"I was delighted with the two new lads, they linked up well and their fitness levels were excellent but we have another game on Tuesday and we will have to be careful with them."

Middlesbrough boss Gordon Strachan also felt a draw was the correct outcome: "I thought it was a fair result. Ipswich were the better team in the first half.

"We were getting used to a right-back playing in the middle of the park and a left-back playing on the left of midfield.

"We weren't ready for that type of game, with so many new players, and it was unsettling.

"Had it been a nice simple, passing game we might have been all right and we'd have settled in but it was ferocious to start with.

"The fact we then went a goal down so early on threw the guys who were playing out of position into a bit of shock.

"But our mental strength got better as the game went on. We showed we can play but we have to learn to be more professional in the first couple of minutes.

"Sometimes when a team score early on it's a brilliant goal and you can't do anything about it.

"But with this one we were so embarrassed, down the left-sided area, that we crumbled. It took us until half-time to settle everyone down."

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naaridge1coly7 added 12:31 - Feb 7 wickedblue.....ur obviously a keane fan,,,,,,,u like him make me cringe,this club is going so backwards with evans,clegg and keane at the helm.......just look at the nosedive since sheepshanks,bowden n clegg have gone.....i rest my case......
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naaridge1coly7 added 12:34 - Feb 7 i meant burley above before u steam in and correct me,sorry
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AJblue added 12:50 - Feb 7 Well i will leave you all to your misery then. you honestly remind me of the man at the end of the bar crying into his beer, cos his wife doesnt understand him! Naaridge, administration,selling off the family jewels etc, yes we wer in such a good place weren't we? I'll be back when you lot grow up.
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dirtydingusmagee added 13:05 - Feb 7 injured, respect your view, but cant see why you get uptight, WE DO ALL SUPPORT the Team ,i would nt support anyone else, i dont boo on terrace, i get behind team as best as i can even though its costing me a small fortune getting to watch, this is a forum where we come and express our views [perfectly legitimate idea i think ]the fact that we dont all agree seems to trouble you!, look at it like this should we all eat same thing,drink same thing ,drive same car, keep same breed of dog ,go to same place on holiday,as you....no. so who really needs to grow up. Come on say your bit,we all do, but get real we dont all share same views .COYB

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bluetoba added 14:36 - Feb 7 Two points from two recent Premier clubs.Not what we want at this time but it'll do.
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kirbs added 14:42 - Feb 7 injured - atleast with all that happening we were a premiership team and even getting relegated we were always in and around the play offs. now we have money and looking like we are going down to the third tier of english football! i prefer the days when we were around the play offs. Roy keane is destroying this club, he hasnt supported ipswich his whole life and when he gets sacked or what ever he is not going to care about ipswich. sack keane and bring a prooven manger to this club.

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SurreyITFC added 15:05 - Feb 7 In the summer every town fan thought we were going to walk away with the league with Keane in charge! So we now sit 4th from bottom and people are saying he should be sacked! Geat real, Keane will not be at sitting at home and be happy with how the season has gone so far but to be fair to him it's down to the PLAYERS once the game starts to all have the DESIRE to win football matches and Keane can only do so much once the game is on. Magilton had 3 seasons in charge and did not get us promoted, lets get behind Keane & the boys for the remainder of the season and given time Keane will get it right.

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dirtydingusmagee added 15:10 - Feb 7 EEEEEERRRRRR every Town fan ? maybe every town fan in your taxi home after a night out .
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kirbs added 15:13 - Feb 7 well the players had the desire under magilton, royle and burleyand if they havent got the desire this season under keane then its the manager to blame for 1 of towns worst season in our history!
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brittaniaman added 16:06 - Feb 7 Perhaps we should be getting lessons on how to win from Neil Warnock. Since administration they have lost there best player,but have still WON 3 TIMES IN A WEEK, AND HAVE GOT NO MONEY EITHER. If they had not had 10pts. deducted they would be sitting in a play off place today
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ipswichfrancis added 16:19 - Feb 7 have said this since Oct/Nov 09, Keane is the biggest flop, only excuses everytime when we draw/lose games.... very poor vision and management skills, spent money on flops (colin healy, lee martin, tamas priskin).... can't imagine ME have gotten us the weakest manager in Mr RK to lead the club!
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Nunn_the_Wiser added 16:27 - Feb 7 For the record Wickets, Lita's mother hasn't passed away, she's being sent back to a war torn country, chants were obviously still out of order though.
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AJblue added 16:47 - Feb 7 kirbs.. i really dont think there is such thing as a prooven manager, anywhere in the world. Proven, maybe!
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titanicclown added 19:50 - Feb 7 A team that can't win will go down. The sooner this Roy Keane experiment is ended the better. Roy Keane / Ipswich Town, did anyone really think that we would be good for each other. I certainly didnt and obviously still dont. Burley, Mowbray, Curbishly etc would all be a much better fit all round and the results would improve immediatley. God what a depressing season!

