Town boss Roy Keane felt the Blues ought to have ended up beating Scunthorpe, despite a dreadful first half display which saw the Iron go in 1-0 up at the break. After Jaime Peters’s equaliser, Jason Scotland was prevented from adding a second by a last ditch Cliff Byrne challenge, Peters had a header cleared off the line by Rob Jones and Darren O’Dea hit the bar.

Keane was thoroughly unimpressed with his team’s first half performance: “We never got going, we were waiting for something to happen and the goal was coming. We couldn’t clear our lines.

“Second half, in terms of the chances, the game should have been dead and buried. We were guilty of missing gilt-edged chances and the madness of it was that we nearly lost it at the end because of a lack of concentration.

“It was a funny old day," he added. "It was a real rollercoaster and in the second half, in terms of the clear-cut chances and the way we broke on them, we should have had the game dead and buried.”

The Blues boss replaced striker Connor Wickham on the half hour, but says there were plenty of others who he could also have subbed: “There were eight or nine players, not just Connor, that I was thinking, ‘when are you going to get going?’.

“You can’t continue that and the goal was no surprise. We were about the make the change anyway and we changed the shape with Luke coming on.

“We changed it again with Jaime coming on at half-time to give us a little bit of spark because there was only going to be one team that was going to win.

“In the second half, we were better, sharper, we were hitting them on the break and we really should have won the game.”

Keane confessed that he probably got his team selection wrong: “Jaime and a lot of other players were unlucky to be left out from the other night, Luke, Colin Healy, Kennedy, these boys did really well. I obviously feel that I didn’t get my own job correct today in terms of the first half.”

Scunthorpe boss Ian Baraclough believed his team deserved all three points: “I’ve seen Ipswich blow teams away this season. Their midfield pair have dominated games and I thought we dominated them. The more I’m talking about it,the more I think that it was two points dropped.

“The lads are in there with their heads down, they’re getting in positions to score and it’s when we stop getting in those positions that I’ll start to panic.

“We created 15 or 16 chances again today and something’s got to change.”

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ChambersM added 12:19 - Sep 26 Not 'moaning' but its true what zippy and stiffshorts are saying, we havnt really played well all season, and we havnt exactly scored many 'good' team goals. We've been lucky a lot of the time. But we're in a good position so thats good just need to play like it
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northstand78 added 12:34 - Sep 26 I've been a Town fan since 1978 through thick and thin. I've been a season ticket holder (unfortunately not for the last 2 seasons as work dictates that I work a lot of weekends), but I get to as many matches as I can with my 11 year old son who also is now a Tractor Boy (having deserted Man Utd). I have read the many comments on this site for the last couple of season and feel deemed to write my first comment. We can all hark on about the glory days in the Sir Bobby era and I do to my boy. I like many have great memories of that time and the time that we did so well with GB in the Premier league. But that was then and this is now. Roy Keane like him or loathe him is our clubs manager and i believe this season he is doing a real good job, Jim as a player was great but he left this club in a right mess player wise. How many time have we complained that we have been playing too many journeymen and not the youth? Plenty I'll bet. We have our wish that the youth be given a chance and now they have that chance. After not the greatest season last year we have made a great start to this one. Mistakes will be made but some of the so called supporters that write on here just to slag Keane off for the sake of an argument, please keep your opinions to yourself. Like it or not Keane is here and doing well, he may not make to right decisions sometimes, who doesn't?..We are all blue and white and should be gratefull ME rescued the club and RK is doing a better job than most..

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emergencylime added 12:52 - Sep 26 Northstand78 is right, we're having a better start this season, and reality is that without the investment from ME we could have someone like Gary Megson or Ian Dowie in charge and be pressured into letting players like Walters go for pennies instead of millions. Newcastle lost at Scunthorpe a year ago and they ended up doing alright for themselves over the season... I think that our surprisingly good start has raised our expectations to such a level that a point away against a 'perceptively poor' team is cause for alarm. It could prove a valuable point. The first half yesterday serves as a reminder of how we played for most of last season, and moreover how we have progressed so far this one. We're still up there and we have a more streamlined, efficient squad. No need to panic, simply get behind the team and let's dust the next opponents.

