Boss Roy Keane blamed a silly five-minute spell just before half-time for the Blues’ 2-1 defeat at Watford. Town conceded goals from Stephen McGinn and Marvin Sordell shortly before half-time, the Blues having shaded what had been a tight game up to that point.

Keane said: “A silly five-minute spell in the first half has cost us. Like on Saturday, the first goal was particularly disappointing and to concede the second just on half-time was a big blow for us.

“Second half I thought we responded pretty well, we knew if we got a goal back we’d have a chance and I think the players deserved a touch better than what we got tonight. Our second half performance was very good, our first half performance wasn’t exactly poor.

“But they were two poor goals to give away, although having said that I’d give the boy credit for the second, that was a good finish.”

Keane was pleased with the way his team started the game after the recent habit of beginning matches slowly: “Jason and Tamás had some half-chances and generally there wasn’t much in the game.

“At half-time we’d have taken that with the way our season’s panning out with us better in the second half. The first goal was disappointing, but then the second one more so.

“You go in at 1-0 and you’re still in with a chance. We could have done with scoring a touch earlier but I still thought there was plenty of time to get an equaliser and we nearly did it, but as you all know, nearly never made it.”

Keane confirmed that keeper Márton Fülöp missed out due to a back injury he has been carrying since going away with Hungary and could be a doubt for Saturday’s game at Nottingham Forest.

Hornets boss Malky Mackay was happy with his side’s second home win of the season, a victory which has taken his team to third in the table: “It was really pleasing to get three points at Vicarage Road, get another win under our belts and it was especially pleasing after the performance we put in on Saturday at Portsmouth.

“With the way we went down there and applied ourselves I was disappointed we didn’t get something from the game, so to come here tonight against a good Ipswich team who have been flying high and come out with a result, I’m delighted.”

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martleshamitfc added 09:21 - Oct 20 why is it always us that concedes silly goals from defensive errors, yet other teams never seem to gift us goals?
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bluelady added 09:41 - Oct 20 ok now i am only a woman so what do i know? I have supported Keane but am getting just a little irritated. the one question i want to know is WHY did he drop possibly our two best players from saturday - Edwards, Peters giving us absolutely no width. Peters is not a natural right back but he is far better than anyone else we have at this club. As for Smith at leftback, it doesnt work - thought young Shane was fit, a young, keen and forward thinking player? They were there for the taking and when we got on Wickham and Murray we really worried them to the extent their supporters were getting very twitchy but yet again it was too little too late. I dont want to sound so negative, but tactics are really really letting us down. how can prisken and Scotland get the goals if we have no-one on the wing to put in a decent cross? Had we simply moved to a 4-4-2 but pretty much kept the same team (where possible) then i beileve the result would have been differant. but like i say i am simply a fan and a woman so what do i know?!! (but i never boo and shout clearly too loudly each game, according to the chap in front of me who always leave 10 mins before the end and has missed many a goal!)

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firman55 added 10:16 - Oct 20 i am a keane in man but i im giving keane till end of transfer window in january because i have supported keane from the moment he got here even tho i never liked him but i still stuck by him though thick and thin but he has had enough time to get things right which to be fair he did at the start of the season but after being nominated for manager of the month he has sit back a bit and taking the games in his stride. he need to play his stongest side week in week out and not try to be clever which he has tryied to be the last couple of weeks. i am still backing keano but he needs to sort it out. KEANEOS BARMYARMY COYB

