Chief executive Simon Clegg says Town boss Roy Keane is not under any greater pressure in the wake of Saturday’s home defeat to Barnsley and the crowd’s reaction to the performance.

Clegg, speaking in an interview with Radio Suffolk, said: "The manager is not under any further pressure from me or the owner at this moment in time.

"We are committed to Roy, Roy is leading this football club, he is taking us to where we want to get to. We're three points away from being fourth place in the Championship.

"And we're the only non-Premier League side through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup. If you had offered us that back in August people would have bitten your hand off."

Meanwhile, Keane has criticised last week’s booing and the cheering of Barnsley passes: “We can’t kid ourselves that if we’re not performing we’re going to get criticised, but there’s got to be a balance to that of what’s right and what’s wrong, and what happened last week was wrong.”

Further comment from Keane on Barnsley and fans’ reaction to that game tomorrow.

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blue_em_away added 18:38 - Nov 18 Look forward to that then Phill
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olepablo added 18:41 - Nov 18 What is also 'wrong', Mr Keane, is the fact that the team you've created isn't capable of the passing Barnsley produced. Other 'wrongs' include playing people out of position, inept tactics, ridiculous subsitutions and generally imposing your long ball, kick & rush stlye on our once proud club.
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Garv added 18:45 - Nov 18 Ah sh*t. Please open your mind Clegg! You're both as bad as each other, making this club a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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foster added 18:47 - Nov 18 keano to stay but lose to narwich and keane to go
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Garv added 18:50 - Nov 18 CLEGG OUT! CLOWN!
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JohnScales added 18:53 - Nov 18 From what I've heard Keane has 3 games to save his job and Evans has lined up Zola as his replacement. Dunno if anyone else has heard it??
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Blooman_Group added 18:56 - Nov 18 Do we really want another world class player as our manager
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TractorRoyNo1 added 18:58 - Nov 18 and babies are found under a gooseberry bush, the pope has 3 daughters, the CIA destroyed the twin-towers, aliens visited Bentwaters anyone more bullsh!t do you want to share with us........ JohnScales added 18:53 - Nov 18 From what I've heard Keane has 3 games to save his job and Evans has lined up Zola as his replacement. Dunno if anyone else has heard it??
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whoppit added 19:00 - Nov 18 Thanks for that update Cleggy !!! Glad to know everything is going okay then !!! As for Keane, I accept the ticking off for being a bit naughty. WHAT A FU#*%NG JOKE WE HAVE BECOME !!!!
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GeorgiDoundarov added 19:01 - Nov 18 JohnScales, hope you are wrong - if we are to replace Keane I would like Curbishley. Zola is worse than Keano
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jas0999 added 19:01 - Nov 18 JohnScales - I really hope you are wrong. Not so much the Keane leaving (although this is a decision for ME), but Zola being a replacement. Totally agree with RK about the behaviour of the fans. I simply don't see how anyone can justify that type of behaviour - regardless of the performances (which was extremely poor). I hope to never hear it again at PR.
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whoppit added 19:03 - Nov 18 Also Marcus - when you do finally get the stones to dispose of Keane, get rid of bumbling Cleggy will you?? What this Liverpool supporting non football orientated clown is doing at Ipswich god only knows. Does he moonlight as ME's butler too? Keane & Clegg out and Marcus, how about showing an interest in Ipswich?? Stop the mystery man tactics that impress nobody and admit you are only at Ipswich for a tax write off !!!!

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HampshireBlue added 19:08 - Nov 18 "Clegg: Keane Under No Further Pressure" Quite right too. Only a moronic Sky era fan, who demands instant success would want to change manager. As for the fans behaviour against the Tykes - no doubt the same moronic Sky era ones - you are an embarrassment to the club.
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whoppit added 19:09 - Nov 18 HampshireBlue - are you really Simon Clegg?
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tractorgirls added 19:15 - Nov 18 KEANE OUT
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brainbox added 19:29 - Nov 18 What absolute rubbish - Clegg - you know nothing football-related - and if the crowd offended poor old Mr Keane against Barnsley it is only our way of rightly pointing out what a total Muppet he is as a football manager - for the future benefit of our fabulous club you should both get out now and let a good manager like Alan Curbishley take the reins and move us up the table....

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Dissblue added 19:30 - Nov 18 WELL HE BLOODY WELL SHOULD BE!
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itfc1981 added 19:31 - Nov 18 Can Clegg do anything right? bet he was the one who suggested Keane to ME. Evans should sack the lot, half the playing staff included. might as well as keane as thrown away millions buying dross, Evans might as well do the same.
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BlueArmy01 added 19:33 - Nov 18 Both totatlly overpaid and inept imho.
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JohnScales added 19:37 - Nov 18 I'm only passing on information.
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Mungo added 19:41 - Nov 18 Clegg's point regarding being 3 points off 4th place would carry more weight if there were not 8 clubs between ITFC and said 4th position, and another 4 clubs just 2 points behind us. On that basis, come the end of the season, losing points at home to the likes of Barnsley, Derby and Coventry will be even more pivotal. Btw, what happened to Cleggs plan to 'fill Portman Road?' I guess that's on hold for the time being? RK also has a fair point regarding the cheering of Barnsley, however some humility after that showing might be appreciated? (Not very Keane-like I know, but an apology wouldn't hurt...) If they are both staying, I would like to see more from the pair of them. Neither is justifying the hype or the lofty salary right now. RK needs to bring some consistency to the side and Clegg needs to sort out the finances...

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dirtydingusmagee added 19:43 - Nov 18 bluehampton, sorry Hampshireblue, do you visit planet earth in your travels ! i suppose you also agree with Clegg ''Roy is taking us where we want to go'', please enlighten us ,it certainly isnt the Prem .
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Mark added 19:47 - Nov 18 Clegg is delusional if he thinks Keane is taking the club where it wants to get to. He was promoted on a two-year plan to promotion, yet we sit in 12th place needing to catch up 12 points on QPR to get into the promotion places. The football is awful, the tactics woeful, the decision making poor and the fans have had enough. If I was offered it in August I would not bite anyone's hand off, regardless of our decent run against lower sides (Millwall aside) in the Carling Cup. Perhaps Clegg should go with Keane? What has he done for our club? He messes up match prices and does not communicate with fans any better than Bowden (who I know did very well for Ipswich, communication aside) did. As for the booing, I didn't like it either but couldn't help myself when Keane took Priskin off! Fans pay a lot of money in hard times to attend these games and it's time to start delivering some value for money.

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tom_the_blue added 19:51 - Nov 18 KEANO!!!
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peterleeblue added 19:52 - Nov 18 I would suspect that Clegg has a better understanding of our business than most of us on here. I think we should hold our nerve . Burley's play off teams were generally no better than this pre Xmas. Hang in there for now I say. There look a non offensive post that winds up no one but just makes my point.
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