IPSWICH Town boss Mick McCarthy has warned his play-off chasing side Blackburn Rovers will not ‘lay down and die’ tomorrow.
Should Ipswich take a point from the Ewood Park encounter they would secure their position in the play-offs no matter the results achieved by fellow top-six contenders Derby County, Brentford and Wolves.
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McCarthy said: “Blackburn want to send their fans home happy and they’re not going to lay down and die for us.
“I do think we’ll need to get something out of the game and we saw Nottingham Forest last week using all the dark arts of the game to slow things down when it was 1-1.
“I don’t blame them. They wanted a point. They tried their socks off to get a result and I don’t doubt Blackburn will be the same.
“I wouldn’t want to be on my home patch with the opposition fans singing ‘we are going up’ and I’m sure Gary Bowyer will be the same.”
Ipswich’s on-loan Rovers striker Luke Varney will be ineligible to face his parent club.
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