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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marshallmania added 17:16 - Nov 18 Was at Leicester and what a f*****g embarrassment. This team needs such a kick up the ass its untrue! Outplayed and outclassed. Honestly, play the youth team cos the loans don't care and the permanent signings are not up for it. Henderson has to go back right now, the bloke is diabolical, our permanent keepers are miles better. We are gonna struggle all season but at least make the rest of season slightly enjoyable if thats possible!!

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dirtydingusmagee added 17:20 - Nov 18 NoCanariesAllowed spot on summary of things as they stand. It is sickening to think the situation has deteriorated so far from the days when we were always in or close to playoffs.We have been driving down a motorway in wrong direction heading for a crash a long time.
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runningout added 18:07 - Nov 18 there are no teams to be concerned about in this league, but our bunch of weak willed feeble light-weights, put pay to that...
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CraigForrestGateau added 19:46 - Nov 18 I went yesterday. And went for a pint at 27 mins, then another at half time, then without going back up for the second half I went to a pub round the corner, and we had a much better time than actually watching that dross! Embarassing times, all Mick has to do is keep us in touch with survival til January and he can then put his mark on the squad and hopefully remove the pathetic wasters who couldn't give two s#]ts about this club. If I were Mick I'd spread the word about them too so they don't get similar contracts elsewhere and have to drop down a division!!!

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Beforeyouwereborn added 20:04 - Nov 18 I was at Sheffield United in ?1972? when we got walloped 7-0 (also got walloped in the other sense - those were the days!) but even then the players (right at the birth of the Robson teams that clawed their way up the league) showed passion and commitment even if they were short on the style. Yesterday there was none of that. I waited and waited patiently for a shot somewhere near the goal or an incisive move but all I saw were players passing it around with the air of "you have it - I don't want it", and eventually had to settle for the alternative entertainment provided by us and the Leicester fans and even joined in one of the mexican waves that I so despise. I stayed at the end of course as, I always do, this time mostly to see the reaction of the players and I know my eyesight is failing but I could only see a bunch of lazy, incompetent, mercenary, wasters who couldn't even be bothered to come over and apologise to us.

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Gazelle added 20:16 - Nov 18 I'm just watching a programme on Channel 4 about the restoration of a Brixham trawler where they've had to replace all the rotten wood and all the rusty metal to get it seaworthy and i thought " crikey they could be talking about ITFC"
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Dissboyitfc added 20:30 - Nov 18 Gazelle... me too, hope it doesn't sink, both the trawler and our team, never been this low about itfc...
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Talbs77 added 20:40 - Nov 18 I am being forced by her indoors to watch X-Factor which is right up there with pulling out my pubes with tweasers! However I still thank the good lord that I wasnt unlucky enough to see saturdays game although I will have the "pleasure" next week!! I think one good thing that comes out of the comments I've read on here is that the fans were absolutely magnificent again!! You away supporters are an absolute credit to the club, in fact our fans are the only credit to this club right now apart from MM and TC who have the unenviable task of getting this shower of players working for themselves, the fans and actually playing for the shirt. I suspect keeping us up this may rank alongside one of your best managerial acheivements if he pulls it off.

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Dissboyitfc added 21:49 - Nov 18 Here here Talbs77... our supporters are a league above, lets hope the players dont take us a league below.
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gazzmac4 added 10:56 - Nov 19 I was there at the weekend and have to say it was one of the worst, if not the worst game i have seen in a while. Luckily id had 4 pints before the game and a further two at half time to keep me sane. Theres something disturbingly wrong with the team at times, especially when you consider the two hard fought wins weve earned since MM took over. All told if we beat Peterborough at the weekend well still have 3 wins from 5, which is a decent return considering the two opponents we didnt beat. My real annoyance is the nature of the two defeats which for me does overshadow what could be 9 huge points from 15. I did want to tip my cap to the fans who made the journey and those of us that stayed until the end. Even if we were just having to make our own entertainment/make fun of ourselves for the majority of the time! Once again the football itself ruined what was some fairly funny banter in which a mexican wave, started by us, went round the ground twice. I have never seen that before! All in all, i am absolutely gutted about the events of saturday (not least because it cost me £70 ish for a day out to watch that absolute rubbish) but im annoyingly ok with the fact that we could have 9 points from 5 games come saturday! So there we are. I still believe mick can sort this out, but we need to realise we are not a top 6 team by right and there is a long hard slog ahead. Im off to "Prented we scored a goal" and go suitably mental in the office break area!

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