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suffolksam added 13:25 - Sep 26 up the a140 ? what a weird little world you live in
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roytheboy added 13:44 - Sep 26 Very well said northstand78, certain people don't wait for us to lose before they resume slagging our Manager off, they even do it after an away draw against a team that put two past Man. Unt. this week.
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Ipswich24 added 15:25 - Sep 26 I am not moaning butif we really have ambitions of going up we have to win at places like scunthorpe with the resources and players we have compared to theirs you only have to look at our bench to see the difference. fair enough its a hard place to go its atight ground they got new manager bla bla! but the bare fact is we dont score enough goals we never look like we have more than a goal in us and its due to this shocking long ball wickham will happily leave this club playing like that what chance does he have we are far more better when getting the ball to feet and out wide and getting crosses in and we need hyam playing because he gets the ball from the back and starts us playing the proper way hope people agree

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northstand78 added 16:33 - Sep 26 Ipswich24..I certainly agree with you that my thoughts before the game were that we would pick up the win at Scunthorpe especially with our away form at present. Having been to the Cardiff game the week before, the first half seemed that the guys at the back saw Connor up front and decided that the better option was to hit it long to him and forget what a great midfield we have. Our inability to take our chances has been a problem for a while and I personally would love to see another striker to come in on loan. I honestly believe that Priskin, no matter how long a run he is given will ever be our 15-20 a goal striker that we require for a successful season. This being the case it puts an awful lot of pressure on Wickham and Scotland to perform consistantly week in week out...

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Ipswich24 added 16:54 - Sep 26 We need a quick striker something different to what we have we need to play ball in channels and turn teams around jason roberts from blackburn or that delfonso from villa thoughts anyone?
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ChambersM added 18:10 - Sep 26 Good luck with those ipswich24 keane doesn't like good players
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StowTractorBoy added 19:35 - Sep 26 Why do people keep saying we should be beating sides like Scunthorpe away. Have you forgotten they trounced Sheff U 4-0 a Bramall Lane and are a real problem on their own patch. No team has a divine right to win a match as was seen at the Emirates yestersday that is the beauty of football. You have to grind out results and I would have taken a point before the match as I will on Tuesday. My biggest worry is our lack of firepower. You can blame the midfield for its non creativity and poor service but sometimes strikers have to make their own luck and at the moment it appears that Scotland and Priskin are not going to be prolific scorers which is a concern. Other teams are winning 3 4 and five but at the moment I cannot see us doing that. Oh and for those who have said we have not played well this season - were you at Palace and Pompey to name but two ?

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Skip73 added 00:13 - Sep 27 Zippy, your team lost to Hull at home yesterday so we done better than them.
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Skip73 added 01:41 - Sep 27 All you moaners who slag our team off at every opportunity look at the stats. Boro and Palace have only lost 1 at home this season - both to us, and Bristol City have only lost 1 away also against us, so its not too bad is it?
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vulcher added 08:23 - Sep 27 gotta be pleased with a point as scunthorpe, difficult place to go to, and they have a new manager so their players had something to prove. personally i dont think we r playing overly well, but we r picking up points. so hopefully when we do start playing better we will be taking 3 points most weeks!! good luck against reading lads, lets keep ourselves in the mix!
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lunatic38 added 13:49 - Sep 27 i think i have had my previous post deleted because of a foul mouth tyrade at suffolk sam and i apologise for my language but i mean what i say, lets support our club and not moan for the sake of it, we are not the finished article yet but i personally think we are in better shape than we have been for a few years and i could understand the moaning if we had lost to Derby 5-0. To get promoted we need to win games like this but i must agree with an earlier post that Scunny are a difficult team to beat and we have not got the god given right to win because we have a healthy/wealthy club but up the blues and lets look foward to a very very tough game at Reading (who i fancy for the playoffs this season). COYB

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