Town boss Mick McCarthy has been nominated for the Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month award for August.

McCarthy is up against Chris Hughton, whose Brighton side beat the Blues 3-2 at Portman Road on Saturday to climb to the top of the table, Steve Bruce, boss of Hull City, who are second, and fourth-placed QPR’s Chris Ramsey.

The Blues, who are third, won three, drew one and lost one in the first month of their Championship campaign.

Hughton looks to be the strong favourite to carry off the gong with the Seagulls unbeaten and top of the table, having won four and drawn one of their five games. The winner will be announced on Friday.

Last season, McCarthy won the September award, becoming the first Town boss to win Manager of the Month since Joe Royle in November 2004. He was also nominated in November and December.

McCarthy picked up the award three times with his previous clubs, once with Sunderland and twice with Wolves.

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alexsmith111 added 06:19 - Sep 3 Houghton will rightly win it. Don't get me wrong mocks done well
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alexsmith111 added 06:20 - Sep 3 MICK!
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carsey added 06:34 - Sep 3 Don't want this one it's a poisoned chalice. Win the league and get Manager of the Season.
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brian_a_mul added 07:00 - Sep 3 Runner up is just fine! If he gets runner up every month we will get promoted:-)
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Umros added 07:00 - Sep 3 Or finish top scorer in the championship and win player of the season..........oh, hang on.
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Mark added 07:49 - Sep 3 Houghton will win it, better results and unlike Ipswich Brighton have not been on the path to improvements for some time - I was very surprised how well Houghton has got Brighton playing! As for Mick, excellent results in August nonetheless plus the signings of Douglas, Henly, Alabi and Malarczyk for a combined total of £8K in fees, along with contract extensions for McGoldrick and Sears. Happy with that!!

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ArnieMsBigToe added 09:57 - Sep 3 Mark: You had me confused. . . I thought Houghton. . . Who does he manage? Have I missed something. Oh (the penny finally dropped) You mean Hughton.
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Steve70 added 09:57 - Sep 3 Houghton, the result againt Town will edge it for him.
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Dolly2.0 added 10:49 - Sep 3 I don't know why they bother with the nominations, it's obvious the top boss (only one unbeaten) will get it.
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mow_the_lawn added 11:25 - Sep 3 Brighton are unbeaten and top of the league so difficult to not select Hughton, but if you look at their results, on paper only their away win against us you'd consider an excellent result. I think our results against better teams are worth more in the wider context.
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TrueBlueFerret added 18:42 - Sep 3 Already got MM on his TOP!!
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jas0999 added 20:41 - Sep 3 A thoroughly deserved nomination. I hope The Brighton manager wins it though!
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dirtydingusmagee added 20:55 - Sep 6 Mick deserves it but its a curse, let Hughton have it .
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