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Letchworth_Blue added 20:01 - Feb 7 Injured.....you really dont seem to get it do you? People are frustrated with the way things are going, understandably. We are not picking up points and playing poor football. Just because people post their views on here, does not make them any less of a fan/supporter than you. You cannot keep apluading mediocrity as if it makes you right and everyone else wrong. Resorting to picking people up on their spelling and grammer is pretty pathetic.

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Letchworth_Blue added 20:04 - Feb 7 Oh and before you say it, "applauding!!"
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BeeneyITFC added 20:08 - Feb 7 To be honest, none of us are happy with draws, but 2 losses in 17 speaks for itself. we are hard to beat.. i know we find it hard to score but murphy looks a handle for defences, and if it were another day healy would of been on side for one of his runs,,. One problem tho is our lack of threat from corners or free kicks this is because leadbitter want to take them all.. i think we have enough quality to stay up tbh ( i hope anyway) COYB

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Letchworth_Blue added 20:11 - Feb 7 Beeney although we are hard to beat, our top goalscorer is on 6 goals over half way through the season. There's where the problem lies.
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cbower added 20:14 - Feb 7 Whilst I see all the issues referred to by the so called "negative" posters and I am as frustrated as anyone, sacking Keane is not the answer. Rose tinted glasses are not for me either but I will hold my hands up, I suggested an identical line-up (even down to the subs except for B.Murphy) on this site on Friday to the one Keane put out yesterday. The team lack confidence and have frittered away too many winning positions throughout the season. My big crticism is that we rarely seem to go for the jugular after a good start - even the 3-0 against QPR was in the balance until deep into the second half. Who is to blame for this, Keane or the players? Both must bear co-responsibility. Despite our lowly and threatening position, we are hard to beat and I will remain positive in the belief that our luck will turn and we will survive. Let's hope we do and Keane will get another season. Anything else will most likely mean the abyss of Div 1. Finally, I still do get the sense that some people on here take a secret Schadenfreude pleasure at our troubles due to their innate dislike of Keane the man - the club is what is important so we should ALL want Keane to succeed!

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brittaniaman added 20:15 - Feb 7 I did not look at the table until a short while ago,and was shocked to see we were just 1pt from relegation slot. I must have been dreaming to think we were 4pts from relegation,( yes dreaming). So I do not have to say, big trouble looms if we do not get anything from QPR. IT CERTAINLY IS A DOGFIGHT NOW !!!!!!
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BeeneyITFC added 20:16 - Feb 7 thats wat im tryin to say, we now have a presence up there in murphy, because stead pab and priskin (when he was here) dont header. and healy will score im sure. and if u miss out the preston game a point against WBA and middlesborough is not half bad.. COYB!
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OrkneyBlue added 20:47 - Feb 7 We are all Town fans whether our glasses are half full, empty or in some cases overflowing or dry! However you chose to follow, come game time we are all united in wanting 3 points or a minimum 1 point. After the game we go home or to the pub and discuss any positives or negatives and then we log onto here and share our views further then it's onto the next game and the process starts again. That in my opinion is being a supporter. Slagging someone for saying that something, in there opinion, isn't to there liking and then and saying that they aren't supporters for doing so is ridiculous. The over all situation ain't great at the moment. I don't think anyone can argue that, yesterdays game was fairy dull. I thought a point was just about fair enough as we did'nt really threaten and to be honest they were'nt great either although they came way to close on a couple of occasions. I stated a wee while back that i thought we needed someone who gambled in the box as there was no support there when a decent ball was put in, i think we have him now in Healy but yesterday those kind of balls in the box never really happened. I thought Murphy had a half decent game though. The table doesn't lie and i don't think we are to good to go down. However i do think we'll just about scrape out of it although the next four games, all away, are huge.

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bennyblue added 20:54 - Feb 7 its been a dogfight from game one trouble is we got a poodle
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Skip73 added 20:54 - Feb 7 Some of the people on this site should be ashamed to call themselves supporters. Yes I'm pissed off with how things are going but I try to keep upbeat about it.There is nothing wrong with posting your opinions and venting your frustrations but some of the muppets on here only seem to have an opinion when we do badly then disappear when we do well (go back and look at the QPR reports and see who was missing then).

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kirbs added 21:47 - Feb 7 i hope we can stay up but i remember back in october/november when everyone was slating the negative posters saying keane is the right man and hewill turn it round. we are now in february and we are exactly in the same position and the more time we give keane the worst its going to get. Marcus evans wont sack keane because he is the blue eyed boy who is well liked by everyone as he was a brilliant footballer and brilliant footballer's dont always make great managers. george burley would be the perfect candidate to replace keane as he has always gotten the best out of ipswich and only got sacked because he spent too much money and he wont have that problem now with the money evans will give him.

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