Roy keen to drive Tractor Boys into top six

ROY KEANE goes into his second season as Ipswich manager targeting at least a place in the top six.

Keane’s first year at Portman Road went poorly, with the Suffolk club making their worst ever start before finally climbing to 15th in the Championship, still well below the promotion challenge which had been anticipated.

Keane says that despite a very difficult beginning to the new season, which sees the Tractor Boys face much-fancied Middlesbrough and newly-relegated Burnley in the first week, only a finish in the play-off places will be acceptable: “My own expectation of the players and the staff is that we have to be competing in the top six and we have to start the season better than we did last year.