Whilst Burnley ended a run of four successive defeats with the remarkable turn round at Hull on Saturday, Ipswich did fall to defeat number five and Jewell said ahead of tonight's game: “We’re not kidding ourselves, we know we’re at the wrong end of the table, but there’s still a lot of time left in the season.
“I’m hugely disappointed at the moment, but I’m not panicking. We’ve got some good players.
“We’ve been so close in the last two games, it’s not as if we’ve been played off the park. Ifs, buts and maybes don’t win you football matches – I’m aware of that – but we could have easily got six points out of the last two games.
“That would have put us a point off the play-offs with a game in hand and everything would have been rosy. We still have 29 games left so we are not giving up on this season.”
Howe will be hoping his Burnley players give him the perfect birthday present with a win tonight. He's 34 today, still the second youngest Football League manager behind Karl Robinson and having got that win at Hull he's confident going into the game.
"It's an important period for us now," he pointed out. "We are still close enough to make a charge up the table but also we are aware there aren't many points between us and the lower reaches, so we have really key games coming up and we want to push on.
"I've said before that back-to-back wins in this league transform your league position and transform the feeling around the club and we are looking at Tuesday's game as a massive game for us.
"We are back on our own turf and we want to try and win it. For us to get our home form back on track is going to be so important for us and we want that to start on Tuesday."
He added: "We showed tremendous character and spirit at Hull and hopefully that's a really good sign for us going forward. To go away from home and come back in the manner we have, and it's not the first time we've done it this season, we did it at Coventry as well, showed that the team is together and in adversity you can find special things sometimes.
"I think they have done that a couple of times this season and we are going to need that for the rest of the season.
"I think when you know you do have a goal threat and when you possess the attacking players we do you are still in every game. Even when we haven't played particularly well this season we have created chances and I think that's down to the players we possess in attacking areas.
"With us at the moment it goes hand in hand with defensively perhaps not looking watertight, which is what we are working towards. If we can get that end of the pitch right, with the goal threat we do possess we are going to be a decent side."