Boss Kieran McKenna has reflected on the Blues’ form at Portman Road where he believes they could have picked up three or four victories this season.

The superb 2-0 win against Chelsea just after Christmas remains Town’s only home win this season with two of their three-point hauls having come on their travels, at Spurs, who they host tomorrow, and Wolves.

McKenna feels his side could have recorded more than just the one victory on Suffolk soil with a number of games, the draws with Leicester, Fulham, Manchester United and Leicester, and the defeats to AFC Bournemouth and most recently Southampton, having been games which could have gone either way.

“I think it’s mostly small margins, that’s the truth,” he said. “If you look at our home games, we’ve had many more opportunities to win than we’ve had in our away games.

“We’ve been a few seconds, a hair’s breadth, a few millimetres from winning games and we could easily have been sitting here with treble or four times the number of home wins that we’ve had.

“In our away games, we’ve seemed to compete really well and stay in the games. We’ve managed to see games out a little bit better or get the margins to go our way.

“I don’t there’s loads in it. I think on a par score, we’d have picked up a lot more points at home and away from home we’ve probably been a little bit more clinical and managed to see out a couple of tight games. I think it’s only that.

“I think most of the home performances have been good and we’ve put ourselves in good situations to win games and we just haven’t managed to get as many over the line as we would have liked to.

“We’ve got to try and do that again. We’ve got to try and perform to a top level which gives us a chance to be in games, to compete in games and then when you’re in games and the result’s on the line, it’s down to really small margins and we’ve got to try and take care of everything we can to get the margins to go our way.”

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orfordbuoy added 16:46 - Feb 21 whilst getting so many things right, your insistence on playing Muric, Morsy and bringing on AAH is also a factor for points lost.
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MaySixth added 16:48 - Feb 21 Idiotic statement @orfordbuoy
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Stato added 16:57 - Feb 21 the number of points we have list through individual errors from Morsy and Muric into double figures easily
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orfordbuoy added 17:11 - Feb 21 Maysixth - play the post not the poster. And there's no need for insults - this isn't the 50's something, echo-chamber forum.
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bluebullet29l added 17:13 - Feb 21 I agree morsy and muric have cost us a lot of points. Morsy should no way start. The Premier league is to quick for him. Cajuste and philips for me definitely.
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BlueRuin69 added 17:27 - Feb 21 People turning on Morsy, sad to see
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algy added 18:04 - Feb 21 "A few millimetres, a hair's breadth"!!!!!!!!! Surely the club can afford to get him an accurate tape measure.
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bayleycr added 18:36 - Feb 21 We all know we need to turn our good performances into points, and focusing on the games to go ... with Palmer in goal there will be fewer mistakes with O'Shea (especially) and Greaves improving with Phillips growing in form and fitness with J Clarke growing in confidence with Broadhead now up and running with Omari and Delap linking up with Szmodics eager as ever it's not over yet

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itfc2024 added 20:08 - Feb 21 totally agree muric and morsy have cost us alot of points and like the previous person said bringing on AAH was a joke he wasn't gonna win us games he a poor player
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Motown added 21:08 - Feb 21 Wow, such a shame to see people calling out the players they don't personally like as being responsible, especially when it's a club legend like Morsy or someone who barely played (AAH). Thankfully most fans realise we are all in this together rather than turning on individuals. If we survive it's because we are greater than the sum of our parts.
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algy added 21:20 - Feb 21 Should never blame a player for getting something wrong. Blame the person who picked the player in the team. Every member of the squad is here because the manager wants him here. It's Mck's squad nobody else's.
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itfc2024 added 21:47 - Feb 21 Phillips has to start everyweek over morsy we can't be a club that picks a player cos he helped get us promoted or is one of our own we need players that are gonna keep u in the Premier league and improve the squad which I'm afraid at this level morsy dont
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TimmyH added 21:58 - Feb 21 'Margins' that we're largely on the wrong side of or games that we possibly could have won but didn't for varying reasons i.e. Man U (had the better chances), Leicester (robbed by VAR/officials), Bournemouth (collapsed towards the end), Villa (there for the taking 2nd half as they had 1 eye on the Bayern Munich mid-week game)...etc.
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Somersetractor added 00:15 - Feb 22 Home crowd tomorrow, need to sing like the away underdogs ! Cmon boys, first step to gather some points. The team are growing in confidence. Let's go as one !
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BeattiesBackPocket added 10:49 - Feb 22 People were moaning on here that Phillips was an absolute waste of wages a couple of months ago whilst morsy was doing well now he’s the messiah and Morsys sh!te. You couldn’t make it up on here sometimes. Absolute whoppers some of the posters on here. Morsy has been THE most outstanding captain we have had at Portman road since Matt Holland so we’re talking over 20 odd years people have very short memories on here. There’s more than just Muric and morsy that have made mistakes this season that have cost us including Leif AND Walton but no one mentions that just Muric and now Morsy. He’s knocking on 34 this year and should we stay up we will need to look at an all action box to box player that’s a given as we have to love on but to single Morsy out is ridiculous.

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TimmyH added 11:59 - Feb 22 Agree with the above post...I just feel Morsy might need the odd game on the bench to recharge his batteries he has just not looked his self over the last month or so. As you mention there have been individual errors other than Muric (the main culprit)...Davis has made a few.
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