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ChambersM added 10:44 - Oct 20 All I know is that I paid 15 pounds for my ticket and 20 quid for the train and basically I want my money back
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bluelady added 11:20 - Oct 20 chambersM with your negative spin on everything im sure the team would happily pay you to keep away! lots of us are not happy, but you thrive when the team is doing badly, and when they are doing well you still find a negative slant on it......
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Superfrans added 11:26 - Oct 20 punchbowl - a few points. Personally, I moan about the moaners when they moan without cause (for instance, losing away at one of the form teams in the division, when we actually played reasonably well) because it brings the club down. I don't care how much money you have spent on the club - I've supported the club for 40 years. I have the right to resent ignorant fans, with no idea about football, who bring down the atmosphere around the team and make it more difficult for them to succeed. Chanting "Keano sort it out last night" was ludicrous. If you watched the first half last night, you surely would have to concede that we didn't play as badly as the 2-0 scoreline might have suggested. Two lapses in defence, two good finishes by them. We conceded twice in quick succession. I felt gutted (as did most people around me). but we didn't deserve to be 1 down, let alone 2. "Sort it out" type chanting is fine if we are all at sea. We weren't last night, at any point - aside perhaps from the 10 minutes straight after the goal. Btw, we weren't "thumped" last night. It was 2-1. I have no problem with people making constructive criticism. But it is ludicrous if fans complain when we play 1 upfront and then complain when we play 2 upfront. Don't flatter yourself that Keane made changes because of posts on here. Of course he didn't. There is a thin dividing line between success and failure in football. Last night we were the wrong side of that line. And it was highly disappointing. But it wasn't abject, nor a disaster. Sometimes our fans need to show a little sense of perspective.

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JayITFC added 11:32 - Oct 20 Silly 5 minutes? More like silly 75 minutes. Until we scored a lucky goal we were clueless. Is it not obvious that 4 CM's across the midfield = no width? We we're trying to cross balls from full back positions (far to deep) - can't remember a cross coming in from the byline once. Strikers were lacking service but also work rate. If Priskin was ever going to put in a shift it would have been tonight against his old club, but I guess that was expecting to much. Scotland was also poor, pushed off the ball to easily and looked knackered after an hour. Great turn out from our fans but I'm never going to Watford again. 3 trips to that sh*t hole and 3 losses...

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moomoosereni added 12:00 - Oct 20 I think people are entitled to their opinions, but there are opinions and then there is just negativity which helps no one. I was quite annoyed about last night but also felt hard done by because I thought at times we played the better football. My biggest gripe is our lack of conviction. We just look less likely of having goalscorers from all over the park. Without Scotland scoring his 4 or 5 goals, I worry we would be in a different position right now.

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BlueVelvet added 12:35 - Oct 20 The proof of the pudding is in the eating - we've lost twice in a row, we are over a quarter of the way through the season and we play a mid table team on Saturday. My money is on some change at PR if Saturday's result is poor. It'll be a toss up between RK walking out or being pushed. From what RK is reported to have, he'll walk.
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Vexorg added 13:24 - Oct 20 Bluwein, not a bad post but I disagree with your comment on Mowbray - "Pretty football but almost took Celtic to 3rd in the joke - I mean jock league?" He was a forced seller of players. At West Brom he took them up. Also playing good football
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ChambersM added 15:51 - Oct 20 And I want it out of keanes pocket!!
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BlueArmy01 added 16:53 - Oct 20 People are entitled to their opinion because they have PAID and lets face it what we are being served is nowhere near worth the money, we beat Leeds 2 nil but even if you paid a tenner, was that moneys worth.......... I don't think so, yes we won but personally I want to be entertained, honestly please say the last time you were at PR. Don't say Pablo's injury time winner cause we all no what Keane did for him...........

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tom_the_blue added 17:57 - Oct 20 Other than that five minute spell, I thought we did alright, but we need to concentrate for the full 90 mins
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tom_the_blue added 17:59 - Oct 20 Switching off at the end of the half/game can cost you dear, as we prooved last season. We seem to be getting better at this, though it is frustrating when it happens like it did last night.
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ChambersM added 18:19 - Oct 20 'other than that five minute spell, I thought we did alright' Is that a joke? I seriously hope so. We were absolutely awful ALL over the field last night with Scotland and leadbitter the slight stand-outs.
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Back_The_Boss added 19:46 - Oct 20 It proved very costly. Total lapse of concentration for 5 minutes cost us the match....again.
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Acen added 22:35 - Oct 20 A silly 70 minutes don't you mean Roy?
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Keaneish added 23:29 - Oct 20 Chambers i asked Aidy Boothroyd for my money back once and he sent he a signed photo of himself. Careful what you wish for!
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