Left-back Jonas Knudsen has issued a call for unity as the Blues look to work their way through a tough period which has seen them fail to score for four matches and win only two of their last 11 games in all competitions.

Town, who are down to 16th in the Championship, were booed by their supporters on Saturday as the final whistle confirmed league leaders Huddersfield’s 1-0 victory, the Terriers’ first win at Portman Road in 20 years and the Blues' first home loss in the league this season.

"We have to stick together and that's the only thing I want to say to everybody,” the Danish international said.

“In the dressing room we are going to stick together and every team has been in this position where it's not going the way you want it to go.

"It's not the way to shout at everybody, we have to stick together and we will come back stronger. Of course the fans are not happy but we want to do the best for them.”

Knudsen has backed Leon Best to end the goal drought when the Blues return to action after the international break when they travel to face the 30-year-old striker's former club Blackburn on Saturday 15th October.

"We have missed a goal in the last few games but nobody more than us wants to get another goal,” the 24-year-old full-back added.

“It will come soon because you can see Besty is getting better and better. We have to keep going and stick together."

Best made his second start for the Blues after two sub appearances having joined Town on a free transfer close to the end of the transfer window following a successful trial.

"He is going to get stronger and stronger,” Knudsen continued. “He was out for a little while and now he is in good shape. He is going to be a good striker for us, the big man we need. The goals will come for him if he keeps doing what he's doing.”

Looking back at Saturday’s defeat, he added: "We stopped Huddersfield playing and it is the small details in this league, we know that.

“But we had to get a 0-0 out of this game if you can't score goals. We have defended well this season - you can see that in the table - but were are missing the small details offensively and we will keep working on that.

"When we come out on the other side of this process we will get a very good product out of it.”

Christopher Schindler’s 58th minute goal came after skipper Luke Chambers and keeper Bartosz Bialkowski combined to give away a needless corner.

"We hate to concede from corner kicks and maybe we have done a little too much of that this season but we have to keep going,” Knudsen admitted.

Huddersfield goalscorer Schindler said the visitors were aware that the game was unlikely to be a free-scoring affair.

"We knew by looking at their stats that they don't concede too many goals and that perhaps it wouldn't be a really good-looking game so set pieces were important,” the German defender said.

“I am more than happy that I have scored my first goal for this club.

"I got a good feeling on the set piece. I saw that the space in front of the first defender was not occupied and made a short run from the far post to the near post. The delivery was right on that spot.

All Huddersfield’s eight wins this season have been by a single goal and Schindler says Saturday’s match was typical of their fixtures.

"All our games are quite tight and one situation can decide it,” he added. “Now we won this game and got a clean sheet against not the best opponent playing football but one that defends well on a narrow pitch."

Schindler was replaced in the second half having taken a blow to the head: "I got hit by an elbow I think and felt it was bloody but I thought I would have been able to carry on playing.

"“I got treatment off the opponents' doc and he said the skin was too thin for him to stitch it but I will get some back in Huddersfield.

"Sometimes you get hit, it's part of the game - it's a contact sport and it was not intentional.”

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neil1968 added 23:38 - Oct 3 Normally when a player calls for unity that means the manager is due for the chop . My thoughts over the last few weeks were that McCarthy would be gone by Xmas . Now thinking probably by the end of this month or maybe that's just wishful thinking
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neil1968 added 23:41 - Oct 3 Sunderland and wolves fans warned of this but no one would listen
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midastouch added 23:42 - Oct 3 BREAKING NEWS: Ceasefire in Syria as UN send in Mick McCarthy - no shots reported so far.
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midastouch added 23:58 - Oct 3 MISSING IN ACTION Starring Jonathan Douglas See the blockbuster film poster here: https://postimg.org/image/twr5w8tbn/
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MicksZzzTactics added 01:10 - Oct 4 Speaking of the potential positives derived from awesome awesome 'togetherness', renowned Japanese Manga-artist Hidekaz Himaruya once said: "If you watch a scary movie TOGETHER, then the scariness is cut in half!" Personally I for one can easily relate to that .......... but hmmm I Zzzzeriously wonder if the same logic and effect applies to watching The Dinosaur's hoof-inclined Ipswich Town XI .... anno 2016 ..... i.e does the overall ULTRA BORINGNESSS + EXCRUCITING MISERY OF A MINISCULE NUMBER OF SHOTS 'ON TARGET' + UNBERABLE TACTICAL PREDICTABILITY + MINDBOGGLING & UNSOUND SUBSTITUTIONS, game after game after game, also get "cut in half" simply by watching archaic Mick's ITFC "together" with another person or persons??????????? :-) lol HaHaHaHa

