Former Blues coach and skipper Tony Mowbray says Town supporters shouldn’t be too concerned about their side’s prospects for the season ahead, despite Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to his Middlesbrough team putting them in the bottom three of the early season Championship table.

Mowbray was impressed with the Blues, who are 23rd, although three points from eighth with the season five games old: “I think Ipswich will be fine, they’ve got some good players.

“Obviously, I appreciate and like the way they play, they’ve got footballers who want to play, and yet the game is about winning football matches, as we all find.

“We’ve lost away at Barnsley and Millwall, matches that in my mind and I’m sure in our supporters’ minds which aren’t the toughest games in this division and we should have been picking up points and haven’t.

“So, we have to go to Blackpool and Blackburn this week and try and get some points. It’s a very, very tough league and I’m sure that as the season unfolds Ipswich will win lots of football matches.”

The 48-year-old, a scorer in Town’s 2000 Wembley play-off triumph over Barnsley, says Town have the striking options to win those games: “They’ve got the ammunition to do that.

“There’s Michael Chopra, obviously, I really like Paul Taylor, he’s a good player who can score goals, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas. They’ve got good options in those wide areas. I wasn’t sure who or what they were going to play today.

“Daryl Murphy’s obviously an attacking threat with his physicality to start their attacks off, play direct into him and play from there. There are some good players, some good footballers in midfield. The full-backs have both got quality, so they will win football matches as they go along.

“Thankfully for us, I thought Jonathan Woodgate and Andre Bikey were mountains at the back for us and we came out with a victory.”

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yorksblue added 19:23 - Sep 17 Gallagher did go to Sheff Utd, and based on his performance on Sat, we've had a lucky escape.
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TimmyH added 19:32 - Sep 17 I'm not worried about hitting the panic button too early, I know for sure we see this all too much at Portman Road in recent seasons (other than the start made in 2010-11 under Keane only to fall away quickly), we're hardly into October and we're 10 points off the play-off's - NOT GOOD ENOUGH, it's not a question of panicking it's a question of doing the right thing. I too have given Jewell until October or around the 10 game mark as I said at the end of last season, to see if he can start consolidating our form which we showed from around January to March. What we have seen at the start of this season although only 5 games old is a step back again and with little confidence in what loans we will get in the foreseeable future Jewell needs a quick turnaround of results to save his bacon at this club.

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Talbs77 added 19:44 - Sep 17 God wish Mogga was 15 years younger, what a great player he was and a good man. Makes me go all nostalgic, especially looking at the club and team now. I remember when we didnt have a pot to piss in yet we always competed at the top of the league.
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dirtydingusmagee added 21:04 - Sep 17 i like Mogga, he earned respect at Town , BUT he is unlikely ,or most other managers for that matter to say ''oh what a load of t'ssers they are doomed '' is he ,so really it means nothing , Town DO have a lot of problems and DO face ending in the mire .Thanks anyway Tony, and good luck with you and yours .
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brittaniaman added 08:48 - Sep 18 We worry about the size of our crowd for league matches, but at the the Riverside ground last Sat. I noticed that the attendance was 14,887 our attendance has not been that low for a league match so far ?? So how will they get on with FFP hey ???????
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runningout added 11:18 - Sep 18 'fine' is'nt good enough for this club.. the so called professionals at our club are not acting that way at the moment.. just want a team that's clinical, dont over celebrate an early goal, go for more, and after a should be win, look for the next one.. dont expect a ticker-tape parade after 3 points
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portmanteau added 22:25 - Sep 19 sorry but I said 5 games ago that we were just starting our annual -15 -games -without-a-win run. roll on 17 nov when we beat leicester.
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