Town boss Mick McCarthy pulled no punches after the Blues were hammered 6-0 at Leicester. The Blues manager admitted that he was hurt by the "embarrassing" display, the second away thrashing in the first few weeks of his Town tenure.

McCarthy told the media after the game: “If you want to put awful, abject, poor, I’m quite happy if you want to put that. It was poor from giving the penalty away.

“We talked about being hard to beat and not giving anything stupid away because we’re brittle, we’re timid at the minute.

“You don’t get used to being beaten, but it just develops and you lose one and then another and the manner in which we conceded the goals today was dreadful.

“The penalty should never have been, it should have been cleared, and then somebody runs from midfield and we don’t pick him up and he ends up shooting and it hits Nugent and goes in. It’s embarrassing.”

Whether the eighth-minute spotkick which was awarded for a foul on Lloyd Dyer by Stephen Henderson should have been given was debatable and the Blues boss admitted he wasn’t sure that it should have been: “I wasn’t certain at the time.

“I’ve only seen it the picture from the other side, so you can’t actually see whether there’s any contact.

“But it makes no odds. If we’d have gone across and cleared it — no penalty, throw-in. I’m not going to argue about it, he’s given it. We could have avoided it.”

He says the manner of the loss was difficult to take given that he builds his teams from a solid base: “It does hurt me, of course.

“I take pride in my teams being organised, hard to beat, tough, resolute and, if we can, if we get that organised, good football as well because I’m relying on that, as two Championships will prove. We’ve had good teams.

“We’ve got to sort the first one out. We’ve had two games and, although Crystal Palace wasn’t awful, this one was.”

McCarthy now moves his thoughts on to next week’s home game: “We’ve got Peterborough coming up. I can’t do anything about this one, I’ll look at it on Monday and we’ll take the bones out of it.

“Analyse it, look at it and try and make sure it doesn’t happen again. But if we keep making mistakes it’s going to be difficult.”

The former Ireland boss says confidence is the biggest issue in the squad at present: “When it is a little bit brittle, which it is at the minute, everyone’s feeling that way.

“It was a great feeling last week, and then to concede one the way that we did, you can almost see everyone go ‘Here we go again’. We’ve got to get shot of that.

“If there are any positives, I’d have taken the six points that we’ve got. Were we expected to beat Crystal Palace and Leicester? Probably not the way we were in the team, but I expect us to play better and not to be humiliated like we were.”

Leicester assistant manager Craig Shakespeare was unsurprisingly delighted, feeling that early performances might have resulted in similar scorelines: “You hope that if you put in the performances, you turn out a result like that.

“But over the course of the season I think some of the football, some of the attacking play, has been outstanding and in all honesty we’ve missed the chances, there’s no getting away from the fact.

“I think it’s important in any Championship game to get the first goal and when we got that it seemed to settle everyone down a bit.

“And then to go and score the amount we did, and share the goals around, I thought we were very professional today from start to finish. I thought it was a very accomplished performance.”

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martleshamitfc added 19:59 - Nov 17 Possibly one good thing is that we did not sign Henderson when we had a chance last year - at least we can (hopefully very soon) send him back to the East End!
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Elizabeth added 20:06 - Nov 17 Just watched Norwich beat Man U with determination ,teamwork ,graft and whatever else!! We are a million miles away from this and I am really envious of their achievement .As a true blue it really hurts me to say congratulations to them and can only hope that January will see a mass clear out at Portman Road. For those players that are committed , I apologise that you have to play with such gutless,spineless individuals week in,week out.The next two matches are at home and nothing less than two wins is a must. Let's just see what reaction we get !!

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PSGBlue added 20:13 - Nov 17 I was actually on my way out when the sixth went in, only the second time I have left a game early. I recall a 3-0 defeat in the eighties at home being the other. Absolute shambes, always second to the ball - every player should hang the head in shame! But the killer once again was pace, Dyer tore our defence apart. The fourth goal was laughable, by the time Dyer crossed the ball into the middle Leicester had two platers over waiting to smash the ball home. Last time it was Palace who had the pace. We are lucky not to be bottom as we have a goal difference of -25, we deserve to go down! The good news is that we have MM, I beieve he can turn this club around, even if we do go down. A 6-0 defeat, but who cares, it looks like Michael Vaughan is going to survive another wek!

