The City boss was at Portman Road to see Ipswich, whom City travel to on May 3rd, beat Norwich 3-2 yesterday which leaves City mathematically safe and said to the CT: "It is a bit different to this time last year.
"I went to the Ipswich game on Sunday and it was nice to look at it and think it is now mathematically impossible to get dragged into it.
"But that still doesn't take away the feeling of disappointment of losing on Saturday and these past games.
"Now we look at it and we have got three games left. "What are the facts? We have got eleven experienced first team players to choose from because everyone else is injured and will miss the remaining games.
"The balance of the team is all wrong because we have lost all our natural width, so what can we get out of the last three games in order for it not to be a big disappointment?
"I think we are going to need to win two and draw one to achieve our target, which won't be easy considering the run of form we have been in, but it is possible so we have got to try to remain positive."