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“Against Norwich, Reading and Swansea you always felt that they had better footballers than us. That’s not an indictment of the lads, they are facts. They’ve said that themselves in the dressing room after the game; as a group, we’re not mentally tough enough and we’re not physically tough enough…

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“We’re not even mentioning the play-offs,” he told reporters. “We’ve been on a decent run. When we got here it was about making sure we didn’t get relegated. We’ve got four games left, that’s 12 points. If we win all those you never know, but it’s highly unlikely, let’s be honest.”

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“The team’s done smashing, I’m not here to rip them apart because we’ve had a bad night defensively. But we need a big, strong holding midfield player who is going to make it easier for our back four lads….

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Speaking to the BBC, Jewell said: “It makes a change talking about another 17-year-old other than Connor Wickham. It’s a great day for Josh and it’s hopefully the start of plenty of goals for Ipswich Town…

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“There are people who are playing for their futures, people are playing for the supporters, who have travelled an awfully long way and, just as importantly, they are playing for the club and themselves. If I think someone’s got nothing to play for, they won’t be playing, it’s as simple as that.”

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“We had lots of opportunities to put the game to bed,” Jewell told the BBC afterwards. “Missing chances is our Achilles heel – we should have scored three or four in the first half.”

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“When it’s not going well, grind something out. We ground something out at Leeds, we got a great result at Cardiff, but that’s typical of our season – one week we’re good, the next week we’re poor.”

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“Obviously, Leeds score loads of goals, but it was at the back where we tried to get at them. I thought early on we were doing that, but we couldn’t get the finishing touch,” said Jewell. “It was a scrappy game on a very difficult pitch. There wasn’t an awful lot of football played and I was disappointed with our attacking play in the second-half.”

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Speaking to the BBC after the match, Jewell said: “There was no tempo to our play, we didn’t give the crowd anything to shout about. We didn’t get close to them, we didn’t make any tackles and we didn’t pass it…

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Speaking to the BBC, Jewell said “It was the first time I’ve lost my temper with them, but I felt it was necessary and I think we got the response. Our goalie was terrific, he kept us in the game…

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