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bluey123 added 20:15 - Nov 17 poor MM good manager inherited this is awful squad assembled by the worst manager ever at this club, Loans who dont give a damn, players who think they are world beaters and would be better off in non league . MM has to work a miracle with this lot needed Gk,2CBs,Lb, 2 Cm, 2 Wide men and 2 decent Strikers
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IvorFeeling added 20:16 - Nov 17 remember MM is no magician just a manager and one we are lucky to have! As crap as today was 6 points out of every 12 will save us from the drop, just remember that. Our home form is what will keep us up or not. On the positive side i believe that MM learns quickly and he will sort out the wheat from the chaff, something that PJ and Keane couldn't do. This year 4th from bottom is good enough and i can't believe we will finish below BC, Pboro or Barnsley!

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Cheshire_Blue added 20:18 - Nov 17 Just got home from Leicester. How Mick McCarthy must wish he had the quality of Grant Leadbitter to call on. It is all too obvious that his qualities are now sadly lacking and very few appreciated a good player when we had him. Our loss is Middlesborough's gain as Tony Mowbray could see.
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gibbo added 20:21 - Nov 17 Please please please send Henderson back he clearly doesn't want to be here.
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StuartBrett8 added 20:25 - Nov 17 You can't argue with the line up today.... it's the same as we would all have picked?
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bluemay77 added 20:28 - Nov 17 The whole club is in disarray and will be for many years to come I'm afraid the last four years have been absolutely painful andi reckon the next four will be as well
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adeblueboy added 20:29 - Nov 17 Too many loan players I don't mind two or three but we must play the contracted players who have more reason to give100 percent. Henderson out never wanted to come in the first place. Murphy so many bad games. Orr up against dyer embarassing when your not match fit. Reo Coker just no good gets caught in possesion too often and still not sure about chambers and higginbottom just not good enough and finally why does our team look so slow compared to others, we even get head starts in some cases. Still believe mick will turn it around though.

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petermorris added 20:29 - Nov 17 Hey Clegg! Get your Old Etonian 'fag' Archbishop Welby to say a prayer for us!!!!!!
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blues1 added 20:30 - Nov 17 while i dont believe so many loan players is the answer to our problems, i cant believe the number of people criticising those loans we have at mo, seems to me that they are the ones who do care about whats happening. i dont hear any of our permanent players coming out and talking about things, or actually trying that bit harder on the pitch to putthings right. lets just hope we can get through to january still in touch so mm can sort this situation out.

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blueherts added 20:41 - Nov 17 I saw wellens b4 game and he not happy not even in squad ,PPearson never spoke to him. !, ! That said we were abject today from front to back Henderson is shocking no confidence CBs went awol Orr couldn't handle Dyer Reo coker and ndaw were powderpuff Unfortunately it is not a shock we lost but the performance was shocking Hyam has to start with smith Probably need 3 holding midfielders in a 5 man midffield Massive game next week gotta win home games Mick will sort

