Town’s home game against Blackburn Rovers scheduled for Saturday 20th February will be rearranged with the Lancastrians progressing to round five of the FA Cup after winning 3-0 at Oxford United this afternoon.

Fifth round ties are set to be played that weekend and Rovers' visit to Suffolk will move to a Tuesday evening, although not in the following week as Hull City are already at Portman Road.

Elsewhere, Blues boss Mick McCarthy was at the Madejski Stadium to watch Tuesday’s opponents Reading beat Walsall 4-0, having made only two changes from their last Championship game, to seal their place in round five. Tuesday's game was moved from today due to the Royals' involvement in the FA Cup.

Town will be out to extend their remarkable record of Tuesday night home victories to 16 when they take on Reading and then increase their total even further when they eventually face Blackburn.

The Blues' next Saturday home game - one of only four more this season - is now Nottingham Forest's visit on March 5th.

Meanwhile, in the Championship, in which there were only three games today, the Blues remain eighth but with Birmingham (47 points) having moved up to sixth ahead of Sheffield Wednesday (46) after drawing 0-0 at Bristol City.

The Owls, who lost 3-2 at Shrewsbury in the FA Cup this afternoon with the winning goal coming deep into injury time, are in action at home to third-placed Burnley (51) on Tuesday.

Ninth-placed Cardiff City (44) are now only a point behind the Blues (45) having won 3-2 away at Huddersfield Town.

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grumpyoldman added 17:31 - Jan 30 What are these championship teams doing trying to progress in the FA cup don't their managers realise it could interfere with their league progress, how naive not like an experienced manger, fools
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TractorCam added 17:48 - Jan 30 9 home games left, 5 of which are midweek
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Tufty added 17:48 - Jan 30 That will be another night game us travelling home fans cant get to
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hoppy added 18:14 - Jan 30 "Town will be out to extend their remarkable record of Tuesday night home victories to 16 when they take on Reading and then increase the total even further when they eventually take on Blackburn." Hopefully it would've extended even further before the rearranged Blackburn game, with Hull already being at Portman Road on the Tuesday after the original scheduled date...
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warkthelint added 18:20 - Jan 30 Spot on Grumpyoldman..clearly these Championship managers who want to progress in the FA Cup don't know what they're doing and don't realise the benefits of resting your players to initiate a slump period. should clearly take a leaf out of our wise manager's book I say...
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thebeat added 18:35 - Jan 30 As if today couldnt get any worse. It will now be only 1 saturday home game in 2 months. Do you know what that can do to a man with 4 kids whos only escape is match day? I need a drink
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Mark added 18:38 - Jan 30 Years ago I used to hope Ipswich progressed in the FA Cup partly to earn money towards players for the league campaign. If we had have beaten Portsmouth that would have earned us £67,500 prize money plus the gate receipts from playing Bournemouth today (with £90,000 if we won it). Not huge money but nonetheless on our budget it could have been helpful? http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/More/prize-fund

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Pip50 added 18:45 - Jan 30 On the basis of the FFP model we would need to win the cup to afford to buy back Rhodes. Oh Boro have just done it for £9m on 14k attendances. Never mind we won't have to worry about them next year. Sad times.
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PhilTWTD added 19:08 - Jan 30 hoppy Depending on when the Blackburn game is rescheduled for might be the Charlton or even Fulham games before then as well, hence I wrote in such vague terms!
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bluey123 added 20:36 - Jan 30 Well done McCarthy made ITFC look stupid yet in the way only you could most clubs in this league seem to think that if you have a good run in a cup competition players and supporters enjoy the experience and it gives team morale a boost . Still this man has no thought for supporters and as can be seen we did great after the games with Portsmouth Idiot McCarthy OUT
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jas0999 added 22:13 - Jan 30 Disappointing. Too many Tuesday or midweek games now. Tough to justify season ticket as work commitments make it tricky to get to all these midweek games. Plus lengthy travel. Added to my disappointment of the owners transfer strategy, increased prices and less quality on the pitch it's going to be a tough decision at renewal time.
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evansblue added 22:17 - Jan 30 So the gap between home games is 16th jan to 5th March. Thank goodness the six nations starts soon. I think I have given up on this season.
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evansblue added 22:19 - Jan 30 I meant Saturday home games by the way
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Tractorgirl77 added 23:14 - Jan 30 As a season ticket holder for 20 years, who drives 300 miles round trip for home games and due to work can never attend midweek games, this is now the last straw!!! Yet another home game that has been taken from us. I am now financially worse off by being a season ticket holder! It pains me to say it but my husband and I will NOT be renewing our season tickets.
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OnlyOneSirBobby added 00:49 - Jan 31 @Tractorgirl77....I do hope you're joking. You're suggesting that you're going to give up your season ticket of 20 years simply because a few fixtures have been changed!? You realise even if we did beat Pompey, there was no guarantee we would have beaten Bournemouth....fixture still would have been changed. And if we had beaten Bournemouth, that Blackburn game would STILL have been changed. I really do hope you're joking, because whilst it's unfortunate for you, it's hardly a reason to give up your season ticket!!

