Town boss Roy Keane left his players in no doubt about what he thought of the performance at Watford, keeping them in the dressing room for 90 minutes after the 2-1 defeat.

Keane felt his side started poorly and never recovered: “We kicked the ball out play after three seconds, and it set the tone for the night. We’ll need to spend hours and hours now on the training pitch just practising kick-offs. It’s unbelievable."

The Blues boss was less than impressed that his side only started to show any form in the second half and then gave away a second poor goal: "The game started at quarter to eight.

“We couldn’t have been any worse in the second half, and we got ourselves back in the game, but we gave another bad goal away and shot ourselves in the foot.

“I freshened things up with one or two players coming in, but they didn’t give us the freshness we were hoping for. They say don’t change a winning team, and it could be true. You can bet your life I’ll be making changes now though.”

Keane replaced Owen Garvan after only 22 minutes and said he might have made other early tactical substitutions: "There could have been more. I really believe Watford wanted it more and that is hard to stomach."

Watford boss Malky Mackay said winning goalscorer Will Hoskins has been pressing for a place in the side: "Will has been close to getting in the team in last couple of weeks.

"He's matured this season, he's had a child with his partner and settled down. He's undoubtedly talented but it's also about workrate and we have seen that recently - I'm delighted for him.

“We had a lot of possession in the first half and it could have been two or three, so I was disappointed when their goal went in, but I had no doubt that they had the character to go on and win it.”

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blueherts added 16:23 - Mar 17 Err Jamesy - What has Keane shown us that gives you that impression ? I would love it but cannot see it - if he bought another man in to handle the team - he could then focus on walking his dog
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jamesy_itfc_keano added 16:34 - Mar 17 Well he's been there done it with Sunderland. I know this season has been a dissapointment but i dnt see the point in sacking the man when he's brought in all 'his' players. However, the way Garvan was treated last night i did not agree with and hopefully Keane will learn from that. But my point is if we sack him .. then a new manager comes in .. has to spend a load more money on 'his players' then if that dnt work out .. we start again. We will just keep going around in circles

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blueherts added 16:47 - Mar 17 I have the feeling Keane does what Keane does - listens to very few people and does not care who he offends , upsets etc - I agree re the sacking scenario but if we are no better off at end of season and players are unhappy ME AND SG have to ask long hard questions
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jamesy_itfc_keano added 16:57 - Mar 17 I agree with u about us not being better off at the end of the season. Also, is it true that Alan Curbishley was at the match last night? Because he was at the Scunthorpe match last week.
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blueherts added 17:16 - Mar 17 Yep he was there alright saw him going in .........and sitting in Dir Box
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TractorRoyNo1 added 17:21 - Mar 17 He was angry? ask my missus and the cat what I was like when I got home! 1st half was a shambles, could have easily been 3 down.
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tom_the_blue added 17:23 - Mar 17 I'm sorry as I really don't like critising fellow town "fans" but 'barnsey' is a shear contradiction of the term itself. He is the sort of person we don't want following our club nor commenting on this site. Go die in a hole somewhere.
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ChambersM added 17:32 - Mar 17 Blu Dru and Dobbie you're idiots, ive still been 'kene out' over these two games and will be til the end of the season, lets face it it, atm i think we're looking at mid-table mediocrity, so nothing special, which is not what we expected from keane and what he promised. Looking back at this season in June I don't think Marcus Evans and Clegg have any option but to sack him, hes taken us nowhere but in a position fighting relegation, hes wasted money and wages, healy, martin, priskin, edwards (questionable). What good has he done and would magilton have done any worse if he were still here?! I think not.

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kirbs added 18:00 - Mar 17 Roy keane has turned out well respected club into the laughing stock of the division, how town fans want him still here il never know, his tactiCs are so poor everymatch and he gives the lads no Confidence at all. You can't say keane is new to the club and still Building, mariner, warnock have made an impact already! Keane our and curbishly in and bring some dignity back to our club!

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kentblue added 18:05 - Mar 17 "Legend" People have a right to moan about a "manager ?" who is dismantling our team and destroying the confidence of players ! I believe Garvan to have the potential to be one of the most creative midfielders we've has for a while. Keane's man management skills are woeful - He has tried to/threatened to and in some cases has got rid of players ( some of whom should have stayed ) . Keane is destroying a fine club !

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ChambersM added 18:10 - Mar 17 ^^ here here!
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osborne1nil added 18:52 - Mar 17 The football overall this season has been very poor, very few good performances amongst all the games so far. The teams position is poor for a side tipped to be up near the top. Magiltons team didn't need completely dismantiling and starting from scratch it was a mid table team that has had £8,000,000 spent on it to leave Town perilously close to falling out of the division (IMO they will stay up). M.E. will make the decision come the end of the season but would be surprised it it was a change to Curbishley as mentioned in posts above. Agree with alot of above about management of players and team but he does have a no.2 and no.3 to help him in McCloughlin and McParland but this doesn't seem to have helped either. He may well have played under Clough and Ferguson, so have a hell of alot of other players, this doesn't make him a good Manager as they were teaching him to be a good player not a manager. He did well with Sunderland in the first year but not so well in the second. A new manager would not have to make his own team, there are enough good players within the squad, he just needs to get them playing together. M.E. can't be happy as most of us aren't.

