Ipswich Town: Alex Jones picks his award winners for February
After a shaky January, Ipswich Town came back with a bang, winning four, drawing one and losing one of their six games in February. Alex Jones picks his award winners for the month.
Ipswich Town: Simon Grayson picks Kieran McKenna for manager award
Former Leeds United boss Simon Grayson has chosen Kieran McKenna as his Manager of the Year – regardless of whether Ipswich Town are promoted to the Premier League.
Grayson has clearly been impressed with what he’s seen from Town, who sit third in the table with 72 points from 34 games. He was quick to highlight that their resources are different to the recently relegated Premier League sides, and he believes that McKenna deserves extra praise and recognition as a result.
“The Manager of the Year award shouldn’t always go to whoever wins the league,” he said via InsantCasinos.com. “There are managers with limited resources that do so well, and for that reason, Kieran McKenna would be my choice.
“Even if they fail to make the top two and get promoted, it has been amazing to see them in the top six for what feels like all of the season and play in the style that they do.”
That being said, Grayson has a strong affiliation with Leeds, and given Leicester City’s six-point buffer at the Championship summit, he thinks that the Blues will just fall short of automatic promotion, allowing the Whites and the Foxes to make an instant return to the top flight.
“With Leeds winning on Friday night along with Ipswich, then it drags Leicester into the mix (of falling out of the promotion places) again,” he explained. “I thought Leicester were home and hosed, which I think will probably still be the case, and a couple of defeats shouldn’t change opinions, but football can leave us red-faced.
