Town boss Paul Jewell joked that he was already composing his letter of resignation when his side were 2-0 down to Barnsley at Oakwell on Saturday. However, before he’d had time to put pen to paper his side had staged a remarkable turnaround to beat the Tykes 5-3.

Jewell says he was consulting his staff on spellings with his team looking well on the way to their eighth successive defeat: “I was asking Hutch how you spell ‘yours sincerely’,” quipped the Blues manager after the game.

“But there’s no point in me worrying about my own position. I’ve had nothing but support from Marcus Evans and it’s been a tough time. There are not many owners who tell you to keep going when you’ve lost seven on the run.

“All I can do is my best, there’s no point in me worrying about it. It’s not a situation that I’ve liked, it’s been horrible for everybody connected with the club and I understand when you lose seven matches on the bounce, you’re going to be under pressure.

“In the dressing room there’s just a huge feeling of relief. It’s been a traumatic time for everyone at the club.

“At least we can watch Match of the Day and then try and stay up a bit later for the Football League Show.”

He says he told his players to have faith in their own abilities during the half-time break: “All you’ve got to do is keep going, believe in yourself. I believe in myself and the players did in the second half.

“We’re still a long way from the finished article, it’s not going to happen overnight. I think some people think it can, but it certainly can’t.

“I just told them to believe in themselves. Our throw-ins were sloppy, we turned our backs on the play, we knocked off and didn’t do the things that people take for granted. The top players do them brilliantly.

“Our concentration at times is poor. We concentrated more in the second half and obviously the goal gave us a lift. I said the next goal is vital, we got it and from then on I thought we looked dangerous.”

Jewell is in no doubt why his side find themselves at the wrong end of the table: “We’ve conceded so many goals as a team defensively, which is why we are where we are.

“I don’t think we lack scoring goals, I think we’ve scored a decent amount of goals but we’ve conceded far too many and the manner in which we concede them has been killing us.

“If we continue to do that we’re still going to struggle, but the second half performance was one from a team which looked confident, whereas in the first we looked bereft of confidence.”

He says he’s never experienced a comeback to match Saturday’s: “I don’t think so, certainly not five goals in the second half.

“I said to them at half-time that I’ve been in dressing rooms where at 2-0 down we believe we’re going to win. At Bradford and Wigan we had teams which at 2-0 down were never beaten.

“I said to them, ‘you can do it, look around you, look at the players next to you, you’ve got to do it’.”

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llewej_tuo added 10:59 - Dec 12 "I know we should be idgnoring" who's the idiot ? JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUTJEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT

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havinit69 added 11:23 - Dec 12 Jewell_out.... Let me answer that question for you... YOU are the idiot! Even though I agree with you that Jewell should not be in charge, I'm not quite sure that you need to act like a 7 year old with your copy & paste skills. To the game, the truth is that Town should have been out of sight by Half Time, we are so poor defensively that its beyond laughable. Sonko's clearence off the line that hit the post summed it up for me! A great come back though and credit to the players, but the fact remains, we need to score at least 4 goals to have any chance of claiming a result, that isn't going to happen too often and something needs to change. I want Jewell to do well but I am not convinced he is the man for the job. What do they do on the training field to defend to consistantly poorly ?

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buryblue77 added 11:23 - Dec 12 Typos!!! llewej tuo, I'm not a trained typist, I'm just tapping away quicker on my keyboard than my skill level! As I have a job to be getting on with as well. Clearly you have far too much time on your hands to be able to construct your posts and to pick up on spelling errors by others! M'i os ynnuf I nac epyt sdrawkcab!!!
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yorksblue added 11:35 - Dec 12 Any danger of us turning up for the full 90 mins this Sat, instead of giving the opposition a 2-0 head start, which, lets face it, could quite easily have been 5-0, had it not been for 2 decent saves and the farcical Sonko incident.
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Frankley_Blue added 11:42 - Dec 12 Shouldn't it be "tuo llewej" unless you want to out jewell?
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buryblue77 added 11:46 - Dec 12 He's not quite that clever!!!
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Frase1987 added 11:53 - Dec 12 Frase, Point is the lads had crossed the white line and it was then time to support the team whatever you think about the players or manager not publically slag them off. ---- Yeah ok fair point.
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tomisamos added 12:58 - Dec 12 llewej tuo - are you teaching people how to type properly now? I thought that made you a 'sad little muppet'? pmason in disguise, mark my words.
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tomisamos added 13:00 - Dec 12 newboy - one win sometimes also turns a season around. Unless you give him another couple of games you'll never know whether Jewell will be able to change things. This club needs to see some consistency if it is ever going to progress. Glad Jewell can take this in his stride with some humour, let's hope we've turned a corner!
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WarkyWonderLand added 13:24 - Dec 12 Gypo, I think we looked at Davies at the end of last season when he was at chesterfield. We didn't make the move and he went to barnsley on a free. Looks like we missed out as he looked good. Biggest concern though is the number of goals conceded. 42 in 20 games is far too many and that is with Collins. With Andrews on his way having scored 7 and Collins going back they are 2 big gaps. We can't score 3 goals every match to get a result. Huge games over Xmas period and hopefully we can get can get 7 points over next 3 games. By the way, who is our defensive coach? Coyb

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buryblue77 added 14:09 - Dec 12 JEWELL OUTJEWELL OUT slight error, no space. You must keep up your high standards of spelling, grammar and of course correct space layout.
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alfromcol added 14:13 - Dec 12 llewej_tuo Phil can't these sort of well thought out posts from llewej_tuo simply be deleted rather than fill my PC with cr*p
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buryblue77 added 14:15 - Dec 12 Maybe llewej tuo is Steve Bruce.........
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buryblue77 added 16:01 - Dec 12 Hey, look mummy. I've just learned how to cut and paste!!!!
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llewej_tuo added 17:29 - Dec 12 buryblue77 "Hey, look mummy. I've just learned how to cut and paste!!!! " well done old boy, im sure your parents are proud.
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ipswichm8 added 19:08 - Dec 12 if jewell loses the next 2 games he has to go
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llewej_tuo added 09:57 - Dec 13 "if jewell loses the next 2 games he has to go" AGREED
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Cobbold_Youth added 12:46 - Dec 13 I had been thinking about this match all week and by Saturday was a bag of nerves. I followed the build up on Radio Suffolk on t'internet until 'they' pulled the plug at 5.20 exactly. Blast! I followed the game blow by blow on BBC sports live text updates. What a come back, what a 2nd half performance! Well done PJ & the team. Lets build on this. Agree with 'Wickets' about the Sheffield game comeback.

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