Town boss Mick McCarthy was delighted with what he felt was an “outstanding win” at Wigan but not with some “real disingenuous comments" made about his team by Latics manager Uwe Rosler after the match.

Following the Blues’ 2-1 victory at the DW Stadium Rosler said the Blues “roughed us up and sometimes with illegal methods” and accused Town of targeting winger Callum McManaman, who was forced off injured after a Christophe Berra foul: “They wanted to take him out of the game and they succeeded.”

McCarthy was unrepentant after what he felt was one of the best away performances of his time in charge at Portman Road.

“It was an outstanding win and an outstanding performance,” he said. “I thought we were considerably the best team, despite some stuff I read and have seen since about us supposedly kicking them off the park, beating them up and targeting individual players. I should clear it up, we target all of them, not individuals.

“I thought we were outstanding and there were real disingenuous comments made about my team because I thought we were far and away the better team.

“We could have been four or five up. I think Gerks made one save after 74 minutes from a corner kick and then a lot was said about the last 10 minutes when they had a couple of chances. They did, we were knackered, we’d run all over the top of them and played well.

“And, of course, when you get to 2-1 you sit back, you get forced back, it’s almost inevitable and we got our little bit of luck when they hit the post and it came away. But I thought we were much better than them.”

He added: “It was very pleasing and even more so after all the bleating which had gone on as well.”

Town go into today’s game at home against Rotherham looking to win four games on the trot for the first time during McCarthy’s time in charge. The last time the Blues managed such a streak was back in January and February 2012 during Paul Jewell’s spell as boss.

McCarthy says the run of wins, which has taken Town up to seventh in the table, has boosted both confidence and optimism.

“It does help confidence for all of us,” he said. “It gives an optimism around the town and at the ground there’ll be an optimism.

“That has to be tempered slightly as Rotherham are no mugs and it’ll be a really hard game, as all Championship games are.

“But it certainly helps. It helps the spirit, it helps individually how you feel about yourself and certainly collectively as a team. Let’s hope we can take it forward and get another win.”

McCarthy is particularly pleased with the way players such as Luke Hyam, who scored his first goal of the season at Wigan, and Tommy Smith have accepted having been dropped from the side during the recent run.

“We like to try and keep it consistent,” he continued. “And it’s consistent in personality as much as anything.

“It doesn’t always work because none of them are happy when they’re not playing but it’s the reaction when they get back in, à la Luke Hyam when he came on and Tommy Smith when had his little bit in the game the week before.

“That is the reaction I expect. I’ve had it before where you get people who come in and have a bit of a sulk on. It does them no good because they’re not going to get back in again.”

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jabberjackson added 06:58 - Sep 27 Not content with symbiotic, mm has chosen to use the word 'disingenuous' which basically means 'bollox', which to all intents and purposes is his favourite word on any day ending in a 'y' And as for his fluent French at the end...sacre bleu Allez Les Bleus. (Coyb)
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warktheline added 07:20 - Sep 27 Total tosh spoken by the Geman, face facts, outplayed for 75 minutes. I call it diverting heat away from oneself, have a look at Wigan's start to campaign.
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bluebrit added 07:36 - Sep 27 Anyone who was at the game or saw it on TV could see that Ipswich were far superior to Wigan for the vast majority of the game. It's a poor response from Rosler, an unprofessional and transparent attempt to draw attention away from his own team's failings. I suspect he is starting to feel some pressure. Any who cares about his future - bring on Rotherham- let's hope another win could push town into the top 6 and who knows maybe Mick will end up with a deserved manager of the month award!

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MrBloo added 08:01 - Sep 27 Interesting to see that Mick said the team were knackered with 10 minutes to go. many on here couldn't see that.
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BiggestMick added 08:14 - Sep 27 Rosler is just mad cause we won haha
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spanishblue added 08:45 - Sep 27 Thanks Uwe I think it's called a mans game, I remember us being kicked about for the last many years, I,m pleased that we are standing up to bully boy tactics,and starting to play a more pleasing form of football life is good at the club making all us blues happy folk strange how much better I feel with the warmth of three wins on the trot please make it 4 COYB
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DurhamTownFan added 09:20 - Sep 27 Mrbloo: was pretty plain to see: we couldn't get out I our half! Pretty much my whole life as a fan I've seen teams come to pr to kick the crp out if us and go away with a win or draw a couple of times a season. I'm quite pleased that it's now us doing it to other teams. We're not really dirty but just really good at the dirty work in the air and on the second ball. As Rosler said, sammons goal was a classic example. It ain't pretty, but for now it's working!

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jas0999 added 09:31 - Sep 27 We were the better team for 75 minutes, they were the better team for 15 minutes. End of really.
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spanishblue added 10:09 - Sep 27 Thanks Uwe I think it's called a mans game, I remember us being kicked about for the last many years, I,m pleased that we are standing up to bully boy tactics,and starting to play a more pleasing form of football life is good at the club making all us blues happy folk strange how much better I feel with the warmth of three wins on the trot please make it 4 COYB
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strikalite added 10:25 - Sep 27 Rosler is just under pressure and obviously had to divert pressure by taking an easy pop at us...but it was quite clear that his side were second best all over the pitch.. A proper professional performance that night from us..
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runningout added 10:28 - Sep 27 not a fab idea to sit back when your 2 : 1 up...
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Superblue95 added 11:09 - Sep 27 Does anyone else get the impression that Rosler is just a massive tw@t?? Not just from what he's said about us but from several things he's said in the media in recent months
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10dackj added 13:55 - Sep 27 Follow me on Instagram please :) @itfcsupporters
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WhoisJimmyJuan added 13:58 - Sep 27 I don't think Rosler is necessarily a tw@t but like people say, a manager under pressure desperately trying to deflect the pressure. From what I saw, there was one bad tackle by Berra on McMananaman, one late but accidental one from Hyam, and even then Mings was unlucky when Maloney(?) clipped Mings' toes when running toward our goal. We were stronger than them and worked harder. I saw no calculated dirty tactics. In fact Berra made one of the best tackles I have ever seen by a Town player, inside our area whilst on a yellow card. Rosler is talking c@ck.

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WhoisJimmyJuan added 13:59 - Sep 27 Not sure what other people think but Berra is perhaps the best central defender I've seen in a Town shirt, probably since Venus, Mowbray, McGreal?
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Warkys_Tash added 01:18 - Sep 28 Jabber Jackson, thanks for the English lit lesson. The rest of us fans on here would have had no way of knowing what disingenuous meant if you hadn't been kind enough to explain it. Thanks. Another way so explains it: Sour Grapes from Rosler.
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