To walk around Ipswich Town’s Playford Road training ground, you wouldn’t think it is a club on the brink of relegation. The atmosphere is positive. Kieran McKenna is still committed to a sophisticated coaching approach that is admired by top clubs, and the players are largely content.
An obvious point is that they’ve had a lot of time to get used to their position, cut adrift in the bottom three, but the mood isn’t really a sense of resignation. The feeling has long been that they over-performed in earning back-to-back promotions from League One, and gave their attempt to stay in the Premier League an admirable go.
