Town boss Mick McCarthy is remaining tight-lipped on whether he’ll be staying with the Blues beyond the end of the season, despite hinting that he could move on in the summer during his press conference earlier this afternoon.

Speaking about striker David McGoldrick, who is also out of contract at the end of June, McCarthy said: “Didz might want to leave with me!” before adding, “We could leave hand in hand out of the golden gates here, couldn’t we?”

But quizzed on his situation and whether he had spoken to owner Marcus Evans about the future, with the club having an option to keep him for a further two years, he wouldn’t comment.

“You’ll find out, won’t you, at some stage,” he said. “Other than that, I’m not prepared to say anything else.”

Pressed further, he added: “Unless you don’t understand what I’ve just said, I wouldn’t say anything else.

“[I’m not prepared to talk about that at all at this stage] because it’s not about me, we’ve got Wolves to play tomorrow and it’s a big game for us. If we beat them we’ll be back on the back of the play-offs.

“And that’s important to me, what we do on the pitch. Anything else is kind of irrelevant, I think.

"It might not be to everybody else, and you might all want to know, but sadly and unfortunately you’re not going find out. So, I want to play tomorrow and get on with it and play well. That’s me.”

When it was pointed out that the club’s fans are keen to find out about the plans for the summer, he added: “You [the media] are going to tell them. It’s not me that breaks confidences, it’s the people I tell.”

Does he understand why fans would want to know now? “I think they’ll all be coming tomorrow to see us play well. And that’s what’s important. That’s what’s very important to me.”

He added: “If we win tomorrow, there’ll be a great atmosphere, we’ll all get applauded off and if we don’t, if we get beat, it’ll be completely the opposite and I might be being told where to go anyway by a lot of them.

“That’s just the way it is and I can’t affect that in any other way than getting my team to be well organised play well and hopefully win. And that’s for all our benefit, the players, the club, me, the club in general, the fans.”

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Woodbridgian added 22:02 - Jan 26 Given the low budgets McCarthy has had to work with, if you look at league position alone you have to admit it's doubtful that any one else could of achieved more. If you look at the quality of football we've had to endure and his relationship now with the majority of fans it's that's a very different matter and it is without doubt time for a change. However if a new manager doesn't get more support from our invisible owner then nothing much will change.

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Gcon added 22:03 - Jan 26 Happy to mark me down but cant answer my question... Man up and answer the question Dissboy? cakeman? sheptonmallet? MJR? ITFCHorrid? Britanniaman? MooseJuice?
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itfchorry added 23:29 - Jan 26 Cheer up Gcon - you will be seeing all your pals in the family enclosure tomorrow - !!! Swn98 Kicapu Bert Geminmustang
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magic added 12:21 - Jan 27 Poor bloke can't wait to leave the toxic atmosphere created by the deluded yet vocal minority at Portman road. Can't blame him.
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