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midastouch added 01:46 - Oct 4 @MicksZzzTactics The only thing watching Mick's team is currently cutting in half is my life expectancy! :-) That's where the current ITFC cutting edge (or distinct lack of it!) ends!
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Dissboyitfc added 06:43 - Oct 4 Midastouch thats brilliant!! lol!
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MicksZzzTactics added 10:12 - Oct 4 To @MidasTouch: (....and to the rest of you : Beware! More Morbid Humor Ahead!) I hear you bro'!!! In fact I'm Zzzzeriously considering taken out a sizable large life insurance on myself (to benefit my truly lovely but also occasionally conniving Better Half! lol) "just in case" I never wake up from my next little INDUCED nap at nowadays lethargically Portman Road ..... or worse never wake up from my next little INDUCED nap at some real comatose-like away ground watching ITFC (cause away from home under Mick The Dinosaur we are obviously even MORE inclined as per the usual MM Hedgehog Tactical instructions to just "Park the Bus" i.e. as in defending with at least 10 men behind the ball while generally having max. 2 shot 'on target' for yet another so called "excellent point"!) . Bvdrrrrrr!!! So please please begone Dino ..... beside for all them usual 'trivial' reasons , NOW additionally also because @MidasTouch and I, in all likelihood :-) represent only a fraction of the staggering number of fans ,having these "reeeeeal" personal reasons to fear that the undertakers, funeral directors and grave diggers etc. throughout the southern parts of East Anglia are at a realistic risk of becoming 'overbooked' in the foreseeable future, if you don't! :-)

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Razor added 10:37 - Oct 4 The club is actually cheating the fans and taking us all for idiots. We have replaced an international striker with an unfit journeyman who is isolated up front,AT HOME,and forced to chase his own headers------should we not expect more? At least we can visit some new pubs in Division 1. I am hoping and praying that he clears off to Villa, and we also get compensation----that would be a result!!

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Razor added 10:37 - Oct 4 The club is actually cheating the fans and taking us all for idiots. We have replaced an international striker with an unfit journeyman who is isolated up front,AT HOME,and forced to chase his own headers------should we not expect more? At least we can visit some new pubs in Division 1. I am hoping and praying that he clears off to Villa, and we also get compensation----that would be a result!!

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londontractor85 added 13:26 - Oct 4 If McCarthy does do the decent thing and walk, who would people want in as a replacement realistically? I think we can safely rule out Steve Bruce... My vote would be on trying to pinch Graham Alexander off of Scunthorpe. They are playing some good stuff at the moment, I think he could be the man to rejuvenate Portman Road.
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midastouch added 13:29 - Oct 4 Glad it made you laugh Dissboyitfc. We sure need some laughs as we all know there hasn't been that much to smile about at Portman Road of late! That is unless Aston Villa put in a call to Mr Fat Cat Evans, but can't see it happening!
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bournemouthblue added 13:34 - Oct 4 I have to pull Mr Schindler up on this one Now we won this game and got a clean sheet against not the best opponent playing football but one that defends well on a narrow pitch." Portman Road is one of the widest pitches in the country, it is 6 yards wider than Huddersfield's pitch
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midastouch added 14:16 - Oct 4 So bournemouthblue, we've got one of the widest pitches in the country but nobody with licence to exploit the extra width and get some decent crosses into the box as we're being constrained and curtailed by 2 defensive midfielders in Skuse and Douglas at the expense of flair and wingers! Mick, please use your loaf and get the likes of Ward and Ward and Lawrence playing to their strengths. It doesn't take 2 people to change a light bulb. And it doesn't take 2 midfielders to carry a bucket of water! So drop Douglas to the bench and bring in another flair player to help create some chances so we can start to get some shots on target. Then hopefully we all get to see the goal famine end at Portman Road before we die of boredom and frustration!

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warkthelint added 14:27 - Oct 4 George Burley..the Ipswich way and great football to boot...and the supporters will conme back in droves
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worker added 17:46 - Oct 4 when Webster is fit again and joni starting Iwould like to see webbyas a holding midfielder ..... keep joshua in at r/b that would mean chambers (who will be picked any way ) c/r and tom l just behind front two who ever is fit G/ W C /G ..PITS OR VARNY BEST OR FREDDY ANY ONE WHO CAN SCORE ( ted phillips would help)
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Kirbmeister added 18:39 - Oct 4 I was playing Football Manager on my PC when I was offered the Ipswich Town job. I knew it was a poor squad with no future, so I declined the offer. I then put the phone down and got back to Football Manager.
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therein61 added 18:50 - Oct 4 So the usual crawlers have hidden up(counting their ill gotten underperforming gains) and put Jonas up for the usual drivel after another dreadful display, how people(not players you note!!) like Skuse can look themselves in the mirror after yet another abject performance which wouldn't get him in a Sunday morning pub side is beyond belief and they have the absolute temerity to call themselves professionals, but then Skuse, Dougie, Chambo are great aren't they?, I wonder if they would possibly consider a wage reduction if we are relegated, they would have to because no other manager would buy them would they!!

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