Ipswich City: How prepared are the Tractor Boys for a promotion push?

Despite that, Mills believes Town have a “great chance” to follow the example of Burnley, rather than Luton, and gain promotion at the first attempt after relegation.

And it would appear many Ipswich followers share his confidence if extra firepower can be added, despite being wary of other players including Davis and Hutchinson leaving.

“As much as I really love George Hirst, I think a full Championship season is quite unlikely for him with his injury record – we’ve got Ali [Al Hamadi] coming back from his loan but I think definitely another striker [is needed],” supporter Lukas told BBC Radio Suffolk’s The Blue Hour.

“I’d like to see a Championship-proven striker and I think there’s players out there who might not set the Premier League alight the year after if we go up, but will do the job in the Championship.”

Another fan James added: “It was Kieran who said not that long ago that you learn more from the defeats than you do from the victories, he’s certainly had plenty of opportunities for learning this season and you have a lot of confidence, a lot of faith in him to take those learnings on board and to really apply them going forward into the Championship.”

Although they believe it will be “tricky” with clubs including Birmingham City and Wrexham coming up and looking to gain promotion at the first attempt, another supporter, Kallum, said: “We have every right to be confident.

“There’s going to be an increased expectation, we’re going into it as one of the favourites, if not the favourites.

“But I’d like to think there’s good reason for that in terms of the manager looks like he’s going to be staying. There’s that consistency you’re not going to have with the other two sides coming down. Southampton have a new manager in charge and Leicester, Ruud van Nistelrooy is almost certainly not going to be staying, but it’s not a weak division.

“Two very ambitious clubs are coming up from League One, but there’s no Leeds, no Burnley, no Sunderland, there’ll be a few teams up there but I’m confident we’ll be one of them.”