Ipswich Town have taken 78 points from 37 Championship games this season

Kieran McKenna has said that Ipswich Town supporters have a big part to play between now and the end of the season, calling on them to keep backing the team both home and away throughout the run-in.The Blues occupy third place in the Championship with nine games to go, sitting four points behind leaders Leicester City and just one behind Leeds United in second. They’ve suffered the fewest defeats of any team in the division and, along with the Foxes, have scored the most goals [74] across 37 games. Portman Road is the place to be at the moment, boasting an average attendance of 28,797 so far this season. Although it remains to be seen whether the campaign will end with another promotion and a return to the Premier League for the first time since 2002, fans are proud of the way that the players have kept up the pace alongside three sides that played top-flight football last season.The final fixtures will be crucial for Town, who still have to host promotion contenders Southampton and travel to arch-rivals Norwich City. Many of the other teams are either fighting to finish in the top six or to avoid relegation to League One, meaning that everything is left to play for in the next seven weeks.As a result, McKenna wants supporters to continue to pack out IP1 and follow the team across the country, knowing how much it will help the players to keep up the pace at the top end of the table.“The support is going to be really important,” he told the East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Star. “It’s been there all season, but as you come towards the end of the season, having the fantastic sell-out crowds that we’re getting at Portman Road and the big away support, that will only give us the extra pushes.“It’s a long season in the Championship. Every team, at this stage of the season, has tired bodies and players carrying injuries, maybe players who’ve played through injuries for months and months.“When you’re coming into single figures in terms of league games, having the support behind us, having the atmosphere that we’ve got in the crowd, having the away followings, that’s massive.“It’ll give the players every motivation to really push with maximum effort right to the very last game.”