Town boss Mick McCarthy says he has no intention of walking away from his Blues contract as things stand, despite admitting that he’d hate to come back to Portman Road at the start of 2017/18 with season ticket sales well down.

Despite having been undefeated in seven games - six draws and one win - Town were booed at the end of Tuesday’s 0-0 draw with Wolves but McCarthy wasn’t too annoyed or surprised by the reaction.

“Not really, we didn’t play [well in] the second half,” he said. “I thought we were the better team in the first half, they may have had more passes, but we had the better chances in the first half.

“Josh crossed one, Tom did, we had a chance just before half-time with Tom and Didz, and Bart hadn’t made a save at that point.

“We started the second half really well and it just went away from us. To be fair, they’re a good side and their away record is better than their home record.

“I kind of get used to that, I’ve said before I’m a bit ambivalent towards it. If it’s directed at me I’m not that bothered about it any more.

“But I’m bothered about it being about it being at the players and I’m bothered about how supporters feel about their club because players and managers and coaches come and go but the club will always be here.

“And I think it’s sad when people start to feel ambivalent about the club. There wasn’t a good crowd there and I understand it, we’re not doing as well as they’d like us to be. So no, I’m not angry or upset about it at all.”

McCarthy, who is contracted to the Blues until the summer of 2018 with the club having an option for a further two seasons, said in January that he would consider his future in the summer. Will that kind of reaction from fans have a bearing on what he decides to do?

“I’m not walking away from my contract, I’ve no intention of doing that, not at this moment anyway,” he said.

“But, as I said before, I’d also hate to be coming in here with 12,000 or 10,000 season tickets or something when we’ve been used to far better if that’s down to me.

“But having said that, you can start that way and you win two or three games at the very start and people come back. It’s generating that.

“What we’ve got to try and generate is that feelgood factor now before the end of the season if we can do it.”

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TrueBlue1998 added 16:58 - Mar 9 Glad to hear that. Surely he's earned the chance to prove himself with a bit of money
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warktheline added 17:10 - Mar 9 @swn, take heed and read Mickzzzztactics reply to your 'good chappie' post! Don't go there, it could become a rather one sided spectacle! Similar to the one that Sir Bobby's boys gave Man Utd on the 1st of March 1980, do you remember it? I certainly do, but I guess that's the difference between you and me, I want to get back to those entertaining games at Portman Rd, whereas you, well, shall we say, are extremely easily satisfied!

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Bluetone added 17:13 - Mar 9 Just think McCarthy waking up to a full Yorkshire breakfast and a couple of cups of Yorkshire tea. Then a walk on the Yorkshire Dales a stop at a hostelry and a pint or two of Yorkshire bitter while you regale the locals with tales of all your great achievements. Then home to your Yorkshire home and a Sunday lunch of roast beef, horse radish sauce and Yorkshire puddings with all the trimmings washed down with another glass of Yorkshire bitter. Then an afternoon snooze in your favourite armchair while daydreaming of all your mostly imaginary glittering successes. Go on McCarthy go for it I'm certain we will survive without your brand of exciting entertaining football.

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Bluetone added 17:22 - Mar 9 @warktheline those really were the days when we had a proper club. I wrote a blog about my early days supporting The Town it is still there in the blogs I called it A Saturday in My Youth. Read it it will make you both sad and angry when you see what our club has now become.
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Blue_Moses added 17:38 - Mar 9 Luckily my contract ends in May
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martin587 added 17:50 - Mar 9 This is now a test of Mr.Evans character.The correct thing to do is to release him from his contract at the end of the season.Do the owners not see the discontent at the club from supporters and I suspect some of the players. The big test will come when the season ticket sales slump,but my guess is he will still be here next season come what may.😡
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jas0999 added 17:59 - Mar 9 To be fair to Mick I wouldn't walk away from a million pounds either! But, if Mick stays I can see ticket sales falling by a thousand or so. Again. Evans really has a problem. Does he let it get to that stage or sack Mick prior to renewal deadlines? Or does he simply not care? Ten games to go and with no pressure it wouldn't be that surprising if we did okay. But it would only paper over the cracks of a dreadful season.

