Boss Mick McCarthy has praised owner Marcus Evans for not putting him under additional pressure during the Blues struggles this season and being “consistent and neutral in his attitude" towards him regardless of Town’s position in the Championship table.

Tuesday’s 3-0 home win against Wigan saw the 17th-placed Blues move nine points clear of the relegation zone with six to play, a position in which they would appear to be all but safe.

McCarthy admits he’s happier now that the gap to the bottom three has increased and also due to the performance against the Latics.

“Of course, I feel a lot better because we played a lot better as well,” he said. “Maybe if we’d have scored against Birmingham we might have gone on the rampage there and scored another couple. I don’t know. But we didn’t when we had our chances.

“But I thought it was a really good performance the other night and a great result. It certainly took the pressure off and walking off and seeing the other results certainly helped.”

He says he has talked to owner Evans since the game: “I spoke to him yesterday and I think for the first time Marcus admitted that we’d been in a bit of a dogfight. I said ‘I’ve been telling you that for weeks!’.

“It’s nice that the owner, the boss of the place is not on [at you] because it only adds pressure - ‘We’re in a dogfight! We’ve got to get results!’.

“There’s never been any of that whether we’ve been going for the play-offs or down near the bottom.

“Completely consistent and neutral in his attitude towards me, which is great, he’s always the same, and I appreciate that.

“But it’s taken the pressure off all of us because it could have gone the other way. If we’d got beaten and the others had won on Tuesday, the gap would have been three points and we’d got Fulham, Burton and Newcastle, that would have been a tough task.

“They’re still going to be tough but they’re a damned sight easier when you’re nine points clear of the bottom three.”

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jong75 added 22:14 - Apr 6 Boys & girls of itfc. I truly believe that marcus evans bought itfc as a tax efficient way of offsetting profits from his empire. Coupled with the exposure he receives from having his name on our shirt. There is no ambition to gain promotion to the premier league, he is happy to bob along. Sorry boys and girls but this is what our club is. If any if you have a few mill to buy the club great, if not, what cold hearted businessmen will buy our club, when we dont even own the land we play on.

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BlueNomad added 23:22 - Apr 6 Perhaps by "neutral" he means Evans doesn't get over excited when things go well (like two years ago) and doesn't rant or panic when they don't. It just fits the prevailing view on this board that it means he isn't interested.
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smellmycheese added 23:31 - Apr 6 Ah, please, just don't say anything else until you're gone. You're a total embarrassment . No wonder he doesn't say anything bad. Probably scared to as you would only patronise him if he did and make it sound like he didn't have a clue about football if he did. Please p.ss off Mick.
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therein61 added 08:57 - Apr 7 The one great job our leader has done since walking through the door is making a great contribution to the empires tax loss plan therefore making him fire proof
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DirtyOldNodger added 19:42 - Apr 7 For those of you who consistently call for the owner to sack the manager and leave the club, please answer the below questions for us brainless, rose tinted fans who haven't got a clue... - Name one manager who could do better with the paltry budget (in footballing terms) that Mick McCarthy has had at his disposal... bearing in mind that at least a third of the clubs in the league will have tens of millions in parachute payments to give them an unfair advantage over their competitors? - If the owner decided to listen to the remarks made by a handful of fans and left the club tomorrow, what do you think would happen to our beloved ITFC? Would genuinely love to see some sensible balanced responses, although something tells me that won't happen.

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wayway added 20:51 - Apr 7 Dirtyoldnodger, you entirely miss the point. It matters not how much McCarthy or any other manager has to spend you do not have to play the dire boring 'we start with a point so lets keep it' hoofball style of football even with the players at his disposal. He is a boring man who plays boring football at the sooner he is gone the better
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