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moomoosereni added 18:54 - Mar 17 I'm starting to lose interest in coming on here and reading some much negativity. I'm certainly not disagreeing with either side on this one. Yes I am being a bit "French" about and sitting on the fence but I just almost don't want to come on here anymore, it's a depressing sight. Many people will say thats because Keane has made it this way but I don't know if it is completely. I don't know anymore, I'll be in the pub, drinking large whisky chasers. Always a town fan, but struggling to be happy.

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violablu added 19:41 - Mar 17 Locking the team in the dressing room - is that going to lift their morale / inspire them to make a late push for the play-offs? I think not...
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jas0999 added 19:43 - Mar 17 I wasn't actually too concerned about the team selection - with perhaps the exception being the inclusion of Rosenior over Wright. Many people had been urging Roy to play Leadbitter and Garvan and he did that - now all of a sudden he was wrong to do so. It is obviously clear that whatever he does, people will moan. Granted this was not a good result OR performance, but what does it say about our club when some people come out in force when we lose but totally don't bother posting a comment when we win?

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J45 added 19:53 - Mar 17 Here is an idea keane Dont change the side and you wont have to waste players time sitting in the dressing room thinking they could have won if they had a decent manager.
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WREXHAM_BLUE added 20:53 - Mar 17 Could go on for hours about this performance! Disappointing all round. Gutted for Garvan - we were so bad first half that anyone could have gone off but I don't think he deserved that treatment. As for Martin, he has my full support but is so right footed and clearly playing out of place but he surely HAS to put in a performance sometime... doesn't he?! The obvious change would have been Norris coming on. Having got ourselves back in the game I thought we were favourites to win it with at least a draw coming our way. For Watford's winner, O'Connor had no-one showing for the ball in the first place and was so unlucky - one of the few players to emerge with some credit last night. I just wish we'd have gone for broke with 3 or 4 up front and left one of the starting front two on. Delaney ended up playing up front so surely we'd have been better with Wickham up there. He could at least have taken advantage of the two opportunities we had for long throws into the box late on. Gutted! Let's put it behind us though and sort Barnsley out on Saturday. COYB!

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La_Paz added 21:43 - Mar 17 Just wanted to add a couple of things: 1. Curbishley. 32 million on Dyer and Ljungberg in transfers and contracts, total so far 30-odd games between them. Lasted one and a half seasons, walked out with 2.2 million. 2. Burley. Amir Karic, Finidi George, Ulrich le Pen etc etc. Led the club into administration and nearly out of business. Be careful what you wish for people.

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ChambersM added 23:07 - Mar 17 totally irrelevant, that was then and this is now, just like keane with sunderland. He is a has-been, he clearly cant hack it with this team or club, hes not ipswich at all, burley was, he played for us, royle was, just a general humble nice bloke, and magilton also, everyone loved him. But keane just doesn't fit in with us at all, hes come in and controlled everything since day 1, moving offices around at the training facilities, increasing security at the training ground (unnecessary) changing the whole team, also unnecessary, generally not the ipswich way.

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PSGBlue added 23:44 - Mar 17 Keane is the worst manager this club has ever witnessed, tatically he is useless. Only stumbles on a decent pairing by accident. This time it was Colbeck, Garven and Norris (true Norris wasn't that good), when Leadbitter got suspended. Delany and McCauley were also found by default. Keane should know his best formations not wait till luck comes along. His man management skills are woeful and when things go wrong we always have "I blame myself routine" to make us feel sorry for him. I am also sick of warching poor football from Town, the Scunthorpe and Blackpool games I witnessed were awful. We are not capable of beating top six teams (exceptions Cardiff twice and Blackpool home) or even average sides away from home. Overall the season is worst I can remember since I started watching Town in 1977. Only one man is to blame, that is Roy Keane - for the good of Ipswich Town "Sling your hook and don't come back" as Peggy Mitchell would say!

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ChambersM added 23:47 - Mar 17 well said
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La_Paz added 00:08 - Mar 18 The point I was trying to make is that the grass isn't always greener-just ask any Man. City fan. Changing managers doesn't guarantee success, and managers can be a success at one club and then fail at the next. I have the greatest respect for Burley as a player having watched him for years, but if you're talking dodgy signings then he was as guilty as the next man. If you're talking about what is or isn't "Ipswich", then one of those things for me is not changing managers every five minutes. The success we enjoyed in the Cobbold era was built on patience and support, not on short-term fixes. And incidentally when Royle was appointed I seem to remember quite a few moaning about his Budgie heritage, before he proved them wrong. Don't get me wrong, I'm as disappointed as everyone with how this season has gone, but in my opinion chopping and changing constantly is a dangerous way to run a football club.

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ChambersM added 00:24 - Mar 18 not dangerous when you see what keane is doing to the club IMO
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weeally added 21:12 - Mar 18 La-Paz - "chopping and changing constantly is a dangerous way to run a football club" granted - but probably no more dangerous than having a manager that is contstantly chopping and changing a team ...witness : our fall down the league
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ChambersM added 23:36 - Mar 18 ^^^ !!
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