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jas0999 added 18:00 - Mar 9 SWGF - marked you down in error. Apologies.
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Orraman added 18:05 - Mar 9 Looks like dreams do not come true.
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shakytown added 18:12 - Mar 9 O dear another season of turgid c..p. Is there any possible hope left for this once proud club???? Over to you Mr Evans.
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CornardBlue added 18:20 - Mar 9 it's 60 years since my late father took me to my first game at Portman Road and i have been in love with Ipswich Town ever since and had a season ticket for over 40 years. Sadley this love affair is coming to an end, this last two seasons has been the worst for entertainment i can ever remember, and the last two home games have been 180 boring minutes out of my life i will never get back. I hate to say it but we are the worst team in this league and deserve to be relegated and this is all down to this manager. He does not care a toss about us loyal supporters if he did he put out a team to try and win games and entertain us. When you play 3 centre backs i thought the idea was for the full backs to support the forwards, apart from once at Norwich this never happens ours just play 5 at the back with 2 defensive midfielders, leaving 3 forwards who are never going to trouble any defence. Like many other supporters i love my club but there comes a time when enough is enough, McCarthy is not going to leave so the only thing i and other supporters can do is not renew our season tickets then perhaps Evans might take some action.

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blue75 added 18:24 - Mar 9 After watching Barcelona's never give up attitude last night it's made realise just how far our club has fallen. 10 years ago we would've had the same attitude in games obviously not the skill but we would try to win until the very end. With McCarthy in charge we'll never see that attitude. If it takes not renewing for him to go then that's just what we'll have to do. I want to be proud to be a town fan again!!!!

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Westy added 18:28 - Mar 9 I really could not put up with another Season of Mick. Last season he had our best goalkeeper (Bart), one of the few players we have who is real class, on the bench for two thirds of the season who only lost his place because his father died and had to back to Poland. If Mick stays, I think there is a real chance we could lose Bart. Why would he stay for another 'mid-table' season when he is so much better than that. He has been Man of the Match for five of the last eight games. Mick does not get the F A Cup, or the derby against Norwich and even declares before the game that he would be happy with a draw. So many long-standing fans who had been going for thirty years or more cannot abide what is happening any more and don't go. Very sadly, we could not even fill the stadium against our arch rivals, very embarrassing, such is the disinterest and loss of pride in the blue and white. We have not won back to back games so far this season. Against Wolves who are mediocre we started with five defenders. Mick has destroyed the career of Freddie Sears who is a striker and scoring regularly until Mick started playing him on the left and he has hardly scored since and now hardly ever plays. If Mick doesn't go the Season Ticket sales will be well down, without question. Current Season Ticket holders sometimes do not attend as it is. Nye on a generation of supporters has been lost. Nick's forte is rescuing desperate situations which he did for us, but we are treading water now and as long as he is here there will be no improvement.

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surgery added 18:31 - Mar 9 What an incredible employment position this buffoon has been handed, one where he can seemingly dictate to his employer the time he will decide to resign. There has to be more to this surely doesn't there, but what though?
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walberblue added 18:39 - Mar 9 you can keep the club then, call it MM FC if you like . pay Mick £m's I'm out, RIP ITFC goodbye #botttomsixmick
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MooseJuice added 19:33 - Mar 9 ...whilst up the road they are offering half price tickets to their game at Villa as a 'reward to the fans for their loyalty'. I remember the days when our club used to care about the fans and not rip us off at every possible opportunity. To look at how Norwich is doing things as a club with envious eyes is a sad, sad day indeed.
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TimmyH added 19:43 - Mar 9 Money money money money monneeeeeyyyyyyyy!!! - as the song goes.
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Bert added 19:52 - Mar 9 An honest set of words from MM but what will affect season ticket sales more than anything is how we play until May. I understand where the outers are coming from but like it or not they are in the minority when it comes to the question of MM.
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Westy added 20:15 - Mar 9 Blue75, I agree with your comments. Ten years ago we had magic Jim in charge with his never say die attitude. I thought it wrong to replace him with Roy Keene. It has been downhill ever since. I remember a game against Plymouth when we we're two goals down then Fabian Wilnes got sent off. We won the game 3-2 with Shefti Kutchi scoring the winner with a diving header in front of nearly twenty four thousand fans that included only a few hundred Plymouth and one hell of an atmosphere. In the ten years since we have lost ten thousand of the crowd and are content with draws.