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BrettenhamBlue added 03:14 - Jan 31 We'll be playing a club that's earned at least 350k more than us from staying in the cup. Significant money for new investment but we blew it.
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itfcgadgetboy added 06:43 - Jan 31 @tractorgirl77. I agree with you 100%. I believe this is the 7th or 8th home game out of 23 that is on a midweek. That's 1/3 of games I can't get to either, without any games I miss due to other reasons. I might as well pay for each game I go to. There is now no benefit (after giving the early bird option to non season ticket holders) to being a ST holder.
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big_gaz67 added 07:59 - Jan 31 I hope the ticket office police who have said they will look at the use of under 10 tickets will take all these midweek games into account before accusing me of missusing the tickets I brought for my 8 year old - who is happy to come to all Saturday games and my 6 year old who only comes to a few...... OnlyOneSirBobby (great handle by the way) - If we had beaten Bournemouth the Blackburn game would have been changed but there would have been a 50% chance it would have been replaced by a home tie in the last 16 of the cup.

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sidtheswan added 08:25 - Jan 31 Good to see all these teams in the cup using nearly full strength teams to progress to next round. Even Spurs played a strong team at Colchester . Talking of Colchester it must have been good playing a big team having a full house and the excitement to the game . I remember those days at Portman Road pre MM .
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3stars added 10:35 - Jan 31 sidtheswan - you mean the Spurs that made seven changes at Colchester? Spurs have hundreds of millions of pounds to give themselves a strong squad. We don't.
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bluebare added 11:08 - Jan 31 I'm very peed of with this as travelling from Devon I can only do sat home games and a little bit of effort against Portsmouth would have meant a few more games to come see. Guess Bristol away (my closest game) will be all I get to see for a while. Next season ticket in doubt because of clubs lack of ambition not because of the travel
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IpswichT62OldBoy added 12:53 - Jan 31 At least they won't have Rhodes playing. He should be playing for us. Bloody Keane.
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Seasider added 14:29 - Jan 31 3 stars.Yes but did you see their bench?Mr P Spurs manager says he is still excited by the cup. McCarthy's 'rested'players didn't benefit in the Birmingham game,so lets see how we get on against Reading who put out a virtually full team,and who have now made more money as a result.Still his players can now have another rest for the Blackburn game. Our Manager thinks he is always right;but even a Yorkshireman gets it wrong occasionally but wont admit to it.

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Geoff added 15:11 - Jan 31 Tractorgirl77 i fully agree with you,the best idea is buy a silver card instead it gives you priority over tickets you can pick your games and not be at the whim of sky or the FA cup which takes precedence over the league unlike our manager.
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NITFC added 15:21 - Jan 31 Hold on people. Whilst I absolutely disagree with with the policy of playing a reserve team in the cup, and whilst I am gutted that we will not be in today's draw, you can't blame MM for the fact that Blackburn won their cup tie. It's not his or the club's fault that we can't play that game on a Saturday, however bizarre the fixture list now reads
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