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Bluesaway added 20:41 - Nov 17 Whilst it is not unusual for a new manager to arrive and kick-start a change of form, I don't think anyone expected Mick to turn a bunch of mercenaries and money-takers into a competitive unit willing to put in a shift when the going gets tough. Today was another of those demoralising days where you wonder how on earth we've reached this point. Very few of the current side show real determination and fight, and our dependency on loanees and those on short term contracts (7 of the starting 11 today) shows what Mick makes of the current contracted players. I believe we've seen over the last 3 years an increasing lack of commitment from most who have turned out in a blue shirt. From Leadbitter to Bullard, Bowyer to Priskin, big signings have disappointed. I think McCarthy knows the task ahead, but I think there is a fundamental challenge facing him as there is a need to shake up the club from top to bottom. Mediocrity seems to have become the norm, gone are the exciting days under Burley when we challenged for a top two space in this league whilst playing great football and finally won promotion, or the swashbuckling days of no money but attacking football under Royle. We had players who developed reputations in that time - Dyer, Bent, Holland, Stewart, Ambrose, Walters - but I would be hard pressed to name any of the current squad fit to wear the same shirt. I believe McCarthy has to rebuild, we've spent money on people who are living off past reputations and have failed to deliver, or have potential but are not interested in putting in a shift. I think the best thing to come out of Palace and Leicester will be to convince Mick he has to go for root and branch change, not rely on much of the squad he's inherited. The challenge is to get through to January, but I'm also concerned at the quality of what may be available - we don't want to make panic buys like previous managers, only to find after 3 months the same malaise sets in with the newcomers.

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blueherts added 20:42 - Nov 17 Wellens will be back
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wrighty_blue97 added 20:51 - Nov 17 Awful, went today and 4-0 down at half time is not good enough, get henderson out he is useless, and get loachy back in, dyer's goal was crazy went through our defence like a knife through butter, we spend good money on tickets, ptrol and we get rewarded like this, going on saturday and its a must win, come on town, come on mick, let's turn this around, COYB!
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marcus9 added 21:18 - Nov 17 well that is an absolute disgrace but if any good comes from this it will hopfully be hendersonback to west ham rubbish keeper. roll on january when im sure mm will get it sorted
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siebdykstra added 21:25 - Nov 17 Well I hoped we didn't get a drubbing and after a few good performances I thought we may just get a point. I think today was a very good Leicester against a very bad Ipswich...and then some. Nugent does his usual job. Mick will get us out of the bottom three, and hopefully get rid of some of the players who just can't perform. And no, Richie Wellens is not the answer. I like his thoughts, but he's not even in Leicester's 18. He therefore shouldn't be a first choice pick for our starting 11, unless we actually want to get relegated. Let's just be good at home, please.

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blueherts added 21:42 - Nov 17 Wellens would be better than rc
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BigAlwasmyhero added 21:49 - Nov 17 Trying to search my memory for when we last had a season when we have been thrashed so many times? Any way, with our goal difference 1-0 or 6-0 makes no difference (I think). We just have to take another one on the chin and believe
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warksonwater added 22:00 - Nov 17 I said after Palace we would bounce back and we did. It's all understandable gloom and doom again on this board this week. We can only dust ourselves down again now and prepare for Peterborough. The three points I believe we will take will mean that, despite two awful drubbings, MM will have won us three out of five, which won't look bad. I still say out of bottom three by Christmas and take it from there.

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Blue041273 added 22:03 - Nov 17 Well despite the fine uplifting messages from Orr, Murphy, Reo-Coker et al in the lead up to the game, we produce a performance not meriting one of a league 1 team. I fail to see how we could be so abject again so soon after the Crystal Palace shambles. It's clear now that MM's future rests in a complete overhaul of the squad. None of the current players can consider themselves safe from a root and branch restructuring of the whole squad. MM has no choice; he can't trust anyone to deliver a performance at the moment and he needs players who will. I hope everyone who 'contributed' today will recognise this and will be contacting their agents to determine their futures whether at Town or elsewhere. The supporters can't take much more of this.

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warksonwater added 22:03 - Nov 17 With our narrow home win against Peterborough last year we never really paid them back for the earlier 7-1 reverse. Come on, time to do that!
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BuckieBlue added 22:38 - Nov 17 Those 2 wins so far under Mick are looking increasingly valuable; thankfully some other sides around us are winning less than us at moment and so that at the end of the day gives us a good chance of getting up table. As MM said after game he has taken two sides up from this div., ok we are far, far from that at moment but can't see why he can't do it eventually- a combination of sorting out some of the underachieving permanent signings, getting rid of those not good enough and signing some new talent (his past record/contacts in the game and the fact that, on past history, we are still a respected club give me confidence that we can still attract players).

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