Ipswich Town column: 'Forest Green Rovers victory must be backed up with three points at Milton Keynes Dons'

It’s time for less talk, more action. Ipswich Town bounced back in style with a 4-0 win over Forest Green Rovers in a game they simply could not afford to drop points in.

Yes, Rovers were bottom of the league, but as we’ve seen all to many times this season, you can only beat what’s in front of you and I thought Town did that well.

Now we all know the bigger tests are yet to come and whilst we can take encouragement from a resounding win at home, it is absolutely imperative that we go and follow it up with a victory in Milton Keynes on Saturday.

Kieran McKenna’s men will be backed by over 6,500 fans at Stadium MK, which again showcases that The Blue Army are going above and beyond to do their bit, and it’s time for those on the pitch to do theirs.

Town have failed to win any of their previous six away league matches which has seemingly damaged what once was an impeccable away record under McKenna and cost them massively in the race for the top two.

So with 22nd-placed MK Dons up next, who have only drawn five games and lost 19, again nothing but a victory has to be acceptable.

I think we’ve all been guilty of using phrases like “if we win the next three” or “we’ve got to win this match” with no evidence to show that Town are about to go on a winning run and never fully believing they would.

If I’m being brutally honest, I think this attitude has also crept into the players and with 16 matches left to play, this ‘could’ve, should’ve, would’ve’ mentally has got to stop.

For me, a win on Saturday would be a real kick-start to getting back into the scintillating form shown earlier in the campaign and with some more-than-winnable matches on the horizon after Saturday, you’d like to think winning all of them would put us right back into the mix.

So come on Town. Clearly we are good enough and it’s time to show the rest of the league what we are really capable of.