Former Blues skipper and coach Tony Mowbray has, perhaps unsurprisingly, ruled himself out of the running for the Town job. As reported last week, Mowbray’s assistant at Middlesbrough, another ex-Blue Mark Venus, has applied for the job, but appears to be very much an outsider.

Boro boss Mowbray said: “Ipswich is a lovely club, I met my wife in Ipswich, I love the area and it’s a fabulous football club. It’s sad to see where they are at the moment.

“But I have no interest in the job and have had no thoughts about it. I’m quite happy to be ruled out of the reckoning.

“Football management is not necessarily a job you enjoy all the time because of the highs and lows.

“But we’re trying to build something here, it’s something that the chairman is supportive of and I hope the supporters are also behind us in what we are trying to do.

Meanwhile, another ex-Town captain and former manager, Jim Magilton, who is currently in Qatar with his former Blues team-mate Chris Makin and others, appears to expect Mick McCarthy to be appointed to his old job, tweeting: “Mick will sort things out quickly - you are in safe hands!”

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Mr_Jingles added 11:39 - Oct 29 Well if Jim says we're in safe hands.... maybe I can relax !!! Or is he just being a twit on twitter ?
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Golaboots added 11:41 - Oct 29 Shame
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StuartBrett8 added 11:46 - Oct 29 Hopefully Megson will rule himself out too ;)
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IITFC1948 added 11:59 - Oct 29 we dont want mowbray he plays Leadbitter every week so he must be a bad manager
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blue_enough added 12:00 - Oct 29 Massive blow, would be my first choice. Has to be be McCarthy for me, failing that Curbs /Holland Get rid of Chopra, Edwards and JET
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Edmunds5 added 12:19 - Oct 29 Not sure why people have disliked that blue_enough I agree, never had Mowbray as my first choice though as I haven't seen him as a realistic candidate.
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WeWereZombies added 12:27 - Oct 29 Now that Shearer has thrown his hat in the ring I think he would be best choice, torrid baptism of fire at Newcastle, now has something to prove as a manager - remind you of anyone else from the North-East? And bring back Derek Bowden as Chief Executive.
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TotalBlue added 12:40 - Oct 29 I think we can now assume its going to be Mick McCarthy the betting odds have plummeted and I also think he will at least steady the ship this year and get the lazy lackluster players either playing or going in January. As for the future only time will tell and I for one wouldn't mind a coaching team of Holland and Shearer and then maybe once McCarthy moves on they stand up to manage.

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Stato added 12:50 - Oct 29 Magilton tweet seems to indicate that McCarthy is all but done. A man of principles I guess we can't assume he won't yet do a "Forest" on us. Lets hope he remembers to take the training balls this time !!
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JimBaxter added 13:22 - Oct 29 Mowbray has no where near the record of mccarthy or curbs in my view so no great loss...
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backwiththeboysagain added 13:34 - Oct 29 Not fussed.
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paristractor added 13:59 - Oct 29 NONE OF THE ABOVE PLEASE
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sheepdags added 14:29 - Oct 29 Agree with WWZ that it would be good to get Bowden back - he knew about football and would never have allowed the give away of our best assets such as Jordan Rhodes and Liam Trotter, the contract fiasco with McAuley and others, the recent panic loan signings, the failure to sign up decent defenders and the list goes on. Unfortunately, ME thought he knew better which is why we're now bottom of the league.

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Tractorog added 14:44 - Oct 29 Well done @WewereZombies I almost fell for your wind up and for one minute I actually believed that the extent of your thought processes were "Sir Bobby Robson came from the North East therefore everyone from the North East must be a good football manager". Obviously that is laughable and only an amoeba brain would think that.... and then I thought "but our Chairman is Clegg." So I've already ordered my Home Kit with the name Shearer printed on the back in readiness for the forthcoming announcement.

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bluefeast added 14:56 - Oct 29 Who ever , but fast please. we need 50 ish points to be safe. 43 to go from 33 games. The kind of form thats just shy of promotion form ,thats the size of the task that is ahead of us
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boozy_dunc added 17:04 - Oct 29 Burleys Balmy Army
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Michael11 added 18:27 - Oct 29 Why would he leave a 3rd placed team for bottom? It was never going to happen and i'd be very surprised if Holloway came too. I think it's now a 4 horse race between McCarthy, Curbishley, Burley and I PRAY NOT but Megson.
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dubblue added 18:33 - Oct 29 well off those 4 names I'd go with McCarthy. He may even get us up next season, but his track record in the Premiership is not great ...but we are a long way from there right now.
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Cheshire_Blue added 19:22 - Oct 29 The BIG mistake was the sacking of Jim Magilton. We have since taken on two managers who were out of work when we employed them and the first one is still out of work two years later. Some half brained supporters called for Jim's sacking and are now criticising Tony Mowbray because he has signed a class act in Grant Leadbitter. Middlesboro's gain is our loss and we are now seeing the results of not making sure he stayed at PR. If we had given Magilton the time he deserved we would not be in the mess we are in now.

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