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Bluesquid added 20:58 - Mar 9 Playing against a team one point above the relegation zone who had lost their last five games... “In the second half they were the better team but they haven't won, have they?” Mick bringing that feelgood factor back to Portman Road.
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muccletonjoe added 21:01 - Mar 9 There are undoubtedly supporters of the club who believe in mm and maybe like to watch the football he plays. There are also those who will not under any circumstances be renewing their season tickets. Just what those percentages are will become very clear when season ticket sales are announced. He is going nowhere by the way.
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cat added 21:09 - Mar 9 Bert, do you honestly believe you are in the majority regarding MMs position?? Interesting call, I wonder what's that based on??
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surgery added 21:11 - Mar 9 Bluesquid, can you just imagine any other spokesperson for the ME Empire speaking at press conferences and forever coming out with this laughable drivel still being employed by said Empire? As I posted earlier, something strange going on here
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Bluesquid added 21:23 - Mar 9 Surgery, i agree, it does seem strange, maybe ME know's that we won't go down now and is quite happy for Mick to just carry on regardless so Mick know's within reason he can say what he likes. Very sad times.
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MicksZzzTactics added 22:02 - Mar 9 @shakytown, @Westy ... and a bunch of other posters really If the dreaded Dino aka Mick "I set-up to win EVERY time! Scouts Honor, dammit!" McCarthy ...is shall-we-call-it "allowed" to stay on following his cozy summer rendezvous (probably with MM hastily running along while acting as the caddy or ball-boy for Magnificent Marcus on some truly exotic golf-course in the southern hemisphere! :-) lol) then it can really only be translated into that Magnificent Marcus is still "sufficiently" **CONTENT** with everything (yes meaning including ALL the negative stuff, financial and otherwise) it carries with to have mighty genius Mr. Mick McCarthy as your professional football team's manager in this Day & Age???!!! ..........but ohhhhhhh just in case anybody forgot, Magnificent Marcus is of course inherently Football CLUELESS, and apparently also extremely Football INDIFFERENT (he has yet to voice his objection to the hedgehog-like and mostly negative dross football us fans are being served week in week out through say at least 75% of the league season, topped-off of course with Mick's utter disrespect & disinterest in the once proud-to-take-part-in 2 biggest domestic cup tournaments!) isn't he now??? ...so in other words: What does he (Marcus) know, right??? :-) Lmao! And thus my main point or reminder really is this: That if Magnificent Marcus is indeed stil somehow someway (inferred: He has certifiably lost his bloody marbles! lol ) "sufficiently" **CONTENT** with the the nowadays unmistakably very fan-deterring dreaded Dino ... well folks then imho there is then EVERY reason to believe that Magnificent Marcus will not only let him stay on to the end of the next season but also pretty soon invoke that sadly often forgotten by the fans little clause in MM's extension contract, namely the extra 2 years 'Option' for him and his prehistoric sidekick TC!!!!!!!!!!! ... and do so within the foreseeable future since I believe I have heard/read that the deadline for said 'Option' is somewhere around the very end of this year or very early 2018! Alas it could very well end up not JUST being "another" year of this %&$#?@! .... but another THREE years of this %&$#?@! -- May the Football Gods have mercy on our poor ITFC fans' souls!!!

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