Paul Jewell has played what he considers his best eleven and only made changes  when injuries have intervened. Having a settled side must help, although frustrating for those who have to sit on the bench, especially Jamie Peters and Tommy Smith.

Connor Wickham was guilty of missing three scoring chances on Saturday, but lets not forget he will not be 18 until the 31st March. If we can hold onto him for another season he could be the one to score 20 odd goals. He wears the number 9 shirt normally associated with the centre forward and thats where he should be playing in a 4-4-2 formation.

The future is beginning to look brighter. Once the club has reached 50 odd points the fear of relegation will be gone and Paul Jewell will be able to plan for next season. If Marcus Evans wants to fill the stadium then ticket prices have got to come down. Times are hard for a lot of people. I admire those supporters who go to all the away games, they must have very deep pockets or make other sacrifices.

How the football team performs will have a certain bearing on attendances as will the fact we are still in a recession.  Admission prices generally are too high and that includes ITFC. I am, and have been for a long time, a season ticket holder with two seats. I do not agree with the statements that match day prices are kept at a high level to compensate for the deal that season ticket holders have. Each year, if we renew by the early bird deadline, we are told we will get a 50% rebate if Ipswich Town are promoted in that season. Sounds very nice but I do not believe that will happen again this season. The club missed an ideal opportunity to test the water and offer a deal on seat prices for the Carling Cup game against WBA. £10 for adults and £3 for children would have looked attractive for everyone especially families. It would have been a good PR exercise. Better to get some money in than have no bums on seats! There has been little atmosphere at ITFC this season. Fewer travelling fans from other clubs is due in part that the admission prices for the away fans are also too high. I was talking to a policeman at the Cardiff game whose job was to travel from Cardiff and monitor their fans at the away matches. He stated that ITFC prices were much higher than some other clubs, hence only 700 Cardiff fans travelled to Ipswich. Our friends or enemies up the road at Norwich City managed to sell 20,550 season tickets and I notice they are sold out for this Sundays game against us. Perhaps it is a more affluent area than Ipswich who have to rely on supporters travelling a fair distance to get to matches.

This Sundays game at Norwich is the most important of the season for Ipswich fans and was missed last season when Norwich were in the lower division. With a full house the atmosphere should be great and lets hope Roy Keane puts out a more adventurous side. The opening games of the season were encouraging but in my opinion too much is made of key players being injured. The midfield seems clogged up with players since the arrival of Jake Livermore and Jack Colback who are on loan until January. As much as I like Jack Colback his arrival has meant others have had to take a back seat which is a shame. It has disrupted the midfield with too many similar players. Oh for a creative midfield player. The front player or players are not getting any service from midfield so the goals are drying up and the games have become very boring.

 If you want to get bums on seats something has to alter. The accounts show that gate receipts and other income that make up the turnover figure do not even cover the wage costs. Marcus Evans gave Roy Keane a two year contract which ends in June 2011. This should be honored but I am sure Marcus Evans will not make the same mistake as the FA when they gave Fabio Capello a new contract before the World Cup. What a crazy decision. I would imagine Roy Keane will have to wait until May 2011 to see if he is offered a new contract. With all his own personal wealth I do not expect it bothers him one way or the other, which is worrying for supporters who love the club for what it has achieved in the past. The play-off against Bolton and the subsequent fantastic day out at Wembley against Barnsley in May 2000 are a distant memory.

If he did win a header there was never another Ipswich player near enough to collect or challenge for the ball. The Ipswich midfield was non existent. David Norris was never in the game and the wide men Carlos Edwards and Andros Townsend did not get forward to support Jason Scotland or track back to help the full backs. It was as though we were in awe of QPR , standing back and giving them far too much room.

I had to keep counting that they didn’t have more players on the pitch!  Their movement from midfield was excellent. Changes had to be made at half time when we were already 2-0 down and it was good to see Connor Wickham come on and try and inspire his team mates.

Tamas Priskin also came on and was asked to play on the left side of midfield. He does not look comfortable there. In my opinion Connor Wickham is the main man with either Priskin or Scotland alongside him. Priskin looked sharp and eager against Bristol City, but not on Tuesday. Perhaps he had the ache because he did start against QPR. Luke Hyam was probably unlucky in being one of the players to make way at half time, he does look to be a useful player in the making.

I wonder what changes Roy Keane will make for the next game against Cardiff City. Some of the players will have to pull their fingers out and show the bite we saw in the opening two home games. I am sure Connor Wickham will start and I would not be surprised if Jamie Peters was moved forward to the right of midfield and Troy Brown introduced at right back. Who would be a Manager?  Lets hope it is an entertaining game, Ipswich keep it on the ground and get back to winning ways.

But, what about that squad is it good enough or hungry enough to be up for all 46 games next season that is my biggest concern, the desire to win each game. Too many times in recent season have we seen great performances, team and individual, one week and a shadow of themselves days or weeks later.

Lets hope Keane can drive the winning way home into the Ipswich mentality and we’ll many positives to talk about and get carried away with talk of increasing the capacity to meet the new demand etc…..